Chapter 1
Blood Sea of Death.
Blood flows with every step the man takes.
“You, you demon!”
Warriors screamed and charged, but it was useless.
Even the Sword Dragon Unit, the most elite combat force of the Martial Alliance.
Even the Hidden Sword Society, which consisted of elders from the Nine Great Schools.
Even the Ten Guests, who were considered the top ten masters of the righteous faction.
All were powerless in the face of the man’s overwhelming violence.
Fiendish Demon.
Along with the Heavenly Demon and Blood Demon, he was one of the Three Calamities), a madman with a lust for murder.
“No, no way. Even if it’s the Three Calamities or the Seven Strongest of the Divine Land, something like this…”
Today, countless masters gathered to stop the Fiendish Demon.
These weren’t just low-ranking warriors.
Masters who would be renowned wherever they went had gathered in large numbers. Among them were the Ten Guests, the top ten masters of the righteous faction.
Yet, they were all slaughtered by the Fiendish Demon’s hands.
The Fiendish Demon, who had turned this into a massacre that would be remembered in the history of the martial world, headed towards a massive estate.
Over the pile of corpses the Fiendish Demon left behind, the signboard that once read ‘White Immortal Medical House’ was shattered into pieces.
That’s right.
The target of this massacre was unexpectedly a medical house.
And not just any medical house, but the one known as the best in the world—
White Immortal Medical House.
“W-why are you doing this to us? What did we, the White Immortal Medical House, ever do to you?!”
“……”
The last surviving member of the White Immortal Medical House and its head, Jo Baek-il, shouted in fury.
The Fiendish Demon only cast a chilling gaze through his dishevelled hair.
“Did our physician perhaps treat your family poorly, like in the rumours? Even if that’s true, it’s something that can’t be helped during the process of treatment! Why on earth…!!”
“It’s not for such a reason. I also know well that the outcome of a physician’s treatment depends on the heavens, as I once walked the path of medicine myself.”
“…What?”
Jo Baek-il’s expression turned blank for a moment at the Fiendish Demon’s reply.
It was a clear voice, hard to believe it belonged to a monstrous demon.
Moreover, he said he once walked the path of medicine?
At that moment, the Fiendish Demon swept back his tangled hair.
His face was covered with scars, yet it somehow felt vaguely familiar.
“It’s been a long time, elder. No, should I call you uncle? Didn’t you tell me to comfortably call you uncle before?”
“Y-you, you are…!!”
Jo Baek-il’s voice trembled like a quivering aspen tree.
That’s when he realized.
“The useless brat from the Divine Medical House!!”
The Divine Medical House.
Once known as the best medical house in the world, it fell into decline and eventually resorted to forbidden sorcery, becoming a public enemy of the martial world before being annihilated.
The physicians of the White Immortal Medical House had played a significant role in exposing the heinous crimes of the Divine Medical House and gained great fame for it, ultimately leading the White Immortal Medical House to become the best medical house in the world.
Back then, there was an insider informant who collaborated with the White Immortal Medical House—Wi Ji-cheon, the youngest of the Divine Medical House.
Unlike his talented siblings, he was mocked as a useless good-for-nothing, but he contributed to exposing his family’s injustices, for which he received much praise from many in the martial world.
However, after that, Wi Ji-cheon’s whereabouts became unknown, and he faded from everyone’s memory.
“You, you are Wi Ji-cheon??”
“Yes, I am Wi Ji-cheon. The worst son under the heavens, who threw his family into the hellfire because he was deceived by your cunning tongue.”
“I, I…!! That’s…! It was all a misunderstanding!”
“Misunderstanding?”
The Fiendish Demon, Wi Ji-cheon, spoke in a voice boiling with anger.
“Even now, when I close my eyes, I vividly see the bloody tears of my father, my brothers, my sister, and my family, and you call it a misunderstanding?”
“!!”
“What’s even more miserable is, do you know what? My family did not blame me for committing such a stupid act. Instead, they said it was fortunate that at least I was safe. Do you know how I felt when I heard that? Do you know why I went mad?”
Fwoosh! Boom!!
At the roar of the Fiendish Demon, a violent storm swept through the surroundings.
