Chapter 39
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Translator: 8uhl
Chapter: 39
Chapter Title: The Sword Revered's Legacy
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Dont worry too much. With all the good deeds the Medical Immortal Medical House has done for people, heaven wont turn its back on our struggles.
Heaven, my ass. What has heaven ever done for us? I dont believe in heaven, but Im not that worried either. If our family works together, we can overcome anything, cant we?
Wi Ji-cheon smiled in agreement.
But there is one thing Id like to ask.
What is it?
Is it true that you were so worried about me, you made a wish while looking at the night sky?
W-what?! As if Id do something like that! That brat Sang-ah must have lied!
Hmm. My sister Sang-ah mentioned that your eyes were even red with tears.
I told you, no!!
The saying a strong denial is a strong affirmation came to mind, but for the sake of his brothers dignity, Wi Ji-cheon decided not to press the matter.
My brother is quite sensitive, after all.
He had a cool and aloof air, but he was also a nagger and a sensitive man who got teary-eyed looking at the full moon.
That was the eldest young master of the Medical Immortal Medical House, Wi Ji-gang.
This is nice.
What did it matter if difficulties arose?
His family was together.
They just had to overcome it together.
And if we face an obstacle thats too difficult to overcome, Ill just have to slit all their throats.
With a light step, Wi Ji-cheon headed for the Hall of Living Medicine.
Junior brothers, have you been well?
Gasp, the senior brother is here!!
Its good to see you.
G-good to see you.
Faced with their senior brothers bright smile, which was as creepy as ever, the new medical students of the Medical Immortal Medical House forced their own trembling smiles.
The tigers tyranny has ended, only for a demon to appear.
The second-in-rank, Dan Yeo, had hounded the new medical students like a cat playing with mice while Wi Ji-cheon was away.
Unable to watch any longer, Wi Ji-gang had said,
Junior Sister Dan Yeo, perhaps you could take it a little easier?
Roar!!
She didnt actually roar, of course, but faced with Dan Yeos tiger-like ferocity, the eldest young master Wi Ji-gang (a sharp, aloof, handsome man, but also a highly sensitive soul) tucked his tail between his legs and fled.
The new medical students watched cautiously, wondering what sort of madness (?) Wi Ji-cheon, who had appeared for the first time in a while, would display now.
Alright, come forward and take one each.
Whats this?
Everyones eyes widened.
It was a set of acupuncture needles!
Their sharp glint made it obvious they were high-quality items.
I was thinking of you all, so I bought these from the Artifice Ironworks in Xian. They say a master doesn't blame his tools, but were not masters yet. I hope these will be helpful to you.
All the new medical students were deeply moved by their senior brothers thoughtfulness.
The Artifice Ironworks was the best forge for medical instruments in the region, and their acupuncture needles were masterpieces coveted by every physician.
To think I thought of our senior brother as a demon! Hes not a demon! He just cares for us too much!
We will trust and follow you, Senior Brother!!
However, a few of the more perceptive new medical students swallowed nervously.
Especially A-seop.
He, who had risen to the third rank among the new students with his exceptional perceptiveness, felt his hands tremble with foreboding.
This cant be a free gift, can it?
A-seops guess was correct.
Do you like the gift?
Yes, Senior Brother! Thank you!
Im glad. I heard there have been several complaints about your unskilled acupuncture techniques.
Senior Brother?
Its alright. You just need to do better from now on. In fact, I learned a potent training method in Xian. The Extreme Demonic Culti... no, no, anyway, its a good training method! You trust me, right?
The junior brothers were silent.
Our senior brother hes not a demon, right?
Yes, their senior brother was not a demon.
He had just gone slightly mad from caring about them too much.
But.
Couldnt you love us just a little bit less, Senior Brother?
And so, time passed, filled with Wi Ji-cheons overflowing love (?) for his junior brothers.
The selection process for Nanyangs new Earth-grade medical houses had a total of three evaluation criteria.
First, the results of the Medical Examination Ceremony.
Second, the scale of the medical house.
They passed on both counts.
The results of the Medical Examination Ceremony were beyond question, and with the expansion and relocation, the scale of their medical house had grown to rival any existing Earth-grade establishment.
The final, third criterion was the problem.
Recommendations.
It measured how many recommendations they had received.
It could be said to be the most important evaluation criterion.
It also had the highest score weighting.
The ceremony results are worth twenty-five percent, the houses scale twenty-five, and recommendations are fifty.
In effect, it was the criterion that sealed the deal for being selected as an Earth-grade medical house.
The problem is that this recommendation score is extremely disadvantageous for the Medical Immortal Medical House. Our main clientele, the common people, cant write letters of recommendation.
Thats not to say it was an unfair evaluation method.
After all, the number of influential patrons one had was one of the most crucial elements of a medical houses capabilities.
In the first place, Earth-grade medical houses were establishments that catered to such influential figures.
Jang-bok, where has Father gone?
Hic, I dont know!
And my brother?
The family head and the eldest young master both told me not to tell Young Master Wi Ji-cheon where they went!
Although Jang-bok kept his lips sealed, Wi Ji-cheon had an idea where the two had gone.
I heard there was a magistrates banquet today. They must have gone to curry favor.
As mentioned before, to be selected as an Earth-grade medical house, they needed to take on powerful and wealthy individuals as patients and receive their recommendations.
