Chapter 4: This First Time To Use sBorrow Me Your Manas (2/2)
This technique need extremely prudent. I could not be punched by him but also need to be close enough to him. Luckily, my speed was extremely fast and I could easily keep a certain distance. However, after dozens of times of trying, I started to struggle, but I was happy that I could feel the weak inner strength of his fist wind was slowly flowing into my dantian through my right hand. This inner strength was so minor, that he would not feel it at all. But after practising it a few times, I could clearly feel that the inner strength that I could absorb was gradually increasing!
The other man didn't know what I was doing. He just called out, ”Bro, this little bastard has nowhere to retreat any more. Let’s attack!” As soon as he finished, the blind man's punches became heavier.
I laughed to myself. What I wanted was that your fist wind became heavier. I tried to touch his fist a few times. If it was just a drop of water just now, now it was a warm current flowing from my right palm into my body and gradually converging on my lower abdomen. At the same time, I didn’t feel hurt to touch with my right hand and even could hold off his punches from time to time.
Gradually, the blind man felt it was odd. Logically speaking, he had practiced his martial arts at a high degree and he could made his punch as he wished. Normally, he did not need to take a break for an entire afternoon to practice the Thousand-handed Buddha Palm. Why did he suddenly feel a little tired from just fighting for a short while today? He thought to himself, ”May be it is because of my blind eyes and it was a psychological effect.”
At this moment, I didn't care what he thought. There was already some inner strength in my dantian. Yes, you were right. I used the Divine Power of the North which I just borrowed from one of Louis Cha's novels. This was a famous skill that could help one absorb inner strength from others. The person who learned this skill could not have the inner strength from the start, and the most important shortage of the skill was that the inner strength he absorbed at the beginning couldn't be too much, or it would be fatal for the absorber. This was simply designed for me, for I did not have any inner strength at all. As I can't absorb too much at once, I would only absorb a tiny bit of the palm wind at an extremely fast speed. I was truly a genius!
After shamelessly praising myself in my heart, I continued to act with caution. I was worried that the other man who was not blind would see through my tricks, so I didn't try to use it on him. Luckily, he was worried about my strange movements, and tried to get close to me gradually by using of Two Elements Steps. He didn’t brush to me, otherwise, with my weak body, I would fall down.
At this time, I was proficient in using the Divine Power of the North with my right hand already. I smiled, as my hands were covered with Divine Power of the North, my right hand was towards the blind man, and my left hand was towards the other man. In the beginning, I still did not touch their fists but only absorbed the energy from their fist wind. After dozens of punches, I could take two of the five punches, and after I took their punches, I could absorb even more inner strength. As the time went by, my inner strength had increased greatly.
The more they fought, the more shocked they were. They came to realize that something was wrong. With less and less inner strength, they could not stop, because they were worried that if they retracted, my strange movement technique would attack them all the time. At that time, they could not make a sound, because their inner strength had already been pushed to the max limitation. If they said a single word, their vital energy and blood would definitely be in turmoil and that would cause them to be crippled. At this time, Sister Lan's complexion had already recovered. She stood by the side. Seeing that the two men seemed to have the upper hand, she was not going to attack right now. Instead, she was cheering for them by side.
I secretly rejoiced in my heart as the movements of my hands became faster and faster. I didn't put much effort in my movements, but I could absorb their inner strength every time. Moreover, I could clearly feel that what I absorbed was not the inner strength that they usually preserved, but I was gradually destroying their dantian's energy reserve tank and absorb more and more to expand my own tank. It was only then that I understood the question which had puzzled me for a long time: If one was to absorb normal inner strength, then the other party could recover himself by taking rest, but if one destroyed his dantian and energy reserve tank in his body, then no matter how long the other party rested, he would only be a cripple.
After hundreds of dealing, their faces became more and more pale. Seeing that the time was right, I suddenly grabbed their fists as their fists could no longer hurt me now. They were suddenly stunned, as if a rabbit had been grabbed by the neck by a hunter. Their faces were filled with fear, and wanted to escape. However, the more they struggled, the more strength they used, and the faster they lost their inner strength. Eventually, without any strength left, the two of them kneeled down on the ground.
