Doctor’s Rebirth - Chapter 908

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Chapter 908
Taha-pa scattered into fragments and fell dead.
I had already wrapped myself in protective inner energy, so I suffered no damage from the explosion.
However, I was utterly exhausted.
The Five Elements Convergence Wall is a martial technique of inner energy that combines the five elemental forces from the outside through the principles of mutual generation and mutual restraint, then detonates them.
Its power was comparable to a strong barrier, and naturally it was also a life-threatening technique of the highest order.
I detonated it from within and moved using that force like a runaway locomotive.
No matter how close to indestructible diamond body I was, or how quickly the Heavenly Dragon Art healed my physical wounds, I had definitely overextended myself.
Drip.
Blood trickled from the corner of my mouth.
I had sustained severe internal injuries, and my inner energy was now down to roughly thirty percent.
When I carefully examined my body’s interior, the condition was naturally poor.
Severe internal damage.
However, wasn’t it impossible to defeat him without taking injury?
‘He was a formidable opponent. Without enlightenment, I might have died here.’
Even if I could turn back time after death.
If I couldn’t defeat Taha-pa through pure strength, then everything would be blocked at this very moment and place.
‘If it were before a direct confrontation like this, I could have used other methods.’
But even so.
I might not respond properly and could fail to stop the movements of the Goe-eo-in.
Because of this, I exhaled a sigh of relief.
My entire body ached as though it would collapse, and I had little inner energy remaining.
Yet I had survived.
I pulled out an emergency internal injury medicine from the Baekrin Medical Guild from my robes, swallowed it, and turned my head.
The Imugi and my two junior brothers were engaged in fierce combat.
It was a dangerous fight so intense they could hardly spare attention for this side.
‘Now. If I make that Imugi retreat for a moment and return to the surface….’
Escaping from the Imugi wouldn’t be particularly difficult, so there should be no problem.
That was when it happened.
The Imugi suddenly retreated backward.
Rumble?
Then its body trembled violently before it dove deep into the sea and fled.
‘What?’
As I watched for a moment, Cheonwoo and Sama Hyeon also stopped and gazed at the sea.
But as a little time passed, even the bubbles rising from the seawater disappeared.
“This bastard just ran away?”
“Maybe it’s because you defeated the Goe-eo-in.”
“I don’t think that’s it though….”
Sama Hyeon tilted his head in confusion, then turned his body and approached me.
“Oh my! Aga. Why are you so badly injured!”
My body was covered with wounds, and blood flowed freely from them.
Now, thanks to the Heavenly Dragon Technique, the bleeding had stopped and the wounds were preparing to heal, but that didn’t erase the fact that I was injured.
“Brother! Are you alright!?”
“Just minor cuts. I’m fine.”
More than that, detonating the Five Elements Convergence from within my body had caused deeper internal injuries.
But this wasn’t the time to mention that.
Rumble!
The collapse of the underwater city continued unabated.
“Let’s escape quickly. If we get out right now, this operation will be a success….”
Then.
The trembling of the underwater city stopped.
“Huh?”
“What?”
“This is….”
Whoooosh!
The moment the vibrations ceased, the seawater suddenly began to swirl and surge upward.
It transformed into a tidal wave in an instant, attempting to swallow the entire city.
“Run!”
The moment I shouted, all three of us bolted at full speed.
The lightness technique I had cultivated over the years was unleashed at its peak, and I moved like lightning.
Behind us, the tidal wave consumed houses and city, chasing after us.
At this rate, we would drown!
What could I do….
In that moment of deliberation.
Suddenly.
The surroundings transformed.
‘What is this!?’
Before I knew it. Very abruptly.
The surroundings were filled with sea mist.
So thick that my two younger brothers were invisible.
And the sound of the tidal wave crashing down was no longer heard.
‘An illusion? Or was I caught in sorcery? But this… it’s similar to that. When I first entered Eungryong’s dwelling….’
The very concept of space.
Had vanished.
An endless sea mist where no walls were visible, yet the space felt infinitely vast despite that.
This sense of déjà vu was similar to the sensation I felt when I first descended into Eungryong’s dwelling.
Then a voice was heard.
[The time has come.]
A colossal voice imbued with unprecedented power.
‘This…. What is this?’
The voice stretched out in a prolonged echo.
[Now that Boggi’s blood has been spilled, the time of the medicine has arrived.]
Jin Cheon-hee suddenly looked down at the ground.
Despite bleeding considerably, the floor remained oddly pristine, not soaked at all.
[The end has come, and now I shall overflow the seas and annihilate all living things upon the land.]
In that instant, a deafening roar filled everything.
As the sea mist scattered slightly, I could see my siblings’ backs.
Though I had experienced this when meeting Eungryong, this was my younger siblings’ first encounter with such a thing.
“Wh-what is that?”
What had Cheonwoo seen beyond the mist?
He shouted at me to retreat. Then, to fight and protect those behind him, he took a step into a defensive stance.
In that moment, with a thunderous crash, Cheonwoo vanished in a single blow.
Where Cheonwoo had stood, only a handful of blood remained.
“Huh? Cheonwoo…?”
