More than a hundred needles were embedded in Zhang Tie's body, turning him completely into a porcupine. But it was not over yet. After inserting the needles, Bian Heng's hands began to shift and dance, brushing over each needle in Zhang Tie's body as though he were playing a zither.
At that moment, the long needles seemed to become the strings of a zither. Each needle corresponded to a Bright Point, a particular meridian, or an organ. Whenever Bian Heng brushed across them, a special energy and Battle Qi flowed from his hands through the long needles into Zhang Tie's body, stirring every Bright Point and meridian throughout Zhang Tie's body into unrest.
In Zhang Tie's eyes, there was absolutely no pattern to the sequence in which Bian Heng brushed the needles. At first glance, it resembled a child who knew nothing of music randomly pounding piano keys. Yet amid this playing, whose pattern no outsider could possibly discern, Zhang Tie felt as if his body, Bright Points, and meridians were a safe into which the password had been entered—completely controlled and opened by the long needles beneath Bian Heng's hands.
The powerful heat released by the Fire Dragon Qi-Gathering Pill also began, under Bian Heng's control, to circulate through Zhang Tie's meridians and Bright Points according to some wondrous pattern before finally returning to the void of Zhang Tie's qi sea, repeating this cycle over and over...
The Battle Qi Bian Heng sent into Zhang Tie's body somewhat resembled the water-and-wood-attributed Battle Qi cultivated by the sisters Ai Mei and Ai Xue, which was specifically meant to nourish others. Yet it was unquestionably far more advanced than the Battle Qi cultivated by the two sisters. Once it entered Zhang Tie's body, it brought not destruction, but nourishment and guidance.