Heavenly Dao Engine
Chapter 962 - 962 0577 Mistaken for a Robber_1

Chapter 962: Chapter 0577: Mistaken for a Robber_1 Chapter 962: Chapter 0577: Mistaken for a Robber_1 Chapter 0577: Mistaken for Bandits

After hearing Gao Jinmei’s instructions, Zhao Ninglu simply nodded, indicating that she understood. She had confidence in herself, for she was not a flower cultivated in a greenhouse. She had endured countless hardships on the path of cultivation since childhood. She firmly believed that if others could endure suffering, so could she. Wasn’t it just opening a few meridians? She could bear that pain, and was willing to bear it.

Seeing Zhao Ninglu like this, Gao Jinmei glanced at Qi Tian, who just slightly nodded, signaling her to continue.

Gao Jinmei stood behind Zhao Ninglu, took a deep breath, placed her fair palm on Zhao Ninglu’s back, and said, “Your Highness, please prepare yourself mentally, I will now help you organize the meridians and seek to unblock them to release your potential.”

Following Qi Tian’s instructions, Gao Jinmei concentrated her qi into needles and injected them into Zhao Ninglu’s body. The amount of qi was not trivial; these qi needles, as thin as cow hair, numbered in the hundreds, encircled Zhao Ninglu’s blocked meridians, and then, according to the secret method taught by Qi Tian, they began to hammer around the meridians like little mallets.

When these qi needles hammered onto Zhao Ninglu’s meridians, she felt as if hundreds, if not thousands, of steel knives were ravaging inside her body. The pain was, just as Gao Jinmei described, a thousand times worse than bone-scraping poison removal.

At first, Zhao Ninglu was able to endure. She clenched her teeth tightly, her hands balled into fists, veins popping, her skin turning pale. She desperately endured the bone-penetrating pain, but her willpower soon could not hold out, and she let out a pained scream. Her cries were so harrowing that they sent shivers down one’s spine.

Gao Jinmei did not stop, continuing to pound Zhao Ninglu’s meridians with qi needles. It was Gao Jinmei’s deliberate choice to make Zhao Ninglu experience such extreme pain, to make her follow their plan. Of course, one couldn’t say that Gao Jinmei deliberately harmed Zhao Ninglu; the method received by Qi Tian to stimulate one’s potential did indeed require condensing qi into needles to stimulate the meridians.

Sweat soon broke out on Zhao Ninglu, and she could no longer bear it, lying down and screaming in agony, crying out, “Master Gao, stop, I can’t take it anymore.”

At this, Gao Jinmei finally stopped and said, “Your Highness, we have only just begun. There’s greater pain to come. Are you sure you want to continue? If you can endure, I have no objections.”

Zhao Ninglu took several deep breaths, and with each breath, the meridian that had been hammered still throbbed with aching pain. Her body involuntarily trembled with the excruciating agony that penetrated her bones and soul, impossible to forget. Finally steadying her breath, her voice trembling, Zhao Ninglu said, “Master Gao, I think I should take the Half-day Drunk pill. I really can’t go on.”

Zhao Ninglu thought she could endure hardship, but in reality, as one of the rare third-generation members of the Imperial Family Secret Territory, had she ever really experienced true hardship in her childhood? The hardships she endured were filtered by her family elders, greatly diminished compared to real pain. When true suffering came, her true nature was exposed.

Gao Jinmei did not say anything, just waited for Zhao Ninglu to swallow the Half-day Drunk pill.

The Half-day Drunk pill was no ordinary item; it was purchased by Qi Tian in the past from the Wanjie Commerce in Wanjie City, and it was very valuable. Its effects were naturally excellent; not to mention Zhao Ninglu, who was merely a Half-step Golden Core, even a true Gold Core Realm expert like Gao Jinmei would have to sleep for a while after taking it.

Almost immediately after Zhao Ninglu swallowed the Half-day Drunk pill, her eyes became hazy, her body went limp, and she collapsed onto the jade bed, falling into a deep sleep.

Gao Jinmei shook her head, thinking to herself that if she had known this would happen, why did she bother starting in the first place? After enduring so much pain, in the end, she still had to take the Half-day Drunk pill.

Gao Jinmei looked at Qi Tian and smiled, “Master, we have accomplished our task, what should we do next?”

Qi Tian walked to the jade bed, checked on Zhao Ninglu to make sure she really had fallen asleep, and said, “We must act quickly, without delay. I suspect that as soon as we entered, that Half-step Golden Core named Fu Zhiling had already reported the situation. We must control Zhao Ninglu before more members of the royal family arrive.”

Gao Jinmei’s eyes lit up and said, “Master, have you changed your mind? Are you planning to have Zhao Ninglu sign a Servant Pact?”

Qi Tian replied, “Having Zhao Ninglu sign a Servant Pact is impossible. On one hand, as I’ve told you before, the royal family might be guarded against this. If we make Zhao Ninglu sign a Servant Pact, it could be discovered, and the risk is not worth taking. On the other hand, what use do you think Zhao Ninglu could possibly be to me? As a mere Half-step Golden Core, how could she possibly help us now? At best, she can serve as an intermediary step.”