Fengyu’s technique improved quickly in a few short days, successfully laming Lu Fang’s right shoulder. Fortunately he used his left one for sewing, although it looked weird on him, it wasn’t a major issue.

After the Jianzhen acupoint became lame, Fengyu moved to the Naoshu acupoint. Following the line, right above the artery, this point controlled the flow of blood and qi in the shoulder.

Laming this one was a different experience. Compared to the superficial motor units and muscles in the Jiazhen area, the muscles here were denser and more complicated.

He had to hit several points to cause a minor jolt, increasing the pressure.

’Such an important part is definitely more protected by the body... or maybe it’s because it’s so complicated that this part became important?’ Fengyu asked himself at this moment whether the body was first there or the pressure points. Technically he would say it was the body... but the human body is said to have been built by Saint Empress Nuwa... so, in that case, maybe she first made the map of acupoints and added muscles later?

Being philosophical and questioning the now and then is always a great joy, but Fengyu knew that it wouldn’t help him much for now. Maybe in the future when he pursued the dao, he would benefit from his deep knowledge, knowledge he gained from reading various novels in his past life... then again, quite a few points differed from reality, so he couldn’t believe everything blindly.

Although it was more difficult, it simply meant he needed to work harder in this process.

Laming the Jianzen point was actually fine, and he didn’t see a decline in the arteries’ movement. He could only guess that laming this part would ensure the person wouldn’t move in their own initiative during the process of healing.

The arm moving would be more harmful to the healing than if the whole body collapsed.

Meanwhile, he also learned a different technique -

Pressure point pressing!

While acupoints are more medical and target the essence of these, pressure points are slightly different.

They are more like a martial artist attacking technique, but they had a connection with acupoints, so they were included.

Pressing the right points would result in an although weaker but very similar effect as acupuncture.

For example, pressing the Jianzhen point would indeed lame a person, but this laming was temporal and rather weak, unsuitable to be used on an important acupoint. On the other hand, using it on less important places, such as to lame the whole body while healing a small part, then this technique would be indeed useful.

He looked for various lame points on the whole body, pressing them occasionally to see their effect. The laming effect was weak but it could give him a short time to react to it and ensure the healing wouldn’t be disrupted by it.

Doing several things at the same time, his experience in acupuncture rose quickly and he finally managed closing the Naoshu acupoint!

The instant this happened, Fengyu saw something shocking -

Red, dark red, blue, black...

In a quick succession, the artery in front of him seemed to wilt and die!

Prick

A needle pierced the Naoshu point -

Instantly, pressure was transferred over the needle into Fengyu’s hand and body! 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

Bang!

He felt as if a hammer was hitting his heart, the pressure enormous even if it lasted for a single moment!

"Ugh," he grunted as he felt the pressure on his body.

Looking at Lu Fang, he saw that the man was sitting there just fine, even feeling a little relaxed!

His spiritual power entered Lu Fang’s shoulder once more... only to see that the pressure he had accumulated for so long had disappeared all at once, even the one that was there previously!

But looking at the artery, he saw that it regained its rosy crimson colour once more...

"I overdid it," Fengyu sighed when he looked at it, realising his mistake.

"Blood has to flow, else it will die rapidly. So, rather than cutting off the flow, I should only block it to ensure the blood wouldn’t flood the wound while I heal it." he found his mistake and thought of a solution, instantly wanting to test it.

Just as he wanted to move his hands, he suddenly felt a soreness in the hand holding the needle.

"This pain disappeared in just a moment so I thought it was fine to work again, but it seems like it’s not as easy as I thought!" Fengyu not only felt the soreness in his hand, but also a slight ache in his body.

The pressure he thought was just normal was actually so immense.

A look of astonishment appeared in his eyes - did the human body have the ability to store so much power?

’Never mind, what am I thinking? Martial artists of the Human Dao and physical cultivators of the Immortal Dao all use the body and refine it to become extremely strong. At the first stage their body is just a bit stronger than that of other cultivators. The key is that while their body isn’t much stronger, they learned techniques to overcome spells and fight hand on hand with cultivators!’

Fengyu knew that while the path of physical cultivation was less popular, it wasn’t weaker. It’s just that spiritual cultivation is the most balanced and open way, while soul cultivation requires high talent and physical cultivation requires hard effort. The combination of talent and effort is the path of spiritual cultivation, which is the best path for most cultivators.

As for those that want to try out physical cultivation with low talent... well, even if you work hard, without any supplements to help your body become stronger quickly, you will likely cultivate even longer than if you had stuck to spiritual cultivation.

’By practicing medicine, I not only tapped into the path of spell masters, technique masters and even creation masters such as alchemists, I’m also learning about other daos and expanding my own comprehension of the world.

What they say is true - walking one path to the peak is the same as walking myriad paths at the same time...’