Chapter 3041 — What Do You Mean?
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Xiao Shiyi had assumed that Wei Zhao was pulling the silver needles out of Sun Jingyan to save her. Never in her wildest dreams had she imagined that Wei Zhao could also throw needles—and that he knew the Fuxi Nine Needles!
But by the time she realized it, it was too late to dodge. The imitation Fuxi Nine Needles buried themselves in the acupoints all over her body, and Wei Zhao's true qi was sealed inside those acupoints as well!
What Wei Zhao had just done was not unlike how he had once dealt with Medicine King Zhao—except the needles used on Medicine King Zhao had been ordinary ones, and the true qi had followed no pattern at all, applied purely at random. Now, however, the needles were the Fuxi Nine Needles, and they had been applied by their proper method. That was why Elder Bi had been able to dissolve the needles in Medicine King Zhao's body so easily, whereas now Xiao Shiyi could not dissolve these needles herself. If she dared to pull them out at random, the true qi would certainly detonate, blasting bloody holes through her body!
A cluster of bloody holes alone would not have been enough to kill Xiao Shiyi, but the spots Wei Zhao had chosen for his needles were utterly vicious—her chest, her abdomen, her privates, her backside, all of them had been pierced!
Of course, those fleshly places could be repaired with a Great Return Pill once the needles were pulled and the bloody holes blown open—painful, but manageable. The real problem was that Wei Zhao had filled her entire meridian network with needles as well. Every stretch of meridian throughout her body held a needle, and even her dantian had two lodged in it. To pull those out would blast her meridians and dantian to shreds!
That would leave her a cripple for life, unless she forced the Sun family to treat her with their secret art again. Otherwise, her only option was to leave the needles in forever, living out her days as a human pincushion until she found some way to dissolve them!
But if she was crippled, who could perform the secret art? The secret art could only be activated in conjunction with the Fuxi Nine Needles, and within the Five Luminaries Sect, she was the only one who could use the Fuxi Nine Needles!
And so, picturing the misery that awaited her, Xiao Shiyi nearly burst into tears! Her chest and her backside blown apart, her meridians and dantian blown apart—pills would be useless then, nothing could undo it. Was she really going to become a repulsive creature riddled with holes?
With anyone else, even against an enemy he meant to kill, Wei Zhao would never have resorted to such a cruel and venomous method. After all, this was torture designed to grind a person to death—pulling out a single needle would be agony enough!
Only the one who tied the knot can untie it. To undo this, she would need a cultivator who knew the Fuxi Nine Needles and whose strength surpassed the one who had applied them. Xiao Shiyi met those conditions, but the needles were lodged in her meridians and dantian—the moment she circulated her mental techniques and incantations, the true qi on the needles would detonate. She did not dare circulate them, and could only seethe in helpless silence. She clearly had the ability to undo it, and yet she could not!
At that thought, terror flickered through Xiao Shiyi's eyes. She stared at Wei Zhao, gasping for breath, flames of fury blazing unabashed in her gaze. "Impossible! Impossible! How can you know the Fuxi Nine Needles? Dissolve them now—otherwise, otherwise I'll have my father kill your whole family!"
"Oh, I'm an orphan. I've only got a foster grandfather," Wei Zhao said with a shrug.
"Then I'll kill your grandfather!" Xiao Shiyi shrieked hysterically.