Urban God of War: The Live-in Son-in-law

Chapter 41: Phoenix Returns to Heaven Needle Technique

The ward quickly quieted down, and Ye Feng slowly exhaled, trying to calm his heart as much as possible.

Meanwhile, Hong Tianming had already helped Hong Zhenguo to his feet.

Ye Feng pinched the needle, his gaze sharp as a knife, and with a whoosh, he thrust a needle into Hong Zhenguo’s Heaven Gate acupuncture point.

Watching from the side, Luo Keque was caught off guard and almost let out a cry of alarm.

"Good heavens, that’s the Heaven Gate point—that’s not something to mess around with. A slight inattention could result in a fatality. Goodness, this young man is actually..."

Luo Keque couldn’t help but sigh inwardly, but he soon realized that the other’s needle technique was very skilled, straightforward and confident, and the accuracy in finding the acupuncture point was extremely precise.

"This technique..."

Luo Keque couldn’t help but muse to himself, "This kind of technique, I remember seeing it twenty years ago on a peerless divine doctor in the Valley of the Medicine King, but back then, even that doctor seemed hesitant to insert needles into a patient’s Heaven Gate point so casually!"

While Luo Keque’s thoughts ran wild, Ye Feng had already swiftly inserted a dozen more needles; soon Hong Zhenguo’s head, shoulders, and even his face and both the front and back of his chest were densely filled with needles.

The more Luo Keque watched, the more he furrowed his brow, because this method of needling was completely unheard of and unseen by him before. Despite his reluctance to admit it, he could see the extraordinariness in the other’s needle technique alone.

Luo Keque admitted to himself that he had not yet reached such a level, and in fact, was far from it!

At that moment, it seemed Ye Feng had finished inserting the needles, and he exhaled lightly, casually wiping the sweat from his face.

Following that, Ye Feng exhaled and shouted, and white vapor suddenly surged from the palm of his hand, faint, and completely unclear from Hong Tianming’s angle.

But Luo Keque had the perfect angle to see it clearly; as soon as he saw the white vapor escaping from Ye Feng’s palm, he was completely shocked, a thick look of astonishment spreading across his face.

"This is... this is qi leaving the body! He’s a Great Grandmaster, an actual Grandmaster of Inner Force, and moreover, a High-Level Grandmaster!"

Luo Keque trembled with excitement, his mind exclaiming, "My goodness, this young man seated in a wheelchair, even with disabled legs, is actually a Grandmaster, and furthermore, a High-Level Grandmaster. How could this be possible!"

If it weren’t for the inappropriateness of the setting, Luo Keque might have cried out in shock.

However, at that moment, Ye Feng made his move. His right thumb and forefinger continuously flicked at the silver needles inserted into Hong Zhenguo’s body, and the white vapor emerging from his palm followed his fingers along the needles, penetrating into Hong Zhenguo’s body.

"The Needle Flicking Method, this is the legendary Needle Flicking Technique that was lost in ancient times, he actually knows how to use the lost ancient Needle Flicking Method, my heavens…"

Luo Keque’s old eyes bulged out like copper bells, his face showing a level of shock that couldn’t be further intensified.

Yet it was not over, for as Ye Feng finished his work, the silver needles inserted in Hong Zhenguo’s body began to tremble, humming unceasingly.

Listening carefully, it sounded like a phoenix calling, very pleasant and clear.

"This is... this is the lost Ancient Phoenix Returns to Heaven Needle Technique, my ancestors..."

Luo Keque could no longer suppress the excitement in his heart and cried out in alarm; the young man before him had given him an intensely shocking experience.

Initially, the fact that the other was a High-level Grandmaster of Inner Force was enough to astonish him, but what was utterly unexpected was that he also mastered the Needle Flicking Technique, regarded with regret in the domestic field of Chinese medicine as long lost.

Even more devastating was that he also knew the anciently renowned Phoenix Returns to Heaven Needle Technique that was said to have the power to reverse fate!

It was only at this moment that Luo Keque had absolutely no doubt that this unassuming young man before him was truly a peerless divine doctor; his medical skills were incomparable not just in the Jiangdu Divine Doctor Sect, or the Southern River Region Jiangnan Province Divine Doctor Sect, but even those old divine doctors from the Divine Doctor Sects of the capital could not match him.

"Open his mouth!" Ye Feng suddenly ordered.

Hong Tianming, clueless as to why, complied.

Just then, a scarlet insect no bigger than a green bean scuttled out of Hong Zhenguo’s mouth, seemingly in a state of panic.

With swift hands, Ye Feng reached out and caught the insect in his palm.

"Bring me that sealed bottle!" Ye Feng instructed again.

Hong Tianming dared not disobey and handed over the bottle.

Unscrewing the cap, Ye Feng placed the tiny red insect inside and then sealed the bottle tight. He didn’t intend to kill the Gu immediately, keeping it for later use since he wanted to track down the hidden perpetrator who had used the Gu and Poison.

If it had been ordinary poison, it might have been different, but now that the Southern Territory’s Gu&Poison Sect was involved, he had to investigate thoroughly.

After completing these tasks, Ye Feng finally took a deep breath, his face drenched in sweat and his whole body appearing somewhat weakened.

The consecutive needling, especially the use of the Phoenix Returns to Heaven Formation Technique, had drained a great deal of his Inner Strength.

Luo Keque, looking as if in a trance, said, "It was forced out. The Gu insect was actually forced out. Truly, it is the Phoenix Returns to Heaven Formation from the ancient legends, known as one of the Three Great Needles of the Ancients."

"The Three Great Needles of the Ancients are indeed formidable," he continued, "but the complexity of using the Needle Flicking Technique is not minor. At the very least, one must be a Great Grandmaster and cultivate Inner Strength. That threshold is not commonly surmounted!"

At this point, Ye Feng waved his hand and said, "It’s fine now, lay him down. Old Man Hong is out of life-threatening danger."

Hong Tianming hadn’t yet gathered his wits; he was an outsider. It is said that the hustle and bustle is for outsiders, while those on the inside watch the path. He couldn’t make heads or tails of the situation and within one or two minutes, the treatment was over.

"That’s it? What about my father?" Hong Tianming couldn’t help but ask.

"He is no longer in serious danger," Ye Feng stated. "In the coming period, he must rest quietly. He has lost a great deal of Life Essence, fortunately, he had a strong constitution to begin with. With proper rest, he should be able to return to a normal state."

Ye Feng put away the Silver Needle and then slowly maneuvered his wheelchair to face the other way.

Thump...

For Luo Keque, it came without warning; he kneeled down abruptly, rigidly kneeling before Ye Feng.

"Greetings, Divine Doctor Ye," he said, intensely moved and utterly sincere. "Just now I was blind to the greatness before me, failing to recognize your true worth, Divine Doctor. I implore your forgiveness for my earlier disrespect."

"Enough, get up and speak," Ye Feng gestured.

"Yes, Divine Doctor Ye!" Luo Keque then stood up.

Ye Feng looked at him and asked, "Did you see anything from the Needle Technique just now, and what have you learned?"

On hearing this, Luo Keque was utterly dumbfounded as he had been far too absorbed in astonishment to keep his mind on learning.

It seemed that Ye Feng had anticipated this reaction and chuckled, "Nevermind, this Needle Technique has exceedingly high requirements. Even if you remembered the gist, without Inner Strength, you would still be unable to perform it."

So Luo Keque simply nodded incessantly, bending halfway at the waist in front of Ye Feng like a novice disciple listening to his master’s reprimand.