At Yeon Woo Jin’s answer, Gongsun Chan blurted, urgent.“Is that really true?”“Yes.”Saying so, he looked at Gongsun Chan.“But… where did you obtain that monster? Is it tied to the Demonic Cult?”At Yeon Woo Jin’s question, Gongsun Chan hesitated, then spoke.“No. The Demonic Cult? Nonsense. The boy’s body was frail from birth, so I searched everywhere to give him a strong body. In the midst of that I heard of a sorcerer rumored to make a human body stronger.”“A sorcerer?”“Yes. So I checked carefully whether it was real, and I found that those who went through that sorcerer indeed cast off weak bodies and were reborn with strong ones. So I summoned that sorcerer to strengthen my boy’s body as well.”“You didn’t doubt it?”“Just in case, I had other boys undergo the procedure first. And they truly grew sturdy.”“What’s the condition of those boys who received the procedure?”“That is…”He had cared for no one but his own son; he had no idea of their condition.“I—I’ll have it checked at once.”At Gongsun Chan’s answer, Yeon Woo Jin’s expression dimmed with disappointment.Gongsun Chan hurriedly added.“T-they’re being well looked after. I’ll check right now, and if there’s any problem, I will beg for your help, Doctor. No matter the cost, please treat those boys as well. I was so focused on my son I had no mind left to care for them. Truly.”He defended himself with everything he had, afraid Yeon Woo Jin might be gravely disappointed and simply leave.At that sight, Yeon Woo Jin nodded.“Understood.”“Thank you!”Yeon Woo Jin turned back to Gongsun Mingyi.“Graaaah!”In a feral state, he kept baring aggression toward Yeon Woo Jin.Yeon Woo Jin extended a hand toward Gongsun Mingyi and brushed past his face.The rampaging Gongsun Mingyi immediately lost consciousness and fell asleep as he was.No needles, nothing—just a hand lightly brought to the face, and he slept.What on earth had he done?Gongsun Chan and Gongsun Deok stared at Yeon Woo Jin, bewildered.“Doctor, what in the world did you do to make the boy fall asleep?”Yeon Woo Jin smiled at Gongsun Chan’s question.“My own secret method. I can’t tell you.”“Ah…”“If I put him out with Pressure Point Strikes, proper treatment becomes difficult.”“Is that so? Please don’t misunderstand—I asked only because it was so astonishing.”“I know. I’ll begin treatment now.”“May we remain here?”Yeon Woo Jin nodded to Gongsun Chan’s question.“Yes. You’ll feel safer watching from nearby, won’t you?”Most physicians deeply dislike having others—especially parents—watch the process of treatment.They need to concentrate, and parents often make a scene behind them.If those parents are heads of great sects, the pressure is even heavier.But Yeon Woo Jin allowed it as if it were nothing.Which meant?He was that confident.Their trust in Yeon Woo Jin surged with his composure.“But you must keep quiet.”“Understood. We won’t even let our breathing be heard.”“I’ll spread a sound-sealing qi veil around us entirely.”Yeon Woo Jin let out a small laugh at Gongsun Deok’s vow to throw up a qi barrier to block sound.“There’s no need to go that far. Then, I’ll begin.”As he said he would begin and turned toward Gongsun Mingyi, Gongsun Chan and Gongsun Deok watched, faces tense.The first thing Yeon Woo Jin did was purge the poison saturating the body.The miasma filling the body was called Blood-Demon Toxin, a measure by which the Vampiric Demon Parasites would burst the host’s body and escape if anything threatened them.So the poison had to go before removing the Vampiric Demon Parasites.White light blossomed from Yeon Woo Jin’s hand where it touched Gongsun Mingyi’s body.The black-red essence that had coated Gongsun Mingyi gathered where the light shone, then was drawn into Yeon Woo Jin’s palm and extinguished.As the black-red Blood-Demon Toxin vanished, color returned, little by little, to Gongsun ➤ NоvеⅠight ➤ (Read more on our source) Mingyi’s face.Seeing it, Gongsun Chan nearly let slip a gasp without realizing.Many physicians had come and gone, but none had shown such a sight; this was the first time.Without the needles or decoctions doctors ordinarily use, to show something like that—It was wondrous.Once the black-red Blood-Demon Toxin that had shrouded Gongsun Mingyi was completely removed, the monstrous visage receded, leaving him at last looking somewhat human again.The problem started now.The Vampiric Demon Parasites in the heart had to be taken out.How in the world would he extract them?He couldn’t open the body and pull them out.That would mean killing the person.He wouldn’t be cutting the body open, then.So how would he treat this?They watched with breath held.Yeon Woo Jin picked up a small knife.Its edge gleamed an icy blue.Why was he holding that?Surely not—was he truly going to cut him open?Just as the thought “that’s impossible” flared—Yeon Woo Jin lifted the small blade toward Gongsun Mingyi’s chest.Seeing that, Gongsun Chan and Gongsun Deok recoiled, about to cry out.In that instant—Their bodies locked up.When?Startled, they turned their eyes aside; Su Cheon Kang had a finger to his lips, signaling silence.At the same time, a voice transmission came.—Trust the Doctor. I’ll release the pressure points when the treatment ends.Su Cheon Kang was a far higher-master than they had imagined.They hadn’t even noticed when he struck their points.To have to watch their son’s body be cut while their own bodies were perfectly suppressed——If it’s too hard to watch, I’ll cover your eyes.Gongsun Chan and Gongsun Deok made faces that said “no.”