Li Xu's hands seemed to work like magic, sometimes as gentle as a caress, other times as forceful as plucking a string.
The patient, who had been grimacing in pain, gradually felt his furrowed brow relax a little as his breathing steadied.
"I think... it doesn't hurt as much anymore..."
the patient said in surprise.
Li Xu sensed the muscles had relaxed to their optimal state, and his gaze sharpened in an instant.
"Brace yourself!"
he barked, suddenly applying force with both hands!
Grasping the proximal end of the fracture with one hand and the distal end with the other, he employed the Eight Methods of Bone-setting—"traction and extension," "rotation and flexion," "impaction and lifting"—in a single, fluid motion as fast as lightning.
CLICK!
A very faint sound of bone grating on bone rang out.
"Ah—"
The patient couldn't help but let out a short cry of pain, but the sound died the moment it left his lips.
