Doctor’s Rebirth - Chapter 905

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Chapter 905
“The Seven Star Sword Formation is the absolute technique of the Mudang Faction.”
Cheonwoo’s eyes gleamed like the sharp edge of a blade.
That was the pride of a shaman.
Even though it had been transmitted to the family of a lay disciple, its power was not diminished.
The seven swordsmen forming the Seven Star Sword Formation began to dismember the demons attacking from all directions as they shifted their positions.
“Activate the formation!”
Clang!
Supporting each other with the power of the Seven Stars, their inner energy consumption was minimal, and their fatigue was greatly reduced.
Furthermore, if the cultivators forming the Seven Star Sword Formation had sufficient mastery, the manipulation of sword energy became far more fluid while maintaining the formation.
“Elder Brother! Die!”
The demons rushed forward, screaming.
Judging by their fluency in the imperial language, this one appeared to be a hybrid or perhaps blessed.
However, the sword energy extending from the blades of the Elder Brother swordsmen traced the Big Dipper.
Yin and yang.
Night sky and stars.
That profound harmony created a martial art that began to ravage all directions.
Clang clang clang clang!
The demons’ limbs were severed in an instant, and they collapsed.
“Eliminate all the demons!”
It was not only the Elder Brother who fought using formations.
Jin Cheon-hee raised the signal flag.
“Peng Family Elder Brother’s Heavenly Rock Fist Formation, activate!”
The Peng Family, a cadet branch of the Peng Family, which was said to be a cadet branch of the Hwangbo Sega.
“Yeon Family Elder Brother, the signal has come! Activate the formation!”
The Yeon Family, which was the family of a lay disciple of Shaolin Temple, also confronted the demons with their own formations.
In an instant, formations clashed against formations as they began to slaughter the enemy.
“Wow, we might actually win this?”
As the martial artists fought in perfect unison, the expressions of the garrison soldiers brightened.
“Uwaaaaaa!”
As morale swelled, they began to shout and slaughter the enemy.
However, for some reason, Jin Cheon-hee’s expression remained cold.
Cheonwoo, sensing the atmosphere, asked.
“Hyeong?”
“…Taha-pa was right. These demons are certainly different from those my Master faced. They are stronger and more numerous.”
The number of demons was overwhelming.
It was not merely their quantity—their abilities were formidable beyond measure.
Each one possessed such monstrous strength that those without martial training could not possibly contend with them.
Eventually, one formation shattered, and a warrior’s body was sent flying.
Boom boom boom crash!
“Humans, kekekeke. How weak.”
“No matter how much wisdom you squeeze out, humans are still just humans. Compared to us blessed ones, you are nothing.”
“Kihihihi. They said we could eat humans we catch ourselves.”
Speaking thus, the creature clashed weapons with the warrior before instantly devouring his head.
Crunch!
The massive jaws engulfed the human, and the moment they opened, nothing remained above the neck.
Pure predation.
“Krraaaaaaagh!”
Several garrison soldiers who witnessed this scene lost control of their bladders.
Even the Kang Ho-in warriors were horrified, their weapon tips trembling uncontrollably.
“It ate a person! It actually ate a human!”
“We knew, but is this truly a Sama Hyeon demon!”
Indeed.
A war between species had instantly transformed into a struggle between predator and prey.
“Where… where do these creatures keep crawling out from!”
“Elder Brother! We must retreat!”
The Elder Brother’s sword inspectors began backing away hesitantly.
The street was already overflowing with Goe-eo-in.
“Damn it! What is this…”
As the Elder Brother’s inspectors wore expressions of despair.
Jin Cheon-hee drew out the next flag.
With that flag as a signal, the drum rhythm changed.
Ding. Ding. Ding.
The sound of bells began to ring.
The Jin Ju-eonga.
Those who had already encountered a Sama Hyeon demon once began to step forward.
“Kyaaaagh!!”
A jiangshi!
A pale-white jiangshi appeared, shrieking as it plunged among the Goe-eo-in.
With both hands raised, it crushed a Goe-eo-in’s head in one blow.
Splat!
“Kyeeeek!”
Screaming, one Goe-eo-in fell dead on the spot.
In that moment, other jiangshi appeared and descended upon the remaining Goe-eo-in.
It was truly a scene of supernatural chaos.
“Jiangshi!? Finally the jiangshi are joining the fray…”
“…The Jin Ju-eonga! It’s the Jin Ju-eonga! The Jin Ju-eonga is finally moving!”
“Brothers of Kang Ho, take heart! The Jin Ju-eonga moves at Ilgwang’s signal!”
These men who normally fought over a single secret technique like sworn enemies, but in times like this were no different from blood brothers.
“오오오오오옷—!!”
“Let’s fight!”
The morale of the people surged upward in an instant.
And they charged forward alongside the corpses toward the hybrids.
* * *
The Jin Ju-eon Family had entered the battle.
And the defensive lines of the garrison soldiers and guards prepared in advance were holding firm.
With the additional support of the Qingdo martial artists.
The invasion of the hybrids had begun, yet still humans encouraged one another, fighting against their fear.
Those who once harbored grudges, those from sects that held old enmities—all forgot such things in this moment and wielded their weapons.
For behind them lay something that could never be lost.
I felt all of this while sitting in lotus position.
I was positioned at the center of the formation.
It was not an elaborate formation.
Since the sea mist itself was so thick, it merely allowed for basic situational awareness.
This was all that could be accomplished in the limited time available.
Yet, at this very moment.
It was evident that if we did not defeat them even a day sooner, all of Qingdo would fall into the hands of the hybrids.
‘That’s right. That’s what makes human sacrifice so terrifying.’
Like bacteria multiplying, what appears weak at first eventually spreads exponentially.
