"Yinlingquan, Qiuxu, Yongquan, Dadun, Xiangu, and Li Neiting. The six major acupuncture points on both feet have finally been stimulated once."1

Inside the dim cave, Luo Chen grit his teeth, the veins on his forehead bulging as sweat dripped freely down his face. Despite days of brutal training, the pain of stimulating all six acupuncture points simultaneously was still overwhelming, blinding, and bone-deep. Yet he endured. 0

Yet, Luo Chen stubbornly endured it. To put it plainly, it was just pain. It didn't pose any real threat to his life.4

Moreover, he had used spirit energy to shield the meridians around the six acupuncture points, greatly reducing the risk of internal injuries. So all that remained was sheer, unrelenting agony. Nothing life-threatening. Just... intense.0

To keep himself sane, he tried to reframe the torment. It’s just a vicious foot massage, he told himself, the kind where the masseur goes straight for the kidney reflex zones with full force. The thought almost made him laugh.5

Time crawled forward...0