Doctor’s Rebirth - Chapter 83

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Chapter 83
I shouldered the massive bronze dragon statue once more and repeated several more sets.
Whoosh!
“Huff, huff. My body’s burning hot. My muscles are developing properly.”
From a modern medical perspective, I continued my cultivation based on the martial arts I was learning.
Normally, internal energy—especially the Five Elements Divine Skill centered on mental power—would make such basic physical training seem trivial. However, according to the revised Five Elements Divine Skill that Jegalling had restructured, muscles became increasingly important as one progressed.
“Come to think of it, even our Master has quite the physique.”
In stark contrast to his refined features, he possessed a massive frame approaching 190 centimeters in height, broad shoulders, and formidable musculature. His strength was extraordinary.
Once, the guild masters had wagered an arm-wrestling competition, and he had defeated them all without changing his expression, simply smiling gently throughout.
Naturally, Jegalling emerged as the champion, while the Acupuncture Guild Master finished last.
Because he was like this, no one seemed to truly believe he had a limited lifespan.
One shouldn’t be fooled by his brilliant intellect and striking beauty. In reality, his martial foundation was unparalleled.
‘I need to treat him quickly. For that, I must grow stronger.’
I submerged my body in a jar filled with black liquid.
“Ugh….”
As I circulated my energy, the liquid in the jar began to boil, releasing the pungent aroma of potent medicinal materials.
After exhausting the muscles, the body initiates super-recovery.
However, this world was a martial arts realm where qi existed.
By absorbing qi and circulating energy, combined with the secret medicinal solution of the Jegal Family, I could further accelerate the speed of super-recovery.
“By repeating this process, I can strengthen the physical body itself even further.”
This was external cultivation—the secret external cultivation of the Jegal Family.
Since the Jegal Family had been showing an increasing trend toward emphasizing internal energy, external cultivation would have been completely abandoned by now under normal circumstances.
However, under my Master Jegalling, scattered external cultivation texts were gathered and restored.
“Moreover, with breathing exercises, I can minimize sleep. I’ll substitute sleep time with energy circulation.”
Then I would refine the Miribeo Technique, the next stage after the Samjaebo Technique, while training the Ten-Step Divine Spear simultaneously.
“And finally, I’ll consume the Hyeonwon Five Elements Elixir.”
I planned to absorb every last drop through internal energy.
For that, I needed to strengthen my body even further.
“If I do that, I should be able to raise my internal energy to at least ten years of cultivation, complete my physical body to a certain degree, and my height… hmm… I hope it becomes taller than that guy.”
Yeo Ha-ryun, who had grown so much despite not seeing him for a while, kept bothering me.
In my previous life, I suffered because of my height, so I hoped to grow tall in this life.
“Height is ultimately determined by genetics, though.”
A colleague who ran a pediatric clinic in Cheongdam-dong once said this.
Genetics determined 80% of height.
Actually, it seemed like it was closer to 90%, but even so, if you persisted, you could add an extra 0.2 centimeters to every 1 centimeter of growth, so I’d give it 80%.
“Right. My goal for this life is to be over 180 centimeters tall.”
Whether then or now, it wasn’t as if I knew my parents’ faces anyway.
While circulating my energy, I concentrated internal power intensively toward my growth plates.
A month later.
“Oh, I’ve grown a bit?”
I marked my height on the wall with my spear.
One month.
Even accounting for growth spurts, this was remarkably rapid development.
Stimulating the growth plates with inner energy proved to be quite an effective strategy.
‘That fool Yeo Ha-ryun will be utterly shocked when we meet again. I’ll show him the true difference between us.’
I swung my spear lightly once.
Crack—
Thunder followed the trajectory of my spear, sparks scattering in its wake.
What once required conscious effort now flowed as naturally as breathing.
My body left afterimages in three different directions.
Evidence of entering the initial stages of Miribosam Seong.
Then I flicked the Wa-ryong Statue upward with my spear tip.
This time, not with my shoulder, but with the sole of my foot.
Boom!
“First one down!”
I continued refining my external energy while standing on my hands.
And then the second month arrived.
“My hair has grown so much. It’s growing as fast as my height, isn’t it?”
I tied it back roughly with a hair cord, then used the pond as a mirror to brush my face with my hand. Immediately after, I reached out and snatched a carp.
My hand scattered into three different directions as I caught it.
Splash!
As if retrieving something I’d left behind, I caught three carp at once and placed them in the basket, then stood up.
My body had developed considerable muscle.
Martial artists naturally grow quickly, but I was growing even faster.
The Wa-ryong Statue had accumulated many scratch marks.
“I’ll need to get a new one once my secluded training ends.”
Finally, the third month arrived.
I measured my height with my fingers instead of my spear.
“Twenty-five centimeters… By Martial Arts World standards, that’s a full chi of growth…?”
I sighed as I tried to tie back my wild hair.
“Right. I destroyed my hair cord during training.”
Habits are terrifying.
“Is this adolescence? My voice is already deepening. Hmm…”
The youthful boy now appeared to be a teenager.
Beneath my long, wild hair, deeply defined muscles looked almost like weapons.
