Episode 33
Boom –
“Master…?”
heavy. It’s like cotton soaked in water. It didn’t seem like it was a joke.
Jin Cheon-hee shook the body that was holding her down.
Yuho said.
“master! Come to your senses! master!”
Zhugelin lost consciousness.
* * *
It was cold and painful. It felt as if a blade made of ice would tear his heart apart.
But it was a familiar feeling to Zhugelin.
-It’s not good to live long, so why not think about how to live?
This was the conclusion the head of the family came to after examining him.
When he first felt this pain, young Zhugelin screamed for help. However, no one in the Zhuge family could cure that pain.
Sibi handed him a medicine made from cherry blossoms with trembling hands.
It was highly addictive, but it was better to listen to pain than anything else.
Young Zegalin calmly accepted the medicine given only to terminally ill patients.
My parents didn’t stop me either.
Jegalin is a child who will soon disappear. It meant going at least a little comfortably on the way.
But the medicine didn’t work at all.
The pain that tore my heart continued.
No matter how much I studied medicine and trained my body, no matter how much I overcame my weakness and started accumulating true energy, the pain continued.
There was only one time when I didn’t feel sick.
The family suffered disaster and all blood relatives died.
There was only one time when he swore revenge from the ashes.
Ironically, Zhuge Lin, who was thought to die first, became the last survivor of the Zhuge family.
I couldn’t get used to the pain. I just learned how to be patient.
Young Zegalin, who had howled like an animal, was now a dry old tree preparing for death.
Sensitivity, once twisted, became even more uncontrollably distorted under the influence of genius.
‘I don’t know why he looked so bright. ‘You have what I don’t have.’
Since I never had one, there was no room for feelings like jealousy.
I was simply fascinated by the light I saw for the first time.
Even so, I thought it was closer to a feeling of yearning because I knew I couldn’t have it.
‘It hurts less today.’
Perhaps that was why, in his dream, Zhugelin felt that the pain was getting better than usual.
* * *
It was half a day later when Zhugelin woke up.
When I opened my eyes, I felt a soft touch on my hand.
When I turned my gaze, I saw a child there, holding my hand tightly with a small fern-like hand.
The whole surroundings were filled with warmth. It was a sensation I only felt when soaking in a hot spring, but it felt even warmer than that.
“Master, you are awake.”
“Is it Yuho?”
“yes! That’s me!”
Zhuge Lin’s eyes turn to Jin Tianxi.
“Why are you here?”
Yu Hao said while looking at Jin Tianxi, who was lying next to Zhuge Lin, with a disapproving expression.
“I was stubborn, making the absurd excuse that I was practicing the Five Elements Mind Method. But master. This incident is all because of this bastard…”
Yuho could not continue speaking.
This is because Zhuge Lin raised his hand to stop him and looked down at Qin Tianxi.
Zhuge Lin looked at Jin Tianxi’s sleeping face with sorrowful eyes.
It’s like pouring a bowl of water into sea water.
Even if that little Five Element Jinki had been poured in, it wouldn’t have made much of a difference.
Still, the reason the pain was alleviated was probably because the body’s broken balance continued to be encouraged.
‘The things that were used a lot this time were firearms and gold and wooden utensils.’
Balance is important because the Five Element Spiritual Skills, which are the higher level martial arts of the Five Element Mind Technique that Zegalin is learning, utilize coexistence and opposites.
In the case of the original Five Element Divine Power users, they do not fall like this even if they use their True Qi unbalanced.
If it were such an imperfect martial arts technique, you wouldn’t have been able to hear the sound of the new technique.
It is dangerous because it is Zhugelin.
Because the balance of the five elements is suppressing Zhuge Lin’s illness.
As Jegalin practiced the air, he felt a similar or slightly different energy to his own. Since it was just starting out, it was innocent and had very little energy.
He laid his young disciple down on his bed.
“master?”
“Shh. “Be quiet.”
Then, he concentrated his mind while holding Jin Cheonhee’s hand.
Jin Tianxi lacked the inner power that he used on Zhuge Lin.
The balance is broken, but it is a pea-sized balance. It was nothing compared to the teacher’s.
Zhugelin put his true energy into his disciple.
He smiled happily after seeing that Jin Cheon-hee’s sleeping expression was relaxed.
Jegalin thought that he wanted to live for the first time in a long time.
I wish I could watch my student grow up to be an adult and appear on the show.
* * *
Jin Cheon-hee opened her eyes to an unfamiliar but warm sensation.
The Master was stroking the head of his only disciple.
“Are you awake?”
If you had parents, would you have felt this way?
Jin Cheonhee thought blankly and then shook her head.
The place he was at was an orphanage. Only recently have they started to be called orphanages, but at the time, the name orphanage was more familiar.
Some children did not know who their parents were, but there were also children who came even though they knew who their parents were.
Although we became friends, it always felt like there was a hole in our hearts.
It was a strange thirst that could not be satisfied.
“Master, are you alright?”
“You must have been very surprised because you suddenly collapsed.”
I wasn’t just surprised. My mind went blank.
During that time, he watched the lives and deaths of countless patients. But there were no family deaths anywhere.
Zhuge Lin was the first person in Jin Tianxi’s life that she felt that way.
I was as hard as a stone and couldn’t do anything.
