The Divine And Demonic Doctor [EN]: Chapter 401

The sight of the eerie, blood-red energy swirling in the old man’s hand immediately caught Ga Du-dal’s attention.

Ga Du-dal’s face instantly drained of color.

He recognized the martial art the man was using.

“Y-You can’t be… are you…?”

Ga Du-dal inwardly screamed.

‘Crimson Kill Melody, Kwak Sa-woon!’

During the Great War of Righteousness and Evil [a major conflict between good and evil factions].

Though overshadowed by the Ten Demon Lords, he was relatively unknown, but the number of righteous martial artists who fell by his hand, as he led the Blood Flame Squad, the vanguard of the Demonic Sect, was countless.

Known to have mastered the Demonic Sect’s ultimate art, Blood Demon Energy, he was also known for his handsome appearance, as much as his martial prowess.

He couldn’t have imagined that such a man would be in such a hideous state.

Above all, he was known to have died in the final battle on Mount Giyeon.

Yet here he was, alive and well, sitting face to face with him.

‘Was the name of the inn, Gangmyeong, taken from his title?’

He had thought the atmosphere and energy were unusual, but he never imagined he would be facing one of the top experts in the Demonic Sect.

The mere fact that he was facing him at such a close distance made it hard for him to breathe.

“Search again. If he’s hiding, he’ll definitely react.”

It was after an hour that the Demonic Sect members, who had thoroughly searched the surroundings at Kwak Sa-woon’s command, returned.

“We have found nothing unusual.”

Kwak Sa-woon nodded silently at his subordinates’ report.

Then, he stared intently at Ga Du-dal with icy eyes.

Ga Du-dal inwardly cursed at the sharp gaze that seemed to dissect his lungs.

‘There’s no one to trust in this world! How could even Doctor Dan [referring to Dan Ak-seon]!’

It was then that Kwak Sa-woon suddenly spoke.

“Follow me.”

Convinced that Ga Du-dal had come alone, Kwak Sa-woon rose from his seat and stepped out of the inn.

‘If I’m going to run, it’s now….’

Following Kwak Sa-woon, Ga Du-dal continued to agonize.

But in the end, he couldn’t bring himself to run away.

—Trust me.

Dan Ak-seon’s eyes as he said those words bothered him.

‘Oh, screw it.’

Because it was Dan Ak-seon’s promise, he decided to trust him for now.

But that didn’t make the anxiety go away.

‘Where the hell is he taking me?’

Ga Du-dal was constantly looking around, his heart pounding.

A low hill far from the Gangmyeong Inn.

While the timid Ga Du-dal was anxiously waiting,

Dan Ak-seon and the Three Divine Hells, who had completely concealed their presence, were watching the inn in the distance.

When suspicious figures resembling merchants approached, they even considered subduing them and storming in, but fortunately, the opponents didn’t notice them and turned away.

Dan Ak-seon, who had maximized his eyesight and was staring at the inn, carefully opened his mouth.

“The atmosphere over there is unusual. Is it okay to wait like this?”

The fierce demonic energy that had just emanated from the inn.

It wasn’t difficult to guess Ga Du-dal’s situation just from that.

But Cho Ak-ryang was calm.

“Don’t worry. It’s not time yet.”

‘If he’s unlucky and dies, it’s just his fate.’

But he couldn’t say that in front of Dan Ak-seon.

“Then when….”

“When that guy runs away. He’s not someone who will be easily defeated.”

Aside from being annoying, Ga Du-dal was worthy of being called the Divine Thief, at least when it came to his ability to run away to save his own life.

It was then that Beom Gye-wi, who had been lying down leisurely, spoke.

“But are all those guys there Demonic Sect members?”

His tone was clearly excited.

“You seem to be expecting something?”

“Hyung [older brother/term of respect], you don’t know.”

“……?”

“How hard it is to raise a child. I’m about to explode right now.”

“What are you talking about, raising a child when the baby hasn’t even been born yet?”

“Tsk. It’s growing in the womb. Well, you wouldn’t know unless you’ve been married.”

“That’s not raising a child, that’s prenatal care….”

“Forget it. There’s no way to communicate with someone who hasn’t raised a child. Anyway, those guys are all Demonic Sect members, right?”

