Doctor’s Rebirth - Chapter 760

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Chapter 760
“It’s certainly a remarkable medicine. Though I must say, the capital and this place are somewhat different.”
At those words, the innkeeper scratched his ear and replied.
“Is that so? Well, I’m a native of these parts, so I wouldn’t know much about such things.”
He was simply an affable small-town innkeeper through and through. Even observing the subtle movements of his facial muscles and eyes, I could detect no falsehood.
‘If he were someone of Sama Hyeon’s caliber, concealing such things would be effortless. But the dust accumulated in this shop is far too old for that to be the case.’
Moreover, despite displaying obvious openings, he continued picking at his nostrils without a care in the world.
“Where would I need to go to meet the people of the Mireuk sect?”
“They’ve built a temple on one side of the mine, so you’ll find them if you go there.”
This too was the truth.
The innkeeper was spilling everything he knew to Jin Cheon-hee.
This was simply the nature of a chatty innkeeper.
“Thank you for telling me. You’re very kind.”
Jin Cheon-hee smiled gently.
“Of course! At my age, shouldn’t I live righteously?”
“Righteously… Yes. You speak truly. Then I shall take my leave.”
At Jin Cheon-hee’s words, everyone in the inn burst into laughter.
Their warmth was deeply comforting.
It was truly a remarkable place. Both the wealthy and the poor were peaceful and happy.
A world where no one had to go hungry.
‘Could this place truly be heaven, just as Jasi said?’
I thought that if becoming a Buddha were truly possible as these people claimed, this might indeed be paradise.
Had I not witnessed in Youryeok how people became corrupted?
The most terrifying disease in the world was hunger.
Because of hunger, people abandon their humanity.
If a world where no one starved were to come, there could be nothing better.
Jin Cheon-hee pondered this.
“Go well, then.”
Everyone waved their hands. Jin Cheon-hee offered them a brief bow of gratitude.
‘Baekcheon-gun… I should at least investigate what that medicine is.’
A heavenly medicine that transforms people into Buddhas.
“Wait. You there.”
“Yes?”
Just as I was about to step outside the inn, the owner approached Jin Cheon-hee.
“You there. Have you… ever heard the saying that you look delicious?”
“Pardon?”
“You there. You there. Have you… ever heard the saying that you look delicious? Ever heard it? Ever heard it?”
A voice like a broken recording repeated over and over.
“Huh?”
As Jin Cheon-hee faltered in confusion, the innkeeper’s eyes turned a deep crimson.
I watched his body swell and expand.
His face twisted into the visage of a demonic ghoul.
“Delicious. Delicious. I can see. Words. Words.”
Crunch—
“Haven’t you. Ever. Ever heard?”
What stood before me was nothing short of a perfect monster.
As the innkeeper transformed, the other guests inside the inn began to change as well.
Some twisted their faces into demonic ghouls like the innkeeper, while others became wolves, hyenas, or wild dogs.
“What is this…?”
They all lunged at me at once.
“Delicious. Delicious. Delicious. So delicious. I can. I can. I can see…”
The innkeeper’s razor-sharp claws raked toward me.
I twisted my head swiftly to dodge the attack.
Crash!
Only a handful of stone fragments remained where I had been standing.
‘Tremendous power. The speed is no joke either!’
I twisted my body again, reeling from shock.
For now, without understanding the situation, I had no desire to stain my hands with blood. So instead of killing, I focused solely on restraint.
My sleeve unfurled in an instant, ensnaring the innkeeper’s arm like a spider’s web.
The Jeolcho technique of the Hyeonwon Jeondan Singeong flowed naturally like water, and I swiftly struck the innkeeper’s pressure points.
Thud, thud, thud!
Starting from the Hapgok point between thumb and forefinger, I pressed my inner energy into the Gokji point at the elbow, then the Gyeongjung point at the nape of the neck.
Normally, even the greatest masters of Gangho would have their entire arm paralyzed by such pressure point strikes.
But.
