Chapter 1101: Gambling with Life and Death
Upon hearing Liu Zixuan’s voice, Little Blue slowly turned its head to look. Since swallowing the inner alchemy, Little Blue had undergone a significant transformation. The originally blue-patterned body had deepened, with faint traces of red patterns interwoven. Its four hooves had also become extraordinarily robust. Except for its head, which still resembled a leopard, the rest of its body was infinitely close to the Qilin of the Profound Sword Sect.
Little Blue glanced at Liu Zixuan’s blood-stained clothes and his miserable posture lying on the ground. As before, it showed a contemptuous expression. Due to possessing the inner alchemy, this expression had gained a sense of spirituality.
The look seemed to say, "Why do you keep ending up like this, you unlucky fool? You really make me sneer!"
Feeling the disdain from the Qilin, Liu Zixuan rubbed his forehead, saying, "You lazy thing, you slept for so long and wake up just to look down on me, is that really okay?"
Little Blue shook its body sharply twice, picked up food and water from the corner, and tossed them in front of Liu Zixuan. Then, it did something that made Liu Zixuan feel utterly disheartened.
Approaching Liu Zixuan, right in front of him, Little Blue casually relieved itself before returning to its original position and went back to sleep.
"Damn it!" Liu Zixuan cursed loudly.
Helpless, at this moment he himself was like a clay statue crossing a river, lacking the strength to hit or scold Little Blue.
After eating some food, Liu Zixuan regained some of his strength.
He turned over to lay on the ground and secretly activated the Holy Medical Scripture to begin healing the wounds within his body.
When the Ghost Gate Needle entered the body, although it damaged the meridians during transit and its immense power temporarily crippled Liu Zixuan’s legs, it was indeed a medical treasure. Once stabilized, Liu Zixuan used the Holy Medical Scripture techniques to manipulate the Ghost Gate Needle to commence repairs.
If it were ordinary injuries, with Liu Zixuan’s control over the Holy Medical Scripture, he could heal them in just over ten minutes.
But now, with damaged meridians and completely broken joints, it could not be healed in a short while.
Time passed like a fleeting horse, light at the passageway appeared and disappeared repeatedly, and three days went by.
On the third night, Liu Zixuan opened his eyes, feeling that his meridians had recovered and his legs had returned to normal.
What delighted him was not only these changes but that among the three layers of realms, aside from the sealed realm that still showed no response, substantial progress occurred in the other two layers.
The true Imperial Realm had reached the peak from the middle stage, faintly showing signs of breaking into the Emperor Realm, while the surface Celestial Realm strength had directly surpassed the Profound Realm, reaching the early stage of the King Realm.
Among the three layers of realms, the breakthrough of the true realm was of immense assistance to Liu Zixuan.
Previously, the Ghost Gate Needle damaged his meridians and joints due to a lower realm where he couldn’t manipulate more power of the Dragon Veins to assist. At the time of the Imperial Realm, the power of the Dragon Veins was uncontrollable, and before obtaining the blood of the Blood Luminous Flood Dragon to suppress it, Liu Zixuan nearly demonized many times uncontrollably.
Now, infinitely close to the Emperor Realm, controlling the power of the Dragon Veins became much easier.
Therefore, at this moment, Liu Zixuan had substantial confidence to mobilize more power of the Dragon Veins to control the Ghost Gate Needle within his body. After one circulation, he could introduce the remaining three Ghost Gate Needles into his body.
Thinking of this, Liu Zixuan was slightly excited because healing the Netherworld Palm injury and breaking the seal placed by Old Qing back then depended entirely on the Ghost Gate Thirteen Needles.
Having some food and smoking a cigarette, Liu Zixuan once again sat cross-legged on the ground.
Both hands formed seals, his spirit directed the power of the Dragon Veins within the Sea of Consciousness, slowly guiding it toward the Dantian.
The power of the Dragon Veins within his Sea of Consciousness was the strongest among the twenty-four Ancestral Dragon Veins and was the most complete.
Due to recent cultivation, the Dragon Veins power had materialized into a spherical shape. At this moment, upon activation, it transformed into small golden dragons that began to move along the meridians.
Through his spirit, he could clearly see that when the power of the Dragon Veins penetrated the meridians, those Ghost Gate Needles also became obedient, emitting their respective power to start strengthening Liu Zixuan’s meridians.
As time ticked away, when the power of the Dragon Veins converged at the Dantian, Liu Zixuan noticed a situation he was unsure of whether to feel happy or sad.
Because the meridians infinitely expanded, it caused the seal inside him placed by Old Qing to start loosening.
In this situation, he wasn’t certain whether breaking the seal meant healing the Netherworld Palm injury or further worsening it.
"If I were to introduce the remaining Ghost Gate Needles into my body now, it might suppress both the seal and the Netherworld Palm injury, but there’s a risk of the Silver Needle causing agitated burns to the meridians again."
Liu Zixuan clearly understood that the remaining three Ghost Gate Needles were the Ghost Walk, Ghost Research, Ghost Venerable, which were the Three Ghosts Needle within the Ghost Gate Needle.
The so-called Three Ghosts Needle wasn’t needles formed by three ghosts, but these three Silver Needles had already developed spirituality. If Liu Zixuan had reached the Innate Emperor Realm, he could entirely control those spiritualities for his use, but currently, he was merely at the peak of the Imperial Realm.
If he weren’t cautious and the Three Ghosts Needle began to agitate, Liu Zixuan could face more than just broken meridians but could literally explode and perish!
After a moment’s contemplation, Liu Zixuan gritted his teeth, saying, "Use the needle to die, don’t use the needle, it’s still a death. Why not take a gamble!"
Originally, healing the Netherworld Palm injury was seen as defying heaven in many people’s eyes. Since that was the case, Liu Zixuan couldn’t be bothered to hesitate or be conflicted any longer. At worst, it’s just death — could the situation be worse than death?
With this thought, Liu Zixuan suddenly got up. Jumping into the air with the tip of his toes, he launched the remaining three Ghost Gate Needles from between his fingers, plunging directly into his three lethal points without using the Qi Transformation Technique.
Indeed, he intended to break Old Qing’s seal himself, fully releasing the sealed Innate Emperor Realm Second Heaven and the Netherworld Palm injury.
Because only with the true strength of the Innate Emperor Realm could he control the remaining Ghost Gate Needles.
Gamble, if you win, the Netherworld Palm injury is healed, and peak strength is restored.
As for losing the gamble... that’s the simplest!
It’s merely a word of "death!"
The three Ghost Gate Needles inserted into Baihui, Celestial Spirit, and Heart Research, instantly causing Liu Zixuan’s aura to surge violently.
The previously exposed Celestial Realm power directly crossed into the Innate Emperor Realm.
Then, Innate Emperor Realm First Layer, Second Layer, stabilized at the Second Layer Perfection Realm.
Feeling the peak aura on his body, Liu Zixuan felt no joy because as the realm appeared, the Netherworld Palm injury flared up alongside!
Phooey!
The black palm print on Liu Zixuan’s chest emerged, highlighting several small cracks on his chest.
"Let’s begin!"
Liu Zixuan slowly landed on the ground. With two fingers forming a seal, the Ghost Research, Ghost Walk, Ghost Venerable within the three points, followed by the Ghost Gate Needle, moved directly along the meridians.
Success or failure, depends on this time!