Like a fool, I stared at that blood and spoke.
And then.
“Brother! Run away…!”
Someone pushed me. It was Sama Hyeon.
The moment he grasped the situation, he risked his life to push me to safety.
He tried to protect me.
In the instant our eyes crossed—his golden gaze and my blue eyes.
Kwaaaang!
Where Sama Hyeon had stood, only blood remained.
In that situation consuming my reason, I thought.
Death didn’t feel real.
As if everything were a dream.
‘Their blood leaves marks?’
They say when something happens too suddenly, a person cannot face reality.
The Hyeonwon Jeondan Singeong prevented my mental collapse and forcibly redirected my thoughts.
Why did only my blood disappear when it touched the ground?
‘Boggi’s blood.’
I couldn’t even comprehend that my two younger siblings had become mere handfuls of blood.
My younger brother’s severed hand gripped my arm.
How desperately he had tried to protect me.
But above the wrist, there was nothing.
Only blood.
Just.
“Wh…?”
I lifted my eyes and looked upward.
Through the sea mist, a colossal presence finally revealed itself.
“I, Hae-seon, shall annihilate every living creature upon this earth.”
A god.
It was incomparable to the Six-Horned Venomous Snake or Yoo Ho.
‘Eungryong.’
My fingertips trembled uncontrollably.
Madness surged forth once more, transcending anger and sorrow, drowning reason in an abyss of unreality.
The Hyeonwon Jeondan Singeong forcibly suppressed it, again and again.
Was this a dream?
More than that.
‘Such a being was sealed away?’
My two younger siblings dying in an instant, and an existence of Eungryong’s caliber being sealed here.
Neither of these felt real.
In that moment.
Voices echoed in my ears.
-Finally found it. A fragment of destruction.
-It was hiding here!
-This time ■■ got lucky. Heaven had hidden it so well, yet it was here.
-Wow! Does that mean we succeeded?
They were not the voices of others.
My own voice. And the voice of my younger self.
Countless small versions of myself were calling this incident a “success.”
All of them praised me.
-As expected, you’re amazing! Truly the most outstanding of us ■.
-Also the most foolish ■.
-Thank you! Thank you! You found the clue none of us could reach!
‘Who are you? Are you some kind of thought process created by my Hyeonwon Jeondan Singeong?’
In that instant, all the small versions of myself fell silent.
Had my thought process gone mad? An auditory hallucination?
My siblings had just died.
Because they died, my mind must have broken.
The mist dispersed.
Soon the Sea God looked down upon me.
The body was so immense I could not see it all, yet I thought it resembled a dragon.
“Child of Boggi’s bloodline. That you have shed blood means the end times draw near. I shall celebrate this.”
Anger surged through the unreality of madness.
The Hyeonwon Jeondan Singeong prevented mental collapse, but could not suppress rage.
I ground my teeth.
“Henceforth, I shall fill the world with water and annihilate all mortals, then remake it for my children.”
“….”
“I wish to bestow a reward upon you. Will you accept my blessing?”
In that instant, a crimson elixir materialized before Jin Cheon-hee’s eyes.
Eungryong had done something similar once before.
Back then, it had been scales.
And… she had as well.
Something overwhelmingly vast and immense.
That sealed existence was no different from them.
Extending a handshake to an ant—the weight class itself was violence, was it not?
And my younger siblings.
I wanted to end it all.
Yet, the binding command my Master had given me.
-…Live as a human each moment, and die as a human.
Ah, why must being human hurt so much?
‘What does it mean to live as a human, Master?’
Jin Cheon-hee raised his sword upright.
To continue into the next life, I needed to know that creature’s weakness.
I had no certainty whether I could defeat this vast existence, whether human strength could accomplish it.
Yet, the Hyeonwon Jeondan Singeong permitted not even a shred of madness.
And I myself had never learned how to retreat.
“I refuse.”
And Jin Cheon-hee drew forth the sword of the heart.
The Heart Sword.
This world was forged by will and lived through will.
The moment I resolved to strike down my enemy, the air resonated in response to the Heart Sword with a deep, resonant hum.
Sama Hyeon. Cheonwoo.
My two younger siblings came here for me and died.
It was not a grand death.
There was no farewell, no premonition of death.
Like crushing an ant with a thumb.
‘Yes. Like crushing an ant.’
With the corpses of those two children, those two, at my back, would I accept a ‘blessing’ here?
‘A divine existence… Perhaps something like Hyeolseon. If I die to this creature…’
It might be impossible to return again.
A chill ran through me.
Fear surged forward.
The dread that this journey might truly be the end.
Death whispered down my spine.
That this might really be the end now.
That if I charged at that creature, this journey could end.
What if I accepted the ‘blessing’ and thought about it afterward?
Even now, my mind whispered compromise.
If this journey ends, I will never be able to see my siblings again.
‘Is the power in my blood superior to Hyeolseon?’
I couldn’t know.
But still.
Even so.
Thud—
‘I will draw my sword against you.’
Jin Cheon-hee raised his resolve.
The Doctor had assumed an upward thrust stance.
It was a posture containing the martial arts of a Gangho master, but it was nothing more than an ant.
