LGHTNOVELBOOK 9 - The Cure for Meridian Blockage (4)
It can’t be that only Physician Seok Mu Wol can provide treatment.
I expected this, but to confirm it, we’d need verification through other patients.
“Alliance Chief. White Tiger Captain here. May I enter?”
“Oh, is the investigation already complete? Sword Star. May I let the White Tiger Captain in?”
“Let them in.”
“Thank you. White Tiger Captain, please enter.”
As if on cue, someone bringing news to confirm this verification entered.
“Excuse me.”
A person wearing white martial robes and a mask reminiscent of a ‘white tiger’ entered.
Though wearing white martial robes, both the voice and the slender lines of the body clearly revealed that the White Tiger Captain was a woman.
“The White Tiger Squad Captain pays respects to the martial world seniors, and will provide a report.”
The White Tiger Squad Captain took out a neatly folded paper from her bosom and unfolded it.
“We persuaded two meridian blockage patients in Liaodong City to undergo treatment.”
“What happened?”
“Both showed no improvement whatsoever.”
“…….”
The Alliance Chief closed his eyes tightly for a moment.
“It’s not because other conditions were different, is it?”
“Whether the condition of it being specifically on one’s birthday is a factor is unclear, but it’s certainly not a case of ‘sleeping with someone cures it.'”
“I see.”
“Yes.”
The Alliance Chief hit his mouth with his hand.
If the condition had been “sleeping with someone cures it,” he would have rejoiced that a great blessing had come to the martial world, but the current situation was just before turning into the worst-case scenario.
“The Purple Sword Gate’s sect leader, who undertook treatment for verification, is rampaging and saying he will bring his daughter here.”
“What do you mean, White Tiger Captain? Didn’t the Purple Sword Gate leader’s family arrange a marriage with the Chen pearl-language family?”
“That fiancé failed in the treatment, so….”
Before the White Tiger Captain could continue, she stiffened at attention.
“Surely he doesn’t intend to entrust treatment to my son-in-law?”
The White Tiger Captain couldn’t respond to the Sword Star’s words, but the paper she was holding was unfortunately of such good quality that the characters were clearly visible from the back.
“The Purple Sword Gate’s sect leader said he would stake his life in a duel with the Sword Star over one night with Physician Seok Mu Wol. He said if he wins, let Physician Seok Mu Wol spend the night with his daughter.”
“He’s… well, not to belittle him, but isn’t he at the pinnacle level?”
“It’s a father’s will to save his daughter. Even at the cost of his life, if treatment is possible.”
“…This is just the beginning. Out of 108 patients.”
For a moment, silence fell in the reception room.
“…I understand for now. If there are others who wish to verify elsewhere, let’s leave it to the patients’ wishes.”
“Alliance Chief.”
“Sword Star. It seems we’ll need Physician Seok Mu Wol’s organized treatment method.”
“That is….”
“B-Brother!”
A man hurriedly entered the room.
“What is it, little brother?”
“Y-your niece! She wants to come with your nephew-in-law!”
“Calm down.”
“…Whew.”
Mo Yong Cheon’s younger brother, Mo Yong San, took a deep breath and slowly opened his mouth.
“Physician Seok Mu Wol, along with Seol, wishes to come here after completing treatment to report the treatment method. …Directly.”
[Half an hour earlier.]
There’s a saying that applying saliva heals.
I’ve never experienced it myself, but among the kidnapped orphans, some said they felt relief from pain through their mother’s touch, calling it “mother’s healing hands.”
As a physician, if asked whether it has real therapeutic effects, I would answer that it’s half right and half wrong.
The brain is tricking the pain.
Just like when a physician deceives a patient by giving a fake medicine and claiming it’s real, and the patient responds, “I feel better.”
It’s a kind of “white lie,” and applying saliva doesn’t actually heal people.
But.
“…Haah.”
Mo Yong Seol pulls her head back.
Licking her glistening lips with her tongue, she touches her reddened lips with her hand and looks at me.
“How is it?”
“…It’s confirmed.”
I took Mo Yong Seol’s wrist, concentrated on checking her pulse, and confirmed the effect.
“It seems that the things flowing in my body are the cure for meridian blockage.”
“Saliva, blood, and s—”
“Let’s call it yang energy.”
Even I couldn’t let such words come from Mo Yong Seol’s mouth.
And the same applies to other places.
“Thanks to you, my virtue won’t be toyed with carelessly.”
“What do you mean?”
“Regarding other women with meridian blockage—”
“Are you saying you’ll treat them…?”
Swish—
Cold energy radiates from Mo Yong Seol’s body.
Not the cold from meridian blockage, but from Mo Yong Seol’s own internal energy—my skin stings as if being cut.
