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Chapter 250: Testing Out The Skills

Chapter 250: Testing Out The Skills

Now more than ever, Han Yu felt like his path—though twisted and strange—was beginning to connect. Soul Qi, rogue manuals, and forgotten knowledge. Maybe he wasn’t lost in the dark after all. Maybe he was just... on a different road.

He smiled to himself and blew out the lantern.

Tomorrow, he’d test the theory. Fingers first.

The next morning, Han Yu woke up early with the eagerness of a child testing a new toy and the wariness of a cultivator experimenting with volatile Soul Qi.

After a quick breakfast and some tea brewed from dried peach blossom leaves—an acquired taste he had yet to get used to—he cleared the center of the room in his inn, rolled up the simple rug, and sat cross-legged on the wooden floor.

The book, Secrets of the Needle Finger Alchemist, rested beside him. Its cracked spine and faded lettering belied the strange insights within. Han Yu opened it to a page he had marked the previous night and reread the section describing the basic Finger Needle Technique.

"The cultivator must guide the True Essence into the tip of the finger until it becomes as fine as silk, as sharp as the invisible breath of a snake, and still as moonlight."

Poetic, vague, and entirely unhelpful—unless you already knew what you were doing. Thankfully, Han Yu had experience with channeling Soul Qi. Not only that, but he had even learned a Soul Skill called Soul Needle during his earlier breakthroughs, a ranged ability that allowed him to fire threads of soul power to stun or damage opponents at a distance.

"Quite similar..." Han Yu muttered.

In theory, this Finger Needle technique was conceptually related—it involved Soul Qi, had "needle" in the name, and used concentrated, pinpoint application of force. But in practice, the similarities ended there.

Soul Needle was for long-range spiritual interference. Finger Needle was purely short-range and tactile. No visible projectiles. No obvious buildup of energy.

Just the tip of a finger... and potential pain, if the book was to be believed.

Han Yu held out his right index finger and breathed slowly. He pulled at the threads of Soul Qi within his soul core, carefully guiding them down his arm and into the digit. It was a strangely precise maneuver, one that required a delicate balance between control and intention.

Then he felt it.

A faint pressure at the tip of his finger. It was subtle—like the tickle of static against skin—but it grew quickly into a sharper sensation, as though a needle had formed just beneath the surface. He focused harder.

And then... he saw it.

A sliver of energy, barely an inch long, extended from his fingertip. Transparent to the untrained eye, but visible to someone like him—a proper soul cultivator.

"A Soul Needle?" he whispered. "No, not the same."

This was not launched. It didn’t fly toward a target. It stayed fixed at the tip of his finger, waiting to pierce whatever he touched.

"So easy?" he murmured, blinking at the quiet glow. "That can’t be right."

He held the needle out experimentally and poked it at the wooden floor. Nothing happened. No scratch, no spark, no reaction. But when he focused the Soul Qi and pressed again, he felt the faintest resistance—as if the needle was interacting with the spiritual energy lingering in the wood, not the material itself.

That was a key difference.

The Finger Needle didn’t physically damage. It disrupted energy directly. A tool not for harming flesh, but for tampering with the flow of qi.

Han Yu stood and tried a few quick jabs in the air. The needle stayed solid—unseen by any normal cultivator, but steady in his vision.

He then flipped to the next Chapters of the book.

Two primary methods of application were detailed: Soul Pricking Finger and Soul Stinging Needle.

The first was gentle. Supportive.

"When a cultivator’s flow is muddled, when the qi cannot circulate, when a meridian is blocked—apply the Finger Needle with care, and the tangle shall be undone."

In essence, it was a healing art. The Soul Pricking Finger could soothe blockages in qi flow, stimulate acupuncture points from the soul’s perspective, and even stabilize minor internal injuries caused by improperly circulating energy.

Han Yu was stunned. A Soul Qi technique... for healing?

He had never even considered such a thing.

"Could I... fix someone’s cultivation deviation with this?" he wondered aloud. "What if Li Mei poisons someone again and I actually need to help instead of call for help?"

He made a mental note to test the technique on a willing patient someday—perhaps a tired donkey first. Or maybe just himself, after he punched a wall for practice.

Then came the second technique: Soul Stinging Needle.

Where the Pricking Finger sought harmony, this one was all about destruction.

"The foe shall feel no wound, yet they will crumple. With a single touch, insert the essence into their channel. Let the meridian twist. Let the heart skip. Let the toxin ride the soul."

Han Yu raised an eyebrow. He re-read that last line twice.

"Toxin?" he muttered. "You can inject poison with this thing?"

Apparently, yes. By coating the Soul Qi with a secondary element—such as medicinal poison, venom, or even mental intent—one could deliver a debilitating effect directly into the target’s spiritual system. No need to break the skin. Just touch them, and boom, qi disruption, nausea, or worse.

The possibilities were endless.

"Now I really want to test this."

But he knew better than to just go poking people around town with Soul Qi needles. The last thing he needed was to accidentally cripple a guard and get chased by Mist Eye Sect disciples through the western district.

Instead, he drew a formation on the floor using chalk and spirit-infused ink, one designed to simulate qi flow across channels. It was a crude practice model, but it would serve to test whether his Finger Needle could interrupt the flow.

He focused, activated the Soul Stinging Needle, and gently pressed the formation with his index finger.

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