Doctor’s Rebirth

Chapter 99

Might makes right.

Recalling Master Zhuge Rin’s unfathomable level, Jin Cheon-hee thought:

‘I need to get stronger. I must train even harder, until foam forms at my mouth.’

In the end, the strong make the laws and define truth.

***

There’s hardly anyone in the martial world who doesn’t know that the White Dragon Divine Pill has the Nine Yin Meridian Obstruction.

Although the family head gave up, Zhuge Rin’s mother never did.

From a young age, she fed him expensive medicinal herbs for his Nine Yin Meridian Obstruction and invited famous divine doctors from all over to take his pulse.

In the end, it only reconfirmed what they already knew, but that’s how it was during that time.

Even when Zhuge Rin, who was believed to die before reaching adulthood, survived the destruction of his family and used his ghostly intellect and martial prowess to turn those who contributed to the destruction into fertilizer regardless of whether they were righteous or evil, no one doubted it.

Later, when young martial artists doubted as they saw Zhuge Rin not dying but creating the White Dragon Medical Pavilion to prolong his life, the elders who had known Zhuge Rin since childhood still knew he was suffering from the Nine Yin Meridian Obstruction and would die soon.

That’s why the current situation was full of speculation about what would happen to the White Dragon Medical Pavilion after Zhuge Rin, the White Dragon Divine Pill’s death.

However, when news spread that he had overcome the Nine Yin Meridian Obstruction through Jin Cheon-hee’s revolutionary procedure, the world began to shake.

His disciple succeeded in treating the Nine Yin Meridian Obstruction that even the White Dragon Divine Pill himself, the master of the medical pavilion, had given up on?

It was news that would rock the martial world.

As this news spread, information about the miraculous medicine, the White Dragon Divine Pill, couldn’t be contained either.

“Kukuku, the White Dragon Divine Pill. I wonder if it could truly suppress the darkness within me?”

“…You really… No. No way.”

“Oh my, why so serious? I just want to see how the famous Little White Dragon of the White Dragon Medical Pavilion would react.”

“Don’t the Tang family elders say anything to you?”

“What about me? The elders are always busy blushing and running away when they see me.”

“This is driving me… No. They must have entrusted you to me because they couldn’t bear to watch their granddaughter build a tower of embarrassing history.”

“What’s wrong, Yeon-ah? Say something too.”

“Oh, brother. Even though Tang-ah looks like this, she’s not… not a bad child.”

“What kind of talk is that?”

Namgoong Woon looked at the two girls with sorrowful eyes.

One was his younger sister, Namgoong Yeon.

And the one linking arms with her was Tang Ah.

As the daughter of the Sichuan Tang family, she had just entered an age equivalent to the second year of middle school in Korea.

The Sichuan Tang family is recognized as a righteous sect, but they use poison techniques with characteristics of evil sects, and their internal energy also partly follows the characteristics of evil sects.

One of these is the personality change during puberty.

Among those who learned the secret techniques in the Tang family, children who showed outstanding achievement at a young age often changed their temperament upon reaching adolescence.

They would harbor madness in their hearts, obsess over darkness, and frequently mention words like “blood” and “wound.”

Of course, being a righteous sect, they rarely become completely immersed in madness and go around killing people.

The foundation of a righteous sect is mental cultivation. Even though the Tang family has some characteristics of evil sects, they rarely lose themselves.

Also, by the time they become adults, they naturally return to their original selves.

However, the memories of that time remain with their adult selves, causing them to kick their blankets in the middle of the night or scream.

Tang Ah.

She was a quite promising talent in the Tang family, growing her skills rapidly under her father, the family head.

She showed outstanding achievements from a young age, demonstrated rapid internal energy growth, and…

Upon reaching puberty, she changed drastically like this.

The Tang family elders were horrified when they saw Tang Ah, as if they were looking at a secret diary they had written 10 years ago.

So the Tang family ordered Tang Ah to go see the wider world.

In reality, Namgoong Woon ended up taking responsibility for her.

“Kukuku. Soon we’ll be at the White Dragon Medical Pavilion. Ah, my wounds are aching.”

Tang Ah covered one of her eyes and smiled.

“I wonder if they can heal the wounds of my soul that even my own family couldn’t cure?”

To those words, Namgoong Woon said:

“Ah, that’s right. The Tang family is also quite skilled in medicine.”

Her chest was beautifully embroidered with the symbol representing the Sichuan Tang family.

The Sichuan Tang family.

As the representative martial arts family of Sichuan, they are famous for their poison and hidden weapons.

While not on par with the three great medical pavilions of the martial world, they were also a sect capable as a medical pavilion.

Thanks to this, there was a medical pavilion in Sichuan called the Medical Poison Pavilion, operated by the Tang family.

Although smaller in scale compared to other medical pavilions, their skills were not to be underestimated.

Especially in pharmacology, they even had aspects that rivaled the Huazhou Medical Pavilion.

From the beginning, poison itself can be medicine if used well. Also, it was important to know the antidotes for the poisons used.

That history built up to create the Sichuan Tang family’s medical techniques.

“A medicine that treats incurable diseases and internal injuries. And each of the symptoms of the people they saved was not easy. The more I hear, the more amazing it sounds. Kukuku. Little White Dragon, was it? I wonder what expression he’ll make when he sees me, embracing darkness.”

“He’ll probably make the same expression as the Tang family elders.”

“Sigh, even my parents couldn’t understand my darkness and abandoned me.”

“If they’re from the Tang family, maybe they understood too well, that was the problem.”

Namgoong Woon, who had been muttering quietly, brushed up his bangs.

