The Great Doctor Girl

The crisp sound of shattering glass echoed between heaven and earth, and the shadow of the girl in the ice coffin transformed into countless starlight and dissipated into the air. Suddenly, the torrent of energy from the Big Dipper Formation backflowed, flowing along Yunya's bionic nerves and into his injured leg. The powerful energy raged through his body, but it also quietly reshaped his right leg into a unique physique of star marrow crystals and flesh and blood, as if giving him a new life force.

On the beach, the sun still shone brightly, as if everything that had just happened was just a nightmare. Huang Junze's crystallization began to fade, but the dragon scale pattern had permanently turned a dark blue, as if it were the eternal mark of the battle. The star tracks in Lin Chen's silver eyes gradually faded, leaving behind a scar like an ice crack, the price of his fusion with the power of the stars. On Yining's sleeping face, the star pattern condensed into a cinnabar mole, appearing particularly peaceful and lovely.

"When the Big Dipper hangs upside down and the gate of heaven opens..." Xia Ruoxi murmured to herself as she watched the disappearing Nine Stars in a Row. Her eyes were filled with mystery and vicissitudes. A circular burn mark had appeared on her wrist at some point, in the same position as Yuwen Xue's Nine Star-Devouring Bracelet, as if telling the secrets of past and present lives.

I picked up a star marrow crystal washed ashore by the waves and discovered that it contained half a Great Zhou Palace Belt, its patterns intricate and mysterious. Meanwhile, the sound of a medical helicopter's rotors approached from afar. Yun Ya, with his newly born right leg, was drawing a complete Heluo map on the beach. This former lame beggar held the key to unlocking the truth of his past life. Using medicine as his sword, he slashed through the mists of time and space to recover the lost truth. This miraculous journey spanning millennia, involving star marrow and medicine, past and present lives, seemed to have only just begun. The regrets of the past life will be redeemed under the starlight of this life.

Emerald mist swirled across the sand, and the burn mark on Xia Ruoxi's wrist suddenly erupted with a crimson glow. She stumbled and fell to the ground, the waves crashing over her ankles, condensing into fine, icy crystals of star marrow. "This isn't the mark of the Star Devouring Bracelet..." She trembled as she touched the circular scar, the image of Yu Wenxue holding the Nine-Light Compass flashing in her vision. "This is the mark of resonance."

Amid the roar of the hovering medical helicopter, Yun Ya suddenly let out a beast-like growl. The astral veins in his newly formed right leg suddenly erupted, projecting a holographic star map of the Great Zhou Imperial Astronomical Observatory onto the beach. I quickly stepped forward to hold his twitching shoulder blade, my fingertips touching the familiar energy patterns of the Xuan Ji Essential Technique—the very same forbidden technique formation I'd drawn in my previous life to extend Xiao Heng's life.

"The water level in the Kan Palace has shifted three degrees!" The cracks in Lin Chen's silver eyes shone with a faint blue light. He grabbed a pair of emergency forceps and pierced Yunya's Zusanli acupoint. Nanometal and astral marrow collided, creating brilliant sparks. Surveillance footage from the cloning lab suddenly appeared in the air: dozens of ice coffins were displayed in the deep-sea base, each engraved with the Yuwen family crest. Simultaneously, the holographic projection showed footage from the delivery room during my delivery of Ning Ning: images of placental tissue being injected with astral marrow catalyst, perfectly overlapping with the incubation process of dozens of ice coffins in the deep-sea base.

Huang Junze's dragon-scale armor suddenly resonated sharply, and he yanked Xia Ruoxi's bleeding wrist. The circular burn mark, illuminated by her Taotie-patterned wedding ring, revealed a genetic code: GTC-9527, a perfect match for the cloned sequence from my umbilical cord blood sample. "Are you the vessel Yuwenxue prepared?" As his dragon claws gripped her throat, the star essence coursing through his palm lines suddenly solidified into the shape of a Star-Eating Bracelet. At this moment, the dragon-scale armor peeled away in the resonance, revealing the ancient, bone-wrenching wound on his chest that had spanned millennia. As his dragon claws gripped Xia Ruoxi's throat, the shadow of the Star-Eating Bracelet suddenly solidified, illuminating the marriage certificate, hidden within the inner layers of the Qing Nang Book in Luo Shu's previous life. On the day of Yuwenxue's wedding, it was Qiu Chan's tampering with the prescription that had caused Xiao Heng's meridians to reverse course and die.

