Nightmare Suppression Evil Technique

Chen Mo bid Lei Peng farewell, tucked the booklet away, and exited the central courtyard, heading toward the main gate of the Lei Family Martial Arts School.

Along the way, he still saw porters hauling goods.

At the gate, someone bumped into him. Chen Mo was about to snap, but saw it was a little girl carrying a sugar-coated hawthorn stick. She apologized profusely after the collision.

Seeing her sincere expression, Chen Mo smiled faintly and let it go. He reached the carriage and jumped straight in.

"Qiulan, let's go home."

With that order, Chen Mo settled inside the carriage and pulled out the booklet to browse.

At the same time, he called up the panel and immediately saw a box and a black bar appear on the booklet.

[Current Original Understanding Essence: 0]

[Current Recognition Count: 1]

[Recognizable object detected. Recognize?]

A few days ago, Chen Mo had checked the panel and finally got a recognition count. That was why he dared to spend a fortune on Blazing Palm. Otherwise, he wouldn't have parted with so much silver.

The Chen Mansion wasn't short on money, but no one's wealth came from thin air.

His parents toiled outside to earn it... it wasn't easy.

Still, what baffled Chen Mo was the randomness of the recognition count.

Sometimes it would refresh the next day; other times, half a month passed without one.

It seemed entirely luck-based.

All in all, it was a good thing.

Chen Mo cleared his mind and focused:

Recognize.

A dizzy spell hit his head, and when he came to, the text had changed.

[Name: Blazing Palm]

[Type: Yang Type External Skill]

[Function: Strengthens blood and qi, Blazing Sun Toxin, violent offense.]

[Description: Primarily Blazing Sun Toxin. Requires Muscle Refining Realm to cultivate. Four forms: Inch Force, Subduing Pressure, Palm Heart Fire, Blazing Sun Toxin. At mastery, palm heart ignites, transforming one's yang blood and qi into fire poison with unpredictable power.]

[Note: This palm technique is fierce as fire; blood and qi turn to poison, harming the user before the enemy. Pair with a Yin-type skill and supplement with Cold Night Grass for doubled efficiency and to negate side effects.]

Reading the note, Chen Mo let out a huge sigh of relief, silently praising the Golden Finger.

For one, the recognition confirmed the technique was genuine, with no possibility of tampering.

For another, he already had a Yin-type skill. He just needed to find Cold Night Grass to cancel out Blazing Palm's side effects and speed up his training.

Lei Peng had said it took him years just to get started.

Drawing from his experience with Fuyang Saber Technique, Chen Mo estimated he could achieve the same in a month or two at most.

A truly good piece of news.

Chen Mo set his thoughts aside and called out to the carriage: "Qiulan, stop by the family pharmacy first."

Qiulan acknowledged, turned the carriage, and headed straight for the Chen Family Pharmacy.

Chen Mo took the chance to flip through Blazing Palm, memorizing every detail. Once he had it down pat, he began practicing with his hands, trying out the moves.

With Mysterious Yin Hand as his foundation, he grasped the basics of Blazing Palm with ease.

Just then, Chen Mo felt something lightly wriggling against the back of his clothes, like a caterpillar...

Huh?

He reached back to grab at his collar but found nothing. The wriggling suddenly stopped.

He didn't dwell on it and continued practicing Blazing Palm.

Before long, the wriggling sensation returned. It felt like a tiny bug had snuck into his clothes, crawling slowly along his abdomen.

The intense discomfort made Chen Mo sit up straight and lift his shirt to catch the bug.

Before he could grab the "bug," he felt it crawl to his back. Then, a solid spike slammed through his chest.

"Ah!!!"

Chen Mo let out a bloodcurdling scream, collapsing violently in the carriage as he thrashed wildly.

Thud!

Another solid spike pierced through his chest.

A heart-wrenching pain!

He couldn't fight it. It nearly devoured his remaining consciousness. He bit through his lower lip, clinging to the last shred of awareness, forcing himself not to pass out.

What's happening?

No one's stabbing my chest with a knife, so why does it feel like someone's driving a blade through me again and again?

And my body felt nailed to the carriage floor, unable to move.

An inexplicably intense sense of crisis made every hair on Chen Mo's body stand on end.

Possessed by evil again?

But everything felt too real—it didn't seem like possession.

Just then, Chen Mo felt the carriage stop. Qiulan scrambled inside, panicked, calling out, "Young master, what's wrong?"

Before Chen Mo could answer, through the lifted curtain, he saw two ferocious masked men in black charging toward him on horseback from a distance. They were clearly coming for him.

In broad daylight, daring to lay hands on the Second Young Master of the Chen Family, a prominent clan in the county?

In an instant, Chen Mo, enduring searing pain, sensed the danger of death.

He had been here for months now—no rookie. He quickly calculated.

His hands and feet were pinned down by something.

And something sharp kept piercing through his chest.

The only thing he could move... was his head.

In a moment of desperation, Chen Mo spotted the Jade Hairpin stuck in Qiulan's hair and said at once, "Qiulan, give me the back of your head, now!"

Seeing Chen Mo's face twisted in agony, teeth gritted, Qiulan knew this was serious. She tilted her head down, bringing the back of her head close to Chen Mo's mouth. Chen Mo bit down on the Jade Hairpin and yanked it out with a swing of his head.

Crack!

Chen Mo bit the hairpin in half, holding one piece in his mouth, and mumbled, "You run, get help. Go!!!"

Startled by Chen Mo's roar, Qiulan trembled all over. Without hesitation, she jumped off the carriage and fled.

Soon, the two black-clad men reached the front of the carriage and dismounted.

The shorter one said, "There's a girl running off. I'll chase her."

The taller one said, "Let her go. Our target is the Second Young Master of the Chen Family. Don't stir up trouble."

Only then did the shorter one reply, "You're right, big brother. I'll drag the Second Young Master out now."

The taller one warned, "Last time, the young master bought Qi and Blood Pills, so he's clearly training in martial arts. Be careful."

The shorter one chuckled, "He's under the Nightmare Suppression Technique, can't move a muscle. He's as good as a corpse right now. Why be so cautious, big brother?"

Chen Mo listened to their exchange, deeply shocked.

Nightmare Suppression Technique?

Wasn't that the evil art of using dolls to stab people?

In his past life, Chen Mo had seen plenty of films and shows—powerless women who hated some man, unable to retaliate, would have a cloth doll made of him, hide it in a cabinet, and stab it daily, praying for his early downfall.

He never imagined such evil arts truly existed in this world.

Given what he'd just felt, Chen Mo was certain.

It was exactly the sensation of being pricked by needles.

The problem was... to perform the Nightmare Suppression Technique, you needed the target's blood, clothing, or at least their Eight Characters of Birth. Then you had to be in close contact.

But... from the time he left home this morning until now, he hadn't come into contact with anyone.

Oh, right...

That little girl eating the sugar-coated hawthorn.

She bumped into him.

And just now, something had been squirming on his body. She must have planted something on him during that collision.

Chen Mo prided himself on being cautious enough, but he hadn't expected the danger level of this world... to far exceed his estimates.

Impossible to guard against.

And... that taller black-clad man knew he'd bought Qi and Blood Pills.

Could it be that these two black-clad men... were sent by that Granny Li!?

At that thought, Chen Mo felt as if he'd fallen into an ice cellar.

Swish!

The shorter man lifted the curtain, climbed into the carriage, and saw Chen Mo lying there, trembling in pain. He grinned sinisterly. "Granny's Nightmare Suppression Technique is truly formidable..."