Jo Baek-il coughed up blood, his face turning deathly pale in an instant.
He had already sustained fatal injuries even before they began speaking, and now, due to the Fiendish Demon’s fierce aura, he suffered another grave internal injury.
Death was imminent.
“Reflect on your sins in the face of your approaching death.”
The Fiendish Demon, Wi Ji-cheon, turned his back.
The revenge was finally complete.
But he did not feel a sense of relief.
Even after revenge, his precious ones would not return.
‘Father, brothers, sister.’
Their faces came to mind.
-You rascal! Are you slacking off again?!
-Haha, Kang-ah, don’t scold him too much. Cheon is still young, isn’t he?
-Haah. It’s because Father always shields him that he’s like this, isn’t it?
-Tsk.
He missed them.
Desperately.
‘I’ll be able to see them soon. Since I’ve burned away all my life force, I don’t have much time left. Ah, I’ll fall into hell, so I won’t be able to see them, right?’
Wi Ji-cheon chuckled as he felt his vision gradually darken.
If he took good care of himself, he could recover, but he had no intention of doing so.
Anyway, the revenge was over, and there was nothing precious left in this world, so what’s the point of stubbornly surviving?
He planned to go to a quiet place and wait for death.
But at the moment when he thought everything was over.
Something completely unexpected happened.
“Heheh, foolish brat. No matter if you’re called one of the Seven Strongest of the Divine Land or the Three Calamities, you’re just as stupid as you were before.”
“…What?”
It was Jo Baek-il, who was on the verge of death.
“What do you mean?”
“Do you think you were the only one coveting the Divine Medical Art… no, the Heavenly Immortal Divine Art? You, the useless brat of your family, became one of the Three Calamities with a miracle divine art of such supernatural abilities. Do you really think you were the only one interested in it?”
Wi Ji-cheon’s face stiffened.
The Divine Medical Art.
It was the art of his family, the Divine Medical House.
There was a secret to this Divine Medical Art. Even the members of the Divine Medical House themselves didn’t know.
“Who? Who else was behind it, besides you?”
“Heheh.”
Jo Baek-il let out a laugh.
“In the first place, it was because your Divine Medical House possessed a treasure that was beyond its means. Even if it wasn’t me, ‘they’ wouldn’t have left you alone…”
It was at that moment.
Swoosh!
A flash of light, and a throwing dagger embedded itself in Jo Baek-il’s forehead.
“!!”
Wi Ji-cheon’s eyes darkened.
No matter how bad his condition was, how could he not notice a throwing dagger flying at him?
Something that shouldn’t have happened, had happened.
There was only one person in the martial world capable of such a feat.
“Come out.”
Ssshhh.
A figure appeared in midair.
Dressed in black nightwear and a mask, the figure’s age and gender were indiscernible, but Wi Ji-cheon could tell who it was.
It wasn’t because of the person’s aura.
In fact, there was no aura coming from them at all.
It was as if they were visible but did not exist.
The state where even shadows disappear—Shadowless Realm.
An assassin who has reached the pinnacle of mastery.
“Death Demon..”
One of the Ten Evils of the unorthodox faction and a master who had reached the extreme realm of a demon.
‘This isn’t good.’
Normally, the Death Demon would not be a match for Wi Ji-cheon.
But now, Wi Ji-cheon’s vital energy was severely depleted. He was no match for the Death Demon in his current state.
“Who hired you? Are you related to the ones this guy just mentioned?”
No answer came, but Wi Ji-cheon sensed that the Death Demon was also involved with those who led to the fall of the Divine Medical House.
‘Who are they?’
Wi Ji-cheon’s expression turned heavy.
He instinctively realized that the identity of those behind everything was beyond his imagination.
“Well, it doesn’t matter. I just have to kill them all.”
Whoosh!
Wi Ji-cheon’s aura flared up as if it were on fire.
Thus,
The two colossal demons clashed.
***
In the end, Wi Ji-cheon managed to defeat the Death Demon.
But that was as far as he could go.
He was dying.
‘That last strike aimed at me. It was definitely a Mind Sword.’
