All Chapters of Ancient Medical Rising System: Rise Of The Forsaken Doctor: Chapter 231
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The glass doors slid open. Rick stepped out of the elevator. He did not look back. He knew Zark was a dead man.Zark knew it, too. It was a sacrifice made out of pure, terrifying human love for life.The glass doors closed behind Rick.Rick turned around. He looked at the true Cradle of Renewal.He was standing on the edge of a massive, underground cavern. It was the same cavern Luna had been in. There was a giant lake of completely black water in front of him.But it was no longer dark.The cavern was filled with a terrifying, breathtaking light.Rick walked forward. He stepped onto a narrow bridge made of perfectly clear glass. The bridge hovered just one inch above the still, black water. It led directly to the center of the massive lake.As Rick walked, he looked down into the water.What he saw made his breath catch in his throat. It made the dark gray sorrow in his heart ache with absolute agony.The black lake was not filled with water. It was filled with souls.Underneath the
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Rick felt sick to his stomach. The horror of it was perfect.Yuren was using the pain of the victims to power the machine that kept them numb. The people were trapped in a permanent cycle, powering their own empty prisons."And now," Yuren said, his solid blue eyes turning dark. "Because you caused a riot... because you showed them your false, messy medicine... the blue light is not enough. The city refused the peace. So, I switched the Cradle to the Eradication protocol. I am using the Hatred Root."The giant crystal flower pulsed. The light shooting up from it was no longer blue. It was a dark, bloody red."Zark paused the clock," Yuren said calmly. "He was a clever man. He gave you ten minutes. You have eight minutes left, Rick. In eight minutes, the red light will fire. It will not just hollow out their minds. It will burn their physical brains to ash. The valley will be perfectly, finally quiet."Rick’s erratic pulse hammered in his chest. THUD.The black poison of the Heaven's C
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Rick lay on his back on the cracked glass bridge. He looked up at the massive, glowing red crystal flower. He looked at the giant beam of light shooting up through the ceiling. He looked down through the glass at the millions of glowing faces trapped in the dark water.He listened to his own heart.The erratic pulse was slowing down. The black poison was winning. He was incredibly cold. He was so tired.“Maybe he is right,” a tiny, exhausted voice whispered in Rick's mind. “Maybe I should just rest.”Rick closed his eyes. He remembered the old man in the hollow clinic, weeping over his painful, twisted, arthritic hands, thanking Rick for the pain because it brought back the memory of his wife.He remembered Luna, standing in front of the ice mirror, shouting, I choose the pain!He remembered Kael on the crossroads, stabbing his own arm to stay awake.Rick opened his eyes.He was the Ghost Doctor. He did not run from diseases. He did not destroy the patient to kill the cancer.If the
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The dark water was freezing cold. It filled Rick’s nose. It filled his mouth. He was sinking deep, deep into the black lake beneath the Cradle of Renewal. The heavy metal of his boots pulled him down. His broken ribs ached. The black poison in his chest finally stopped burning.Everything was quiet. It was the heavy, final quiet of the end.Rick closed his eyes. He saw Luna’s bright, warm smile. He remembered the feeling of her hand in his. He was ready to rest. He had done his job. He had healed the machine. He had saved the world.But the world was not done with the Ghost Doctor.Suddenly, the water around him stopped feeling cold. It felt warm. It felt like a soft, thick blanket wrapping around his tired body.Rick opened his eyes.The water was no longer black. It was glowing. It was a beautiful, messy, bright green.It was his own magic. It was the Earth Pulse Qi. But it was not coming from his hands. It was coming from the lake itself. When Rick had injected Kael’s tear of sorr
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Rick gritted his teeth. The force of Yuren's hatred was incredibly heavy. "I am not going to die, Yuren. And I am not going to let you destroy yourself."Rick twisted his wrist. He slid his green scalpel down the side of Yuren's blade, pushing the dark weapon away. Then, Rick swung his scalpel in a wide arc.Rick did not aim for Yuren's flesh. Rick aimed for the empty air next to Yuren's head.SLICE.The green scalpel cut cleanly through the white air.Suddenly, reality ripped open exactly where Rick had cut. A giant, glowing window appeared in the air.Inside the window, a memory played out. It was a memory from Yuren's past. It showed a young boy—young Yuren—kneeling in the mud. It was raining. The boy was holding the bloody body of a woman. It was his mother. She had been killed by bandits. The young boy was screaming, crying, begging the gods to take the pain away.Rick had used his Qi scalpel to cut into Yuren's soul. He was performing surgery on Yuren's mind. He was cutting open
