The Divine And Demonic Doctor [EN]: Chapter 462

The faces of the Three Overwhelms Twins, who had been steeling themselves, were filled with bewilderment.

Contrary to their expectations, the masked men belonging to Black Point had not come here to kill them.

“Who is this ‘that person’ you speak of?”

Wang Yeom’s question was met with a calm reply from the masked man.

“The Divine Doctor of the Demonic Path, Doctor Dan.”

The Three Overwhelms Twins were surprised and asked again.

“Doctor Dan?”

“Did he really send you?”

Recently, news of Dan Ahk-seon’s return had been spreading like wildfire throughout the Jianghu [the martial arts world].

However, being chased by the Four Evil Species, they had only just heard the news.

The masked man nodded and raised his hand, pointing somewhere.

“Continue along that slope. For now, that is your only path to survival.”

The two men cast doubtful glances at the masked man’s advice.

“Can we really trust this guy?”

“That’s right. Black Point betrayed Doctor Dan before.”

Previously, the Jianghu had been turned upside down when it was revealed that the leader of Black Point was a subordinate of the Demonic Sect, so the two could not fully trust the masked man’s words.

The masked man was inwardly dumbfounded.

They should be hurrying, but they were still caught up in suspicion.

“To throw off their pursuit, we have enlisted several people with similar builds and appearances to you. They are currently moving in different directions, which should分散 [disperse] the pursuit for a while. But it won’t be long before they realize they’ve been tricked, so you’d better move quickly.”

The Three Overwhelms Twins exchanged glances and nodded.

Staying here meant certain death awaited them.

It might be a trap, but they had no other choice for now.

As the two reluctantly moved, the masked man added a few words.

“Oh, and not only Doctor Dan but also Mount Mang’s Madman is waiting for you there. Once you arrive, you will no longer be in danger, so don’t worry.”

He had said it to reassure the tense Three Overwhelms Twins, but it had the opposite effect.

“What?”

“Who?”

The Three Overwhelms Twins suddenly froze in place, deep in thought.

“That monster… no, why is that person there?”

“How would I know?”

“Haa…”

“Damn it.”

After sighing deeply for a moment.

Wang Yeom asked the masked man.

“Why is that person waiting for us?”

The masked man tilted his head at the unexpected reaction.

“Doctor Dan said it was to reassure you so you would come to him…”

The two men exchanged glances and grimaced.

“Would it be better to meet our end here?”

“That might be less of a disgrace…”

Even in a life-or-death situation, they couldn’t easily make a decision, recalling their bad relationship with Beom Gye-wi.

* * *

Around dawn.

There was a shadow leaping over the walls of Geosanbang [a building or establishment].

It was the Three Overwhelms Twins, who had rushed here through the night.

Still, in case it was a trap, they planned to sneak in and assess the situation first.

But before their feet could touch the ground, their figures suddenly stopped in mid-air.

“Gasp!”

“Could it be?”

A gasp escaped from their mouths.

Their hearts sank at the formidable power of 격공섭물(隔空攝物) [telekinesis] that bound them.

As far as they knew, there were only a handful of experts who had reached this level of mastery in the entire Murim [martial arts world].

Sure enough.

A chilling voice they could never forget pierced their ears.

“These thieves are quite bold. How dare they cross the wall here?”

Wang Yeom hurriedly waved his hand.

“W-we’re not thieves…”

However, Beom Gye-wi had no intention of listening to them in the first place.

“There’s no need to keep both of you alive, right?”

It was enough to get a confession from just one of them.

Whoosh.

The Three Overwhelms Twins’ faces turned pale as they witnessed the dark flames engulfing Beom Gye-wi’s hand.

“P-please calm down, Senior! We are the Three Overwhelms Twins!”

“We heard that Doctor Dan was looking for us!”

Beom Gye-wi paused for a moment.

After pondering something for a while, Beom Gye-wi slowly nodded.

“Indeed, one mouth is enough. Two would only be noisy.”

The Three Overwhelms Twins were speechless at Beom Gye-wi’s obviously annoyed expression.

Why did he even bother to hesitate if that was the case?

