He stripped his upper robe when a short knife was revealed tucked in his waist cloth belt.
T-800 was aware of it due to his sensors so he raised his hand demanding it. Lin Feng with utmost respect gave it to Tie Yuan using both of his hands and quickly lay down on his stomach.
The floor was cold, too cold but not cold enough as the eyes of Tie Yuan, Lin Feng could see the disappointment in him.
"This will hurt so try your best to not scream." T-800 warned and Lin Feng almost bawl out crying but controlled himself because his master Tie Yuan has commanded him to not scream.
"Now…repeat what I have taught you, follow the same breathing pattern." T-800 commanded.
Lin Feng still had a faint doubt that this was not about his failure but after hearing that command his heart broke, this means even his new master believes he is a total trash who needs physical punishment to learn simple instructions.
But then a faint hope lit up inside him, his master not abandoning him. He still has hope, he will persevere, through the pain and this punishment and follow his master anywhere, even if it's hell.
His eyes lit up with grand determination as he grit his jaw tightly and started breathing like the way Tie Yuan has taught him.
T-800 was on the other hand unaware of Lin Feng's great emotional turmoil and him being the only single pillar of hope and Lin Feng's grand vow to follow him anywhere, even if it's hell.
The moment Lin Feng started following the breathing pattern, T-800's sensors started tracing the faint bio-electric surges racing down Lin Feng's spine.
Lin Feng braced himself for pain, for beating, for physical correction on every mistakes he is making but even after several breaths later nothing happened.
He thought to look back but then got more scared so he just kept his focus on breathing and the rest of the instructions, as he is trying again so he decided to try again to Breakthrough.
T-800 sensors slowly were reaching a point, a node, where he was sure would find a clue or a sample of the meridian.
The sensors locked onto a microscopic obstruction near the base of the spine. It was not just an abstract energy thing, it looked like a calcified clot acting as a physical circuit breaker.
The "Mortal Gate."
He raised the knife.
His neural engine is in full overclock mode, going beyond its physical limit to absolutely make sure of it.
Unknowingly the ambient Qi started to get attracted to him due to his nuclear core also pushing his limit to supply the energy demand of the neural processor core's energy demand.
The Qi started to enhance his precision even more if it was not perfect already.
STAB!
Lin Feng let out a muffled groan, then he covered his mouth so that his scream would not escape but that pain was for some reason too much.
As if he is not stabbed in flesh but something deeper.
T-800 quickly noted the reaction of Lin Feng and his overclocked analysis found that the meridian has more influence on nerves, it means the meridian is very valuable for biological point of view.
He pulled out the knife and put a cut on his own pinky finger and then put it inside Lin Feng's wound.
Lin Feng let out a loud and yet muffled groan of pain.
Outside, Elder Rui was enjoying his pipe when he heard Lin Feng's muffled groan of pain.
"Hmph! Did you think it would be easy to butter me up with two meager spirit stones and earn my ...generosity? Fools. The mental backlash of fractured arts breaks the weak. If they break, they are useless."
He tapped his pipe ash, listening to another stifled cry with a cynical smirk. He gave them another twenty minutes before they crawled out, begging for release.
Meanwhile inside T-800 pinky which he put a cut on it was inside Lin Feng's wound as he pushed deep till it reached that calcified blockage.
T-800 blood, the nanites, the living tissue nanobots got released from his finger, surrounded the calcified bit.
However, the main task was data, the sample.
And the sample was multiple things, first was obvious, the blood of Lin Feng. T-800 has detailed files on human anatomy, biology and genetics.
Second was that calcified matter, it was not just calcified, it was mixed with several things like crystalized particles which were radiating with Qi and several new bio matter which T-800's neural engine processor hypothesized to be something about meridians.
And lastly, a closer look at the meridian point itself. This data will be the most valuable asset for his new Meridian Matrix simulation.
T-800 was very careful with this approach to make sure Lin Feng does not sustain permanent nerve damage.
His nanobots gently shaved off a microscopic layer of the calcified obstruction mixed in with Qi crystalline impurities and biological wastes.
He recorded the bio lattice structure and how it is resonating with the energy frequency. As the nanobots completed the task, it returned back into his cut fingers and healed the finger back.
T-800 pulled the finger out and grabbed Lin Feng hand the put it on the small wound. "Put pressure on it."
Then he took Lin Feng upper robe left on the side, tore a long piece out of to make a long bandage.
He quickly bandaged Lin Feng up. "Let it heal, do not cultivate until it heals."
Lin Feng sat back up, his eyes red with tears but a deep gratitude already settled in his soul.
He could tell that his master has done something because he feels a lot more lighter and his Qi sense more sharp.
Deep inside his unconscious self could tell that he no longer has no barrier now.
"Thank you, Master…I…" He wanted to say more but felt all his words were not matching his emotion of gratitude so he decided to express it through his actions.