"Nether Ice Curse?" Jian Nantian said in confusion. Others also felt confused. Wasn't their Ancestor Jian Canghai injured from fighting an enemy?
Although they didn't know who that enemy was, still, he is cursed? Not injured?
Guo Song said hurriedly,
"Your Highness! If you know the reason for our Ancestor's deteriorated condition, then please save him."
This time, before anyone could say anything, Yao Ling said, "Nether Ice Curse, a curse that is known from ancient times. We pill masters have no cure for this curse. "
"This curse was the paramount apex of curses from ancient times. No matter whoever is under this curse, they would die eventually."
Everyone looked at him in surprise; they never imagined the curse that is the reason for their Ancestor's deteriorated health is a curse from ancient times.
They looked at their Ancestor with teary eyes. They knew that even if their Ancestor was treated by the best physician and best pill master from the Human Federation Main Hall, he still had no chance to live.
This curse is one of the reasons that humanity suffered a huge blow back in ancient times. Their own sect had fallen into these conditions because of that war back then.
Mu Feng looked at Huai's thinking face and said, releasing a heavy sigh,
"So it was the Nether Ice Curse; that's why I was unable to detect it. "
"Today I learned a huge lesson, thanks to the Divine Physician's grace. Thank you, Your Highness, for showing us your grace. But now we need to let him go in peace...."
Before he continued, Huai looked at a place in the void and said with a smirking face, "Aren't you coming out already, or do you want to see what I'm going to do next?"
Everyone looked at the void in confusion; even the strongest among them, Mu Feng, didn't expect anything from that empty void.
But to their astonishment and horrified eyes, a beautiful figure came out of that place in the void. Her face was beautiful like a goddess.
Her dress was made of pure digital data and Heavenly Dao. Yes, she is the 14th Galaxy Sovereign of humanity, Nexus.
Everyone saw her in horror, then, except for Huai, they bowed to her and gave her the greatest salute they knew.
"Greetings, Your Highness, Nexus Goddess. We're extremely lucky to see you come to our humble abode."
Nexus looked at them and then nodded, then looked at Huai with an amused smile. "You told your disciples not to take anything from unknown people?"
Huai: "Yes, so what? Don't you know it's easy to kidnap children by giving them gifts nowadays? Didn't your parents teach you this common sense? Oh, I forgot....."
Nexus's face twitched in annoyance. She never imagined that a Body Integration Peak level cultivator would talk to her like that one day.
And what do you mean by kidnapping your children? Those children can kill Void Refinement Peak cultivators as if cutting vegetables.
And what do you mean by teachings from parents? "I don't have parents..."
Huai, "Yes, I forgot that, sorry." Everyone looked at Huai in horror. They never knew that Huai could talk to Goddess Nexus like she is his neighbor.
And what do you mean by you forgot? You definitely said that knowing it clearly. But we can't prove that so...
Huai , "Now tell me, why did you come here without doing your job at the Federation?"
Nexus looked at him and said, annoyed, "Can't you at least show some care? At least I'm a beautiful girl. What is that disgusted look in your eyes?"
Huai was still wearing the white veil, so Nexus couldn't see the disgusted look on his face either.
Huai fixed his face and said, "Ahem! You saw wrong. Now tell me, what do you want from me?"
Nexus said directly this time, "Do you know the cure for the Nether Ice Curse?" Huai didn't say anything, just looked at the unconscious Jian Canghai while calculating something in his head.
"If you know it, please treat him. This curse took many lives from ancient times up to now. We only know the reality of how it spreads amongst humanity. But we can't find a cure for that disease at all."
Huai looked into her eyes and asked deeply, "So you already know about Nether Water? Then you still have some in the Human Federation's collection for research, at least."
Nexus looked at Huai in surprise; he also knew about that thing. To research that thing, they even sacrificed many scientists and physicians.
But still, they couldn't find anything from that liquid; it's still just water, but no matter whoever tried to touch it with bare hands, they died of this Nether Ice Curse.
She said, "Yes, for the last thousands of years we have been trying to research that material to find a cure for that horrifying curse, that can curse even Galaxy Sovereigns. "
"We have records that in the past ancient war, many Galaxy Sovereigns died of that curse."
"But even after researching for so many years, we found nothing. It's just a drop of water. But by a simple touch, it can turn into a terrifying curse, the Nether Ice Curse."
Huai nodded at her and said, "You didn't find anything because you thought just putting some qi, blood, or flesh from humanity would activate the curse, right?"
Nexus looked at him in surprise; that's exactly what those scientists did. They found out Nether Water can only be active if humans or animals touch it.
So they came to the conclusion that it activates due to qi, blood, or flesh of animals. And they were right; it really activates if it is touched by blood, qi, or flesh.
But for a fraction of a second, the blood, qi, or flesh evaporates.
Nexus: "Yes, it's exactly as you said." Huai smiled, knowing this fact. He is right; he knows why they can't find anything about Nether Water at all.
He said, "Nether Water, a forbidden material from ancient times. But the point that you don't know is Nether Water didn't attack qi, flesh, blood, or souls. It attacked the Life Force."
