Doctor’s Rebirth - Chapter 839

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Chapter 839
“There’s so much work. Sigh… When will Master arrive?”
Today, I find myself wrestling with mountains of paperwork in place of my Master, Jegalling.
‘Ugh… I’m going to work myself to death at this rate.’
There’s simply too much work. Absurdly, impossibly too much.
Yet I can’t simply trust my subordinates and hand everything over to them.
Beyond trust issues, even someone like Muyue, whom I can rely on, might literally collapse under such a workload.
Literally. Physically.
Right on cue, Muyue enters.
“It appears we must proceed with the project the Patriarch had been planning, which the Soggakju should oversee instead.”
“Ah… That one?”
“Yes. We need to implement the administrative staff enhancement plan.”
THE administrative staff enhancement plan!
Though not to Muyue’s degree, through the Reformation Grand Technique and the Revised Great Method, we transform ordinary people into at least peak-level masters.
Most administrative staff are scholars who studied without martial training before joining Baekrin Medical Guild!
In essence, they’re commoners.
Do they spend more time wielding swords or holding brushes?
After joining Baekrin Medical Guild, they’ve learned the Hyeonwon Art for mental enhancement and the Five Elements Qi Art—an introductory inner cultivation method of the Five Elements Divine Art—but they haven’t seriously trained external techniques.
‘Right. It’s not like they’re pounding wooden dummies every night like Muyue does.’
Moreover, since Muyue comes from Hao-mun, he faced countless life-or-death crises before joining Baekrin Medical Guild.
Muyue’s achievements are genuinely exceptional. But I can’t impose such demands on other scholars.
So even with the Revised Great Method or Reformation Grand Technique, reaching peak mastery is impossible.
However, I can temporarily elevate their physical bodies to that standard.
Maintaining it becomes their responsibility.
‘But even that alone won’t let them overcome chronic fatigue and overwork as if it were nothing.’
So we transmit the next stage of Hyeonwon Art—the Honwon Ohaeng Hyeonwon Gigong—for them to cultivate.
Just this alone multiplies administrative capacity several times over!
In martial arts novels, those who undergo this process are treated as superhuman, cutting through enemies like autumn leaves in the wind.
But here, instead of enemies, they’ll process documents like autumn leaves falling!
This plan was devised by Master directly with Muyue after successfully upgrading him and reaching the Hwagyeong stage.
‘Subject Two is scheduled to be Dokgo Junghu, but since Master isn’t here now…’
The Subject Two plan is postponed for now.
Master will want to personally upgrade our Martial Arts Guild Master himself.
Instead, let’s proceed with the general administrative staff enhancement plan.
‘I’m more than capable of handling that much.’
I shut the book with a decisive snap.
“Understood. Let’s proceed immediately. Let’s try once and see how many we can process per day.”
“There’s no need to do so many. The blessed recipients of this enhancement plan are limited. We’ve carefully selected twenty-two individuals considering both loyalty and ability.”
Even great family lines can barely receive the Revised Great Method.
Yet somehow, the two of us were having a conversation that resembled an evil organization’s final boss discussing strategy with a mid-level executive.
“No, that’s impossible. How could we only handle administration?”
“You don’t mean…?”
My blue eyes gleamed like the morning sun.
“The Research Scholars need enhancement too.”
The Research Division!
It already consumed a substantial budget, but with insulin’s success, I wanted to invest even more.
Muyue’s mouth fell open wide.
‘The Research Division… how much more does he want to drain?!’
Muyue felt a moment of dread, but then realized this too was the path of saving lives.
‘That’s right. Isn’t this a chance to receive the Reformation Grand Technique for free? It’s like embedding an entire estate into one’s body. Normally, even spies from rival sects would rush to pledge their loyalty for this.’
Since I’m going to use them anyway, wouldn’t it be better to become an enhanced human and be used?
Jegalling’s first enhanced human, Muyue, thought this way.
Now he possessed perfect skin and slow aging, teeth that wouldn’t decay, and vision that could see far distances.
And he’d gained a spine that remained perfectly straight no matter what strange postures he held.
‘Enhanced humans are wonderful things.’
He recited what sounded like a villain’s monologue in his heart.
Saving lives, truly saving lives.
* * *
Thus I immediately began the administrative staff enhancement plan.
The procedure took only two hours!
In that time alone, I could rebirth one person as a peak-level administrative warrior.
“Gasp… gasp… Patriarch. I… I…”
“Gather yourself, brave one. The procedure is complete.”
“I… feel like I’m dying… is this normal?”
“Yes, it’s normal. Ha Uiwon and the others will guide you to the bathhouse. Wash there, then rest.”
“Ah… understood… Patriarch… I will never forget this grace.”
Why was everyone expressing gratitude when I was performing the Reformation Grand Technique to exploit them further?
Some even wept and sobbed.
“Uhhh… Mother… I’ve lived all this time and never received such a thing… Mother… uhhh…! It’s the family’s glory, but why aren’t you alive to see it…!”
What is this? Delirium?
Delirium.
At first glance, its symptoms resemble dementia, but it usually develops suddenly.
Dementia cannot be cured, but delirium can recover.
It occurs especially frequently after major surgery.
In Gangho, it’s simply called ‘confusion.’
Particularly, a Kang Ho-in in delirium could sever a nearby doctor’s neck.
Since older patients tend to manifest it more than younger ones,
masters—especially elderly masters—require extra caution.
When delirium is confirmed, immediate acupuncture is applied, or if pressure points are difficult to reach, the limbs are bound with chains.
Still, delirium following the Reformation Grand Technique occurs far less frequently than on Earth, and recovery is much faster.
It was only natural.
There was one thing I could say with absolute certainty that the martial world’s medicine had over Earth’s medicine—this anesthesia technique.
