Immortal-Exterminating Divine Venerable

Yang Xiao’s bedroom.

From his Storage Ring, Yang Xiao retrieved a piece of gold.

He handed it to Cheng Boxuan.

”Master Cheng, help me refine this gold into thirty-six Golden Needles. The thirty-six needles need to be like this...”

Without any ceremony, Yang Xiao began ordering Cheng Boxuan around as his assistant.

In truth, he didn’t need to go through all this trouble. With his current Spiritual Power, he could already exert rudimentary control over other Primordial Powers. For instance, he could control Water Elemental Power—the opposite of Fire Elemental Power—and condense water into ice needles to treat his father.

But he wanted to repay the favor he owed Cheng Boxuan.

He decided to teach him using the most traditional method.

Hence, the matter of the Golden Needles.

Cheng Boxuan didn’t refuse. In fact, he was amazed and began crafting the Golden Needles according to Yang Xiao’s instructions.

He was at the Ninth-Layer Peak of the Innate Grand Martial Master realm. In terms of combat strength, he might not have been a match for Yang Zhentian in his prime, but when it came to True Qi control, even Yang Zhentian would have admitted his own inferiority.

Soon, he had finished crafting all thirty-six Golden Needles that Yang Xiao required.

”Next is piercing the bone with the Golden Needles.”

Yang Xiao spoke as he demonstrated.

”The human body has acupoints, located in the skin, flesh, tendons, bones, and the five viscera and six bowels. Among them, the bone acupoints are the most difficult to find. But if you want to channel medicinal power directly into the bone marrow, you must go through the bone acupoints!”

”There are many methods to locate bone acupoints. The most fundamental one is Golden Needle Acupoint Crossing, guiding the needle with the spirit. Like this!”

Yang Xiao focused his mind, channeling his Spiritual Power directly into the Golden Needle in his hand. But he didn’t pierce Yang Zhentian. Instead, he pierced his own injured finger.

With a deft jab, the needle was in.

His once-fractured bone miraculously returned to normal.

It was a truly breathtaking sight.

”Golden Needle Acupoint Crossing can not only deliver medicinal power directly to the bone marrow, but it can also stimulate the bones’ Regeneration Power to heal injuries. However, this method consumes the Essence Qi of the marrow, so it shouldn’t be used often.”

Yang Xiao explained.

”Young Master Yang, I understand Golden Needle Acupoint Crossing, but what does ’guiding the needle with the spirit’ mean?”

Cheng Boxuan asked curiously.

Yang Xiao smiled. ”Do you know how many levels Spiritual Power is divided into?”

”Spiritual Power should be divided into four stages: Determination, Observing Micro, Void Observation, and Divine Communication. Each stage is then subdivided into five levels: threshold, Initial Stage, Middle Stage, High Tier, and Peak.”

”Generally speaking, to practice a Cultivation Technique, one needs Determination, which is to say, entering Meditation. The deeper the level of Meditation, the better the cultivation effect. Reaching the Innate Realm is equivalent to reaching the Observing Micro Threshold.”

At this point, Cheng Boxuan changed the subject, looked at Yang Xiao, and said, ”If I’m not mistaken, Young Master Yang should be the same as me, at the Observing Micro Initial Stage.”

”Correct. I am indeed at the Observing Micro Initial Stage.”

The moment he said this, not only Cheng Boxuan, but Yang Zhentian too was shocked to his core.

Don’t be fooled by the Observing Micro stage being only the second level of Spiritual Power. For the people of the Celestial Cloud Region’s Nine Sects and Sixteen Kingdoms, it was already the highest level.

This was because no one had broken through to the Void Observation and Divine Communication stages for several hundred years.

Even reaching the Observing Micro High Level was a rare feat.

Those who achieved it were mostly top-tier figures—either Ninth-level Medicine Dao Grandmasters or Martial Arts Grandmasters.

Most ordinary Innate Grand Martial Masters were still hovering at the Observing Micro Threshold.

To enter the Observing Micro Initial Stage, one needed to be at least a Seventh-Layer Grand Martial Artist. People like Cheng Boxuan and Yang Zhentian were at this level.

The only difference was that Cheng Boxuan was close to the Peak of the Initial Stage of Micro Observation, while Yang Zhentian was a bit weaker, only around the mid-stage of the Observing Micro Initial Stage.

