The Divine And Demonic Doctor [EN]: Chapter 463

Divine Doctor of Demonic Arts (463)

At Dan Ak-seon’s urging, Beom Gye-wi reluctantly suppressed his murderous intent.

“Fine. I can kill them anytime.”

Dan Ak-seon sighed quietly at the still pale faces of the Three Overwhelms.

It was necessary to separate Beom Gye-wi for a while, even if only for the sake of the two men who were completely intimidated and barely breathing.

“Uncle Beom, would you mind guarding against any possible attacks?”

“Attacks?”

“Yes. If they left any traces, a pursuit team under the Four Fiends might come looking for them.”

“Hehe. Sounds promising?”

Beom Gye-wi’s voice was slightly excited.

It was welcome news to him.

“Good. Doctor Dan, concentrate on treatment. I’ll take care of anyone who attacks.”

With a smile on his face, Beom Gye-wi immediately darted out of the building.

Only then did Dan Ak-seon smile at the relieved Three Overwhelms.

“I’ll prepare some herbal medicine for you soon, so drink it and get some sleep. We can continue the detailed story tomorrow morning.”

The Three Overwhelms brothers were genuinely grateful for Dan Ak-seon’s consideration.

They were so thankful that their eyes welled up with tears.

The next morning.

The Three Overwhelms woke up refreshed in their beds.

It had been so long since they had slept soundly in such a cozy bed; their daily lives had been so arduous.

They had to avoid the pursuers every day, exposed to the night dew, and they couldn’t even light a fire while hiding for fear of revealing their location.

Perhaps that’s why they felt the value of a roof to block the night dew and a warm blanket more keenly than ever before.

But that short happiness was fleeting.

“Gasp!”

Wang-yeom suddenly gasped as he looked at something, and Wang-gyeol turned his head, looking puzzled.

And he, too, was startled and jumped up like his brother.

Near the foot of the bed.

There stood Beom Gye-wi, silently glaring at them.

At a glance, his expression was very unpleasant.

Wang-yeom, sensing Beom Gye-wi’s mood, plucked up his courage and asked cautiously.

“Why, what’s wrong?”

“There was no attack.”

“Pardon?”

“I waited all night, but not a single one came.”

“Isn’t that a good thing?”

“What?”

The two flinched at Beom Gye-wi’s fierce gaze.

To them, Beom Gye-wi was a greater menace than any evil spirit.

They had barely enjoyed a good night’s sleep, and now Beom Gye-wi was standing before them.

They almost missed the days of sleeping in the open.

Dan Ak-seon, who was entering the room, smiled and calmed Beom Gye-wi.

“You don’t have to be so impatient. There will be opportunities soon enough.”

At Dan Ak-seon’s words, Beom Gye-wi nodded with a sullen face.

“To do that, we need to understand the situation through a conversation with these two first, right?”

“Tch.”

Beom Gye-wi reluctantly stepped back and leaned against the wall with his arms crossed.

After clearing up the chaotic atmosphere, Dan Ak-seon finally turned to the Three Overwhelms.

“May I ask why you were being chased by the Four Fiends’ subordinates?”

Wang-yeom answered.

“We were on our way to the Zhuge Family on a mission from Cheon-ui.”

“The Zhuge Family?”

“Yes. But it wasn’t easy to cross the Yangtze River, and we were being held back by the pursuit team, so we were just looking for a chance to cross north.”

“Why were you trying to contact the Zhuge Family?”

“We were there to make a deal with them.”

Wang-gyeol opened his mouth with a sigh.

“Cheon-ui has devised a formation. But there was no way to verify it, so we wanted to ask the head of the Zhuge Family, a master of formations, to review it.”

“A formation?”

A subtle surprise settled in Dan Ak-seon’s eyes.

He had not expected that there would be a physician with expertise in formations other than himself.

“May I see that formation?”

Wang-yeom and Wang-gyeol exchanged glances for a moment.

And at some point, they both nodded at the same time.

They knew very well that Dan Ak-seon had the extraordinary ability to dismantle even the Demonic Sect’s formations in the past.

They each took out the blueprints of the formation, which they had divided in half and kept in their pockets, and handed them to Dan Ak-seon.

Dan Ak-seon took them and began to examine the contents of the blueprints on the table.

How much time had passed?

A strange light appeared in Dan Ak-seon’s eyes.

“This is a formation designed to confine someone, isn’t it?”

The Three Overwhelms exclaimed and nodded.

“As expected!”

“We knew you would recognize it right away, Doctor Dan.”

On the other hand, Dan Ak-seon couldn’t help but feel puzzled.

Cheon-ui’s skills in formations were more outstanding than he had expected.

But…….

‘Who on earth were they trying to trap in this?’

It was Wang-yeom who resolved that question.

“It’s a formation prepared for the Four Fiends.”

“Weren’t the two of you cooperating?”

“We were once. But not anymore.”

Wang-gyeol sighed softly and cast a complicated look.

“Currently, Cheon-ui is being forcibly held captive by the Four Fiends.”

“Could you explain in detail how that happened?”

Wang-gyeol nodded and began to unravel the story intertwined between the Four Fiends and Cheon-ui.

“The two first met not long after Cheon-ui came to the Central Plains at the request of an elder of her family.”

Suddenly, she received news of her cousin’s death.

There was quite an age difference, so she had looked up to him like an uncle since she was a child.

But he had left the family long ago with great ambitions.

Her family had lived a life of seclusion, cut off from the world for many years, so they were not well-informed about outside news.

So she came out into the world to confirm the truth of the obituary.

“Then she was captured by bandits and suffered hardships.”