It was as if they had come to the entrance of North Mang Mountain after a narrow escape from death.

Just as the two were trembling in fear.

“So, you’ve come to see Uncle Beom.”

The faces of the Three Overwhelms Twins, who were on the verge of death, lit up at the voice behind Beom Gye-wi.

“Doctor Dan?”

“Please save us!”

Dan Ahk-seon, approaching the pleading two, smiled quietly.

“You must have gone through a lot.”

At that moment, the gazes of the Three Overwhelms Twins and Beom Gye-wi met.

—Behave yourself. Okay?

The two hurriedly nodded at Beom Gye-wi’s sudden telepathic message.

Realizing that the two looked unwell, Dan Ahk-seon raised his hand and pointed towards the main building.

“Let’s go inside for now. We need to start with treatment.”

At those words, the Three Overwhelms Twins finally let out a sigh of relief.

No matter how severe the injury, they had no doubt that Dan Ahk-seon’s renowned medical skills could save a patient as long as they were still breathing.

Above all, they knew from experience that even the great Beom Gye-wi would not recklessly kill in front of Dan Ahk-seon.

After moving, Dan Ahk-seon laid the two on the bed and immediately began treatment.

First, it was Wang Yeom, whose external wounds were severe.

“Fortunately, your organs weren’t damaged, but you almost died.”

“…….”

Wang Yeom couldn’t answer.

He felt like a scream would erupt the moment he opened his mouth.

There was no time to anesthetize him because time was of the essence.

To stitch up the large open wound, Dan Ahk-seon moved his hands without hesitation, and Wang Yeom had no choice but to grit his teeth and endure the pain each time the needle in Dan Ahk-seon’s hand pierced his flesh.

On the other hand, Wang Gyeol, who was watching the treatment process from the side, couldn’t help but be amazed.

Even a physician with considerable medical skills would have to spend at least two hours on such a serious injury.

But Dan Ahk-seon was already finishing the treatment in less than an hour.

‘As expected!’

There was a reason why he was called the Divine Doctor.

He had stayed by Cheon-ui’s side for nearly ten years, watching her medical skills, but in terms of skill alone, he couldn’t even compare to Dan Ahk-seon.

Soon, Dan Ahk-seon, who had finished stitching, took out a pill wrapped in beeswax from his pocket and split it in half.

“Eat this.”

Although it was only half, Wang Yeom’s eyes widened as he swallowed the pill, filling his mouth with a refreshing fragrance.

“Could this be a Nourishing Vitality Pill?”

“That’s right.”

Wang Yeom looked deeply moved as Dan Ahk-seon nodded.

“To use this precious thing for someone like me…”

Dan Ahk-seon couldn’t help but be puzzled by Wang Yeom’s emotional appearance, unable to continue speaking.

He could easily obtain the Nourishing Vitality Pill, which used ordinary medicinal herbs to lower manufacturing costs, within the Divine Doctor of the Demonic Path, let alone the Divine Demonic Pill, which used all kinds of spiritual medicines as ingredients, his father’s secret recipe.

However, he realized the reason after Wang Yeom’s explanation.

“Due to the Four Evil Species, the supplies of the Divine Merchant Guild are not being properly distributed south of the Yangtze River. So, the Nourishing Vitality Pill has become priceless.”

Although the price burden had been lowered, the Nourishing Vitality Pill was an excellent medicine that could be called Dan Ahk-seon’s masterpiece.

It not only had antipyretic and analgesic effects but also had the effect of stabilizing the mind and body even in small amounts.

If crushed and applied to a wound, it also had excellent hemostatic properties.

It was a compilation of the effects of 감총전(甘蔥煎) [Gamchong-jeon, a medicinal decoction], which had disinfection and analgesic effects, 도화산(桃花散) [Dohwa-san, a medicinal powder], a hemostatic agent, and 생기산(生肌散) [Saenggi-san, a medicinal powder], which promoted new flesh growth, so no 금창약(金瘡藥) [Geumchang-yak, medicine for wounds] could compare to it.

“I see.”

Dan Ahk-seon, who let out a soft sigh, crushed the remaining half of the Nourishing Vitality Pill and covered Wang Yeom’s wound.

