8 - The Cure for Meridian Blockage (3)
Regardless of what the Sword Star is saying to the martial world representatives outside, I must do what I need to do.
Record.
Taking a brush, I record in as much detail as possible.
In two directions.
One is written with careful refinement so that readers will not be embarrassed, and so that it can be reported in an official setting.
To briefly excerpt part of that content—though I wrote it—
-…Meridian blockage is basically a disease that occurs because yin energy compresses the blood vessels. We need to approach this fundamentally; if there is excessive yin energy, we can restore the balance of internal energy by injecting yang energy into the meridian blockage patient’s body accordingly. Based on the principle of yin-yang unity, the fundamental aspect of humans, by infusing extreme yang energy into a woman’s body full of yin energy and revitalizing that body….
“…….”
-Releasing outside can temporarily transfer yang energy through the skin, but its effect is so minimal that it’s completely meaningless. Therefore, directly injecting ‘medicine’ containing yang energy into the body is truly….
“Physician. Have you finished recording?”
“Yes.”
Mo Yong Seol approached me.
Flower fragrance emanated from her after she had bathed and cleaned herself properly in the bathhouse of the separate pavilion—now better called a mansion.
“It’s… long.”
“It has to be.”
“Can’t we just say: Had sex, ejaculated, got cured. Wouldn’t that be enough?”
“It would be truly wonderful if you could say those exact words in front of the Martial Arts Alliance Chief, the Divine Monk, and the Emperor.”
I lightly unfolded the second, or more precisely, the first document I had set aside.
“Eek, eek…!”
As soon as I unfolded the paper, Mo Yong Seol gasped in shock and blushed.
“T-to write so explicitly…!”
“I merely transcribed what you did, Miss. Other meridian blockage patients might be cured if they act exactly like this.”
“B-but it’s embarrassing!”
“I’m surprised you’re only realizing that now. Weren’t you not embarrassed when you acted as written here?”
“W-well….”
Mo Yong Seol smiled broadly even as she lowered the paper.
“Because I was looking at you, rather than feeling embarrassed, I felt more joy and happiness….”
“I felt the same.”
“Physician….”
“So regarding what I should write in this report, I’m debating whether to include such aspects.”
I took Mo Yong Seol’s outstretched hand, interlaced our fingers, and embraced her.
“The condition that the one injecting extreme yang energy must not simply desire beauty, but must have carried the person in their heart for three years and approach the treatment with a sincere will to save them.”
“Is such a condition necessary for meridian blockage treatment?”
“At least from the treating person’s perspective, yes.”
If that were truly the condition for treatment, perhaps most current meridian blockage patients would be difficult to cure.
Instead, from now on, families with patients would seek out men of the same age who would guard and care for the patient for three years.
And after three years, meridian blockage patients would begin to be cured in earnest.
“It might not necessarily be three years. Affection doesn’t just end after being cultivated for three years.”
“…Physician.”
“You knew, didn’t you? The look I gave you the first day I saw you.”
“…It was no different from other men. Looking at me as if wondering ‘is this first love?'”
Mo Yong Seol caressed my face with her hand.
“But everyone else withdrew their gaze once they knew I had meridian blockage, knew it was the Nine Yin Terminal Meridian. Even those who said they didn’t care about the Nine Yin Terminal Meridian lowered their gaze at the name of my father… the Sword Star. Only you were the exception.”
“I was truly grateful to be a physician. It allowed me to be by your side for three years.”
“…Did you dislike it a lot?”
Mo Yong Seol lowered her hand and reached for my shoulder.
“I caused so many wounds.”
“A patient making their physician bleed is nothing unusual.”
Under Mo Yong Seol’s hand lies a rather deep wound.
Not just talking about the scratch marks from this time, but traces of being cut by something sharp like a sword, healing and reopening.
Were these wounds caused by Evil Sect members?
No.
It was Mo Yong Seol.
“Back then, I was….”
“It’s normal for anyone with a terminal illness, especially one with pain so severe that death seems preferable, to want to destroy and break everything. The same applies to when you scratched and bit my shoulder.”
“…….”
For three years, Mo Yong Seol was mad.
