Doctor’s Rebirth - Chapter 833

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Chapter 833
The Reformation Grand Technique.
A method that stands above the Hundred Meridian Cleansing—a technique worthy of bearing the name “Grand.”
To actually perform the Reformation Grand Technique, one must accumulate the capacity and knowledge equivalent to a top-tier doctor in the Gangho.
‘The problem is how expensive it becomes.’
Even if I call it medical service, if I perform the Reformation Grand Technique for free carelessly, Chief Manager Yoo Ho or Muyue might come running to kill me.
That’s how costly it is.
‘Medicine is like that. When you strip it bare, it’s a money-devouring beast.’
Let me speak of one inconvenient truth.
After a prolonged hospitalization, when people receive an itemized bill, many are genuinely shocked.
There are line items that make you wonder if your family will be ruined, yet at the final total, medical insurance provides substantial buffering.
Especially if a family member has cancer, nothing is more precious than medical insurance.
I once asked about the price of an MRI machine—it exceeded two billion won.
When you factor in the operational and maintenance costs, it’s a money-devouring beast indeed.
That’s why some private hospitals lease equipment, and depending on the type, lease costs alone exceed a hundred million won.
Then there’s the CT scanner, and surgical robots.
That machine imported from across the American ocean costs over three billion won depending on options, they say.
And these devices don’t end once you bring them in and plug them in.
Maintenance costs are substantial too.
And naturally, you must pay the salaries of the medical personnel who operate them.
Even though modern medicine relies heavily on medical devices, the reality remains unchanged—people are being ground up to keep it running.
When I was young, I imagined 2020 would have lunar tourism, robots healing people automatically, and everyone modifying their bodies with machines.
Reality held none of that.
Humanity still boils water to spin turbines and generate electricity.
And in this steampunk world, humans are being ground up while carrying machines on their backs.
Even medication costs—just diabetes drugs alone aren’t cheap once insurance drops out.
It’s not quite the American level where insulin costs four hundred thousand won per vial, but it’s still quite burdensome.
It’s no joke that in America, a week’s hospitalization costs more than a funeral.
Medical insurance is essentially tanking all of that.
Even that insurance has questions about coverage limits, rare diseases, and payment rates, but here in the Gangho martial world, there is no insurance system at all.
There’s no insurance concept like in the modern world to begin with.
The cost of medicines and golden needles used immediately?
All billed directly to the patient.
Even common medicinal herbs blooming on roadsides require processing to extract their medicinal properties.
‘Medicinal materials’ in a form usable by a doctor’s clinic requires time, money, and labor.
And a doctor can’t provide free consultations every time anyway. That’s the path to bankruptcy.
This is the inconvenient truth.
‘So then, how much does the Reformation Grand Technique cost?’
In martial arts novels, the Reformation Grand Technique appears constantly, and our protagonist or their allies and enemies receive it, power up, and make their entrance, don’t they?
Let me calculate just how much money these people spend.
This is a story that never appears in martial arts novels.
Wealthy sect families use it often enough.
But you never hear tales of poor warriors employing the Meridian Reformation Technique.
The Meridian Reformation Technique.
A procedure where spiritual elixirs are administered, and through the Eight Extraordinary Meridians Circulation combined with the Conception and Governing Vessels, the meridians are opened to a considerable degree, though not completely.
It’s an excellent procedure when received at the stage where impurities accumulate and begin blocking the blood vessels.
For the great sects of Gangho, it’s a renowned technique performed even for promising disciples of the younger generation.
Though only a select few who inherit the direct bloodline of the main family receive it—never the branch families.
And currently in Gangho, the pinnacle of the Meridian Reformation Technique is surprisingly…
‘The Heukjeon Medical Guild!’
Everyone is astonished.
The Heukjeon Medical Guild stands at the forefront of the Meridian Reformation Technique.
Perhaps it’s because the Meridian Reformation Technique itself exists in a realm that science can never explain.
It’s possible only because countless bizarre and incomprehensible experiments on the human body have been combined with something akin to sorcery in medical practice.
Of course, that’s what’s publicly known about Gangho, but in my honest assessment, the most exceptional place is.
‘Naturally, the Baekrin Medical Guild!’
In the Meridian Reformation Technique, the Baekrin Medical Guild is supreme.
And for good reason.
Isn’t the current Baekrin Medical Guild’s Meridian Reformation Technique the very creation of my Master Jegalling, that unparalleled genius of the world who studied the Meridian Reformation Technique and various other great techniques to treat the Nine Yin Meridians?
