Immortals of the End Times

Chapter 74: Needle Saves Peak Master, Yin Pearl Perfected (Bonus Chapter 15 for First Subscription)

Zhao Wuji used the Needle Crossing Technique, and as the golden needles and threads flew, his figure moved like lightning. Although he did not have the graceful air-flying ability of a cultivator, his speed was in no way inferior.

Only a few lingering shadows remained on the bluestone path; the person had already followed the sound of the Flower Peak Master's telepathic call to the outside of the Cold Moon Peak's sleeping quarters.

A woman in green robes stood anxiously in front of the hall. Upon seeing Zhao Wuji arrive, she immediately greeted him: "Are you Junior Brother Zhao? I am Dai Zhiyun, a disciple in green robes taken in by the Peak Master."

"Junior Brother Zhao, please go in quickly. The Peak Master is waiting for you inside. He encountered a problem during his cultivation, and I originally intended to..."

She suddenly fell silent halfway through her sentence, as if she had received a telepathic message, and immediately made only a "please" gesture.

"Did something go wrong with your cultivation?"

Zhao Wuji was surprised to find that this woman's aura was the same as that of Peak Master Hua, so she must be the disciple of the cave who practiced the "Cold Soul Heart Sutra" and could be considered a confidant of Peak Master Hua.

He immediately strode into the hall. The hall's security barrier sensed his arrival, and the ice pattern array silently melted away.

The moment you step inside, a biting chill hits you, and the ground is covered with a layer of frost.

The scene behind the beaded curtain was even more shocking: two red sun lingzhi mushrooms, which should have been blazing with flames, were now curled up like charcoal beside the warm jade couch.

Hua Qingshuang was surrounded by wisps of icy aura, her hair even covered in ice crystals, yet she still forced herself to open her eyes:

"Did the assessment go well? Can you use the tips I gave you?"

Her lips were pale and bluish, her complexion was terrible, and her voice sounded like ice beads colliding.

"It's already approved. Putting all that aside, your situation is very serious."

Zhao Wuji frowned, revealed the talisman in his hand, and strode forward.

In an instant!
The azure spiritual energy that originally surrounded Hua Qingshuang transformed into a violent silvery-white aura, which devoured Zhao Wuji like thousands of silver snakes!
"careful!"

Hua Qingshuang let out a low shout, forcefully gathering her spiritual power to suppress the cold current.

Zhao Wuji's body was also filled with surging true energy, and the powerful energy waves formed a vortex to resist the surrounding cold currents. His spiritual power was transformed into a vortex to resist the cold.

However, he could not reveal his full strength and was still inevitably hit by the cold current, which made him feel cold all over.

"cough--"

Unable to suppress her emotions any longer, Hua Qingshuang collapsed onto the jade couch.

The exposed section of her fair wrist was already showing streaks of blue lines, and the ice crystals that had formed on her fingertips were spreading continuously.

"How could it be so serious?" Zhao Wuji's voice was deep.

"The attempt to break through from the ninth level to the tenth level of the Six Revolutions Profound Ice Technique failed, resulting in a backlash."

Hua Qingshuang groaned, the blood that spilled from her lips freezing into crimson ice crystals before it even hit the ground. "I still underestimated the accumulation of Yin energy."

Zhao Wuji frowned. "I said that everything would fall into place naturally after the treatment was completed. Why is the Peak Master in such a hurry?"

Hua Qingshuang lay on the warm jade bed, her beautiful eyes slightly glazed. Upon hearing such a reproachful tone, a cold glint flashed in her eyes.

If it were an ordinary disciple, he would have been thrown out of the hall by now.

However, at this point, the relationship between the two was more like that of a doctor and a patient.

The other person's tone was clearly that of a doctor angrily rebuking someone for not following medical advice.

Her frosty eyelashes trembled violently, and she finally turned her head away. "The Tiannan Secret Realm is about to open. Not only will you immortal beings have a mission, but so will we peak masters and elders."

Three months from now, I will be heading to Yunfeng Cave to participate in sword duels. Furthermore, in the coming days, I will be engaging in magical duels with others.

"In such a short time, you cannot completely dispel my cold."

As she finished speaking, her face turned pale, as if covered in frost.

"Alright, stop talking. Let me give you acupuncture first."

Zhao Wuji suddenly grabbed Hua Qingshuang's wrist, which was as cold as iron. He endured the biting cold and swept his hand from her waist, his fingertips fluttering like butterflies.

