2. So-ye's Memory.
Since my older brother left for the marketplace to buy tanghulu, I don’t know when I lost consciousness, but when I woke up, my body was trembling from the cold.
Moreover, it seemed his blood vessels might have been blocked, making my body ache even more than usual, and the chill emanating from my heart and blood vessels was piercingly cold.
“Huuu… Older brother…”
With my heart feeling like it would freeze and stop, and oddly enough, I missed my older brother’s face.
‘So-ye, is your body hurting today too? Older brother will hug you.’
‘Yes, older brother.’
If he hadn’t gone to buy tanghulu, would older brother have hugged me warmly like usual?
‘This lord is the greatest under heaven, Jeok Jin-cheon. Thus, the demonic cult will kneel before me…’
‘Puhuh…’
‘So-ye, it seems older brother doesn’t have the talent to read books.’
Or perhaps he would have read the books normally and explained the content as if it were real.
“Older brother… Please warm me up and hug me soon…”
Amid the cold and pain that dominated my entire body, I tried to endure by constantly recalling my older brother, but…
‘So-ye is just a hindrance.’
“No…”
‘I have no younger sister.’
“Nooo…”
The pain from the blood vessels mixed with my obsession for older brother, and the heart demon appeared, not the real older brother I knew.
Crack—!
Soon, the spirit of the owner whose body held the cold from the violent words of the heart demon collapsed, and the Yin qi that had been barely maintained on my body began to surge…
“Kuaaah—!!”
The entire area began to be covered mercilessly with ice formed from the cold.
“S-stop… Please…”
Even belatedly regaining consciousness to stop the exploding cold, the uncontrolled cold just froze the area without being caught.
“Stop…”
I cried and screamed to stop it, but what could stop the cold that had broken control…
Was only an absolute master coming with aura to stop it or killing the cause, which was myself.
After accepting that the only method left was that, only two thoughts assaulted my mind.
If someone would kill me… and finally older brother would sit me down warmly.
With that fervent wish, I screamed, and a scorching flame pierced through the ice and rushed towards me.
“So-ye—!!”
And as the flame passed, what appeared was older brother approaching me, leaving only the will to burn everything that imprisoned his sister.
The ‘real’ older brother, incomparable to the fake one who spat violent words from his heart demon.
“Aaaaa…”
And as I got closer to older brother, the blood vessels in my whole body started to melt warmly like meeting the sun.
Soon, the older brother who had come back after his mind returned to me, opened his mouth reciting the promise he made when young, gently stroking my eyes full of tears.
“So-ye…. Older brother said he would always protect you.”
“Yes… older brother.”
Thump-thump! Thump-thump!
The heart that had frozen from older brother’s warm aura melted, and the throbbing from the heart started to beat erratically like a heart attack as I was with older brother.
Wanting to be with older brother, a fluffy feeling that no matter what adversity, I could overcome if only with older brother.
“Hehe…”
Carried on older brother’s back out of the house, perhaps because he had used all his strength, older brother collapsed right there.
-Thuuk…
“Huh?”
As the aura from older brother cooled, my head felt cold and the throbbing from the heart disappeared.
This can’t be? Older brother is mine, if I save So-ye and leave like this, I can’t.
If it were father and mother, they could bring someone to cure older brother.
So please, save me.
“Aa… Mother, father, older brother please save me…”
My only older brother in this world.
My older brother who can never be given to others…
***
Recalling the memory of trying to save So-ye by regaining consciousness.
The pure Yang qi that existed inside my heart.
When So-ye was imprisoned and screaming, it heated up like scorching fire, allowing me to pull her out from the ice that imprisoned her.
By saving So-ye and bringing her to parents, I lost my aura and fainted, and now I’m at the hospital in current condition.
“So-ye must be worrying about older brother a lot…”
Since So-ye is already weak-minded, seeing older brother who saved her from exploding Yin qi constitution collapse must have been quite shocking.
So perhaps I should buy tanghulu… or high-class candied fruit and comfort So-ye.