When the fight with the Death Demon was reaching its conclusion,
someone secretly attacked Wi Ji-cheon.
It was likely the doing of the true mastermind hiding behind the scenes.
The problem was the method they used to attack Wi Ji-cheon.
It was the very Mind Sword technique.
‘Including myself, there are only seven people in this martial world who can even imitate the Mind Sword technique.’
The leader of the Martial Alliance, Martial Sovereign.
The Sword Saint of the Nine Great Schools.
The Spear King of the Allied Families.
The Heavenly Demon of the Demon Sect.
The Blood Demon of the Blood Sect.
The Overlord of the Evil Alliance.
And Fiendish Demon Wi Ji-cheon, who, along with these figures, is called one of the Seven Strongest of the Divine Land.
They are beings above the Ten Guests, Ten Evils, and Ten Demons of the righteous and unorthodox factions—transcendental beings from another realm.
Which one of them is the mastermind?
Moreover, Jo Baek-il mentioned that the mastermind is referred to as ‘them.’ That means there’s more than one person involved.
‘Which means, essentially all of the martial world is a suspect.’
Wi Ji-cheon chuckled inwardly.
No matter who the mastermind is, it’s too late now.
Because he would die soon.
‘If only I could get one more chance.’
In his final moments, Wi Ji-cheon sincerely wished.
If the heavens would give him one more chance.
He would…
‘No, that’s not what’s important.’
Wi Ji-cheon clenched his teeth.
‘I won’t let everyone die in vain like that ever again.’
His endlessly warm-hearted father.
His stern brother.
His eccentric but deeply caring sister.
And all the others he held dear.
He would protect them all.
Even if he had to become an Asura himself, he would become a shield for everyone.
So that his family could fulfil their dream of becoming the best medical house in the world that brought happiness to people through medicine.
‘Oh, heavens. I humbly pray, if you grant me just one chance, I will dedicate my everything to you.’
At that moment, as he made his wish and closed his eyes.
***
“You fool, do you still not know the positions of Water Spring, Small Sea, and Yang Ground? How can you confuse the basic of basics, the Comparison Method?!”
“!!”
Wi Ji-cheon’s eyes snapped open.
A familiar.
No, a long-missed.
A face he thought he would never see again, a face he desperately yearned for, was there.
‘… Brother?’
It wasn’t just him.
“Haha, Kang-ah. Don’t scold him too much. Cheon is trying his best, isn’t he? I heard that yesterday he even studied until the hours of Yu (5 PM–7 PM).”
“That’s nothing to praise! Just until Yu(5 PM–7 PM)?! With the Physician’s Qualification Test coming up, staying up all night wouldn’t be enough!”
“Why not delay the test? I think it’s commendable enough that Cheon was studying at his desk.”
“Tsk.”
His father and sister were there as well.
Wi Ji-cheon was utterly bewildered.
He couldn’t hear a word about the Physician’s Qualification Test or anything else.
All Wi Ji-cheon could think of was—
‘Am I dreaming? Or is this the memory of my past that I’m seeing in the moment of my death?’
Wi Ji-cheon grew anxious.
If this were a dream or an illusion, their appearances would soon fade away.
So, Wi Ji-cheon decided to speak the words he had always wanted to say when he met his family.
The words he had buried deep within his heart.
“Father, Brother. And Sister Sang-ah. I have something to say.”
“Hmm?”
“… Thank you. And, I love you all.”
Wi Ji-cheon barely held back the tears that were about to well up.
They would disappear soon.
Even if this was a dream or an illusion, he wanted to see his family off with a smile.
But it was strange.
Even though he thought it was a dream or an illusion, his family’s appearance was too vivid.
They didn’t disappear like mere phantoms.
And then—
“… Suddenly, ‘love’?”
“… Did you eat something bad?”
“Pfft!”
‘What?’
“Could it be you were drinking during the day?!”
“Kang, did you scold him so much that he’s gone crazy?!”
“Tsk.”
Whoosh!
Wi Ji-cheon’s face turned bright red.
Only then did he realize that something was off.
It didn’t seem like a dream or an illusion.
‘Could it be?’
Incredibly.
It seemed a miracle had happened to him.
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