The white jade pill was still flying in the void, while the tribulation clouds started boiling with a terrifying pressure.
After a few minutes of waiting, the first lightning struck the pill with a huge force.
People below couldn't see the pill at all, but they could feel the pressure from that lightning strike. Bead after bead of cold sweat started appearing on their heads.
But still, they were watching the process of tribulation. Due to the domain of the Nexus Sovereign, the whole place was now isolated from other humans.
They didn't know that in a corner of a backward planet called Blue Star, a pill was going through its holy tribulation.
Lightning after lightning started striking the pill with a force that could destroy everything in its path.
But the white jade pill was still absorbing the essence of the tribulation without any hindrance. The shape, nature, and quality of the pill started getting better and better.
Until 98 continuous strikes landed on the pill, the tribulation clouds were getting impatient.
Only one single strike was left, but the pill was still standing in the void to receive the next lightning strike.
If the pill endured this last strike, it would be the moment when this white pill would enter the realm of holy medicine.
The tribulation clouds gathered their tribulation essence and formed a huge thunder dragon. The dragon made a pressure that terrified the people who were watching the process below.
Mu Feng gulped by seeing that dragon; Yao Ling even felt his legs were shaking in fear. Jian Nantian and others were watching the process with horrified eyes.
The thunder dragon roared towards the white jade pill, then landed on the pill with the full force that was left within it.
The white jade pill was on the verge of collapse because of the pressure and amount of essence of the thunder tribulation.
But at this moment, a white flame appeared on the pill; that flame completely engulfed the tribulation essence and started merging it with the pill.
The tribulation ended there, and the tribulation clouds started disappearing one by one. At this moment, everyone saw a white jade-like pill still floating in the air.
New rainbow-colored clouds appeared above the pill, and rainbow light started pouring on that white jade pill.
Nine different kinds of marks appeared on the white jade pill, and a beautiful fragrance swept over the whole Thousand Sword Sect.
A simple smile appeared on the face of Huai; even Jian Nantian and other elders, and Mu Feng, everyone laughed out loud at this moment. A new holy pill had appeared in front of their eyes.
All of them were happy to see it. But Nexus's face twitched in surprise; she asked hurriedly,
"Aren't you going to catch that pill? I saw even King-level pills run away after they were formed, and this is a holy-grade pill."
Huai looked at her in disgust and said, "Maybe those pills don't like their alchemist at all; that's why they ran away."
Just by saying this, he waved his hand towards the pill still flying above, and the pill immediately came to him and landed on his hand.
Huai took the pill and put it in a jade box that he had prepared before for the pill.
Nexus's face twitched in annoyance. 'Is what this guy just said correct, that those pills don't like their owners and that's why they ran away?'
she asked herself in her heart. 'But this holy level pill just returned to its owner in a single call.'
Nexus's years of knowledge started wavering at this moment. She had never seen a scene like this—as if, if Huai told this pill to dance or perform, it would do it as it was told.
The whole Thousand Sword Sect returned to its usual calm. But Jian Nantian, Li Changfeng, Xiao Wu, Yao Ling, Guo Song, and Mu Feng all looked at Huai in reverence.
The person before them really deserved the name of DIVINE PHYSICIAN.
Huai waved his hand, and an ancient scroll came out of his system space a prescription for making the pill called "Nether Fire Holy Medicine."
Huai waved his hand again; the ancient scroll floated through the air and reached the side of Goddess Nexus.
Nexus looked at the recipe of the pill and was surprised that, with this particular recipe, any holy-grade alchemist could make this pill.
So from now on, the Nether Ice Curse could be cured by humanity. But still, they needed to see the effects of the pill. And they had a perfect example in front of their eyes.
Huai looked at the unconscious ancestor, Jian Canghai. Then he took out an acupuncture box from his system space and pulled out golden needles from it.
Huai stood before the bed, his movements fluid and precise as he prepared to execute the Solar Origin Restoration technique.
Instead of using spiritual power to probe the meridians which had nearly frozen Mu Feng's soul Huai utilized his needles as "thermal conduits"
to resonate with the patient's own latent life force. He began by striking the Baihui and Guanyuan points, effectively anchoring Jian Canghai's flickering spirit.
Then, performing the legendary "Dragon's Tremor" technique, he inserted the needles into the points surrounding the Dantian.
Rather than pushing energy in, he caused the needles to vibrate at a high frequency, creating a resonance that sent micro-shocks through the Nether Ice spikes.
The room watched in a localized silence as the audible crackling of ice echoed from within the Ancestor's body,
the crystalline prison shattering into a mist of harmless vapor that began to vent through the pores of his skin.
As the core ice broke, Huai moved with a speed that blurred the vision of even the Galaxy Sovereign, Nexus.
He applied the "Burning Mountain" technique to the heart meridians, forcing the remaining Nether Miasma to retreat toward the extremities.
With the final insertion of the Seven Stars of Life, a dark, freezing liquid the liquefied essence of the curse oozed out from the tips of the needles, turning into black smoke before it could touch the ground.
The gray, deathly hue on Jian Canghai's face was instantly replaced by a flush of healthy red as his Dantian began to rotate for the first time in months.