—Very well. This is part of the treatment, nothing more.Even as he said it, Su Cheon Kang felt the same unease.How could a person be fine if his body was cut?But the one doing the cutting was Yeon Woo Jin.He himself had seen countless miracles at the man’s side.He himself had been dying and lived after Yeon Woo Jin treated him.But that was treating the injured; this time he was cutting into a sound body.This was a first for Su Cheon Kang as well, and he was a touch tense.By contrast, Jang Woon and Seon Woo Baek stood at Yeon Woo Jin’s side with calm faces, silently assisting.When Jang Woon and Seon Woo Baek stripped off Gongsun Mingyi’s top, pale skin was revealed.Yeon Woo Jin studied the chest for a moment, then slowly brought the small blade in.Sriiip—Without hesitation, Yeon Woo Jin cut into Gongsun Mingyi’s chest.Gongsun Chan and Gongsun Deok squeezed their eyes shut without meaning to.They simply couldn’t bear to look.Then they opened them again—As if they would miss not a single step of the treatment.Something caught Gongsun Chan’s eye.Though the chest had been opened, no blood flowed out at all.Rather, between the parted ribs, a heart beat powerfully in plain view.But the sight was a little grotesque.As if it were rippling.Above all, the heart was unmistakably enlarged.Almost as if it were fattened.At Yeon Woo Jin’s nod, Jang Woon held a silver tray out to the side.At the same time, Yeon Woo Jin cut into the heart.Zraaack—In that instant, the heart stopped.And the moment it stilled, grotesque lifeforms writhed between the split tissue.Yeon Woo Jin reached in and began to pull them out.He tugged out a clotted mass with his hand; the smaller leftovers he drew out by inhaling them with qi.On the silver tray, bizarre worms squirmed.As the grotesque worms poured from Gongsun Mingyi’s heart, Gongsun Chan and Gongsun Deok stared, stunned, faces blank.Then they remembered Gongsun Mingyi with his heart cleaved and snapped their heads back that way.Yeon Woo Jin set his hand over the heart; white light shone from his palm onto the organ.Where the light fell, the wound began to knit.The split heart began to close.It was a sight hard to believe even with their own eyes.Were they dreaming?The thought almost took them.The wound sealed in an instant.The cut in the heart closed, and the cleft in the chest vanished just as quickly.Clean—so clean you wouldn’t know a blade had ever opened it.But the problem was the heart that had stopped.A heart that has stopped doesn’t start again.Everyone knows that.Then—BZZZZT—A violent thunder-arc flashed from Yeon Woo Jin’s hand.He pressed that crackling hand to Gongsun Mingyi.Jolt—At the touch, Gongsun Mingyi’s body jolted; the whitening face began at once to regain color.In other words, the heart had started to beat.As Yeon Woo Jin rose, Jang Woon properly dressed Gongsun Mingyi again.“You can release them now.”At Yeon Woo Jin’s words, Su Cheon Kang immediately undid the point seals on the two men.Even free, they stood dazed.They seemed to be sorting whether what they had seen was real or a dream.“The treatment is finished.”At the words that the treatment was done, Gongsun Chan came to himself.He rushed to Gongsun Mingyi, took his pulse, and set his ear to the boy’s chest.The pulse beat well; the heart beat well.His breathing was even, his complexion good.To anyone’s eye, he looked healthy.Still unable to believe it, he flung open the clothes Jang Woon had just dressed to bare Gongsun Mingyi’s chest.Skin smooth and unmarked met Gongsun Chan’s gaze.Had he not seen it?The small blade in Yeon Woo Jin’s hand cleaving that chest?He turned his head; there lay the blade in question.Perhaps it had some trick?“May I… touch this for a moment?”At Gongsun Chan’s request, Yeon Woo Jin nodded.He quickly took up the small blade and felt its edge.Prick—He barely touched it and was cut.That was how sharp it was.Blood welled.He had handled it thinking it might be some sacred artifact he didn’t recognize, but it was just an ordinary small blade.Which meant the blade was no great treasure; the one who wielded it—Yeon Woo Jin—was the extraordinary one.“What… exactly did I just witness?”“The process of treating your son.”The process of treatment?That was too simple a way to put it.A miracle.That was what he had seen.They called him a divine physician.A god had, indeed, worked medicine.Kreeee—A grotesque sound broke in.Following it with their eyes, they saw the demonic lifeforms writhing on the silver tray.Mouths like leech snouts gaped and smacked as they made that ghastly noise.They exhaled something like black-red smoke, but a qi barrier spread around the tray kept it from escaping.“This black-red stuff makes a human body unnaturally strong. The problem is—it’s poison.”“Poison…”“Yes. Literally turning them into poison-men, controlled by these worms. Poison-men who do nothing but hunt for blood. That is a Vampiric Demon.”Gongsun Chan looked at Gongsun Mingyi.He was cured, but his body was now unimpressive again, as before.But what did a weak body matter?Gongsun Chan was grateful simply that he lived and was whole.He let go of his desire to make Gongsun Mingyi’s body strong.He wished only that the boy would stay by his side for a long time.“What will you do with these worms?”“I’ll take them and study them. If people start showing up in numbers addicted to this, we can’t go around cracking open chests one by one.”Gongsun Chan nodded at Yeon Woo Jin’s words.“And to strengthen your son’s body will take about three days.”“Pardon? W-what do you mean?”“All of this happened because you sought to make your son’s weak body strong. So I’ll do it for you.”“Is that possible?”“Yes. For me, it is.”If anyone else had said it, he wouldn’t have believed it.But the one saying it now was a divine physician.No—a god.

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