“Still, I’m glad that Tang-mei, our Yeon’s friend, is with us. Plus, it seems she has a good impression of Little White Dragon too.”

“It’s not a good impression… I’m just going to test if he can treat my wounds.”

“…Right. I understand. Want some mooncakes?”

Namgoong Woon smiled like an adult and gave each of the two girls a mooncake.

The mooncakes had beautiful lotus patterns stamped on them, clearly bought to suit Namgoong Yeon’s taste.

“Yeon-ah, is it delicious?”

Nod.

Instead of answering, Namgoong Yeon just nodded once and ate the mooncake enthusiastically. Tang-mei, who received one alongside her, ate together.

“Kuk, do you think I have the same childish taste as Yeon-ah? Brother Woon.”

“You’re a girl, so you should call me Uncle Woon… No, just call me whatever you’re comfortable with.”

There was something Namgoong Woon’s father, Namgoong Cheol, used to say.

‘Even if a child from the Tang family looks like they’ve learned demonic arts from an evil sect, watch over them with patience.’

He knew his father had interacted with many friends from the Tang family during his childhood.

It seems that to his father’s young eyes back then, the Tang family friends looked like they had learned demonic arts from evil sects.

Namgoong Woon thought he could understand people better than his father did.

“Want another one?”

“Sure, Brother Woon!”

“You eat well.”

Will this child also end up kicking her blankets and screaming like many Tang family elders when she grows up?

Thinking this, Namgoong Woon gave each of the two girls another mooncake.

Teenage girls.

Contrary to the public perception that they would be gentle and ladylike, Namgoong Woon knew the truth.

‘They’re ferocious, destructive, and endlessly hungry at this age.’

At that age, if they shouted, it could be heard from one end of the hall to the other, they would sprint at full speed for no reason, and they would sometimes break things because they couldn’t control their overflowing energy.

‘They need to eat a lot.’

The meaning of taking good care of children at this age was essentially the same as continuously feeding them.

As if taming beasts, Namgoong Woon kept feeding the two girls.

It was the proper adult attitude.

***

Meanwhile, at the same time the Namgoong family siblings and the person from the Tang family were coming, Jin Cheon-hee was in the middle of martial arts training.

Having undergone bone melting and body transformation, and with his internal energy level increased by twenty years’ worth, Jin Cheon-hee was already at a level where he could barely enter the realm of peak experts just by looking at his internal energy level.

Now was the time to deeply train in more diverse martial arts.

In fact, one could say he was a bit late.

Usually, by the time one reaches the level of a peak expert, they would have learned some of the higher-level secret techniques of their family’s martial arts.

But what Jin Cheon-hee was practicing were basic martial arts moves.

He had selected techniques that matched the Five-Elemental Divine Technique from among the numerous martial arts of the Zhuge family.

He had decided to learn one of these.

-The Ten Steps Divine Spear is an excellent martial art. But if you ask whether it’s a divine technique or ultimate learning, I can’t nod my head.

Jin Cheon-hee was shocked by these words.

The Ten Steps Divine Spear was an incredible martial art that any spear-wielding expert would mention at least once. To think that even that couldn’t be considered among the divine techniques and ultimate learning of the Zhuge family.

‘Just how arrogant is this…’

-The Ten Steps Divine Spear is like a stepping stone to learn our sect’s martial arts, Hee-ya.

Are other families this arrogant too?

Jin Cheon-hee tilted his head.

‘Come to think of it, even the Demonic Cult’s martial arts would mention being the best under heaven for everything, but then say it was just the basics for learning the next technique while torturing the protagonist. Right, I guess all families are like this.’

The power of the Ten Steps Divine Spear, which the master called a stepping stone, was enough to stick an unremovable harpoon into the mouth of the Ten-Thousand Fire Carp.

Then what kind of martial art would come next?

-The Taiji Immortal-Destruction Sword.

It’s a sword technique meaning to cut down immortals, consisting of 24 basic moves, but when mixed and used with variations, it can produce myriad changes.

Cutting down immortals, what an audacious name!

-It’s composed of three subtleties: swiftness, change, and illusion. When mastered, it’s a divine technique and ultimate learning that makes it difficult to find an equal under heaven.

Surprisingly, it was a martial art he had heard of before.

Later in the novel, one of the rivals uses this.

The person who learned it also entered the ranks of geniuses, but couldn’t master it completely and could only use half of it.

They succeeded in obtaining the secret manual from the destroyed Zhuge family, but it was because the martial art was too picky about its practitioners.

Previously, he wondered if the secret manual had been torn, but now he understood.

First, the required basic martial arts were tricky.

Not only the Five-Elemental Divine Technique, but also the Three-Elements Stride, Three-Elements Fist Technique, and Heaven’s Foresight had to be thoroughly mastered.

On top of that, one had to learn the Profound Origin Divine Technique and become proficient in the Ten Steps Divine Spear.

Only then could one use the subtleties of change and illusion.

‘So this is why the enemy in the novel could only use swiftness.’

Even with just that, it gave the protagonist Yeo Ha-ryoon a tremendous amount of trouble.

-You need to study diligently and learn with your body to master this.

The Ice Clarity Sword.

Having obtained a peerless treasure sword, he wanted to learn a peerless martial art to match it.

And Jin Cheon-hee has been suffering for months.

“Argh!”

Wooden poles moved at strange angles from all directions.

This was the hell wooden dummy dungeon personally made by Yoo Ho!

In local terms, it’s called the wooden dummy training hall.

Multiple wooden dummies swing their arms wildly, with a minimum of 4 and a maximum of 10 arms, and they hit with their own sort of regularity.

You have to memorize that and repeatedly block and dodge.