The extremely violent bandits tried to rape her.

At that time, she was only fifteen years old.

She decided that she would rather throw herself into the river than suffer humiliation, but then a man stepped forward for her.

“That was the Four Fiends.”

The Four Fiends, who was the head of the bandits at the time, stabbed and killed the bandit leader who was trying to rape Cheon-ui and seized the bandit camp along with a few of his followers.

But the process was not smooth, and he, too, suffered life-threatening injuries.

Even as he wandered on the brink of life and death, the Four Fiends simply replied that he did not regret it when Cheon-ui asked why he had helped her.

Later, she learned that the Four Fiends had seen his dead younger sibling in Cheon-ui.

His only treasure, who had been caught up in a power struggle with another bandit camp long ago and died unjustly.

He didn’t want to experience that sense of loss again, so he risked his life to save Cheon-ui.

“Fortunately, thanks to her excellent medical skills, the Four Fiends was able to save his life.”

And for a while, they maintained a close relationship like real siblings.

“Why did the two of them become estranged now?”

The two hesitated for a moment at Dan Ak-seon’s question.

After a while.

Wang-yeom opened his mouth with a heavy look.

“One day, a man came to visit after hearing rumors about her.”

He was Cheoldam Eungjo Sim-gok, a man who was also acquainted with the Three Overwhelms.

He was a heretic who had once belonged to the Demonic Sect, just like them.

He belonged to the Demonic Sect’s special forces, but he turned his heart at the persuasion of the Three Overwhelms and left the sect, heading to Muwi with other heretics.

But he could not obtain the freedom from demonic arts that he had so desired.

Leaving behind an indefinite wait that might never come, he sought other methods, and at the time, he came to her, chasing rumors of a physician with great medical skills.

And that effort eventually paid off.

He was completely freed from the demonic energy and poison that had been constantly tormenting him.

He immediately headed to Muwi’s Divine Doctor.

Because he could not bear to see other heretics who had once shared life and death with him suffering without proper treatment.

After that, heretics flocked to the bandit camp where Cheon-ui was.

And Cheon-ui treated them all without any compensation.

To repay her kindness, they stayed by Cheon-ui’s side, and by using their martial power, the Four Fiends was able to occupy nearby bandit camps and greatly expand his power.

Dan Ak-seon frowned slightly after hearing the story so far.

“No matter how I think about it, I don’t understand. How did she get so many people out of the demonic energy in such a short time?”

“That’s…….”

It was right after Wang-yeom hesitated for a moment that an amazing story came out of his mouth.

“It was possible because of the Northern Profound Art.”

“……?”

Dan Ak-seon, who tilted his head because it was a martial art that sounded familiar, was soon surprised and asked back.

“Are you talking about the Northern Profound Art that I know?”

The Demonic Sect’s cursed martial art that steals the opponent’s essence and makes it its own.

But it had been lost long ago, and its lineage had been cut off for a long time.

And ten years ago.

Jong Geuk-jin, the Heavenly Demon, had also mentioned this.

‘Receiving Dragon Absorption Power.’

There was a martial art similar to the Northern Profound Art in Cheonchuk’s [India] So Leium Temple.

A type of essence-absorbing art similar to the Northern Profound Art.

When the life and death of Jong Yeo-ui, the previous Heavenly Demon, became uncertain due to his mother, Ma-ui, the Six Demonic Venerables were in a panic.

The Demonic Sect is a religion before it is a force.

The absence of the Heavenly Demon, its symbolic existence, could not be replaced by anything.

Fortunately, they had the Receiving Dragon Absorption Power, and Jong Geuk-jin was able to inherit considerable internal energy from his grandfather, Jong Yeo-ui.

That was why Jong Geuk-jin was able to possess such powerful martial arts compared to his age.

However, compared to the Northern Profound Art, the Receiving Dragon Absorption Power was an incomplete martial art.

In fact, Jong Geuk-jin received internal energy from the Six Demonic Venerables to make up for the parts that did not reach his grandfather, the previous Heavenly Demon, and furthermore, he tried to be reborn as an absolute being by using the Divine Land’s formation for the Demonic World.

The Demonic Sect’s secret art that could uniquely replace the lost Northern Profound Art was the formation installed in the Divine Land.

Wang-gyeol continued the explanation.

“To be exact, Cheon-ui did not learn it herself but only recited the *gyeol* [incantation or formula]. So she passed it on to the Four Fiends to learn.”

Wang-yeom added to that.

“And the Four Fiends, who had learned the Northern Profound Art, absorbed all the demonic energy from our bodies, and we were able to be free.”

“Ah!”

An exclamation flowed from Dan Ak-seon’s mouth.

Many questions were finally resolved.

“So that’s how it was possible.”

If he had treated each person one by one like himself, it would have been physically impossible, but if he used the method of extracting demonic energy using the Northern Profound Art, it would have been possible enough.

Besides, the fact that the Four Fiends had suddenly become stronger was also explained.

“But what about the poison?”

In the process of absorbing demonic energy, he would have also accepted the poison that had deeply infiltrated the opponent’s body.

If he had absorbed the poison of as many as two hundred people, he would not have been able to survive until now.

But he was able to know the reason in Wang-yeom’s answer that followed.

“So Cheon-ui was always with him.”

Dan Ak-seon nodded.

Still, there were still questions left.

How did Cheon-ui restore a martial art that had been cut off even in the Demonic Sect, which was the original owner?

However, Wang-yeom quickly resolved that question.

“Cheon-ui’s name is Tak Yeo-sang.”

“Tak Yeo-sang? Could it be…….”