“Delicious. Delicious. So delicious. So delicious!”
The pressure points had no effect on the innkeeper.
‘Did the locations of the meridian points shift when he transformed? If so…’
In that moment, I pressed my palms against the table and launched an upward kick as if doing a handstand.
Smack!
Despite the innkeeper’s increased size, the kick threw off his balance and he staggered.
I leaped onto the table and mounted his shoulders.
My sleeves billowed as I struck both his ears with my palm heels, shattering his eardrums, then brought my hand down hard against the nape of his neck.
Smack!
“Ou, so this works after all.”
The innkeeper’s massive body collapsed with a thunderous crash.
Hwang-gu, who had been fighting alongside me, was startled by my martial prowess.
My presence had vanished completely for a moment before suddenly reappearing, which unsettled him.
Clang!
He lost his grip on the thigh he was biting, creating an opening.
“Dog. Dog. Dog tastes so good…”
Just as Hwang-gu was about to bite, I created a small explosion beneath his paws using a variant of the Finger Flick technique.
Boom!
Hwang-gu’s body launched into the air and landed safely in my arms.
“Be careful. Lose focus and you’re dead.”
Pant, pant, pant, pant!
Hwang-gu was delighted to be held by his master.
I immediately began knocking out every single guest in the inn one by one.
The speed was nothing short of autumn leaves scattering in the wind.
If I couldn’t strike the vital points, a blow to the back of the neck would do just fine.
‘All roads lead to the same destination—all that matters is putting them to sleep.’
The rhythm of my strikes and blows sounded like a drummer beating a drum.
Hwang-gu, caught up in the excitement, bit at every thigh he could reach.
Then a massive explosion thundered from behind.
Kaboom!
“That’s the direction Jasi went?”
There was no time to play further.
I immediately rushed out of the tavern and leaped onto the rooftops.
I could see flames shooting up from somewhere in the distance.
The moment I saw it, my white robes traced a long line like a meteor across the night.
“Let’s go!”
Clang, clang, clang!
Hwang-gu began running alongside me.
As we leaped between rooftops, the monstrous beings I’d just knocked out were emerging from their houses and rampaging about.
They were all wearing the clothes of ordinary commoners.
Their garments were clean—no tears, no bloodstains. That meant they hadn’t resorted to physical theft.
‘There are simply too many of them from the start!’
My mind jumped straight to the conclusion.
“The villagers transformed just like what we saw at the inn. And that’s the true identity of the Rakshasa that the Governor warned us about! What nonsense about the Buddha! They simply took some drug and went berserk!”
When I arrived at the location of the flames, Jasi was there.
“You monsters! I will avenge Usha!”
Jasi’s wolf had grown enormous, thrashing and toppling everything around it. Jasi rode atop the beast, wielding his spear.
Beneath Jasi lay the corpses of Rakshasa.
He had already slain many of them.
“Jasi!”
“You’ve come?”
“We should retreat! They’re not monsters. They’re commoners!”
At the word “commoners,” Jasi’s eyebrows twitched.
“I suspected as much when I saw they wore commoners’ garments. So it was true.”
Jasi finally withdrew his spear.
“Very well. I shall heed your words.”
The wolf leaped up with a bound, and I dashed across the rooftop alongside it.
The monsters began pursuing us as well.
Their abilities seemed to rival those of first-rate masters.
“Wow, the Hyeolseonggyo leap technique is absolutely incredible!”
“You’re spouting strange things again.”
“Hwang-gu! Find Ha-ryun! Noeji… ah, Noeji went to a safe place to store the documents.”
Saying so, I immediately climbed onto the back of the wolf that Jasi was riding.
The other Rakshasas chased after Jasi and me, then suddenly their hands began to glow with light.
In that instant, the scenery around Jasi and me twisted and began to distort.
“It’s an illusory spell! Be careful not to fall for it.”
“Now they’re even using sorcery on top of everything else.”
I pulled out the guitar—no, the pipa from my back.