These words startled Nexus; even Mu Feng, Yao Ling, and others were startled by that revelation.
Nexus thought to herself, yes, they never thought it through.
Why does it activate at the touch of animals and form into a curse, but when they add it separately without the touch of humans, it reacts like that for a fraction of a second? So that's what it is;
it's the life force that activates the nature of Nether Water.
Nexus said in a deep voice, "Do you know the cure for this curse?"
Huai didn't say anything, just nodded at her, then looked at the unconscious Jian Canghai.
This was good news to all, but for Nexus, it was news of utmost security.
It can't be discussed in the presence of everyone. It can't be known to others at all. Or else, with the cultivation level of Huai, it'd be dangerous for him.
Jian Nantian and others, except Mu Feng and Nexus, knelt down immediately and said,
"Your Highness! Please, please save our Ancestor. We were a mere affiliated force of the Eternal Sect in ancient times. "
"Please save him. We! We'll submit to the Eternal Sect again in your reign. Please save him..."
Huai didn't do anything this time but looked at Nexus in the eyes and said, "I can save him and will give you the treatment method for this curse, but I have a condition."
Nexus also knew the amount of importance of this treatment. She said gently, "Please say it."
Huai: "The medicine to cure this particular disease is a Holy-grade medicine. I can concoct it by myself. Also, there is a second way to treat it, by acupuncture."
" I also know it too. But I want you to grant me a favor, that you will not evaluate my alchemy qualification or physician qualification."
These words made the whole room fall into a terrifying chill. Mu Feng and Yao Ling felt a chill run through their spines. They knew the meaning of the words spoken by Huai.
He can concoct Holy medicine; then isn't he already a Holy Alchemist? And what does he mean by he knows the cure for that curse via acupuncture too?
Doesn't that make him a Holy-grade Physician too? And he doesn't want people to know about it. But why?
Nexus looked at him in surprise. She thought in her heart before that if Huai could treat this disease, according to the rules she'd evaluate Huai's qualifications,
but now he's saying he needs a favor that she can't evaluate his qualification.
Nexus still nodded and said, "Then let it be like how you want it."
Huai nodded and said, "I need two things: a drop of Nether Water and a piece of Solar Jade." "I think that you have both of them in your collection."
Nexus nodded and gave him both ingredients; a drop of water and a fiery red jade flew out of the void and landed before Huai.
Huai used his spiritual power to make them float before him.
Then he gently waved his hand and both ingredients started reacting according to his will.
The Nether Water drop started evaporating little by little, and half a drop of pure Nether Essence was extracted from that drop of Nether Water.
Huai did the same for the fiery red Solar Jade. By the power of his spiritual power, little by little, the whole jade started melting like a drop of fiery red water,
then the drop of water started reducing in front of everyone's eyes and at last formed half a drop of essence of the fiery red drop.
The next step is the main step of the process. To combine two completely different nature materials into a single specific drop.
But to everyone's surprise, a white flame appeared in Huai's hand. This flame is known as the "Eternal Flame." Huai used this fire to mix these two half drops of completely different materials.
The materials clashed with each other and made a terrifying red flame around themselves, but that flame was completely burned out by that pure white flame in Huai's hand.
After a few seconds, at a moment, a terrifying phenomenon appeared in the sky above the Thousand Sword Sect.
It's the appearance of Thunder Tribulation. Whenever a pill reaches the level of King-level pills, they need to face tribulation.
Everyone looked at the tribulation clouds in horror. Even Nexus looked in that direction. Tribulation clouds started gathering until they expanded around for kilometers.
In the place where Huai was concocting the pill, both materials, Nether Water and Solar Jade, started forming a Taiji shape.
And little by little, they started neutralizing each other. Then a bright light formed in the place of the pill, and a pure white jade-like pill formed and solidified in the air in front of Huai.
Huai smiled seeing the pill form. Huai retracted his Eternal Flame, and the pill itself went outside to meet the tribulation clouds.
Huai looked at Nexus, "Cover this sect and place, or else everyone would know a Holy-level artifact or pill appeared in this area."
"And covering this sect with your power would save them from the annihilation power of that tribulation," he said nonchalantly, pointing at the sky.
Nexus came into the realization that what Huai said is absolutely correct. She immediately covered the whole Thousand Sword Sect and its mountains of kilometers long in her Absolute Domain.
Even these Holy-level tribulation clouds couldn't do anything to this place.
Then everyone from the Thousand Sword Sect—Jian Nantian, Li Changfeng, Xing Wu, Yao Ling, Guo Song, thousands of disciples from the sect, other elders, stewards, the Sage of Seven Needles Mu Feng,
and even Nexus—all looked at the distance to see tribulation clouds boiling in the sky, waiting for the perfect time to attack the thing that wanted to reach the level of Holiness.
And below those huge kilometer-long black tribulation clouds stood in the void, a pure jade-white colored pill.
Waiting for the tribulation clouds to attack it, so that it would be able to reach the level of holy medicine.