Perhaps it was because he felt relieved that he was alive.

Forgetting the pain from just now, Wang Yeom looked up at the ceiling with a much more relaxed expression.

“I guess it wasn’t my fate to die yet…”

At that moment, he muttered unconsciously.

“Really?”

A more ominous voice flew from nearby.

Wang Yeom, who swallowed dry saliva without realizing it, carefully turned his head towards the direction of the voice.

Beom Gye-wi was smiling eerily.

Wang Yeom’s complexion turned pale in an instant as his eyes met his.

Wang Gyeol, who was lying side by side on the next bed to treat his internal injuries, was also the same.

Beom Gye-wi suddenly asked the two of them.

“Do you really think you’re alive?”

The faces of the Three Overwhelms Twins turned pale at Beom Gye-wi’s words.

“I heard you follow Cheon-ui? Then why didn’t you just stick with her and instead came out to bother our Doctor Dan? You guys who abandoned your martial arts and ran away.”

“T-that’s…”

The two cast pitiful glances at Dan Ahk-seon.

As far as they knew, Dan Ahk-seon was the only person who could stop the world’s Mount Mang’s Madman.

But soon, the faces of the two were filled with despair.

Dan Ahk-seon, who was their only hope, was so engrossed in deep thought that he didn’t notice their desperate eyes.

Meanwhile, Dan Ahk-seon, who had placed his finger on Wang Gyeol’s pulse and was examining every corner of his body with 위화신공 [Wihwa Shin Gong, a type of internal energy], couldn’t help but be amazed.

‘How did he do it?’

That was because he couldn’t find any traces of demonic energy anywhere in Wang Gyeol’s meridians [energy channels in the body].

Not only that.

‘His existing internal energy has also become much purer.’

Cheon-ui, he couldn’t guess what method she had used.

Dan Ahk-seon knew better than anyone else the toxicity of demonic arts, having fought against demonic energy in Shinji for ten years.

There was a reason why demonic arts were called demonic arts.

It was impossible to completely shake off the demonic arts and the resulting demonic energy that had once taken root deep in the subconscious.

The same was true for the Three Overwhelms Twins.

When Dan Ahk-seon treated them, the two were practically in a state of demonic possession.

Moreover, they were barely suppressing the resulting pain with poison.

Fortunately, Dan Ahk-seon had experience treating demonic possession in the past and was also well-versed in the poisons used by the Demonic Sect through research, so he was able to treat the two.

But even Dan Ahk-seon couldn’t completely remove it without leaving any traces of demonic energy like this.

He had only corrected the meridians according to the flow of true energy based on the existing internal energy cultivation method and blocked some blood vessels to prevent further accumulation of demonic energy.

‘Come to think of it…’

Dan Ahk-seon’s eyes became more cautious as he recalled the story he had heard from Neung So-mil last time.

The two hundred or so heretics who had given up treatment and left the Divine Doctor of the Demonic Path.

At first, he couldn’t believe the story that most of them had met Cheon-ui and completely escaped from demonic arts.

‘She said that they were also maintaining their martial arts and had established themselves as the power of the Four Evil Species.’

Neung So-mil would have cross-verified the information several times given her personality, but even so, he couldn’t help but be skeptical.

That’s because even he couldn’t completely cure so many people in such a short period of time.

But for just one doctor to perform a near-miraculous feat.

Now that he had confirmed it directly, there was no way he couldn’t believe it.

That’s when it happened.

“…?”

Dan Ahk-seon shook off his thoughts as he suddenly felt Wang Gyeol’s true energy begin to run wild.

It was then that he noticed the Three Overwhelms Twins trembling with pale faces.

Dan Ahk-seon, who belatedly discovered Beom Gye-wi glaring at the two, smiled bitterly.

No matter how skilled the Three Overwhelms Twins were, Beom Gye-wi was on a different level from them.

Moreover, in a situation where they were suffering from internal injuries, there was no way they could be fine after being directly exposed to the killing intent that Beom Gye-wi had openly emitted from nearby.

“Calm down, Uncle Beom. There’s something I want to ask them.”