With my current nine acupoints sealed, Nangong could deal with me with one hand. However, Nangong didn't say a word even after I shouted at him. He only retracted the smile on his face and looked at me quietly.
After shouting at him, I also felt that I had lost my composure. I abruptly let go of him and stood there in silence.
Nangong finally spoke. "If you had been in danger, I would have definitely helped you. However, your parents … I have orders, so I have no right to interfere.
As for the matter I just mentioned, you have to make your own decision. "
Then, Nangong turned and walked down the mountain along the small path. His figure quickly disappeared in the morning mist.
After he left, the fatty hurried to my side and anxiously asked me, "What happened?"
Although I knew that I was being unreasonable, I was still somewhat irritated. I shook my head and didn't speak. The fatty saw that my expression wasn't right and didn't speak either. He pointed at the Tiangang Pavilion and told me, "Ye Pianpian is back."
After this incident, I had forgotten about Ye Pianpian's matter. I quickly turned to look in that direction. The scene of the two of them fighting as soon as they saw each other didn't happen. Ye Pianpian was still sitting on the stone bench in the pavilion, while Ye Pianpian stood up and walked towards us.
Not knowing what had happened, the fatty and I quickly went to greet her. Ye Pianpian's expression seemed to be much better than before. She had regained her usual calm and indifference. Without waiting for us to speak, she directly said to us, "Let's go back."
Then, she walked in the direction of the Taiyi Monastery.
At this time, I turned to look at the Tiangang Pavilion and was surprised to find that Ye Pianpian's figure had disappeared.
This scene shocked me. According to my deductions, Ye Maurolan's strength was about the same as Ye Pianpian's. Although she was stronger than me, there was a limit to how much stronger she was. She shouldn't have been able to disappear without me noticing.
I couldn't understand why, but Ye Pianpian and the fatty had already walked far away. I could only quickly follow them.
When we returned to the back door of Taiyi Temple, a little Daoist boy was standing there. When he saw us, he hurried over and said to the fatty, "Senior Brother Lin, Master wants you to see him."
After the fatty left in a hurry, Ye Pianpian also returned to her room without saying a word. I was the only one left. I had nowhere to go, so I returned to my room and sat cross-legged on my bed.
Originally, I was preparing to adjust the Dao energy in my body, but after I sat down, I couldn't help but recall what Nangong had said to me.
He said that he had his own orders and had no right to interfere with my parents' matters … Over the past few days, I had always felt that Nangong knew almost all of my secrets and his every word and action seemed to be controlling me. However, after he said that, I suddenly felt that everything he did was against his will.
Why was this happening?
According to my calculations, he should have the strength of a Celestial Master. What kind of person could make a Celestial Master lose control?
A few days ago, I had already felt that I was trapped in a big net. My every word and action seemed to be controlled by someone else. Now, this feeling was even clearer and stronger. Moreover, it seemed that I wasn't the only one trapped in that big net.
The more I thought about it, the more chaotic my mind became. In the end, I could only shake my head and suppress these irritating thoughts. I focused on adjusting my Dao energy.
No matter what, strength was the only thing I could rely on to protect myself.
Ye Pianpian was right. After the battle with the Daoists from Mount Longhu, our realms had increased. I could even feel that I wasn't far from reaching the peak of the acupoint sealing realm. If I worked hard these days, there would be hope for me to reach the peak of the acupoint sealing realm.
One hour passed in the blink of an eye. I guided the Dao energy in my body to complete a complete cycle. Just as I was about to continue cultivating, a warm current suddenly surged from my left wrist. It flowed along my arm and rushed toward my meridians.
I was startled and quickly lowered my head to check. At this moment, the Yin-Yang symbol on the head of the Dao Ghost Seal on my left wrist had become much fainter. Even the entire seal had become a faint scar.
As the Dao Ghost Seal became fainter, the warm current surged even more violently and crazily entered my meridians.
I had experienced this process before. Moreover, I had received Nangong's reminder a few days ago. At this moment, I didn't panic. I focused on guiding the warm current to fuse with the Dao energy in my body and circulate it through my meridians. In the end, it gathered in my meridians and gathered in my meridians. Then, it rushed towards the last acupoint that hadn't been opened yet.
