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Fucking hurts.
My whole body ached as if it were about to burst. The pain was worse than burning alive, yet I had to keep smiling.
"Doctor, these flowers over here...."
"Haha, they are beautiful."
As I followed Dokgo Yeon's lead, I struggled to keep my expression in check.
'Shit, the Heavenly Rejuvenation Pill's effects haven't fully kicked in yet.'
After raising hell in the Murim Alliance's underground special arena as the Flying Heaven Ice Demon, I'd swiftly reverted to my original form, injuries and all.
'The Body Transformation Art is great and all, but it's a real pain in the ass when you get injured.'
I'd nearly had my heart pierced by Dokgo Ja-yeong. I'd intended to take a wound that would let me flee at the right moment, but I hadn't expected his sword to come so close to my heart.
Insufficient internal energy.
My body's internal energy was still not enough to withstand the sword qi of the Sky-Shattering Divine Sword. Even the power I'd stolen from the Ice Demon was insufficient against a master of the Profound Realm.
So I had combined three powers.
By using the Heavenly Demon Divine Art and even triggering Bursting Blood, I briefly managed to rampage like a ghost against the Murim Alliance's masters, even elevating my sword qi to a level comparable to Dokgo Ja-yeong's.
'And my internal energy was still lacking. The future Heavenly Demon and the Sky-Shattering Divine Sword are definitely incredible women.'
To fully draw out their power, I would probably need at least five gapja of martial power.
'They were the hope of the entire Murim back then, so every sect poured all kinds of spirit medicine into them.'
During the war with the Blood Cult, those two women gathered power by absorbing spirit medicine from every sect, including the Great Rejuvenation Pill of Shaolin Temple.
'Seventy percent from their own actual martial power, thirty percent from the power of the spirit medicine.'
That war was a repeating cycle: the Alliance Leader and the Heavenly Demon retreated to each sect to build their power, the Blood Cult chased them, and people like the Taiji Sword Empress bought time by blocking the path.
In the final moments, both were defeated by the Blood Jiangshi, but they had grown powerful enough to be just on the verge of entering the Life-Death Realm.
Trying to wield the power of such individuals with internal energy only at the Harmony Realm level... My meridians and qi-blood were bound to be thrown into chaos.
'Without Bursting Blood, I wouldn't have been able to exert that much power in the first place.'
I had deliberately exploded my blood energy to induce a state of Complete Demonization. That allowed me to use martial arts that reached the Profound Realm with internal energy only at the Harmony Realm.
Every power comes with a price.
The blood I vomited when I was stabbed was a result of the reckless internal energy operation.
'I should avoid this kind of dog-tired suffering next time.'
In other words, the damage I suffered from my qi-blood meridians twisting was far worse than the injury from being stabbed in the chest.
It was absurd for a doctor to suffer internal injuries, but if the compensation was equally great, wouldn't it be worth trying at least once?
"Doctor, are you listening to me?"
"Of course. To think that a seed flew all the way here across this vast lake. Nature is truly magnificent."
"It is, isn't it? Truly... a beautiful landscape."
Just as Dokgo Yeon had said, the Camellia Garden was breathtakingly beautiful.
The trees spread on either side formed a tidy forest, and the fully bloomed red camellias on every branch tickled my nose with their fragrance.
"...Hoo."
Was this what a garden where Celestial Maidens play felt like? The garden was so lovely that the name Wuling Island Garden felt entirely deserved.
The energy of the Heavenly Rejuvenation Pill seemed to seep deeper into my body with the scent of the flowers, and the pain began to subside.
"Do you feel a bit more at ease now?"
Dokgo Yeon smiled and let go of my hand. Turning around with her hands behind her back, she looked up at me and smiled.
"You seemed to be struggling quite a lot. Are you alright now?"
"Of course. Truly, I feel like I'm healing thanks to you."
"Hehe, in that case, Doctor. Since I helped you heal, you have to heal me now, right?"
"...Heh."
She was a Celestial Maiden. With her flowing light-purple clothes fluttering, Dokgo Yeon looked every inch the Celestial Maiden, no matter how many times I looked.
"I understand. Then let us go."
The time had finally come to pluck the flower. Suppressing the stabbing pain inside me, I pointed outside.
"......Doctor."
Dokgo Yeon pointed downward with a meaningful look. The ground, covered in thick greenery, was already blanketed with fully bloomed camellia flowers spread out like a futon.
"The treatment... does it absolutely have to be done in a room?"
