Needle Techniques Strike Again!

Lan Xiang stood outside the door, dumbfounded. He was waiting for Lu Xifa who left a while ago.

A few minutes later, she came back.

"Hey, Xifa."

"Hm, what is it?" Lu Xifa was now chewing on gum she got from who knew where.

"How do I get my sister to allow me to pierce her body."

"Psht, what the heck are you trying to do?!" Lu Xifa spit the gum out in shock.

"Well, you see, I tried forcing it on her, but she just didn't want it." Lan Xiang shrugged.

"You! You are a menace! A menace to society!"

"Huh? What do you mean? This is for her own good!" Lan Xiang looked flustered.

"For her own good? Hah? Can you tell me just how it is for her own good?" Lu Xifa looked genuinely angry.

"She says to me, her pathways are blocked. If I pierce her in those blocked areas, I will be able to unblock them."

"You say! You... wait, what are you piercing her with?"

"Huh? Needles, what else?"

"..." Lu Xifa calmed herself down.

.....

The two had come up with a plan.

Lu Xifa teleported Lan Xiang back to his home first and grabbed the needles gifted to him by the physician. They then went back to the hospital.

"Little Hailu? Are you there?"

Lan Xiang knocked on the door.

"Don't! Don't come in, I don't want to die... Uwaa..." Lan Hailu could already imagine herself bleeding to death, her brother at the side shaking his head.

"I, I didn't bring any needles! I'm not gonna force you anymore, okay? Don't worry." Lan Xiang stuck his tongue out outside the door.

He opened it slowly, looking at Lan Hailu's cautious glances at him. Lu Xifa waved her hand a little as she, too, followed him inside.

"Listen, Hailu..."

Lan Hailu let her guard down a little. She sighed. "Listen, bro. It's not that I don't trust you about these things, it's that you don't really have a, erm, perfect track record. So, um, I would prefer it if you don't end up in jail because of my death."

"Oh, you're just concerned for me, good. Good. You little brat!" Lan Xiang suddenly raised his hand and aimed it at Lan Hailu's nape.

"!" Before she could react, Lan Hailu's pupils rolled backwards as she fell unconscious on her bed.

Lu Xifa gave him the bag of needles.

"I technically didn't have the needles, she did, so... I wasn't lying to you, Hailu."

Lan Xiang began stripping Lan Hailu as he put on some gloves and a surgical mask that was also in the bag of needles.

Lu Xifa was anxious. "You're really doing this? What if you endanger her life, aren't you worried?"

"Don't worry, I know what I'm doing."

As Lu Xifa continued to watch Lan Xiang, he seemed to look more and more professional in front of her. His movements looked practiced and well-trained, almost as if he was a real doctor.

He closed his eyes for a short while. When he opened them again, there was a subtle glow to his irises.

Lan Xiang opened the bag and infused the needles with his qi. They all flew out by the tens.

"...! You're going to be using that many simultaneously? You're seriously going to mess up!" Lu Xifa stood up in urgency.

"Don't worry, I already told you I know what I'm doing."

Before she could do anything about it, Lan Xiang already pierced the first needle through Lan Hailu's innocently white flesh. And the second, and the third...

Lu Xifa watched as the marvelous scene unraveled itself in front of her.

The needles seemed sentient as they positioned themselves in various places on Lan Hailu's body. Lan Xiang looked like he exerted no effort in making this all possible.

At that moment, her eyes sparkled, and she unconsciously made a smile in awe.

Lan Xiang opened his eyes, exhaling. He looked at Lan Hailu, who was akin to a porcupine right now. She still had her eyes closed, needles protruding from every part of her body that had an internal injury.

It was at that point: using the needles as a medium, Lan Xiang forcefully inserted his qi inside her.

Lan Hailu's face wretched with pain, even with her consciousness not back yet. It was like an electric current went through every single needle that was inside of her.

The multi-element qi that Lan Xiang possessed was tangible. It could morph and adapt into any element, and as such there was no compatibility issues for him and Lan Hailu.

Lu Xifa could feel the comforting aura of Lan Xiang's qi just from watching from the side. She subconsciously wanted more and walked closer to him.

The pain gradually went away, and even turned into pleasure. Lan Xiang took out the needles by hand as he wiped the sweat off Lan Hailu's body.

"These parts are kinda stiff too. I might as well apply my stretching techniques here."

Lan Xiang took a hold of Lan Hailu's little arm and pulled it back. Instead of it hurting, Lan Hailu's face eased up. He continued doing so with various parts of her body, all the while Lu Xifa was right behind him, her body barely avoiding contact with his.

In the end, Lan Hailu had a massive grin on her face as Lan Xiang put her hospital gown back on. With a smile, he left with Lu Xifa, not intending to show his face for the next 3 years or so...

A few hours later.

Lan Hailu woke up.

"Ah! That brother of mine, what did he do to me?" Lan Hailu tried to feel around her body.

"Hey? I feel good... What the heck? Did he actually use acupuncture on me, and it worked?"

She was thoroughly confused.

"And inside me is this foreign qi. It's extremely pure flame element, one that even our Lan family technique can't conjure. Could it be...?

"The mysterious girl that followed my brother around is actually a hidden expert?"

The notion that her brother started cultivation was simply ludicrous to Lan Hailu. Thus, she opted to attribute everything happening to her to the lady that never spoke, that possibly smuggled her brother across cities...