THE SMILING PROUD WANDERER by Jin Yong

Energy Streams Part 4

Lying on the stretcher, Linghu Chong could still see the dangerous state his Master-Wife was in. In great despair, he struggled up and shouted.

"Don't hurt my Master-Wife! Or I will shut down all my arteries!"

Before his voice even faded, blood had squired out from his mouth. Linghu Chong fell back down unconscious.

"That lad is gonna shut down his arteries. We can't let that happen! Let go of the bitch!" Root Fairy yelled out as he dodged the thrust from Yue Buqun.

The four Fairies dropped Madam Yue on the ground. Greatly worried about Fruit Fairy's fatal injury, they ran after Branch Fairy and Fruit Fairy quickly.

Yue Buqun and Yue Lingshan rushed over to Madam Yue's side at the same time. Before they even had a chance to reach out and prop Madam Yue up, she had already leapt back onto her own feet. Feeling a mixture of extreme terror and rage, she couldn't help but tremble. Her face looked completely pale and sallow.

"Junior apprentice sister, don't be angry. We'll seek our revenge for sure. Those six guys are very tough enemies. Fortunately you have already killed one of them," Yue Buqun whispered.

Madam Yue's heart hammered even more as she remembered the scene several days earlier when Cheng Buyou was ripped apart alive. "I...I...I...," she murmured yet could no longer speak normally because her entire body was still shaking hard.

"Lingshan, why don't you take your mother back in to have a rest," Yue Buqun said to his daughter, knowing that his wife had been completely horrified.

Yue Buqun walked by Linghu Chong to check on him. There was blood all over Linghu Chong's face and chest. His breathing was so weak that it almost seemed there was more air breathed out of him than what was breathed in – he was not going to make it. Yue Buqun placed his palm on top of Linghu Chong's Ling-Tai Point on the back in an attempt to use his own high-level inner energy to keep Linghu Chong alive, but as soon as he tried to fill his inner energy in through the pressure point, several streams of weird inner energy inside Linghu Chong's body immediately countered it with a big shock and almost shook his palm off. Completely astounded, he soon discovered that those lunatic energy streams were clashing against each other nonstop inside Linghu Chong's body as well. He put his palm next to Tan-Zhong Point on Linghu Chong's chest, and sure enough, a strong shock struck his palm so hard that even his own chest started hurting with a dull pain. Yue Buqun was astonished even more this time. He could tell that those energy streams inside Linghu Chong's body flew in odd ways. Apparently they came from some type of advanced yet unorthodox Qi-Gong techniques. Even though each energy stream by itself was slightly weaker than his "Divine Art of Violet Twilight," as soon as two of them attack in the same direction or at the time, he could no longer hold them off on his own. After some more careful detection, he counted a total of six energy streams inside Linghu Chong, and each of them was weird and bizarre. Afraid to continue, Yue Buqun pulled his palm back and pondered.

"There are a total of six energy streams, then of course it had to be those six freaks who filled those into Chong's body. The six freaks are so vicious. They must have tortured Chong so badly by filling their own inner energy into six different channels inside Chong's body, so Chong would suffer constantly, and wouldn't even have the option to end his own misery by committing suicide."

Yue Buqun knitted his brows heavily and shook his head. After telling Gao Gengming and Lu Dayou to carry Linghu Chong inside he went to check on his wife.

Madam Yue was still in shock. While sitting on the bedside holding her daughter's hands, she looked terrified, her face as white as a sheet. As soon as she saw Yue Buqun, she asked,