I couldn't hold back any longer. I rushed forward and swept Dokgo Yeon into my arms.
* * *
Three women gather. They laugh and chatter.
One woman disappears. From then on, the remaining two start talking about the one who left.
"Si-a, I think we were wrong after all."
"I think so too."
The Black and White Two Flowers, Sagong Hee and Lee Si-a, let out deep sighs in the room where its owner had vanished. No matter how much they had treated their bodies using the power of the Heavenly Rejuvenation Pill, internal injuries don't just disappear completely.
"Should we have offered him our yin energy after all?"
"I don't know.... At the very least, tonight's main character would be terribly disappointed if we had."
Lee Si-a looked at Dokgo Yeon's empty room and laughed wryly.
"Tsk. I should have just waited quietly. I jumped the gun for no reason."
A girl shyly pulling him toward the garden. A boy, unable to contain his youthful vigor, pouncing on her. Watching the innocent sight of the two confirming their affection and sharing intimacy amid the flowers, Lee Si-a sank into sentimentality.
"Ah, to be young. Still, once she gets struck from above by the Heavenly Demon member Drop once, her tune will change."
"Yeah. Ah, I'm so envious. I need to receive the Taiji Six Lines Nine Palaces Formation from my lord soon as well... Haa."
"......."
"......."
The two looked at each other and tilted their heads.
"Taiji Six Lines Nine Palaces Formation? What's that?"
"Heavenly Demon member Drop... Don't tell me...."
Sagong Hee looked toward the empty bed. Then, grabbing Lee Si-a's hand, she pointed at the bed.
"Shall we... help each other out? We'll just be practicing our martial forms."
"What? W-wait a moment! No matter how you look at it, two women together, eek?!"
"Just practicing the stance, just the stance~"
"......We're only doing the stance...? Even for you, t-that place is his exclusive domain, you know!"
Taiji Dissociation. The friendly sparring overtime match commences.
* * *
"Eep!"
I held Dokgo Yeon and dropped us both straight down to the ground. The soft bed of grass gently caught the garden's owner, and I looked down at Dokgo Yeon, who gazed up at me, her white hair spread beneath her.
"......."
Dokgo Yeon quietly closed her eyes. She was the patient, waiting for my treatment.
Softly.
I gently placed my lips over her crimson ones.
It wasn't a deep kiss with mingling tongues like with Sagong Hee, nor a sticky kiss like with Lee Si-a, but the innocence of simply pressing our lips together and sharing each other's warmth was rather nice.
"Miss Yeon, I am sorry. I am unfit to be a doctor."
"And I am equally unfit to be a patient."
Before I could continue, Dokgo Yeon wrapped her arms around my neck.
"For a patient to harbor feelings for her doctor, she's a bad girl, isn't she?"
"So I am sorry. That I am so charming. This face of mine is just too handsome."
"It isn't your face that I fell for, Doctor."
Dokgo Yeon puffed her cheeks out before kneading my cheeks this way and that.
"It's because you're healing me completely. For that alone, I've every intention of dedicating my whole life to you."
"That's a bit problematic. If another doctor appeared and said they could treat you, wouldn't that mean you'd be taken from me?"
"Oh my, Doctor. Are you jealous right now? After making your life-saving benefactor feel love's heart? Hehe, don't worry. If anything, I'm...."
Dokgo Yeon stroked my cheek with her right hand.
"...sincerely happy that I can give my first time to a wonderful man I cherish."
"The feeling is mutual."
Rustle, rustle. I slowly untied Dokgo Yeon's clothes. I loosened the sash's knot and let it hang to the sides, then unfastened the tightly bound outer layer left and right.
"I am sincerely honored to be able to treat you."
"Is it really just treatment?"
"...I am truly happy that I can hold you."
I meant it. And at my sincere answer, Dokgo Yeon's face bloomed into a smile.
Rustle. I reached down and slid my hand under her hanbok skirt. I wanted to see the pure white, naked body beneath her clothes right away, but that was for after the physical treatment was finished.
'Because of the Meridian Severance Disease, she can barely feel any sexual pleasure right now.'
After I healed the Eighteen Yin Torment Severed Meridian, she would finally be able to feel things much more acutely.
"Aah, Doctor...."
Yet the reason her fluttering voice betrayed such excited anticipation was that Dokgo Yeon didn't view me solely as a means of physical pleasure.
"Every time your hand touches me, the inside of me keeps feeling all fuzzy and tingly."
