Chapter 108: The Chief Senior Brother of the Inner Hall
The black fish spirit had never anticipated that this seemingly feeble prey would suddenly erupt with such terrifying power. With no guard up whatsoever, it had its internal organs shattered on the spot by Li Qiuchen's Burning Blood Heart-Crushing Palm.
As everyone knows, a fish keeps its organs right behind its mouth, with nothing but flesh beyond that. You could stick two chopsticks in and scoop the whole lot out clean.
The creature's life force was already spent. It continued to thrash on pure reflex, its consciousness growing dim, and in those last fading moments it felt the hand still inside its mouth turn over and press against the roof of its upper jaw. A sharp wooden spike drove straight up into its brain, snapped off, and then took root and began to grow.
This was the Soul-Pulling Technique.
The awareness in its mind vanished rapidly. All it sensed was a new consciousness taking its place, beginning to control its body, and guiding it back into the river with the retreating floodwater in a fluid, entirely natural-looking motion.
On the bank, Li Qiuchen sank to the ground, cradling his bloodied arm, looking thoroughly wretched.
He only looked wretched. On the other side, things were genuinely far worse.
When the floodwater receded, Xu Qing and Young Master Liu had both collapsed, spitting blood and unconscious. The senior female student who had come to help was gone entirely.
More than fifty people had set out. The flood had swept away over ten of them.