Chapter 3: Restoring his Crippled Meridians (1/2)

Chapter 3: Restoring his Crippled Meridians

“Yu’er! Hurry and save your Father.” *sobs*

Mother Qin didn’t need to say anymore before Qin Yu rushed forward. He urgently held Qin Wu up and reached out to grab his wrist, using a thread of internal energy to probe inside him. Within Qin Wu’s body, his qi and blood were pushing against each other, causing his nerves and meridians to suffer serious damage. If the situation was prolonged, there would only be two outcomes: total body paralysis or death!

Qin Wu had really gone crazy. What he had done was the act of somebody who didn’t want their life!

Qi deviation was the biggest fear of all cultivators. Even mild consequences of qi deviation would leave the person only barely alive, let alone the severe symptoms of qi deviation that Qin Wu was currently suffering. Apart from Qin Yu, there probably wasn’t a single person in the entire Luosang City who had the ability to save Qin Wu.

It was very lucky that the current Qin Yu was no longer the former Qin Yu. Instead, he was Xie Di, the one that possessed all kinds of heavenly means. He had 40 different techniques to treat qi deviation and could also refine over 30 types of pills. But now it was obviously too late to refine a pill, so he could only use a technique.

Qin Yu quickly laid Qin Wu down neatly on the floor and released martial energy from his palm before unceasingly striking every acupuncture point on Qin Wu’s upper back. Seeing Qin Yu skillfully use a myriad of techniques with great accuracy, Mother Qin, who was sitting on the side was dazzled. Such a scene made Mother Qin wonder once again whether or not the youth in front of her was really her son.

Qin Yu couldn’t afford to notice Mother Qin’s amazed and doubtful gaze and continued to single-mindedly continue his palm strikes. While he was treating Qin Wu, he sensed a meridian displaced from its proper location inside his body. It was coiled up into a spiral, causing the qi and blood in that area to clot and push against each other.

This meridian was what martial cultivators called the “naturally crippled meridian.” Those who had a “naturally crippled meridian” would be recognized as cripples that couldn’t cultivate.

But in Xie Di’s eyes, these so-called “naturally crippled meridians” weren’t truly crippled meridians at all. Instead, it was merely a small problem that could be solved after straightening the coiled meridian. Although it would be somewhat difficult for him to fix it now with his current strength, it wasn’t impossible. If anything, it would just take a little bit longer to fix.

After Qin Yu finished his strikes, Qin Wu finally let out a few coughs and spat out a mouthful of congestion before gasping for breath. His ashen face also slowly restored a trace of color.

Seeing this, Mother Qin was overjoyed at the unexpected outcome and anxiously shouted, “Wu-ge 1, are you alright? Don’t try to cultivate again, ok? Do you not want your life?” Her voice was filled with pain as she pleaded with a trace of blame present in her voice.

“Ai…” Qin Wu sighed weakly. His face was heavy with despair and resentment. “I refuse to accept this! As a child, I was born with naturally crippled meridians and couldn’t cultivate. Now, even Yu’er has been turned into a cripple after being viciously assaulted. If I can’t manage to cultivate any martial arts, how will our family of three mouths still be able to survive? Both of you follow my lead and will have to live under other people’s noses for your entire lives, never being able to lift your head high ah!”

Qin Wu was incomparably mournful, seeming to be filled with both pain and loathing towards his own incompetence. He still didn’t know that his so-called “naturally crippled meridians” had already been healed by Qin Yu and that he was already no longer a cripple.

When Qin Wu finished his words, he suddenly thought of something and shouted loudly, “Wrong!” The abrupt, ringing shout from Qin Wu startled Mother Qin and Qin Yu, making the two of them jump. 秦武说

“Wu-ge, wh—what happened?” Mother Qin looked worriedly at Qin Wu. What else was wrong?

Qin Wu’s eyes rigidly stared at Qin Yu’s body. “Yu’er…you…when you struck me just now, I sensed that you used some internal energy. Didn’t you lose all your martial arts?”

Although Qin Wu was a natural-born cripple who was incapable of cultivating, he had been forcefully cultivating numerous times over the past few years and knew about the internal energy of martial cultivators.

“Internal energy, this…I…” Qin Yu was startled. His face turned stiff and for a moment, he wasn’t sure how to explain.

Could he just tell them that the one occupying Qin Yu’s body was Xie Di? Of course he couldn’t just say it like that!

“Eh, this…just now it really did feel like I used some kind of energy. So that was actually internal energy?” Without any other way, Qin Yu was forced to continue pretending he had lost his memories. At first, he had wanted to tell Qin Wu that his “crippled meridians” were already cured, however, based on the current situation, it was better to not say anything or else he wouldn’t have any way to explain.

“It is, ah! Yu’er, that’s precisely internal energy! You also forgot about that? It’s a martial cultivator’s exclusive internal energy ah!” Qin Wu was so emotional, he couldn’t help but grab onto Qin Yu’s hands. With a trembling voice, he said, “Yu’er…you…how did you accomplish this? Has your cultivation been restored?”

“I…I also don’t know ah.” Since Qin Yu “lost” his memory and wasn’t sure how to explain himself, he could only continue to play dumb.

“You don’t know?” Qin Wu frowned, looking at Qin Yu strangely. “You, try to circulate your qi following this diagram practice book.”

Qin Wu fished out a cultivation atlas from his bosom as he spoke and handed it over to Qin Yu. This diagram book was precisely the cultivation manual he had just used.

Qin Yu hesitated before accepting the book and opening it. The book contained lessons on how to meditate and included a picture of a cultivator taking in and releasing spiritual qi with some explanations below it.

Flipping through it once, Qin Yu scoffed at the rudimentary cultivation manual.

There was a big difference between low-end and high-end cultivational manuals. After all, cultivators of the same realm could have vast differences in martial energy based on which one they learned from. A martial cultivator with a high-end cultivation manual would have a steadier foundation along with more strength. They would also be able to skip a grade when fighting against other martial cultivators with a low-end cultivation manual.