The Divine And Demonic Doctor [EN]: Chapter 124

Having returned to the inn, Beom Gye-wi burst into a hearty laugh.

“Hahaha. What did I say? Didn’t I tell you to trust me?”

“You really did it.”

Beom Gye-wi’s shoulders puffed up at Dan Ahk-seon’s compliment.

Han Seol-hwa was inwardly displeased with Beom Gye-wi, but she didn’t bother to argue since the result was good.

But there was another problem.

It was Mook Bi.

He had dragged his heavy body all the way to the inn and knelt before Beom Gye-wi and Han Seol-hwa.

“Please, give me your teachings!”

His earnest voice echoed through the inn.

“Isn’t that Master Mook of the Mook family?”

“Why is he acting like that?”

People coming and going from the inn began to gather around, one by one.

And as time passed, the crowd grew, quickly turning the front of the inn into a sea of people.

As the situation escalated, a troubled expression appeared on Beom Gye-wi’s face.

Beom Gye-wi cast a pleading look at Han Seol-hwa.

But he received a cold rejection in return.

“You started this, so you clean it up.”

Beom Gye-wi clicked his tongue.

It was good that he had obtained permission to make weapons, but he was at a loss as to how to explain the accidental situation at the time.

Unable to watch any longer, Dan Ahk-seon stepped forward.

“What is it that you want to be taught?”

Mook Bi explained the situation where Beom Gye-wi and Han Seol-hwa had been facing off once again.

“The fire and ice energies mixed in the middle, transforming into a mystical energy that encompassed both! If we apply that principle, we can create an unparalleled divine weapon!”

Dan Ahk-seon, who had received the piece of iron from Mook Bi, tilted his head.

“I can feel the energy of the Wihwa Divine Art [a technique that combines opposing energies] within this?”

A gleam appeared in Beom Gye-wi’s eyes.

“Ah! So that’s what it was? I was wondering what it was.”

Mook Bi’s face brightened.

“Then can you explain the principle?”

“Of course.”

Beom Gye-wi nodded and pointed to Dan Ahk-seon.

“Doctor Dan will explain it well. He’s the best among us when it comes to the Wihwa Divine Art.”

Beom Gye-wi took all the credit for himself, but in the end, he passed the cleanup work to Dan Ahk-seon.

Han Seol-hwa, displeased with him, cast a sharp glance.

“Let’s move to a quieter place first.”

At Dan Ahk-seon’s words, the group moved to the secluded backyard of the inn.

Dan Ahk-seon wrapped the piece of iron he had received from Mook Bi in both hands and drew up the Wihwa Divine Art.

After a moment.

A strange aura with an allure that drew people in flowed from Dan Ahk-seon’s hands and onto the iron piece.

Mook Bi’s eyes widened at the magnificent sight.

“That’s it!”

Mook Bi shouted without realizing it.

The current energy was much clearer than the fleeting Wihwa Divine Art that had occurred by chance due to the confrontation between Han Seol-hwa and Beom Gye-wi.

“With that energy, we can definitely contain both fire and ice in one weapon!”

Calming the excited Mook Bi, Dan Ahk-seon opened his mouth.

“The principle of the Wihwa Divine Art is simpler than you think.”

Dan Ahk-seon began to explain the mysteries of operating the Wihwa Divine Art.

However, as time passed, Mook Bi’s face was filled with despair.

Unfortunately, Mook Bi was neither a martial artist who had learned martial arts nor a doctor well-versed in medicine.

He couldn’t understand a single word of what he was saying.

It felt as if Dan Ahk-seon’s voice, which entered his ears, was getting tangled in his head.

Finally, Dan Ahk-seon, having finished his explanation, smiled innocently.

“Easy, right?”

“……”

Dan Ahk-seon tilted his head at Mook Bi, who was standing blankly and only blinking.

“Should I explain it in writing?”

Dan Ahk-seon, who had obtained writing tools, wrote down the incantations and operating methods of the Wihwa Divine Art in detail.

Then, he began to explain, pointing out each step in order.

However, the explanation only confused Mook Bi further.

All he saw was white paper and black letters.

“……Is it still difficult even like this?”

At Dan Ahk-seon’s cautious question, Mook Bi nodded with a stiff face.

Dan Ahk-seon sighed softly.

He finally realized that making an ordinary person understand the mysteries of the Wihwa Divine Art was not as easy as he had thought.

