Doctor’s Rebirth - Chapter 94

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Chapter 94
“Huff, haaah!”
Splash!
At last, the exhausted Mannyeonhwari was dragged from the water’s surface.
The massive creature thrashed upon the shore. But compared to fighting in the depths, what came next would be simple.
I pulled the spear shaft from its jaws. The moment it seemed to regain freedom and thrashed toward the water—
I drove the spear through its gills.
The shaft, infused with lightning, pierced clean through.
Despite the brief strike, the creature’s body—burning like a fireball—seared my hand.
‘Phew, that’s genuinely scorching!’
I had never intended to engage in prolonged combat with this beast.
Yeo Ha-ryun had his methods, and I had mine.
Screeeech—
With that final blow, Mannyeonhwari’s life finally extinguished.
“I… did it!”
I clenched my fist tightly.
My legs trembled.
Not a single muscle in my entire body remained unscathed. Even my bones ached.
Extreme exhaustion.
Yet I could not stop here.
‘Harvesting the inner core from Mannyeonhwari is difficult.’
The inner core of Mannyeonhwari, which contained heat itself, would rapidly dissipate the moment the creature died.
Left alone for even a few hours, it would become an ordinary stone.
The Heavenly Demon consumed it on the spot, but I had to deliver mine to my Master.
I needed to harvest the inner core using the correct method to preserve its heat.
I withdrew the spear shaft.
“Haaah…”
The Hyeonwon Jeondan Divine Art kept my mind clear even through the severe exhaustion.
I forced my muscles—screaming in fatigue—to move and sliced open its belly.
Splash—
* * *
Hwang-gu rested his chin on the ground, continuing to wait for me.
Waiting was one of the things Hwang-gu did best.
He closed his eyes and drifted into a light sleep. A flying insect buzzed near his ear.
How long had he been waiting?
Suddenly, Hwang-gu’s eyes snapped open.
Woof, woof woof!
Hwang-gu suddenly began barking.
And shortly after—
Splash—
A hand slipped out from the stone crevice and pressed against the ground.
“I… thought I was going to die.”
The moment I emerged, the hot spring water erupted outward.
The temperature was far too high for ordinary bathing.
It was literally boiling water.
Hwang-gu quickly fled and put distance between us.
I escaped by rolling using the ground-rolling technique.
“I used it right up to the final move.”
Ground-rolling technique.
A method of escaping by rolling across the ground. It was a technique from the miscellaneous martial arts section of the Zhuge Library, which I had deliberately studied.
The reason was simple.
When strength and inner energy were completely depleted, the only thing to rely on was a technique like ground-rolling.
Though called miscellaneous martial arts, it was still a martial technique. Perhaps because I had learned it with proper form.
Without expending any inner energy, I could roll nine meters in one breath to evade.
If I channeled inner energy, I could roll faster, but if I had inner energy available, there would be no need to resort to ground-rolling in the first place.
It was my survival instinct—desperately clinging to life rather than accepting death in a single strike.
Being a doctor to my very core, I was not bound by the pride of martial artists.
‘Evading nine meters in one breath without any inner energy—that’s truly an excellent technique.’
I gasped for breath heavily.
‘I gambled without knowing the eruption cycle of the hot spring, but it had to burst right as I was leaving.’
Simply capturing the Mannyeonhwari had exhausted me completely.
But extracting its inner core with that depleted body, then using the lake bottom mud and the Five Elements Divine Technique to prevent the fire energy from dispersing was an even greater ordeal.
On top of that, I meticulously harvested the flesh beneath its gills, back muscles, belly fat, blood from its heart, and even its ribs.
Though not as concentrated as the inner core, these areas still contained substantial fire energy.
I didn’t miss a single part.
The moment I finished harvesting and tried to exit, the already scorching hot spring began bubbling violently and erupted.
It was hell.
Of course, I could have abandoned the materials and taken only the inner core.
‘Absolutely not! Do you know how valuable this is! A Mannyeonhwari that money can’t even buy!’
Abandoning everything after such effort to take only the inner core was not in my vocabulary.
That web novel protagonist Yeo Ha-ryun would have an endless mountain of inner cores and spirit cores waiting for him until the novel’s conclusion, but I was different.
I squeezed out every last drop of inner energy and brought everything without missing a single thing.
The finale was the nine-meter ground-rolling technique.
The ultimate survival move!
Hwang-gu stepped back three paces, apparently unnerved by my desperation.
“Hwang-gu, you worked hard. I saved some Mannyeonhwari meat for you too. Though not as potent as the inner core, it’s still a spirit medicine, so eat up.”
Pant, pant!
As if he’d never been reluctant, Hwang-gu wagged his tail and pledged his loyalty.
I pulled out the back meat I’d cut aside for Hwang-gu from the Mannyeonhwari.
