Doctor’s Rebirth - Chapter 181

His hand appeared and disappeared like a star, creating trajectories of pain.

Crack-

Finally, the black-clad people groaned in agony.

“Kuaaagh!”

Jin Cheonhee spoke.

“I’d like to shatter all your limbs, but there’s no time… And by the way, after clashing swords, I understand…”

Jin Cheonhee grinned.

That smile was like that of a demon.

“…You’re from the Blood Immortal Sect, aren’t you?”

The four black-clad people were sent flying simultaneously.

Hwanggu, resonating with its master’s anger, completely destroyed one’s leg and then shattered the other arm.

Now, both walking and using a sword were impossible.

However, he felt no guilt. He knew how the Blood Immortal Sect sacrificed people in their rituals.

Rather, he was worried about the Wudang Taoists.

Although they were said to be rotten, there were many good people, and even the corrupt ones were nothing compared to the Blood Immortal Sect.

“Let’s go, Hwanggu. We have a long way to go.”

Woof!

Hwanggu immediately followed Jin Cheonhee as he ran.

For a moment, Jin Cheonhee’s sleeve swelled tightly.

Tang-

As if he had never been there in the first place, Jin Cheonhee’s figure vanished. Then, a moment later, he appeared more than 10 feet away in mid-air.

An incredibly fast movement.

Impossible to follow with the eyes.

The only being that could chase such a Jin Cheonhee was Hwanggu.

Woof!

Hwanggu read its master’s movements, heartbeat, and scent.

It ran close behind, following the explosive speed and irregular afterimages.

Fire demon.

Its master’s body hair was filled with anger as if it would stand on end.

‘Kill.’

Hwanggu unleashed its wild nature after a long time.

***

The air filled with the smell of burning flesh, corpses, swords, and excitement was like returning to the battlefield of Earth in his past life.

Humans kill each other for different reasons, but that smell was always the same.

The reason Jin Cheonhee could search for survivors and defeat enemies instead of succumbing to war PTSD was thanks to the power of the Profound Origin Heaven and Earth Divine Technique.

The Profound Origin Heaven and Earth Divine Technique, operating with more internal energy than usual, could push the crazed modern doctor Jin Cheonhee into a corner of his mind.

Whether the modern doctor screamed or retched, the brain’s function continued to assess the situation and calmly remind him of what needed to be done.

“Kugh… kugh… My disciple… my disciple is there.”

There was a deep wound on the Taoist’s chest.

The wound that had hollowed out even the ribs was cruel.

In an emergency wartime situation, such a patient would be low priority.

Because they couldn’t be saved.

Jin Cheonhee found a child in the debris. But it was already a corpse long dead.

The Taoist seemed to have waited for someone to help, believing his disciple was still alive.

When Jin Cheonhee turned around, a tear flowed from the Taoist’s eye.

“Did you find them?”

“…I found them.”

“Thank you… thank you…”

With those final words, the Taoist breathed his last.

It was the only thing a master who had held on with all his might could do for his disciple.

To ask for help.

“……”

Jin Cheonhee closed his eyes.

There was no time to properly handle the corpse, but he could at least place the disciple’s body next to him.

The master was faintly smiling with the last hope that his disciple had lived.

They too had that smell he had encountered before. The smell of war.

Jin Cheonhee moved again.

Time was gold. No, it was life.

He couldn’t waste even a moment.

***

He could hear from Heavenly Thunder Hawk about the numbers and formation of the Blood Immortal Sect.

The reason he felt breathless upon hearing this was because the number of Blood Immortal Sect fanatics mobilized to raid Wudang Sect was too great.

That number was several hundred. And that was just the visible ones; if you included those hiding, it would easily exceed a thousand.

‘Are they trying to… exterminate Wudang Sect? There are about a thousand people learning martial arts on Mount Wudang. These are elites gathered to kill them.’

Of course, to face a thousand people, you need to mobilize that many martial artists.

No matter how bizarre the Blood Immortal Sect’s techniques are, the power of numbers is absolute.

Woof, woof! – Master, moving corpses!

Hwanggu immediately recognized the familiar smell from the past and warned its master.

Jin Cheonhee too, through his widely spread qi sense, noticed the enemy a little later than Hwanggu.

Among the ruins of the hall, corpses rose.

Thump! Thump! Thump!

Jiangshi.

Judging by the stiff limbs and cloth as hard as metal, they were copper jiangshi.

They were the lowest-grade jiangshi in the Blood Immortal Sect, but still monsters that ordinary martial artists would struggle to handle.

Unlike living humans, you can’t sense their qi, they don’t feel pain, and their movements don’t slow down.

They are one of the natural enemies of martial artists.

‘Kukuku, I don’t even think about writing papers anymore.’

He organized his thoughts while observing his drying inner self.

‘Why the Blood Immortal Sect is targeting Wudang isn’t important. At this moment, the forces of the Blood Immortal Sect and Wudang Sect are similar, or the Blood Immortal Sect is expected to overwhelm Wudang Sect.’

Don’t waver. Rather, he needed to continue thinking coldly.

Cold reason continued to assume the worst.

‘Elder Fist Emperor is here, and Wudang Sect’s elders are also transcendent masters at the Transformation Realm. The Blood Immortal Sect wouldn’t have come without knowing this, so they must have brought high-level personnel to deal with them. Tsk, the situation isn’t good.’

