Huang Rong from The Return of the Condor Heroes: Guo'er, calm down.

Cold Jade Bed.

The name sounds elegant, but once you lie down on it, you'll know what it means to be deadly.

As soon as Yang Guo was placed on it, the chill seeped into his bones.

"hiss--"

Yang Guo's jaw was chattering, and he probably wanted to curl up.

But the Nine-Turn Life-Extending Pill inside his body refused to agree.

The fire inside my abdomen was burning fiercely, and the heat was surging and crashing through my internal organs.

For a moment, he couldn't tell whether he was cold or hot.

Grandma Sun stood by the bed, wringing her hands anxiously: "Girl, this... will this work? He's shivering so badly, what if he freezes to death before he gets too hot?"

The Little Dragon Goddess remained indifferent, keeping her distance.

"The Jade Bed is an extremely cold object, specifically designed to counteract heat toxins. His body has excessive heat, and only this method can relieve it. If he cannot withstand the cold and jumps off, then it is his destiny to die."

Grandma Sun opened her mouth as if to say something, but in the end she could only sigh.

"Child, bear with it. If you want to live, you have to get through this."

Yang Guo smiled bitterly to himself.

The effects of the drug in my body were like a mad bull, completely out of control.

"No... I need to use my internal energy..."

Yang Guo gritted his teeth and forced himself to calm down.

The Song of the Great Way of Complete Perfection.

This was the introductory technique that Yin Zhiping had taught him. Although he usually looked down on this slow-paced skill, he had no choice but to try it as a last resort.

"In the initial cultivation of the Great Dao, the nine orifices are opened; the nine orifices originally reside in the coccyx..."

Yang Guo silently recited the incantation, trying to guide the surging heat within his body.

It was somewhat useful at first.

The heat was drawn in and flowed slowly along the meridians.

But not long after, Yang Guo realized something was wrong.

The internal cultivation methods of the Quanzhen School emphasize gradual progress and a balanced, peaceful approach. It's like scooping water with a small spoon, slowly and methodically.

But the medicinal power of the Nine-Turn Life-Extending Pill is like a surging river.

How can a small spoon scoop up all the river water?

"puff!"

A sharp pain shot through my meridians, as if they were being torn apart.

Yang Guo felt a sweet taste in his throat and spat out another mouthful of blood.

"Girl!" Granny Sun cried out in fright.

Little Dragon Girl frowned slightly and took two steps closer.

She extended two fingers and tapped them a few times in the air, seemingly observing Yang Guo's aura.

After a moment, she shook her head.

"it's useless."

"I checked his pulse just now. His meridians are narrow, which means he hasn't been practicing martial arts for very long and his foundation is very shallow. That pill is extremely potent; even the Seven Masters of Quanzhen would need to go into seclusion for seven days to neutralize it. With his meager cultivation, he simply can't digest it."

Grandma Sun's face turned deathly pale: "Then...what should we do?"

"Waiting to die."

Little Dragon Girl turned and walked out, saying, "It's only a matter of time before my meridians burst. Grandma, you should prepare for the worst."

That's incredibly heartless.

Yang Guo, lying in bed, heard it all clearly.

You little dragon girl!

You've cursed your grandfather eight hundred times today, haven't you?

Yang Guo's ruthlessness resurfaced.

He's like a spring; the more you press him down, the higher he bounces.

"I'll just not die..."

Yang Guo stared intently at Xiaolongnu's departing figure, his heart hardening.

You want me dead? I'll show you I'm alive!

The Song of the Great Dao of Quanzhen won't work, right?

Let's try another method!

A sudden inspiration struck Yang Guo, and he remembered the Toad Stance taught to him by his adoptive father, Ouyang Feng.

This skill emphasizes using stillness to control movement and accumulating power for explosive release. Most importantly, its energy flow path is quite different from that of ordinary people, and some meridians even flow in reverse.

Since going with the flow doesn't work, let's go against it!

Since we're going to die anyway, we might as well take a big gamble!

Yang Guo suddenly rolled over, no longer lying flat, but instead sprawled on the cold jade bed.

This posture is extremely bizarre.

He rested his chin on his hands and curled up his legs.

"Gurgle...gurgle..."