The medical knowledge I had was of no use. I couldn’t think of anything.
All Jegalin had shown so far was the strong, calm, and noble appearance of a martial artist.
I didn’t realize that he was also a sick person.
Jin Cheonhee spoke honestly.
“I was very surprised. “Master, I was really worried.”
Zegalin smiled slightly.
“The human heart is so treacherous. “I’m sorry for making you worry, but seeing you worry so much for me makes me happy…” It
seemed like I could understand why sometimes the elders of a sect would pretend to be sick in front of their students.
When he reached the age of eighty or ninety, he would say that his body was aching, that he had no appetite, that it would not be long before he would see his brother-in-law, and that he would come to Baekrin Uigak and secretly ask them to give him a kiss.
However, when there are no students present, he performs the exercises by swinging the sword at a steady pace.
I can’t grow old like this, so I have to somehow reach a certain state and go back to old age.
Yu Hao used to grumble that it was his fault when people got really old, and now Jegalin has come to know how he feels.
He thought to himself, “This is what it means to have a disciple.”
At that moment, a cough came out of Zhugelin’s mouth. The cough grew louder and louder.
When he removed his mouth from his hand, dark red blood oozed out.
Jin Cheon-hee was surprised and called Yu-ho.
“Yooho! “Master…!”
Before he finished speaking, Yuho opened the door. Then he took out the elixir from the bedside drawer.
“You seemed to be getting better for a while… Oh my.”
Yuho sighs and hands over the medicine.
Looking at that, Jin Cheon-hee realized that this was not a one-time occurrence.
‘It was actually a more serious situation than shown in the novel.’
I was complacent. The teacher was a supporting character who disappeared in the beginning.
The only time the Heavenly Demon Yeo Ha-ryun met was when the Master was in a state where he could meet people.
‘Novels… are not encyclopedias.’
The reader ends up following the protagonist’s gaze.
No matter how great the teacher is, he is still a supporting character in the end. There was no way I could devote too many pages to it.
“It’s okay… It’s okay.”
Master swallowed the elixir and slowly performed the exercise.
The rough breathing gradually began to return to normal.
“Whoa.”
Yuho sighed and rubbed his chest.
Jin Cheon-hee said.
“How is your condition?”
“It’s okay.”
“You said that before I was your disciple, I was also a doctor. “There is no one here who does not know that there is nothing more foolish than hiding an illness.”
“….”
Zhugelin sighed softly.
‘Even the elders who faked illness like that often hid their illness when they were really sick. I didn’t want to know how he felt…’
But in the end, it was revealed. There were many cases where diseases that could have been cured had they been told sooner were hidden until the very end and could not be cured.
Humans are truly a bundle of contradictions.
Zegalin held out his wrist.
“Now let’s learn about the pulse.”
“You taught me the theory.”
“Is this your first time trying it yourself?”
“yes.”
“You and I use the same kind of magic, so even if we make a mistake, there is almost no chance of a major accident. “There is no partner like this for practice.”
Jin Cheon-hee grabbed his teacher’s wrist.
It was a strong and solid martial arm. It was strange that it was so unusually cold.
“Close your eyes and listen to the verses that are being sung from now on. “You must never open your eyes or speak in between.”
Master slowly recited the verse.
Jin Cheon-hee spent his time using the Five Elements and Mind method according to the rules.
‘Super ultrasound…?’
I could feel Master’s insides. It was like a poorly performing ultrasound.
Jin Cheon-hee’s internal power moved along the master’s energy.
As my enlightenment deepened, this feeling seemed to become more and more clear.
‘This is the pulse through energy. This is what it means to have a feeling of energy.’
And we have reached the end.
‘This is really serious. So much so that I can feel something bad even when I see it.’
Jin Cheon-hee followed the teacher’s instructions and cultivated his energy.
Jin Cheon-hee’s history, which had been abandoned, returned to Jin Cheon-hee.
After finishing the pulse, Jin Cheonhee slowly opened her eyes.
Master laughed bitterly.
“How do you feel?”
“You’re worse than I thought.”
“okay. “You saw it accurately.”
Jin Cheon-hee’s fist gained strength.
“I will definitely fix it.”
“I thought you would be scared, but on the contrary, your will has become stronger.”
“We will definitely fix it.”
The disciple’s voice lingers in my cold heart.
Master nodded, feeling the warmth.
“okay. “Let’s try together.”
005. A day after death and agony
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Zhuge Lin and Jin Tianxi visited the patient room.
On the bed, Gung-gwi’s daughter, Wang Gak-yeon, was lying and relieving herself, and Gung-gwi was nursing her.
“Thank you! Baeklin’s line! “Jin Sohyeop!”
Gung-gwi bowed deeply towards the two.
After that, the patient, Gung-gwi’s daughter, Wang Gak-yeon, sighed.
When she regained consciousness, the first thing she saw was her father’s face with half of his hair dyed white.
Covered in tears and snot, I hugged my daughter and said, ‘I’m sorry. sorry!’ I was sobbing loudly, but I couldn’t figure out what was going on.
When I told her that it hurt because I hugged her so tightly, Gung-gwi was so shocked that he let go of my daughter and ran to a corner. Still, I was still crying.
Wang Gak-yeon slowly examined the true energy inside his body.
