The King Returns

For Li Wei, this night was a mix of pain and pleasure.

Although Yang Weiwei claimed she would accept any punishment, she was still an inexperienced young girl.

Under Li Wei's slightly aggressive punishment, she quickly surrendered, curling up into a ball in her embarrassment before finally falling into a dazed sleep.

Feeling the soft, delicate body in his arms and listening to her steady, even breathing, Li Wei's heart felt a sense of profound peace.

The night grew deeper.

Li Wei looked down at her pure and tranquil sleeping face, his heart softening.

He carefully pulled his arm out, afraid of waking the lovely girl in his arms.

Feeling the tearing sensation from across his body, tightly bound by bandages, Li Wei's gaze gradually sharpened.

Weakness is the original sin.

If he weren't still too weak, how could he have ended up in such a miserable state?

If he weren't still too weak, how could Qin Bing have suffered such humiliation?

He didn't like this feeling of being a passive target, forced to lie in bed waiting to recover.

He wanted to take the initiative!

He would use his own methods to make these injuries heal at the fastest possible speed!

He stood up and walked to the table.

There sat a simple, ancient rosewood long box, the very one Yang Yun had left behind.

He opened the wooden box, revealing a row of silver needles of varying lengths and thicknesses, shimmering with a cold, grim light under the dim lamp.

He took off his hospital gown and looked down at his body.

If he didn't intervene, even though his body had been strengthened by the Nine-Flavor Emperor Yellow Pill, it would take at least ten days to fully recover.

And what he lacked most right now was time.

Li Wei took a deep breath and picked up three three-inch-long filiform needles from the needle box.

His gaze instantly became focused and solemn.

God-Level Acupuncture.

First Form: Consolidating the Foundation and Cultivating the Origin.

This needle technique was specifically used to stimulate human potential and stabilize the source of life; it had miraculous effects on repairing physical trauma.

He pressed his left index and middle fingers together like a sword, accurately pointing at the 'Qihai point' below his lower abdomen.

With his right hand, he struck with all three needles at once, thrusting them steadily into the acupoint without the slightest hesitation.

The needles entered three-tenths of an inch, neither too deep nor too shallow.

Immediately after, his fingers began to twist the ends of the needles at an extremely profound frequency.

Hum—

The three silver needles seemed to come alive, emitting a faint, almost inaudible hum.

A visible, pale gold current of air slowly rotated around the silver needles, forming a small vortex.

A warm current!

An unprecedented, majestic warm current erupted from the Qihai point instantly, like a flood breaking through a dam, washing through his entire body!

Li Wei could clearly feel the cells in his body, which had become dried and exhausted due to his heavy injuries, frantically devouring this life energy.

The wound on his chest pierced by the dagger and the torn muscle in his abdomen from the bullet felt bursts of tingling itchiness under the wash of the warm current.

That was the sensation of flesh and blood regenerating and healing at high speed!

It's working!

Li Wei's spirits rose, and his hands didn't stop.

He accurately pierced three more silver needles into the 'Shenshu point' on his lower back.

If the Qihai point was the sea of life, then the Shenshu point was the foundation of the innate being.

As he twisted the needles, another even more domineering and pure energy surged from his lower back, merging with the warm current from his lower abdomen.

The two energies—one Yin and one Yang, one soft and one hard—formed a perfect cycle within his body.

Li Wei's complexion changed from pale to rosy at a visible rate.

He could even hear light popping sounds from within his body, like beans roasting.

That was his bones and tendons reshaping, and his blood surging!

Under the bandages, those originally hideous and terrifying wounds were rapidly healing, scabbing, and falling off at a speed that defied scientific logic... Half an hour later.

Li Wei slowly pulled out the last silver needle.

He exhaled a long breath of turbid air; under the light, that breath actually carried a faint blood-colored mist before dissipating into the air.

He tried moving his body.

The original restrictive pain had already disappeared by eighty or ninety percent.

In its place was an unprecedented sensation of explosive power!

He ripped off the cumbersome bandages.

On his chest and abdomen, the wounds that should have been fatal were now reduced to two faint pink scars.

Even the edges of the scars were smoothing out at a visible rate.

He was healed.

He was actually healed!

In less than half an hour, these fatal injuries that would have kept anyone in the ICU for a month had actually recovered just like that!

"As expected of God-Level Acupuncture..."

Li Wei clenched his fists, feeling the ceaseless power surging within him, a terrifying glint exploding in his eyes.

"This is what you call a fucking god-tier skill!"

He even felt that his current self was more than a level stronger than before he was injured!

With his injuries healed, he felt completely light.

So next, it was time to... tally the spoils of war!

Li Wei's gaze became fervent.

He closed his eyes and sank his consciousness into his mind.

"System, summarize the gains from the past few days."

With a thought, a familiar blue light screen that only he could see slowly unfolded before his eyes.

[Ding! System tallying in progress...]

[During the 'Blue Harbor' incident, the host engaged in unprecedented deep intimate interaction with the special target 'Qin Bing,' who has a comprehensive rating of 96.]

[Interaction process detected: intense sense of crisis, extreme physical confrontation, and complete physiological submission of the target while in a conscious state...]

[Comprehensive assessment: This interaction grade is 'SSS'!]

[Congratulations to the host for obtaining an unprecedented super reward!]

Seeing the 'SSS' rating and the words 'unprecedented,' Li Wei's heart couldn't help but skip a beat.

He knew that this reward was definitely no small matter.

Sure enough, in the next second, a series of system notifications exploded in his mind like firecrackers!

[Ding! Congratulations to the host for obtaining 'Platinum Blind Box' ×4!]

[Ding! Congratulations to the host for obtaining System Points +3000!]

Four Platinum Blind Boxes!

Three thousand points!

Li Wei's breathing became somewhat hurried.

This was definitely the biggest gain he had ever received since obtaining the system!

Especially those four Platinum Blind Boxes.

One must know that when he interacted with Yang Yun and Yang Weiwei before, the highest he had ever opened was a Gold-tier blind box.

This was the first time he had ever seen a Platinum Blind Box!

And there were four of them at once!

If he could open something good... Li Wei could hardly imagine.

"System, open the first Platinum Blind Box!"