“The pipa character and the wave character. Take this, you bastards!”
Since ancient times, the Hundred Character Magical Text has been required reading for even soldiers, and there’s no pediatric clinic without it.
“Eat the breaking character instead!”
Diiiiing!
The sound wave spread out along with the spell force, shattering everything around us.
“…I thought you’d at least use a curse-breaking technique, but you just brute-forced it with pure spell power. Did I see that right?”
“It’s the blessing of the Hundred Character Magical Text.”
“What?”
“Essential reading for modern persons!”
Jasi looked at the back of my head with eyes that said, ‘Is this guy insane?’
Regardless, every time the Rakshasas used their illusions, I was smashing them to pieces in the name of this all-powerful modern person’s required reading(?).
“Brother!”
“Oh, Ha-ryun. You recognized us!”
“It’s thanks to Hwang-gu guiding the way. Besides, if anyone’s riding a giant wolf and playing the pipa in a situation like this, anyone would recognize them.”
“Good.”
“Brother… you’re always so flamboyant.”
“Well, it’s not my fault, is it? Let’s escape first.”
“Agreed.”
With those words, Hwang-gu, I, and our companions immediately attempted to escape the city.
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“They’re not chasing us anymore now that we’re outside.”
Once we reached the wasteland, we were safe. They seemed to move only within the city.
Yeo Ha-ryun spoke.
“So this is the true nature of heaven.”
“Well, there’s no such thing as a free heaven, I suppose.”
“How harsh.”
His first words upon confronting the true nature of heaven.
However, both Jasi and I shared the same thought, so we didn’t bother to object. Yeo Ha-ryun continued.
“Rakshasa. It’s probably not the one from mythology. I suspect it’s a demonic beast created by Hyeolseonggyo, but it looks completely different from the demonic ghosts.”
I spoke.
“I managed to gather some information from the innkeeper.”
I laid out all the information I had collected for everyone.
Jasi spoke.
“An elixir, then. But… it’s strange. Even if it’s an elixir crafted through alchemy, supplying such quantities to all those people would require a truly horrifying price. I’m not even sure if it’s physically possible.”
“So human sacrifice alone isn’t enough?”
“Turning beef into something new and creating such an elixir aren’t the same miracle, are they? Even if they’re both miracles, the latter is far heavier. There must be an absurd price attached to it.”
Yeo Ha-ryun rubbed his chin.
“If we’re to infiltrate the city again, we’ll need to use stealth techniques. Even so, it’s not easy to investigate anything while avoiding all the city’s people. We can’t even have a conversation in the first place.”
I answered.
“So we have no choice but to visit the Mireuk sect temple?”
“Yes. Since you’ve extracted the most useful information among us, we should follow your lead.”
That was true. We had ultimately gathered no information and were simply dealing with Rakshasa as they appeared.
“…Ha-ryun. You should learn to extract information without subordinates too. And Jasi… well… thank you for your hard work.”
[Hyeong. Why only me?]
[Jasi is struggling. I’m not going to say anything to someone who’s lost their family.]
Yeo Ha-ryun’s eyebrows twitched slightly.
I drove the point home.
[And you should reflect too. You can’t do anything without subordinates—that’s ridiculous.]
[Hyeong. I’m a Minor Sect Leader of the Demon Sect.]
The other Minor Sect Leaders were the same way.
[Does a Minor Sect Leader have no hands or feet? If you live like that, when you’re fleeing later and all your subordinates die, you won’t even be able to feed yourself. Then you’ll be too weak to go far and you’ll get caught.]
Why did Hyeong know so much about the Demon Sect ecosystem?
[Ha-ryun. To become a proper leader, you need to be able to blend naturally among people without subordinates, interact with them, extract information—that’s what society and adulthood are.]
‘I’m going insane.’
I had no counter to such sound logic.
Heaven’s chosen slaughterer, the favorite of Death who had lost human sentiment.
Cheon Sal-seong.
Even he found his hyeong’s nagging painful.

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