Chapter 172: Mental Anguish (I)

A/n: This chapter is in remembrance of one of the top authors of this website. Smh.

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Ye Tian Yun suddenly stopped feeling his foot as a deep sense of numbness prevailed.

The foot slowly began to bulge out like a balloon and stopped only at the point where any more could literally make his foot explode.

There was surprisingly no pain. Maybe because he was not feeling anything except the numbness.

Ye Tian Yun, however, didn't waste any time admiring his bulging right foot, and instead focused on his other foot.

Similarly like before, he took a needle and pressed it right between the thumb and the index finger of his left foot.

This time too, he only felt a slight pain when the needle passed the outer layer of his skin, but after that, as the acupuncture needle compressed his meridian, all the feeling slowly vanished and this leg too began to numb, as if the leg didn't even exist.

Ye Tian Yun then used his hands to straighten the legs carefully as not to disturb the needles and harm himself.

By this time, the right leg, which had earlier bulged like a huge pumpkin due to the blockage of Qi flow, was now slowly returning back to its original shape and size, like an inflated balloon.

As the right leg's size decreased, the left leg's size began to increase. Now, this one too bulged outwards.

Ye Tian Yun waited for a few minutes to let the left foot also regain its original shape. 

Though both of the legs were still numb and he wasn't feeling anything, Ye Tian Yun was still getting a weird feeling.

This feeling slowly began to creep up and increase with every passing moment. All of a sudden, it seemed to reach a breaking point and suddenly, Ye Tian Yun felt like thousands of knives were stabbing his feet.

He tightly closed his eyes as he felt intense pain from his previously numb legs.

The pain seemed to come from inside his legs, it was as if the outer layer of his skin didn't even exist. 

This sudden pain lasted for a few seconds and began to slow down and finally died out, giving some time to breathe to Ye Tian Yun.

'That hurt like hell, it was more than I had expected. Hopefully, I can survive this, almost my whole body is still left."

Letting out a breath from his mouth, Ye Tian Yun then took another needle, and this time he pressed it in the area of his Achilles tendon.

By putting it here, he wanted to effectively block the Qi flow through his foot.

The last needle had helped him lock the Qi Flow, and this needle was like a cap on the bottle and was making the legs turn Qi-less, if there existed a word as such.

The major difference this time was that there was no bulging and no pain except for the time when he put the needle through the outer layer of the skin.

He kept his leg in a sideways position, so as to keep the needles safe from falling off.

Then taking out another needle, he then did the same with his other foot.

In no time, both of his feet were effectively blocked from having any Qi flowing through them.

Putting both of the legs sideways, so that the toes were in the opposite direction to each other, Ye Tian Yun then put his attention on the next body part.

His knees.

Ye Tian Yun began with the left knee and took out another needle.

What he needed to do was put the needle behind his knees.

This was quite risky as his legs were now getting into an even more awkward position.

But eventually, Ye Tian Yun managed to put the needle, but this time it wasn't painless, rather it felt as if the pain which was missing when he put the needles in the Achilles heel, was now added this time on his knees.

Ye Tian Yun was forced to bite his tongue as the feeling of getting stabbed by a thousand times came back, this time with a lot more force. It was as if the knives were longer and sharper. It was too painful to bear.

And the knees also began to bulge, not from behind, but rather as a whole. The knees were already in the shape of a small ball, but now, it had bulged from all directions making it look like a huge soccer ball.

Ye TianYuan tried to think of something else just so that he could distract himself from the intense pain. He thought, 'What in the world is a soccer ball? Why did such a word pop up in my head?'

He had no answer to this question, but this was enough to distract him and reduce his pain, though not much in terms of measure.

Slowly the knee returned to its original shape and size, still numb and with the needle stuck in it.

Ye Tian Yun let out a sigh of relief as the pain subsided but winced once again when he noticed that there were still thirty more needles left.

This was mental anguish for him because the pain would only increase as he moves closer to his eyebrows.

Shaking his head, he then took out another needle and began to put it on his other knee.

This time, however, instead of putting it behind the knee, Ye Tian Yun put it on the front.

He did this because it was his left foot and in this foot, the meridian was easy to reach if the acupuncture needle is inserted from the knee cap side.

But this time, the pain came before the needle could even reach the meridians.

It was so intense that he had to stop pushing the needle and leave it hanging mid-way as his eyes were now forcefully closed due to the intense pain.

All this was intense mental anguish.

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