Flowing Sun Scorching Heart Needle

Xue Xian's speed was initially quite fast, but it decreased as she got closer to her destination.

She took out a talisman to wash her clothes, fixed her hair, and suppressed her smile.

However, in the blink of an eye, her lively excitement turned into a calm and serene demeanor.

Yang Ning, watching from behind, shook his head. This woman was a master of PUA techniques.

She acts aloof and cold in front of Boiling Sheep Yang, but acts pitiful in front of me.

That is to say, he encountered the Xue Xian at her most vulnerable stage; otherwise, he would have seen a noble and aloof Xue Xian.

Xue Xian arrived at the sand dune with a reserved smile, but her smile vanished immediately upon seeing who it was.

Sixteen people, dressed in red, black, and gray robes, stood together in a dark mass, like a cloud in the desert!

Taiheng people have different customs regarding clothing depending on the region.

For example, in Taiheng, even disciples who are not qualified to wear blue robes will wear blue ornaments.

The Tianyi Sect practices the Great Celestial Phenomenon Art, and their clothing is customarily decorated with patterns of wind, thunder, rain, and snow.

The Myriad Saints Alliance, on the other hand, champions black, red, and gray!

Firstly, the colors released by their Cultivation Method are naturally like that; secondly, the light industry and weapon-refining level in the territory of the Myriad Saints Alliance are not high, so they cannot dye clothes with rich colors.

Therefore, the people below are not disciples of the Tianyi Sect, but disciples of the Myriad Saints Alliance!

"Run!" Xue Xian's expression changed instantly. Just as she turned around, one of the men below pulled out two thin needles from his pocket and casually tossed them away!

Xue Xian screamed and immediately clutched her chest.

Yang Ning dodged the attack by sidestepping, then grabbed Xue Xian and started to run.

"Carry me, carry me, I can't run away!" Xue Xian hurriedly shouted.

"That's true!" Yang Ning thought Xue Xian was saying she couldn't walk on sand without leaving a trace and was slow, so since she said she would carry her, it wasn't like she was taking advantage of her.

Yang Ning picked Xue Xian up and carried her away.

"What kind of speed is that!?" The disciples of the Myriad Saints Alliance had just caught up with the sand dune when the two of them were already running out of sight!

"Speed is useless. Once you're hit by my Flowing Sun Scorching Heart Needle, the faster you run, the faster you die!" the cultivator who had just thrown the needle said smugly.

"It looks like you only hit one!" someone asked.

The man said irritably, "Look at them, a man and a woman. The man even remembered to take the woman with him when he ran away, they must be a couple. If the woman was hit by the needle, it's the same as both of them being hit!"

The disciples around them nodded in agreement. That made sense. Only those disciples who considered themselves to be on the righteous path would do that. If it were the disciples of the Myriad Saints Alliance, they would throw away not only lovers, but even their own mothers.

Another young man with a thick beard took out a giant black eagle from his spirit beast tablet, and it flew into the sky with a whooshing sound, then followed Yang Ning and the other man away.

"Alright, let's follow them slowly, wait for them to stop taking the poison, and then ask them what happened!" The leading disciple pulled up his hood. "What a lousy place! It's unbearably hot!"

On the other side, Yang Ning ran while feeling the soft touch on his back.

And beneath the touch, there was the sound of a rapid heartbeat.

"Do you have any antidote?" Yang Ning asked.

"Yes!" Xue Xian took out a jade bottle from her Storage Bag, then took out several pills from the bottle and swallowed them all at once.

"How are you feeling?" Yang Ning asked.

"It seems like it's not working!" Xue Xian felt her body's condition; her heart was still burning like fire, showing no signs of improvement.

She reached into her chest and pulled out the long needle, about to throw it away, when Yang Ning quickly said, "Don't throw it away, let me analyze the toxins!"

"It's no use! Everyone in the Myriad Saints Alliance uses poison, and every lineage has its own unique poisoning techniques. They can crack one poison today and develop ten more tomorrow!" Xue Xian, her face full of grievance, her voice trembling with tears. "I never imagined that the dignified Xue Xian, the future Snow Lord, would die here, poisoned by a casual needle! This kind of death is too shameful!!"

Despite her words, she still placed the poisoned needle in front of Yang Ning, indicating that she hadn't completely lost her will to live.

Yang Ning took the poisoned needle. He also felt that this way of dying was a bit hasty. Even if he didn't die by his own hand, he should have died at the hands of the Xuantian Sect, shouldn't he?

"By the way, didn't you used to refer to yourself as 'Zi'?" Yang Ning asked, "Why did you suddenly switch to 'me'? I haven't heard you say 'Zi' in a long time!"

