This Douluo Continent was crawling with extraordinary people!
As for whether the Nine Heart Begonia Martial Soul's healing ability could treat the backlash from the Seven Injuries Fist...
Hmm...
Li Jingzhe fell into deep thought!
If I remember correctly, the core principle of the Seven Injuries Fist is... Those whose internal cultivation has reached the stage where qi flows through every acupoint and can be released and withdrawn at will will not only suffer no harm from normal practice, but will actually benefit from it!
In the Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber World, Zhang Wuji possessed the Nine Yang Divine Skill and had reached the pinnacle of internal cultivation. Thus, when he used the Seven Injuries Fist, he could avoid its backlash. By contrast, the Five Elders of Kongtong had forcibly practiced the Seven Injuries Fist before their internal cultivation was complete, and ended up with hidden internal injuries...
So the Seven Injuries Fist doesn't really injure the practitioner. It tempers them... You repeatedly injure yourself with the Seven Injuries Fist, then nourish your body with deep internal cultivation, achieving a cycle of tempering?
People from the martial world could only nourish their bodies with deep internal energy after "injuring themselves." But Ye Lingling of Douluo Continent wasn't bound by that limitation. She could nourish her body with the Nine Heart Begonia Martial Soul's healing ability, tempering herself and steadily improving!
Hiss...
This...
If that was true, wasn't Ye Lingling an even better match for the Seven Injuries Fist than Dugu Yan was for the Thousand Spider Poison Hand?
As he pondered this, Li Jingzhe looked at Ye Lingling with growing oddity... What was this?
An Innate Seven Injuries Fist Sacred Body?
"P-Pavilion Master... why are you looking at me like that?"
Ye Lingling had grown a little embarrassed under Li Jingzhe's unintentional gaze.
"Nothing..."
Li Jingzhe waved his hand, then suddenly changed the subject. "By the way... are you afraid of pain?"
Huh?
Ye Lingling hadn't quite caught on. Then, as if summoning all her courage, she declared firmly, "I'm not afraid!"
Li Jingzhe gave her a knowing smile... Hmm, looked like she was afraid after all!
"Good, as long as you're not afraid of pain... The Seven Injuries Fist costs one million Gold Soul Coins, the Bosi Qu Snake Gallbladder costs five million, and the Greater Restoration Pill costs twenty-five million..."
As he spoke, he took the Black Gold Card from between Ye Lingling's fingers. After topping it up and deducting the amount, he handed the card and her purchases back to her... Including Ye Lingling's payment, the System Mall now had nearly three hundred million Gold Soul Coins in available funds!
There was nothing like making money as a middleman!
"Thank you for making this possible, Pavilion Master."
Ye Lingling inclined her head slightly toward him.
Look at that. She's even thanking us!
"By the way, if you're hoping to surprise everyone with the Seven Injuries Fist at the Soul Master Tournament, I suggest you try it out now."
Li Jingzhe said.
"Mm-hmm—"
"I know, Pavilion Master. I'm mentally prepared."
She smiled sweetly, blooming like a flower.
The Ye Family didn't rely solely on the Nine Heart Begonia Martial Soul to make their mark in the Soul Master World. Every member of the family was well versed in medicine, the body's meridians, and acupoints. That was the true foundation of the Ye Family's survival.
Damage the heart, injure the lungs, tear at the liver and bowels... Hide yourself away, lose your essence, fall into a daze...
Just those two lines from the Seven Injuries Fist's general outline were enough to make it clear what agonizing pain practicing this Self-Created Soul Skill would entail!
Damage the heart, injure the lungs, tear at the liver and bowels...
It certainly didn't sound pleasant!
But since she had come today to buy the Seven Injuries Fist, she had already prepared herself. The Soul Master Tournament wasn't something Yanzi should have to shoulder alone. She had to do her part, too!
Then, on her own, she went to an empty corner on the first floor of the Scripture Depository and began reading the complete Seven Injuries Fist.
The Nourishing Method... Hiss... So there are so many meridians around the heart, lungs, liver, and other vital organs that can be used to circulate Soul Power? There's no record of this in the family's texts... This Seven Injuries Fist really is ingenious!
