Du Feng's Fortuitous Encounter and Zhang Xiaohua's Pursuit

With a Pfft, Du Feng sprayed a mouthful of blood into the wind. The blood had barely left his mouth before the fierce gust blowing head-on sent it back, splattering his entire face and staining much of the front of his robe. Then his limbs went weak. The internal energy that had just been charging through his meridians to break through an acupoint was now like headless flies, darting wildly through his meridians!

"Ah! What happened?" Zhang Xiaohua had been contemplating his own pursuit and had not noticed anything happening to Du Feng. By the time the sound of Du Feng vomiting blood startled him and he looked up, Du Feng had already shriveled against the mountain rock, nearly without breath!

"Qi Deviation!!!" Zhang Xiaohua understood at once after a single glance. Du Feng had surely forced his internal energy to charge a bottleneck, only to fail and suffer a backlash, resulting in Qi Deviation—the legendary Qi Deviation Zhang Xiaohua had always spoken of.

Zhang Xiaohua did not dare delay. The thought of whether to save him never even arose in his mind. He immediately sprang out from behind the tree where he had been hiding, rode the wind to the rock where Du Feng lay, and, seeing that Du Feng had already fallen unconscious, no longer worried about exposing his identity. He laid a finger on him and sent a thread of true qi into his meridians.

Although Zhang Xiaohua had rushed over the instant he saw Du Feng suffer Qi Deviation, moving with extreme speed, in those few breaths Du Feng's meridians had already become a complete mess. Not only was his out-of-control internal energy running everywhere, but most of his meridians had been swollen and burst by that raging energy. Calling them riddled with holes would not