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Chapter 87 Soul-Guiding Needle Seals the Throat (Bonus Chapter for Monthly Tickets)

Chen Miao's thinking was simple: since he couldn't guarantee the suturing would be successful and didn't want to waste the materials, he might as well let someone who knew how do it do it!

Taking it slow is naturally the best option.

"Here's the thing, regarding Luo Yucheng's facial reconstruction, I'd like to use another method."

Shi Manman asked with doubt, "What method?"

"I say, you do."

"..."

"I know a method for facial restoration, but I'm not skilled enough to do it, so I'd like to ask you to do it. I'll just tell you how."

Shi gradually understood, and then shook his head.

"If I just tell you what to do, it might not meet your requirements."

Shi Manman then said, "If you can demonstrate it to me a few times, then I should be able to understand your instructions."

“I don’t need very precise instruction. I just need to understand what you mean by what you’re saying. As for the specifics, I will adjust them according to my own experience.”

Upon hearing Shi Manman's words, Chen Miao took out his phone and glanced at it.

It's 3:30 PM, there's still time.

The thing came out after Chen Miao fell asleep. Chen Miao doesn't go to sleep until at least 10 o'clock every day, so there was still time.

"Okay, but what will we use to practice?"

Shi slowly walked to the side, opened a cabinet, and took out a model of a human head.

"Use this. Wait for me to carve it into the shape of Luo Yucheng so that I can teach it in a more targeted way."

As he spoke, Shi slowly put his gloves and mask back on.

She carried the head model, which looked like clay or some other material, to the corpse and began to make sweeping modifications based on it.

Perhaps because he was trying to earn some extra money, he was in a good mood, and while slowly making the changes, he was talking to Chen Miao.

"Actually, if there is enough time, it would be more standard to scan it and 3D print out a head."

“I have a printer at home, and I print out any heads I like to practice with.”

"By the way, will they reimburse for this head model?"

Chen Miao remained noncommittal about Shi Manman's hobbies, but upon hearing this, he silently nodded.

"Report."

Suddenly, he realized that what he had said about Xiang Shang in his mind earlier had gone too far.

Maybe some girls really do like peach wood charms and fishbone needles?

After expressing his amazement, Chen Miao added, "Besides the head, which isn't enough, do you have a body model? We only need the upper body."

Shi turned her head slowly in surprise, seemingly not understanding why repairing her face required her body, but she still pointed to the cabinet next to her.

"There's a whole body inside, but I've used some parts of it."

Chen Miao walked over, opened the cabinet, and took a look. It had indeed been used, and quite a few times!

However, Chen Miao didn't care; he was just using it for a demonstration and didn't need it to be too good.

After taking out the mannequin and removing its head and lower body, Chen Miao placed the upper body on another empty bed.

In just over ten minutes, a broken head, roughly the same as Luo Yucheng's, appeared in front of Chen Miao.

Closer still, Shi slowly covered Luo Yucheng's body with a curtain, then placed the head model and body model together.

"All right."

Shi Manman looked at Chen Miao and said.

Chen Miao nodded, then opened the sewing kit and the bucket of amber, letting Shi take a look.

"These are the items we'll be using this time. Besides the needles, which we can use for practice, can you find other substitutes for the other three?"

After saying that, Chen Miao added, "Reimbursement!"

Shi slowly kneaded the amber, then looked at the fishbone needle, and then rubbed the mulberry bark thread.

Finally, when she touched the human skin paper, she paused. Picking it up, she looked at it for a while before giving Chen Miao a strange look, but said nothing more.

"We can find a substitute, but it will take time, about an hour and a half."

Chen Miao nodded and said, "Okay!"

After that, Shi slowly left to look for something.

Chen Miao sat at Shi Manman's workstation to wait, while also reviewing the procedures.

It was supposed to be an hour and a half, but it actually only took an hour. By 4:30, Shi had slowly returned.

“I wasn’t sure before, but I went home and found some practice stuff, so I brought it all over.”

Chen Miao nodded as he looked at the thread, leather, and clay-like material that Shi Manman brought over.

"Then let's get started."

Chen Miao arranged the items and then entered a state of calm.

With his mind focused, he picked up the thread, threaded it through the fishbone needle, and set it aside.

He then flipped the head and body over so that the back was facing up.

Taking a deep breath, Chen Miao took the fishbone needle and inserted it into the Baihui acupoint on the top of the head.

Then, he inserted needle after needle, starting from the Baihui acupoint and working his way down the spine to the coccyx.

As Chen Miao sewed, he said, "Mine isn't standard. Actually, the stitches should be in a 'Z' shape, and then a knot should be tied every three stitches. How the knot is tied doesn't matter."

"Just sew down along the spine, all the way to the tailbone. I won't demonstrate."

After saying that, Chen Miao ignored Shi Manman's curious gaze and turned the head and body back to the front.

At this point, instead of filling in the facial defects, he took a bone needle, inserted it into the philtrum, and began to suture his lips.

"When sewing this, insert the needle through the philtrum and exit through the Dicang acupoint, which is near the left corner of the mouth. Don't let the stitches show; hide them inside."

Chen Miao tried it and found it a bit difficult, then looked at Shi Manman.

Shi slowly pursed her lips and nodded.

"I can."

Chen Miao breathed a sigh of relief.

He slowly began to think about what was going on in his mind when he found out. In reality, these two steps had nothing to do with facial restoration.

These two techniques are called "Soul-Guiding Needle" and "Throat-Sealing Knot," respectively.

The purpose of the Soul-Guiding Needle is to stabilize the body and calm the spirit.

The purpose of sealing the throat is to suppress resentment and silence.

Besides that, there is actually a "corpse knot", but that one is too obvious and not suitable for this use.

Both of these techniques require the assistance of Yin energy, which will seep into the mulberry bark thread in order to truly achieve the desired effect.

Chen Miao is not useful now, but when he makes his move later, he will use the Yin Gathering technique to achieve this.

With these two steps, there's no need to worry about accidents happening when stitching up the body.

Putting down the needle, Chen Miao picked up the filling clay and began to smear it randomly on the head, roughly shaping the facial features.

"There are no tricks to this; just do what you're capable of."

After saying that, Chen Miao picked up a piece of skin and covered it with the haphazardly sculpted face.

Then, Chen Miao picked up the fishbone needle.

Next up are the Eighteen Styles of Painted Skin.

With the terminology from "The Secret Techniques of Southern School of Corpse Stitching" flashing through his mind, Chen Miao fixed his gaze and plunged the fishbone needle into his face!

Slowly, he also held his breath!

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