Sword drawn from the constellations, poison as its edge.

Chapter 29 Firebreak
"Oh dear, so Little Azi really is in trouble! Didn't Senior Brother wrongly accuse Little Jiang?"

Among the disciples watching from near and far, someone suddenly let out a strange cry. The voice was hoarse and unpleasant, and it was also erratic, with no one knowing where it came from.

It was obvious that someone was deliberately lowering their voice while using extremely strong internal force to deliver the sound.

Zhaixingzi's face turned ashen. Once he uttered those words, his previous actions became a laughing stock.

His fists clenched so tightly they cracked, and he coldly swept his eyes across the crowd. The second, fourth, and fifth ranked disciples were all present, except for the third disciple, Zhui Fengzi.

He gritted his teeth inwardly and vowed: "That pig Zhui Fengzi, among my fellow disciples, there are only a handful with this level of internal strength. He's the one who loves watching the show the most. If he weren't feeling guilty, why wouldn't he dare to show his face? You just wait, you just wait!"

"Big Brother!"

Zhaixingzi looked on angrily, and Jiang Mingzhe, holding Azi, stopped right in front of him, his eyes burning.

He's coming to confront me!

Zhai Xingzi had a cold face and exuded an aura that kept strangers at bay, as she focused intently on answering Jiang Mingzhe's questions.

However, when Jiang Mingzhe spoke, his tone was extremely respectful and sincere: "Senior Brother is afraid that I will do something to harm Senior Sister, so he misunderstood me. But she really did call for help just now, but then she fainted. Senior Brother, you are very capable, can you tell what happened to her?"

Zhaixingzi raised her eyebrows slightly.

Unexpectedly, Jiang Mingzhe did not hold him accountable; instead, he helped him exonerate himself.

Zhaixingzi gave Jiang Mingzhe a deep look.

Blood kept dripping from Jiang Mingzhe's nose, and his lips and teeth were stained blood red.

Jiang Mingzhe smiled at him, his face glistening with blood, and said, "Senior Brother, if Senior Sister's condition is very serious, I'll have no choice but to ask Master for help."

Zhaixingzi took a deep breath, forced a smile, examined Azi carefully, then held her wrist for a moment before shaking his head: "Heh, when did this little girl become so reckless? Forcing her acupoints, her internal energy is insufficient, and the poison is backfiring..."

Perhaps thinking that Jiang Mingzhe was just starting out and might not understand, they thoughtfully added an explanation: "It means going astray in cultivation."

Accidental discharge!

Jiang Mingzhe's expression changed; he had already guessed the truth:
This silly girl was worried about being surpassed by him, so she went home and practiced her skills like crazy—

However, the difficulty in achieving enlightenment lies not only in the requirement for a robust internal force, but also in the fact that internal force is constantly being worn away during the process of breaking through acupoints.

In addition, after breaking through the acupoints, if the poison is absorbed, internal energy is also needed to balance and nurture it. If the internal energy is not strong enough, one can only rely on hard work to cultivate qi and open the acupoints, and so on, in a continuous cycle.

Ah Zi's internal energy was probably almost depleted, but she stubbornly refused to stop, causing her internal balance to be broken and the poison that she had originally absorbed into her acupoints to suddenly backfire.

"I'm going to find my master."

Jiang Mingzhe knew that at most, Zhaixingzi could only tell him the problem, but couldn't solve it for him.

Just as she turned to run away, she heard Zhaixingzi say calmly, "Hehe, judging from Xiao Azi's complexion, the poison has been backfiring for four or five hours. Her remaining internal energy has been exhausted, which is why she fainted. If it has been delayed any longer, even a god would not be able to save her. If you go to find your master, it may be too late."

He then chuckled softly, "However, I do know how to save you."

Jiang Mingzhe suddenly turned around, his eyes fixed on Zhaixingzi: "How do we save her?"

He understood human nature well and knew that if the problem were easy to solve, Zhaixingzi would most likely pretend to be deaf and dumb. Now that he was willing to speak, it must be extremely difficult. However, Azi's breath was already extremely weak, and Zhaixingzi's statement that he would not be able to hold on until he went to find Ding Chunqiu might not be false.

After all, the Valley of Ten Thousand Poisons where Ding Chunqiu lived was more than ten miles away from here. Jiang Mingzhe had never been there before, and he was still carrying serious injuries. If anything went wrong, A Zi's life would be over.

Seeing the undisguised concern in his eyes, Zhaixingzi revealed a sinister smile: "Hehe, it's not that difficult, it just depends on how loyal you are, junior brother. Well, if you want to save her, it's actually simple. Just press one hand on the Qihai point and the other on the Mingmen point, and use the method of absorbing poison from the Wanjie Scripture to draw all the poison running through her body into your own acupoints. Azi will naturally live."

After saying this, he glanced at the other disciples and said loudly, "It's not that I, as the senior brother, am unwilling to help, but our skills have not yet reached the level of Jiao Hui or Xun Xing. If we absorb other poisons, they will clash with our own poison power. Do you expect us to risk our lives to save our junior sister? Only this junior brother Jiang has just entered the sect and should not have absorbed any poisons yet. He is a blank slate and is perfect for saving her."

