Red Light District's Martial God Chapter 127

As Jaseong looked at the squirming violet herbs in the Eternal Divine Physician's hand, he asked,

"What is that?"

"That's the Millennium Blood Ganoderma."

"... Millennium Blood Ganoderma?"

"It's a legendary elixir said to grow only once in a thousand years, and even then, only on soil deeply stained with human blood."

"......!"

The first ti the Millennium Blood Ganoderma appeared in this world was during the Great Heavenly Demon War.

Back then, countless martial artists turned the rivers of the Ten-Thousand-Mountain Range into streams of blood.

And the Millennium Blood Ganoderma, which grew upon those bloody battlefields, was said to possess such powerful dicinal properties that it could revive the waning life force of the dying.

However, befitting its legendary status, the Millennium Blood Ganoderma was extrely difficult to obtain.

Only soone like the Eternal Divine Physician could possess it—so rare an elixir that even the elders of the Murim Alliance doubted its very existence.

"For all its powerful effects, it's an elixir with just as trendous side effects. If mishandled, you'll be consud by the energy of the Millennium Blood Ganoderma instead."

The Eternal Divine Physician placed the Millennium Blood Ganoderma into the cauldron and began to boil it.

Sss— Bubble bubble—

A unique and potent fragrance filled the cave.

As the dicinal decoction boiled, its color shifted to a blood-red hue.

"Drink this."

The Eternal Divine Physician offered the decoction.

Jaseong drank it without hesitation.

In that instant, scorching heat exploded in his mouth.

It felt as if he'd swallowed a ball of fire.

Kwoooaaah!

At that mont, a rush of heat burst from all over Jaseong's body.

A fierce, volcanic energy surged through his energy channels, bringing a pain as though his ridians were being ripped apart.

"Graaagh!"

Jaseong's face twisted in agony.

His skin flushed red and veins bulged out.

The Eternal Divine Physician swiftly began to stimulate Jaseong's pressure points.

He used both acupuncture and internal energy, rearranging Jaseong's disturbed channels against the ferocious energy of the Millennium Blood Ganoderma.

Papat! Chaaak!

Bluish energy flared from the Eternal Divine Physician's fingertips and seeped into Jaseong's body.

In that mont, Jaseong felt the agony at its extre.

It was as though his bones were breaking and his flesh was lting.

"Ggghhh!"

Watching the groaning Jaseong, the Eternal Divine Physician spoke coldly.

"You can give up if you wish. If you stop now, you'll save your life. But if you endure two shijin after drinking the decoction, then it'll be too late to quit."

Jaseong felt a suffering unlike any he had ever known; his eyeballs seed ready to roll back in their sockets.

He now fully understood why no one had ever finished this treatnt.

What was even more despairing was the uncertainty—no one knew when this pain would end.

No matter how much ti passed, the pain not only failed to subside but only grew more intense.

As a result, Jaseong's mind began to collapse.

... Will this treatnt really restore my shattered life-force?

What if it doesn't?

... What if I'm only destroying my body in this hellish pain?

Maybe it'd be safer just to rest for a few years instead?!

But just as these all-too-human doubts threatened to consu Jaseong's consciousness—

Grit!

Jaseong clenched his teeth with all his might,

so hard that he began to bleed.

He glared ahead with wide, unwavering eyes.

'... I made a promise.

I would beco an expert worthy of shaking the world,

tear apart the limbs of those who killed my eldest brother and sister-in-law,

and annihilate both the orthodox faction and the Demonic Cult.

And... now I'm so close.

Once I recover my life-force and master the Heaven Evading Celestial Formula, I can make that wish co true.

So... I can't ever collapse...!'

A fierce, deep-seated venom flashed in Jaseong's eyes.

A venom so intense it seed ready to devour the world.

A unique talent no one else in the martial world could possess was erupting from within him.

Like that, Jaseong endured, persisting for over two shijin.

Watching him, the Eternal Divine Physician felt a shiver—an emotion he hadn't experienced in ages.

