Chapter 164 Bai Heng still tried to struggle, but Su Changqing pulled out the first "Guiding Bo

"I've already arranged your place."

Su Changqing said this very calmly.

It was as flat as giving an order in the kitchen: "Slice this fish first, we'll cook it later."

But the person kneeling in front of him was Bai Heng.

Bai Heng was appointed as the guide.

Emerging from behind the Heavenly Gate, carrying the Seal of the Boundary, this white-robed figure immediately sets forth to decide the fate of a realm, and with a glance, treats all living beings as if turning the pages of an account book.

Now, he knelt on one knee on the cracked white jade brick, his skeletal structure disordered, the bloodstains at the corner of his mouth still wet. The once seamless and swiftly operating meridian system within his body had completely lost its initial stability after Su Changqing first shattered the main meridian with a finger and then flicked the chaotic main meridian key.

The worst thing is not the pain.

Rather, it's "chaos".

It's like someone who believes that every joint should be in the most suitable position and every step should be on the most stable beat, suddenly discovering that the extremely precise mechanism in their body has been misaligned by half an inch in the most brutal, unreasonable, and unbelievable way.

Only half an inch.

Then everything fell into chaos.

Bai Heng understood that feeling best at that moment.

Below his chest, it was as if a string of neatly arranged white bone bells was hidden, but after Su Changqing casually flicked it, all the joints were colliding, dislocating, and pulling against each other.

With each breath, a fine, sharp pain shoots upwards from under my ribs.

It's not the pain of being wounded and bleeding in the mundane world.

Rather, it is a severe discomfort stemming from the feeling that "the very structure of itself is out of place."

He could even clearly feel that the connecting bone plates in his shoulder, elbow, wrist, back, and midline of the spine were trying to readjust their positions.

But just as they were about to return to their original positions, they would be gently pushed back by the faint blue aura remaining in the bone crevices.

I'm not in a hurry to completely destroy you.

There's no rush to cripple you immediately.

That's just to make things chaotic for you.

It makes you realize that the reason you haven't collapsed yet is because the other party doesn't want you to collapse too quickly.

This feeling is far more terrifying than being killed with a single blow.

Bai Heng slowly raised his head.

The icy silver in his eyes was now shattered into pieces, mixed with shock, anger, humiliation, murderous intent, and an overwhelming disbelief.

He stared at Su Changqing, his throat bobbing slightly, his voice carrying a hoarseness that didn't belong to a guide.

"you……"

"You really want to use me as a prisoner?"

Su Changqing looked down at him, as if he were looking at someone who had asked a meaningless question.

"We've come this far, why are you still asking such pointless questions?"

"If I didn't want to lock you up, I would have crushed all your bones just now."

"We've kept you until now because your bones are a bit unusual."

"By the way—"

As he said this, he glanced casually at the Immortal Cage not far away.

"This will also add a new project to my restaurant."

Bai Heng's chest heaved slightly.

Another mouthful of blood.

He managed to suppress the urge to vomit, but the slightly fishy, ​​sweet taste in his mouth became even stronger.

Everyone in front of the Taiji Hall heard this conversation.

Then, an extremely strange silence fell over the room.

Because everyone suddenly realized—

Although Bai Heng was still maintaining the facade of being the "Guide," the words spoken by Su Changqing had already clearly outlined his subsequent procedures.

Don't kill.

Keep it for now.

Dismantle bones.

Valuation.

Put it in the cage.

Open for business.

The whole thing was so logically sound that it made your scalp crawl.

Sikong Changfeng was already incredibly excited, and now even his ears turned red.

"Yes, yes, yes!"

He stood to the side, holding the account book, nodding repeatedly, as if listening to some divinely ordained business wisdom.

"Mr. Su is absolutely right!"

"It would be such a waste to kill such a high-end resource!"

"An assessment is needed first!"

"We need to categorize them first!"

"We need to define the project's positioning first!"

Xiao Se had gotten used to Sikong Changfeng's completely eccentric behavior, but upon hearing the phrase "high-end resources," he couldn't help but raise his hand and rub his temples.

"Sikong Changfeng".

"Could you please take the words 'Guide' even slightly more seriously?"

Sikong Changfeng looked serious.

"I take it very seriously."