Cho Ak-ryang closed his mouth and glared at Beom Gye-wi.

There was no point in talking to him at length, as it would only upset him.

It was then.

“He’s coming.”

At Han Seol-hwa’s words, everyone’s eyes turned towards the village beyond the inn.

Peeeeeek!

A single arrow cutting through the air with a sharp sound caught their eyes at the same time.

A signal arrow.

It was a large signal arrow with a whistle attached to the end instead of an arrowhead.

And a moment later.

Ga Du-dal, who had left the inn and disappeared into the village a little while ago, burst out.

He quickly started running towards them.

Behind him, more than ten people were openly emitting demonic energy as they followed.

Cho Ak-ryang couldn’t help but chuckle at the sight of them relentlessly chasing after him like ants drawn to honey.

“Let’s go.”

Dan Ak-seon and the Three Divine Hells dashed forward towards the front.

As the distance between them narrowed, Ga Du-dal, who belatedly discovered Dan Ak-seon’s group, shouted with an aggrieved expression.

“You swindlers! You said not to worry? You said you’d protect me?”

In the meantime, Ga Du-dal’s one hand was already covered in blood, as if he had been injured.

“Ugh!”

At that moment, Ga Du-dal gasped.

Suddenly, he felt a chill near his neck, and then a chilling premonition struck his back.

It was clear that the Demonic Sect bastards, who he was sick and tired of, were full of venom.

They couldn’t have missed Dan Ak-seon’s group unless they were blind.

Just as he was about to close his eyes, thinking he was going to die like this, a faint, dark afterimage flashed before his eyes, and then a terrible sound erupted from behind him.

Thud.

“……!”

Belatedly, he saw the dark staff that had barely grazed his cheek and was stretched out behind him, and Dan Ak-seon’s figure gripping it.

It was right after that that something warm fell on the back of his neck.

“……!”

Ga Du-dal’s expression froze as he glanced back.

A Demonic Sect member whose chest had been crushed by the dark staff and had died.

The blood that gushed out of his mouth like a waterfall was pouring down on his neck.

Ga Du-dal’s heart turned cold.

Dan Ak-seon’s decisive action without a moment’s hesitation.

But what was even more chilling was Dan Ak-seon’s unwavering, cold gaze.

Dan Ak-seon, who had taken the life of a Demonic Sect member with a single move, didn’t hesitate and flew towards another opponent.

The Three Divine Hells were the same.

Thud.

“Hahaha!”

In particular, Beom Gye-wi began to catch and kill Demonic Sect members indiscriminately, like a fish in water.

Now that the opponent had revealed their demonic energy, there was nothing to hold back.

It was as if he, who had once gone mad at the sight of blood, had returned.

Cho Ak-ryang shook his head at the sight.

“He must have been holding back a lot.”

On the other hand, Han Seol-hwa couldn’t take her eyes off Dan Ak-seon the whole time.

She felt somehow uneasy about Dan Ak-seon’s appearance, who was using lethal moves and immediately moving on to another opponent.

And this was not much different for Ga Du-dal.

‘What the hell happened to him in the meantime….’

Ga Du-dal couldn’t help but be amazed at the atmosphere that was clearly different from the Dan Ak-seon he remembered.

It was then.

“Who is in charge of these guys?”

Ga Du-dal suddenly came to his senses as if he had been doused with cold ice water at Dan Ak-seon’s voice, which didn’t convey any emotional highs or lows.

“Crimson Kill Melody, Kwak Sa-woon! He was disguised as an innkeeper! His face is full of scars, so it won’t be difficult to distinguish him.”

“Are you talking about that guy?”

Ga Du-dal’s face turned pale as he was puzzled by Dan Ak-seon’s question for a moment.

Did they also sense that something unusual had happened?

The figures of demons pouring out of the village all at once were visible.

The number was a whopping hundred or so.

And at the head of them was Kwak Sa-woon, leading the group with his unique, terrifying pressure.

“There were so many demons swarming around, why didn’t the Beggars’ Sect notice?”

Dan Ak-seon replied to Cho Ak-ryang’s murmur.

“They must have had their own way of hiding their demonic energy.”

Even in the midst of all this, the demons who had narrowed the distance were already close at hand.

The demonic energy emitted by each and every person.