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Rick did not dodge. He did not step away. Rick stepped forward. Rick moved directly into the path of the deadly black blade.Yuren's eyes widened in shock.SHNK.The black blade pierced right through Rick’s lower stomach. The dark energy exploded out of Rick's back.Rick gasped. A horrible, freezing cold filled his entire body. His blood turned to ice. His legs went numb. The Hatred Root was inside him, trying to delete his organs."You..." Yuren stuttered. He held the handle of the black blade, staring into Rick's face, which was only inches away. "Why didn't you dodge? Why are you killing yourself?"Rick coughed. Bright red blood spilled over his lips. He smiled. It was a tired, painful, victorious smile."Because a surgeon," Rick whispered, his breath hitting Yuren's face, "has to get close to the tumor."Rick dropped his green Qi scalpel. He did not need a cutting tool anymore. He needed his hands.Before Yuren could pull the black blade out, Rick reached up with both of his glowi
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"It hurts," Yuren sobbed, curling into a ball on the floor. "The guilt... the memory... it hurts so much."Rick fell to his knees next to him. Rick was bleeding heavily from the hole in his stomach. His vision was swimming. He was dying."I know it hurts," Rick whispered, placing a gentle, bloody hand on Yuren's shaking shoulder. "Welcome back to the world, my friend."Rick had done it. He had performed the impossible surgery. He had cured the High Saint.But the victory was cut short.The air around them began to scream. It was a high-pitched, mechanical whine that hurt Rick's ears.The millions of yellow System boxes in the sky changed. They turned a solid, terrifying, absolute white.[DELETION PROTOCOL ACTIVATED.][TIME REMAINING: 30 SECONDS.]The endless white room began to dissolve. The invisible glass floor cracked and began to turn into white mist."Rick!" Yuren cried. He grabbed Rick's bloody green shirt. "We have to run! We have to disconnect from the Core! The System is goin
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The dark cavern was very quiet. Rick lay on his back on the cold, salty dirt. He was breathing very slowly. His chest moved up and down with a weak, rattling sound. The deep cut in his stomach was bleeding heavily. The dark red blood soaked into his green shirt and ran into the dirt.He was so tired. His body was completely broken. He had fought the High Saint. He had fought the Hatred Root. He had won."Rick. Rick, look at me."Luna’s voice was shaking. She knelt next to him. Her clothes were wet from the black lake. Her beautiful crystal arm was gone, leaving only a torn, bleeding shoulder. But she did not care about her own pain. She only cared about Rick.She pressed her real, human hand hard against his bleeding stomach. She tried to stop the blood."I am looking," Rick whispered. He forced a small, tired smile onto his pale face.Luna’s tears fell from her cheeks and landed on his dirty face. "You have to stay awake. The bleeding is bad. You are a doctor, Rick. Tell me how to f
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"My blue magic was a terrible cage," Yuren continued. "It was an empty prison. But it was perfectly structured. It had absolute order. It was a strong wall."Yuren looked Rick right in the eyes."The universe needs both, Rick," Yuren whispered. "Life is a messy, beautiful fire. But it needs a strong, quiet structure to hold it. Healing is not just chaos. Healing is putting the broken bones back into a straight line so they can grow again. We have to merge the codes."Rick stared at his old friend. He understood.Compassion without order is just wild, burning emotion. Order without compassion is just a cold, empty statue. To truly heal the world, they needed to combine them. They needed a medicine that accepted pain but gave it a safe place to heal.[2 MINUTES AND 00 SECONDS TO RESET.]The ground shook harder. The black lake began to boil."How do we merge them?" Rick asked, his voice barely a whisper."Give me your hand," Yuren said.Yuren reached out his pale, dirty hand.Rick slowly
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Rick lifted his right hand. It was not bleeding anymore. But it was not solid flesh, either.Rick’s fingers were beginning to break apart. They were not turning to dust or ash. They were turning into pure, glowing green threads of Qi.The tips of his fingers unraveled like an old sweater. The glowing green strings floated up into the air and vanished."Rick!" Luna screamed. She grabbed his arm, but her hand passed right through his wrist. His wrist was turning into green threads, too.Yuren sat up quickly. He stared at Rick in horror."The cost," Yuren whispered. "Oh, gods, the cost of the merge.""What cost?!" Luna demanded, crying wildly. She tried to hold Rick's face, but his cheek was beginning to glow with the same green light."To rewrite Heaven's Record, the System needed an anchor," Yuren explained, his voice breaking with deep sorrow. "It needed a physical body to hold the new golden rule. Rick gave it his last spark of life. His body cannot hold the power of the entire unive