Chapter 102: Eliminating Future Threats

Wu Chengyu did not use the Severed Pulse Capture Hand this time; this had already become his trademark.

He struck directly at the back of the heart with the Unified Harmony Finger; experts would recognize it as finger energy, but ordinary people might mistake it for a spearhead.

After confirming Cheng Wuji was dead, Wu Chengyu hid his body in an abandoned house temporarily, then turned and flew back to Hongxiu Zhao.

Since someone had proposed poisoning, even though Cheng Wuji was dead, Shi Tong would know to find someone else next time; he had to eliminate the future threat in one strike.

By the time Wu Chengyu returned to his own elegant room, Shi Tong's room had only Shi Tong and two top courtesans left.

His other two subordinates ran to separate rooms on the second floor, each doing their own thing.

They couldn't wait any longer before Cheng Wuji returned.

It was already late at night; apart from the first-floor hall where people were still carousing, the music on the second and third floors had vanished, and the sounds in the rooms had become muffled and inaudible.

Wu Chengyu sneaked into those two subordinates' rooms one after another; the doors were bolted, but the windows were closed.

Using the Cat Step at night, soundless, the two men who were busy with their affairs were completely defenseless and were struck at their acupoints one after another by Wu Chengyu; the two women were also struck at their sleep acupoints by Wu Chengyu, and the whole process made not a sound.

Wu Chengyu grabbed these two people and brought them to Shi Tong's room, doing the same thing; Shi Tong knew no martial arts at all, and before he could even raise his head, he was immediately unable to move.

Wu Chengyu first placed the two subordinates and Shi Tong on the same bed, then moved the two women accompanying Shi Tong into one of the subordinates' rooms, and only then returned to Shi Tong's bedside.

At this time, the three lay side by side on the bed, Shi Tong in the middle, a man on each side; all three had their acupoints sealed, unable to move or speak, their faces pale, sweat covering their heads.

When Wu Chengyu came to the bedside again, their eyes were full of fear and pleading; now that Wu Chengyu was in disguise, they did not know who he was, but knew they were fish on the chopping block.

Wu Chengyu did not want the other party to die as a knowing ghost, so naturally he would not reveal his identity.

He first grabbed one subordinate's wrist, held his pulse gate, and poured inner force into the other's body; this person had never cultivated an Internal Energy Heart Technique, but had similarly trained external arts to gradually produce some Internal Energy, yet this bit of Internal Energy could not possibly resist Wu Chengyu's solidified inner force.

Under the clash of inner forces, the man twitched all over, groaned, his veins bulged, obviously in great pain; Wu Chengyu's input of inner force was simple and crude, decisively different from the gentleness he used when simulating inner force circulation for Wu Family disciples.

Soon Wu Chengyu had figured out the circulation of this person's meridians.

The meridians in the human body are roughly the same, but hidden veins, though everyone has them, are inherently hard to discover and their positions vary slightly; Wu Chengyu did this to find the location of this person's hidden vein near the heart.

Immediately afterward, Wu Chengyu did the same thing and precisely found the hidden veins of Shi Tong and the other person; only Shi Tong, because he had no inner force conflict in his body, knew nothing of what had happened.

Next, Wu Chengyu input a strand of Internal Energy into the hidden vein near each of their hearts; this inner force operated using the method of Shifting Stars and Changing Constellations, and after entering the hidden vein it would not disappear, but lurk in the hidden vein awaiting eruption.

This was a technique Wu Chengyu had gleaned while fusing the five hidden veins of the Shenxiu Zhi Fa with his own art; no longer protecting the heart, but acting in the opposite way.

As long as one found the other's hidden vein position and input inner force, it would gradually destroy heart function, producing only a faint effect each day, and the victim would feel at most chest tightness.

But after thirty days, heart function would be completely destroyed, directly causing the effect of a heart attack in later generations; unless there were an operating table and top cardiac specialists on the spot, the victim would surely die, and doing this left no trace of external damage.

For now Wu Chengyu had only researched the severed pulse effect of the heart and liver hidden veins; once he mastered all the hidden veins he knew, he could roughly create a set of severed pulse techniques to kill invisibly.

Tonight Wu Chengyu had originally wanted to heed his Fourth Uncle's words, merely to teach Shi Tong a lesson without taking his life, but unexpectedly Shi Tong was more poisonous than he thought, so he had to strike first.

But Shi Tong's death could not appear to be murder, as it would ruin the family's plans and offend Shi Miyuan; so after careful consideration he came up with this method.

Now the severed pulse technique was only the first step; Wu Chengyu did not want Shi Tong to live another month, as a month was enough time for him to cause the Wu Family much trouble.

So after inputting Internal Energy into the hidden vein, he had to find a new method to accelerate the eruption speed of the Internal Energy in the hidden vein while creating the effect of a widespread heart attack.

Fortunately, the thing he had accidentally brought out tonight could well achieve this purpose.

This thing was an improper reward given by the Bamboo Slips long ago, Ai Yi Tiao Chai; although at the time Wu Chengyu, due to insufficient conditions and lack of psychological preparation, had not immediately made it.

But over these five years, every time he thought of it he felt an itch in his heart; such a Miraculous Medicine with special effects—who wouldn't be curious, even if Wu Chengyu had no intention to harm others.

So one day two years ago, Wu Chengyu finally could not restrain himself and secretly bought all the Medicine to make it.

Afterward, with no experimental subjects, Wu Chengyu had no choice but to put it away on a high shelf.

His original plan tonight was to use Ai Yi Tiao Chai to give Shi Tong an unprecedented life experience and make a big fool of him, but now it had a new function.

After a person took Ai Yi Tiao Chai, their mind was nearly deranged, their brain filled only with the beastliness of wild beasts; during the subsequent intense process, the heart would be massively congested and beat at a completely abnormal frequency, until at the most exciting moment, it would directly stimulate the eruption of Internal Energy in the hidden vein.

By then these three would die of heart attacks one second before entering the world of bliss, mounting the peak of Wu Shan together while also stepping onto the Yellow Springs Road together.

When someone saw their corpses tomorrow, even an autopsy would only assume the three died from being too intense together; there would surely be suspicion, but first they would suspect how the three of them played themselves to death.

Although directly killing the three would be clean and neat, that way others would know at a glance it was murder.

Like Wu Chengyu, letting inner force fuse into the hidden vein, then erupting from within outward aided by heart congestion and violent beating, completely showing no trace of external force, and the large amount of intercourse traces left at the scene were not fake; for a time it absolutely would not be linked to the Wu Family.

This was a huge scandal; by the time Shi Miyuan covered it up it would be too late, and causing trouble for the Wu Family would be without just cause.

He took out a Small Blue Porcelain Bottle from his bosom; originally ten pills had been refined in total, and logically one would suffice, but Wu Chengyu's plan was being implemented for the first time without a large amount of experimental data to verify, so he simply stuffed three pills into each person's mouth, leaving one pill for himself as a Memorial.

According to Wu Chengyu's speculation, the effect of one Ai Yi Tiao Chai was equivalent to ten blue small pills; these three men were equivalent to each taking thirty pills, and even without that force from the heart hidden vein, these three men would be exhausted and lifeless by tomorrow morning.

Wu Chengyu looked at the pills in his hand, stuffed them one by one into their mouths, and sighed emotionally: "You got a bargain."

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