Doctor’s Rebirth - Chapter 765

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Chapter 765
I opened my mouth.
“Before I die, there’s something I need to ask.”
“What is it?”
“Is the Sip Cheon-gun of the Hyeolseonggyo—or rather, the Mireuk Sect—stationed in the mines below?”
Even though the Hyeolseonggyo controlled the Mireuk Sect and often impersonated them, a Governor would inevitably know the truth.
“Hehehehe, how impressive. You deduced it without even visiting the place.”
“So they are here after all.”
He did not answer.
Yet his next words served as his reply.
“Attack them all!”
The Governor’s command rang out!
The Rakshasa soldiers launched their assault in unison.
The first things to come flying were arrows.
‘Just as I expected—a regular military force.’
Before I could even respond, Jasi’s skin puffed up and deflected all the arrows.
In that moment, I transmitted my voice.
[I’ll halt their movements for now—all of you run toward the mines! Dealing with them can wait!]
At my command, Jasi quickly mounted the wolf.
Hwang-gu also enlarged his body and charged forward. Several soldiers dropped their weapons at the sight of his chariot-like momentum.
Without missing that opening, I immediately drew in a sharp breath.
[Cover your ears!]
As I transmitted my voice, a terrifying sound erupted from my mouth.
A sound like fingernails scraping across a chalkboard tore through the air via human vocal cords, and the Rakshasa could not help but cover their ears.
Yeo Ha-ryun was startled by this.
‘He’s using their superhuman senses against them as a weapon!’
With hearing far superior to ordinary humans, they were helpless against sound-based martial arts!
Everyone bled from their ears.
I immediately transmitted my voice to Hwang-gu, whose ears I was protecting.
[Hwang-gu, increase your speed!]
Kwaaaang!
Hwang-gu’s body had grown larger than an ox, easily clearing a man’s height.
When he rammed into a Rakshasa, bones shattered and the creature flew in all directions.
Devastating breakthrough force!
Landing atop the charging Hwang-gu, I surveyed my surroundings.
All the Rakshasa were writhing in agony, their ears covered from the sound-based martial arts I had just unleashed.
Though they were a race transcending humanity, it was impossible to block or endure sound-based martial arts that directly struck the eardrums.
‘This is going as planned. If I can break through like this…’
In that instant, someone leaped up and hurled themselves toward me.
A tiger-faced figure.
Luxurious yet formidable armor. A being with four arms.
The Governor’s gaze and mine collided in the void.
“I’m afraid you’ll have to die!”
A tremendous force radiated from within the Governor’s body.
There was no mistaking that it was Chakra Tantra originating from the Saerim religious nation.
The overflowing vitality coursing through the Governor’s entire body flowed into the curved blades held in each of his four arms.
I already knew this was the unique power of Chakra Tantra, displaying might comparable to pure qi.
‘Chakra Tantra Six Gates! So the Governor was a master after all!’
My perception of time accelerated. The Hyeonwon Jeondan Singeong unleashed at its peak, and a dizzying heat that seemed to evaporate my cerebrospinal fluid seized me.
Yet my mind was honed sharp and fierce, and time itself began to slow for everything except me.
Transcendent Martial Arts Life and Death Wisdom.
Transcendent Martial Arts Heavenly Net Earthly Snare.
Transcendent Martial Arts Benevolence.
Transcendent Martial Arts Governance of All Under Heaven.
My brain operated abnormally.
Vast qi extended through the Baihui point.
My cerebellum and midbrain moved.
The world soon transformed as if completely frozen.
A state akin to what the Buddha calls sudden enlightenment.
With merely a shift in perspective, all things in heaven and earth surrounding it appeared differently.
A moment becomes an eternity.
Everything is both an instant and forever.
I recorded every movement of my opponent.
I memorized all movements of his bones, flesh, muscles, and nerves, and simultaneously, the method to neutralize him emerged.
‘Calculations complete! Initiating attack!’
Explosive Palm Heavenly Net!
Force erupted from my hands.
Like a shotgun, hundreds of qi projectiles engulfed the entire front.
I could see the Governor’s shock in his eyes.
“What kind of attack is this…?!”
Anyone would panic seeing hundreds of qi projectiles filling the space before them.
Yet the Governor spun the curved blades in his four hands, blocking the projectiles.
Still, several slipped through, striking his body and drawing blood.
But they were not fatal wounds.
However, because of this, his speed when leaping up diminished, and his charging momentum was neutralized!
This too was already within my calculations.
The instant the Governor’s expression twisted, I extended my right hand forward and spread my palm wide.
And the moment that hand touched the Governor’s abdomen.
Ten transformations occurred, striking his abdomen.
Boom!
The Shamanic Sect’s absolute technique. The Ten-Fold Brocade.
A peerless martial art that earned its name by unleashing ten strikes in a single sequence.
Its power was so devastating that it could crumble stone and metal like tofu.
“Krragh! Such world-shattering destructive force!”
The Governor’s ribs shattered, and his organs convulsed.
This was only because I had held back my strength.
Had I unleashed my full power, even if the Governor had transformed into a Rakshasa, his organs would have been torn to shreds instantly, and he would have died on the spot.
The Governor was sent flying backward.
Now nothing stood between Hwang-gu and his path forward.
Hwang-gu began charging ahead once more.
A few Rakshasa soldiers who had regained their senses drew their blades and struck at Hwang-gu, but their weapons couldn’t even cut through the fur of the matured spirit beast and simply bounced away.
Thus, my group broke through the encirclement and fled.
Crunch—
“Oof, fighting all at once like that really drains your energy. Ou, I thought I was done for.”
