The method Kang Jin-Ho had selected was a simple one—find old folks with not much time remaining but plenty of cash to burn, then heal them for a tidy sum.

Finding potential customers was an easy-enough job. All Kang Jin-Ho had to do was look around the VIP rooms of the leading hospitals in the country. The security around such rooms was usually strict, but circumventing them was a cakewalk for Kang Jin-Ho. He broke through the darkness of the night and searched through all the VIP rooms of Korea's top five hospitals until he found a patient he could treat.

Martial arts utilizing qi were capable of performing certain feats that modern medicine couldn't replicate. In terms of performing delicate operations where no medical devices could reach, a martial arts master could offer better treatment than any doctor out there. However, it was not all-conquering as it sounded.

There were plenty of illnesses that a martial master would be helpless against. A good example would be cancer. The way of qigong was to energize the practitioner's qi while breaking down and pulling out all the surrounding negative energy. Such a method would never work against cancerous cells. Energizing a person's qi flow could even lead to the tumor absorbing the energy and...