Slice, slice, slice, slice!
It devoured the food without even smelling it, eating greedily.
“That’s right. You always liked medicinal herbs and inner elixirs, didn’t you?”
Hwang-gu swallowed even the bitter Baekrin Divine Elixir in one gulp. He ate anything beneficial to his body with stubborn determination.
Woof!
After finishing his meal, Hwang-gu panted heavily and licked Jin Cheon-hee’s cheeks frantically.
“You’re adorable. Let’s head back now.”
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Resting at an inn was a luxury.
Jin Cheon-hee boarded the boat immediately. Samsalchuseo greeted him warmly.
“Thanks to you, Seo Baek-ryong, Samseong has survived!”
“Sob… sob… Thank you so much, Seo Baek-ryong.”
Ilseong and Iseong wept as they performed the martial salute toward Jin Cheon-hee.
Jin Cheon-hee shook his head.
“I too believed that in the end, everything rests with heaven. We were fortunate.”
“No, sir. Normally, this would have meant sealing the dantian and severing the limb meridians. That you treated us and even guided us—we can only be grateful.”
Samsalchuseo exchanged glances with his brothers, their eyes communicating silently.
Soon, Ilseong spoke up.
“It’s not merely because of the blank contract. We genuinely wish to follow you, Master. This is the sincere desire of myself and my brothers.”
This was unexpected.
‘I was only planning to use them without pay, just enough to repay them for targeting my life… what is this?’
When Jin Cheon-hee didn’t respond, Ilseong interpreted it as rejection and spoke urgently.
“You are the first person to treat lowly wretches like us with such genuine care.”
“Instead of severing our limb meridians, you had us row the boat—we believe this was an act of guidance.”
“Though we are ignorant and know nothing, we wish to continue following you, Master!”
Jin Cheon-hee scratched his head.
‘If I’m going to manage Baekrin Uigak, I’ll need people to handle work outside of medicine anyway.’
A Medical Guild in the martial world was different from a hospital in the real world.
To survive in Dosan Swordforest, I needed people to handle these small tasks.
Samsalchuseo were the finest hands and feet I could ask for.
Even more so if they came out of gratitude rather than just the blank contract.
‘In this world, the act of treating the injured carries far more weight than I initially thought.’
It felt like a valuable lesson.
I wouldn’t have realized this if I hadn’t left the Medical Hall.
Jin Cheon-hee nodded.
“Very well. I understand. But it won’t be an easy path.”
Then the Bearded Middle-Aged Man, who had been watching quietly, approached.
“I too wish to join with Samsalchuseo and the others.”
Even the Bearded Middle-Aged Man?
As Jin Cheon-hee looked at him, the Bearded Middle-Aged Man spoke urgently.
“If not for Samsalchuseo, I would have spent all my time scheming to escape from you, Master. I am grateful to all four of you for awakening me.”
I pondered the situation.
‘You seem to have been duped…?’
It was as if he’d followed a friend and signed a multi-level marketing contract together.
But I had no reason to refuse.
“Understood. Then, Bearded Middle-Aged Man, if you would….”
I produced a blank contract from somewhere and handed it to him.
It was the same contract that Samsalchuseo had written.
The Bearded Middle-Aged Man drew blood from his finger and affixed his seal.
The slave attendants entered.
Woof!
When Hwang-gu barked, the four slaves flinched and retreated from him.
“Young Master, is it just me, or does that dog seem to have grown larger?”
“It appears that way to me as well.”
Each of them made a comment while observing Hwang-gu. I tilted my head in confusion.
‘Could the effects of eating Mannyeonhwari flesh already be showing…?’
Strictly speaking, both Mannyeonhwari and Hwang-gu were spiritual creatures.
A spiritual creature had consumed another spiritual creature.
Normally, spiritual creatures wouldn’t fight to the death unless it was over territory, and spiritual creatures themselves were exceedingly rare.
This had occurred artificially through my intervention.
‘Well… it’s good if he becomes stronger, right?’
I scratched Hwang-gu’s forehead vigorously.
Pant, pant, pant.
Hwang-gu seemed to enjoy it, eagerly licking the back of my hand.
‘Village dogs really are the cutest after all.’
During my hospital work, whenever things became difficult, I would watch dog videos on my phone.
Even then, I was more interested in what were called mixed-breed village dogs rather than purebred dogs.
I liked the sturdy-looking front legs and that straightforward, lively demeanor.
Though Hwang-gu had grown far too large to be called a simple village dog, he still appeared endearing to my eyes.
Meanwhile, Samsalchuseo and the Bearded Middle-Aged Man felt an unsettling chill.
‘The testicle crusher has become even stronger.’
Samseong, who had felt Hwang-gu’s destructive power directly through his body, grew particularly pale in the face.

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