A hundred-meter-high column of water erupted from the sea, and three ice coffins washed ashore with the surge. The star pattern on the coffin lid resonated with the cinnabar mole on Yining's forehead, and a three-dimensional projection of the Great Zhou altar emerged from the emerald mist. The fragments of the Seven-Star Moxibustion Box in my arms automatically flew toward the ice coffin, and with the sound of bronze clashing, they pieced together to form the complete Xuan Ji Instrument.

"Mom, the stars are talking." Yining suddenly broke free from her embrace and stepped barefoot into the icy waters. With every step she took, shimmering star-marrow coral sprouted from the beach, and memories of past lives emerged from the coral: the trembling toad's blood when Qiu Chan stole the prescription, the blood splashing onto the Qing Nang Book while Yu Wenxue excised bones, and the gluttonous patterns deep in the pupils of the girl in the ice coffin as she awakened. Meanwhile, the cinnabar mole on Yining's forehead suddenly oozed blood, and the waves beneath her bare feet instantly solidified into star-marrow coral. Seven-colored blood lotuses bloomed one after another within the coral, each petal reflecting the truth of reincarnation: Yu Wenxue injected the memory code into an underwater volcano, reshaping the Dao fetus through eruptions every hundred years; and Xia Ruoxi, the ninth vessel, whose umbilical cord blood contained the GTC-9527 sequence, a perfect match with Qiu Chan's DNA sample preserved by Luoshu.

Lin Chen's spark suddenly transformed into a scalpel, slicing through the seal of the nearest ice coffin. The clone floating in the embalming fluid suddenly opened its eyes, and the Vermillion Bird Feather mark on its chest and the Luoshu umbilical cord blood bottle simultaneously glowed red. Yu Wenxue's ethereal voice echoed in the air: "A thousand years of karma have finally resulted in a Star Marrow Dao Fetus."

Dozens of drones suddenly poured out of the helicopter hatch, forming a Bagua formation in the air. Jing Shuo's voice boomed over the loudspeaker: "The astral marrow contamination index has exceeded the critical value. Immediately initiate the Yellow Emperor's Outer Classic purification process!" He directed a rain of nanosilver needles, but upon reaching the ice coffin, they were completely devoured by the astral marrow crystals.

Yunya suddenly leaped up, his crystallized right leg piercing the ice coffin. The genetic solution flowed upstream along his astral marrow veins, forming patterns of the Great Zhou official ribbon on his skin. I was shocked to discover that these patterns matched the code to the bronze box in my mother's teahouse. When the final genetic lock was unlocked, the entire beach's earth veins suddenly vibrated, and a massive stone tablet inscribed with the "Shennong Bencao Jing" rose from the seabed. This echoed the scene where, amid the roar of propellers, Yunya's newly formed astral marrow leg suddenly pierced the sand, and the patterns of the Heluo diagram spread along the crystallized meridians, completely matching the code to the bronze box in my mother's teahouse. Back then, while collecting her belongings, I touched the fragment of the "Xuan Ji Yao Shu" in the box and witnessed a vision of Qiu Chan being eviscerated by Yuwen Xue.

"The universe turns upside down, the stars return to the Purple Palace!" Xia Ruoxi suddenly bit her tongue, flicking a drop of blood towards the Xuanji Instrument. The circular burn mark transformed into the core of the Nine-Star Devouring Formation, enveloping everyone in a blood-red energy field. Huang Junze's dragon-scale armor peeled away, revealing a hideous, bone-gnawing wound on his chest—the shape of the scar was remarkably similar to the "Heavenly Doctor's Guide" stolen from me in my previous life.

