Chapter 148: Strange Blood Poison (Part 2)

  Brother Huang Tian.

  A purple figure flashed beside Xuan Tian's side, it was Zi Yan.

  At this moment, Xuan Tian's entire body had transformed into a blood-red color, as if he had just walked out of fresh blood. On his forehead, a dark red skull mark appeared, which was very eye-catching on his blood-red face.

  Seeing Xuan Tian's appearance, Zi Yan's eyebrows furrowed deeply, and a flash of panic flickered in her eyes as she muttered: "Blood poison, it's actually blood poison?"

  As they spoke, Ziyuan took out a medicine bottle from her bosom and poured out a thumb-sized, crystal-clear pill, which she fed to Xuantian. She muttered to herself: "Good people will be rewarded, fortunately we met now, if it were a month ago, Brother Huangtian, you would have been beyond saving, turned into a blood corpse, unable to control yourself."

  After finishing, Ziyuan pried open Xuantian's lips and eyelids to take a look, only to find that the inside was also completely red. When she flipped up his eyelids, even his eyeballs had turned blood-red.

  However, at the center of Xuantian's eyebrows, there was a patch the size of a thumb that had not been affected by the blood poison and still had its normal skin color.

  That dark red skull mark, under normal circumstances, should be located in the center of the forehead, between the eyebrows. However, because the skin color at that spot is normal, the skull mark was also squeezed out of position.

  "It's really strange, even the blood toxin can't invade the brow of the heart, is there something protecting Huang Tian's place? It seems that Huang Tian has a protective charm, even if he didn't meet me, after being poisoned by the blood toxin, he wouldn't become a blood corpse. The brow of the heart is where the spirit resides, and as long as the spirit isn't poisoned by the blood toxin, it will maintain its own thoughts and won't become a blood corpse controlled by others."

  Ziyan examined Xuantian's poisoning condition while muttering to herself, "If the blood poison isn't treated, it will damage his physique and meridians. Even if Huang Tiange has a protective charm, he can only protect himself and not cure himself. It seems that detoxification still relies on me."

  Ziyan pulled on Xuantian's arm, helping him up. Although Xuantian was currently as weak as a lump of mud, Ziyan was also a warrior in the First Heaven Realm's third stage. She lifted Xuantian with ease, and if necessary, she could have even carried him without issue.

  She supported Xuan Tian and walked three steps. Zi Yan stopped. She looked at the 'Chong Yue Sword' and Deng Wan Chuan's fallen sword on the side of the Xuan stage, then looked at the other swords tied to Xuan Tian's back and said: "Huang Tian Gege seems to like collecting swords. If he knew I rescued him without helping him pick up his swords, he would definitely blame me. Hmm, let's take the swords too."

  Then put Xuantian back on the ground, Ziyuan picked up Chongyue Sword. Inserted it into the scabbard and also picked up Deng Wanchuan's Xuanjie medium-grade sword. Put it in the scabbard and tied it to Xuantian's back, then helped Xuantian up and continued walking forward along the mountain road.

  Less than ten minutes later, Ziyuan supported Xuantian and arrived at a mountain stream.

  Xuan Tian was laid down beside the stream, and the treasure sword on his back was taken off and placed aside. Xuan Tian's upper garment was also removed by Zi Yan.

  Using the creek water, she cleaned the wound on Xuan Tian's left shoulder. Zi Yan leaned against Xuan Tian's body and used her mouth to suck out the toxic blood from the wound.

  After taking more than a dozen deep breaths, Ziyuan stopped moving and looked at Xuantian, who showed no signs of improvement. "The poisoning is very severe," she said. "That blood talisman must have contained top-grade poison from the Mystic Realm. It's spreading so quickly that trying to remove it through the wound won't work. It seems we'll have to use the 'Golden Needle Detoxification Technique' to cleanse his entire body."

  Zi Yan's eyebrows slightly furrowed as she looked at Xuan Tian, after a few breaths, she continued: "Huang Tian brother, Zi Yan is sorry for helping you detoxify."

  Without hesitation, he took action and removed Xuan Tian's clothes.

  In a short while, Xuan Tian was stripped of all his clothes, just like peeling off a glutinous rice dumpling, leaving only his bare body.

  The blood toxin has spread throughout Xuantian's body, and his skin tone has turned completely crimson. Faintly visible under the skin are strange, flowing blood-colored symbols.

  Zi Yan took off the belt that was tied around her waist, and inside the belt, there were densely packed gold needles, about one inch long and as thin as hair.

  This slender golden needle, although delicate, shone with a dazzling light, and its material seemed to be extraordinary, not inferior to the Xuanji stage treasure.

  Zi Yan's left palm lifted, and a purple flame resembling a gourd suddenly emerged from her palm. As soon as the flame appeared, the air within hundreds of meters around her seemed to evaporate instantly, becoming extremely dry. Even with a nearby stream flowing by, not a hint of moisture could be felt in the air, as if it were a furnace.

  Zi Yan's right hand grasped, and a golden needle appeared between his two fingers. On the purple flame in the palm of his left hand, the golden needle flashed, instantly turning into a fiery red color, scorching hot.

  Zi Yan's fingers moved like lightning, the golden needle pierced towards the top of Xuan Tian's head, inserted into the center of the heavenly gate, the bright red golden needle was completely submerged.

  Two fingers pinched together, and another golden needle. When it reached Ziyuan's hands, she followed the same procedure, burning the golden needle to a bright red in the purple flames before quickly stabbing it into Xuantian's body.