But even so, his Spiritual Power was by no means weak.

Among most Martial Cultivators of the same rank, he was considered to be in the top tier.

It was only that he was slightly weaker compared to Great Pharmacists of the same rank.

”Young Master Yang, you are truly a prodigy of this generation!”

Cheng Boxuan exclaimed in admiration.

He was almost at a loss for words.

”Let’s skip the pleasantries. You should now understand what ’guiding the needle with the spirit’ means, right?”

Yang Xiao asked.

Cheng Boxuan nodded.

With such clear guidance, if he still didn’t understand that ’guiding the needle with the spirit’ meant using the Golden Needle as a medium to sense with his Spiritual Power, then he would have wasted his entire life.

Once he understood this, the rest of the process became much simpler.

Yang Xiao had his father, Yang Zhentian, lie flat on the bed and remove his outer clothes. Then, using thirty-six Golden Needles of varying lengths and thicknesses, he pierced them into his thirty-six bone acupoints.

Next, he extracted the different medicinal properties and potencies from the Ten Thousand Green Grass. Guided by the Golden Needles and controlled by his Spiritual Power, he channeled them through different points into Yang Zhentian’s bone marrow.

This process was extremely draining.

And there was no room for even the slightest error.

As time passed.

Gradually, Yang Zhentian, whose face had been deathly pale and who had been grievously injured, felt a boiling sensation surge through his bones.

What shocked him even more was that his Blood Qi, which had been decaying, began to regain its vitality.

New Blood Qi was being generated from within his marrow.

It was replenishing what had been lost.

「After a day and a night.」

Yang Zhentian felt his Blood Qi was now incredibly vigorous, and all the decaying energy had been completely forced out of his body.

”Father, just focus on converting the new Blood Qi and recuperating properly now, and you’ll be fine. Just remember, you absolutely must not fight anyone within the next three days.”

”Mm.”

At this moment, Yang Zhentian no longer held a single shred of doubt about his son.

He could even cure the so-called incurable disease for Martial Artists—the blood decay affliction.

Such an ability was simply heaven-defying.

After giving his instructions, Yang Xiao turned to Cheng Boxuan and said, ”Study Lord Cheng, I’ll gift this set of Golden Needles to you. I hope they will be of some help.”

Cheng Boxuan was overjoyed.

He had already been planning to go back and make a set of such Golden Needles for himself.

But he had been afraid he would forget their design.

Now that Yang Xiao was gifting them to him, he felt they were even more precious than a Fifth-level Spirit Medicine.

”Thank you, Young Master Yang. By the way, you don’t have to keep calling me Study Lord Cheng. If you’re willing, you can call me Uncle Cheng. If not, just calling me Cheng Boxuan is fine by me too.”

Unable to contain his joy, Cheng Boxuan started laughing.

”Alright, I’ll call you Uncle Cheng from now on.”

Yang Xiao agreed.

Previously, he probably wouldn’t have cared about such things. But after the incident with Yang Xiong, he had come to a realization and began to value these people he hadn’t cared about before.

Then he remembered something else and said, ”Oh, right, Uncle Cheng. You mentioned earlier that you’d have Wang Qianhe collect the Alchemy Fee from you? I hope you’ll stay out of this matter. That Wang Qianhe has gone too far. He tried to harm me with a poisoned wasted pill. I won’t let this go!”

”Something like that happened?”

Cheng Boxuan was taken aback.

Yang Xiao nodded and handed him the so-called Heaven Repairing Pill to inspect.

With just one glance, Cheng Boxuan became furious.

”That Wang Qianhe is getting more and more outrageous! He was punished by our master before because of his wicked nature. To think he’s still so unrepentant!”

”No, I have to let Master know about this.”

His face as dark as iron, Cheng Boxuan actually bid farewell to Yang Xiao and left immediately.

Watching him leave so abruptly without another word, Yang Xiao couldn’t help but be a little surprised.

He hadn’t expected the usually calm and composed Study Lord Cheng to have such a fiery side.

Although he hadn’t wanted Cheng Boxuan to get involved, there was nothing Yang Xiao could do now that he had already left.

But he definitely wouldn’t let Wang Qianhe off the hook.

Turning back to Yang Zhentian, he asked, ”Father, you should be able to tell me the whole story in detail now, right?”