The Divine And Demonic Doctor [EN]: Chapter 195

The Divine Doctor of Primacy (195)

“What’s wrong?”

Dan Akseon rushed over, noticing the unusual expression on Neung Somil’s face.

“His condition is strange.”

Neung Somil lowered the man he was carrying and laid him on the floor.

“Normally, one shouldn’t move a patient like this, but I feared his condition would worsen if I delayed, so I had to bring him here.”

“You did well. If you had been any later, it might have been irreversible.”

Dan Akseon examined the patient Neung Somil had brought with a grave look.

At first, he suspected poisoning, but it wasn’t.

The man’s face was dry, encrusted with salt from dried sweat.

He also showed signs of convulsions accompanied by a high fever and traces of hematemesis [vomiting blood].

Checking his pulse, Dan Akseon found his Qi [vital energy] and blood were in chaotic turmoil.

“Qi Deviation! And it’s quite advanced!”

Neung Somil was shocked by Dan Akseon’s words.

“Qi Deviation?”

Instead of answering, Dan Akseon inserted needles into several acupoints on the patient.

Gradually, the man’s constant trembling began to subside.

Eventually, he slumped down, utterly limp.

“Is the treatment already over?”

Dan Akseon sighed and shook his head at Neung Somil’s words.

“Of course not. I’ve only administered emergency treatment, but his condition is very serious. We need to move him inside.”

Quick-witted Adoo brought a stretcher.

Dan Akseon laid the patient on it and, along with Neung Somil, took him to his quarters.

He feared it might frighten the other patients.

The symptoms of Qi Deviation held something that instinctively triggered fear just by witnessing it.

There was a reason why martial artists feared it more than death.

Even now, it was happening.

“Krrk…….”

With a groan that sounded like severe phlegm, the patient began to tremble again.

His face flushed red in an instant, then suddenly turned pale, all color draining away.

At the same time, his entire body was alternating between being as hot as lava and as cold as ice.

“To neglect oneself to the point of such advanced Qi Deviation…….”

Neung Somil sighed at Dan Akseon’s lament.

“Perhaps he didn’t have the luxury to do so.”

“Didn’t have the luxury?”

“This man is Jin Yeongsan, once involved with the Green Forest, and now fleeing from them. He entered Muwi last night. The Green Forest has also sent people to find him.”

“The Green Forest?”

“Haven’t you heard yet?”

Neung Somil looked at Beom Gyewi with a questioning gaze.

Beom Gyewi cleared his throat awkwardly.

“Ahem. I just didn’t have the chance to mention it…….”

He then spoke of the Green Forest bandits confronting Gok Woonkyung and the letter from Ak Hogun they had brought.

“This man is a traitor to the Green Forest?”

Neung Somil nodded with a worried expression.

“If we treat and protect him, we’ll be giving the Green Forest a cause.”

What if Ak Hogun, the chief leader of the Green Forest, used this as an excuse to latch onto them?

Dan Akseon might allow it, but the other three would never tolerate it.

“If one man leads to conflict with the Green Forest…….”

It wasn’t just a possibility.

There was plenty of potential for it to escalate.

“Ak Hogun is not only tenacious but also known for using any means necessary to achieve his goals. He’s also extremely cunning.”

Beyond his martial prowess, Ak Hogun was a true master who had controlled the Green Forest, the largest armed group in the Demonic Faction, for many years.

If he truly decided to antagonize Muwi, it would be a tiresome affair in many ways.

The Shinma Merchant Guild would be immediately affected.

No matter how much profit they made through trade with the Western Regions, they still had to hand over goods to the merchant guilds of the Central Plains to make money.

If the Green Forest used their advantage in numbers to occupy the transportation routes, it would become a headache for the merchant guild.

Beom Gyewi scoffed coldly at Neung Somil’s words.

“Hmph! They’re just the same rabble as their leader. Dare they antagonize our Dan Doctor? The Green Forest will be wiped off the face of the earth that day.”

Neung Somil smiled bitterly at Beom Gyewi’s confident words.

“What makes the Green Forest frightening isn’t their martial arts, but their tenacious vitality.”

