After the three slender silver needles had been forced out, the man's breathing gradually stabilized.
Xue Zier could not help asking curiously, "Azure Mountain Sect Master, do you recognize this hidden weapon?"
Lu Feng was about to answer when he suddenly saw the unconscious man's brow twitch faintly. He changed his words at once. "I do not recognize it. I have merely seen it described in books."
Chu Youwei asked with equal curiosity, "He was clearly injured at the Zigong, Zhongting, and Jiuwei acupoints. Why did you not force the soft needles out directly from those three acupoints? Why take such a roundabout approach through their neighboring acupoints?"
Keeping an eye on the man's subtle movements, Lu Feng explained with feigned calm, "The book says this technique is called the Spirit Void Thirteen Needles. When slender, soft long needles are thrown with this method, they can not only grievously injure an enemy's acupoints, but the force attached to the needles will, the instant they pierce an acupoint, link from within to the surrounding acupoints like a spiderweb. If one rashly tries to force these long needles out through the grievously injured acupoints, it will inevitably tug at the other acupoints. Not only might the needles fail to come out, it could further worsen the injury."
Chu Youwei came to a realization. "That is why you first sent force into the neighboring acupoints, using a roundabout method to dissolve the spiderweb-like entanglement at the injured acupoints?"
Xue Zier interjected, "But they are not entirely neighboring acupoints, are they? The closest acupoint above Zhongting is not Yutang, but the Shanzhong Acupoint."
Lu Feng nodded and explained, "You are right. This is the most basic method of resolution recorded in the book. As for why I did not enter the Shanzhong Acupoint and