Yun Mingmie had fallen into utter despair. By this point in their clash, he had realized that the man before him was far more calculating than he could have imagined. Whenever he tried to outwit him, the one who suffered losses, got taken advantage of, and swallowed his anger was always himself.
At that point, Yun Mingmie stopped wasting time and quickly recorded a cultivation art.
Xu Yi immediately began learning it. With Yun Mingmie, the unwilling but excellent teacher, at his side, Xu Yi learned at remarkable speed.
This cultivation art was strange in some ways, yet ordinary in others.
Its strange aspect was that it creatively proposed the concept of hidden acupoints, asserting that, besides the known acupoints in the human body—the visible acupoints—there were also hidden ones.
Xu Yi had no idea how viable the theory of hidden acupoints was. The strange part was that, according to this theory, the Heart Reversal Art could indeed be cultivated successfully.
Its only drawback was that whenever one used this art, the practitioner suffered severe damage as their heart's blood flowed in reverse.
As for what made it ordinary, aside from overcoming the restriction on the Dazhui Acupoint and breaking free, the art had no other effects.
Xu Yi didn't think anyone could capture him while he had a Swift Body Talisman, but he had always believed that having more skills meant having more ways out.
Xu Yi mastered it in half an hour.
Put simply, it was just a set of diagrams showing how one's qi flowed through various acupoints. Memorize them, and that was all there was to it.
To test its effects, he activated the Heart Reversal Art. The moment he tried it, he spat out a mouthful of heart's blood, and his spirits immediately sank.
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