“This has become troublesome.”

Cho Ahk-ryang, who was watching the situation, smiled bitterly.

However, he couldn’t make Mook Bi learn the Wihwa Divine Art right away.

His age was too advanced to learn an internal energy cultivation technique.

The later he started, the slower his progress would be.

As if frustrated by the situation, Beom Gye-wi suddenly reached out and snatched the incantations of the Wihwa Divine Art that Dan Ahk-seon had written down.

Whoosh.

As Beom Gye-wi drew up his true energy, the paper in his hand instantly turned to ashes and scattered.

In the meantime, he had taken precautions in advance, fearing that the Wihwa Divine Art might be leaked.

Beom Gye-wi frowned at Mook Bi, who looked half out of it.

“Hmph! What’s so difficult about that.”

Dan Ahk-seon’s face lit up.

“Do you have a way?”

“Of course! Just trust me!”

Beom Gye-wi nodded cheerfully and grabbed Mook Bi’s wrist.

“Feel it directly with your body. That’ll be faster.”

With those words, Beom Gye-wi turned his head towards Han Seol-hwa.

“Let’s join hands.”

“Why should I?”

As expected.

Beom Gye-wi grinned at the cold reaction he had anticipated.

“Otherwise, he might die, you know?”

No sooner had he finished speaking than Beom Gye-wi’s expression changed.

If Beom Gye-wi forcefully injected the Doban Samyang Gong [a powerful internal energy technique] through his pulse, his whole body would burn up in an instant.

“Auntie Han!”

Dan Ahk-seon was startled and called out to Han Seol-hwa.

Han Seol-hwa couldn’t bear to see Mook Bi turn to ashes before her eyes, so she reluctantly grabbed his other wrist.

And with an unwilling face, she held out her palm.

Beom Gye-wi smiled and pressed his palm against hers.

“Aaaaaargh!”

Mook Bi’s desperate screams continued for a long time.

The heat that rose from his entire body seemed to burn his clothes, and then, at some point, a pure white frost settled from the top of his head to his toes.

He repeated the process of exhaling hot air and white breath from his mouth several times.

The energies of the two slowly began to find balance within Mook Bi’s body.

“That’s it!”

Dan Ahk-seon shouted at Mook Bi.

“Remember that feeling you have now.”

Mook Bi, who belatedly came to his senses, could feel the unprecedented energy swirling within his body.

How much time had passed like that?

Beom Gye-wi and Han Seol-hwa released their hands and stepped back at the same time.

Both of them looked slightly exhausted.

It was then that Mook Bi, staring blankly at his hands, muttered to himself.

“In the end, it’s about balance and harmony…….”

Dan Ahk-seon’s eyes sparkled at those words.

“That’s right. That’s the core of the Wihwa Divine Art.”

Mook Bi thought about something for a long time, and then he nodded.

“I think I’ve got it!”

Cho Ahk-ryang clicked his tongue at Mook Bi’s excited appearance.

Whether they were artisans or martial artists…….

Those who pursued the best all had something strange about them.

Did he even realize that his life had been hanging by a thread just a moment ago?

“You really are something…….”

Cho Ahk-ryang shook his head at Beom Gye-wi’s triumphant appearance.

Forcibly imprinting the mysteries of the Wihwa Divine Art by gambling with the other person’s life.

It was a brutal method that only Beom Gye-wi could have thought of.

“You want to make a staff?”

Dan Ahk-seon nodded at Mook Bi’s question.

“Yes. A jemi stick [a short staff or cane]. About as tall as my eyebrows.”

Mook Bi tilted his head.

“But if you get taller than you are now, you won’t be able to call it a jemi stick anymore, will you?”

“It’s okay. Oh, and can you make needles out of the meteoric iron left over from making the staff?”

“Needles? You mean the needles that doctors use?”

“Yes. Like this.”

Dan Ahk-seon took out the Seonang Needle and the Maryeong Needle from his chest and laid them out in front of Mook Bi.

Mook Bi carefully picked up the needles and looked at them for a long time before exclaiming.

“I’d like to see the person who made these!”

Mook Bi shook his head in disbelief.

“This isn’t the work of a human. The person who made this is at least several levels above me.”

“Then is it impossible to make needles that are superior to these?”

“Meteoric iron isn’t really suitable as a material for needles in the first place. But if two conditions are met, it might be possible.”

“Two conditions?”

