Doctor’s Rebirth

Chapter 132

The day after sending all the letters.

Jin Cheon-hee finally borrowed the training ground behind the Medical Pavilion to properly observe the flow of his internal energy.

To properly handle the Five Elements True Qi that had broken through one Gapja, he needed time to consolidate his inner state like this.

Jin Cheon-hee spread his fingers.

The five elements’ energy – water, metal, earth, fire, and wood – extended along each of his five fingers.

The Five Elements energy emitted from his fingertips rotated, generating and overcoming each other.

It was a small universe made of the Five Elements.

‘I heard it becomes difficult to control when internal energy becomes excessive, but it’s easier than I thought for me.’

It’s similar to the principle of a large truck and a small car taking a curve.

However, Jin Cheon-hee found that the Five Elements repeated their generation and overcoming cycles, moving according to his will, just as before.

‘Oh, this is different from what I learned.’

Among the Five Elements, only metal was somewhat lacking. But it wasn’t uncontrollable, and as he practiced energy accumulation, harmony would be restored.

Eventually, Jin Cheon-hee divided the Five Elements and directly applied them to his hands.

‘Last time when fighting the Black Lightning Blood Demon, I used earth energy in my fist.’

He had used it because he needed an insulator. But even just applying energy like this strengthens the impact.

With a sword, it’s sword energy; with hands, it’s fist energy or hand energy.

Here, Jin Cheon-hee recalled the subtleties of Void Seizing Technique.

As Jin Cheon-hee’s hair slightly floated in the air, the earth energy concentrated on his hand rose like a ball.

‘The Black Lightning Blood Demon used sword energy like this.’

He shot it towards a wooden dummy in the distance.

Boom–!

With a thunderous sound, the wooden dummy shattered into pieces.

Having surpassed one Gapja, Jin Cheon-hee could finally use sword energy.

In modern terms, it would be a “ranged attack skill”.

Its power was considerable, enough to kill an ordinary person without them taking a single step.

“So this is the realm of Transcendent. Wow… to reach Transcendent after learning martial arts for just a few years…”

Even with the help of spiritual medicine, this would be impossible without insight.

‘I guess I’m quite extraordinary too.’

Jin Cheon-hee’s insights were likely different from those of martial artists.

But as they say, all streams lead to the sea. Within the great trunk of martial arts, he too was steadily progressing towards one truth.

Jin Cheon-hee continued to check and contemplate his power like this.

‘First… I need to obtain the Dual Mind Technique as quickly as possible.’

The Heaven and Earth Stone Mushroom that the Heavenly Thunder Hawk had given him was far more helpful to Jin Cheon-hee than the Heavenly Thunder Hawk’s inner core.

Thanks to this, he had reached one Gapja faster than initially planned.

‘And I need to catch that spiritual creature centipede too.’

The centipede wasn’t a furry friend.

If it had fluffy fur all over its body like a dog or cat and cried “Kyuu~” with innocent eyes, it might be different.

From Jin Cheon-hee’s perspective, he didn’t feel much mercy for it.

‘No… a furry centipede. That’s even worse in its own way, isn’t it?’

The more he imagined it, the more it seemed like something out of a gore movie.

Jin Cheon-hee, the fur discriminator, decided to just catch the centipede and consume its spirit pill.

‘Which is closer, the centipede or the Dual Mind Technique…?’

Calculating, he found the Dual Mind Technique was closer.

‘Let’s get the Dual Mind Technique, then immediately go catch the centipede. Alright. Decision made!’

Jin Cheon-hee made this decision and finished his cultivation.

At that moment, a Medical Pavilion doctor tried to speak to Jin Cheon-hee but stumbled.

‘Oh no, all the medicine will spill.’

Jin Cheon-hee immediately used his wind and cloud technique to support the medicine and the doctor.

The doctor’s eyes widened.

“You’ve achieved a breakthrough.”

Jin Cheon-hee smiled softly.

The barrier of one Gapja.

Countless martial artists had been frustrated here.

Having crossed this barrier, Jin Cheon-hee felt a deep sense of ease.

***

Jin Cheon-hee immediately met with Sama Hye.

Sama Hye had recovered enough to walk on her own now.

“Benefactor!”

As soon as Sama Hye recognized Jin Cheon-hee, she tried to run towards him.

Jin Cheon-hee quickly caught Sama Hye.

“Are you alright?”

“Hehehe. Yes! Oh, oh, I received the letter you sent. I’m really working hard!”

Sama Hye chattered away, as if afraid Jin Cheon-hee might disappear at any moment.

Despite the fact that her brother Sama Hyeon had disappeared and she must be heartbroken, her expression was very bright.

“Benefactor, I missed you so much.”

Jin Cheon-hee smiled slightly.

‘Just by recovering and improving her environment, a child can become this bright.’

Although her family wasn’t by her side, it seems she had received some news that they were doing well in the merchant group.

Added to that, regular meals and a body no longer in pain.

A clean environment had restored Sama Hye’s nature to its original bright state.

The child who used to mutter about wanting to die without pain was no longer here.

“Benefactor! Hehehe! Oh, oh, I have something I’m curious about.”

“Hmm?”

What Sama Hye took out from her bedside was, surprisingly, the Ten Herbs Manual.

It was a book about ten medicinal herbs that can be found around us.

While it’s usually a basic text for entering the medical profession, it contained many difficult terms, making it a challenging book for children to understand.

“Can you understand this?”

At Jin Cheon-hee’s words, Sama Hye shook her head.

“There’s a lot I don’t know, so I wanted to ask you.”

Jin Cheon-hee was rather surprised by this response.