Just being told you’ll die in three years would make anyone go crazy, but if during that process you cough up blood every day and experience pain like your entire body is breaking down, it would be strange not to go mad.
“I’m sorry. I’m truly sorry.”
“Is that remorse why you came to me?”
“No, it’s not. Not to atone, but… despite my insane behavior, despite acting like a woman with madness… you always embraced and treated me.”
Mo Yong Seol pulled my hand to her cheek and buried her face in it.
“It’s hard for me to say when it started. But because of that… I might have been even crazier. Having someone who loves me this much, yet all I could do for them was show my dying state, and ultimately only show my corpse.”
“Miss.”
“I thought that if I remained as a villainess, there might not be any regrets left. But I was such a selfish woman.”
Mo Yong Seol hugged me tightly.
“A woman who would die tomorrow committed a selfish act to leave her mark so the man she loves would remember her forever.”
“That’s not true.”
“It is selfish, isn’t it? Without asking for consent, I forcibly did it for my own peace of mind….”
“It is indeed selfish and forceful, but from the moment you held me like that, I liked it too.”
“Ah….”
“Saying only you enjoyed it—that’s what’s wrong.”
“…Truly.”
Mo Yong Seol bowed her head deeply.
My clothes began to get damp, and that dampness felt not like ice-cold but like warmth seeping in.
“It was that selfishness that saved you. Because you reached out to me first, that’s why you were able to unblock your meridians and survive. So don’t worry about it.”
I gently patted Mo Yong Seol’s back.
“Love is inherently selfish.”
“…I appreciate your words, but when you speak like that, it sounds like you’ve loved someone else.”
Mo Yong Seol puffed her cheeks and poked me with her fingernails.
“Do you know more about love than I do?”
“Of course. Certainly. I’ve known what love is for three years now, so I must be much more experienced than you.”
“Ah.”
“What? Did you have someone else in your heart before? Hm?”
“How could that be?”
Mo Yong Seol smiled brightly and pinched my body.
“I admit it, senior. But for me to love someone else… ouch.”
“…Hmm.”
My side stings.
Mo Yong Seol immediately removed my clothes, and there, the skin was scraped by fingernails with red blood flowing down.
Not severe, just a scrape.
“I-I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to…!”
“It’s fine. It just adds one more line to the report.”
“What?”
“As yin and yang energies harmonize, energy begins to flow properly through the blood vessels, and vitality overflows.”
If her strength when in pain was at the level of a slightly strong woman.
Now that she’s healthy, her strength is that of a female martial arts master.
“A woman who overcomes meridian blockage begins to experience an explosion of accumulated growth from that moment, allowing her to instantly become a master. That’s what I think.”
“Um… so.”
Mo Yong Seol flexed her hand open and closed, smiling softly.
“Are you saying I’ve reached the pinnacle realm?”
“Perhaps.”
“Wow…!”
20 years old. A female master at the pinnacle realm.
Some might say it’s late for the daughter of the world’s greatest master, but among rising talents around 20 years old, Mo Yong Seol is definitely number one.
“Hehehe, is this all thanks to experiencing climax multiple times with you, physician?”
“Hmph. Why not just say you entered a state of ecstasy?”
“Heheheh….”
“No.”
I grabbed Mo Yong Seol.
“Shall I torment you to the point where you can’t tell if you’re alive or dead?”
“W-what are you saying…?”
“If you cross between life and death several times, you might reach the life-death realm.”
“Ahah…! The life-death realm is, hehe, a realm even the Sword Star hasn’t reached, isn’t it?”
“We’ll find out if we try.”
“Hmph. Are you using that as an excuse to hold me…?”
Mo Yong Seol brought her hand to her mouth and lightly licked the finger that had wiped my wound.
“Like this, me… huh?”
“?”
“…Huh?”
Lick.
“……Hmm?”
“What’s wrong?”
“No, um, this….”
Lick, lick.
“……Peach?”
“??”
“Uh, physician. Would you like to try licking? It’s sweet.”
At Mo Yong Seol’s somewhat serious words, I cautiously licked the finger she offered.
Lick.
“All I can sense is my blood and your sweet trace.”
“No, no. I’m not saying something romantic—I really felt it. This.”
“……Wait.”
