In Emei, start by obtaining golden attributes.

Chapter 190 Kid, you've mastered the first level of the Indestructible Vajra Divine Skill?

noon.

After changing into clean clothes, Gu Santong looked at Gu Shaoan, who was sitting at the table preparing medicine, and then looked at his own feet.

After hesitating for a moment, Gu Santong took half a step forward.

However, just as he took a step, Gu Santong's body trembled violently, and he spat out a mouthful of blood.

Feeling the surging blood and qi throughout his body, and then seeing the mouthful of blood on the ground, Gu Santong's eyes widened.

After catching his breath, Gu Santong put his feet together and then jumped forward.

Then, Gu Santong continued to churn, but he did not spit out a mouthful of blood like before.

At the same time, Gu Shaoan grabbed the copper basin on the table without looking up and threw it at Gu Santong.

Without a second thought, Gu Santong raised his hand and steadily caught the copper basin, then smiled nonchalantly.

But as the corners of his mouth curled up, Gu Santong's expression suddenly changed.

"It happened!"

Almost the instant the thought crossed his mind, Gu Santong placed the copper plate in front of him and spat out another mouthful of blood into the copper basin with a "whoosh".

Spitting out two mouthfuls of blood would have terrified an ordinary person.

Gu Santong showed no fear on his face, but instead turned his head in astonishment to look at Gu Shaoan.

"Kid, what kind of poison did you just give me? Why can't I walk or laugh?"

Gu Shaoan said without turning his head, "Didn't I say? The 'Smiling Half-Step Madness' will cause blood and qi to surge after being poisoned, whether one is smiling or taking half a step."

"Smiling and half-crazy."

After muttering the name of the poison, Gu Santong looked at Gu Shaoan with suspicion: "Are you sure you didn't steal this Heaven-Slaying Sword from Emei? When did Emei Sect acquire such a wicked poison that prevents you from walking or laughing?"

However, Gu Shaoan seemed to be focused on the medicine in front of him and did not respond.

Seeing this, Gu Santong curled his lip and said, "What's so great about the Half-Step Madman with a Smile? At worst, I just won't smile or walk."

As he spoke, Gu Santong lifted his legs and leaped forward, landing directly in front of Gu Shaoan.

"Hey! I jumped over here."

As soon as he spoke, Gu Santong leaned back slightly and took a step back to his previous position.

"Hey! I've jumped back again."

"What can you do to me?"

I don't know if it was because Gu Santong was really bored after being imprisoned in the dungeon for more than 20 years.

Nowadays, Gu Santong is so talkative that he practically uses his mouth even when he's sleeping.

I wish I could go on non-stop for twelve hours straight.

He lives like an energetic child.

However, just as Gu Santong jumped in front of Gu Shaoan, he seemed to sense something and spat out another mouthful of blood.

"No, I didn't leave or laugh, so why would I vomit blood? Did your medicine go bad from being left out for too long?"

Seeing that Gu Santong would keep nagging if he didn't explain clearly, he immediately explained, "Your injuries have accumulated for too long, and the blood stasis is connected to your internal organs. In addition, you have lost too much vitality in your body over the past twenty years. Those medicinal baths were not only to nourish your body, but also to help you replenish your body's deficiencies."

"The purpose of the medicine I just gave you is to improve your blood circulation throughout your body."

"During this process of blood and qi circulation, the stagnant blood in your body will naturally be expelled due to the circulation of blood and qi. When the medicine takes effect, you will still vomit blood even if you do not move, but the frequency will be reduced."

Gu Shaoan didn't have such a perverse sense of humor, casually administering potent poisons to people.

The "Hanxiao Banbu Dian" that Gu Santong just took was intended to regulate his body through the medicinal properties of the drug.

Almost as soon as Gu Shaoan finished speaking, Gu Santong spat out another mouthful of blood.

Gu Santong took a closer look at the bronze basin.

Sure enough, they discovered that the blood in the copper basin contained some dark, stagnant blood.

Gu Shaoan, who was preparing the medicine, said without looking up, "I'm preparing your medicine. Go ahead and vomit."

"Oh!"

Upon hearing this, Gu Santong, clutching the copper basin, turned around and hopped or jumped like a zombie to the window, basking in the midday sun while occasionally spitting out a mouthful of blood.

Occasionally, pedestrians on the street would look up and make eye contact with Gu Santong by the window. Gu Santong would first grin, then blood would gush from his mouth, scaring people into screaming and running away.

"Sure enough, it's much more interesting outside!"

Looking at the people on the roadside who were so frightened that they ran in panic, Gu Santong grinned again.

Fresh blood trickled down the corner of his mouth.

Half an hour later, after spending a piece of gold to send the government officials away, Gu Shaoan closed the door and looked expressionlessly at Gu Santong, who was sitting obediently on the stool.