'... Two shijin have passed. And yet, he hasn't given up or fainted....'

Seeing Jaseong's iron will, the Eternal Divine Physician's eyes twitched.

Until now, he had only treated soone with the Millennium Blood Ganoderma twice.

Both were renowned as supre peak experts, yet even they scread or fainted routinely.

But Jaseong was suppressing even his groans to the bare minimum.

'Now I understand why Namgung Cheon-rui was so wary of this guy. It was sudden, but... taking him as a disciple was the right decision.'

With a satisfied smile, the Eternal Divine Physician pressed Jaseong's pressure points: tap! tap! tap!

He then placed his palm on Jaseong's back, continuously channeling internal energy to further Jaseong's healing.

Chwaaa—

But then, as the Eternal Divine Physician was continuing his treatnt—

'?'

A faint flicker crossed the Eternal Divine Physician's gaze.

He sensed sothing odd in Jaseong's energy channels.

He should've been reshaping his life-force by absorbing the energy of the Millennium Blood Ganoderma, but sothing else was happening.

Kwoooaa!

Suddenly, a thread of immortal energy erupted from Jaseong's dantian.

As it devoured the bloody energy of the Millennium Blood Ganoderma, it grew even stronger.

'This...?! Could he be turning the energy of the Millennium Blood Ganoderma into his own internal energy?!'

The Eternal Divine Physician was shocked beyond asure.

The energy of the Millennium Blood Ganoderma was inherently violent,

as if infused with the vengeful spirits of countless warriors who died on battlefields—wild and savage.

Therefore, the intended use was not to absorb the energy,

but to utilize its violence to shatter the damaged life-force and rebuild it,

much like tearing down an old building to construct a new one.

In short, the Millennium Blood Ganoderma was for treatnt, not for enhancing internal energy.

Yet, right now, Jaseong was converting even the ferocious energy of the Millennium Blood Ganoderma into his own internal energy,

using the immortal energy of the Heaven Evading Way to devour its bloody power.

'To turn the energy of the Millennium Blood Ganoderma into internal energy... All my decades as a physician, I've never seen anything like this! If so, his internal energy will surely surpass this 60-year cycle...?!'

This 60-year cycle.

Internal energy equivalent to 120 years of martial cultivation.

For Jaseong, barely past the age of majority, to accumulate such internal energy was truly astonishing.

'Just what kind of hidden hermit's martial arts did he master for sothing like this to be possible...!'

The Eternal Divine Physician struggled to suppress his cry of shock.

Yet just as his alarm continued,

another unexpected event occurred.

'... A high-level assassin?'

All of a sudden, the Eternal Divine Physician's gaze sharpened.

He sensed an unusual presence outside the cave.

Extrely discreet—a presence only a supre peak expert like the Eternal Divine Physician could detect.

'If soone can conceal their presence this much, they must be at least the master of Killing Valley level...'

The Eternal Divine Physician furrowed his brow.

He couldn't stop the treatnt midway.

If interrupted, the untad energy of the Millennium Blood Ganoderma would break free and destroy Jaseong's ridians.

Thus, he thought of Gu Janghu and Lee Rin, guarding the cave outside.

'... I can only hope the young palace lord of the North Sea Ice Palace and his protector handle things well.'

Despite their youth, both possessed might at the peak—a match for the title-worthy prodigies at the Dragon-Phoenix Gathering.

But could they really sense the approaching high-level assassin?

'Please, just hold out until I finish the treatnt.'

The Eternal Divine Physician redoubled his focus on Jaseong's treatnt.

Chwaaa—

His internal energy poured forth even more fiercely.

That was the best he could do for now.

* * *

anwhile.

Under the soft glow of the full moon over Mount Zhongnan, Gu Janghu and Lee Rin conversed outside the cave.

"Protector Gu, do you think the great hero will complete the treatnt safely?"

Lee Rin looked toward the cave's entrance, worry in her eyes.

"If it's the hall lord, there will be no problem. With that fierce venom and perseverance of his."