This was different from using the Netherworld Ascension Technique to open the acupoint. This time, I used the most primitive method, which was to stimulate the Dao energy in my body. When the Dao energy was concentrated to the limit of the acupoint's capacity, I forcefully opened the last acupoint.
This method had a strong foundation, but the efficiency wasn't high. It required a lot of Dao energy. However, the Dao energy that was being converted from the Dao Ghost Seal was much more vigorous than I had imagined. There wasn't any stagnation at all. The last acupoint was opened in a few seconds. The surging Dao energy rushed into the acupoint. That wasn't the end. After a few seconds, the Dao energy had completely filled up the tenth acupoint of the Heaven Meridian.
Only when the Dao energy had filled up the tenth acupoint of the Heaven Meridian, would it be considered to have completed the acupoint sealing. Normally, after opening the tenth acupoint, it would require a period of accumulation. However, the Dao energy in the Dao Ghost Seal contained all of the Dao energy of a Glorious Consciousness realm Earth Master. Not only did it easily fill up the last acupoint, there was still a large amount of Dao energy left. It continued to rush towards the other acupoints, giving me an indescribable feeling of swelling.
This feeling was very uncomfortable. However, with Nangong Wei's reminder, I didn't give up on this portion of Dao energy. Instead, I endured the discomfort and continued to absorb it with all my might.
At the start, it was still fine. However, as I forced more and more Dao energy into the acupoint, the swelling feeling turned into a piercing pain. It was as though there were countless steel needles flying around in my meridians at the same time, poking everywhere. Even with my current cultivation, it was so painful that I sucked in a breath of cold air.
This process continued for another twenty minutes. After twenty minutes, the pain suddenly increased by several folds. It was no longer the piercing of steel needles, but the scraping of steel knives. It was as though there was a person in my meridians, holding a steel knife and cutting holes in the walls of my meridians.
When the number of holes reached a certain level, I even felt that my Heaven Meridian could explode.
This feeling was similar to the time when Lu Zining had destroyed my cultivation. At that time, he had sent an enormous amount of Dao energy from his body into my meridians. With just one circulation, my Heaven Meridian had cracked, and the Dao energy had no place to stay. It had directly dissipated.
At this moment, the feeling was even more intense. It was likely that my meridians had gone through the process of collapsing and recovering, which made them more tenacious. Otherwise, they would have exploded long ago.
I couldn't help but hesitate. Could Nangong's words be trusted?
He wanted me to absorb all the Dao energy. Was he trying to harm me?
I knew that if he wanted to harm me, he wouldn't choose this method. However, under the endless pain, I couldn't help but have this thought. I couldn't help but want to give up.
However, just as I was about to reach my limit and was about to give up, the pressure in my acupoints suddenly disappeared. Then, the indescribable pain disappeared as well. It was as if another acupoint had appeared in my Heaven Meridian, absorbing all the excess Taoist Qi.
Before I could figure it out, the Dao energy that I hadn't had the time to squeeze into the acupoint forced its way in again. In an instant, the acupoint was full, and the pain returned.
This time, I was more experienced. I didn't want to give up. I endured the pain and persevered until the pressure in the acupoint disappeared again.
The amount of Taoist Qi sealed in the head of the Taoist Ghost Seal is much more than the amount of Taoist Qi in the body. The last time it happened, my cultivation was raised to more than two acupores, close to three acupores. This time, the process of pain first and then disappearing happened four times. Calculating carefully, each time the Taoist Qi was forced into the acupores, it was about one acupores' cultivation.
In addition to the opening of the tenth acupoint in my Heaven Meridian, the Dao energy sealed in the head of the Dao Ghost Seal was enough to increase my cultivation by five acupoints!
After three hours, the Dao energy in the Dao Ghost Seal finally disappeared. Inside my Heaven Meridian, there were ten acupoints full of Dao energy. I had officially reached the Consummate Acupoint Sealing Completion Realm.
Not only that, when I tried to guide the Dao energy out of my body, all ten acupoints of Dao energy came out. I didn't know where the Dao energy in my body came out, but four acupoints of Dao energy flowed out. Altogether, the Dao energy I could use was four more acupoints than an ordinary person who had reached the Consummate Acupoint Sealing Completion realm!