In the end, he couldn't resist and picked up the Heaven Sword, walking towards Gu Santong.

Unbearable, no need to endure.

Seeing Gu Shaoan walking towards him with a cold smile, carrying the Heaven-Slaying Sword, Gu Santong's eyelids twitched involuntarily.

"No, no, no, I was just kidding!"

"Ouch~ it hurts!"

Five days later.

Linshan City.

It is located on the riverbank, about 20 miles southwest of the city.

Gu Santong sat cross-legged casually on the ground.

At this moment, Gu Santong was wearing only a pair of linen trousers and sat cross-legged on a stone.

In just five days, Gu Santong seemed to have become a completely different person.

Five days ago, it was like withered grass, pale and bleak, but now most of it has turned into a dark ink color, with only a few specks of white remaining.

His bare upper body was muscular and bulging, gleaming with a bronze-like luster under the sunlight.

The once withered and sunken muscles have become full and bulging, and the sharp lines outline a powerful contour like cast iron. Although the skin is still dark and rough, it faintly reveals a sense of hardness and toughness.

The only thing that seemed "jarring" was his face. Under the potion used by Gu Shaoan to disguise himself, Gu Santong's face still cleverly maintained its aged appearance, with crisscrossing wrinkles on his skin, slightly sunken cheekbones, and sharp, captivating eyes hidden beneath a murky facade. Paired with this vigorous, muscular body with cascading black hair, it gave people an extremely eerie and disjointed visual impact.

Gu Shaoan stood behind Gu Santong, his expression solemn and his eyes focused.

With a dazzling speed, the ten fingers of both hands swept across the vital acupoints on the back of Gu Santong's heart and both sides of his spine.

With each stroke of the fingers, slender silver needles, like stars falling from the sky, precisely pierce beneath the skin, reaching deep into the gaps between bones and tendons.

After each needle insertion, Gu Shaoan's fingertips would tremble slightly on the end of the silver needle, causing the silver needles on Gu Santong's body to hum and tremble continuously.

A short while later, after dozens of silver needles were inserted into Gu Santong's major acupoints, Gu Shaoan used his strength to draw a wooden gourd from the side into his hand.

With a surge of energy, the wooden gourd in Gu Shaoan's hand shattered and scattered on the ground.

However, the azure liquid medicine prepared inside the gourd was now suspended in front of Gu Shaoan under the influence of a special energy.

Once Gu Shaoan's internal energy circulated according to the "Great Shift of Heaven and Earth" mental technique, under the pull of Yin and Yang energies, the medicinal liquid in front of Gu Shaoan was actually divided into dozens of hair-thin tributaries that fell onto the ends of the silver needles.

True essence forms the bridge, and the needle-like structure forms the tunnel.

The pale golden true essence threads and the dark blue medicinal liquid entered Gu Santong's body along with the vibrations of the silver needles, and were precisely delivered to different acupoints. Then, due to Gu Shaoan's special acupuncture method, they quickly integrated into Gu Santong's body.

In an instant, Gu Santong felt as if his meridians were being immersed in a furnace where millennia-old ice and raging fire intertwined. The extreme pain and indescribable numbness and itching penetrated deep into his bone marrow, causing Gu Santong's body to tense up, like a fully drawn bow about to snap.

After an incense stick's time, as all the medicinal liquid entered Gu Santong's body through the silver needles, Gu Shaoan flipped his hand and used his internal energy to pull out all the silver needles from Gu Santong's body.

Once all the silver needles had fallen into the acupuncture kit, Gu Shaoan's right palm, which was suspended above Gu Santong's back, suddenly solidified and pressed down lightly. The air around his palm seemed to distort for a moment, and a dark golden light, condensed to the extreme and as heavy as metal, instantly gathered in his palm.

This palm strike did not produce a sound of tearing through the air; instead, it carried a strange, sticky feeling, like solidified molten gold pressing down heavily.

Eight consecutive palm strikes landed on different parts of Gu Santong's back.

With each palm strike, the unique force made Gu Santong feel as if his internal energy and blood had been shaken.

When the ninth palm struck Gu Santong's back, Gu Santong's whole body trembled violently as if he had been electrocuted! His tightly closed mouth suddenly opened, and a large amount of foul-smelling, dark purple-black blood clots mixed with thick, glue-like phlegm was violently spat out.

As he coughed up the stagnant blood, Gu Santong's entire chest cavity suddenly collapsed inward.

It was as if the boulder that had been stuck in my throat and pressing on my chest for twenty years had suddenly collapsed and shattered.

The long-lost feeling of lightness and comfort instantly replaced the deep-seated stuffiness and oppression.

My heart felt a great weight lifted off my shoulders, each strong and powerful beat clearly reaching the extremities of my body. The sound of blood surging through my ears was like a long-frozen river suddenly bursting open its ice sheet in the spring sunshine.

