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CHAPTER XXVI ATTITUDE OF TOXIC INJURY
Yin Sun felt a twinge of regret. He had actually accepted Lieutenant Shunb's offer to keep the kidnappers in the main altar. He knew that people like Xiao Li would definitely not be so simple, and now that even Ling Qingyun had come to save him, it could be seen how important this person was to him. Perhaps the Ling family had also discovered that this person carried a strange treasure with him; after all, he was already an experienced person and could not possibly be completely ignorant of the secrets of Jianghu.
At this point, Yin Sun felt a headache coming on. He had planned to lure people to the main viewing gallery, but then he had somehow overheard Lieutenant Shen Bu's plan and wanted to fight for the great merit of the day. Since Lieutenant Shen Bu had told him that his opponent's kung fu was mediocre and that there were no experts around him, he hadn't revealed the news to the main viewing gallery. Yin Sun knew that it was useless to regret things now. He could only muster his energy to deal with the situation.
Not to mention the fact that he had a headache over his lack of manpower, but after Old Zhao saved Xiao Li and brought him to the underworld, his body began to heat up and his fever began to rise. Old Zhao touched his forehead. Sometimes it was cold like ice, sometimes it was red like carbon. It made him anxious, but he couldn't do anything about it.
He didn't know how much poison he had been infected with, so he didn't dare to move recklessly. Otherwise, it was very possible that he would take Xiao Li's life if he added poison to the wound. Right now, he was only secretly blaming himself for it. If he knew that Xiao Li was going to take the risk of breaking the mechanism, he might as well have let a half-dead person like himself go. ”Now that Xiao Li was injured like this, it was impossible for him to use any martial arts on them. The three of them were trapped here alive. Even if they didn't send anyone, as long as they starved the three of them for a few days, they would all die.
After all, he had been in the martial arts world for many years and was used to life and death situations. He knew that Xiao Li only cared about little Ying, so even if he died, he had to send her out. Thus, he made a decision in his heart to stabilize his mind.
Old Zhao carried Little Ying over and patted her on the back to comfort her, ”It's fine. Uncle will be back soon. He'll take us out then.” They were at the entrance of the eighth stone chamber. The chamber was still burning, and the chamber was very hot, so he dragged Xiao Li's body towards the middle of the passage. They were short of water right now, so they had to maintain the water in their bodies for a longer time.
Although he was a little stuffy inside, it was much cooler. After settling Xiao Li down, Old Zhao hugged Ying Ying and patted her back, saying, ”Ying, be good. If you are tired, go to sleep. Uncle, don't be afraid.” As he hummed to himself and patted his little back to coax him to sleep, he tried to focus on the road ahead. The firelight from the eighth stone room illuminated the secret passageway, causing it to flicker from time to time. The light reflected off Old Zhao's face, making him look just like Old Zhao.
On the other hand, Xiao Li was in a coma and his entire body was in a nightmare, as if he was in hell. He felt as if his entire body was being bitten by ten thousand insects, the meridians in his body suddenly expanded and shrunk, even twisted, and entwined with each other. However, his body couldn't move at all, so he could only endure the pain in silence.
If he had the saber in his hand right now, Xiao Li believed that he would rather wipe his neck. If he could move now, Xiao Li believed that he would definitely hang himself. It was evident that with Xiao Li's tenacious personality, he would definitely want to die from this kind of pain.
Xiao Li could not bear it any longer and could only silently count in his heart so that he could distract himself. However, waves of pain stabbed into his consciousness, making it difficult for him to even count, so he tried several different methods but to no avail. In the end, Xiao Li silently recited the strange book that the old teacher had given him, and tried to stabilize his mind to urge him to train. Not only did he have to do his best to correct the little bit of true energy that he had gone through so much difficulty to activate, but he also had to endure the unbearable pain at the same time. This was because as long as he relaxed his mind, the true energy that he had used would immediately escape his control, and for a long time, he had only been able to circulate a little of his true energy, as his soul had been separated from his body. Fortunately, his mind had dispersed a little, which seemed to be able to relieve a bit of the pain, so he was able to persevere.
Xiao Li continued to persevere with the actions of urging, splitting, dispersing, and activating again and again. Finally, when he once again circulated a thread of true energy, this strand of true energy wobbled toward Xiao Li's requirement and gradually moved forward along the Ren Meridian. After circulating once, this thread of true energy caused the scattered true energy in the surroundings to move. Everything was difficult at the beginning. When you had survived the most difficult time, it would be followed by luck. As more and more Qi gathered, Xiao Li clearly felt that the pain in his body had lessened slightly. Finally, when all of the Ren Meridian Zhen Qi started to move, the pain lessened by a bit. Xiao Li finally regained a trace of his consciousness and started to ponder as he circulated his Qi.
In the end, Xiao Li came to the conclusion that his poison was too strong, causing all sorts of poisons to wreak havoc within his body, destroying his meridians. That was why he was able to regain control of his meridians after successfully circulating his Qi, making his condition slightly better. If he found the crux, then there was a way to cure it. As a doctor, what he feared the most was not finding the crux of the disease.
After Xiao Li finished circulating the Ren Meridian, he immediately turned to the second layer of the technique and began to condense the scattered Zhen Qi within the meridians. With his previous experience, Xiao Li knew that there were no tricks now and he could only endure the pain and try again in order to have a chance of success. Afterwards, Xiao Li took the opportunity to enter the third layer of the cultivation method to circulate the Yin Meridian cultivation technique. After that, it was the fourth layer of the Yin Mountain Range.
Xiao Li broke through four meridians in one fell swoop and finally succeeded in recovering four meridians in a week. The four meridians were filled with Zhen Qi and the pain in his body was reduced by quite a bit. However, the problem also came out. The four meridians had returned to normal, but the pain in his body was still endless. Xiao Li knew that this was caused by the poison intertwining with other meridians, but Xiao Li only had four meridians.
Chapter 27 Healing
Xiao Li really couldn't think of anything else. He could only use the most primitive method in the end as he recalled his own martial arts techniques that had matured over the past few days. This was because only when he used a move would his zhenqi automatically follow the meridian route. Even though the zhenqi in his body was circulating, he was still unable to move.
Xiao Li was not discouraged; he was only urging his will to move. Under Xiao Li's tireless perseverance, he seemed to have forgotten the pain in his body. Finally, Xiao Li's body trembled once, slowly, and gradually, his trembling became more frequent until it finally became intense.
Old Zhao had been coaxing Lil 'Ying to sleep. At the same time, he was thinking about various problems with his blurry eyes. His mind was filled with a myriad of thoughts, causing his fatigue of the past few days to gradually wash over him. Suddenly, a faint sound woke him from his drowsiness, causing his heart to shiver. He thought that the hidden mechanism in the secret passage had been activated, but after looking around, there was nothing abnormal. However, he immediately discovered that Xiao Li's body was trembling more violently.
He reached out his hand to see if Xiao Li's poison injury was too severe. However, just as his hand made contact with Xiao Li's body, an indescribable force caused his body to stagger and this caused him to be shocked. His heart suddenly felt joyful, even though his internal energy had temporarily disappeared, his eyesight was still there. Although he had never seen anyone operate his martial arts like this before, the force that had just been generated had let him know that Xiao Li was indeed operating his martial arts.