The cinnabar mole on Yining's forehead erupted in aurora light, and the frozen ocean waves instantly vaporized into emerald mist. From this mist emerged twelve bronze figures condensed from star marrow, each acupoint gleaming with fragments of text from the Qing Nang Book. I remembered clearly that this was the lost teaching aid for the "Xuan Ji Diagnosis Technique" from the Imperial Hospital in my previous life. The twelve bronze figures, radiating from the emerald mist, emerged from the waves. The fragments of the Qing Nang Book gleaming from their acupoints became quantum entangled with the "Tang Tou Ge Jue" (Song Tou Ge Jue) I had memorized at the age of three on Mount Paektu.

From the seafloor came the roar of mechanical gears, and a nine-story bronze tower emerged from the waves. A star-marrow core hovering atop the tower revealed the log of a cloning experiment: Yuwenxue encoded her memories into a star-marrow vein, using the power of an underwater volcano to nurture a Dao fetus every hundred years. And Xia Ruoxi was the perfect vessel for this ninth reincarnation. The mechanical roar from the seafloor shattered any last glimmer of hope. The nine-story bronze tower broke through the waves, and the star-marrow core suspended at its heart revealed a breathtaking log of the experiment: the "accidental" premature birth twenty years ago was a genetic sacrifice manipulated by Yuwenxue's remnant spirit through the stone tablet of the Yellow Emperor's Outer Classic. The so-called aura of the Celestial Doctor Star Girl, as described in Ning Mingge, was merely the key to cultivating a millennium-long cloning program.

"Miss, it's time to repay your debt." Xia Ruoxi's pupils turned completely silver-white, and the shadow of the Star-Eating Bracelet solidified on her wrist. She raised her hand and summoned the Vermillion Bird Feather, but the tip pointed at Yining's heart: "Only by using the destiny of the Heavenly Doctor Star Girl can we open the gate to Guixu." At this moment, Xia Ruoxi's voice suddenly overlapped with Yuwenxue's ethereal tremor. As the tip of the Vermillion Bird Feather pressed against Yining's heart, the blood jade on my neck suddenly burst into the forbidden red light of the Great Zhou Imperial Astronomical Observatory. Memories of my past life flooded back like a tide: Qiu Chan kneeling at the center of the altar, Yuwenxue holding the Star-Eating Bracelet to pluck out her soul and spirit, and the moment I traveled through the modern delivery room and heard Yining's first cry.

Huang Junze's dragon claws and Lin Chen's sparks simultaneously struck at the center of the formation, but upon contact with Xia Ruoxi, they were instantly bound by the Star Marrow Chains. I suddenly tore the red cord from my neck and slapped the blood jade, containing my past life's memories, into the Xuan Ji Instrument. The Great Zhou star map and the cloned gene chain intertwined in mid-air, revealing a suffocating truth: the original genes of all the clones came from the placental tissue left behind when I gave birth to Yi Ning.

A golden light suddenly erupted from the underwater stele, and the words from Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica transformed into a medicinal tornado, engulfing Xia Ruoxi. As the Vermillion Bird Feather pierced Yining's heart, the astral coral suddenly blossomed into a seven-colored blood lotus. Amidst the dazzling light, I discerned the essence of reincarnation: every rescue precipitates a new calamity, and every Dao fetus is the embodiment of a past life's obsession.

"Then let the cause and effect end here!" I grabbed the bronze star key and stabbed it into my Dan Zhong acupoint. The medical merits accumulated in past and present lives exploded.

Amidst emerald light, twelve bronze figures formed a formation to suppress the Nine Stars Devouring Formation, while the ice coffin clones successively transformed into stardust. As the Star Devouring Bracelet on Xia Ruoxi's wrist shattered, Yuwenxue's remnant soul screamed in despair before being drawn into the Yellow Emperor's Outer Classic. Meanwhile, Jing Suo's exclamation was drowned out by the astral marrow storm. The nano-silver needles he controlled, upon contacting the ice coffin, suddenly transformed into the Bian stones I used to treat Xiao Heng in my previous life. The genetic solution flowed backwards along the inscriptions on the Shennong Herbal Classic. At the moment of the underwater volcano's eruption, Yuwenxue's remnant soul screamed amidst the fragments of the Star Devouring Bracelet.