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Chapter 10
The Faith That Became a Poison Master
Final Trial (1)
“Hmph! Just a leaf!”
The naturally strong Twenty-Fourth Number—no, the wanted fugitive Gwak Hui, chased by the authorities—shouted with confidence.
No matter how he looked at it, it was nothing more than an ordinary conifer leaf.
But the effect it produced was astonishing.
Pshuk!
Like a sharp needle, the conifer leaf pierced straight through the vital acupoints.
“Tsk!”
At first, the sensation was only a slight sting—bearable pain rather than anything serious.
“Hahaha! Just as I thou—”
At the very moment Gwak Hui tried to boast of his condition with his usual savage voice—
Wobble!
An unbelievable thing happened.
His once healthy body suddenly collapsed like a puppet whose strings had been cut.
In an instant, all strength drained from his limbs and body, and he crumpled to the ground.
Thud!
Coincidentally, he ended up kneeling in front of Sobaek as if bowing in submission.
“W-why… my strength…?”
Gwak Hui, the Twenty-Fourth Number, was so shocked he could barely speak.
It felt as if he had been drugged and knocked unconscious.
His body no longer responded, as though he were heavily intoxicated and completely out of control.
“The point you were struck in is called the Jianjing acupoint (Shoulder Well Point).”
Unlike the shocked Gwak Hui, the Twenty-Third Number, and the other children, Sobaek remained calm.
To him, this was neither surprising nor strange—it was entirely natural.
As Sobaek said, the point struck was the Jianjing acupoint.
“Normally, this point is effective for shoulder stiffness. But do you know something?”
“W-what?”
Gwak Hui still couldn’t understand what he was hearing.
“If you miss it slightly when piercing it, it becomes a deadly pressure point that drains the entire body’s strength.”
That was why Sobaek had aimed precisely for that point from the beginning.
It was a spot he had often made mistakes with when he first learned medicine in his p
