Chapter 18 Silver Needle Releasing Cold

“Who did you hear that from?” Xia Qingyue asked with a cold brow, her heart bursting with astonishment. Equal xuan power, the life expectancy of the people of the Ice Cloud Immortal Palace is much shorter than the people of other sects, this is a cruel fact, and this is a secret even amongst the Ice Cloud Immortal Palace, and has always been hidden and suppressed by the top management of the Ice Cloud Immortal Palace. And due to the extremely high level of Xuan Li in the Ice Cloud Immortal Palace, the overall life span of the people in the Immortal Palace is also very long, and thus, this fact is not too obvious to show.

The reason why Xia Qingyue knew about it was that her master had lost his mind after one of her breakthroughs and had told her that this was the biggest flaw of the Ice Cloud Skill, and had strictly ordered her not to tell anyone, including her senior sisters. And now, Xiao Che was saying it in one breath.

“If I were the Palace Master of the Ice Cloud Immortal Palace, I would have used every method to suppress this ‘flaw’ and not let outsiders know about it. Who do you think I could have heard about it from?” Xiao Che bristled, “I really only drew these conclusions from your pulse, that’s all. Seeing your reaction, it seems like I got all of it right.”

“I don’t believe it!” Xia Qingyue shook her head categorically. To be able to deduce the major secret that the Ice Cloud Immortal Palace has been hiding through a single pulse? It was simply ridiculous! If it was really that simple, there were countless divine doctors in the Cangfeng Empire, and this secret of the Ice Cloud Immortal Palace should have spread throughout the world an unknown number of years ago.

However, everything Xiao Che had just said was straight to the point and without deviation. This made it impossible for Xia Qingyue not to have doubts in her heart.

“I knew you didn’t believe it.” Xiao Che picked up the medicine pot and package on the ground and walked towards the room, “Come with me.”

Xia Qingyue’s gaze lingered from the things he was carrying in his hands, and after a slight hesitation, she followed him into the room and closed the door.

“Sit down.” Putting the medicine pot and the package down, Xiao Che said to Xia Qingyue in a commanding tone.

“What are you going to do?” Xia Qingyue looked at him with puzzled eyes.

“Of course it’s to condition you.”

“No need.” Xia Qingyue directly shook her head.

“Needed or not, you’d better try it before jumping to conclusions …… feed! You shouldn’t even be willing to try it?”

Xiao Che had already opened that package and took out a silver colored box. He sighed as a small amount of loss and disappointment surfaced on his face, “I know that you basically don’t believe anything I say. But at least, I don’t have the ability to harm you, nor do I have a reason to do so. I went to the pharmacy early in the morning to bring these things, simply because I wanted to condition you. If something works, it’s naturally good, and if it doesn’t have any effect, you won’t lose anything …… since you don’t believe in it and don’t want to try it, then forget it, and consider it purely as me making a fool out of myself.”

Xiao Che’s words caused Xia Qing Yue to be stunned, and then a touch of apology arose in her heart …… Indeed, what he had said before, and what he was about to do, was all for the purpose of conditioning her, and it wasn’t like he was asking her for anything or making any demands, and he, as he himself had said, had no reason or ability to harm her at all… …Not to mention what the outcome would be, it was really a bit too much for him to directly rebuff it himself.

Xia Qingyue sighed quietly in her heart and sat down beside Xiao Che: “How would you like to be tempered?”

“…… You’re willing to temper it?” Xiao Che glanced at her, and with another light humph put his face away.

His childish gambling-like stance made Xia Qingyue cry and laugh for a moment, and her voice slowed down, “I want to see, how you will temper it.”

“Well, that’s good behavior.” When Xiao Che turned his face again, he already had a smiling expression. Letting Xia Qing Yue look slightly stunned …… this guy, the speed of changing his face is also just a little too fast!

“Stretch out your hand.”

Xiao Che sat in front of Xia Qingyue, Xia Qingyue also followed the instructions and stretched out her arms, spreading them across the table, her loose red sleeves were pulled all the way up to the elbow area, revealing two sections of jade arms that were racing snow and bullying frost.

