"You're despicable, shameless, filthy, disgusting..."
"You're lowly, a hooligan, lecherous, revolting..."
"You disgrace the name of benevolence, yet commit nothing but foul deeds..."
"If you have the guts, kill me here. Otherwise, I will make you repay today's humiliation tenfold someday!"
The woman's furious stream of curses rang out without end. Crystal tears shimmered in her clear eyes, though it was impossible to tell whether they came from anger or from enduring the itch in her soles.
The itch produced by another's spiritual energy coursing through and stimulating her body was hundreds of times more intense than the ordinary itch caused by pressing the acupoints on one's feet. Even with strength not inferior to the Heaven Soul Realm, she could not possibly withstand such unbearable itching—let alone in her current state, wounded, with her acupoints sealed and her body weakened to the extreme.
The utmost she could do was continuously straighten and curl her five translucent toes, tightening and relaxing the muscles in her soles to ease that unbearable itch by the slightest degree.
To resist the itch, she even clenched the tattered gauze scarf on her face tightly between her teeth, terrified that the sensation would force strange, shameful sounds from her mouth.
At this moment, the woman no longer possessed even a trace of her former lofty, peerless bearing. Her sharpness had been utterly worn away, and she looked exactly like a pitiful little kitten.
After more than half an incense stick's time, Lu Feng had gained a trace of understanding from the woman's Lotus Bloom Beneath the Feet. At the very least, his grasp of engraving patterns onto the skin and guiding spiritual energy had improved greatly.
Simply watching the flow of energy through the meridians once was not enough for him to learn such a method,