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Chapter 263
Chapter 265. Penance
It is true that Ren Ping came here this time for Qimen needles, but its purpose is secret and should not be known to outsiders.

After the door of the ancestral hall was closed, he pondered for a while, and immediately walked to the inner ancestral hall, and took out a roll of black-gold, extremely thin and long needles from the densely packed needles on the wall.

This kind of strange needle is called Qilin needle. In the acupuncture method of ancient Chinese medicine, it is specially used to pierce the large acupoints of the human body. Because the needle body is slender and easy to break, only skilled Chinese medicine practitioners can control it.

Originally, Ren Ping could also use it, but he rubbed it in his hands for a moment, and instead of continuing, he took out another volume from the wall.

This roll is called Tiger Head Needle, which is just the opposite of Qilin Needle. It is bright silver in color, with a thick and short needle body, and there is a slightly curved loop at the head of the needle, like a tiger tail cut upside down.

Ren Ping took out one and pinched it between his right fingers, and suddenly threw it behind the door of the ancestral hall where he was just standing.

If Fang Xiaowan was there, she would immediately recognize that this is the diagram of the acupuncture method of the Shu Road taught to her by Ren Ping.

However, Ren Ping's backhand throw just now was definitely not a needle technique, it was more like launching a hidden weapon!

It turns out that the so-called Qimen needles can not only be used to treat diseases, but can also be used to hurt people.

As early as thousands of years ago, when Chinese ancient Chinese medicine practitioners created various acupuncture methods, they discovered that if special Qimen needles were used and thrown with stronger force, they could achieve the purpose of paralyzing the acupuncture points of the human body and attacking and wounding people.

As long as the technique is practiced more precisely, it can even injure people instantly.

This discovery has been passed down in an orderly manner and continuously improved in the later development of ancient Chinese medicine acupuncture. By the Ming and Qing dynasties, it had been completely proficient and evolved into a very sophisticated hidden weapon category.

Like the dragon-slaying awl of Li Chong, the dragon chaser, this strange needle is also classified as an ancient weapon.

However, because the threshold is too high, practitioners not only need to be proficient in acupuncture in traditional Chinese medicine to practice extremely precise techniques, but also to find the corresponding strange acupuncture tools to complement each other, so there have been very few proficient people.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, when the ancient martial arts declined, this kind of hidden weapons naturally disappeared, and even Fang Jiabao, the artisans who made strange needles for generations, had no way of knowing.

After the first needle, Ren Ping waved his right hand again and again, throwing out a roll of more than twenty needles in an instant.

Then he went to the gate of the ancestral hall, and compared them one by one with the acupuncture map of the Shu Road.

His original intention was to puncture the more than twenty large points marked on the map, but due to his unfamiliar technique, he could only stab less than [-]% of the points accurately. Five or six of the needles were too weak and fell down after hitting the door panel.

He couldn't help shaking his head slightly, thinking that according to the records in the system, the entry needle for cultivating this hidden weapon is the tiger head needle, because the needle body is the thickest and shortest among all kinds of strange needles, and it is heavy and easy to exert force.

I tried it just now, and it is true, but this is different from acupuncture in Chinese medicine. Chinese acupuncture pays attention to pressing, pressing, squeezing, and rotating. The tail of the needle is inserted into the acupuncture points from shallow to deep, step by step.

Hidden weapons are meant to be used instantly. Only by identifying the acupoints accurately and using sharp and spicy techniques can people be caught off guard. The difficulty is naturally increased several times.

Fortunately, Ren Ping was not in a hurry. After thinking about it, he took back the more than twenty tiger needles, took a step forward, shortened the distance slightly, and then started practicing again.

"According to the system records, this strange needle hidden weapon will reappear a hundred years after the full revival of ancient martial arts in the future. By,"

"Although it is difficult to practice, it is a bit difficult to practice, but the effort is directly proportional to the benefit. As long as you master it a little, it will be useful,"

"Well, Shu Dao Acupuncture has 110 acupuncture points, which is too complicated and not suitable for beginners. I will start with the 'Taurus Acupuncture'."

Shu Dao Needle, also known as Shi Dao Needle, is taken from the most famous Shu Dao of Jinniu Road, Ziwu Road, Lianyun Road, Qishan Road, Lizhi Road, Chencang Road, Baoxie Road, Tangluo Road, Micang Road and Wuguan Road. These ten.

