The Legend of the Condor Heroes: From Being Expelled from Peach Blossom Island

Chapter 102 Eliminating Future Threats
Wu Chengyu did not use the bone-dissolving grappling technique this time, which has become his signature move.

A direct strike to the back of the head with the "Canhe Finger" technique would be recognized as a finger strike by a master, but an ordinary person might mistake it for a spearhead.

After confirming that Cheng Wuji was dead, Wu Chengyu found an abandoned house to hide his body temporarily, and then turned around and quickly returned to Hongxiuzhao.

Now that someone has brought up the matter of poisoning, even if Cheng Wuji is dead, Shi Tong will know to find someone else to do it, so we must eliminate this potential threat in one fell swoop.

After Wu Chengyu returned to his private room, only Shi Tong and the two top courtesans remained in Shi Tong's room.

His other two henchmen went up to the second floor and each went to their own room to do their own good deeds.

This is because she couldn't wait for Cheng Wuji to return and couldn't hold back any longer.

It was already late at night. Apart from the people still making noise in the lobby on the first floor, the music on the second and third floors had stopped, and the sounds in the rooms had become muffled and inaudible.

Wu Chengyu sneaked into the rooms of his two subordinates. The doors were bolted, but the windows were closed.

Using cat-like steps at night, so light as to be barely audible, the two men who were engrossed in their work were caught off guard and had their pressure points struck by Wu Chengyu one after another. The two women were also put to sleep by Wu Chengyu's pressure points. The whole process was completely silent.

Wu Chengyu dragged the two men to Shi Tong's room and used the same method on him. Shi Tong had no martial arts skills whatsoever, and before he could even raise his head, he was immediately unable to move.

Wu Chengyu first placed two of his men on the same bed as Shi Tong. He then moved the two women who were with Shi Tong to one of his men's rooms before returning to Shi Tong's bedside.

At this moment, the three people were lying side by side on the bed, with Shi Tong in the middle and men on the left and right. All three of them had their acupoints restricted, so they could not move or speak. Their faces were pale and their heads were covered in sweat.

When Wu Chengyu came to their bedside again, their eyes were filled with fear and pleading. Now that Wu Chengyu was in disguise, they didn't know who he was, but they knew they were now fish on a chopping block.

Wu Chengyu didn't want the other party to die knowing the truth, so he naturally wouldn't reveal his identity.

He first grabbed one of his men's wrists, pressed his pulse, and channeled his internal energy into the man's body. This man had not cultivated any internal energy techniques; he had only gradually developed some internal strength through diligent practice of external skills. However, this small amount of internal energy was no match for Wu Chengyu's solidified internal energy.

Under the clash of internal forces, the opponent convulsed, let out a muffled groan, and his veins bulged, clearly in great pain. Wu Chengyu's input of internal force was simple and brutal, which was completely different from the gentle way he simulated the circulation of internal force for the Wu family disciples.

Wu Chengyu quickly figured out the circulation of the meridians in this person's body.

The meridians in the human body are generally the same, but although everyone has hidden meridians, they are difficult to find and their locations are slightly different. Wu Chengyu did this to find out where the hidden meridians are located in this person's heart.

Following the same method, Wu Chengyu accurately located the hidden meridians of Shi Tong and another person. Only Shi Tong, because there was no internal energy conflict within his body, was completely unaware of what had happened.

Next, Wu Chengyu channeled a surge of internal energy into the hidden meridians of each of their hearts. This internal energy was circulated using the method of "shifting stars and changing constellations." Once it entered the hidden meridians, it would not disappear but would remain dormant within them, waiting to be unleashed.

This is a technique that Wu Chengyu explored while integrating the five hidden meridians of the Quanxing Cultivation Method with his own cultivation method. It no longer protects the heart, but does the opposite.

Once the hidden meridians of the opponent are located, internal energy will be channeled into them, gradually damaging the heart function. The effect will be minimal each day, and the person affected will at most experience chest tightness.

However, after thirty days, the heart function will be completely destroyed, directly causing the effect of a heart attack in later generations. Unless there is an operating table and a top cardiac surgeon on site, the person affected will inevitably die, and no trace of external force can be found. At present, Wu Chengyu has only studied the effect of cutting off the hidden meridians of the heart and liver. Once he has mastered all the hidden meridians he knows, he will be able to create a set of meridian-cutting techniques to kill people invisibly.

Tonight, Wu Chengyu originally intended to listen to his fourth uncle and only teach Shi Tong a lesson, not kill him. Unfortunately, Shi Tong was more vicious than he had imagined, so he had to strike first.

However, Shi Tong's death could not be made to appear as murder, as this would ruin the family's plans and offend Shi Miyuan. Therefore, after careful consideration, this method was devised.

The pulse-cutting technique is only the first step. Wu Chengyu doesn't want Shi Tong to live for another month. A month is enough time for him to cause a lot of trouble for the Wu family.

Therefore, after injecting internal energy into the hidden meridians, a new method must be found to accelerate the explosive speed of internal energy in the hidden meridians while simultaneously creating a large-scale myocardial infarction effect.

Fortunately, the item he accidentally brought out tonight was able to achieve his purpose perfectly.

This thing was an unconventional reward given by the bamboo slips a long time ago: I love a piece of firewood. Although Wu Chengyu did not make it immediately due to insufficient resources and lack of mental preparation at the time.

But over the past five years, the thought of it has always made him itchy to try it. Who wouldn't be curious about such a miraculous medicine with special effects, even if Wu Chengyu had no intention of harming anyone?

So one day two years ago, Wu Chengyu finally couldn't hold back any longer and secretly bought all the medicinal materials to make it.

After finding no suitable subjects for further experiments, Wu Chengyu had no choice but to shelve the project.

His original plan for tonight was to give Stone an unprecedented life experience with "I Love a Piece of Wood" and make him look ridiculous, but now it has taken on a new purpose.

Those who are poisoned by "I Love a Piece of Wood" are nearly insane, their minds filled only with the bestial instincts of wild beasts. During the intense process that follows, their hearts become engorged with blood and beat at an abnormally high frequency. At the moment of ecstasy, this directly stimulates the explosion of internal energy in their hidden meridians.

At that time, the three people will die of a heart attack one second before entering the Pure Land, going to Wushan together and embarking on the road to the underworld together.

When someone sees their bodies tomorrow, even if an autopsy is performed, they will only assume that the three of them died at the same time due to excessive force. There will definitely be suspicions, but the first suspicion will be how the three of them killed themselves.

Although killing three people directly would be clean and efficient, it would be obvious to others that it was murder.

Like Wu Chengyu, who integrated his internal energy into his hidden meridians and then unleashed it from within with the help of his heart pounding violently, there was absolutely no trace of external force. Furthermore, the numerous traces of intercourse left at the scene were not fake. For the time being, he would never be associated with the Wu family.

This is a huge scandal. Shi Miyuan will be too busy covering it up to have any legitimate reason to cause trouble for the Wu family.

He took out a small blue porcelain bottle from his pocket. Ten of them had been made in total. In theory, one would have been enough, but since this was the first time Wu Chengyu's plan had been implemented and there was no large amount of experimental data to verify it, he simply put three into his mouth and kept one for himself as a souvenir.

According to Wu Chengyu's estimation, the effect of one "I Love a Piece of Firewood" pill is equivalent to ten small blue pills. These three guys have each taken thirty pills. Even without the power of the hidden meridian in their hearts, these three guys will be exhausted by tomorrow morning.

Wu Chengyu looked at the pills in his hand and stuffed them into the other person's mouth one by one, and sighed inwardly, "You guys got off easy."

(End of this chapter)