"The more you take it seriously, the more diligently you have to work on the project."

"Think about it, the Guides! They're on a completely different level from Zhao Xuance and his group. If we stick to the old plan, wouldn't that be unfair to the clients—cough, no, to the audience's experience?"

Xiao Se: "..."

You've even started considering the audience's perspective from the angles of "customer" and "audience experience."

What exactly is this disease?

Lei Wujie, however, listened with excitement and leaned closer to ask:

"Third brother, will the new cage be bigger than the old one?"

"certainly."

Sikong Changfeng immediately got into the zone, his eyes gleaming.

"Not only bigger, but also more sophisticated."

"The guide has a special status and cannot be treated the same as the three mentioned above."

Wushuang stood to the side and calmly offered her suggestion:

"The remaining border of the main beam can be marked using the boundary patrol method."

"More stable than ordinary black iron."

Sikong Changfeng was overjoyed.

"good!"

"Use that one!"

Lei Wujie also got excited.

"Should we add two more locks to the door?"

Wushuang nodded.

"At least three."

"And it needs to be divided into internal locks and external locks."

"Leave one more viewing window."

Su Xiaonuo listened with sparkling eyes in Li Hanyi's arms and immediately took the initiative.

"We also need to put small stools in!"

"If he gets tired of standing, he can still look good sitting down!"

Li Hanyi: "..."

She watched as this group of people actually started discussing the "luxury fairy cage expansion plan" right in front of the guide himself, and for a moment she really couldn't tell who was more outrageous.

Su Changqing is clearly the most outrageous source here, yet he is also the calmest one.

He listened to their conversation, and actually pondered for a moment before nodding.

"Can."

"Raise the bottom of the cage a little higher."

"So that he doesn't look good with his head down."

This left even Xiao Se speechless.

good looking.

You're even starting to consider the angles from which you display your decorative items.

As Bai Heng listened to these words, his face darkened to the point of being extremely somber, and the veins on his forehead bulged under the intense pressure.

He certainly wanted to lash out.

They wanted to turn the tables.

He wanted to grind all these mortals in front of him, who were discussing him like merchandise, into dust on the spot.

But the problem is—

He's really in a mess right now.

The most important aspect of bone-setting is not "hardness of bones," but "bone order."

Once the bone sequence is disordered, even if the guiding bones are still there, it will be like a mechanism with misaligned gears, getting more and more stuck and sluggish the more it is turned.

Bai Heng looked down at his hands.

My fingertips were still trembling almost imperceptibly.

This is not fear.

After the bone-healing blade was stopped by two fingers, the load-bearing chain on the entire arm bone had not yet recovered.

He never imagined that one day he would reveal such an uncontrollable side of himself in front of mortals.

This is a shame deeper than bloodshed.

Su Changqing, however, seemed not to notice his expression and suddenly squatted down.

Bai Heng's pupils contracted, and his body tensed instinctively.

It wasn't because Su Changqing's squatting motion itself was scary.

It's not because he has no idea what this person will do next.

This unknown is even more chilling than a truly visible killing move.

Su Changqing squatted down in front of Bai Heng, very close to him.

They were so close that they could clearly see the still-dry bloodstain on Bai Heng's chin.

He first glanced at the faint white bone patterns emerging from the side of Bai Heng's neck, then reached out and gently patted Bai Heng's shoulder.

His movements were as casual as if he were picking out a watermelon.

Then he came to a conclusion.

"Hmm, the bone fragments are indeed thinner here."

"It's best to disassemble it first."

Bai Heng's breath hitched.

"You dare!"

You use that word too often.

Su Changqing turned his head and glanced at him.

"I'm tired of hearing it."

After saying that, he suddenly pressed his finger lightly on the spot where Bai Heng's shoulder bone and collarbone met.

This press wasn't heavy.

But Bai Heng suddenly tensed up.

Because what Su Changqing pressed was not the surface.

It wasn't the white bone-setting lines that were faintly visible beneath his bare skin.

Rather, it is the "lateral lateral scapula" that is actually embedded beneath the shoulder bone.

That was a piece of accessory bone from the bone-setting body.

Although its location is not as important as the main bone setter and the main bone key, it is precisely a key fulcrum for Bai Heng's upper body to "raise the knife and pass the edge".