A low, strange sound came from his throat.

Grandma Sun was about to get a towel to wipe the blood when she heard the noise and was startled: "Child, what happened to you...?"

Before she could finish speaking, a strange aura suddenly erupted from Yang Guo's body.

The heat that was originally surging wildly within him was abruptly redirected by the Toad Stance technique.

pain!

It hurts ten times more than before!

If what happened before was merely the stretching of his meridians, now it's as if someone is holding a file and scraping his bones raw.

Going against the flow of Qi and blood is, in itself, going against the will of Heaven.

Coupled with the violent effects of the medicine, Yang Guo felt as if stars were flashing before his eyes.

But he gritted his teeth.

Can't stop!

Once you stop, the effects of the medicine will backfire, and then even a miracle won't save you.

He forcefully activated the Toad Style, directing the medicinal power towards his dantian.

Grandma Sun watched with her heart pounding.

The child's face turned as red as Guan Yu's one moment and as white as a ghost the next.

The scariest thing was his stomach.

With each breath, his belly swelled and contracted, just like a giant toad swallowing the heavens and earth.

"What... what kind of kung fu is this?" Granny Sun murmured to herself. Although she was well-informed, she had never seen such a strange way of practicing kung fu.

Looking at Yang Guo struggling in pain, Xiaolongnu felt a sense of doubt.

Logically speaking, with his meridians flowing backward and the medicine causing a backlash, he should have exploded and died long ago.

But he actually held on.

Although he looked disheveled and seemed on the verge of death, he was like a wild grass in the wind, refusing to break no matter how fierce the storm.

"That's interesting."

Little Dragon Girl said something indifferently, then turned and went back to her stone chamber.

Since he's not dead, let him do whatever he wants.

……

Late at night.

Grandma Sun stayed up half the night, but she couldn't stay awake any longer and dozed off by the stone table.

Yang Guo is still enduring it.

He is currently in an extremely mysterious state.

When the pain reaches its extreme, it becomes numb.

He could feel the medicinal power within his body being gradually ground down.

Although the Quanzhen Daodao Song is slow, its strength lies in its stability.

Although Toad Style Kung Fu is dangerous, its advantage lies in its ferocity.

Yang Guo switched back and forth between these two completely different internal energy techniques.

When the medicine was too strong, he would use his Toad Style Kung Fu to tough it out.

When his meridians were damaged, he would quickly switch back to the Complete Perfection Great Dao Song and use that balanced and peaceful true energy to repair them.

That night, he walked through the gates of hell countless times.

Several times, the drug's power almost burst through his skull, driving him insane.

But he managed to suppress it with sheer determination.

"Sister Rong..."

In his hazy state, his mind was filled with images of Huang Rong.

The woman who taught him to read and write on Peach Blossom Island, the figure that haunted his dreams.

"I can't die... I haven't mastered the ultimate martial arts... I haven't gone back to see you..."

This obsession became his last lifeline.

After an unknown amount of time, light began to shine through the cracks in the tomb again.

Yang Guo felt the heat in his body finally subside a bit.

It also gave rise to a sense of fullness.

Although he only refined a tiny fraction of the medicinal power of that Nine-Turn Life-Extending Pill, it had already transformed him completely.

The meridians are more than twice as wide as before.

In the dantian, what was originally just a faint sense of energy has now gathered into a small stream.

Although it was still very fine, it was genuine internal strength.

"call--"

Yang Guo let out a long breath and collapsed onto the cold jade bed.

My clothes were already soaked with sweat, which was then frozen solid by the cold air, sticking to my body like ice, making me very uncomfortable.

But he smiled.

survived.

Not only did they survive, they also turned misfortune into a blessing.

Grandma Sun woke up with a start, rubbed her eyes, and immediately looked at the cold jade bed.

Yang Guo was lying there sprawled out, his chest rising and falling slightly, his breathing steady.

Although his face was still pale, the deathly aura had dissipated.

"It's alive?"

Granny Sun walked over in disbelief and reached out to check Yang Guo's breath.

It's still hot.

"Oh my goodness!" Granny Sun exclaimed excitedly, slapping her thigh. "It's truly a miracle from the Ancestral Master! She's still alive!"