Exhale.
I removed my lips from the pipe.
“How is it going, brother?”
“Everything is proceeding according to plan. Let’s move to the next phase soon.”
In Go, this would be called “the great horse never dies.”
Young people nowadays don’t know this term, but it was frequently used when I was their age.
A formation of many stones spread across a wide area is typically called a “great horse.”
When stones form two or three territories, they are ordinarily safe from capture.
However, if taken, that game is inevitably lost.
For this reason, it was also used to mean “preserve at all costs, no matter what.”
On the board of this conflict, Qingdo is in precisely such a situation.
‘And while we hold for now, if left as is, it’s clear that humans will lose.’
Their peculiar regenerative ability is the problem.
That’s why the corpses of the Jin Ju-eon Family, which feel no pain and can fight eternally, were necessary.
The three of us ran through the sea mist in night clothes.
Each carrying something on our backs as we ran.
We struck down the hybrids we encountered along the way.
And immediately headed toward the Sea Market.
“It’s empty as expected.”
“They must have joined forces with the hybrids.”
The entrance to the secret passage from before showed traces of being blocked with rocks and gravel.
But Sama Hyeon tore it apart with sheer grip strength alone, completely shattering it.
Crash!
“It seems completely destroying the passage is impossible.”
Cheonwoo spoke, and Jin Cheon-hee answered.
“By design, if we blow this up, the support pillars holding both sides of the underground city would collapse with it. The entire city wouldn’t fall, but there would still be significant damage.”
My brother had already grasped the design when he first came to the underwater city.
Jin Cheon-hee continued.
“That’s why when you create secret passages, you need to plan them carefully from the design stage, Cheonwoo. Otherwise, when you need to seal them later, you end up doing something half-baked like just blocking the entrance.”
My brother was spouting the kind of insane observations that ordinary martial artists would never think to consider.
Sama Hyeon spoke.
“And my information contamination played a role too. They believe that instead of a spy observing everything through the Sea Market, Baekrin Uiseon Jegallim orchestrated it all, and I’m carrying out his orders.”
If they’d known the Sea Market entrance had been breached, they might have detonated the pillars even if we’d destroyed them.
When we infiltrated, Sama Hyeon struck those bastards from behind, stripped them of their clothes, and took their currency—money he’d never use in this place anyway.
While searching their bodies, he found a necklace made from a young child’s skull in their possession. And snacks made from human fingers.
Cheonwoo’s eyes wavered considerably at that moment.
Afterward, using heterodox faction techniques, Sama Hyeon manipulated the corpses slightly.
They apparently concluded it was a robbery.
‘Brother. Humans plunder humans—do you really think goe-eo-in with the same intelligence as us wouldn’t plunder each other?’
That’s what Sama Hyeon had said at the time.
He explained that having intelligence and money meant exactly that for them.
It was indeed a valid point.
Cheonwoo spoke.
“Striking immediately after the first battle instead of resting at the lodging—that was the right call.”
Cheonwoo seemed to have developed resistance to this cursed heterodox path.
He no longer trembled with fear.
Jin Cheon-hee answered.
“They underestimated martial artists’ regenerative abilities. If a martial artist trains properly, they can develop absurd levels of stamina.”
“Hmm… isn’t that just you, though?”
Sama Hyeon asked the fundamental question, then immediately leaped down into the passage below.
Cheonwoo did the same.
Jin Cheon-hee secured a rope to the ceiling beforehand for the return trip, then jumped down with them.
A seemingly endless fall.
Then Cheonwoo’s shoulders and Sama Hyeon’s head came into view.
Jin Cheon-hee stepped on his younger brother’s shoulders as a foothold, just as he had on the way in, and landed gently on the ground.
Tap.
The underwater city was completely empty.
“It seems everyone went out to fight.”
“Since they said humans would be available to eat freely in half a year anyway, they probably figured killing people was just a matter of time.”
“True enough. We’re carving up a fattened goose either way—whether we break its neck today or tomorrow makes little difference. For creatures like these.”
This was an unfavorable battle.
If we prepare for war in earnest, the Goe-eo-in spies will receive word and scheme from within to strike us from behind.
But if we root out those Goe-eo-in spies, they’ll interpret that itself as an act of war and come at us from the front.
A choice between two evils.
As a strategist, I chose the latter.
The former… is not something we can handle.
“The aquatic folk become formidable soldiers the moment they take up arms, regardless of age or gender.”
“What will you do, then?”
“While I was here, I mapped out the earth veins. Plant fire bombs where I tell you. Once ignited, they’ll detonate after a short while.”
Every location Jin Cheon-hee had identified was a critical support point bearing the weight of the underground city.
Cheonwoo was inwardly astonished.
‘Without even seeing the blueprints, just from that brief observation, he discerned all of this?’
For Jin Cheon-hee, however, it was nothing remarkable.
‘Back when I fought Yeo Ha-ryun and the Bird in that underground kingdom beneath the desert, I had said all we needed to do was detonate the entire pillars supporting the city.’
Back then, doing so would have killed the people above as well, so it was impossible.
But this time was different.
Haeryong Hall itself was located on the outskirts of Qingdao, with mountains behind it.
Above the underwater city loomed a massive mountain—a mountain adjacent to the sea.
Based on the layout, even if it collapsed, there would be minimal damage to the residential areas.
‘The commercial district will suffer some destruction, certainly.’
But that area had long since been evacuated and stood empty.
No one would be harmed.
Cheonwoo adjusted the fire bombs strapped to his back as he spoke.
“Does the Jegallim Family teach such things?”
“It’s a matter of the master.”
“Pardon?”
“It’s a matter of the master.”
My master, Hyeolrin Gwangssal, had been the worst terrorist in Gangho.

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