Normally, this bone fragment is extremely hidden.

One was covered by the white-robed Dharma body.

Secondly, it is surrounded by several layers of orderly textures.

Without truly understanding the structure, there's no way to begin.

But Su Changqing seemed to have skipped even the slightest probing process.

found it.

It's been pressed down.

Then, he flicked his finger upwards slightly.

At this moment, Bai Heng finally disregarded any semblance of decorum as a guide, his expression changed drastically, and almost reflexively raised his other hand to grab Su Changqing's face.

This grasp no longer seeks the complete rhythm of the bone-integrated edge.

It's purely instinct.

He knew that if Su Changqing really pulled out that lateral skeletal bone, half of the power generation sequence of his bone-setting body would collapse on the spot.

So regardless of whether it's useful or not, he has to stop it.

Unfortunately, Su Changqing seemed to have already guessed it.

Bai Heng had just raised his hand when Su Changqing, without even turning his head, simply shifted his shoulder forward very lightly.

boom.

Bai Heng felt as if something had hit his chest, and his whole body felt heavy. The hand he had just raised went limp on the spot.

And it was in that mere half-inch of time—

laugh!

A very light and delicate sound, like silk being gently pulled open by fingertips, rang out from between his shoulder locks.

Bai Heng shuddered violently, his eyes widening instantly.

Because he clearly felt that the extremely thin and delicate lateral lateral scapula, which carried a small part of the "Guiding Shoulder Sequence," was actually pulled out little by little by Su Changqing!

It wasn't broken.

It wasn't a crack caused by the earthquake.

It's a real draw.

Like a chef taking the most suitable spot on the back of a fish and picking out the most convenient and cleanest bone to remove the tendons and membranes.

Precise, efficient, and with an almost frighteningly familiar feel.

At that moment, all the chaotic bone-setting meridians in Bai Heng's body seemed to tremble along with the bone fragment that had been pulled out.

The next moment, Bai Heng could no longer hold back, let out a muffled groan, and cold sweat instantly broke out on his forehead.

It's not because of the word "pain" itself.

It was the feeling of being dismantled inch by inch that was all too clear.

That's too humiliating.

It's too much to bear.

In front of the Taiji Hall, although the crowd could not see through all the details.

But they all saw it—

Su Changqing now held a white bone fragment.

The bone fragment was small, no more than half a palm's length, as thin as white jade, yet crystal clear and sharp, with extremely fine and faint silver-white patterns flowing along its edges, like countless miniature orders floating within it.

When the sunlight shines on it, it even reflects a pale light that is almost cold and elegant.

The entire square fell eerily quiet in an instant.

Then--

It exploded with a bang!

"They really pulled it out?!"

"Mr. Su has removed the bone from the guide!"

"What's that? A retractor bone?!"

"My God... they can demolish this?!"

Bai Heng's face turned pale!

"Nonsense! Try having one of your bones pulled out in public and see what happens!"

"..."

Sikong Changfeng's eyes widened in disbelief, and his hands holding the account book trembled slightly.

It's not that I'm afraid.

It was excitement.

Pure excitement.

This scene was just too exaggerated.

It's so exaggerated that it has exceeded even his most outrageous imagination about "bone removal" before.

The boss said the bone removal was officially starting—

They actually started demolishing it.

Moreover, in front of the entire city of Tianqi, it was like pulling a section of the main beam from a tool, pulling out the first bone of the guide!

If this scene were made into a storybook, everyone would say the author is crazy.

But now, it's true.

Lei Wujie was completely dumbfounded, and it took him a long time to smack his lips.

"this……"

"This works?"

Wushuang stared at the piece of white bone in Su Changqing's hand, the light in her eyes growing brighter and brighter.

It's not greed, it's not fear.

Rather, it is a kind of instinctive shock that arises when a swordsmanship genius faces a "disassembly technique" that is beyond his understanding yet terrifyingly exquisite.

"It wasn't forcibly pulled out."

He said in a low voice.

"It was done by carefully picking it apart inch by inch, following the bone structure and the lines connecting the bones."

Lei Wujie's head spun from listening.

"You can still tell that?"

Wushuang nodded.

"If it's pulled out by force, Bai Heng's shoulder bone to collarbone will explode, and his entire Dharma body will be in even more chaos."

