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    It went without saying that Frank''s heart had stopped, and Winter almost passed out instantly when she saw the tlined cardiogram. "No, that''s impossible... Impossible! Frank, Frank... open your eyes! Look at me..."


    Winter panicked-she expected the risk, but when she realized that she had killed Frank with her needles, she still could not forgive herself.


    She was left staring as her hands trembled, and she fell to the floor with a thud. "How... How could this be...?"


    Seeing her anguish, Nurse Faith quickly tried tofort her. "Chief, it''s alright. You have to let him go..."


    "Yes, I have to let him go..."


    Winter''s eyes turned nk as sheughed miserably. "Could you do the same if you killed the one you love the most? Can you?"


    Nurse Faith felt pained as she looked into those empty eyes too-she had never seen such despair, misery, and endless helplessness in Winter''s eyes.


    Nurse Faith tried to say something but eventually breathed a long sigh as she had no words that couldfort Winter. "It''s not your fault, chief." "How? How is this not my fault?!"


    Winter shook her head, hysterical. "Did I misce my needles? No, it''s the right needles... Or maybe I needed pure vigor? Oh, Frank... I''m so useless..."


    "Hmm?"


    While Winter and Nurse Faith were busy moping, Dr. Zinder noticed something.


    The fingers of Frank''s corpse had just twitched.


    Dr. Zinder thought he was merely seeing things when the cardiogram of Frank''s heartbeat suddenly beeped.


    He really did not want to say, as Frank and the patient he had operated on were the freakiest cases he had ever seen.


    On top of that, someone was raised from the dead... with acupuncture!


    "Hey! Hey, look!" he cried just then.


    "Huh?"


    Both Winter and Nurse Faith turned and saw the cardiogram moving again.


    "You''re alive! You''re alive!"


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    Winter was at first taken aback, her face soon lit up in joy as she threw Kerself on top of Frank,ughing through her tears. "Era


    You''re really alive!"


    Nurse Faith was smiling too, but she soon eximed, "Wait, chief! Calm down... You''re hurting him!"


    "Oh, you''re right..." Winter murmured, but she had ovee her despair as liveliness returned to her face.


    Naturally, it was not Winter''s acupuncture that saved Frank, but the half-drop of Celestial Dew that he had swallowed.


    Winter''s acupuncture merely stimted the healing energy of the Celestial Dew, saving Frank from the brink.


    It was not all it did either—after it healed Frank, itter converted into copious volumes of pure vigor, nourishing Frank''s meridian nexus endlessly.


    As such, he had unwittingly


    improved himself despite his


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    near-death state. By thoroughly absorbing the life essence of the Celestial Dew, it flowed through hisOwned by N?velDrama.Org.


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    organs, limbs, and molecules


    In fact, if he were awake and refined the Celestial Dew with full strength, he would not be able to absorb the Celestial Dew in its entirety.


    One might even call this a blessing in disguise for him, as his cultivation


    improved by leaps and sway


    past middle Ascendant


    the


    latter stages.


    And just like how dew appears quietly in the mornings, the Celestial Dew''s effect was subtle.