The Great Doctor Girl

"Cough cough..." I suddenly rolled over and sat up from the beach, a violent coughing fit suddenly breaking out. What came out of my mouth was not seawater, but silver sand shimmering with mysterious starlight. In the sunlight, these sand grains seemed to carry the secrets of the deep universe. My eyes were full of confusion. I gasped violently, looked around, and asked in a hoarse voice, "What are we doing..."

My words died before I could finish, my gaze drawn to the nimble, outstretched fingers of my own. I flexed them in disbelief, then tremblingly touched my legs, which had regained feeling. My eyes instantly welled up, and my hands trembled with excitement. In the distance, the coconut trees rustled in the breeze, and the laughter of tourists drifted in from time to time. Thirty meters away, the overwater villa bore the address we'd reserved—the honeymoon suite we were supposed to stay in three days prior. Everything seemed familiar, yet strangely familiar.

Huang Junze looked anxious. He suddenly reached out and grasped my wrist tightly. His palm had turned translucent, yet it still felt scorching hot, as if conveying some kind of urgency. He said hurriedly, "Quick, look at Yining's reflection!"

Upon hearing this, I hurriedly glanced toward the clear waters. Behind the innocent reflection of my youngest daughter, Yining, loomed the faint silhouette of a young girl draped in a star-studded veil. Her figure was ethereal, her face beautiful yet mysterious, and she emanated a soft, star-like light, as if hailing from a distant starry realm. But when I peered closer, the shadow vanished like a dream, dissolving into ripples and vanishing. It was as if everything had just been a beautiful illusion created by the sunlight and the water.

"The return of a fallen star reverses more than just time and space..." Lin Chen had quietly stepped up behind me, his voice low and filled with shock. It was noon, and under the intense sunlight, his shadow took on an eerie double vision, as if simultaneously existing in two different dimensions of space and time. He slowly spread his palms, a cluster of dancing sparks flickering at his fingertips like a miniature star. "My ALS is indeed gone, but with every breath I can hear the whispers of the stars... Just like right now, three hundred meters below sea level, a school of frenzied humpback whales is charging fiercely towards this beach... The whispers of the stars are the prelude to fate, and we are the performers of this mysterious movement."

As if to confirm his words, a massive wave ten meters high suddenly rose from the distant sea, the water surging and boiling. The normally docile whales broke out of the water, their eyes flashing the same eerie silver light as Lin Chen's. Sharp bone spurs formed from astral crystals grew on their jagged backs, gleaming icy cold in the sunlight. Each whale looked like a monster swam from the depths of a nightmare.

The dragon scale pattern on Huang Junze's neck reappeared, but this time it no longer shone with the dazzling golden light of the past. Instead, it glowed with a faint blue light, the same source as the Star Marrow veins, exuding an aura of mystery and danger. He quickly shielded Yining and me behind him, his eyes firm, his voice filled with the determination of a desperate struggle: "It seems that our once beautiful honeymoon has become a cruel preview of the Star Wars."

The sea breeze, carrying a strong, salty aroma, lashed my face. The fragments of the Seven-Star Moxibustion Box on my wrist suddenly chimed sharply, as if responding to the impending crisis. Uncontrollably, the bronze fragments automatically arranged themselves on the beach into the shape of the Big Dipper. With a flash of light, an emerald mist rose from it, and a map of the star paths of the Great Zhou Dynasty gradually emerged. As I gazed at the map, a complex emotion flickered in my eyes. I clearly remembered this, the very same "Xuan Ji Yao Shu" (Essential Techniques of the Xuan Ji) that I had painstakingly drawn in my previous life at the Imperial Astronomical Observatory.

"Mom, that uncle's bleeding." Yining's childish voice broke the tense atmosphere. She tugged at the corner of my shirt, her eyes filled with worry. I looked in the direction of her finger and saw a young boy huddled behind a reef. His right leg was ravaged by ulcers, a horrific sight. Star marrow crystals were frantically devouring his flesh and blood, emitting a strange, fluorescent glow. The familiar energy fluctuations made my fingertips tremble, and my thoughts instantly flashed back to my past life. When Yuwen Xue had eviscerated Yunya's "Heavenly Doctor's Guide" bone and blood, he had also shone with a chilling light.

Huang Junze's dragon claw had completely crystallized, its original golden lines now swirling with dark blue energy. He stared intently at everything before him and said in a deep voice, "It's the contamination of the Star Marrow Vein. Those whales... I'm afraid they've also been controlled by this evil force."

Before he could finish his words, three enormous mutant humpback whales burst through the waves like cannonballs, sending a massive spray of water scattering in all directions. Amidst the chaos, I caught a glimpse of Xia Ruoxi struggling to help a drowning person evacuate. The cinnabar mole on the back of her neck was faintly visible against the waves. A shudder trembled in my heart. I remembered it clearly: this cinnabar mole was the birthmark of Qiu Chan, my maid in my previous life. Qiu Chan and I had studied the fragments of the Qing Nang Book together. Memories of the past flooded back to me.

"Qian three links, Kun six breaks, Li is fire, Kan is an arrow!" I took a deep breath, bit my tongue, and sprayed my blood essence onto the bronze star key. With this infusion of blood essence, the emerald mist within the Big Dipper Formation instantly transformed, rapidly condensing into meridian projections, like a mysterious web of life. Yun Ya's previously limping leg twitched violently. The star marrow crystals resonated strangely with the formation diagram, slowly outlining the long-lost "Xuan Ji Diagnostic Technique" in the air. The flickering lights, like ancient runes, revealed the secrets of medicine.