‘To ask questions, you need to know something first… She can do that?’

Jin Cheon-hee recalled when he first entered medical school. A place where people considered quite intelligent gathered. Yet, everyone struggled to understand the professors’ lectures.

When the professor asked for questions, no one could ask any at the time.

Of course, this was partly due to Korean culture where asking questions is difficult, but largely because they didn’t know enough to ask.

So Jin Cheon-hee would return to his dormitory and review what he had studied.

He had heard that some wealthy families even hired tutors for medical school subjects, but for Jin Cheon-hee, that was a luxury.

It was only after knowledge and time had accumulated that he grew enough to be able to ask questions.

“You’ve really studied hard.”

“No. I just like it because there are lots of pictures.”

Jin Cheon-hee answered Sama Hye’s questions and additionally asked a few test questions, to which Sama Hye had memorized and understood a considerable amount.

“Do you like this book, Sama Hye?”

“Yes, Benefactor! I want to see more.”

Jin Cheon-hee patted Sama Hye’s head.

***

‘Could Sama Hye be a genius?’

For some reason, his shoulders felt puffed up with pride.

Having lived his whole life as a bachelor without children, he wondered if this might be how it feels.

‘Among my colleagues who had children, there wasn’t a single one who didn’t boast about them.’

Is he being sentimental?

Jin Cheon-hee rubbed his chin.

‘No, no, right now she’s just showing interest, and later there will be many more interesting things to do, why would she insist on learning medicine?’

Jin Cheon-hee tried not to get too excited by himself.

As a surgeon, he often felt an indescribable emotion when seeing patients he had treated living their lives without hindrance.

Especially when seeing young children grow up well, doing what they want to do, and fighting against the world, he would feel proud all day long.

It was an emotion difficult to express simply with the two words “fulfillment”.

‘Grow up well.’

White Dragon Medical Pavilion would protect Sama Hye both as a patient and as a disciple.

Jin Cheon-hee thus imparted a few more external techniques and medical texts to Sama Hye.

And when his preparations were complete, he set out on his journey.

***

Ten days later, Jin Cheon-hee reached the Valley of No Return without any particular incidents.

No Return^[1].

It means a valley from which one cannot return.

The area was so narrow and treacherous that it seemed as if someone had made an axe blade winding and twisting.

Especially due to the slippery and sharp rocks, travelers frequently fell.

Even if families wanted to find the bodies, even skilled trackers would shake their heads.

-If you fall into the Valley of No Return, you can’t even find the body. The Valley of No Return is where even family members who go searching end up falling to their deaths.

This line appeared in the original work. That’s how terrible this place is.

And somewhere in this Valley of No Return, in a place almost inaccessible to humans, there existed a copy of the Dual Mind Technique left by a former elder of the Wudang Sect.

“Sigh, why are secret manuals always in such difficult places? What do you think, guys?”

Peep peep!

Woof woof!

Jin Cheon-hee didn’t bother using the magical tool to hear the two animals’ conversation.

He felt he knew what they meant without them saying it.

Before his eyes, a huge, sheer valley stretched out majestically in winding curves.

To jump down accurately to the desired cave from here would truly require luck.

Even in the novel, it wasn’t specified exactly where in this valley cliff the body was located.

‘Why doesn’t Supreme Heavenly Demon come with illustrations? How nice it would have been if they had drawn a map as an illustration.’

However, he knew roughly which area it was in, which alone put Jin Cheon-hee at a considerable advantage over others.

This was because since the Wudang Sect learned that their former elder had died here, they had made countless efforts to recover the body.

They searched for nearly ten years. But couldn’t find it.

Other martial artists had also tried their luck, risking their lives by going down with just a rope.

But they couldn’t find it either.

It’s truly a frustrating terrain.

Jin Cheon-hee took out some jerky with a sad expression.

“Alright then, guys. You understand what you need to do, right? Hwanggu will use his sense of smell to find the old corpse. And Noe-jin the Heavenly Thunder Hawk will fly there to confirm if it’s the Wudang Sect elder’s body.”

Jin Cheon-hee expressed the situation like this:

“Ha, is it okay to take advantage like this? I can’t lift my head out of shame towards the martial artists who lost their lives here and the Wudang Sect members.”

Knowing the approximate location from the novel. Plus two spiritual creatures.

Although sadness lingered in Jin Cheon-hee’s eyes, a smile remained on his lips.

Who would have known it would turn out to be such a sweet deal.

Woof, chomp chomp – Jerky delicious. Eating jerky! So delicious! Loyalty loyalty!

Peep peep! – This time it’s premium lamb jerky?

“Alright, guys. If you find it, I’ll give you more of this.”

Cheep cheep! – Mama, fighting!

He also gave one each to the babies Cheon-jin and Nan-man.

Since one Heavenly Thunder Hawk was enough, the babies would rest in Jin Cheon-hee’s medicine box.

“Alright then, I’ll cheer you on!”

Woof…? – Many strange smells. Going!

Hwanggu ran off first.

The Heavenly Thunder Hawk flew after Hwanggu.

Jin Cheon-hee, who ended up taking advantage using the two spiritual creatures, looked up at the sky.

‘If I ever happen to meet the Wudang Sect leader later, I’ll have to lie and say I obtained it with great difficulty.’

If they found out he had taken advantage using spiritual creatures, they couldn’t help but feel upset.

“Well, shall I cook something for the kids.”

Jin Cheon-hee made a campfire and took out his cookware.

“Come to think of it, they already like jerky, but if I grill it using the fire generation technique of the Five Elements True Qi, will they go even crazier for it?”

Jin Cheon-hee muttered nonchalantly.

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