Painting the Mists Box Set: Books 1-3 (Painting the Mists Collected) by Patrick Laplante

Author:Patrick Laplante [Laplante, Patrick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Patrick Georges Laplante
Published: 2020-01-27T22:00:00+00:00

A half dozen people were gathered around a bed in the barracks. They closely observed the gentle movements of an aged figure as he surveyed the unconscious young man on the bed. Occasionally, he prodded Feng Ming, prompting a soft groan from the unconscious patient.

After a half hour of observation, the man drew out a set of transparent needles. The 108 needles were clear and seemed to be crafted out of soul alloy. They quickly floated over Feng Ming’s mostly naked body at the doctor’s direction. The aged man then formed thirty-six hand seals, causing the 108 needles to gently stab into the wounded body at various key points.

Half of the needles glowed green, while the other half glowed blue. While this seemed like a simple process, beads of sweat had accumulated on the aged man’s forehead. Yet he didn’t let up his efforts. The needles continued to glow, and the man continued to concentrate.

After a half hour, the aged man suddenly grunted and stopped channeling his qi. Shaking his head, he looked back at the crowd of concerned people. “I’m sorry,” he said. “I need to rest a short while before trying again. His wounds are very unfortunate. I have no idea how he survived so long given the circumstances.”

“What exactly is wrong with him?” Cha Ming asked hurriedly.

“It’s complicated, young man. Your friend has been poisoned with thirteen minor poisons, all of which are usually harmless. However, when combined in a very exact ratio, they produced a poison that rendered him comatose and began shutting down his organs.

“This normally wouldn’t be problematic for me. However, using a treatment that should have a ninety-nine percent chance of success in normal cases didn’t work. After probing his body once more, I observed that he has somehow awakened a special constitution. This would normally be a cause for great celebration, however it just happened to render the only method I had to counter it meaningless.

“Therefore, I tried to supplement his qi to take advantage of his awakened constitution’s strength against poisons. To my surprise, the small amount of qi somehow caused him to reach a breakthrough in his cultivation. Which, in this specific situation, is disastrous! His body has entered a qi-deficient state, and due to some freak interaction, his body is rejecting any external qi.

“Simply put, this whole situation is a freakish accident. Your friend’s heart could give out at any second.”

Cha Ming and Gong Lan were devastated. How could such a thing happen to their friend? And who had pursued him so savagely, driving him into his current condition?

“That brown-haired kid probably made things worse with his ‘healing,’” a hoarse voice said behind them. “Congratulations on killing your friend, kid. And who knows how many people.” The man in question wore light-blue robes. The hem of his robes was embroidered with the characters for Fairweather. It was the county lord.

Cha Ming flushed red again. “Who the hell are you? You’re not welcome here!” he snapped.

Hearing Cha Ming’s words, the man’s eyes narrowed, and a formless pressure suddenly weighed down on Cha Ming.

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