"That was a self-invented title I made up to elevate my own status!" Xue Xian said with a wry smile. "You have no idea how much pressure there is in the Tianyi Sect. I have the Snow Jade Glazed Body, so everyone is watching you, observing your every move, waiting for you to make a mistake!"

"Every one of those male disciples has feelings for you, and the way they all look at you is so strange!"

"Even my senior brothers have been telling me, openly and secretly, that if I become their dao companion, they'll give me a bright future!"

"I must become strong, independent, and powerful so that I won't be bullied!"

"Your solution is to change how you refer to yourself?" Yang Ning asked.

"Not only that!" Xue Xian said with a wry smile, "Do you know my name?"

"Isn't her name Xue Xian?"

"What kind of parents would name their child Xue Xian)?" Xue Xian said wearily, "My original name was Li Daozhen, just an ordinary name, but it was unworthy of my Snow Jade Glazed Body, so I changed it to Xue Xian!"

"Not good enough?" Yang Ning was taken aback. "The law is naturally obtained through practice, and the Tao is sought in truth. Your name is a perfect match for cultivation! It is profound without being vulgar, simple without being simplistic. On the contrary, the name Xue Xian is too tacky, giving off the feeling of a nouveau riche eager to tell others how rich they are!"

"Is that so?" Xue Xian, or rather Li Daozhen, was taken aback.

"Of course, I'm a famous writer in the country, would I talk nonsense?" Yang Ning said, "By the way, who came up with the name Xue Xian?"

Li Daozhen awkwardly turned his head to the side, only to find himself lying on Yang Ning's back with nowhere to hide.

"Yes, a senior helped me choose it!" Li Daozhen whispered.

Actually, she chose that name herself.

"It seems your skill level as a senior is quite mediocre!" Yang Ning laughed. "Even if you wanted to choose a name related to the Snow Jade Glazed Body, directly including the character 'immortal' in the name is too blatant!"

"Then how should we retrieve it?" Daozhen asked curiously.

"Snow is pure white, pristine, and supremely beautiful. Snow jade and crystal, on the other hand, symbolize a proud and aloof mentality that is not tolerated by the world!" Yang Ning said, "Therefore, you can take the meaning of snow, but you cannot use the word 'snow' in your writing; you can take the meaning of immortals, but you cannot use the word 'immortal' in your writing!"

"For example?" Daozhen blinked curiously, his attention completely diverted by Yang Ning, forgetting that he was still a seriously injured person.

"Su Xiao, how about it?" Yang Ning asked. "Su means white, and Xiao means clouds and sky."

"Su Xiao, Li Suxiao, Su Xiao!" Dao Zhen read the name aloud, somewhat bewildered. "I don't understand!"

"So you need to read more books. What a nice name, and you can't even understand it!" Yang Ning said irritably.

"It doesn't matter!" Daozhen shook his head. "I'm not going to live anyway!"

She could feel that the poison she had been given was extremely potent. The moment her Qi and Blood and qi came into contact with the poison, it was as if ice and snow had met the scorching sun and were instantly melted!

Realizing that he had also brought in Spirit Artifact, the disciples of the Myriad Saints Alliance might have brought in extremely potent poisons as well. Wouldn't poisoning him be a piece of cake?

While it's possible to think that way, it's still incredibly embarrassing!

Daozhen suddenly thought of Abundant City before. If he had known it would turn out like this, he would have preferred to fight Xuantian Sect. At least he would have died at the hands of a powerful expert!

No, if I had died then, wouldn't I have never met Bai Qi?

Unfortunately, he already has a lover!

But so what!

She could feel her brain starting to feel foggy, with all sorts of thoughts popping into her head one after another.

I'm exhausted, but my mind just won't calm down!

This is a heart problem that has led to insufficient blood supply to the brain, causing not only an inability to control one's mental state, but also the death of brain cells on a large scale.

The various thoughts that pop into your mind at this moment are the information that bursts forth when brain cells die, similar to a revolving lantern.

"Hmm?" Daozhen suddenly felt a coolness on the top of his head, and he became much more awake. When he opened his eyes again, he found that there was a dripping rock wall above him.

This is a hidden ruin in the desert, not only cool but also with a water source nearby!

"We're safe for now!" Yang Ning said. "The pursuers are 188 kilometers away. At their speed, we have about an hour of safety time!"

Xue Xian's mind was blank; she couldn't understand why Yang Ning had managed to leave these people so far behind. She simply murmured, "Are you going to abandon me?"

Yang Ning shook his head. "I will not abandon my teammates, even if they are temporary teammates!"

"Is that so!" Xue Xian smiled bitterly, then suddenly remembered something and proactively lifted her clothes. "Could you... take me?"