According to the arrangement of acupuncture points on the human body, there are eleven needles in each channel, for a total of 110 needles.

It is of course difficult to master the whole process, but it is relatively easier to start with a single needle. After Ren Ping has practiced more than a dozen times, the first Jinniu needle has basically been practiced accurately.

The next step is to control the strength and distance, add some random changes, and then transition to the next "meridian needle"...

In the next few days, Ren Ping did not return to Nanling, but stayed in Fangjiabao.

During the day, I walked around, contacted Ye Shiyun to arrange embroidery orders, and caught up on some sleep. At night, I devoted myself to the practice of strange needles.

The reason for the urgency was not because of anything, but because Ren Ping vaguely realized that the next trip to the capital would not be easy. Even if he didn't provoke others, someone would come to him on his own initiative.

What's more, although Du Feixuan, Du Yu and his son were frightened by the prestige of Yunxiao and his wife, they dare not act rashly for the time being, but it is uncertain when they will make a move, and it will definitely be a thunderbolt.

With his current strength, he is by no means an opponent. The best way is to learn a trump card first before becoming the king of fighting, so as to plan ahead.

In the past few days, in order not to disturb his night practice, Fang Xiaowan never appeared again, and at the same time restrained other clansmen from going to the ancestral hall.

Until No. 12 days when I lived in Fangjiapu, early in the morning, there was a knock on the door.

At this time, Ren Ping had just finished practicing all night, and had already practiced the fourth "Qishan Needle" of Shu Dao Needle. Hearing the sound, he went to open the door, only to see Fang Xiaowan standing outside with a smile on his face.

Standing beside him were two old men who looked at least in their 70s, who didn't know what they were doing.

"Who are these two?"

Ren Ping was about to ask, when suddenly, Fang Xiaowan lowered her head and noticed that several tiger-head needles fell by the door, most of them were bent, old in color, and some were even broken in the middle.
"How did this happen? What the hell did you do!"

It was only at this time that Ren Ping noticed that the strange needle was damaged. He thought that it must be because he had used it too much recently, and he had practiced too much last night, and he didn't have a good grasp of the strength.

Thinking that this is an ancestral property of Fangjiabao, I couldn't help feeling very ashamed: "I'm sorry, I was careless, and I will definitely compensate according to the price."

"What is the compensation? Do you know that it takes a long time to make this set of tiger head needles? This is the only set left in our entire Fang family!"

"Really? This is the only thing left?"

Ren Ping was very sorry when he heard the words, and also knew that Qimen needles were not easy to make. No wonder Fang's family cherished them very much and apologized again and again:
"I'm sorry, it's all my fault, I'm willing to try my best to make it up, how much money do you want, no, I mean..."

She was extremely embarrassed and thinking about how to compensate for such a priceless treasure. Suddenly, Fang Xiaowan burst into laughter. It turned out that she was just acting.

At the same time, an old man beside him also smiled: "Mr. Ren, don't blame yourself, Xiaowan is just joking with you. Although our Fangjiabao is in a difficult situation now, we still dare not forget the craftsmanship passed down by our ancestors." of."

"Oh? So you can do this tiger head needle again?" Ren Ping's eyes lit up.

"Not bad, and could do better."

The old man said something meaningful, and then took a wooden box from another old man beside him. The wooden box was quite exquisite, no bigger than the palm of his hand, but there were extremely delicate switches on it.

While the two were fiddling with each other carefully, Ren Ping turned his head and glared at Fang Xiaowan, thinking that you told your family about the strange needle I borrowed.

Fang Xiaowan knew what he was thinking as soon as she guessed, and smiled:
"Don't look at me, I can't help it. You have to explain such a big matter to the patriarch. Besides, if I hadn't told them, you wouldn't have gotten such a set of treasures for nothing."

"Baby? What is it?"

"What you want." Fang Xiaowan curled her lips.

At this time, the wooden box lid was finally opened, and there was a piece of silk like a silver ribbon inside. Looking carefully, it turned out that it was not silk, but a metal mesh. After being torn apart, it was about three feet long and two inches wide, just like a belt. .

The most special thing is that both sides of this slender metal mesh belt are wrapped with many holes, and hundreds of silver needles are inserted in it. Roughly counting, there are eight kinds in total!

(End of this chapter)