125: Chapter 125 One-Finger Divine Technique, Ancient Martial Arts Acupoint Striking, An Immense Opportunity

"Since you're giving me such a grand gift, let me inspect the goods first!"

The voice wasn't loud, but it was like a red-hot steel needle, stabbing ruthlessly into the eardrums of everyone in the warehouse!

The pupils of The Black-Robed Figure known as the "Shadow Dancer" contracted violently. Years of assassin instincts meant he didn't even have time to turn his head before his body flickered violently in place!

Puff! Puff!

Two muffled sounds, so faint they were almost inaudible, exploded behind him.

The two second-advancement guards, with their bulging temples and long breaths, didn't even manage a groan. A clear, bloody hole appeared in the center of each of their brows, the shock and vigilance in their eyes frozen forever.

The corpses fell straight backward.

Almost simultaneously, the Shadow Dancer's silhouette blurred, like ink dropped into water, about to transform into a void shadow and merge completely into the darkness.

This was the signature skill of the Assassin class—[Shadow Lurk]!

Once activated, he would blend into the environment, waiting for the chance to deliver a fatal blow.

However, as fast as he was, Lin Qi was faster!

"Thinking of running?"

A cold arc curled at the corner of Lin Qi's mouth.

In this small, enclosed warehouse, within his [Listening Strength] Domain which was pushed to its limit, any movement was impossible to hide.

Heartbeats, breathing, the friction of moving bones, even the sound of blood flowing faster due to tension...

In Lin Qi's world of perception, this Shadow Dancer attempting to go invisible was like a thousand-watt lightbulb in the dark of night—dazzlingly bright!

The Shadow Dancer's blurred body had just shifted less than half a meter to the left when a ghost-like figure appeared at his predicted landing spot.

A palm, fingers pressed together, index finger like a sword, reached out in an unremarkable manner.

It didn't stir even a whisper of wind.

Yet it blocked all his paths of evasion!

Alarm bells rang in the Shadow Dancer's mind. An unprecedented sense of mortal crisis made the hairs all over his body stand on end!

He wanted to forcibly interrupt [Shadow Lurk] and retreat.

But it was too late.

That finger, seemingly slow but actually fast as lightning, struck with unerring precision under his right armpit.

The Jiquan point!

"Ugh!"

The Shadow Dancer gave a muffled groan, feeling a strange numbness, like a surge of the most violent electricity, instantly race from his armpit through his entire right arm!

A strand of pure and overbearing True Qi was driven into his Meridians like a wedge, forcibly severing the neural signal transmission between him and his right arm!

He watched helplessly as his already raised right arm hung down limply, completely losing all sensation.

And the [Shadow Lurk] skill he was channeling instantly collapsed due to the interruption of its core energy circuit!

His blurred figure became solid once more.

What happened?!

My skill... was interrupted?

The horror on the Shadow Dancer's face was beyond words.

This wasn't a System-forced interruption, nor was it a Spell counter.

This was a purely physical "skill break" that he had never seen, nor even heard of before!

This was an Ancient Martial Secret Technique.

[Acupoint Striking · Meridian Severing]!

Specifically designed to break through all fancy energy channeling!

"You..."

Both shocked and enraged, the Shadow Dancer's left hand lightning-fast drew a green-poisoned dagger from his waist, stabbing ruthlessly toward Lin Qi's heart at an extremely tricky angle!

He was a ruthless man, a veteran of a hundred battles.

Even with one arm crippled, his other hand could still launch the most lethal counterattack!

Facing this fatal blow that could pierce through steel plates, there wasn't a single flicker of emotion in Lin Qi's eyes.

He didn't dodge, nor did he evade.

He didn't even bother to make a blocking motion.

He simply raised his left forearm and directly met that lethal green light head-on!

Clang!

An ear-piercing sound of metal clashing suddenly exploded within the warehouse!

A series of dazzling sparks sprayed wildly from where the dagger met the forearm!

Scarface and his two remaining lackeys' eyes nearly popped out of their heads.

What were they seeing?

That second-advancement Excellent-grade dagger, forged from Hundred-Refined Poison Steel, actually... actually couldn't even break the masked man's skin!

It only left a shallow white mark on his arm!

Silver Bone newly formed, indestructible!

"This... what kind of monster is this!"

A towering wave of shock rose in the Shadow Dancer's heart. He felt like he hadn't stabbed flesh and blood, but a piece of red-hot specialized alloy!

Before he could react from his shock.