Yang Ning was immediately puzzled. "Stop joking, you weren't poisoned by snake venom, you don't need to treat it like this!"

"I know!" Xue Xian laughed, "It's just that I've lived for 18 years and haven't even had dao companion. I don't want to die without ever having tasted the sweetness of love."

"Don't think like that, you won't die!" Yang Ning said, "I can save you, but you need to unbind the Spirit Artifact!"

"Here you go!!" Xue Xian tremblingly took out the Snow Soul Rhombus Crystal Bracelet and handed it to Yang Ning.

"You trust me that much? Aren't you afraid I'll take the Spirit Artifact and run away?" Yang Ning asked in astonishment.

"You wouldn't!" Xue Xian was too weak to even make an expression, but she still managed a weak smile, "You wouldn't even take my body, you absolutely couldn't do such a thing!"

"That's not necessarily true!" Yang Ning first bound the Spirit Artifact to his master, then retorted, "I'm not interested in women; women will only hinder my cultivation speed!"

"You're lying!" Xue Xian laughed. "You clearly blushed when I asked you to carry me on your back!"

Yang Ning was speechless; his skin was clearly from the sun!

He could only forcefully change the subject, first pulling out a needle, the very one the Myriad Saints Alliance disciple had just thrown out.

"This needle consists of two parts: a hollow injection head at the front and a needle tail that holds the venom!" Yang Ning said. "Because of its hollow structure and ordinary material, this needle can't fly very fast, at most 188 meters per second. I was quite shocked that you were hit from nearly 60 meters away!"

Xue Xian blushed. "How can you blame me? I was so shocked when I realized those 16 people weren't my teammates, but disciples of the Myriad Saints Alliance! That's why I couldn't react!"

"The pharmacology of the toxin is also very rigid; it must be injected into the heart to allow the toxin to enter. If you had twisted even slightly, you wouldn't have been affected!"

Xue Xian raised her hand to cover her face, wailing, "Stop talking, it's too embarrassing!"

"I don't know how your Tianyi Sect trains its disciples. Aren't you supposed to be the number one sect in the world? Is this all you've got?" Yang Ning knew that any organization, over time, would see its organizational, ruling, and management levels decline sharply as the number of vested interests increased.

Logically, the Cultivation World should be better, right? I didn't expect the Tianyi Sect to be no exception?

"I've only just been promoted to Outer Disciple, okay!" Xue Xian felt she had to defend herself, otherwise she'd be less than a paramecium. "I've never had any real combat experience before. I came into this outer disciple trial with the purpose of training myself!"

"To train yourself, with eight bodyguards?"

Xue Xian blushed immediately. "That, that's, just in case!"

Yang Ning shook his head and continued, "This poison has a very direct effect. It can coagulate blood, dissolve Qi and Blood, and cause heart blockage. At the same time, the special components in the venom act as catalysts, leading to fibrosis of heart muscle cells."

Xue Xian looked completely bewildered. "What are you talking about? I don't understand!"

"What I mean is, this poison isn't the kind that circulates throughout the body, so it's quite easy to cure!" Yang Ning explained helplessly.

"How do we solve this?" Xue Xian asked. "It can dissolve Qi and Blood, so it's impossible to force it out with Qi and Blood!"

"It's very simple!" Yang Ning said, "I just need to cut open your heart, remove the toxins, and that's it, isn't it?"

"Huh?" Xue Xian's eyes widened. "Are you kidding me? You can't just cut someone's heart open and expect them to survive! I'm not some powerful cultivator at the Spiritual Law Realm!"

"But as long as this task is completed in a very short time, the person won't die!" Yang Ning said, "In other words, it's about taking advantage of your heart when it's not paying attention!"

"Is that even possible?" Xue Xian was bewildered. Had medical technology in the outside world advanced to this extent?

"Yes!" Yang Ning nodded. "Given that this project might be quite astonishing, I must tell you beforehand, so you won't be shocked when you see it!"

"This..." Xue Xian was speechless; I was already terrified.

"Also, because the surgery is on the heart, I might see some things." Yang Ning pointed to Xue Xian's heart area. "You don't mind, do you?"

"I don't mind!" Xue Xian blushed slightly; she had just been about to give herself to him!

At this point, it's just a glance, and it's for saving a life, so what's the big deal?

While female chastity is valued here, it hasn't reached the point where death is a minor matter compared to the grave consequence of losing one's virtue.

"I'm glad you don't mind!" Yang Ning nodded, first taking off the girl's clothes, and then loosening the Snow Soul Rhombus Crystal Bracelet.

The first case in the Taiheng Realm of combining cultivation skills with modern surgery has begun!

I had some things to do today, so the update is late.

There's one more picture later, after the surgery is finished.