Doctor’s Rebirth - Chapter 771

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Chapter 771
He vomited blood.
Fresh blood and fragments of organs.
Everyone felt death approaching. Baekcheon-gun spoke.
“Ah, you’re preparing the Spirit Dispersal Talisman. So the moment my soul attempts to flee, you’ll scatter it immediately.”
“….”
“Kekeke, truly flawless, aren’t you? Even in this moment. If the intelligence is correct, this should be your first killing, yet…”
“Even if I offer my soul to Hyeolseon and go berserk, it’s meaningless. I’ve already prepared for that too.”
“Wow, truly Banson’s offspring♪ But even if the curtain falls, how can the next act proceed without an actor?”
In that instant, his body creaked upright like a puppet on strings and he detonated his inner power.
BOOM!
I urgently pulled everyone backward.
And.
In that fleeting moment. I saw it.
Within the slowed perception of the Hyeonwon Jeondan Singeong, only I could see it.
With swift hand movements as if performing a blade technique, something white being placed into his mouth.
“A Spirit Pill?”
“Wrong. It’s a Rakshasa egg. That white potion you received—it was processed from this.”
Gulp—
The Rakshasa egg descended down his throat. His body began to swell.
Yeo Ha-ryun spoke.
“Did he commit suicide?”
I answered.
“No. He ‘recovered.’ The memory remains the same.”
“Hahaha, I told you. Ultimately, what defines a person is memory. As long as memory exists, I live on. Whether I become a Rakshasa or anything else!”
BOOM!
With his transforming body, he struck the massive serpent’s skull.
“The souls of the city’s people that I had condensed within this skull—now it is time they found their freedom!”
KUAAAAA!
He was attempting to collapse all of Midong and kill everyone.
The power had already been unleashed, and there was no way to stop it.
Midong collapsed.
‘A confirmed future.’
Within the Hyeonwon Jeondan Singeong, countless versions of me cried out.
In this moment, all the smaller versions of me spoke in unison.
‘Even if Midong collapses, we must do what we can.’
‘Ha-ryun!’
I had no intention of giving up. No, I couldn’t even afford to give up.
As if I had never learned to retreat, I simply charged forward.
Before life, there was no compromise.
Time accelerates further still.
The absolute limit. I squeeze everything from myself and gather it here.
Within that sensation, I instinctively awakened to what I possessed.
That unique regenerative power.
I feel the karma accumulated from Eungryong’s precious jewel. And trusting in that strength, I advance.
‘If it’s this…!’
This cursed body could endure just a little longer.
I forcefully shoved karma like coal into an inefficient internal engine.
Yangui Divine Art Heart Division Utilization.
I divide my mind into two and wield them simultaneously with perfect freedom.
Since even intent can be split into two, even divine techniques can be divided and used as two!
Upon this, the Hyeonwon Jeondan Singeong activates Transcendent Heart Demon.
Thought splits from one to two, from two to four. And each unfolds the Heart Demon Absolute Technique through sheer will alone.
Phaethon Shadowless Divine Art.
Heaven’s Defeat and Primordial Creation–!!
A martial technique of Kang Ho that creates a massive explosion with meaning different from Cheonma Divine Art!
It cannot be used without entering the Heart Demon Absolute Technique, and only those who have tasted a portion of Hyeongyeong’s realm can wield this supreme martial knowledge.
But it did not end there.
Five Elements Divine Art Five Elements Convergence.
Reverse Tendon World Water Art Geumgang Immovable.
Seven Demons Gold Seven Strikes One Sound.
Even training in just one deeply would earn one the reputation of being among the top ten masters under heaven—four Heart Demon Absolute Techniques of such peerless martial arts are being used.
And they are.
Fusing into one.
The result.
A small sun appears before my hands.
It is a black sun, a mythical power containing unprecedented destruction!
Already I could see Baekcheon-gun converting his own body to sand through sorcery, gathering the spirits of the dead.
Even as he prepared his escape, he posed a question while looking at me.
