Doctor’s Rebirth - Chapter 711

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Chapter 711
‘Is it just my imagination?’
Either way, since I cannot see ahead, what does it matter?
Jin Cheon-hee rose from his seat and grasped his cane.
Tapping the floor rhythmically, he left his office. Yoo Ho followed like a phantom shadow behind him.
Jin Cheon-hee stopped by the cultivation chamber to console (?) the bound spirits in the research division, then reviewed the research findings.
“Please go back, Soggakju. Why have you come again with those eyes!”
“I told you to go rest!”
“Consider it a vacation and go sleep. Sleep!”
At the concerned rebukes from the medical staff, Jin Cheon-hee laughed with a hehe.
“I came to tell you the budget you requested last time was approved.”
“Stop worrying about us and go sleep.”
“I’m counting on you all.”
After attending to various tasks throughout the day, as the sun began to set, I returned to my quarters.
There, I sat in meditation and reflected on the day’s work.
The pace of progress had slowed compared to the past.
I had to employ people, receive reports on results, issue directives, identify problems, and issue new orders.
“Cough!”
A strange situation where blood seeps from my eyes when I cough.
“Kyaaaah!”
The administrator working with me screamed. I’m not entirely sure how I appear to others.
The eye patch doesn’t seem to be absorbing well, so I’ll need to change it again.
Regardless.
Indeed, without eyes, things are quite inconvenient.
By the way, what is this “sky” my Master told me to see?
Having lost my eyes and restricted my senses, what could I possibly perceive?
The martial arts of Gangho transmit such secrets through riddles and metaphors.
Without an excellent master, one cannot properly inherit the hidden teachings—that is why.
Continuing such thoughts, I gradually entered meditation.
Observing myself, my consciousness expanded and deepened.
One day passed, then two. Before I knew it, ten days had slipped away.
At some point, I stopped counting the days.
Once I stopped, the world became interesting in its own way again.
“So Ilgwang really has gone blind—there’s truly nothing he can see!”
“Oh, you understand perfectly? Yoo Ho, take care of it~”
“Krraaaagh!”
Listening to Yoo Ho reduce a person to a bloody pulp, Jin Cheon-hee smiled broadly.
Just because my eyes don’t work doesn’t mean I’m not myself.
Living like this, using Yoo Ho as I please, might not be so bad after all.
“You really can’t use chopsticks well.”
“So, a fork—I mean, make me a small trident for eating.”
“You’ve already adapted quite well to the shape, I see.”
“What, why. What?”
Time flowed on.
My younger siblings seemed worried too, visiting sporadically.
Sama Hyeon and Cheonwoo said they happened to have business nearby and stopped by on their way, but I couldn’t fathom how Yeo Ha-ryun managed to come and go.
There was talk of whether the Demonic Cult was stirring, but surely he couldn’t have come all the way here from the Ten Thousand Great Mountains.
This time, Cheonwoo had cooked with a semi-immortal-grade pheasant he’d caught himself.
He fed his older brother that way.
Sama Hyeon came frequently.
He said he had business in nearby Bunta and often dropped by, but no matter how I looked at it, it seemed like an excuse.
Still, I decided to overlook it.
I knew that even if this fellow came often, there would be nothing amiss in Hao-mun.
But what worried me more was Yeo Ha-ryun.
He came only once, but stayed for a long time.
In a situation where I couldn’t predict how the Demonic Cult’s circumstances would unfold, I worried whether it was right to spend such precious time this way.
But I wasn’t about to listen to my older brother’s nagging either. He stayed until his heart was satisfied.
Because of that, being blind didn’t feel lonely.
‘I’m truly a fortunate person.’
The now-blind Jin Cheon-hee thought to himself that he was blessed.
There was always someone by my side. Moments alone had become precious.
That wasn’t so bad either.
Then Jin Cheon-hee suddenly had a thought.
Though it might feel slow, the affairs of the world never truly stop.
With my eyes closed, time felt slow, yet strangely, it also felt fast.
Why was that?
Why.
“Ah!”
Jin Cheon-hee found the answer during meditation.
“Sometimes, slowness is faster.”
To perceive the heavens is to recognize and understand ‘vastness.’ The moment I grasped this.
Enlightenment struck my crown like lightning.
The inner qi of the dantian naturally surged forth, coursing through my entire body.
The ecstasy of the Dharma Joy Scripture seemed to envelop my whole being.
The moment of joy spreading throughout my body gathered wholly into a single point.
“Thus it shall come to pass.”
It was one of the incantations of the Hyeonwon Jeondan Singeong.
Thus it shall come to pass.
Beneath the design of Heaven and Man.
Thus it shall come to pass.
And Jin Cheon-hee’s eyes opened.
The world before him remained dark. Yet it was fine.
His entire body felt remarkably refreshed, and everything was lucid—clear and crystalline.
Jin Cheon-hee recited the incantation from moments before once more.
“Under Heaven’s design, so it shall come to pass.”
This was not an expression of Gae Pa Josa Jegal Ryang’s arrogance to judge and plan all things.
Rather, it was a guiding principle for what one could and must accomplish upon perfecting the Hyeonwon Jeondan Singeong.
And Jin Cheon-hee realized he had advanced to the next stage, and understood what that meant from a physician’s perspective.
Through enlightenment, his brain had evolved and transformed to the next level.
Papers on cerebral intelligence network research emerge every year.