I said while chewing on a piece of hardened candy.
* * *
While we were fleeing, Yeo Ha-ryun asked me.
“Hyeong, what’s the plan?”
“From the Governor’s reaction, I can tell the Hyeolseonggyo is at the mine. We’ll settle things there and… if possible, find a way to turn these people back into humans.”
At my words, Jasi nodded in agreement.
“I agree. Now that I’ve actually lived in this ‘paradise,’ it’s no place for people to inhabit.”
At that, I laughed playfully.
Yeo Ha-ryun, watching me with concern, asked again.
“But what if there’s no way? What will you do then?”
“Well, if we can seal this place before they resort to cannibalism, that would be the first course of action. But if we can’t, and if these people can only survive by killing others… then…”
I looked down at my own hands.
Yeo Ha-ryun spoke.
“Leave it to me.”
“No, I’ll do it with you then. I can’t let only your hands be stained with this.”
“You see them as ‘people,’ don’t you?”
“I honestly don’t know… I haven’t made a decision yet. But I will try to sever their meridians. If even that doesn’t stop them, then I’ll have to wonder whether this is exorcism or murder.”
The Doctor laughed with a weary expression.
This place was a paradise that was also a hell.
No matter how much it was adorned with flowers, its essence remained that of hell.
Wavering between light and darkness, the Doctor pondered.
“Will there ever come a day when I don’t agonize over human lives?”
“That will be the day you stop being a Doctor.”
Life was hell.
And humans walk through that inferno.
Crunch—
I bit into the dalgona.
“Even if it’s just my mouth, I can make it a small heaven.”
Crunch—
When the entire world transformed into hell, the Doctor chewed dalgona to create the smallest of heavens.
It was one of humanity’s most powerful weapons, wielded since ancient times to stand against hell itself.
“Want some? Times like these, you need to eat well.”
With each piece of dalgona, a small heaven lit up, and the darkness grew a little brighter.
Where does hope come from?
Crunch—
A small heaven that illuminates despair.
* * *
Eat well, fight well.
Jin Cheon-hee continued eating as I headed toward the mine.
Seeing spirit pills mixed in between the sweets, these seemed to be provisions prepared for times like these.
‘The higher one’s realm, the greater the burden placed upon the body.’
I knew my hyeong had experienced something akin to bone-replacement transformation in the past.
I couldn’t say with certainty whether it was precisely bone-replacement transformation, but regardless, it meant that even a body remade in such a manner couldn’t withstand it.
‘My hyeong’s realm is devastatingly high.’
The Demonic Sect culls children from birth—those with bone talent and those without.
Children without bone talent are mostly relegated to menial tasks, or even if they undergo the grueling process of bone-carving, they remain third-rate warriors.
Even those who receive fortuitous encounters and rise higher are limited to the rank of Dharma Protector.
There has never been a Minor Sect Leader or Cheonma without bone talent.
Even in the Demonic Sect, which has had as many people and fortuitous encounters as history itself, this held true.
I thought I understood the reason.
‘Where exactly does my hyeong’s realm lie?’
I knew he had far surpassed Hwagyeong.
Yet when facing people, my hyeong never displayed his full strength.
And when facing demonic ghosts, didn’t he break through with strategy rather than raw power?
Crunch, crunch—
“Warriors definitely have less tooth decay. I sometimes wonder if it’s similar to not getting diabetes? Well, it’s just that the probability is lower—though some still get it. The thing is, it varies depending on the martial arts one cultivates, so the Doctor here has a headache.”
Jin Cheon-hee laughed and swayed his body side to side.
Watching those exaggerated gestures, my chest ached for some reason.
The man before me was one who laughed the deeper his despair became.
That was what it was.
The more harsh reality became, the more he gathered the glittering things that sparkled before his eyes.
If looking ahead only dulled one’s will to fight, then one walks while gazing at the dandelions beneath one’s feet.
The act of walking doesn’t change.
So does it matter where one’s gaze falls?
Yeo Ha-ryun didn’t know how much those desperately grasped glittering things could comfort a person.
After all, having no hope in humanity meant having no despair in humanity either.
Perhaps this curse from Cheon Sal-seong was actually a blessing in disguise.
At that moment, the bone necklace hanging around Jasi’s neck clattered with a sharp sound.
Jasi spoke in a voice that had turned ferocious.
“The enemy… the one who drank Usha’s blood is over there.”
In that instant, I shoved the Milgok Pill directly into Jasi’s mouth.
“Huh!?”
“If you lose your strength now, you’ll die soon~ Kehehehe.”
I smiled and stepped forward two paces.
A stance of protecting everyone.
Gazing at Jasi’s clattering necklace, I spoke with a chilling tone.
“It seems they’ve found their way here correctly.”
“We need to move quickly. Brother, they’ll be coming here too. If those bastards breach all the way into the mine, we’ll have no choice but to kill them all.”
Here, “those bastards” referred to the army.
The Rakshasa army.
Strong warriors equipped with intelligence were certainly a threat.
‘Back then, they seemed to be trying to capture us alive and didn’t show their true strength. If we actually clash, this will be quite troublesome.’
They possessed both the advantages of individual martial artists and the advantages of an organized army.
I understood why Yeo Ha-ryun said he would kill them.
“You should prepare yourself too, Brother.”
Yeo Ha-ryun spoke in a desolate voice.
To my younger brother, I replied with a smile.
“Sigh, I wish they’d just stop chasing us, but I suppose I need to prepare myself too. Still, I’ll do what I can.”
A reassuring laugh that put everyone at ease.
That was the kind of man I was.

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