“You’re amplifying the destruction further? In the end, this is still a place of death. Since you’ve already entered here, everything is a predetermined future. Do you think you can escape?”
Yet I spoke without the slightest movement.
“The calculations are complete. So…”
Explode.
KWAAABOOOM!
The mythical power pushes outward in all directions from me as its center.
Strangely, that power contained not a shred of killing intent, merely pushing, pushing, and pushing alone.
The bodies of Yeo Ha-ryun and Jasi fly through the debris.
Hwang-gu’s massive frame was also seen flying along with them.
Yet there was not a single wound.
Like the Buddha’s touch spoken of in Buddhist teachings, it permitted not even a hint of danger.
The power to protect and preserve.
“Shrieeeeeeeeek!”
As two figures were hurled out of the Midong, the entire mountain collapsed.
Jasi and Yeo Ha-ryun tumbled across the ground.
“What in the world… what is this….”
Jasi forced his fading consciousness back into focus. He was alive.
This tenacious thread of life still persisted.
Yeo Ha-ryun struggled to push himself upright.
“Hyeong is inside… he’s still inside! He must have suffered catastrophic internal injuries!”
“You’re saying he saved everyone and now he’s trapped in there?”
Crack—
Blood beaded between Yeo Ha-ryun’s teeth.
“Yes! We have to rescue him!”
“Do you think that’s some child’s playground before your eyes? He was at the epicenter of that explosion—he’s certainly dead! Besides, he has no inner energy left, not even a handful!”
Yeo Ha-ryun’s eyes wavered as though they might shatter.
Hyeong is dead?
Caught in such a blast?
* * *
“Gack… hack.”
I stare at fragments of my own organs.
With half my abdomen torn away, even breathing became a struggle.
The fact that I remained alive was almost miraculous. This was the same sensation I’d felt when I witnessed Wang Gak-yeon in this world.
How does the patient even survive?
Yet I myself was alive.
The Nourishing Life Art and Regeneration Art, along with the Precious Jade technique, were somehow forcibly keeping me intact.
“Heavens, long live martial arts.”
I let out a bitter laugh.
My body, which should be beyond saving, was being stubbornly held together regardless of my will, through sheer martial prowess.
I abandoned any attempt at scientific explanation.
In a world where humans run across water and humans undergo complete metamorphosis to transform into new bodies, such things simply are what they are.
In such a world, what is a surgeon but the ultimate extreme profession?
“…Hah… I got greedy for soda and ended up dying in a soda mine. Krkrkrkk.”
In darkness where I cannot see even an inch ahead.
Now I have no inner energy. No strength.
Though trapped in the rubble, being outside would be meaningless in this condition.
This is a wound even a doctor cannot save.
With half my organs gone, even I could not save myself.
Rather, this was my calculation all along.
To suffer fatal wounds yet remain trapped alone in the Midong.
Given what comes next, it is better to remain hidden.
In the end, the stepping stones created through the Hyeonwon Jeondan Singeong connected, and I arrived at this place.
My entire body roiled and crackled, sparks erupting from my skin.
I finally confronted my own agony.
‘I’m dying.’
Already the third death.
Fortunately, this time I saved Yeo Ha-ryun, so there was no need to choose the timing.
Then the price would be considerably reduced.
I continued waiting for death amid the pain, waiting and waiting.
A distant thumping sound reached my ears.
It seemed Yeo Ha-ryun was doing something.
But it was impossible. No matter how capable Yeo Ha-ryun was, with a body in that condition….
More than that….
‘I need to die quickly before he strains himself further.’
I thought this and tried to move my hand.
“….”
But it didn’t move at all.
Only then did I notice my arm was grotesquely broken, having been caught in the explosion. My other arm was also burned, hanging in tatters.
“Damn bastard… why did he self-destruct….”
If I had hands, I could press the vital points and send myself off without pain, but now there was no way.
The sounds grew distant.
Now different sounds began to reach my ears.
‘Ah, he’s fighting the Governor.’
All the more reason I needed to die quickly.
“Ha… hak…. Ha….”
There was one method.
Reverse my inner energy to forcibly enter a Heart Demon tribulation and perish.