The surrounding disciples nodded in agreement, and one of them said, "Junior Brother Jiang has only been a disciple for two days. Although he is exceptionally talented and even defeated Mingzhuzi, his acupoints are not yet open, so he has nowhere to absorb the poison. If he absorbs Azi's poison, he will surely die. Haha, such a genius has withered away so early. We, as his senior brothers, cannot help but feel saddened and weep when we hear about it."

He said he was heartbroken and shed tears, but his face was beaming with a bright smile.

Immediately someone cursed him, saying, "What nonsense are you talking about? Why are you sad? As the saying goes, dying under a peony is still a romantic death. Although Xiao A Zi is young, her beauty is already beginning to show. She is a peony bud. It is the act of a true man to die under this peony bud. We should be envious."

The two of them sang in unison, and the other disciples, who had not received professional training, couldn't help but laugh.

Zhaixingzi shouted, "You're all looking down on people! Are you blind? Look at the hole in the door. How could someone without the strength of the Opening Aperture Realm have made that hole?"

After saying that, he encouraged Jiang Mingzhe, saying, "Junior brother, do what is right. They look down on you because they are stupid. Your senior brother supports you in saving people!"

He thought viciously to himself: "That damned girl, Azi, has been practicing the Crimson Refining Silent Palm so diligently that she must be absorbing fire poison. This kid is practicing the Three Yin Centipede Claw, and in order to fuse the centipede wood poison, he must open the metal acupoints. He is currently being restrained by the fire poison. Once the poison enters the acupoints, he will either die on the spot or have his meridians completely destroyed. This is all good news."

Jiang Mingzhe's gaze swept over the jubilant group of senior brothers, his eyes as cold as ice, but his face wore a gentle smile as he politely said, "Thank you for your guidance, senior brother. I will now go and heal my senior sister. Farewell."

After saying that, he turned around and went back into Azi Tower, slamming the door shut. From the hole in the door came the strange laughter of a group of disciples.

Jiang Mingzhe was kicked by Zhaixingzi. Although the door bolt blocked most of the force and he used his internal strength to protect himself in time, his injuries were still quite serious. Although his bones and muscles were undamaged, there were large bruises on his chest and his internal organs were also shaken. It was only by his willpower that he was able to carry Azi in and out as if nothing had happened.

He intended to go up to the second floor, but as soon as he stepped into the hall, he felt weak and his chest ached terribly. He had no choice but to sit down on the spot, pull the unconscious Azi into his arms, and lean her against his body.

Saving lives is urgent, so Jiang Mingzhe disregarded etiquette and tore a slit in the front and back of Azi's clothes. He reached in with his right hand and pressed the Qihai acupoint on her lower abdomen, while his left hand pressed the Mingmen acupoint on her spine. He closed his eyes and regulated his breathing. Following the method of dissolving poison in the Zhou Tian Xing Su Du Jie Jing, he circulated his internal energy and slowly injected it into Azi's Mingmen acupoint from his left hand. The energy circulated through her body and then exited from the Qihai acupoint back into his own body.

As his internal energy returned, Jiang Mingzhe felt a burning sensation in his right hand. He immediately sensed an intensely hot and aggressive aura within that internal energy and understood immediately—

Azi Rong's poison is fire poison. Hmm, that bastard Zhaixingzi saw that I opened acupoints. He probably knew that I opened acupoints belonging to the metal element, and that the fire poison would inevitably erupt once it entered. That's why he was willing to teach me the treatment method, hoping that I would seek my own death. Little did he know that man proposes, God disposes. I also opened five acupoints on the Ren meridian, three of which belong to the water element. I'm afraid he would never have thought of this!

He has now opened a total of eight acupoints: three water, three metal, one fire, and one earth. These represent four of the five elements, which is enough to deal with most poisons. This is the source of his confidence in saving Azi.

Moreover, the principles of mutual generation and restraint are not rigid and unchanging. Even if Azi is fusing spider earth poison, he can first use the Qihai acupoint, which belongs to earth, to absorb part of it, and then use the three acupoints, which belong to metal, to absorb the rest, so that the poison will not immediately go out of control.

This is precisely the mystery of cause and effect. Because of her jealousy that Jiang Mingzhe had opened five acupoints, Azi practiced her skills so hard that she suffered a qi deviation and poisoning. However, Jiang Mingzhe was only qualified to save her life because he had opened these acupoints.

The internal energy carrying the fire poison entered the acupoint and, after a single rotation, the poison was left inside and suppressed by the gentle, cool energy within the acupoint.

The purified internal energy was once again injected into A Zi's body through Jiang Mingzhe's left hand...

After repeating this several times, Azi shuddered and slowly opened her eyes.

She stared blankly at Jiang Mingzhe as if she had just woken up. When she saw the blood all over his face, her eyes suddenly sharpened, and a fierce murderous intent flashed across her delicate face. She gritted her teeth and said, "Big Jiang, which bastard dares to bully you?"

(End of this chapter)