"Fuzzy and tingly? Heh."
I laughed at Dokgo Yeon's expression. Dokgo Yeon puffed her cheeks as if she felt I was mocking her, but when I soon touched her secret place, she flinched and tensed up.
"It's getting better."
I was very slowly untangling the blood points that had been twisting to ascend into a celestial existence, returning them to the blood of the mortal realm, so it was only natural for her to feel a stabilized sensation.
"I told you. That dual cultivation is the way to treat your illness."
"Yes... It felt like a lie, but I didn't know it would become this real. Haaauu...."
Dokgo Yeon covered her mouth and trembled. The pleasant trembling and her smile lifted my mood, too.
"Ah, haat...."
Each time the flow of her qi-blood stabilized, she began to experience a light climax.
"Doctor.... I feel like my body is getting hotter, haang."
The sexual sensation, which had been dormant for so long under the influence of her Celestial Maiden transformation—a feeling she had likely never felt her entire life—was slowly beginning to awaken.
"I, this isn't something going wrong, huut, is it?"
"Going wrong? How could it be."
Rustle. With my hand still under her skirt, I pulled on her underwear. The pure white underwear was slightly damp at the front. I took it out from under her skirt and tossed it behind me.
"The fact that you're this wet is proof that you're healing right now."
"Hut?!"
Squelch. I pushed my hand inside the most secret place, untouched by anyone's fingers before.
'It's very tight.'
It was quite a burden to fit even two fingers inside. If I were to accidentally tear her while trying to insert a needle to heal her body, my reputation as a healer would be ruined.
'So I need to loosen it up.'
With my fingers? No. Right now, Dokgo Yeon wasn't feeling sexual pleasure; the pleasure she felt in her heart was from the sense of fulfillment of being connected to me.
Therefore, instead of inserting my fingers, I needed to proceed directly to the treatment. I'd already finished all the pre-treatment work last night while the quarterfinals were going on.
"Miss Yeon."
I knelt in front of Dokgo Yeon. With only the ties at the front of her clothes unfastened, and her underwear removed while still clothed, she waited for my words.
"I will begin."
I pulled my pants off and tossed them behind me, then pushed my knees between the folds of Dokgo Yeon's skirt. I pressed the tips of my knees against her petite, delicate buttocks.
"Doctor, are your knees alright?"
"I'd rather be asking if your back is alright."
I gently spread Dokgo Yeon's legs apart to the sides. Perhaps because the hem of her skirt was draped over my knees, Dokgo Yeon kept hesitating, trying to close her legs and then spreading them again.
"Yeon. The injection will sting."
"As if there's any injection that doesn't hurt."
"...It will be your first experience with this pain, so be careful."
Squelch. I lightly placed the tip of my member on her flower petals. Warm, tepid love nectar began to flow from within her.
Her mind might not feel much sexual sensation, but her body was honest. Since her head had already accepted that she would receive a man, her body was instinctively preparing for it.
"Aah... It's really big. It feels much bigger than when I took it in my mouth."
Dokgo Yeon compared it to the time she had swallowed my manhood and relaxed her body's tension. Thanks to that, my glans was able to slide inward, achingly slow.
"Ugh...!"
A foreign sensation burrowing into her body. Dokgo Yeon's expression contorted from the penetration she was feeling for the very first time in her life.
"Haaauu.... It's, it's really big.... The older sisters told me your injection was truly huge, so I'd better brace myself, but...!"
"The two of them?"
"Yes, haa. They said the reason your treatment is effective, huung, is because of your long needle, which is bigger and harder than other men's... hehe."
Dokgo Yeon began to tremble and her breathing quickened, very slowly. The hand she held over her lips curled up slightly as if grasping something. I moved my hands from her thighs to her pelvis.
"Don't talk. Grit your teeth."
Tap-tap-tap.
When I tapped her pelvis with my hand as a signal that I was about to give the injection, Dokgo Yeon closed her eyes and held her breath. The sight of her trusting me completely and surrendering her body was so beautiful.
Smoothly.
The hem of her skirt, which was draped over my knees, slid down below her thighs. Her fine, slender legs were so petite and small, they looked like they might snap at any moment.
'They'll grow well.'
Because her growth was restricted by the twisting of her qi-blood meridians, the Sky-Shattering Divine Sword had possessed a fairly small build. But things are different now.
From a Celestial Maiden to a woman.
Very, very slowly, I pushed my manhood inside her.