Three golden rays pierced through the cold mist and stabbed into the wrist; the needles were still trembling at the tip.

However, the current situation is so serious that it cannot be contained by simply inserting a needle into the wrist.

His expression was solemn, and he said in a deep voice, "To cure it completely, acupuncture must be applied to the Fengmen and Zhiyang acupoints."

His last golden needle hovered at his fingertip, "That will lift your body up, remove half of your clothes, and you may turn your back to me."

"Half-clothes removed, back to you."

Hua Qingshuang remained silent for a moment, her beautiful eyes fixed on Zhao Wuji's solemn face, and then she spoke in a cold tone.

"Okay! But remember."

"Doctors should be benevolent and naturally observe proper etiquette."

Zhao Wuji interrupted solemnly, his fingertips trembling slightly as he said, "Although I am not a saint, I am still engaged and would never dare to be reckless or overstep my bounds."

When Zhao Wuji interrupted Hua Qingshuang, her eyes flickered, her chest heaved violently, and the ice crystals on her fair wrist shattered.

That scoundrel actually thought she cared about the separation of men and women? I wish I could slap that delusional person across the face.

After this period of treatment and time spent together, she naturally understood Zhao Wuji's character.

He had intended to remind him to be careful of the backlash from the cold poison that might injure him, but instead, he let out a cold laugh: "A good engagement, very good!"

She slowly raised her arm.

Upon seeing this, Zhao Wuji immediately helped Hua Qingshuang up, whose body was already frozen stiff.

He then helped the other person to sit with their back to him, as their clothes slipped off.

Instantly, it was as if the moon's reflection had broken through the ice lake, revealing her jade-like skin and a veil of blue gauze on her back.

Zhao Wuji's breathing became slightly sluggish. He saw that strange frost patterns had condensed on the jade back and were spreading along the spine, making the purple spiritual energy in the spine quite dim.

He immediately held his breath and focused his mind, and all twenty-four gold needles in the needle box trembled in unison.

"Peak Master, I'm about to begin!"

He immediately took out his needle case, used his internal energy to dispel the cold in his hands and increase his agility, and quickly inserted needles into the major acupoints around Hua Qingshuang's body.

As the needle tip trembled, he quickly rubbed the gold needle.

Follow the meridians to find the cold and its course, temporarily restrain the rampant cold energy, then quickly inhale it into the body and guide it towards the Yin Pearl.

"Do what you can!"

At this moment, Peak Master Hua suddenly spoke, his voice carrying a hint of tension that was barely perceptible.

She could feel that Zhao Wuji's acupuncture technique had suddenly become very aggressive, and the yin energy in her body was being drawn out like a tide.

"Concentrate on your internal energy and don't speak." Zhao Wuji didn't even raise his head, his voice steady and resolute.

With the golden needles in his hand moving ceaselessly, their tips flashing with a cold light, he guided wisps of yin energy into the yin bead.

Hua Qingshuang's chest rose and fell slightly as she suppressed her displeasure at being interrupted repeatedly. She closed her eyes, concentrated, and began to circulate her internal energy.

At this moment, Zhao Wuji was both nervous and delighted. The Yin energy within the Yin Pearl had exceeded nine thousand and was still growing rapidly.

Wherever the needle tip passed, yin energy flowed into the yin bead like rivers flowing into the sea.

However, Hua Qingshuang's failed breakthrough caused a backlash, making the Yin energy within her body extremely restless.

Zhao Wuji realized that if he continued to absorb the Yin Pearl so recklessly, the secret of the Yin Pearl, and even his hidden cultivation level, would be exposed.

"We must change our strategy!"

In a flash, he flipped his wrist, and the trajectory of the golden needle suddenly changed.

A wisp of yang energy surged from the yang pearl, flowing from the fingertip into the needle tip, and the golden needle instantly shone with brilliant golden light, like the rising sun.

"Peak Master, forgive me!" Zhao Wuji suddenly shouted in a low voice.

"laugh--"

When the needle is inserted into the coccyx, the yang energy flows in like a warm current.

"Uh"

Before Hua Qingshuang could understand what it meant, her body trembled violently, and her beautiful eyes widened.

This sudden warmth was like a flame igniting in the snow, shooting up from the tailbone to the back and abdomen, and then spreading to every part of the body.