My upper garment had worn through completely, and only my lower garment barely covered my muscular thighs.
Since I’d eaten nothing but fish and grain-avoidance pills, my body appeared lean overall, yet it was unmistakably well-trained.
Strangely, afterimages no longer appeared when I walked. It was indistinguishable from how an ordinary person moved.
Yet oddly, no matter where I looked at my gait, the next movement was completely unpredictable.
—Once you reach the third stage of Miribosam Seong, walking and running become like the wind. You transcend the constraints of form.
I learned all the essential techniques through hellish training with my Master.
As if he had arranged everything so that I could grow even if I died at any moment.
As that thought crossed my mind, my expression hardened.
‘I won’t let you die easily. No matter what happens. That was the oath my Master and I made together.’
When I closed my eyes, I could still see that garden where dandelion seeds drifted, still smell that fragrance.
In that place, I had sworn to Jegalling that I would never let him die easily.
Like all humans, he would die someday, eventually it would come to that, but not now—I would ensure that.
Even if he begged me to let him die, I would keep him alive.
I picked up the spear and drew a formation on the Training Ground floor.
Every time I passed, scorch marks from lightning became the formation lines. Finally, in the very center of it.
I sat down and circulated my energy for a long while.
A faint smile played on the lips of the young man who still retained traces of childhood.
“Alright, let’s try it.”
The Hyeonwon Five Elements Elixir.
When I opened the jade box, five elixirs lay inside.
Again, I couldn’t detect any scent. Yet I could sense that the five elixirs each emanated different fragrances.
Of course. Each one contained the essence of the Five Elements.
Normally, the proper method would be to consume them slowly, one at a time. Even a single one was a powerful medicinal treasure.
“Just the fragrance alone makes me dizzy. Truly remarkable.”
But my answer was different.
“I’ll consume them all at once.”
The same answer as when I first came here long ago and ate the Five Elements Elixir.
I swallowed all five at once. It wasn’t difficult. The moment they entered my mouth, they began dissolving like sugar.
At first, I thought it was nothing special.
But the instant the five elixirs completely dissolved, the inner qi of the Five Elements began raging wildly.
Krrrrgh—
A power so tremendous that the old me would have burst from the sheer force of it.
But now was different.
Instead of directing the five types of inner energy to my dantian, I let them circulate through the meridians in my body.
Like allowing wild horses to run freely, I didn’t block them but instead opened a path, guiding them in the direction I desired.
The newly arrived inner force began piercing through my middle dantian.
Boom!
A single elixir, if properly absorbed, could add a full decade of cultivation.
Because the qi was so potent, the orthodox method was to consume them one by one in sequence. But the result of consuming all of them at once manifested in my body.
As the five types of qi generated and restrained each other, the power created within my body was truly unprecedented.
Normally, I should have gained cultivation equivalent to sixty years, but the actual increase in power far exceeded that.
‘Phew, so it begins now.’
I had already anticipated this outcome.
‘The Hyeonwon Five Elements Elixir. After Baekrin Uiseon’s death, one of the treasures in the novel that a certain demon accidentally obtained. He was learning martial arts other than the Five Elements Divine Skill, but after consuming all five pills, he underwent a complete transformation. And that method was….’
I didn’t try to control the tremendous power occurring within my body.
I merely provide direction. That is the answer.
If it were the qi of other spiritual medicines or mystical creatures, this method would be dangerous.
No matter how well I guide it, such powerful qi would shatter the meridians.
However, the Hyeonwon Five Elements Elixir had to be used this way.
Because this is no ordinary spiritual medicine—it is a therapeutic elixir.
‘Break down, heal, and strengthen. That is the true function of the Hyeonwon Five Elements Elixir.’
My lower dantian has just opened. And in that moment, my meridians thicken and grow stronger. The qi and medicinal power of the Hyeonwon Five Elements Elixir begin to seep throughout my entire body.
Yet the qi remains abundant. Five horses begin their relentless gallop.
Soon, they surge toward my brain.
‘Here it comes. I must stay sharp… one mistake and I’ll spend my life as a cripple.’
Touching the brain is the gamble. If I fail and die, it’s regrettable but unavoidable.
The greatest danger is partial success.
Surviving while the brain is destroyed.
That is the gamble that occurs when touching the Baihui point in the Martial Arts World.
One could lose their personality, lose their memories, go mad, or live as a hemiplegic.
‘It’s fine. I’ve prepared thoroughly.’
What remains is the courage to take one more step.
I steeled myself for death.
Boom!
‘What?’
But something unexpected occurred. It wasn’t a breakthrough sensation.
The qi simply flowed out in torrents through a gaping hole.
The reason was simple.
My Baihui point was already wide open!
‘What is this? Why?’
As I reeled in shock, the excess qi had already begun the Grand Circulation.
In that torrent, my consciousness descended into the realm of the unconscious.
Crack. Crackle.
The moment I entered a state of no-self, my bones emitted strange sounds.
Tremendous black liquid began pouring from my body, and even a layer of skin was shed.
Rebirth through bone replacement!
This was a phenomenon so rare that fewer than ten people in the entire Gangho had experienced it in this generation.
After several hours passed.
I awakened from my state of no-self.

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