Lin Chen suddenly stepped forward quickly, holding my shoulder. A star track flashed in his silver pupils, and he said very quickly: "The second whale from the left has an old injury on the seventh vertebra." He tapped his fingertips, and a cluster of stars drew a bright coordinate, and this coordinate was clearly the place where Yuwen Xue pierced my shoulder blade with the Star-Eating Bracelet in my previous life. The thread of fate seemed to be quietly intertwined at this moment.

(Flashback to past life)

On the Jingzhe Festival, the seventh year of the Yonghe reign, fine raindrops fell like needles, chilling the bones. I was in the medicine room, anxious, secretly using forbidden techniques to prolong Xiao Heng's life. Just then, Qiu Chan suddenly burst open the door. Her hair was disheveled, stained with locust flowers from the Imperial Observatory. Blood seeped from the toad's blood spur on her wrist, where I had inflicted it. She gasped, her face filled with terror as she cried out, "Miss, run! Yuwen Xue and the Nine Stars Guards are coming this way..."

(Reality Interweaving)

The mutated whale's wail shattered memories. Star marrow crystals erupted into a dark blue mist, enveloping everything around them like a mysterious, misty forest. Holding emergency forceps, Xia Ruoxi expertly cut through Yunya's rotting flesh. Her every movement perfectly mirrored Qiu Chan's pounding of medicine in her previous life. She said, "Master, according to the seventh volume of the Qing Nang Book, 'Replenishing the Shape with the Like,' we should use a silver hairpin to pierce the Huantiao acupoint."

I quickly plucked out my hairpin and inserted it into the acupuncture point without hesitation. Instantly, the AR projection of my Ren and Du meridians materialized, like a shimmering channel of energy. Guided by the silver hairpin, the astral marrow crystals began to reorganize into bionic nerves. Modern nanomaterials and ancient medical meridians seamlessly merged within this magical emerald mist, unleashing incredible power.

The sea suddenly fell into an eerie calm, like the calm before a storm. Lin Chen noticed something was wrong, his silver eyes suddenly shrank, and he said nervously: "No, they are..."

In an instant, dozens of water jets shot up into the sky. Crystallized whale baleen, like sharp spears, woven into a vast net that enveloped the crowd. Huang Junze's dragon-scale armor crackled under the powerful pressure. The crystallization had quickly spread to his collarbone. He was anxious and shouted, "Quickly, take Yining to the Big Dipper Formation!"

I hugged Yining tightly, desperately trying to hide inside the formation. At that moment, my daughter in my arms suddenly giggled. Her laughter was clear and melodious, and the star patterns on her face glowed softly, like a beacon in the darkness. The moment the first baleen pierced the barrier, Yining's forehead erupted with the same extreme cold energy as the girl in the ice coffin. This cold energy spread rapidly, and in the blink of an eye, the waves within a ten-meter radius froze instantly, forming a crystal-clear sea of ​​ice.

"Mom, look! The little fish are glowing!" Yining's tender voice echoed. She stretched out her small hand, lightly touching the ice with her fingertips. A miraculous thing happened: the frozen energy of the astral marrow flowed back through the veins of the ice crystals into the Big Dipper Formation, instantly causing the energy within it to surge violently. Yunya suddenly groaned in pain. His newly formed bionic nerves could no longer withstand the powerful energy and were suffering immensely.

"The Kan is full, the Dui is empty!" Furious, I flipped the silver hairpin, slashing my palm once more. Crimson drops of blood dripped onto the ice, instantly smearing the image of an ancient Heluo map. Emerald light mist and star marrow energy mingled within the formation, forming a vast Tai Chi vortex, like a mysterious energy furnace, striving to transform violent energy into pure healing power.

At the critical moment, Xia Ruoxi suddenly grabbed the emergency knife and cut her wrist without hesitation. The blood dripped into the vortex with a dazzling golden light. She shouted loudly: "Miss, it's time to wake up." Her blood beads outlined the totem of the Great Zhou altar on the ice surface, which was the core of the Nine Star Devouring Array launched by Yuwen Xue in his previous life!

Huang Junze, seeing this, thought Xia Ruoxi was about to unleash a dangerous power. His dragon-patterned spear, carrying the force of wind and thunder, instantly thrust towards Xia Ruoxi. In a split second, Lin Chen reacted swiftly. His sparks arrived before the spear tip reached Xia Ruoxi's throat, melting it into molten iron before it could reach her. "She's not an enemy," Lin Chen's silver eyes reflected the cinnabar mole deep within Xia Ruoxi's, and he quickly explained, "She's the guardian hidden within the sacrifice."

Where the sea and sky met, a vision of nine stars in a line suddenly illuminated the waters. The dazzling light was like a divine descent. Emerald beams of light from the Big Dipper Formation shot straight into the sky, seemingly bridging heaven and earth. Yining, in my arms, began to tremble violently. The shadow of the girl in the ice coffin loomed behind her, her voice cold and eerie: "Heavenly Doctor Star Girl, this welcome gift..."

"Get out of my daughter's body!" I glared, eyes filled with determination and fury. I pressed the fragment of the Seven-Star Moxibustion Box to the phantom's brow. The inscription of the Great Zhou Dynasty's forbidden technique spread rapidly along the bronze lines, emanating a mysterious power. A bond spanning millennia, sustained through the interweaving of star marrow and medical principles. This time, I will not let fate control me. Yun Ya suddenly leaped up, his crystallized right leg like a sharp blade, piercing the phantom's heart. It was the Tan Zhong Sha-breaking Style that I personally taught the medicine boy in my previous life.