Conveniently, my inner energy was already depleted and the balance broken, and the Heart Demon, the Heart Demon….
…I had nothing to worry about there either.
“Now that I’m about to die, I’m afraid. Ha…. But it’s fine.”
Haven’t I seen it countless times already?
Comics, novels, even films.
The protagonists looping through time faced suicide quite calmly.
The shock only came with the first death.
“Ha… huk….”
Whether boneless or not, this was a martial artist’s body.
One packed tightly with nurturing arts and regeneration arts.
It was obvious that death would come slower than for an ordinary person.
‘Ah, so even a martial master dies when their limbs are shattered by an explosion and half their organs are blown away. But with Righteous Faction martial arts, you don’t die immediately—you suffer like this before dying. And it’s not like a Doctor coming would have any chance of saving me. This is a bit of a shitty dead end, isn’t it?’
Realizing this absurd truth, I reversed my inner energy.
Or tried to.
“….”
Yet why couldn’t I do it?
One more step forward meant death, and I’d already died twice, so I thought suicide would be something I could accomplish easily.
My spiritual cultivation had deepened through years of martial training, so I believed I could face death with composure.
I was terrified.
When it came down to it, I was terrified.
‘Why couldn’t I….’
Why couldn’t I do it like the people in those novels, comics, and films?
If I could calmly take my own life like them, everything would simply continue anyway.
“…ha…hahaha. Damn it.”
Perhaps it would have been better if someone were watching.
In the darkness where no one could see, I spoke the truth.
“I don’t want to die, I don’t want to die, I don’t want to die…. I’m scared. I’m scared. I’m so scared….”
Even in this unbearable situation, tears streamed down my face.
One step.
Just one step.
Crash!
I heard a sound again from somewhere.
I had to save Ha-ryun.
As long as he was alive, I didn’t need to reverse time—I could just manipulate space instead.
Space was cheaper than time.
I had to pay the price while it was affordable.
‘If I don’t want to lose another limb this time, I have to do it now…!’
I steeled my resolve, again and again, over and over.
‘I have to save myself.’
Even if that method meant killing myself.
Suppressing my fear of death, growing angry at myself, demanding whether this was all my spiritual cultivation amounted to.
I reversed my inner power against the heavens.
“Ha-ryun. Brother…. I’m coming to see you. It’s okay. I’m just protecting myself.”
Yet I was still terrified.
Damn it….
Why couldn’t I be as magnificent as other martial artists?
I recalled Gwon Je’s final moments.
I knew I could never become like him.
‘I’m just an ordinary person after all.’
My inner power began to rotate in reverse.
The Gate of Life closed and the Gate of Death opened.
Crack—
As if waiting, the Heart Demon burst forth from the dam and began tearing into me.
The twelve primary meridians began to boil violently.
Every organ screamed as though I had swallowed molten lava.
Just half a step remaining.
Why was life so achingly sweet?
Even now, humans cannot help but glance backward.
‘Yes. I am merely an ordinary, unremarkable human.’
Everything is nothing but delusion, delusion, delusion.
I stepped onto a path from which there was no return.
“Ha-ryun. Hyeong. I’m going there.”
Crunch, crunch, crunch–!
Every meridian and organ was wrung out as though crushed like a crumpled aluminum can.
“Krraaaaaaagh!”
It hurt, it hurt, it hurt—far more than I had ever imagined.
The agony consumed my body like fire, and in that instant, the Hyeonwon Jeondan Singeong flickered like a broken machine.
Sudden enlightenment.
‘Ah, the entire body’s meridians were actually the same as the Eight Extraordinary Meridians.’
In the throes of extreme suffering, I attained an unexpected revelation.
It was a martial truth that only an infinitesimal few geniuses among those racing toward the end of demonic possession could ever comprehend.
Truly, a hidden supreme enlightenment known only to the deceased.
To have obtained it meant my body was already irreversibly ruined.
And then, at last, a voice reached me.
Boggi’s blood answered an ancient covenant.
-Time or space. Which do you choose?

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