For a moment, Old Zhang rushed forward in a panic, supporting me as he said, "Are you alright?"
As he spoke, he grabbed my wrist and quickly began to take my pulse.
"Internal energy is in disorder, is this a sign of impending demonic possession?"
Old Zhang's face instantly turned extremely ugly. Seeing a stone bed in the depths of the cave, he quickly carried me over and laid me down on it.
"Damn it, damn it! He hasn't even started foundation building, how did he end up with demonic possession?"
The sudden change of events made even Old Zhang lose his composure. After fretting for a while, he seemed to remember something and hurried out of the cave.
A few minutes later, when he reappeared in the cave, he had several silver needles in his hand. Xia Xiaoyi also followed him in.
Xia Xiaoyi also came forward to take my pulse and then asked with a dark expression, "Why does this happen? Suddenly, he opened his acupuncture points for what?"
"God knows what he's thinking! Stop talking and hurry up to take off his pants!"
As he spoke, Old Zhang quickly removed the poison with the silver needles and took out a large stack of talismans from his pocket, setting up a formation around me with them.
"Me?"
Xia Xiaoyi instinctively pointed at herself and asked in disbelief, "Why should it be me?"
"Nonsense! Can't you see how busy I am now? If there's further delay, this kid might turn into an idiot due to the surging internal energy!"
"Idiot or not, what's that got to do with me?"
Although Xia Xiaoyi said this indifferently, her gaze occasionally flickered towards me. Her gaze was mostly cold, but also mixed with a few concerns.
Seeing me lying in pain on the stone bed, groaning and rolling, she finally stomped her foot and hurried to my side, pulling up my pants with a look of disdain.
Perhaps due to her extreme nervousness, or my intense struggling, her little hand accidentally touched my... area through my pants.
The female body belonged to Yin, and once her hand touched there, even through the pants, I felt an unprecedented coolness and comfort!
"Woman!"
I shivered all over, almost as if by instinct, I grabbed her hand and hugged her before she could react.
Xia Xiaoyi was already very nervous, and now suddenly being hugged by me, given her short temper, she exploded!
"Ah--"
A piercing scream instantly shattered the tranquility of the cave. Probably also on instinct, Xia Xiaoyi gave me a slap in the face, struggling to break free from my embrace.
However, at this point, the raging internal energy had already made me almost lose consciousness, and all my actions were purely instinctive. For me, Xia Xiaoyi was like the long-awaited rain after a long drought, even the only life-saving straw! How could I let her go at this point? Even after she slapped me, I felt extremely comfortable all over and refused to let go!
Not only did I not let go, I even became more aggressive, rubbing against her continuously. If I had even a shred of consciousness left, I would not dare to do this, let alone provoke anyone, especially not her, isn't that asking for trouble?
"Let go of me!"
Xia Xiaoyi's face turned terrifyingly dark, her eyebrows furrowed, and she abruptly elbowed me in the chest. With a painful cry, I reluctantly loosened my grip on Xia Xiaoyi.
"Asshole!"
Freed from my embrace, Xia Xiaoyi was angry and embarrassed, almost subconsciously kicking me in the crotch. At the same time, she cursed, "You pervert!"
"My goodness!"
Seeing Xia Xiaoyi kicking me, Old Zhang was startled and quickly stopped her, "Don't be reckless, this is not a place to kick!"
"This is really not his fault. He's already been engulfed by the surging internal energy and has lost consciousness, all his actions are almost instinctive! If he comes into contact with any woman, he will react the same way!"
With that said, Old Zhang came straight to my side, and swiftly took off my pants, leaving me with just shorts. "Quick! Hold him down for me!"
With that, Old Zhang quickly took out the silver needles, seeming to prepare for acupuncture for me.
"When he wakes up, I must kill him!" After cursing, Xia Xiaoyi finally rushed over and firmly held down my hands. Old Zhang pressed down on my legs and then fiercely pierced my lower abdomen with the silver needles.
"Crackling!"
As the needles pierced, my body immediately started to emanate a series of cracking sounds, and a strong surge of Yang energy started to dissipate from the lower abdomen.
At the same time, Old Zhang quickly formed a hand seal, then threw the remaining talismans in his hand upwards and shouted, "Formation activate! As quickly as possible!"
Boom!
The surrounding formation suddenly activated, and a powerful suction force instantly enveloped me, pulling the Yang energy from my body towards the large formation.
"Phew..."
Seeing the formation successfully activated, and the effect seemed to be good, Old Zhang finally heaved a sigh of relief and shouted to Xia Xiaoyi, "Quick! Get out of the range of the formation!"
This move by Old Zhang is called the "Yang Drainage Formation," but it's never been recorded in ancient texts or passed down orally. It was an improvised plan by Old Zhang, based on the current situation, using the "Yin Drainage Formation" as a prototype and slightly modifying it!
To be honest, being treated like this by him did make me feel a lot better. The pain that had been inflicted on me seemed to have significantly diminished.
However, suddenly losing so much Yang energy also left me greatly weakened, almost to the point of extreme weakness. My vision darkened, and I instantly fell into a coma!
Oddly enough, although my body fell into a coma, my consciousness was actually a bit clearer than before.
In a daze, I heard Xia Xiaoyi asking, "Is this okay?"
"I don't know!"
Old Zhang looked uncertain and said, "Let's try our luck. I've already done my best, whether we can escape this disaster depends on the kid's fate!"
"This..."
Upon hearing this, Xia Xiaoyi fell silent, and after a long pause, she asked again, "Is there really no other way?"
"Well, there are some methods... but..."
Old Zhang hesitated and shook his head, then sighed, "Well, forget it..."
Damn! What do you mean, forget it?
I heard every word Old Zhang said clearly. If I weren't completely immobilized at the moment, I would have kicked him!
Damn it, why not just say if there's a way instead of dragging it out like this? If he hadn't patted me in frustration, would I have ended up in this miserable state?
"Oh..."
What made me even sadder was that, after Old Zhang remained silent, Xia Xiaoyi didn't ask further questions. After saying "oh," she simply left the place.
"Well... it's all fate..."
Shaking his head and sighing, Old Zhang came to me, took my pulse again, and then removed the "Yang-Dispersing Formation" around me.
As soon as the formation was removed, I felt the burning sensation return immediately, even stronger than before. The continuous torture, coupled with severe energy depletion, was becoming unbearable! This is unbearable!
So I thought to myself, it might be better to just lose consciousness altogether. Even if it didn't help matters, what harm would it do? Even if it's death, at least it would be in a daze, rather than after enduring such torture!
After a series of self-hypnosis, I gradually made my consciousness fuzzy, and indeed, the intense burning sensation seemed to be diminishing.
In a daze, I felt like I was dreaming. In the dream, there was an elderly man with long beard who called himself "Xinjian Hou," repeatedly reciting a piece called "Haoren Zhengqi Pian" in my mind and asking me to remember it firmly.
Since it was a dream, I followed along and recited it repeatedly with him: "The heaven and earth possess righteousness, granting form to all things; below, they form the rivers and mountains, above, they form the sun and stars. For humans, it is called 'haoren', permeating the expanse..."
It's not too long, nor too short, precisely three hundred characters. After reciting it twice with the old man, I memorized it firmly.