Time slowly trickled by and Shen Luo had already repaired this one side-branch meridian more than thirty times. During the first ten attempts, meridians had broken before the ant-pattern could even pass the Feng Long acupoint on the side of his calf.
Despite making some progress afterward, when the ant-pattern reached the Feng Long acupoint but it invoked a strong rejection response from the body, causing the acupoint to explode before the ant-pattern could chew. This resulted in damage to the neighboring meridians which took Shen Luo considerable effort to repair.
After this, the process repeatedly ended in collapse. Even if the ant-pattern successfully resided within the acupoint, the flow of Yin Sha Qi was still rejected by the body's instincts.
The most extreme case resulted from stimulating an adjacent mana meridian, causing a mana sweep that led to chaos in the meridians of Shen Luo's leg, causing him to lose consciousness.