However, such high-nosed individuals were not inclined to visit a place like the Medical Immortal Medical House easily.
So, what other way was there?
The one in need has to make the first move.
In other words, the family head Wi Ji-seon and the eldest young master Wi Ji-gang had gone out to do salesto plead with potential patrons to grace the Medical Immortal Medical House with their presence in the future.
Haaah.
Wi Ji-cheon frowned.
In truth, this kind of sales was not uncommon.
The Hwajung Medical House and the Namjung Medical House both conducted similar sales pitches to influential figures.
Still, imagining his father and brother being the subordinate party among those people left a bad taste in his mouth.
I told them there was no need for such sales tactics.
There was a way to make patients come without having to go out and solicit them.
It was to gain an unrivaled reputation.
Take Nanyang, for example. There was the Bronze Goodness Medical House.
An Earth-grade medical house that, along with the Namjung Medical House, was counted as one of the Two Good Houses of Nanyang.
Though mentioned alongside the Namjung Medical House, the two were not on the same level.
In the first place, the title Two Good Houses of Nanyang was a name created by the Namjung Medical House, which wanted to be placed on the same level as the Bronze Goodness Medical House.
No matter what anyone said, the number one medical house in Nanyang was the Bronze Goodness Medical House.
A place so sought-after for treatment that it actually turns patients away.
You could tell the status of the Bronze Goodness Medical House by the fact that despite all the recent happenings in Nanyangs medical world, they hadnt shown their faces at all.
They considered the trivial affairs of Nanyangs medical world to be beneath them.
The Bronze Goodness Medical House was also Wi Ji-cheons primary goal.
Even if he couldnt surpass them right away, his goal was to at least rise to a similar level, to stand shoulder to shoulder with them.
To do that, the Jangbodo plan is crucial. When on earth does the rumor about Jangbodo start to spread? Im sure its around this time.
Wi Ji-cheons plan was simple.
A major incident was about to occur near Nanyang.
The Jangbodo Incident.
Where the martial arts of the Sword Revered, one of the absolute masters of the previous generation, remained.
Countless martial artists would flock there, and as is always the case with such events, it would end in a terrible tragedy.
More than half of the martial artists who entered the ruins will die.
According to the survivors testimonies, the inside of the ruins wasnt particularly dangerous.
However, there was an unexpected trap, and everyone, regardless of whether they were masters or novices, was slaughtered en masse.
-To pass the Sword Revereds trial, the help of a physician is essential...
Wi Ji-cheon planned to play an active role as a physician at the Sword Revereds ruins and become the savior of the martial artists.
Among those who died in the Sword Revereds ruins at that time were disciples of great sects, so this will be a chance to greatly elevate the name of the Medical Immortal Medical House in the martial world.
The recommendation letter problem would also be solved.
What mattered was who wrote the recommendation letters.
A single recommendation letter from a major martial sect held more power than ten letters from the influential figures of Nanyang.
Just then, a clamorous noise reached Wi Ji-cheons ears.
Hurry! We cant be late!!
Urgent news! Urgent news!!!
They were the beggars of the Beggars Sect.
The Medical Immortal Medical House had moved to the Central Road, so it was now easy to see the beggars of the Beggars Sect, who originally called the Central Road their turf.
Whats going on?
Ah, Young Master Medical Immortal Sword.
It was Branch Leader Hong Gae, whom he hadnt seen in a while.
A disciple of the Beggars Sects Chief.
This is a secret, so Im only telling you. You absolutely must not tell anyone else.
Yes, I promise.
Jangbodo has appeared! The place where the Sword Revereds martial arts are said to be hidden!
I see!
Wi Ji-cheon feigned surprise.
You must keep it a secret. If word gets out, a storm of blood will sweep through the martial world.
The moment the Beggars Sect knows, isnt it impossible to keep it a secret?
There was even a saying that the guys from the Beggars Sect have the loosest lips in the world.
In any case, Wi Ji-cheon nodded as if promising, and just as he expected, the entire martial world learned of Jangbodos appearance the next day.
However, there was something Wi Ji-cheon hadnt anticipated.
The past doesnt necessarily repeat itself.
Life is woven from complex threads of cause and effect; sometimes, a trivial trigger can cause a massive change.
It was the beginning of the Bloody History of the Sword Revered.
As for what change had occurred, different from Wi Ji-cheons previous life
The Sword Revereds ruins have been discovered?
Yes, sir. They say its near Nanyang.
Somewhere in Xian.
Figures shimmering with sinister demonic energy were conversing.
It was the Blood Cult.
If its Nanyang, thats not far from here in Xian.
For an ordinary person, it was over a ten-day walk, but for a martial artist using their movement arts at full speed, Xian and Nanyang were just a stones throw away.
Yes, sir. It seems Mount Hua, not to mention Zhongnan and the Beggars Sect, will be dispatching disciples.
Mount Hua, Zhongnan, and the Beggars Sect!
A whole three of the Nine Great Sects and One Union.
Good. This will be a chance to make up for the blunder we made at the Seo Family Manor.
The Demonic Man.
The Mad Blood Emissary, Gok Seonghead of the Blood Cults secret branch in Xian and a master who had reached the Extreme level of the Pinnacle Realmsaid with a chilling smile.
I will turn the Sword Revereds tomb into their tomb.