“As a man connected to you, I certainly wouldn’t want to, but as a member of the Mo Yong family, I must make choices for the Mo Yong family’s benefit.”
I extended my hand toward Mo Yong Seol.
“Otherwise, the Mo Yong family will become the enemy of the martial world.”
“…….”
“A Treasure Map, just one map left by an absolute master from the past creates a bloodbath in the martial world, let alone a cure for meridian blockage.”
I can declare with certainty.
“If not for the Sword Star, the martial world’s people would have already stormed this estate by now.”
If Mo Yong Cheon were not the Sword Star but a martial artist of a lower level, he wouldn’t have been free from the pressure of the Divine Monk or others.
“Moreover, as you know….”
“That’s not the important issue.”
Mo Yong Seol places her index finger on my lips.
“It’s not like you desired this to happen.”
Mo Yong Seol knows.
My worst weakness.
That I am an existence the righteous martial world could never accept.
“No matter what others say, you are you, physician. I, Mo Yong, will repay your kindness as a life-saving benefactor and family benefactor.”
“Miss.”
“So, I’ll… compromise a little.”
Mo Yong Seol sighed deeply as if lamenting.
“I’d like to forbid anyone from even touching you, but that might lead to a situation where everyone is troubled.”
Mo Yong Seol also knows.
That if this situation goes wrong even slightly, it could cause a bloodbath in the martial world.
“…If only we weren’t martial artists, I wouldn’t even think of letting the person I love reach out to other women.”
Ultimately, something that must happen because we are martial artists.
“Reality is bitter, but I want you to clearly understand my feelings.”
Mo Yong Seol grabbed my face again.
“That I have no intention of sharing you with anyone.”
“I feel the same, Miss.”
“You must keep that promise. Otherwise….”
Mo Yong Seol’s thumb briefly brushed under my eye.
“Even if I become the enemy of the martial world and am called a vicious woman throughout the world, I’ll make sure you look only at me.”
Shortly after.
I headed to the reception room in the Mo Yong family’s main hall with Mo Yong Seol.
“Why did you come in person.”
The Sword Star looked at me and Mo Yong Seol with a sour face.
Not just because I appeared holding Mo Yong Seol’s hand.
“The treatment method could have just been written down and sent.”
As the Sword Star said, originally the “cure for meridian blockage” that the Sword Star was going to inform the Alliance Chief and other martial arts masters about was intended to be written on paper and delivered.
“I judged that showing directly would be better than writing it down.”
“…What?”
The Sword Star’s hand twitches.
“Hah, haha.”
Not only the Sword Star but also the Alliance Chief, the Divine Monk, the Sword Queen, and even the person presumed to be from the imperial palace all show signs of discomfort.
“Haha, Physician Seok. Do you want to show your affection for Miss Mo Yong that badly?”
The Alliance Chief speaks to me in a playful tone as if scolding the rashness of young people.
He probably thinks in his heart, ‘Know the time and place, you young fools.’
“It’s fine. There’s nothing to be embarrassed about.”
“Haha. Well, this is something.”
“Because it’s not something we can’t show to the elders of the martial world.”
I speak as calmly as possible to build a foundation.
Someone without prejudice would wonder ‘what on earth is he trying to say,’ and indeed, the Sword Star is looking at Mo Yong Seol with slight perplexity.
Nod.
When Mo Yong Seol nodded to the Sword Star, he twitched his eye corners slightly but nodded briefly.
‘Though it’s not agreed upon with the Sword Star, he’ll play along appropriately.’
If I guide the situation well.
“Listen, young people.”
The Divine Monk stood up.
“Even so, the love affair between a man and woman—”
“I’d like to clear up one misunderstanding before speaking.”
I cut in before the Divine Monk could scold us.
“Hmph.”
The Divine Monk momentarily gave me a ‘how dare you’ look, but I continued speaking while firmly holding Mo Yong Seol’s hand.
“I was confused too. That sleeping together for one night could cure it.”
“You—”
“Let the physician continue speaking.”
The woman sitting quietly, the Sword Queen, spoke in a low voice.
“Divine Monk. Please sit down.”
“…….”
On the surface, it looks like a woman in her early twenties is ordering around a man in his 60s, but the Sword Queen is now 8—
“Physician Seok Mu Wol.”
“Yes, Sword Queen.”
“Get to the point.”
“…Before getting to the point, let me ask one thing.”
Depending on this one answer, my response will also change.
“After the news spread that Miss Mo Yong was cured, surely someone must have ‘tried.’ Am I wrong, Alliance Chief?”
I turn the arrow to the Alliance Chief.
“How did their treatment go?”
“To answer, there was no improvement.”