An ant that could be crushed with a thumb.
The colossal being gazed down at Jin Cheon-hee with an unwavering stare.
That gaze alone constricted my entire body, and cold sweat poured down.
A sensation of being excavated down to the very foundation of my soul forcibly injected fear and madness into Jin Cheon-hee.
However.
The Hyeonwon Jeondan Singeong was forcibly ‘awakening’ Jin Cheon-hee.
But Jin Cheon-hee himself knew he couldn’t endure for long.
No matter how strong something is, if pulled from both sides, it will eventually tear.
[How foolish. Then I shall grant you rest and peace.]
The colossal being moved.
Jin Cheon-hee moved to meet it.
Will crystallized upon the blade, and all energy erupted in a single instant.
It was nothing less than everything Jin Cheon-hee possessed in the face of death.
Transcendent mindfulness beyond Shimmoo.
The ultimate secret technique of the Taeul Danseonggeom.
Taeul Danseon.
A single sword that severed the great immortal was thrust into the one who called himself Hae-seon.
Puck.
A small, insignificant sound.
Jin Cheon-hee immediately recognized that a tiny wound had been inflicted upon the opponent.
However.
It extended that massive hand with delight and without the slightest hint of anger.
Jin Cheon-hee’s vision went dark.
[You. Enter the water.]
Merely words.
With language alone, Jin Cheon-hee’s body was instantly lifted and plunged into an unknowable abyss.
Glub—
This was not martial arts.
It was merely a god speaking to the world as a god.
With a single utterance, a human was instantly cast into the vast depths of the sea.
At some point.
I felt myself sinking into the water.
Into the deep sea. Slowly.
Sinking.
Without any physical attack whatsoever, simply by pushing a person into the water, humans cannot withstand the water pressure and die.
Merely from the absence of air.
Glub.
I see.
‘You gave me something different from crushing an ant with my thumb. This was courtesy in its own way.’
But from an ant’s perspective, dying this way or that way makes no difference.
‘Damn it.’
The end of life.
-…Every moment, live like a human and die as a human.
‘Ah, Master. Did I truly die as a human?’
And will I truly be able to awaken after this?
Compared to that being’s power, I am merely an ant, but can regression continue.
I cannot know.
And.
Glub-
The moment I exhaled my final breath.
The world grew distant.
Death.
Tick-tock-
A sound that should never have been heard began to ring in my ears.
A clock.
One I had never heard before.
The pottery clock that Yoo Ho had gifted me.
The hour and minute hands passed by, but that sound from within, which I had never heard before.
-Time and space. Which one is it.
What meaning is there if the world drowns in water no matter where I flee.
A choice.
The pottery clock finally wound backward.
I died.
Yet even in death, voices began to ring from within my being.
No, as if because I was dead, there was no longer any need to hide.
‘You’ve worked hard. ■.’
‘We finally found one fragment of the final age.’
‘A fragment of the sea.’
‘That which we could not find for countless, countless times.’
The small versions of me applauded at my death.
Like an audience watching a tragic spectacle.
As the curtain falls, he applauds his own life with gratitude.
The audience—the countless small Jin Cheon-hees—spoke.
‘Now what remains is….’
In that moment.
Tremendous divine power began to bore into Jin Cheon-hee’s body.
The exalted one realizes the reversal and attempts to stop it.
The Sea God screams.
[Regression? Why? All those with such authority should have been annihilated!]
Click—
The Sea God attempts to wield divine power once more.
In the moment the vast and distant entity tries to unleash its strength.
[Snow?]
Snow fell.
Snow descended into the sea, cutting through space as it began to consume the world itself.
When Jin Cheon-hee died, within his inner world.
Thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of small Jin Cheon-hees opened their eyes.
In the darkness, blue eyes, golden eyes, and dark pupils all gazed forth from the corpse in unison.
They regarded the exalted being before them as utterly insignificant.
As though such an existence were beneath notice.
Despite being fragments of the final age.
Despite soon submerging this entire world beneath the sea.
Despite being an entity that could alter the very laws of the world with a single word and cast people into the abyss.
The countless small Jin Cheon-hees spoke in unison.
‘…Turn back. In reverse.’
The curtain has fallen, so when the next act begins.
Is it not their role to raise the stage curtain?
Jin Cheon-hee’s body rises.
[H-how is this possible… ?! You, are you truly human?! How can a human possess such a terrible ■■!]
Thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of karmic connections.
Saving people, advancing, advancing, advancing.
Blooming faith deceived causality as the world began to twist.
[Daring to claim a privilege forbidden to humanity! You, or rather ‘all of you’—what exactly are you?!]
The distant entity feels ‘fear’ for the first time.
An emotion an ant could never experience.
Though he wished to deny it, even he could not deny the ‘fear’ he felt for the first time in an eternity.
Something that should not exist.
A power that should never be granted to mere mortals!
‘….’
Yet the countless small Jin Cheon-hees did not answer.
Defying the power of that venerable ancient existence.
The snow that had fallen from the depths of the sea began to rise upward in reverse.
Defying Heaven.
The Doctor pressed forward once more.

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