Though we ultimately couldn’t treat the Nine Yin Meridians, we have a track record of successfully treating the Seven Yin Meridians.
However, even for the Baekrin Medical Guild, three spiritual elixirs are necessary.
The cost has already exceeded the budget.
Each spiritual elixir costs more than a house in Namgyeong—three houses have already vanished.
Beyond that, you need a Senior Medical Practitioner, specifically one from the Acupuncture Guild who has cultivated for over ten years at the Senior level.
Below that, at least three Middle-Ranked Medical Practitioners.
These are naturally high-level personnel.
Clearing their schedules requires no small sum of money.
And the golden needles used?
Needles used in the Meridian Reformation Technique cannot be reused.
The cost of specially crafted golden needles made by the Sichuan Tang Family is also charged.
From the semi-spiritual elixirs taken before and after the procedure to the body management required afterward.
‘Ha ha ha, at this rate, I’ll be buying an entire estate in Namgyeong, not just a house.’
This is the cost excluding the fees for periodic pulse diagnoses at the medical guild after the procedure.
The effect is certain.
My Master’s Meridian Reformation Technique is already unparalleled under heaven, and hasn’t he also incorporated the medical knowledge of Earth that I know?
At this point, I almost wonder if money alone could truly create masters.
Of course, the Meridian Reformation Technique alone isn’t sufficient—one’s own consistent cultivation and enlightenment must follow.
But at least the physical foundation of the heart-qi-body is solidly established.
The enlightenment of the heart and the technique governing the form of martial arts must be pursued by oneself—but what’s the harm in that?
Muyue was the test case, and soon the Martial Arts Guild Master Dokgo Junghu would become the next.
‘Those robots that used to mutter about “human upgrade”… they come to mind?’
Strictly speaking, it would be more accurate to call it a different form of human evolution rather than robots.
Recalling that British drama called ‘Doctor Who’, I, Jin Cheon-hee, suddenly grasped anew the magnitude of my Master’s achievement.
At this level, I wouldn’t be surprised if he could manage the Eight Extraordinary Meridians, if not the Nine.
And now.
I, Jin Cheon-hee, who inherited such genius medical skills, stand here.
To begin the revised golden needle acupuncture method in the Baekrin Uiseon style.
And Sama Hyeon and the doctors of the Medical Guild are present as well.
The medical staff asked.
“Soggakju, why is the Gasol of the Golden Blood Hall participating here?”
“Because he covered all the medical expenses.”
“Ah, I see…”
Everyone understood.
“The price of an entire mansion in Nanking—he paid it all. He must be quite the benefactor.”
“Such is the fortune of the Gangho.”
“There must certainly be a deep story behind it.”
Money is merely money, they say, but sometimes a sum can move people as much as its amount.
The elderly man must share some connection with that person, worth the price of a Nanking mansion.
Surely it was a connection as deep as an abyss.
Everyone thought so.
My thoughts, however, were different.
‘Hyeon really does have a lot of money. Beyond my wildest imagination…’
Just how much hidden wealth does the Golden Blood Hall possess?
How much has this person accumulated?
I can’t even imagine spending such an enormous sum just to buy Hye-a some peach wine.
‘I don’t earn poorly myself either. Wow…’
In any case, money is money.
Since Sama Hyeon said he’d cover it, I won’t have to listen to nagging from Muyue or Yoo Ho anymore—I’m simply grateful.
“Now, we begin.”
The formation activated, and the qi of heaven and earth began to move.
My hands began moving rapidly.
To those unfamiliar with martial arts, it would seem like movement as swift as lightning.
Without a single moment of hesitation, I began inserting golden needles densely across the elderly man’s body.
The revised golden needles created by the Sichuan Tang Family are far thinner, harder, and more elastic than ordinary needles.
So much so that one can discern the Patriarch’s physical condition through the needle’s tip.
‘The flow is weak. The pathways are narrow. And… there are turbid qi and waste matter that didn’t fully disperse even from the previous cleansing technique. The Conception and Governing Vessels are naturally blocked. Then…’
I began to understand why the elderly man called himself dull-witted from birth.
The elderly man’s body was not that of a martial prodigy.
Like mine.
For a body like that to practice martial arts, the family would have needed to pour money into meticulous management from childhood.
