The Yin Poison of the Yin Wind Claw!

Su Que, having reached the peak of the Crimson Fiend Skill, began to consider which technique to train next.

He still had two sinister skills on hand: the Yin Wind Claw and the Dark Yin Finger.

"I'll start with the Yin Wind Claw."

Su Que made his decision quickly.

But it was already night, so he would begin training tomorrow.

The next morning, Su Que rose early and flipped through the Yin Wind Claw manual.

The Yin Wind Claw was a vicious martial art.

A single claw strike could not only damage an enemy's flesh but also leave Yin Poison in the wound.

This Yin Poison, for one, made the wound difficult to heal.

For another, it could seep through the wound into the enemy's blood and flesh. If the enemy did not use medicine or true qi to purge it, the Yin Poison would linger in their body, continuously harming their meridians and flesh.

Its training method, in the first stage, required using external force to toughen the muscles and bones of the hands, making them harder.

The manual detailed a combined training method of soaking in medicine, sand and gravel, blood and qi exercises, and striking.

Only when one could easily drive all five fingers into a living body using purely physical strength, without channeling true qi, would the first stage be complete.

'Right from the start, I have to drive my fingers into a living body? That's bloody and twisted.'

Su Que thought to himself.

Besides, early in the morning at home, aside from himself, he couldn't find a living body on short notice.

Su Que continued reading and learned that driving the fingers into a living body was for the second stage.

The second stage involved inserting the five fingers into a living body, then breathing and exhaling in the unique way of the Yin Wind Claw, drawing the Death Qi from that living body into the hands.

All animals have both Life Qi and Death Qi within them.

In a dying animal, the Death Qi is most concentrated, making it ideal for training the Yin Wind Claw.

'Forget it. I still have to teach the children later. No need to get my hands all bloody.'

Su Que planned to find animals to train this sinister skill at night.

That night, after dinner, Su Que left the city and dashed toward a forest.

Many beasts in Qinghua Mountain's woods had already been roasted and eaten by him. Now, finding wild animals in this mountain forest was no easy task.

So he went to another forest.

After skimming through the woods for a quarter of an hour, he spotted four wolves foraging.

He immediately kicked off the ground and shot toward the four wolves like an arrow.

Before the wolves could react, Su Que struck them with four airborne punches, leaving them barely alive.

Then, crouching beside one wolf, he curled his fingers into claws and drove them fiercely into the wolf's body.

Puff!

His ten fingers sank into the wolf's flesh and blood.

The wolf's hot blood gushed from the wounds pierced by his fingers.

He felt a sticky, greasy heat at his fingertips.

But soon, he steadied his Heart Intent and began breathing and exhaling according to the method recorded in the Yin Wind Claw manual.

Before long, he sensed strands of icy-cold energy gathering from the wolf's body, flowing through his ten fingers and into his hands.

According to the Yin Wind Claw manual, training this skill required constantly absorbing Death Qi, which would damage the body.

When inhaling Death Qi, the flesh, blood, and meridians were already harmed, causing the body to feel cold and the blood and qi to stagnate.

Afterward, the Death Qi would lurk in the body, flaring up every midnight at the Zi hour!

In the early stages of training the Yin Wind Claw, at the Zi hour, the blood and qi would only stagnate slightly, with mild side effects.

When the Yin Wind Claw reached minor mastery, at the Zi hour, Yin energy would stir, causing the body to feel cold and numb.

If the Yin Wind Claw reached great mastery, at the Zi hour, the body would feel as if plunged into an ice cellar. Even soaking in hot water, the chill would be unbearable.

After enduring the bitter cold, the body would become completely numb and immobile, leaving one helplessly waiting an hour for gradual recovery.

Moreover, the stagnation of blood and qi would bring the practitioner many problems, such as premature aging, blurred vision, and hearing loss.

After learning the side effects of the Yin Wind Claw, Su Que realized that the Prescription he had obtained from Fan Wuyang, the Startling Blood Soup, was not only for accelerating training but also for resisting the side effects of the Yin Wind Claw.

Because the Startling Blood Soup could make the blood and qi boil and surge, thereby reactivating the blood and qi that had stagnated due to the Yin Wind Claw's side effects.

However, any side effects of a technique would reverse for Su Que.

Normally, inhaling Death Qi would cause blood and qi to stagnate.

But now, as Su Que inhaled Death Qi, his blood and qi slightly boiled and surged, as if he had taken a small sip of Startling Blood Soup.

Su Que's spirits lifted, and he continued breathing and exhaling, inhaling the Death Qi.

Before even a quarter-hour had passed, the wolf into which he had sunk his five fingers was already completely dead.

The entire wolf's fur sagged, dull and lusterless.

Only a little blood seeped from the wound where Su Que's fingers had entered, and that blood was no longer scalding hot as before, but cold like autumn river water.

Su Que withdrew his ten fingers and saw the wound on the wolf had turned black.

Curious, he tore open the wolf's hide along the wound and found that not only was the wound black, but all the flesh and blood of the wolf had turned black as well.

"Just from the cultivation method, this 'Yin Wind Claw' is far more sinister than the 'Crimson Fiend Skill'."

Su Que thought to himself, then kicked off the ground, darting to the side of another wolf. He curled his fingers into claws and struck down fiercely.

As his ten fingers sank into the wolf's flesh and blood, he continued breathing and exhaling, absorbing the Death Qi.

After a while, he felt the Death Qi seemed to reach a critical point.

So he called up his attributes and took a look.

The Yin Wind Claw had indeed reached 99% of Initial Glimpse.

Su Que continued breathing and exhaling, absorbing the Death Qi.

After a moment, he suddenly felt a surge of Death Qi rushing from the dying wolf's body into his hands.

"A breakthrough!"

Su Que called up his attributes.

Name: Su Que (18 years old)

Lifespan: 165

Talent Value: 31

Martial Arts: Seven Injuries Fist (6th Realm Peak Mastery 36%), Yin Wind Claw (1st Realm Initial Glimpse 1%) [Expand]

Internal Arts: Wedding Dress Divine Skill (4th Realm Outstanding 30%), Crimson Fiend Skill (5th Realm Peak Mastery 99%)

Lifespan had increased by 5 years, Talent Value by 1 point.

Swish!

Su Que pulled his hands out of the wolf's flesh and blood.

Aside from being covered in wolf blood, his hands showed no visible change.

But now, with a thought, his hands exuded wisps of chilling, yin-cold air.

Suddenly, he clawed at the wolf's body with his right hand.

The wolf's skin and flesh were instantly torn away, leaving a claw mark, and at the wound, a faint blackness spread.

"So this is Yin Poison?"

Su Que withdrew the yin energy from his claws and touched the blackened part of the wound with his fingertip.

A trace of icy coldness came through his fingertip.

And Su Que could also feel the Yin Poison seemed to be corroding the skin of his fingertip.

"The Crimson Fiend Skill is Fire Poison, while the Yin Wind Claw is Yin Poison."

"If I use these two moves in succession, I can catch an opponent off guard."

As Su Que thought this, he curled his fingers into claws again, and with a pfft, plunged them back into the wolf's flesh and blood, breathing and exhaling to absorb the Death Qi.

The cultivation progress of the Yin Wind Claw rose at an extremely rapid pace.