"But after the boss pulled it out, although Bai Heng was in pain, his skeleton didn't collapse on the spot."

"This means the boss intentionally controlled the rate of collapse."

Lei Wujie opened his mouth, but after a long while, he could only manage to utter one sentence.

"So... the boss is really seriously unpacking the goods?"

Wushuang glanced at him and said calmly:

"I already said that."

"He's looking at the aggregate."

Lei Wujie: "..."

It’s over.

The more I listen, the more it sounds like it.

……

Li Hanyi also saw the bone fragment.

Her eyes narrowed slightly, and for the first time, she truly understood, "So that's how he dismantled it."

She originally thought that when Su Changqing said he was dismantling the bones, he was just using absolute force to crush and shake out the connecting bones one by one.

But now it seems that's not the case at all.

He's even more particular than that.

More detailed.

That's even more outrageous.

It's not destruction.

It is peeling.

It involves peeling away the layers, one by one, along the most core, most hidden, and most inviolable parts of the other party.

This is no longer a battle.

This is an autopsy.

Or rather—

It was a public demonstration and disassembly of the Dharmakaya structure of the guide.

Looking at the figure in blue robes squatting in front of Bai Heng, holding a piece of white bone in his hand, Li Hanyi felt a strange, indescribable feeling welling up inside her.

People who are this powerful are not just about "winning".

Instead, it's about redefining what others call "high ground".

What about Bai Heng?

At that moment, he finally truly understood what fear meant.

Yes.

Fear.

It wasn't anger, it wasn't hatred, it was fear.

Even though the main bone setter was hit by a needle, he could still tell himself that it was just a lucky coincidence that the other party had seen through a structure.

Even though his main bone key was scattered, he could still grit his teeth and believe that his opponent was sharp in battle and had found a weak point.

But now—

The first lateral septum was precisely extracted.

Then there will be no more self-deception.

This person isn't just taking a chance.

It wasn't a crude and chaotic demolition.

He truly understood his own body that could heal bones.

I understood the location, function, order, and connection of each bone.

They even know which one to take first, so that they will feel the most pain but their Dharma body will not immediately collapse completely.

What does this mean?

This means that Su Changqing may understand his own body structure even faster than he does.

Blood trickled from the corner of Bai Heng's mouth, his breathing became erratic, and he stared intently at the white bone in Su Changqing's hand, a chilling glint in his eyes that could no longer be concealed.

"you……"

"Are you studying?"

Upon hearing this, Su Changqing looked up at him, seemingly somewhat surprised by the question.

"Learning from you?"

"no."

"You don't need to learn this little bit."

He shook the white bone in his hand, as if examining a part that had just been taken apart.

"I'm just seeing if I can use it for something else."

Bai Heng felt a tightness in his chest and almost coughed up blood again.

Should we do something else?

In this person's eyes, his own bone was merely material to be used for something else.

Su Changqing ignored Bai Heng's reaction and instead began to examine the lateral sacrum carefully.

He gently stroked the edge of the bone fragment with his fingers, feeling the flowing white, orderly patterns within it, and nodded after a moment.

"The texture is alright."

"It's a bit harder than the Border Patrol Seal, but not as pure as the Border Anchor."

"The advantage lies in the straightening of the bone structure, so the cut should be quite neat."

After saying that, he turned his head to look at Sikong Changfeng.

"Third brother, keep this."

Sikong Changfeng immediately straightened his back.

"Mr. Su, what is it for?"

Su Changqing thought for a moment and then casually said:

"Save it for now."

"We'll see whether to use it to add a lock to the cage door, or to make a water-diverting bone for the new stream in Changqingjie."

"If all else fails, you can grind it thinner and make a little bell for Nuonuo."

The entire room fell silent.

Make a bell for Nuonuo?

Take the bones of the guide?

Bai Heng's vision went black, and he almost fainted from anger.

He has probably never suffered such outrageous, complete, and systematic humiliation in his entire life.

Lei Wujie listened in a daze.

"Can it also be made into bells?"

Wushuang thought about it seriously for a moment.

"If the bone ringing is clear and crisp, then it is indeed possible."

Lei Wujie: "..."

Why are you starting to seriously discuss this?