She subconsciously tensed her body, her slender fingers sinking deeply into the warm jade bed.

"This kid..." Hua Qingshuang's eyelashes trembled slightly, and ice crystals melted and fell. "He actually has such advanced skills hidden? Is it a family heirloom?"

On her icy, jade-like face, the terrifying bluish tinge was fading away at a visible speed.

An unusual blush quietly rose on her cheeks, like red plum blossoms blooming in the snow.

Her previously tense body gradually relaxed, and her phoenix eyes, which always held a frosty and fierce look, unconsciously narrowed slightly at this moment.

This unfamiliar warmth was even more comforting than the red sun lingzhi mushroom.

rear!

Zhao Wuji's needlework resembled a swimming dragon.

The golden needles flowed between his fingers.

Each needle strike brought forth a wisp of scorching heat.

When the needle tip trembled slightly at the acupoint on her coccyx, Hua Qingshuang's usually straight back almost buckled.

The golden needles guide one through calamity like a phoenix nodding; the silver needles, like a dragon wagging its tail, bring forth spiritual energy; the yin and yang energies transform into two blue and red fish.

The wonders of acupuncture, the principles of immortality, and the harmony of yin and yang were fully revealed in the hands of Zhao Wuji, the immortal physician, as if he were demonstrating the Dao through acupuncture.

His gaze was calm, and the golden needles in his hand moved like butterflies flitting among flowers, skillfully balancing the yin and yang energies.

It avoids excessively extracting yin energy while gradually dissolving cold toxins with yang energy, thus prolonging the treatment time and trading time for space.

Only in this way can the secret be safely concealed, and the peak master be truly helped to overcome this calamity.

After half a cup of tea, he felt that the local coldness in Hua Qingshuang's body had been effectively suppressed, and he immediately breathed a sigh of relief and slowed down the acupuncture movements, but a layer of sweat had already seeped out on his forehead.

Although this depletes his yang energy, it at least allows him to reasonably gain more yin energy.

After this wave passes, the first Yin Pearl will surely be perfected.

Time flies, and two days have passed in the blink of an eye.

The chill in the bedchamber had dissipated.

On the warm jade bed, Hua Qingshuang felt as if the ice in her body was gradually melting. The originally blocked meridians were now flowing with warm currents like spring streams breaking through the ice, making her feel much more comfortable.

She unconsciously tilted her head slightly, her delicate chin resting lightly on her snow-white shoulder.

In the corner of his eye, Zhao Wuji's brow furrowed, beads of sweat on his temples had long since turned to frost, and even his eyes were slightly bloodshot, yet he remained completely focused on manipulating the acupuncture points, without the slightest deviation.

"This young imperial physician..."

The pent-up anger in her heart melted away like spring snow. "It wasn't for nothing that I took him into my fold."

"do not move."

At this moment, Zhao Wuji's voice suddenly turned cold, and he spoke in his usual serious tone, "Turning your head will aggravate the Tianchi acupoint, making the backlash from the cold poison even worse."

He lowered his wrist and inserted three more needles. "I still need to stay by your side for another day. You can't move unless I tell you to."

Hua Qingshuang's gaze faltered for a moment, her lips parted slightly.

This kid is actually giving her orders like this again?
But looking at that serious and cold profile, the rebuke that was on the tip of his tongue couldn't be uttered, and turned into a soft hum.

"Do you speak in this tone when you treat the concubines in the palace, or your fiancée?"

Zhao Wuji was taken aback, then suddenly realized what he meant, grinned, and gave a dry laugh.

"Peak Master, I was... too focused..."

"Alright, I understand."

Hua Qingshuang's tone was cold and hard, each word like an icicle hitting the ground.

Zhao Wuji felt awkward. Hearing the aloof peak master refer to himself as "this one," he knew he was angry.

But he was too focused just now, completely absorbed in the role of a doctor, and treated the other person as a patient.

However, he was engrossed in observing the first Yin Pearl, which was now completely full and perfect.

I couldn't help but feel joy.

These past two days of hard work have finally paid off.

The 100-year lifespan, including the second Yin Pearl, has also been unsealed.

On the second Yin Pearl, the first set of tadpole-like characters that had been drawn from reading the Xie Chang period volume of the "True Teachings" had reached seventy percent complete, and a line of information appeared in the silver light.

"Seventy-Two Earthly Fiend Techniques: Swordsmanship (Undeciphered)"

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