Chapter 100 — Stepping In to Save a Life
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If this old man died, it would have nothing to do with Wang Xinyan, yet judging by this shrew's manner, the troubles to follow would be endless. If Wang Xinyan was to be rid of this entanglement for good, the only way was to keep the old man from dying.
Wei Zhao crouched down and rubbed back and forth a few times over several places on the old man's body as if at random, then began to massage around the heart. This craft of striking points and massage had come down to him from his master and served to quicken the circulation of the blood, though whether it would work on this old man he could not say...
His master would likely never have imagined that the point-striking skill taught for killing would be used by him to save a life...
It would have been better had he silver needles. Old Wei of his family was a brilliant physician and had passed on to him a superb art of acupuncture, but Wei Zhao's trade was killing, not healing, so he carried no case of silver needles on his person.
"Boy, rubbing him like that is futile. The man is already half dead. Before your massage can take effect, he will be gone." Suddenly, Jiao Yazi's scornful voice sounded in Wei Zhao's ear.
"Old Jiao? You have a way?" Wei Zhao rejoiced at once. In truth, Wei Zhao himself was uneasy. Though Old Wei's medicine was exquisite, much of his emergency treatment called for silver needles, and it depended on the symptoms besides. Had the old man just fallen ill, Wei Zhao would still have been confident of pulling him through, but the attack had dragged on for so long that Wei Zhao could only treat a dying horse as if it might yet live.
"Hmph, you have cultivated the Xuanyuan Dragon-Slaying Art for ten years. Was it all for nothing?" Jiao Yazi snorted coldly. "The energy you draw into your body, you need only part with a tiny sliver and send it into this old man's heart muscle. Let the muscle revive and strengthen its supply of blood, and his present condition will improve."
"Inject energy directly?" Wei Zhao froze. This was something he had never imagined. He had always supposed the energy elements drawn into his body were of use only to himself, because he cultivated the Xuanyuan Dragon-Slaying Art, and that such energy would be useless to others. "He has never cultivated the Xuanyuan Dragon-Slaying Art. Will this kind of energy do him any good?"
Wei Zhao knew this kind of energy had a strikingly potent effect in fortifying the tissues and functions of the body, but without the guidance of the proper method, would it serve any purpose?
"He has never trained, so he cannot absorb the energy himself, but what you pass to him he can receive." Jiao Yazi explained. "Boy, surely you understand even so simple a principle?"
"This..." Wei Zhao flushed red. He truly did not understand such things. Old Wei did not know the Xuanyuan Dragon-Slaying Art either, and he had been left to train doggedly all on his own, without a single soul to consult.
"Circulate the heart chant upon this old man's Dadun point, and the energy will release and pass over of itself." Jiao Yazi said. "If you do not want him to die, begin at once!"
"Understood!" Wei Zhao's heart tightened, and he hastened to carry out the rescue as Jiao Yazi bade him. As for the Dadun point, Wei Zhao had learned to tell the points apart under his master's urging since childhood, and knew them as well as well could be.
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