A Clash of Gods - Chapter 20
Chapter 20 Harm Set, Harm Get
Yang Ning almost cried.
He blamed Heaven and Earth. He originally thought that three days had passed, so the God of Wood should have already left. Even if he was still in the boundless mountain, they were unlikely to meet each other.
But he never imagined that after he had just got out of the stone room for less than an hour, the old monster appeared beside him like a ghost as if he had installed a tracker on him.
The God of Wood looked like a lunatic, his hair disheveled, his clothes rotten, and his eyes red. His eyes, like the edge of a blade, stared sharply at Yang Ning, and his voice was hoarse, “Can you find a path to the Heaven? It took me two years to get the Skills of Six Directions. How can I let you profit at my expense?” With a low growl, he had already clawed at Yang Ning.
Yang Ning screamed, turned around, and ran away immediately. But the God of Wood flashed behind him. Yang Ning felt a strong wind coming from his back, and he knew that his life was hung by a thread. At this moment, a light bulb went on in his mind. He suddenly made a 180-degreee spin and slid away within one step. That was exactly the pace of Easy Travel.
These days he had been practicing that set of steps of Easy Travel almost all the time, and he was quite familiar with those paces now. He took that step subconsciously, and fortunately avoided the grip of the God of Wood.
The God of Wood gave a surprised look, apparently not expecting Yang Ning to escape this fatal attack. But he thought that Yang Ning happened to do that, so like a ghost he grabbed at Yang Ning again.
After escaping the attack, Yang Ning was thinking about the steps of Easy Travel. Once he had made the first step, he took the second step naturally. The God of Wood missed his goal for the first time, so he thought that his second attack must succeed. However, when his fingers were about to seize Yang Ning, Yang Ning flashed aside suddenly like a ghost.
The God of Wood shouted “Ah”, and was very surprised. When he failed to touch Yang Ning for several times in a row, he became horrified.
He had actually explored Yang Ning before, knowing that Yang Ning did not have any internal power and was just an ordinary boy.
But at the moment, Yang Ning’s steps were obviously remarkable and mysterious. Although he seemed to be drunk, reeling left and right, but his steps changed unexpectedly and it was difficult to discover its laws.
Yang Ning actually didn’t know how the God of Wood attempted to grasp him either. He just sank his head, moving his steps and feeling the God of Wood wandering around him. But he was actually very nervous. Indulged in moving his steps, he didn’t know that the God of Wood had been terrified by him, let alone realizing that he had evaded over ten movements by the God of Wood with ease.
The God of Wood was frightened, but after all, he was not an ordinary person. He could see that although Yang Ning’s paces were mysterious, but it seemed that his movements were not so deft. So he knew that he might just learn those skills. He let out a shout which sounded like the thunder, putting forth his internal power.
His shout was so loud that Yang Ning who moved silently was suddenly stunned. In this moment, Yang Ning’s movements became slower, and from the corner of his eyes, he saw that the God of Wood was clawing at him with one hand. Yang Ning was shocked, suddenly forgetting which step he should take next. So he could only step out his foot randomly, only to hit a tree.
When he wanted to move again, he felt his shoulders tightened. The God of Wood had already put a hand on his shoulder, sneering, “Where do you want to go?”
Yang Ning’s steps became disordered. The God of Wood could kill Yang Ning with just a slap, but when he saw Yang Ning’s mysterious movements, he began to covet this skill. He knew that the boy must get a stroke of luck, so he intended to force Yang Ning to teach him this set of steps.
Yang Ning was desperate. He had just escaped from death, but he never thought that he would fall into the hand of this old monster again. He forced a smile, “Hello, Mr. Mu!”
“Cut the crap. Where did you learn this set of steps?” The eyes of the God of Wood became greedy, “Be honest, and I can spare your life.”
Yang Ning thought to himself that he was doomed to die today, so he would not let this old monster take advantage of his death. When he thought that he had lived no longer than ten days after traveling through time to this new world, he was in low spirits and said indifferently, “What steps? Your eyes deceived you. I walked in that way randomly.”
“Do you have this ability?” The God of Wood cast a disdainful look, sneering, “It seems that you will not cry until the death comes for you. I will show you.” He exerted internal power to his Withering Wood Hand which was put on Yang Ning’s shoulder, intending to make Yang Ning miserable, so that he could ask the secret of the steps from him.
When the God of Wood mustered his internal power, Yang Ning naturally could feel it. His shoulder seemed to bear a great burden that weighed five thousand kilograms, and then he felt a force like the flood rushing from his shoulder into his body. The blood vessels along meridians of his shoulder seemed to expand and burst in a moment. That pain was ten times more severe than the pain on the skin.
Although Yang Ning was tenacious, such pain still made him cry out. The God of Wood looked ruthless, and he said coldly, “Tell me or not?”
The blood vessels along his meridian lines were going to burst, making Yang Ning almost lose consciousness.
He only felt that the meridians in his left shoulder seemed to be filled with air and were getting more and more inflated. If the air was not let out, his meridians and blood vessels would be certain to burst.