When Su Xiaonuo heard her name in Li Hanyi's arms, her eyes immediately lit up.

"Daddy! Will the bone bell ring?"

Su Changqing nodded.

"meeting."

"Wouldn't that sound really good?"

"Let's see if it's ground well."

"Then I'll take it!"

Li Hanyi: "..."

She raised her hand and pressed her temple.

My daughter has been completely led astray.

However... she didn't really want to stop it.

Seeing Bai Heng's expression, which was almost completely breaking down, the chill that had been pressing down on Li Hanyi's heart by the "Guide," "Sealed Garden," and "One Realm's Accountant" actually dissipated quite a bit.

Some people really need to be dismantled like this to know what it means to be human.

……

In the arena, Bai Heng finally managed to stand up with difficulty.

After that lateral spur was removed, the veins along the bone from his left shoulder to his chest became noticeably darker.

Even the faint bone patterns beneath the white robe on the left side became discontinuous.

But he still stood up.

very slow.

But it's hard.

Clearly, he hasn't completely given up.

They have no intention of simply accepting their fate and being sent to a cage.

Su Changqing watched him stand up, not stopping him, but casually flicking the white bone in his hand, and then asked:

"Still want to fight?"

Bai Heng raised his hand to wipe away the fresh blood that had just spilled from the corner of his mouth, his eyes icy cold.

"This envoy..."

"We haven't lost yet."

He spoke those four words very slowly.

It's also very heavy.

It was as if she was speaking to Su Changqing, but also as if she was speaking to herself.

Because at this moment, even he himself knew how bad his situation had become.

But the more this was the case, the less he could accept it.

Once he accepted it, his bones and soul as a guide were truly shattered.

Upon hearing this, Su Changqing did not show any sarcasm.

He simply nodded.

"OK."

"The bones haven't been completely removed yet, so you haven't lost completely."

"Then let's continue."

After saying that, he actually took half a step back, as if making room for Bai Heng.

That posture didn't look like it was facing an enemy.

It's like a master craftsman standing by his workbench, watching a piece of wood that's still struggling, waiting for it to reveal some of its grain so he can easily make his cut.

Upon seeing this, the coldness in Bai Heng's eyes almost materialized.

But he also knew that he couldn't be as hasty as before.

What makes this person terrifying is not that he is better at killing than the other man.

The key lies in the fact that he seems to be better at "seeing" than I am.

The more impatient you are, the faster he'll dismantle it.

You make a mess, and he'll just follow the mess and rummage through it.

So Bai Heng forcibly suppressed the anger and shock churning in his chest and slowly reassembled the remaining bone-setting meridians in his body.

It's not for the purpose of making the Bone-Matching Edge again.

It's not for the purpose of continuing the residual bone attack.

But -

Tibetan.

Upon seeing this, Su Changqing's lips curved into a barely perceptible smile.

"That's more like it."

Bai Heng's gaze darkened.

He was indeed hiding something with this move.

The remaining connecting bones were repositioned, misaligned, and repositioned to prevent Su Changqing from tracing the obvious bone structure and finding them one by one again.

This is no longer an offensive logic.

It's about preserving the bone structure.

A dignified guide was forced to change his focus from "how to kill" to "how to protect bones." If this were to be reported back to the Patrol Hall, people would probably think he had gone mad.

But Bai Heng had no choice.

Because he had already witnessed firsthand Su Changqing's "bone-disassembling" techniques.

He didn't want his second bone to be pulled out in public like that again.

however--

Su Changqing watched his subtle adjustment as if he were watching a child trying to hide a toy behind his back.

"You can continue to hide."

"I'm not in a hurry."

He smiled, his tone remaining as calm and indifferent as ever.

"Anyway, we have enough time today."

"I'll dismantle it slowly."

Upon hearing these words, Bai Heng felt the already stretched string in his heart vibrate violently once more.

Because he could tell.

Su Changqing wasn't trying to scare him.

It's true... no rush.

I'm really prepared to do it one by one.

At that moment, everyone in front of the Taiji Hall realized with absolute clarity—

The process of welcoming Bai Heng, the envoy, into the luxurious immortal cage has entered the next stage.

The first retractor bone has been removed.

Next, there will probably be a second, a third, a fourth...

until--

He has completely lost the right to struggle.