Ga Du-dal found it difficult to breathe as it all tangled together like a cloud and rushed in.

It was then that Dan Ak-seon’s figure shot forward.

Dan Ak-seon’s gaze was fixed on only one person.

He was heading towards Kwak Sa-woon, who was at the head.

Cho Ak-ryang, Han Seol-hwa, and Beom Gye-wi also rushed forward towards the front without saying a word.

Kwakwakwang!

An unbelievable explosion erupted even though it was just people colliding with each other.

Ga Du-dal gasped and lowered his head at the ensuing shockwave and the cloud of dust that covered his vision.

Kwarung!

It was right after that that a thunderclap suddenly erupted nearby.

“……?”

Ga Du-dal’s eyes widened with bewilderment at the sudden thunder.

It wasn’t a day for rain.

At that moment.

Kwang!

Ga Du-dal was so surprised by the explosion that erupted right next to him that he collapsed on the spot.

But the explosion didn’t end with just one.

Kwakwakwang!

The three consecutive shocks that followed swallowed the entire area.

Ga Du-dal’s eyes widened as he staggered back from the aftermath.

At first, he thought it was a bolt from the blue, but it wasn’t.

The source of the explosion.

There, a truly amazing sight was unfolding that was hard to believe even when seeing it with his own eyes.

Every time Dan Ak-seon swung his dark staff, the scenery at the end of it was distorted, and flames like lightning flashed.

And the following majestic thunder.

It was a phenomenon caused by the compressed air being torn apart by the force carried by the dark staff.

And it wasn’t just Ga Du-dal who was surprised.

Kwak Sa-woon, who was actually exchanging blows with Dan Ak-seon, widened his eyes as if they were about to tear.

A dark flash that tore through his full-force hidden energy and penetrated straight through.

That thrilling trajectory was exploding like lightning on his shoulder.

Kwang!

With an explosion that shook the area, one person’s figure flew away.

Then, he flew more than ten yards and tumbled roughly to the ground.

“Ugh!”

The person who was staggering as he vomited a handful of blood was Kwak Sa-woon.

His face, which was covered in blood, no longer had the confident look he had a moment ago.

Instead, shock and embarrassment replaced it.

His right arm had lost its original shape and was limply drooping.

Despite his best efforts to defend, he couldn’t avoid having his bones crushed.

‘Damn it!’

The injury he sustained during the Great War of Righteousness and Evil.

He hadn’t completely overcome it, so although he wasn’t as good as he was in his prime, he was still confident that he could easily handle the elders of the Nine Great Sects.

But to think that he would be humiliated so badly by the young boy in front of him, whose down feathers hadn’t even fallen out yet!

Moreover, the problem wasn’t just that.

Kwak Sa-woon’s eyes were filled with despair as he looked around.

The elite members of the cult, who numbered over a hundred, were collapsing far too helplessly against just three people.

It was truly unstoppable.

He was so overwhelmed by the overwhelming force of the Three Divine Hells that he was terrified.

A suppressed groan escaped from Kwak Sa-woon’s mouth.

The leaders of the cult were seriously mistaken.

The martial arts of the Three Divine Hells that they had heard about were not at this level.

Not to mention the boy in front of him.

He never imagined that he, who still prided himself on being active, would be defeated in such a state.

Moreover, even at this moment, the cult members who had been with him were screaming in agony and being brutally torn apart into the underworld.

The moment the deep despair in his eyes turned into a resolute poison.

Suddenly, the area near his shoulder’s Gyeonjeong blood point [acupuncture point] tingled.

“……!”

It was then that Dan Ak-seon’s figure came into Kwak Sa-woon’s eyes, which were widened to the fullest.

Dan Ak-seon, who had used a needle to pinpoint Kwak Sa-woon’s blood point, opened his jaw and took out the poison pill hidden between his molars.

“Where is the location of the Divine Land?”

“…….”

Dan Ak-seon, who was faced with Kwak Sa-woon’s eyes full of madness, as if to say, ‘Find out if you can,’ quietly took out another needle from his pocket.

And a moment later.

“……I don’t know.”

Dan Ak-seon sighed softly.

A restriction that forced him to tell the truth.

Even in front of that, Kwak Sa-woon only repeated the same answer several times.

But there was still a way to track down the clue.