At that moment, she understood how Yanzi had felt the night before when she bought the Thousand Spider Poison Hand. Its mysteries, its wonders, and the novel knowledge that surpassed what the family had accumulated over generations—it was all utterly captivating!
At first, she had only decided to buy the Seven Injuries Fist because she wanted to help Yanzi shoulder the burden of the Heaven Dou Second Team. But now, after seeing its intricacies, she suddenly realized that the novel knowledge it contained was worthy of becoming one of the Ye Family's core treasures!
Circulating Soul Power along the meridians around the organs can nourish them? If I combine this special method of circulating Soul Power with the Nine Heart Begonia's healing ability, could one plus one equal more than two, allowing me to treat my own injuries more effectively?
At the thought, Ye Lingling felt as if a kitten were scratching at her heart. Without realizing it, she began reading the Seven Injuries Fist faster!
The Extraction Method... That's it. This chapter records the core of the Seven Injuries Fist's "injury"... I see. The heart belongs to fire, the lungs to metal, and the liver to wood... By combining this Soul Power circulation route with specific movements, you can draw a corresponding, unusual energy from the heart, lungs, liver, and other vital organs, then combine it with your own Soul Power to form a special kind of "force"?
Force?
This description was completely different from those so-called "Self-Created Soul Skills," which were made by modifying existing Soul Skills!
This was a purer way of coordinating Soul Power with the body!
"Hm? Specific movements?"
Ye Lingling murmured to herself... This reminded her of the strange movements Pavilion Master had been doing when she first met him the night before... Could those have been the specific movements for some kind of Self-Created Soul Skill?
Mm, quite possibly!
Remembering how Pavilion Master's Soul Power had reached level ten after he finished those strange movements, she instinctively wanted to try extracting that special force. But then she remembered the trouble Yanzi had suffered the previous night because the Thousand Spider Poison Hand was incomplete, and forced herself to hold back and keep reading.
Her copy of the Seven Injuries Fist was complete. There was no need to take that risk!
The Healing Method... It seems similar to the Nourishing Method? The Healing Method can be understood as emergency treatment for the organs after extracting that unusual energy, while the Nourishing Method is the daily care that follows, helping the organs produce more of that unusual energy!
The next chapters covered the Heart-Damaging Formula... the Lung-Injuring Formula... the Liver-and-Intestine-Destroying Formula... the Hidden Separation Formula... the Essence-Loss Formula... the Trance-Inducing Formula, and the Seven Injuries General Formula!
After that came the possible consequences of forcibly practicing the Seven Injuries Fist.
Qi surging backward... madness... uncontrollable bloodlust... being periodically tormented by the force of the Seven Injuries within your body, as if your insides were on fire...
Phew—
After finishing the entire Seven Injuries Fist, Ye Lingling felt as if she had opened a door to a whole new world. She glanced in Li Jingzhe's direction, bowed slightly toward him, then followed the instructions in the Seven Injuries Fist and immediately began circulating the Extraction Method!
But she had only just assumed the stance. In the very next instant—
Pfft!
A mouthful of blood shot from her lips. Blood stained her light veil, and her pretty face turned deathly pale. She dropped to her knees with a thud, her body curling up uncontrollably... Pain... excruciating pain... Her heart felt like a sponge being crushed, contracting violently under unbearable strain. Even breathing hurt...
A pain that pierced to the bone...
A pain that cut to the heart...
As if she could die at any moment...
Great beads of sweat poured out of her. In a matter of moments, she was soaked through, as if she had just been hauled from the water, drenched in cold sweat!
At that moment, she suddenly remembered Pavilion Master asking if she was afraid of pain.
At that moment, she wanted to toss all her manners and decorum aside. She wanted to curse, to let loose... Was this damn thing about whether it hurt? Damn it, Li Jingzhe, why had you asked if I was afraid of pain? You should've asked if I was afraid of dying!
She gave Li Jingzhe a deeply aggrieved look.
Li Jingzhe only looked innocent.
You chose to practice it yourself. Don't blame me for not warning you!
Before you continue