At this moment, there was no one who could help Wudang Sect.

This wasn’t an era of roads or cars, and by the time they arrived, Wudang Sect would be reduced to ashes.

Then.

‘The correct answer is for me to reduce the Blood Immortal Sect’s lower forces. To do that…’

He knew from experience how terrifying it was to be outnumbered.

Numbers are ultimately power. Reducing the enemy’s numbers by even one would be the best support he could provide for Wudang Sect.

‘The three things that can change the tide of battle are terrain, timing, and people.’

The enemy had chosen the timing. The terrain had been reshaped by the fire demon to their advantage.

The only thing advantageous to Wudang was people.

But even that was hard to claim as definitively better.

His thoughts spread out following the Profound Origin Heaven and Earth Divine Technique.

Hypotheses branched out like tree limbs, advancing like a maze along the veins of logic.

The conclusions reached were narrowed down to three, and then the Profound Origin Heaven and Earth Divine Technique struck out two.

The time taken to reach this conclusion was barely 3 seconds.

‘Formation.’

He grasped the optimal conclusion, guiding Jin Cheonhee’s thoughts.

The Profound Origin Heaven and Earth Divine Technique began to draw out the numerous formations of the Zhuge Clan he had learned so far.

If the previous process was a tree of logic, this time it was a sewer of memories.

Hundreds of thoughts rummaged through memories like a spider web.

Meanwhile, the Dual Mind-Intention Technique controlled his body, wielding divine martial skill.

Kang!

Even without sword energy, the Ice Clarity Sword split the copper jiangshi’s body.

A different achievement from the past.

The hand of a martial artist who had swallowed fragments of the Realm of the Mind Martial most efficiently and quickly butchered the jiangshi.

The Ice Clarity Sword that had dug into the spine’s cartilage sliced through the neck.

It deeply carved out the tendons along the shoulder blade.

Tsuagak-!

The blade of ice that didn’t even allow rotten bodily fluids butchered everything in sight, creating complete death.

The time it took to kill an entire group of jiangshi was barely half a moment.

Jin Cheonhee looked down at the jiangshi with emotionless, indifferent eyes.

It was to judge whether they had definitely stopped.

“……”

Eventually, Jin Cheonhee simply turned his head and disappeared as if melting into the darkness.

A formation large enough to envelop the entire Mount Wudang.

Even at this moment, his thoughts continued to strike out plans, concretize them, and reshape them repeatedly.

At the end of that, he was simply carrying out his task.

***

A formation refers to arranging objects imbued with qi in a regular pattern on the ground to twist the energy of heaven and earth, causing strange phenomena.

Its foundation lies not in martial arts but in feng shui geomancy, and its lineage differs from Taoist techniques.

Therefore, formations are of a different lineage from learning magic techniques, and there was even a separate profession called formation masters.

Even in this world that moves according to the rules of yin-yang and the five elements, Zhuge Kongming’s formations from the Three Kingdoms period are the most famous.

That’s why the Zhuge Clan is revered as the best when it comes to formations.

Zhuge Rin, a direct descendant of that lineage, had inherited all the knowledge of the Zhuge Clan’s strange formations and tactics.

And that Zhuge Rin had passed on, if not all, a considerable level of formation knowledge to his disciple.

In this world that moves according to the principles of yin-yang and the five elements, where people attain enlightenment and become immortals, the terror of formations was incomparable to the modern Earth.

Bark! – Master. Enemy.

“As expected, it seems the opponent also has some knowledge about formations.”

A formation encompassing the entire Wudang Sect.

He could see enemies waiting at the location to protect it.

The fact that they were not actively attacking Wudang Sect but holding their positions was likely a tactical choice.

They probably hadn’t anticipated the variable of Jin Cheonhee, so they were occupying those positions first to break Wudang Sect’s existing formation.

“As expected, is it Jeong Gwang?”

The logic reached through the Profound Origin Heaven and Earth Divine Technique identified the culprit without evidence.

‘A sect like Wudang Sect wouldn’t have not set up a defensive formation. But enemies are waiting at the locations that should be the axes of the formation? In the end, this too must be an insider, and one at least at the elder level.’

If the unnamed Taoist in the novel was Jeong Gwang, it meant he had sold the information he was going to sell to the demonic cult to the Blood Immortal Sect instead.

At that time, before Yeo Ha-ryoon established himself, the demonic cult was in a situation not much different from the Blood Immortal Sect.

The reason for his betrayal now, which was supposed to happen a few years later, could be easily guessed.

‘His arm.’

He became impatient after failing to grasp the Dual Mind-Intention Technique that seemed within reach.

Jin Cheonhee heard from Heavenly Thunder Hawk about the state of the formation and the distribution of enemies.

Based on that information, the Profound Origin Heaven and Earth Divine Technique began to reconstruct the formation.

‘The preservation state is good, so there’s no need to create something from nothing.’

Just reactivating the existing formation on Mount Wudang should be of considerable help.

Jin Cheonhee took out a feng shui compass from the pouch on his back.

Chareureuk-

The first priority in formations is direction, the second is terrain, and the third is water veins.

He put the feng shui compass back and immediately flew towards the place that would become the largest axis of the formation.