“No improvement.”
Now, it’s certain.
“Was it just one case?”
“Even with just a day or two passing, we could confirm at least three more cases, but it doesn’t seem likely that treatment elsewhere can cure meridian blockage.”
“Thank you. This gives me even more confidence.”
I made a respectful gesture toward the Alliance Chief.
“The treatment method… is this.”
Then I immediately turned to Mo Yong Seol, and Mo Yong Seol stood on tiptoe and kissed me.
Lick.
“!!”
Our lips meet.
Though everyone else is flustered, I surrender myself to Mo Yong Seol and slowly open my mouth.
Slurp, suck, lick, sluuurp.
“Hah, haha—”
Those in the reception room show different reactions, but their reactions gradually begin to change.
“!!”
“Yang energy…?”
“Hmmm….”
“Puhah.”
Mo Yong Seol steps back.
A long arc stretching between Mo Yong Seol and me sparkled, and Mo Yong Seol bit her lip lightly as she separated from me.
Slurp.
The stretching arc instantly falls onto Mo Yong Seol’s lips, and I lightly wipe my lips with my hand before bowing my head.
“As a physician, and as someone who has directly experienced physical contact, I felt it, but the top martial artists present here could see it with just their eyes. That yang energy has entered Miss Mo Yong’s body, suppressing the yin energy of meridian blockage.”
“……Could it be that a kiss is the answer?”
“Yes.”
In fact, there are multiple correct answers.
“It seems that kissing Miss Mo Yong during our night together was the decisive factor.”
Though there are multiple answers, the answer sheet I’m presenting to them and the entire martial world contains only one.
“How is such a thing possible…?”
“Perhaps the medicinal ingredients I consumed while researching meridian blockage treatment with my master have caused some effect in my body.”
“What!!”
The Divine Monk stood up abruptly.
“Are you saying the physician’s saliva is some kind of panacea?!”
“It may not work for all ailments, but it’s certainly effective for meridian blockage. Just, whether it works for others is questionable.”
“…I see.”
The Divine Monk sat down again with a complicated expression, but I clearly saw blood vessels popping on his forehead.
‘Shaolin is sensitive about medicines.’
The Great Return Pill.
How many merchant group leaders donate to Shaolin just to get one?
If my saliva were a panacea, they would probably try to mix it into the Great Return Pill.
Or tie me up on top of Shaolin Temple and forcibly extract my bodily fluids every day.
“That—”
“Phew.”
Just as I was about to continue explaining, I heard the Sword Queen exhale a sigh of relief.
“I thought I’d have to witness young people’s love with my own eyes.”
“Even I wouldn’t want to show the nakedness of the woman I love to others.”
“I see.”
The Sword Queen turns her head to the side.
“Sword Star?”
“…….”
The Sword Star was keeping his mouth firmly shut.
Strange.
He should have reacted as if about to cough blood when I kissed Mo Yong Seol, like before.
‘Could it be.’
Has he gone mad from imagining such things—
“It’s fortunate your daughter didn’t inherit that part of her father. Hoho.”
“Shut up, Sword Queen.”
“……?”
Whatever it is, the Sword Queen is laughing.
The Sword Star is openly frowning.
“Well, well.”
The Alliance Chief clapped his hands and stood up.
“Then, now that some things have become clear… let me ask Physician Seok one thing.”
“Please ask.”
“Are you willing to spit on other wom….”
“Alliance Chief?”
“Ahem. My words came out wrong.”
I saw it.
The moment the Alliance Chief’s gaze turned toward the Sword Star.
“As the Martial Arts Alliance Chief, I formally request from the Mo Yong family. The sharing of the ‘medicinal liquid’ that might be effective in treating meridian blockage. Perhaps… would that be possible?”
That’s a relief.
“Some might find it unpleasant, but… at least you don’t have to sleep with someone for treatment! Hahaha!”
At least they didn’t discover that the medicinal liquid is blood or something else.
“If the union of yin and yang and the injection of yang energy are the cure for meridian blockage, wouldn’t the 108 meridian blockage patients have to take turns spending the night with Physician Seok Mu Wol every day until they’re completely cured? Hahaha!”
…They didn’t find out, right?
“Then we must now prepare measures to protect Physician Seok Mu Wol. From the hands of the wicked Evil Sect.”
“……!”
Alliance Chief, could it be.
My identity—
“Sword Star. Physician Seok is—”
“Just considering the Demon King’s daughters alone, they have meridian blockage.”
“……?”
?
“Ah. You didn’t know. Of course. It’s highly classified information known only in Kunlun.”
The Martial Arts Alliance Chief held up three fingers.
“From the Demon King’s eldest daughter to his youngest, all have meridian blockage.”