Xiao Che opened that silver-colored box, and inside, there were dozens of long, thin, silky silver needles.

“Silver needles …… Could it be that you want to use acupuncture?” Xia Qingyue’s moon brows slightly raised.

“Hm? You actually know about acupuncture?” Xiao Che gave her a somewhat surprised look. Back in the Cang Yun Continent, those who knew how to play acupuncture in the entire continent added up to less than ten people, including him and his master, the Medical Sage. However, in the Tianxuan Continent, this seemed to be a medical art that had been popularized to a considerable extent, and one could find a set of acupuncture equipment in the Xiao Sect’s Pharmacy.

“Of course I know. I also know that the art of acupuncture and moxibustion requires an extremely high level of proficiency, and it takes more than ten years to achieve a small success, and decades to achieve a great success. I’ve never heard that you’ve learned the art of medicine, let alone the art of acupuncture. Moreover, in your room, there are no flavors or traces of Qi Huang at all. What exactly are you doing?” Xia Qingyue’s eyes had been filled with suspicion and wariness.

Xiao Che took out a silver needle, and his two fingers lightly twisted on the bottom of the needle …… And when Xiao Che picked up the silver needle, Xia Qingyue’s eyes slightly drifted off for a moment, because that silver needle, in Xiao Che’s hands, actually had an indescribable sense of harmony, as if this silver needle was born to grow in Xiao Che’s hands. This feeling was very subtle and could not be described, yet it existed in a real and clear manner.

Xiao Che opened a small bottle and dipped it shallowly with a silver needle, saying under his breath, “Whether I will play acupuncture or not, you will know right away. Of course, if you feel any discomfort or feel that I’m making fun of you, you can discontinue me at any time.”

“What’s in that bottle?” Xia Qingyue’s gaze turned to that small medicine bottle.

“Ordinary Red Sun Flower Flower Juice.” Xiao Che casually replied, his gaze falling on Xia Qingyue’s snowy hand, and his left hand holding the silver needle slightly shook.

This movement of Xiao Che was extremely fast, so fast that Xia Qingyue did not even react. And when Xiao Che’s left hand was withdrawn, the silver needle between his fingers had already disappeared, and in her right wrist area, a silver needle had been inserted vertically …… accurately landing on the Yang Chi point.

There was no pain, and it could even be said that there was no feeling. If she did not look at this silver needle with her eyes open, she would not even know that a silver needle had been pierced above her wrist. Xia Qingyue was moved for a while …… Fast? No, this is by no means fast! Rather, it was skillful! A skillfulness that had reached an astonishing degree and could be called the ultimate!

The second silver needle had already been picked up by Xiao Che, dipped a little bit of the Red Yang Flower’s sap, and approached Xia Qing Yue’s right hand, with a slight flick of the wrist, the second silver needle had already accurately stabbed on the Yang Gu acupoint. Followed by the third and fourth, stabbing at the Zhongzhu and Hegu respectively.

After the right hand, another four silver needles were stabbed into the left hand’s Yangchi, Yanggu, Zhongzhu and Hegu points in turn, and every time they were stabbed, the movement was so fast that Xia Qingyue could only see a passing shadow. The surprise in her heart also overlapped with the bursts of silver needles.

She didn’t know if Xiao Che’s “conditioning” would have any effect, but his skillful and demonic techniques made Xia Qingyue unable to believe that it was even performed by a sixteen year old boy.

“Relax your hands, breathe steadily, and don’t use your Xuan Force.”

Xiao Che’s voice rang in her ears. She also cooperated with Xiao Che, relaxing her arms and calming her breathing. Right at this moment, she suddenly felt four Gu of icy cold breath condensing up in each of her left and right hands, and then as if it had found a vent, it quickly surged towards the four points that had been stabbed by the silver needles, namely Yangchi, Yanggu, Zhongzhu, and Hegu ……

At once, above each of the eight silver needles, a wisp of slowly passing white mist rose, and the coldness contained therein caused the surrounding temperature to drop rapidly. Feeling the cold qi running in the meridians and the white mist rapidly escaping, Xia Qingyue’s snowy face dramatically moved.