  Every place where it is inserted is an acupoint.

  As Ziyuan continued to insert the golden needles, soon, Xuántiān's head was pierced with at least over a hundred golden needles. The skull is the most important part of the human body, where there are the most acupoints, and these acupoints are all weak points of the human body, some of which are even fatal points. Ordinary people would die instantly if they were hit on these acupoints.

  Even if it is a martial artist who has cultivated to perfection, the acupoints are still the weak points of the body. The strong ones in the heavenly stage are no exception, they just have more internal force defense than ordinary people, and can withstand much greater impact.

  However, being directly pierced into the acupoint is equivalent to having already broken through one's defenses; even a top-tier expert would suffer injury.

  Zi Yan obviously has a good understanding of the acupoints, although they are dangerous, they are also the key to the body. In the way of alchemy, the acupoints are called orifices, and they contain profound and subtle knowledge.

  Although acupoints are the body's weaknesses, being attacked can be fatal, but when used to advantage, by stimulating the orifices, the potential of the body is activated, and serious illnesses and severe poisoning can be cured.

  Using acupuncture to cure diseases and detoxify is like dancing on the tip of a knife, slightly off balance will damage the acupoints and put people's lives in danger. Most alchemists, although they have thoroughly studied the human body, dare not touch people's acupoints when saving them.

  Only a very few Dan medicine masters dare to use acupoint stimulation for treating diseases and detoxification.

  Looking at Zǐ Yán's calm face and extremely skilled hands, it was clear that she was a master.

  Using golden needles to pierce acupoints, there can't be the slightest mistake. No wonder Ziyan wants to strip Xuantian bare. Piercing through clothes is not saving lives, it's simply murder.

  The human body has 360 commonly known acupoints, over a thousand hidden ones, and even more that have not yet been discovered but still exist.

  For the body, there are 1,296 acupoints with relatively large effects.

  The golden needles in Ziyuan's waistband were neither too many nor too few, exactly one thousand two hundred and ninety-six roots, to be inserted into those one thousand two hundred and ninety-six key points.

  Those 1,296 acupoints are spread all over the human body, on the head, shoulders, arms, chest, back, abdomen, buttocks, lower abdomen, ***, legs, and soles of the feet. Among them, the head, chest, and lower abdomen are the most densely populated areas.

  There are three major weaknesses of a martial artist. The head holds the brain, which contains one's essence, spirit, and intention, controlling the body. The chest holds the heart, the first weakness of a martial artist, where blood is pumped throughout the body, sustaining life. The lower abdomen is the dantian of a martial artist, where internal energy originates, flowing through the meridians to the four limbs and hundred joints, which is the key to cultivation.

  Damage to the skull will cause spiritual damage, becoming an idiot. Damage to the heart will cause life damage, becoming a dead man. Damage to the dantian will cause martial artists' cultivation to be damaged, becoming a useless person.

  The golden needles inserted by Ziyuan into Xuantian's body were most concentrated in the three locations of his head, chest and lower abdomen.

  It wasn't until more than an hour had passed that Ziyuan finally inserted all 1,296 golden needles into Xuantian's body. Withdrawing her left palm, the purple flames were drawn back into the center of her palm.

  The entire body of Xuantian has 1,296 key points, all of which have been pierced by golden needles. His body immediately underwent a transformation, and the blood poison that was originally flowing through his body was drawn out by an invisible force, reversing its flow back to the wound.

  Soon, the wound on Xuántiān's left shoulder began to bleed profusely with extremely bloody blood. This blood was exceptionally crimson and had eerie symbols dancing within it - it was indeed Blood Poison.

  This poisonous blood is of extremely high quality. Once it enters a warrior's body, it spreads throughout the entire network of meridians and limbs. To think of completely eliminating it in one go is simply impossible.

  One thousand two hundred and ninety-six golden needles, completely inserted into the body of Xuan Tian, from the surface, no golden needles can be seen. Ziyan helped Xuan Tian up, with her palm on his back, circulating the pre-heavenly true energy to assist the circulation of Qi and blood in Xuan Tian's body, quickly clearing out the blood toxin.

  Time passed for more than an hour, and the complexion of Xuantian finally slowly returned to normal, with the crimson color completely receding, and the blood poison was cleared by more than half.

  However, there are still quite a few that seem to have taken root in the Xuantian body. In a short period of time, it is difficult to eradicate them, but they no longer pose a major threat.

  Ziyan gave Xuantian a slow-acting detoxifying sacred healing medicine of the Xuan rank, and after a moment, the healing medicine dissolved in Xuantian's body. Ziyan struck Xuantian's head with her palm, and 1,296 golden needles shot out instantly. With another strike of her palm, Ziyan grasped them, and the prenatal true energy transformed into an invisible large hand that collected all the golden needles and put them back into her waistband, securing it around her waist.

  At the wound on Xuantian's body, the poisonous blood flowed out and dripped onto the ground. Ziyuan used creek water to wash away the poisonous blood that had stained Xuantian's body, then helped him put on his clothes.

  Alas...

  After doing all this, Ziyuan let out a long sigh, her face slightly flushed, and muttered to herself: "Huang Tiange, sleep for one night, and you'll be fine when you wake up."

  Having said that, he picked up several precious swords beside him, helped Xuantian up, left the creek side, and continued walking along the mountain road.