Lin Qi's hand that had withstood the dagger reached forward, and like a steel vise, firmly gripped his left wrist holding the knife!

At the same time, the index finger that had been at his armpit retracted and transformed into finger shadows, fast as a dream, striking continuously against the Shadow Dancer's chest!

Shanzhong! Qihai! Jiuwei!

Every finger that fell carried a spiral-drilling [Penetrating Force]!

"Uh... ah..."

The Shadow Dancer felt as if his chest was being ruthlessly stabbed by three red-hot steel spikes, which were then being stirred wildly inside!

The mana in his body, like a dammed flood cut in half, instantly became chaotic and then was forcibly blocked, unable to be mobilized in the slightest!

His body, from the inside out, went completely stiff!

He could even feel a System notification pop up in the status bar of his data panel that made his soul tremble:

[Warning! You are suffering from an unknown Law attack! Entering "Special Paralysis" state!]

[Status Description: All Meridians severed, energy circulation interrupted, unable to use any skills, unable to use any crowd-control removal items!]

[Duration: Unknown!]

Special Paralysis!

Unable to remove control!

For the first time, true despair appeared in the Shadow Dancer's eyes.

How could there be such an unreasonable control skill in this world?!

This had already exceeded his entire understanding of combat Systems!

Crack!

With a crisp sound, Lin Qi's five fingers gripping his wrist exerted sudden force, directly crushing his wrist bone.

The dagger fell to the ground.

The next second, a cold hand choked his neck, lifting him off the ground with one hand like a tattered sack, and then slammed him heavily against the cold wall!

Boom!

The wall cracked, and dust flew.

The remaining three, including Scarface, saw this scene like a demon god descending, and their legs went weak with fear. They slumped directly onto the ground, unable to even summon the courage to run.

It was too fast.

From the start of the surprise attack to the end of the battle, the total time was less than three seconds.

A level 30 second-advancement Peak assassin hadn't even released a decent skill before being completely crushed by this mysterious person like dry weeds!

This wasn't a battle.

This was a one-sided slaughter!

Lin Qi leaned into the Shadow Dancer's ear, his cold voice like a judgment from the Nine Hells.

"Go back and tell the people of the Li family."

"This kind of trash poison is useless against me."

"Next time, bring something stronger."

As his voice fell, Lin Qi's fingers brushed lightning-fast over several major acupoints on his limbs.

Puff puff puff!

The Shadow Dancer only felt a sharp pain of severed tendons and Meridians throughout his limbs, followed by a sense of emptiness spreading through his entire body.

The strength he had cultivated for many years was drained completely in just a few seconds, like a leaking ball!

Lin Qi let go.

The Shadow Dancer slid down the wall like a pile of mud, his body twitching incessantly, his eyes filled with a hollow despair more terrifying than death.

He wasn't dead.

But his entire network of Meridians had been completely destroyed by Lin Qi's most overbearing methods.

From today on, he would be a cripple, worse than even an ordinary person.

A living warning sign.

Having dealt with the Shadow Dancer, Lin Qi's gaze slowly fell on the three lackeys who were already terrified out of their wits, as well as the several sealed metal boxes.

He walked over step by step.

"Spare... spare me!"

Scarface's tears and snot flowed as he kowtowed desperately.

Lin Qi ignored him, walking straight to the boxes, kicking the combination lock on a lid to pieces, and then flipping it open.

Hum!

A faint green light emanated from the box, reflecting onto his mechanical mask in an eerie green hue.

Inside the box was a liquid like thick crude oil, emitting a heart-palpitating aura of intense poison.

Gene Collapse Solution.

A forbidden substance enough to make any professional below the third advancement completely collapse at the genetic level.

However.

Looking at this toxic essence that would make anyone turn pale with fear.

The corner of Lin Qi's mouth under the hood slowly curled up, forming an expectant, extremely wicked arc.

Poison?

To others, perhaps.

But for his body, which had just forged Silver Bone and was hungrily waiting for a massive amount of exotic energy to fill the marrow and break through to the next Realm...

This stuff was simply a grand tonic soup delivered right to his door!

"The Li family... really is quite hospitable."

Lin Qi let out a low chuckle. Ignoring the three living people still shivering on the ground, he directly put the three metal boxes filled with the toxic solution into his worn-out backpack right in front of them.

Then, without looking back, he walked toward the warehouse exit.

As his figure was about to disappear at the door, a calm voice drifted back eerily.

"Remember to convey my words, word for word."

"I'll be waiting for them to send better 'supplements'."