The white mist rose for several minutes before it completely stopped. Xiao Che suddenly reached out at this time, his two hands shook in unison, his fingers were like phantoms, and in an instant, the eight silver needles that were stabbed in Xia Qingyue’s hands had all returned to his hands, and then were placed into another box by him.

“This coldness, it’s heavier than I thought. Luckily you met me.” Xiao Che muttered in a small voice before he covered the box of silver needles and casually said, “Qing Yue’s wife, how do your hands feel now?”

Xia Qingyue raised her own hands, ripples stirring in her eyes. Easy, comfortable, warm …… this is how her hands feel at this moment. It was as if they were suddenly freed from some kind of heavy bondage. That feeling of warmth in her palms as well as her arms was even the first time she had felt it after she had practiced the Ice Cloud Skill, and she raised her eyes to look at Xiao Che and said in surprise, “What the hell is this?”

“It’s actually very simple, I’m just directing the cold qi in your hands, and in your hands’ meridians to release it, and by the way, I’m just unblocking the meridians that have been condensed.” Xiao Che said lightly, “Your Ice Cloud Immortal Palace’s Xuan Gong can make Xuan Qi cold, thus increasing its power. The reason why the icy Xuan Qi is more powerful is because the cold Qi can injure …… the enemy as a human being and oneself as a human being, and before one injures someone, one is also bound to injure oneself first. This is a very shallow truth.”

“When I touched your palms this morning, I found that the temperature of your palms was far lower than a normal person’s body temperature. Perhaps you people from the Ice Cloud Immortal Palace would naturally think that this is a normal phenomenon due to practicing the Ice Cloud Skill, but from a medical perspective, it would be strange for such a body temperature to be normal! Normally when one doesn’t move their Xuan Force, the Xuan Force is contained within the Xuan Veins and will not affect them. But once the show, the ice cloud Xuan Qi through the whole body, when the release time to hurt people, when the flow will certainly hurt themselves! You practice ice cloud skill should not be many years, but a large number of cold gas has penetrated into your organs, six internal organs, blood, bone marrow, Dantian, and more and more, over time, your whole body organs will produce persistent serious damage, not short life is strange! Producing those negative reactions is even more normal.”

Xia Qingyue: “……”

“In addition, under the cold qi, the many meridians on your body will also be occluded due to the frequent spasms, which will have a considerable impact on the Xuan Qi exertion. You can now try to run your Xuan Qi into your hands and see what the difference is from before.” Xiao Che said with a straight face while speaking.

Xiao Che’s eloquent speech was reasoned, had a beginning and an end, had a cause and an effect, and the reasoning was so easy to understand that even a fool could understand it. Coupled with Xia Qingyue’s practical reaction, there is simply no way to question or refute it.

But when Xiao Che spoke with a straight face, in his heart he was showing his teeth …… because all these words he said are indeed true yes, but both true …… are also bullshit!

Cold gas accumulation body injury is true, will close the meridians is also true …… but if the ice cloud skill is really as bad as he said, ice cloud immortal palace still mix a fart! Not to mention standing at the peak of the Cangfeng Continent, it is estimated that as early as eight hundred years ago can not be mixed. When practicing Ice Cloud Skill for a period of time, the body is completely adapted to the Ice Cloud Skill, then, although the cold gas in the body will still hurt the life, but will not continue to hurt the body, but will instead become a help, the meridians that are blocked will also naturally open up.

But Xia Qingyue has only been practicing Ice Cloud Skill for three or four years, so naturally it’s impossible for her to reach the point of “complete adaptation”. With his words combined with her own personal feelings all along, coupled with the feelings after “conditioning”, Xiao Che’s words were simply flawless to her ears.

“Conditioning” was just an excuse. The “flaws” of the Ice Cloud Skill were also just an excuse. What he wanted to do, only he himself knew.