Huang Xiao abandoned his plan to use the Northern Darkness Absorption Method. After all, he had not yet reached a desperate impasse. At the same time, he turned his palm slightly, catching a few drops of the blood he had spat out, then clenched his hand tightly. The internal power in his meridians suddenly began flowing in reverse.
"Pain!" Huang Xiao shuddered. Gu Yi's internal power was still battering his meridians, and reversing his own power now sent even fiercer pain through those already damaged channels.
But as his power flowed backward, the center of his clenched palm grew bitterly cold. Those drops of blood instantly froze into ice. Then Huang Xiao thrust his palm forward, sending the blood-colored ice crystal, thin as a cicada's wing, shooting toward the space between Gu Yi's brows.
The sneer on Gu Yi's face suddenly changed. A streak of red light flashed before him, and without a thought, he raised his left hand. The ice crystal sank straight into his arm.
Once the ice crystal entered his arm, Gu Yi's expression changed drastically. He suddenly exerted force through the sword in his right hand, knocking Huang Xiao away, then swiftly struck several major acupoints on his left arm with his right hand.
Then he pressed his right hand firmly against his upper left arm, gathering his internal power into his right hand before pouring it into his left arm. Once that power surged into his left arm, it rushed madly toward the ice crystal, thin as a cicada's wing, inside his meridian.
This ice crystal was exceedingly strange. After entering his meridians, it rapidly began to dissolve. Had he not promptly sealed several vital acupoints and confined it within a single meridian, he would probably have been in real trouble.
Fortunately, he had acted