Among them, various experiments and verifications have revealed that the parietal-cerebellar network and the prefrontal-parietal network influence intelligence.
But the brain does not merely govern intelligence.
Multiple sensory systems are connected to various regions of the brain, and their mutual communication can be seen as a primary source of capability.
And now.
Jin Cheon-hee, having perfected the Hyeonwon Jeondan Singeong, sensed that his brain had undergone far more dramatic transformation, achieving transcendent evolution.
The temporary loss of vision was a consequence of the brain’s transformation process.
Had Jin Cheon-hee failed to perfect the Hyeonwon Jeondan Singeong, he would never have been able to challenge perfection again.
But Jin Cheon-hee succeeded.
He achieved what his Master Jegalling called ‘seeing Heaven.’
‘To see Heaven means to perceive a vast and boundless world.’
Even within accelerated thought, one must become a mind capable of perceiving and planning ever greater and wider things.
What appears slow can sometimes be fast.
This principle emerges from exactly that understanding.
A grand plan that seems slow can sometimes be swift.
‘I knew that Mugol signified not merely bone and skeleton, but also qi and meridians, yet I am rediscovering that cognitive ability is encompassed within it as well.’
The difference between a warrior and an ordinary person lies not merely in greater height and strength, but in cognitive ability itself.
After all, no matter how powerfully one swings a blade, if one cannot perceive and calculate the opponent’s movements, one cannot defend.
‘Yeo Ha-ryun is the prime example.’
Cheon Sal-seong distorts cognitive ability to an extreme degree.
They say it is a killing intent bestowed by Heaven. I cannot say scientifically whether it is possible, but he instinctively knew how to wield the blade of slaughter.
“Is there truly a need to rush so?”
“….”
A surge.
The moment enlightenment struck, blood flowed from Jin Cheon-hee’s throat.
Yoo Ho’s voice echoed through the darkness.
“You are not one to despair over a slight delay.”
“….”
“Even should you become unable to act as a warrior, you are never one to be discarded.”
The terror of not being able to see.
“Even if you can no longer perform duties, you would never cast away your disciple as useless.”
Perhaps there was even a wish that I could have remained at peace within the Medical Guild.
It was a laughable thought, but comparing the time I spent blind within the Medical Guild to now, when I traveled in all directions for the sake of saving lives.
Without even needing the Hyeonwon Jeondan Singeong, I could sense which path would grant me a longer lifespan.
What was amusing was that I had chosen all of this myself.
It was, in a sense, a fierce love.
I spoke.
“Of course I know. I already understand that Master would never abandon me.”
“Then what is it? Your reason knows, but your heart rejects it. Is that it?”
“That’s part of it. But it’s not just that—I dislike it.”
Yoo Ho’s expression became peculiar.
“If there’s no hope no matter how hard I try, then giving up would be an answer. But when there is hope and I don’t act on it, I hate myself for it.”
I stopped there and turned my head to look at Yoo Ho, smiling faintly.
“This must be habit too. I really do like being a doctor.”
Cough—
I coughed again, blood mixed in with the spittle.
I had realized something. But it was incomplete.
One step away from complete enlightenment.
“Yoo Ho, could you take me to a secluded pavilion where no one else is around?”
The moment I reached out my hand, the blindfold came loose and tears of blood flowed once more.
I reached my hand toward the opposite side from Yoo Ho.
Watching this, he let out a bitter laugh.
“Without martial prowess, you are nothing.”
“That’s why I’m human.”
“And you attempt everything even without inner energy.”
“That’s why I’m a doctor.”
The martial prowess he had taken such pride in scattered like dust.
Even his eyes could not see.
This man before me was someone who would die with a single flick of a finger.
Yet why was it?
From this man, he felt a strange aura of determination.
Even now, waving his hand in the opposite direction, he was moving forward.
It was merely the difference between running, walking, and crawling.
He advanced forward even without inner energy, even without sight.
As insignificant as an ant crawling.
In fact, most humans were insignificant to Yoo Ho.
To a being like Yoo Ho, there was little difference between an ant and a human.
Yet what lay at the end of this? The ‘infinitely noble one’ became curious.
Tap.
In the darkness, he felt something grasp him.
“Oh, you’re taking me?”
“I’m getting tired of watching foolishness, to be honest.”
“Hehehehe.”
Eun ultimately carried the priest on his back.
‘Even after losing my fingers, losing my eyes, losing my inner strength….’
The Doctor crawled forward.
I grew curious about what enlightenment awaited at the end, yet I never asked.
It was a kind of stubbornness that the exalted held against mortals.
And I had the feeling that if I came to understand this strange human, there would be no turning back.
“The wind is cold. I didn’t notice it when I had my sight, but now I understand.”
Dali’s eyes stung.
It was the sound of autumn arriving.
Strangely, there were things I could see precisely because my eyes were closed.
“Yoo Ho. I think I’m just a step away from seeing the Microcosm now.”
Yoo Ho was not ignorant of what that meant to a Kang Ho-in.
“I congratulate you in advance on your ascension.”
“Are you really congratulating me?”
Jin Cheon-hee grumbled.
In that moment, the wind swept through once more, and Jin Cheon-hee’s long hair billowed upward.
“Ah, is that it?”
The sky became visible.
It was the sky within my body.
I knew that if I missed this moment, there would be no second chance.
The Doctor reached out his hand.

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