When the body's true essence circulated at this moment, it no longer had the same dull and listless feeling as before.

Gu Santong suddenly opened his eyes.

"Cool~"

After standing up from the ground with a "whoosh," Gu Santong let out a low shout.

His voice was loud and clear, and full of energy.

After sprinkling some powder into the silver needles in the acupuncture kit, Gu Shaoan put the needles into the kit and said, "Although the injury has healed, Senior Gu's internal deficiencies have not yet been recovered. You will still need to take pills every day and nourish them with true essence for three months before everything will be fine."

The problem with Gu Santong can be said to be the most serious case that Gu Shaoan has encountered in all his years of medical practice.

If Gu Shaoan's medical skills hadn't reached the "Grandmaster" level, he would have been helpless in the face of Gu Santong's near-death experience.

His body regained its vitality, and at this moment, Gu Santong felt his whole body filled with energy.

Turning to look at Gu Shaoan, Gu Santong nodded and said, "Kid, putting aside other aspects, your medical skills are impeccable."

They know their own situation best.

Gu Santong knew all too well the extent to which his body had been depleted.

As far as Gu Santong knew, those so-called divine doctors in the martial arts world would probably only be able to shake their heads and sigh in the face of his condition.

However, Gu Shaoan solved most of the problem in just a few days, relieving him of any danger to his life.

Such medical skills were enough to startle even Gu Santong.

Similarly, having witnessed Gu Shaoan's medical skills, Gu Santong truly believed that Gu Shaoan was confident in curing Su Xin.

Thinking about it, Gu Santong's gaze softened when he looked at Gu Shaoan.

He glanced at the sky, left a message saying "I'm going to catch some fish to grill," and without waiting for Gu Shaoan's response, he darted into the river like an arrow.

After packing up his things, Gu Shaoan turned around, walked to the side, found a clean rock, and sat down cross-legged.

For several days in a row, under the effect of the "Multitasking" skill, Gu Shaoan spent his time, apart from resting, circulating his true essence according to the mental technique of the first level of the "Indestructible Vajra Divine Art" to condense golden essence.

With his profound skill and the help of the proficiency panel, Gu Shaoan had already opened up all the hidden meridians and branch meridians involved in the first level of the "Invincible Vajra Divine Skill" yesterday.

However, as an internal cultivation martial art, the "Invincible Vajra Divine Skill" is different from ordinary martial arts.

The level of mastery of the "Invincible Vajra Divine Skill" depends not only on the mental techniques involved, but more importantly on the tempering of the body.

With the operation and the coordination of Gu Shaoan's breathing technique, these ethereal, cloud-like golden elements, as if molten gold had found a natural channel, precisely flowed into the depths of the bone marrow cavity of the spine and the bones of the ribcage.

As the gold ore continued to be incorporated, Gu Shaoan felt as if his body was being continuously forged by a heavy hammer, and with each breath he felt his dragon bones becoming heavier, denser, and tougher.

At the same time, deep within the thick tendons that lie between the bones and connect the major joints, the penetration of these gold coins also brings a tearing pain and a tingling, itchy sensation during the reorganization and healing process.

After a long while, just as Gu Shaoan's accumulated gold coins were almost completely depleted, in Gu Shaoan's perception, the few remaining wisps of gold coins in his body seemed to penetrate the subcutaneous fat and fascia layer like all-pervasive clouds and smoke, and finally—forcefully infiltrated and evenly diffused to every inch of the skin's surface.

[Beginner level of the Indestructible Vajra Divine Skill, Level 1, Achievement Points +10]

At the same time, a notification message suddenly appeared in Gu Shaoan's mind.

Slowly opening his eyes, Gu Shaoan's true energy immediately began to circulate according to the mental cultivation method of the first level of the Vajra Indestructible Divine Art.

At the very moment when the true essence passed through the Lung Meridian of Hand-Taiyin, wisps of energy quietly emerged from around Gu Shaoan's body.

It was so faint that it was almost imperceptible.

However, just as Gu Shaoan was feeling the peculiar energy on his body, Gu Santong, who had already finished processing several fish and was squatting by the fire, suddenly turned around and looked at Gu Shaoan as if he had sensed something.

The next second, Gu Santong's expression changed. As he stood up, he seemed to ignore the space and instantly crossed a distance of seven zhang to appear in front of Gu Shaoan.

When Gu Shaoan opened his eyes, he saw Gu Santong's face full of doubt.

Looking at the wrinkled old face in front of him, Gu Shaoan was stunned for a moment, then leaned back a little.

Before Gu Shaoan could speak, Gu Santong asked first, "Kid, have you mastered the first level of the Indestructible Vajra Divine Skill?"

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