I myself was fortunate that my Master personally performed the Baelmo Sewsu technique to begin with, but how often does one get the opportunity to receive Baelmo Sewsu from one of the three greatest doctors under heaven?
Most are like Jeong Gajangju.
It’s just that Jeong Gajangju’s martial prowess was so exceptional that he delayed giving it up.
But was that truly such a grave mistake?
To have loved martial arts so deeply.
That alone isn’t a sin worthy of becoming a curse, is it?
Ting. Ti-ting. Ting. Ti-ti-ting.
The golden needles emit sounds.
Each time I channel my vital energy, the Sichuan Tang Family’s golden needles produce their own distinct tones.
It was almost like a small concert.
‘My Master is truly remarkable. To conceive of using the Gaejung Daebeop through sound cultivation…’
First, I send the water-generating qi through the Ren and Du meridians to create vibrations.
‘I protect the blood vessels themselves with vital energy, while simultaneously cleansing the entire vascular system thoroughly. In a way, it’s similar to ultrasonic cleaning. Or perhaps that’s exactly what it is?’
My Master Jegalling had certainly explained and taught me about the principles of yin and yang, and the harmony between the physical body and vital energy.
However, as someone trained in the sciences, I understood it in this manner.
In truth, the essence of surgery ultimately comes down to this.
Stopping hemorrhage, sterilizing, and suturing.
For fractures, beginning to piece the fragments together.
Of course, the patient isn’t a cotton doll, and it’s not as simple as it sounds.
Yet the essence of surgery is opening the body and using physical methods to prolong the patient’s life.
For someone like me, the world of yin-yang and five elements was a concept painful even to hear about.
And now I was using what my Master had taught me.
‘One of the techniques that exerts an absolute effect on elevating one’s martial prowess.’
The opening of the Ren and Du meridians!
The Ren meridian and the Du meridian.
When these two are opened, the efficiency of the Grand Circulation increases several times over—this is already well-known fact, and forcibly opening them is the most crucial element of the Gaejung Daebeop.
Yet surprisingly, even the Heukjeon Medical Guild is said to be unable to open the Ren and Du meridians completely and certainly in one attempt.
Instead, they replace the Ren and Du meridians with a cow’s meridians to achieve a similar effect, though I don’t understand how that’s possible.
However.
Baekrin Medical Guild could do it.
And right now, I was accomplishing it.
‘Moving my hands this quickly without a single error!’
‘The Baekrin Medical Guild’s Gaejung Daebeop is special. While other medical guilds can momentarily open the Ren and Du meridians, it’s the Baekrin Medical Guild’s Gaejung Daebeop that actually fixes that state in place.’
That’s when Sama Hyeon spoke.
“I’ve heard the Baekrin Medical Guild’s Gaejung Daebeop is famous for being a race against time, but you don’t seem to have that concern.”
Speaking during the Gaejung Daebeop is normally forbidden.
Yet I answered calmly without my hands slowing even slightly.
“That’s right. To fix the opened Ren and Du meridians, you must complete twelve golden needle techniques before the meridians close within a set time. That’s why it’s only possible after ten years as a Sang Ui-won, and conversely, impossible after twenty years.”
“Because your hands slow down?”
“Yes. Few doctors maintain their peak condition until then. Of course, the acupuncture technique itself would still be excellent, but this work requires physical ability.”
Though it was a foreign word, Sama Hyeon understood it immediately.
Following Jin Cheon-hee’s hands, the medical staff of the Acupuncture Guild began to assist.
‘It’s merely assistance, but even keeping up is exhausting. It’s almost like assisting the Acupuncture Guild Master…’
‘No. The Acupuncture Guild Master is slow, but he does insert the needles deeply.’
They realized it.
‘Am I really comparing the Martial Arts Guild Master to the Acupuncture Guild Master?!’
They were from different disciplines.
Yet still, they found themselves making comparisons naturally.
Following the trajectory of his hands, they were searching desperately for any shortcoming compared to their Acupuncture Guild Master.
Was it jealousy? No. It was anxiety.
The Patriarch was fine.
After all, he was the one who created Baekrin Medical Guild itself.
But the young man before their eyes was far too young.
Watching a single genius dismantle the pride of the Acupuncture Guild was both agonizing and exhilarating.
This was a feeling difficult to express in any words.
‘Is this the future of Baekrin Medical Guild?’
One day, he would become a Patriarch and stand above them all.
Suddenly, Baek Rin-ui-seon’s profile overlapped with the young man’s.
“Your hands have slowed down.”

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