When Fengyu came back the next day, he was surprised to see that the man was up and about, playing with a duck as he was sitting on a tree stump.

"Ducks are cute, aren’t they?" Fengyu asked as he observed the interaction for a bit.

"Mhm," the man didn’t say much.

Since yesterday’s pain, Lu Fang had become even more listless.

Fengyu saw it and could only say that it was inevitable for a genius who had risen rapidly to feel down when everything stopped.

He said a few words before going to his room together with him.

There, he took out a small set of silver needles, which he had bought quickly this morning.

Using his memories, he looked for the acupuncture points that could momentarily stop the blood flow in his right shoulder.

Two acupuncture points appeared in his mind.

At the end of the shoulder. It is the right angle’s core when one’s arm is stretched out - on the back side of the armpit.

This is the Jianzhen Acupoint right below the artery. It has jurisdiction over the joint mobility and the obstructions of the Taiyang meridian.

Usually, pressing it relieves the meridian of the obstruction and improves the mobility, but Fengyu wanted to achieve the exact opposite.

Taking his silver needle, he followed the Reverse Acupoint Pressure Technique in the Acupuncture Technique.

When learning this technique last night, he realised that whether it was normal pressure points or reverse, it didn’t seem difficult for him. With the acupuncture map in his mind, he could easily pinpoint the point’s location.

Naturally every body is unique, so it will be slightly different...

He pushed spiritual power into the shoulder, using various reference points to pinpoint the location of the acupoint, reducing the range he thought it was in with every step.

From the initial 10 cm range, he slowly lowered it.

The range gradually closed to only a single centimetre, which was a lot smaller than before... but the tip of the needle was extremely sharp and precise.

Acupoints were hidden pressure centres of the body, difficult to detect and feel. Pressing them normally wouldn’t achieve much, one needed to have focused effort to achieve any effect, whether it’s normal or reverse acupoint pressing.

A moment passed as the range was reduced more and more, at which point Fengyu felt a slight resistance.

He guessed this was likely the pressure point of this mass of muscles, flesh and bones, the Jianzhen point he looked for!

His mind concentrated but didn’t try to find a way to press it. Instead, he looked around the artery, inspecting the pressure put on it.

In one direction, the muscle was rather stiff, seemingly putting a lot of pressure on this point. This muscle was an important one constantly being used - you can’t remove a muscle or weaken it just because it puts pressure on the acupoint.

The idea behind these pressure points is that they’re the gathering of the body’s pressure, and that pressing them would relieve this pressure for a short time, giving the body a burst of power.

This might sound like treating symptoms rather than causes, but since the cause was normal movement, one couldn’t possibly restrict movement just to not have any pressure, right?

Sometimes, treating symptoms is exactly what the body needs to function.

Fengyu’s mind whirred as he inspected the other muscles, those muscles that were more relaxed, not putting as much pressure on the acupoint as the other muscle.

Not hesitating, he led his needle, using spiritual control to insert it smoothly and control it with extreme care.

In just a moment, the needle reached the acupoint, its tip pointing at the muscle that was somewhat relaxed. Next to the muscle was a tiny small motor unit, controlling the muscle fibre of this muscle.

With another small move, the needle turned its tip -

Tik

A small sound was heard as the needle pierced the motor neuron -

Twitch

The muscle contracted for just a second, instantly causing a burst of pressure to gather, which quickly disappeared into the pressure point!

Fengyu looked at the pressure point, ignoring Lu Fang next to him.

He felt it with his power, with his mind.

Although he saw nothing, he could feel that the small point right there had a bit more pressure than before!

He didn’t stop, going from one motor unit to another, targeting the neurons and causing the muscles to contract.

Each time, Lu Fang felt a slight twitch in his shoulder right next to his armpit - it didn’t hurt and the needle was very small and sharp, so he didn’t feel pain at the prick either.

Drip

Sweat dripped off Fengyu’s forehead, the sound allowing him to regain his clarity.

"Let’s stop here," he said, pulling out the small needle and looking at Lu Fang’s shoulder.

From outside, the difference was minimal.

So instead he asked, "Can you move your shoulder a bit? Tell me how you feel."

Lu Fang nodded and used his shoulder, moving it normally for a moment.

But as he repeated the same, he felt a small ache, as if his shoulder was a bit tired.

"Alright, that’s it." Fengyu stopped him, knowing he had partially achieved his intended effect.

Because he had been careful and only ’attacked’ the motor units right around the acupoint, the newly accumulated pressure was weak and wouldn’t have a big effect on the shoulder just yet.

He looked at it for a long time, thinking about whether to proceed.

Feeling his spiritual power, he thought that he had barely used any and could go right away -

But just as he was about to do it, he felt a sudden tiredness from his mind.

"Hmm, this is quite a difficult technique. Let’s take a break for now."

Although the reverse method wasn’t more difficult, it was more time consuming and would tire his mind faster.

He could only let go for now and focus on the other task he had thought of for Lu Fang!