At this time, Sister Lan noticed that something was wrong, and she slashed at my arm. I felt a cold wind was attacking my arms, so I shook my arms and the cold wind started to move towards the two men, instantly cutting off their arms. It was only then did I see that Sister Lan had a transparent crystal dagger in her hand, and if I did not look carefully, I would not be able to discover it. Fortunately, I had just dodged it, and used the Stellar Transposition and switch the blade to the the two men's arms instead of mine. Immediately, fresh blood flowed from their wounds.
”Little thing's kung fu is really odd!” Sister Lan didn't hurry to bandage the two of them, but extended one of her hands to point at me. I suddenly realized that I couldn't move anymore, and at this moment, the woman's hand was grabbing the air, and the two men's blood flowed even faster as their bodies were trembling ferociously.
Soon both of the men curled up, as though their entire bodies’ blood and energy were forced out. Blood was floating in the air, and forming into an extremely long blood pillar under Sister Lan’s hand. Suddenly, as her hand shook, the blood pillar struck the golden wall. When the blood pillar touched the wall, the wall seemed to shrink in fear, and gradually caved in and got to Yan's side. At that time, Yan was unable to move but watched those sunken points reached his side. However there was a gap of gold powder between the sunken points and Yan. The golden powder could not be broken.
All of a sudden, Sister Lan bit her tongue and spat out a mouthful of blood on the blood pillar. The blood pillar brushed forth as if it had eaten a great tonic. It broke through the golden powder. At the same time, the blood pillar was like a hand and lift up Yan’s clothes and took the bottle with Zhou Yuan’s soul inside it. Meanwhile, as I couldn’t move, it pulled me and Zhou Yuan’s body to the side of Sister Lan.
At this time, Sister Lan's face was in a deformed state again, that probably because her energy was almost used up. Zhou Yuan fainted when he took a closer look. That face smiled fiendishly and said, ”Today, we have suffered a great loss, and we lost two warriors. But as long as we get you two, it won't be called a loss any more!”
At this time, a voice came from the sky, ” Lan, come back now. Grand Mother wants to use them!”
”Yes!”
Sister Lan grabbed us and was about to leave.
Suddenly, a voice called out, ”Leave them!” I turned around and saw a golden light emitting from Yan's body. Sister Lan had grabbed our hands and the blood pillar was emitting green smoke as if it was burnt.
”Aha!” Sister Lan shouted, and the voice in the air also shouted, ”Are you crazy? You used your Yin and Yang Transporting Body to break the Immortal Tying Seal! Now that you will not be able to go for both Yin world and Yang world! ”
With a loud crash, we fainted.
I don't know how long it passed. When I woke up, the sun was already up outside. I realized that we were still in our original room and nothing had been destroyed. Liu Shuai, Zhou Yuan lied on the floor as if what happened was a dream.
Heh heh, perhaps it was really just a dream. This dream was truly strange.
I laughed in self-mockery, and turned around to wash my face in the washroom.
I bent over to wash my face, and when I raised my head to look in the mirror, I found someone behind me. The pale Yan! Who was smiling at me!
”Aha!” I couldn't help but shout. When I looked back, no one was there, and when I looked in the mirror, Yan was still there!
”Stop shouting, if I hadn't broken the seal at the last moment, you would already be dead.” Yan said to me while smiling bitterly, ”Unfortunately, I am now an unregistered man. I cannot either go to the mortal world, or go back to the Underworld, but only stay in this mirror. And …” He took out a bottle from his clothes, ”Your friend's soul is also here with me. He won't come out as well.”
”Doesn't that mean …?” I said powerlessly, ”Zhou Yuan still has forty-nine days to live?”
”That's right!” He waved in the mirror. ”Right now, he still hasn't lost all of his humanity, but after a long time, he will become a zombie. At that time, he will either eat someone's soul or die.”
I fell limply to the floor and turned to look at Zhou Yuan, when he just woke up.
He was looking at me and laughing.
However, that was not his smile.