Doctor’s Rebirth - Chapter 84

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Chapter 84
The first thing that caught my eye was a foul-smelling, pitch-black mud.
In other words, impurities expelled from my body.
The second was, surprisingly, a set of perfectly manicured nails. My hands were delicate, with a peachy complexion that suggested I’d never engaged in rough labor in my entire life.
Yet despite this, my knuckles were thick and my fingers long—perfectly suited for a martial artist.
“What in the world…?”
I pushed my upper body upright.
My muscular frame remained intact, but now my body was perfectly symmetrical, as if carved from stone.
Beneath flawless, unblemished skin, I could see my waist and hips, my thighs and calves brimming with taut muscle.
I leaned over the pond to see my reflection.
By Korean standards, I looked like someone in their late teens.
My eyes were large and sharp, yet when I relaxed my eyelids, there was something mysteriously languid about them.
My lips—neither thin nor thick—were red and vivid.
The corners of my mouth curved slightly upward, making me look like I was smiling even at rest.
I resembled a cat.
‘Handsome.’
My face had brought out the best of my original features.
Anyone who saw me would recognize me as Jin Cheon-hee, yet undeniably, I possessed a beauty that made one’s heart race.
My body was no different.
Examined piece by piece, it was that of a martial artist, yet somehow it exuded an elegance that suggested I’d never done a day of hard labor.
‘I’ve read countless tales of Bone Reforging in martial arts novels…’
Bone Reforging.
I didn’t know exactly how it was triggered.
I only understood it as a phenomenon that occurred when the Heart, Qi, and Body—these three aspects—harmonized perfectly upon meeting a fortuitous opportunity.
When Bone Reforging occurred, the meridians throughout one’s body transformed, reshaping into the form most conducive to martial prowess.
An aged body would become youthful, while a young body would be reconstructed to match one’s martial arts.
All impurities and waste throughout the body were completely purged, and one was reborn anew.
Any illness would be cured by a single Bone Reforging.
‘It’s a realm Our Master must reach…’
As Hyeolsaeng Nogoe had mentioned in the past, what prevented it was none other than Master’s constitution.
The Heart and Qi.
Both had already surpassed their limits, but the Body could not keep pace.
Ironically, Bone Reforging—which could cure severed meridians—was a realm one could only achieve if severed meridians were cured.
I washed my body thoroughly in the cold pond water, completely removing all impurities.
“Why was the Baihui point open?”
The Baihui point.
It referred to the acupoint at the very center of the crown of the head.
It was open at birth but gradually closed as time passed.
It was the point one sealed when opening the Upper Dantian, and the most dangerous—a single mistake would leave one crippled.
It had certainly remained closed all this time.
Jin Cheon-hee was undoubtedly a doctor who could take a pulse outside of martial arts—there was no mistake about that.
Yet this time, as if I had been waiting for it, my body naturally opened the Baihui acupoint on its own and accepted the inner energy.
‘That’s strange.’
I looked down at my own hands.
‘A body whose parents I don’t know, whose age I don’t know, and according to Yoo Ho’s investigation, I don’t even know my hometown.’
I had simply thought of myself as an extra who dies in the very beginning of the original story.
It was strange.
‘This time, my inner energy….’
I searched for the inner energy that should be in my dantian.
‘Huh? It’s gone…? Where did it all go?’
It was strange.
I had calculated the inner energy that should be obtained from consuming the elixir at roughly one jiapja.
Normally, if one consumed the Hyeonwon Five Elements Elixir according to proper method, one would gain one jiapja of power.
However.
If one consumed it all at once and managed the control, one would gain at least one jiapja of power.
Inner energy that would normally take over a hundred years of cultivation to obtain, all at once!
The inner energy that should definitely have been there was now nowhere to be found upon inspection.
‘No… it did increase though….’
I furrowed my brow.
Upon careful examination, my inner energy had indeed increased.
My original inner energy was about ten years’ worth.
Since one jiapja meant sixty years’ worth of inner energy, this would be about one-sixth of one jiapja. In truth, even that was fast.
I hadn’t been in Gangho for very long, after all.
But now it appeared to have doubled. About twenty years’ worth!
‘Did I use it all up during the bone-restructuring transformation?’
It didn’t matter. I had obtained something far more important than one jiapja of inner energy.
I circulated my vital energy to dry the moisture from my body.
Now, without even preparatory movements, I simply used my will to move the fire and wind energies, dispersing the moisture away.
The realm of Intent-Qi Wounding Man!
It refers to the realm where one wounds others by controlling one’s energy through sheer will alone.
It is said that one must reach the realm of Fire Refinement to achieve this.
But for me, this became possible when my upper dantian opened. Strictly speaking, I’m not at the Fire Refinement realm. Should I call it half-baked?
It was partly because my inner energy was woefully insufficient, but also because I lacked practical combat experience.
‘Good. With this much… I should be able to catch that spiritual creature Carp. Now the preparations are complete.’
After drying myself completely, I searched for spare clothes.
“Damn… there are none.”
My last garment had become an offering for the bone-restructuring transformation along with the filth.
It was barely clothing to begin with—more like rags—and a death sentence had been definitively passed on it.
A hollow laugh escaped me.
“I have nothing to wear.”
I unconsciously reached up to tie back my hair.
“No hair tie either. Heh, heh, heh.”
My reborn face was so hollow that even this bitter smile was devastatingly beautiful.
“Right. It’s finally time to leave this place for real.”
Of course, I had no intention of using the main gate. That would expose me to Master.
To the outside world, I was in closed-door cultivation. My plan was to slip out through the hidden exit in the Training Hall and catch Mannyeonhwari.
Only I and Chief Manager Yoo Ho knew of this plan. As long as Yoo Ho kept quiet, there was no risk of discovery.
I gathered the travel pouch I’d prepared in advance along with various other necessities and stood before the pond.
“Let me see where this water leads.”
A secret briefly mentioned in the novel.
The pond in the Training Hall connected to somewhere in the valley through underground water veins.
But since the water paths were tangled like a spider’s web, getting lost meant death.
Normally, one would suffocate and drown before even reaching the valley.
However, for me—having mastered Miribeo to its extreme limits through the Five Elements Divine Skill and completed my rebirth—it posed no real problem.
Besides that….
“Finally getting to use this.”
One of the miscellaneous texts I’d brought during my first closed-door cultivation.
I reached out and caught a fish.
A large, fat one that had lived in this pond for ages—the old master of this place.
I forcibly injected my inner energy into the fish.
It wasn’t a particularly impressive martial art.
Small Summoning Delayed Strike.
A miscellaneous technique for injecting inner energy into small animals to control them.
It didn’t work on animals with high intelligence, and I could only give the simplest of commands.
The command I gave was simple.
‘Escape as far as possible.’
Its body trembled.
I took a few additional precautions to ensure I wouldn’t lose it, then released the fish.
The fish dove deep into the pond with powerful strokes of its tail fin.
I immediately plunged into the water after it.
‘If I get caught outside, I’ll definitely be called a pervert.’
The travel pouch was prepared in advance, so that wasn’t the problem.
The problem was what I was going to do.

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