By the time Huai retracted the final needle, the terrifying aura of the Nether Ice Curse had completely vanished, replaced by a steady,
powerful heartbeat that shook the room, signaling the rebirth of the Thousand Sword Sect's pillar.
Huai knew that without using the Nether Fire Holy Medicine, ancestor Jian Canghai was already out of danger.
Mu Feng immediately came to the side of Jian Canghai and checked his pulse, then said to everyone, "He! He is saved! His Highness saved him!"
Nexus looked at Huai and said, "Why didn't you use that pill? Using that pill could help me evaluate the pill today..."
Before she could continue, Huai said, "Without the pill or using the pill, with a single treatment method, we can't make them completely healed."
"They need time to continuously get healed by their own spiritual power."
" At least a year of rest is needed to come back fully to their previous level." Everyone knew what those words meant.
That meant that ancestor Jian Canghai was now safe, but he still needed around a complete year to wake up and return to his former level of cultivation.
But then Huai said again, "But if we add both methods together, we can save him instantly."
Just by saying this, in front of everyone's confused eyes, he took out the 9-patterned Nether Fire Holy Medicine from the jade box.
The pill started floating in the air. Huai reached out and plucked the Nether Fire Holy Pill from the air, its nine golden patterns pulsing like a heartbeat against the pure white, jade-like surface.
The pill exuded a fragrance so profound that just a single whiff caused the surrounding elders to feel their own cultivation bottlenecks loosen.
With a calm, steady hand, Huai placed the pill into Jian Canghai's mouth; upon contact, the medicine instantly liquefied into a surge of holy, white-hot essence that roared through the Ancestor's body.
This was more than mere healing; it was a total purification, as the pill's divine fire chased down the last microscopic traces of the Nether Ice Curse,
incinerating the curse's roots and converting the lingering dark energy into a massive reservoir of pure life force.
Under the watchful, astonished eyes of Nexus and the elders, the Ancestor's withered meridians began to expand and glow with a golden light,
repairing themselves at a visible speed. The once-shattered Dantian restarted with a low,
metallic hum, spinning rapidly as it absorbed the pill's medicinal power to rebuild its foundations even stronger than they were before the fight.
The deathly silence of the room was suddenly broken by a sharp, rhythmic thumping the sound of a heart beating with the strength of a war drum.
Jian Canghai's eyes snapped open, glowing with a sharp sword intent that flickered like lightning, as he sat up and exhaled a long breath of turbid, icy air.
The aura of a Peak Body Integration cultivator exploded forth, signaling that the pillar of the Thousand Sword Sect had not only survived but had been completely reborn.
The room, once a tomb of suffocating silence, erupted into a chaotic symphony of relief and profound reverence.
Sect Master Jian Nantian and the Great Elders surged forward, their eyes glistening with unshed tears,
but they stopped short of reaching their awakened Ancestor to first swarm Huai. Jian Nantian, a man who had carried the crushing weight of a failing sect for years,
bowed so deeply his forehead nearly brushed the floor, his voice trembling as he proclaimed Huai the eternal benefactor of the Thousand Sword Sect. Beside him,
Mu Feng the once-proud Sage of Seven Needles remained in a state of absolute kowtow, his face flushed with a mix of shame and fanatical worship.
Even Goddess Nexus, the 14th Galaxy Sovereign, took a measured step toward Huai, the digital patterns on her dress pulsing with an intensity that betrayed her inner astonishment.
She didn't bow as the others did, but her gaze held a rare, genuine respect that would have shocked the Federation's high command.
"To witness the birth of a Holy Medicine and the shattering of an ancient curse in a single afternoon... Shen Huai, you haven't just saved a man; you've rewritten the medical laws of the Human Federation," she remarked.
The surrounding disciples and stewards, catching the energy from the inner room, followed the lead of their elders,
their collective voices rising in a thunderous roar of "Long live the Divine Physician!" that echoed across the mountain peaks, turning a day of certain mourning into a legendary triumph.
Jian Canghai rose from the bed with a newfound vitality that seemed to hum in the air, his sharp eyes locking onto Huai with a clarity that surpassed his years of slumber.
Ignoring the frantic protests of his bewildered elders, he stepped forward and sank into a heavy, one-legged kneel a gesture of absolute vassalage rarely seen in the modern era.
"My Lord," he began, his voice rasping but firm, "in the ancient days, the Thousand Sword Sect was never an independent peak; we were but a blade in the hand of the Eternal Sect."
" Though the world forgot and the mountain gates closed, our secret mandate remained: when the Eternal Flame flickers back to life, the swords must return to their scabbard. "
"I beg of you, accept our submission and let us serve the Eternal Sect once more."
This confession hit Huai with the force of a physical blow, finally slotting the final piece into a puzzle that had haunted him since he inherited his position.
The Grand Token was never just a memento of a friendship or a reward for a passing favor; it was a dormant contract of fealty, a silent promise held in trust by the last Sect Master for a day exactly like this.
As the revelation rippled through the room, leaving even Goddess Nexus in a rare state of stunned silence, Huai looked down at the kneeling Ancestor and felt the weight of his heritage shift.