“That would be the Myriad Year Ice Iron, which possesses the extreme yin cold energy, and the Yeomhwa Dan Iron (Blazing Fire Refined Iron), which possesses the extreme yang heat energy.”

“Myriad Year Ice Iron, you say…….”

Dan Ahk-seon had heard of it before.

It was an extremely rare iron that was said to be created deep under the sea for a long time.

But the Yeomhwa Dan Iron was unfamiliar.

Then Mook Bi smiled and said.

“Fortunately, I have a little bit of Myriad Year Ice Iron. So it seems we only need to find the Yeomhwa Dan Iron.”

“Where can we find the Yeomhwa Dan Iron?”

“I haven’t seen it myself, so I’m not sure, but a long time ago, someone said they saw it in Hainan.”

“Hainan?”

It was when Dan Ahk-seon was tilting his head.

“Oh? Hainan, you say?”

Cho Ahk-ryang turned his gaze towards Beom Gye-wi.

Beom Gye-wi paused, realizing the meaning behind the strange look.

Dan Ahk-seon’s face lit up.

“Does Uncle Beom know a lot about Hainan?”

“Oh, well…….”

As Beom Gye-wi stammered in embarrassment, Cho Ahk-ryang grinned and nodded.

“Does he just know about it? It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say he has a firm grip on Hainan.”

“Wow! Really?”

Beom Gye-wi gave an awkward smile at Dan Ahk-seon’s bright-faced question.

“Well……. It’s not entirely wrong, but…….”

Beom Gye-wi glared at Cho Ahk-ryang as if he would devour him.

However, Cho Ahk-ryang only smirked with a sly face.

He had finally landed a satisfying blow.

Dan Ahk-seon’s eyes sparkled as he approached Beom Gye-wi.

“Then can you perhaps find the Yeomhwa Dan Iron too?”

“……!”

Beom Gye-wi’s pupils shook uncontrollably.

After a moment of hesitation.

Gulp.

Beom Gye-wi swallowed hard and burst into a hearty laugh.

“Hahaha! I told you, Doctor Dan, you just need to trust me! What is there that I can’t do for our Doctor Dan? That little Hainan is nothing!”

Dan Ahk-seon rushed to hug Beom Gye-wi at his bold words.

“Uncle Beom is the best!”

“Eumhaha! Doctor Dan, as always, you just need to trust me.”

Cho Ahk-ryang, who was watching the scene, let out a burst of laughter.

It was because he knew the inside story between Beom Gye-wi and Hainan.

“Have a hard time.”

It was then that a sense of bewilderment arose in Cho Ahk-ryang’s eyes.

Unexpectedly, Beom Gye-wi was smiling and nodding readily.

“What’s a little hardship? It’s not like I’m doing it alone.”

“……?”

Beom Gye-wi put his hand on Cho Ahk-ryang’s shoulder.

“Let’s settle our accounts properly.”

“Accounts?”

“You have to repay the debt you owe to the Cheongseong Sect, right?”

“……!”

Cho Ahk-ryang’s face stiffened.

To think he would drag him in so meanly!

Finally, Cho Ahk-ryang sighed and nodded.

Beom Gye-wi smiled contentedly and turned his head towards Dan Ahk-seon.

“Then we’ll go to Hainan. We’ll find the Yeomhwa Dan Iron and join you, so move on ahead.”

“Yes. Be careful.”

“Don’t worry. It’s not like I’m going with anyone else, but with Brother Cho. Isn’t that right?”

Cho Ahk-ryang only glared at Beom Gye-wi for a moment, but said nothing.

“Then let’s go.”

With that, the two flew away.

Dan Ahk-seon, who had seen off the two who had turned into small dots and disappeared in an instant, met eyes with Mook Bi.

“Yeomhwa Dan Iron. If you can get me that, I’ll make not only the staff but also the needles into the best in the world.”

Dan Ahk-seon cautiously asked Mook Bi, who was expressing confidence.

“But will you be okay? I heard that Myriad Year Ice Iron is very expensive…….”

“It’s okay. It’s also for my sake.”

“……?”

“Perhaps those items will be the last works of my life. It’s a matter of leaving my name in history, so I should be willing to invest that much.”

A firm determination and enthusiasm could be felt in Mook Bi’s eyes.

Dan Ahk-seon smiled at Han Seol-hwa and Ga Du-dal.

“Then shall we depart too?”