“Haa… If I could give this Yang qi to So-ye.”
That mysterious pure Yang qi that I had been feeling.
If it could be transmitted, especially to So-ye with extreme Yin blood vessel constitution, it would be a special medicine.
The representative treatment for extreme Yin blood vessel constitution is known to be ingesting strong Yang qi like thousand-year ginseng or flower yang, or spiritual objects like ten-thousand-year snow lotus.
And…
The content that should be avoided as much as possible… no, it’s not that I won’t recommend it, but the treatment method of sexual intercourse and Yang replenishment with a partner possessing strong Yang qi is also a treatment.
“Even if I die, I won’t send So-ye to some damn bastard…”
Since pretty So-ye would look like with a damn bastard, no matter how many times I die, I won’t see it, so in reality, the treatment for So-ye is only spiritual pills and objects.
“Hoho…. It seems your aura is lively, so you still have strength to walk.”
Around the time I was imagining that, an old man with a strange feeling approached without a sound.
“Who, who are you?”
“Um…. No particular nickname.”
Although I haven’t reached father’s level yet, a martial artist at first-class level, no one can approach without aura.
Since I’m not young and an old man who has lived quite a bit, at the moment of drawing sword a little far, the old man’s mouth opened.
“Ah! Well…. Those who call me are roughly called like this. Jeok Jin-cheon, the Crazy Old Divine Physician.”
“Crazy Old Divine Physician?”
I have heard of Crazy Old Divine Physician.
Close to a derogatory term ‘mad crazy old mysterious doctor’ but actually a peerless divine physician who can treat even absolute masters who are as good as gods.
Before I thought why this person, he approached me and suddenly made me sit.
“Well…. And I’m the grandfather who came to see our grandson!”
“Ugh…. Grandfather?”
With the word grandfather and the hug, my head didn’t turn, but soon realized with my head…
It was that the surname of my name and the surname of Crazy Old Divine Physician are the same, starting with Jeok.
“It’s because that rotten son ran away with the daughter of North Sea Ice Palace and just did it, so now it’s the grandfather who sees his grandson for the first time.”
“Y-yes.”
Father said he had no grandfather.
Mother was the same, so I just passed it over, but I didn’t know there would be such an outrageous story.
Father, let’s meet later…
“Hum…. Anyway, I just examined So-ye.”
“Is there any other way to treat So-ye?”
After hearing the news that grandfather examined So-ye, I asked if there was any other treatment through Crazy Old Divine Physician, but…
“No. Because it’s an extreme Yin blood vessel, the most severe among blood vessels, without extremely pure and strong Yang qi, it will definitely die in three years after turning 20.”
No matter how much Crazy Old Divine Physician, blood vessel disease is blood vessel disease, and So-ye’s extreme Yin blood vessel is the most severe among them, so besides pure and strong Yang qi, there was nothing to treat So-ye.
“Haa…. Then, grandfather, I want to know if I can pass the Yang qi I have to So-ye.”
“Eh? Originally, if it’s not extremely pure Yang qi, intermediate Yang qi is unnecessary. Originally, the method of passing is only sexual intercourse and Yang replenishment…. Huh?”
When I asked if there’s no way to pass even the pure Yang qi I have as the last bastion to So-ye…
Grandfather refused saying intermediate Yang qi is unnecessary, but immediately after seeing my pulse diagnosed by me, his expression changed.
“Huh…. Even heaven is not heartless, why did it leave the Sun Limb Body to my older brother.”
“How serious is it, grandfather?”
“Good news and bad news, will you hear?”
“Yes.”
Soon, grandfather told me there is good news and bad news and explained it.
“Good news is that I found extremely pure Yang qi to save So-ye. There is no stronger and purer Yang qi than the one you have.”
“Then what is the bad news?”
“Haa…. You two have to go against the heavenly bond and do sexual intercourse and Yang replenishment.”
“Eh?”
That day, I found a way to save So-ye.
A method I never wanted to use.