I quickly reached out to Mo Yong Seol, extending my hand to her neck.
Thump, thump.
“……Miss. Open your mouth.”
I immediately scraped the tip of my finger with my canine, then thrust it into Mo Yong Seol’s mouth.
“!!”
Mo Yong Seol was startled and opened her eyes wide, but soon carefully grasped my hand with both of hers.
Lick, lick. Suck.
While she slowly licked and sucked, I concentrated all my attention on Mo Yong Seol’s energy meridians.
“…….”
Though weaker than when first infusing yang energy, there is clearly an “improvement” even if the effect is less.
Just as the yin-yang balance was breaking again with excessive yin trying to flood the blood vessels, red yang energy spread throughout her body from her mouth, starting to restore balance.
Although the speed and degree were not as good as the most definitive method we knew—
“…Physician. I must be mistaken, right? It’s just because I’m a lustful woman, right?”
Mo Yong Seol gently bit my finger and looked at me seriously.
“…I feel like my body is heating up.”
Until late evening, those gathered in the Mo Yong family reception room engaged in heated discussions.
There were many different theories.
Is it a condition that the yin-meridian must be unblocked on the day of coming of age?
Did the medicine prescribed by Physician Seok Mu Wol for three years accumulate and take effect?
Did the Mo Yong family techniques learned by Mo Yong Seol significantly influence the meridian blockage treatment?
They had to approach it logically, medically, and from a martial arts perspective.
And after organizing all possible cases, they reached their own compromise.
However.
“In the worst case. If truly only Physician Seok Mu Wol’s extreme yang essence can cure meridian blockage.”
There was just one scenario where they couldn’t find consensus.
“What will we do then?”
“My son-in-law is not the martial world’s public property.”
The Alliance Chief barely swallowed his sigh at the Sword Star’s resolute attitude.
“Sword Star. They are surrounding the Mo Yong family compound right now.”
“…….”
“If it came to a martial contest, it would be easy for you. But what if they appeal to your sense of humanity, to your duty as a father, and plead with you?”
“…….”
“Sword Star, even you can’t easily answer right now. How desperate must they be….”
“If it’s said that the Mo Yong family secret techniques learned by Mo Yong Seol are the key to treating meridian blockage, I’m willing to share those secret techniques with the martial world.”
“!!”
A martial arts family revealing their martial arts to everyone.
That’s equivalent to giving away the entire pillar of the family to others.
“Is your son-in-law that important?”
“He’s the man my daughter loves. That alone should be answer enough.”
“However….”
The Martial Arts Alliance Chief, watching the others present, had to swallow the most concerning part.
Even though the Evil Sect has become nominal and no longer poses much of a threat—
“I ask Mo Yong.”
The Divine Monk opened his mouth.
“How will you respond to the Evil Sect?”
“…….”
The Sword Star gave no answer for a moment to the Divine Monk’s question.
“As you know, there are more meridian blockage patients in the Evil Sect than in the righteous martial world. Among the 108 patients, the majority… no, almost two-thirds are daughters from evil sects.”
“…….”
“The Sword Star also knows that they are different from those appealing to your sense of humanity as fellow righteous martial artists outside the compound walls. In the worst case.”
The Divine Monk picked up his teacup.
“Numerous Evil Sect members might try to kidnap your son-in-law. To cure their female disciples, daughters, or even wives of meridian blockage.”
“No one can force my daughter to ‘share’ her husband. Not even the Evil Sect… no, not even the entire world.”
The Sword Star twisted his lips bluntly toward the Divine Monk.
“I thought those who came here had no direct connection to meridian blockage patients, but is the Divine Monk also a man after all?”
“What are you saying?”
“Now, now. Sword Star. And Divine Monk. Please restrain yourselves. If you two fight, it would cause a greater disaster than the collapse of Huashan’s cliff.”
The Alliance Chief intervened in the battle of pressure between the two.
“Let’s wait patiently for the examination results. And results from elsewhere too. Surely, it won’t be the case.”
The Alliance Chief laughed heartily to ease the tense atmosphere.
“Only Physician Seok Mu Wol’s extreme yang essence can cure meridian blockage… well, common sense tells us that couldn’t possibly be true, right? Hahaha!”