However, that internal power kept infusing his shoulder, like the waves of sea sweeping over him. It could not be discharged from his upper body. Subconsciously, he thought of the picture which drew the red line about people’s left shoulder in the Skills of Six Directions. The starting point of the picture was exactly from the Quepen acupoint on the shoulder. Then the red line passed through Zhongfu acupoint, extended to Shenzang acupoint, and then spread to the Lingxu and Shenfeng acupoints. Finally from Shenfeng acupoint, it reached the Danzhong acupoint on the chest.
At this time, he almost fainted, but when he thought of the red line, he clearly felt that there was an internal power surging from the Quepen acupoint. He wanted to transfer that internal power to the Zhongfu acupoint, so that he could reduce the pain of meridian expansion.
Strangely, he was just thinking about this with his eyes closed, but the internal power at the Quepen acupoint really started to move as if he could transfer that internal power. At first, the internal power seemed to resist his thought, but just in a moment, it poured down violently and infused into the Zhongfu acupoint below.
When the internal power rushed from the Quepen acupoint to the Zhongfu acupoint, the pain of meridian expansion on the shoulder immediately was relieved a lot. However, the blood vessels along meridians of the Zhongfu acupoint seemed to expand.
Yang Ning felt that he seemed to be able to control the direction of that internal power. Without hesitation, he immediately followed the direction of the red line in the Skills of Six Directions, and moved that internal power from Zhongfu acupoint to Shenzang acupoint. Then the internal power passed through Lingxu and Shenfeng acupoints, and finally reached the Danzhong acupoint.
Obviously, the God of Wood did not realize that his internal power had been led to the Danzhong acupoint by Yang Ning. He was still thinking that Yang Ning would beg for mercy for being unable to bear the pain.
When he heard Yang Ning’s painful cry, the God of Wood’s look was still disdainful. But soon, Yang Ning’s cry stopped. The God of Wood thought he had fainted because of the pain. When he saw Yang Ning at the beginning, he wanted to kill him. But after seeing Yang Ning’s steps, he had changed his mind, so he naturally didn’t want Yang Ning to die.
At this moment, he just wanted to give Yang Ning a bitter taste, and asked Yang Ning to tell him the steps of Easy Travel. He didn’t want to kill him immediately. Seeing that Yang Ning was silent, he thought Yang Ning might be on the point of death, so he planned to withdraw his internal power.
However, when he tried to regain his internal power, he found that his internal power was like the flood that burst the dam, which not only was unable to regain, but also kept leaking out.
The God of Wood frowned, trying to draw back his palm, but he failed to raise his hand. The internal power that kept pouring out seemed to stick his palm, so he could not move.
The God of Wood’s expression suddenly changed greatly.
At this time, he didn’t know that his internal power had already cut out a way according to Yang Ning’s thoughts, infusing into Yang Ning’s Danzhong acupoint through that way.
In fact, it was very difficult for Yang Ning to shift the internal power in his shoulder at the beginning. There was resistance, so it flowed slowly.
Yang Ning did not have any foundation for internal power. Compared with masters of internal power, his meridians were just like rivers jammed up with mud. In order to completely dredge these meridians, Yang Ning not only needed to practice internal power, but also needed to practice it for several years.
The God of Wood intended to make Yang Ning suffer from pain today, but he didn’t expect that his internal power, like a turbulent torrent, would pour into the blocked river and gave Yang Ning a great help.
And Yang Ning took advantage of this torrent-like internal power to guide him to the way he wanted, unclogging the meridian acupoints on this way completely with ease.
At first the internal power just slowly trickled down to the Danzhong acupoint on his chest, but when the meridian became unblocked, the internal power poured into him like a flood.
The internal power is flowing faster and faster, and the God of Wood felt that his internal power was injected into Yang Ning’s body like a river that overflowed its bank. He was shocked and his face was pale. He tried to raise his hand for several times, but his hand seemed to be linked with the shoulder of Yang Ning, so he couldn’t take his hand away at all. Although he was well-informed and his knowledge of martial arts was profound, he had never encountered such situation. Therefore, he temporarily had no idea what was going on.
He knew that if this situation continued, his internal power would drain away. His eyes became cold. Although he didn’t know what had happened for a while, he believed that the source must be Yang Ning. He thought that as long as he killed Yang Ning, the problem would be solved. So he made a growl, infusing a stronger internal power into Yang Ning’s body.
At this point, it was much more important to save his own life, so he had to disregard that set of steps of Yang Ning. He thought once this internal power was poured into a person, even normal masters of internal power would die for meridian burst, not alone the ordinary people like Yang Ning.
But to his surprise, when this internal force rushed into Yang Ning, he did not give a shriek of pain. And his internal power was like a stone cow sinking into the sea, disappearing without any trace.
Although Yang Ning did not die now, he was not well.
When the God of Wood infused his internal power into his body, Yang Ning led it to his Danzhong acupoint. The pressure on other meridians was relieved, but after the inrush of a lot of internal power, Yang Ning felt that his Danzhong acupoint was churning as if it was burnt. The more the internal power was injected, the more obvious the feeling of being burnt became.
This was like that a hungry person suddenly saw a big meal. He quite enjoyed the meal at the beginning. But when he forced himself to eat more afterwards, he would feel ill for every extra bite, and would not feel uncomfortable anymore. Yang Ning was like that now. He only hoped that the God of Wood would stop right away, but he didn’t know that although the God of Wood wanted to stop now, the whole thing was out of his control.