Pressure point striking.
In a world governed by the omnipotent qi and the principles of yin-yang and the five elements, mocking Earth’s physical science, wasn’t it?
We humanity still didn’t know what qi truly was, nor the mechanisms behind it.
“Thank you so much! Thank you! Soggakju! I will repay this debt of gratitude across three lifetimes!”
I had briefly wondered if the Reformation Grand Technique carried similar risks, but it seemed it didn’t.
Looking at his eyes, this man was normal.
He was genuinely grateful.
‘I only wanted to use him more… Why is everyone thanking me like this?’
The next man sprang to his feet and attempted to lick Jin Cheon-hee’s shoes, so I quickly restrained him.
Something was off about this one. Definitely off.
Had the Reformation Grand Technique gone wrong?
That’s what I thought.
“A pledge of loyalty! Soggakju! I was born to become your dog from this moment forward! Woof woof woof woof! Arrruff! Woof woof woof!”
He was barking like a dog, yet there was clarity in his eyes?
Muyue, standing beside me, spoke.
“He was someone who worked quite a lot. Having received the Reformation Grand Technique for free, it seems his joy has made him rather… enthusiastic in expressing it.”
It wasn’t easy to hear the word “worked a lot” from Muyue’s mouth, so he must have truly done considerable work.
That man was dragged away by the nursing staff while continuing to make barking sounds.
“Woof woof woof woof! Loyalty to Soggakju! Arf! Grrrrrrr! Woof woof woof woof woof!”
“….”
Muyue and I watched him for a long while. Soon, I asked again.
“…He worked quite a lot, you say?”
“Yes. Despite appearances, he’s a master of arithmetic.”
“…I see.”
“He was a branch member of a sega family. Since he had no talent for martial arts as a branch member, he was essentially cast out before reaching adulthood. Still, he learned to read and write, and possessed basic arithmetic knowledge, so he was hired by Baekrin Uiseon. Now he’s even received the Reformation Grand Technique.”
“That’s wonderful.”
“Yes. The legitimate heir of his family received the Reformation Grand Technique from one of the ten great medical guilds in the martial world, but he received it directly from a third-generation guild’s Soggakju, so the significance is quite great.”
“So that’s why the barking….”
“People are quite kind-hearted. And he’s fond of Hwang-gu.”
Hearing that he liked Hwang-gu, I, a devoted dog owner, felt my favorability toward him rise slightly.
“He seems like a good person.”
Since he appeared to like dogs, I thought I should later teach him some special martial techniques related to them.
* * *
Those who underwent the procedure were given some time off.
At first, I wondered if everyone was rushing to undergo the procedure because of this vacation, but that didn’t seem to be the case.
Thus, I created three administrative warriors per day, and at this rapid pace, I transformed all the administrative personnel that Muyue had recommended.
“Wow! The turtle neck, it’s gone!”
“My skin has never been this beautiful in my entire life!”
“My arm finally rotates backward. Uwaaaaah!”
If he were a martial artist, he would have immediately sat in lotus position after receiving the Bone Correction Technique, then examined the Eight Extraordinary Meridians and the Conception and Governing Vessels.
But seeing these people rotating their joints the moment they felt better, it was clear they were all scholars through and through.
“Hair loss… hair loss cannot be treated, Soggakju.”
“Ah, that would require a complete rebirth of the body.”
“Ugh…”
Even with the Bone Correction Technique, it was impossible to revive dead hair follicles.
Next came the Research Scholars.
Their attitude differed from that of the administrative staff.
Their gratitude was the same. But something… was different.
“So I finally obtain a body capable of reaching the truth? How exciting. Keke kekeke.”
“With this, I can conduct far more experiments. Wait for me, my adorable medicinal herbs.”
“This will increase efficiency a hundredfold. I’ll be able to make my cultivation garden bloom. Huh, the plan is perfect.”
Indeed.
From the start, abandoning a doctor’s life to aspire to the Research Division meant these were no ordinary people.
And those who could receive the Bone Correction Technique were among the top-tier of the Research Division’s medical staff.
At that level, they weren’t simply avoiding clinical work for basic research—the very process of forming hypotheses and proving them was pure joy.
“May I go outside and collect some tree samples after receiving this?”
“Huff, with this robust body, I shall gather rare medicinal materials.”
Already tainted by madness, they gladly transformed into a new breed of researchers.
Meanwhile.
Since I couldn’t remain forever fixated on the Hair Restoration Technique and Bone Correction Technique, I attempted to teach this procedure to the medical staff as well.
Shouldn’t there be more people besides me capable of performing this technique so we could care for more patients in the future?
However, only half succeeded.
The medical staff managed the Hair Restoration Technique somehow, but the Bone Correction Technique was impossible!
The difficulty of the Bone Correction Technique was so high it would slap the face of divine techniques three times over.
‘The Bone Correction Technique is only possible after mastering the Hyeonwon Jeondan Singeong to perfection.’
Only the Acupuncture Guild Master, Chuna Dangju, and a select few medical staff could perform the Bone Correction Technique like me, but others could not.
If one could already do this, they would be counted among the finest physicians and martial arts masters in Gangho.
Conversely, if someone wasn’t at that level, the Bone Correction Technique was simply impossible from the start.
It wasn’t called priceless for nothing.
Still, it was something that the medical staff could now perform the Hair Restoration Technique!
Just doing the Hair Restoration Technique alone could maintain health. That was enough.
While raising the capabilities of our internal personnel in this way.
I also oversaw the training of Cheonwoo and Sama Hyeon.
“Cheonwoo. Do you trust this hyeong?”
I smiled brightly as I spoke.
Cheonwoo had to experience firsthand what clear madness truly meant.

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