In the past, countless heroes and factions had attempted to eradicate the Green Forest under the banner of subjugating evil and exterminating wickedness.

But even after they seemed to be completely wiped out, they would somehow recover their strength over time.

The saying “seas change into mulberry fields” [a Chinese idiom for great change over time] didn’t apply to them.

It was then.

“You don’t need to worry about that.”

Jin Yeongsan, who had regained consciousness, opened his mouth with difficulty.

“Just one day……. Give me just one day. Once I can walk on my own, I’ll leave on my own.”

Having heard Dan Akseon and Neung Somil’s conversation, Jin Yeongsan smiled weakly.

“It’s impudent of me, but I beg you.”

Cho Akryang stepped forward, speaking in place of Dan Akseon, who was pondering silently.

“Why are you being chased by the Green Forest?”

“That……. I cannot say.”

Cho Akryang’s eyes turned cold.

“Just like you’re keeping silent about the Demonic energy flowing through your body?”

Jin Yeongsan flinched and closed his mouth.

At this moment, Dan Akseon sighed and gazed at Jin Yeongsan.

“Do you know your current condition?”

“…….”

Dan Akseon slowly nodded at Jin Yeongsan, who stubbornly kept his mouth shut.

“I understand. I don’t particularly intend to force treatment. I won’t forcibly confine you either.”

Everyone, including Neung Somil, stared at Dan Akseon in surprise.

They were surprised by how readily Dan Akseon backed down.

“However, if you change your mind, please tell me at any time.”

With those words, Dan Akseon got up and left the room first.

The others reluctantly followed Dan Akseon outside.

“Troublesome things might happen.”

Dan Akseon smiled at Cho Akryang’s words.

“But I can’t turn a blind eye to a patient in front of me, can I?”

Cho Akryang smiled faintly and nodded.

It wasn’t as if he didn’t know Dan Akseon’s nature.

Still, he couldn’t help but bring it up out of concern.

“But why didn’t you recommend treatment? At this rate, he’ll probably…….”

Dan Akseon nodded at Neung Somil’s question.

“He won’t last more than three days.”

Dan Akseon revealed his thoughts.

“The Qi Deviation is quite advanced, but it’s not yet irreversible. He’ll probably lose consciousness soon, and that’s when the real Qi Deviation will begin. The only reason he can still refuse treatment is that he hasn’t truly experienced the pain of Qi Deviation.”

“Ah!”

“More than anything, a doctor doesn’t have the right to treat a patient as they please. A doctor’s role is only to help those who have the will to live; treatment that doesn’t reflect the patient’s wishes is no different from violence.”

Only then could Neung Somil understand Dan Akseon’s actions.

“So, all that’s left is to wait?”

Dan Akseon turned to Adoo at Cho Akryang’s words.

“Adoo, can you postpone my consultation hours a bit?”

“There are no urgent patients at the moment, so I’ll ask the other doctors to take care of them.”

Dan Akseon smiled and nodded, and Adoo left the area to guide the patients.

“What do we do while we wait?”

Beom Gyewi, who was looking around with a bored expression, exclaimed.

“That’s right! We can continue the story we were talking about earlier!”

Cho Akryang frowned.

He knew what Beom Gyewi was about to say.

“Anyway, congratulations on Cho being completely healed! So, it’s time for you to go your way.”

“What, you punk?”

“There’s no reason for you to be here anyway. How long are you going to bother Dan Doctor?”

“Bother? I’m helping Dan Doctor treat patients!”

“Hmph! You’re just a quack. There are already plenty of real doctors, so do you think it’s even your turn?”

Neung Somil quietly slipped away from the two who were bickering for a long time.

It was said that one should avoid heavy rain [idiom for avoiding dangerous situations].

Why else would there be the saying “shrimp die in a whale fight” [idiom for the weak getting hurt in a fight between the strong]?

He wanted to avoid getting caught in a whale fight and having his back broken.

Han Seolhwa intervened, unable to watch the two arguing for so long.

“Both of you, shut up.”

Han Seolhwa gave a sharp word to the two who were glaring at her at the same time.

“Isn’t Dan Doctor’s opinion the most important thing after all?”

Cho Akryang and Beom Gyewi reluctantly nodded at her words.