Gu Janghu replied calmly, but he, too, harbored concerns.

The Eternal Divine Physician had said that a mistake could lead to ki deviation, rendering Jaseong crippled or even resulting in death.

"?!"

But at that mont,

Gu Janghu's eyes suddenly turned sharp.

His gaze fixed on a shadow among the darkening trees.

"What's wrong, protector Gu?"

The instant Lee Rin asked—

Shuack!

Gu Janghu abruptly drew a throwing blade, imbuing it with Sword Ki and hurling it toward the forest shadows.

To Lee Rin, it seed inexplicable;

he was attacking empty darkness where nothing was visible.

But the next instant, an astonishing scene unfolded.

Kaaang!

Gu Janghu's throwing blade ricocheted off just before it struck the shadow.

"......!"

Only then did Lee Rin realize an enemy had appeared.

As the airborne blade fell to the earth, a figure erged from the shadows.

But the mont they saw the person who stepped out,

this ti Gu Janghu's face froze.

'That person...?!'

A middle-aged man with white hair, his nose and mouth shrouded by a mask.

On his martial robes were the characters '殺主' ("Killing Lord") and a black lotus emblem.

"What is it, protector Gu? Who is that?"

Lee Rin asked, her voice tense.

"... It's the master of Killing Valley."

"What...?!"

"... Shadowed Assassin Jin Yong. That's his na."

At Gu Janghu's words, Lee Rin's eyes instantly filled with tension.

Killing Valley was the largest assassination organization in the Central Plains.

That their head had appeared was cause for alarm.

But even Jin Yong, the Shadowed Assassin, spoke in a puzzled voice upon seeing Gu Janghu.

"You... aren't you Gu Janghu, the one who received the black lotus tattoo from ?"

Jin Yong's gaze sharpened.

He rembered Gu Janghu clearly.

The youngest first-class assassin, and a prodigy destined to rule Killing Valley.

Gu Janghu, who passed the first-class assassin test at the age of fifteen.

"You've grown much. As expected of the prodigy I acknowledged."

The master of Killing Valley, Jin Yong, said this, sensing Gu Janghu's presence.

The aura of a peak expert radiated from Gu Janghu.

"It's been a while, valley lord."

"And why is a traitor of Killing Valley here?"

"And why are you here, valley lord?"

Gu Janghu retorted boldly.

At that mont, the eyes of Jin Yong, master of Killing Valley, twitched.

"To not answer when your valley lord asks, but to question instead. Is this how you repay the grace of being raised and fed?"

The master of Killing Valley spoke, radiating a nacing killing intent.

At that instant,

"... Raised and fed?"

An even wilder killing intent erupted from Gu Janghu.

For the first ti, rage—sothing never seen before—was apparent in his eyes.

"... Countless fellow disciples died in your brutal training. And you call that raising and feeding? You people only sought to turn into a monster of murder!"

Gu Janghu's mories surged.

The slaughter training in the underground caves.

The hell where his comrades died, one after another.

"Valley lord... I cannot forgive you."

Gu Janghu's entire body trembled.

Lee Rin had never seen the usually composed Gu Janghu so ablaze with fury.

"Protector Gu. Wait—!"

But before Lee Rin could finish speaking, Gu Janghu moved first.

Shwik!

Gu Janghu crossed his twin swords and charged at Jin Yong.

'Twin Moon Assassin Sword First Technique, shadow-Slashing Crescent!'

The two swords crossed, forming a crescent-shaped sword-light.

Silvery light slashed toward Jin Yong's neck.

Chaeng!

But Jin Yong blocked it with a single sword.

"Hm. The mastery of the first move is impressive."

Jin Yong said with an admiring tone.

"But not enough yet."

Jin Yong relaxed his twin swords and counterattacked.

Gu Janghu watched his movents with tense eyes.

'The master of Killing Valley's Shadowed Footwork always attacks from either the left or right. Which side will he co from...'

But just as Gu Janghu muttered inwardly—

Swish!

Suddenly, Jin Yong's movent vanished from sight.