Dan Akseon sighed softly as the three people’s gazes focused on him.

“I’m a doctor. So, I’m happiest when a patient is completely healed.”

Dan Akseon’s eyes turned gloomy.

“But I can’t just be happy right now.”

It was a natural course of events that they had to part ways when a patient was cured.

It was also the doctor’s role to feel a sense of accomplishment for fulfilling their responsibility and to endure the sadness of parting alone.

“I want to continue living with you, Uncle and Aunt. But that’s just my greed. You each have your own lives and desired paths.”

Dan Akseon made eye contact with Cho Akryang.

“I’ll formally say it here. Cho Uncle has been completely cured. My work is also done.”

Cho Akryang, who had been staring at Dan Akseon, slowly nodded.

“If that’s the case, there’s nothing I can do.”

Cho Akryang smiled at the flinching Dan Akseon.

“Now, all that’s left is to appeal to emotions.”

“Yes?”

“I want to stay here. Will you allow it? Surely you’re not so heartless as to coldly turn away an old man with nowhere else to go?”

Dan Akseon’s face brightened.

With an excited expression, Dan Akseon nodded.

“I’m always ready to offer you three a place by my side.”

Dan Akseon continued.

“My home is always where you, Uncle and Aunt, are.”

At this point, Beom Gyewi couldn’t argue any further.

At that moment, Neung Somil, who had been standing far away and observing the situation inside the residence, called out to Dan Akseon with a desperate expression.

“It seems to have started!”

Opening the door and entering, Jin Yeongsan was already unconscious, just as Dan Akseon had expected.

Dan Akseon frowned as he checked his pulse.

Checking his condition through the pulse, he found that the meridians were also tangled up arbitrarily along the unstable flow of true energy.

“It’s Qi Deviation caused by improper martial arts training.”

Complex symptoms that typically occur when a proper mental cultivation method is not supported were appearing in combination.

“Is treatment possible?”

Dan Akseon nodded at Cho Akryang’s question.

“It still is. But confirming the patient’s wishes is the priority, right?”

Dan Akseon took out a Seonang needle and slowly inserted it near Jin Yeongsan’s philtrum [the area between the nose and upper lip, an acupuncture point for resuscitation].

At that moment, Jin Yeongsan, who had been limp like a wet cotton ball, opened his eyes wide.

“Aaaaaaah!”

With a piercing scream, Jin Yeongsan jumped up as if he was bouncing and writhed, tearing at his body.

After a while,

He began to look around with bloodshot eyes.

There was no reason left in his eyes, which were filled with madness.

Neung Somil was waiting outside, and there were only four people inside.

Even in the midst of all this, Jin Yeongsan instinctively recognized the strong and lunged at Dan Akseon, avoiding the other three.

“Step back.”

Han Seolhwa, who pulled Dan Akseon away, took his place in an instant.

Clang!

Jin Yeongsan, who had been screaming and rushing in, was knocked back and crashed into the wall.

Kooong!

At the same time, the pure white frost that started from under Han Seolhwa’s feet spread in all directions.

In her hand, pure white energy had already formed and was rippling.

“You mustn’t hurt him!”

Han Seolhwa paused at Dan Akseon’s cry.

It was then that Cho Akryang opened his mouth.

“Checking his martial arts is the priority.”

Cho Akryang and Beom Gyewi were unlikely to see Jin Yeongsan favorably.

He not only revealed his murderous intent towards Dan Akseon but also used lethal moves without hesitation.

That alone was already a long over the line.

There were more than enough reasons to kill him right away.

Nevertheless, the only reason they were enduring was because of Dan Akseon.

Han Seolhwa reluctantly eased the pressure of the true energy that had been suppressing him so that Jin Yeongsan could attack.

The moment he did, Jin Yeongsan, who had jumped up as if he was bouncing, began to wildly swing his hands.

Tear.

A sharp sound tearing through the air.

Even the faint afterimage of blood left behind.

Cho Akryang frowned without realizing it after confirming this.

“Blood Jade Hand.”

He had guessed to some extent from the moment he released Demonic energy, but he couldn’t help but groan when he actually confirmed the martial arts he was using.