Chapter 604: Nervous Breakdown
According to the Tyrant’s Record - Acupuncture Chapter, Spiritual Qi and silver needles complement each other. To fully utilize the techniques in the Acupuncture Chapter, one needs not only powerful Spiritual Qi but also compatible silver needles.
Finding such silver needles is not an easy task. The required material is very special; mere silver is not enough. It needs to withstand the pressure of Spiritual Qi.
What happens if the silver needles can’t withstand the Spiritual Qi? They become crystal clear and eye-catching, just like now.
People around didn’t understand the principle behind it; they only knew that this scene looked like magic, dazzling and cool.
Administering acupuncture also requires a seamless execution.
A steady hand, accurate acupoints, fast speed, and moderate strength are all key to acupuncture.
Lin Tian chose short and thin silver needles because they were to be inserted near the eyes, called ’eye needles.’
The area around the eyes has many acupoints. However, due to the eyeball, needling these acupoints is difficult.
But such difficulty is nothing to Lin Tian.
According to incomplete statistics, there are over a hundred acupuncture techniques. Eye acupuncture differs from others; after quickly inserting the needle, there is no need to twist, lift, thrust, or open and close techniques. When the patient feels numbness, soreness, distension, or other sensations, the needle can be removed.
A needle is inserted into the Qingming Acupoint, moved slightly with the thumb and forefinger, pulled out halfway, paused for a few seconds, then slowly withdrawn.
The next acupoints are: Fish Waist Acupoint, ...
Altogether, needles were applied to eighteen acupoints before Lin Tian began retracting the needles.
In fact, there was no need to go through so much trouble; he only needed one needle to gather all the Spiritual Qi and cure Liu Mang.
The total of eighteen needles was more about giving Liu Mang a harder time and promoting ancient medicine. "Doesn’t my seamless, flowing acupuncture look cool? If you learn ancient medicine, you can be this cool too!"
"Is he cured?" an official asked.
"The red-eye disease is completely cured. However..." Lin Tian nodded.
Wow~
The crowd was once again in an uproar. A few needles, and the red-eye disease was completely cured?
This must be the fastest recovery from red-eye disease in the world, right?
Ancient medicine is really amazing!
Besides Zhao Xuefeng and other ancient medicine practitioners, the reporters were also delighted.
They didn’t expect to capture such a great piece before the summit officially started. With an eye-catching title, they wouldn’t lack click-through rates, would they?
"However what?" asked an impatient official.
"However, his neurosis isn’t cured yet."
"..."
By this time, Liu Mang had returned to normal. He sat back in his chair from the floor, realizing his prior loss of composure, looking embarrassed.
Suddenly, he saw the young man standing in front of him. Isn’t this Zhao Xuefeng’s disciple? It was just now that he glared at me, and then that thing happened.
"It was him! It was him!" Liu Mang pointed at Lin Tian, trembling.
Liu Mang shouted, "It was him who made my eyes hurt just now! Security! Where’s security?!"
Everyone around was speechless. What’s going on?
Seeing his disciple being bullied, Zhao Xuefeng couldn’t hold back. He slammed the table, stood up, and pointed at Liu Mang’s nose, shouting, "Liu Mang! Have you gone mad enough? Lin Tian was far away from you just now! How could he have hurt your eyes? Furthermore, he just cured your eyes. How can you be so ungrateful?"
After Zhao Xuefeng’s words, the people around started realizing. Yes, this guy was too far away just now; how could he have hurt him?
As for Lin Tian, the person involved, he remained indifferent. He shrugged and smiled softly, "I already said he has a mental illness; do you all believe it now?"
The crowd suddenly understood that it was merely an outbreak of neurosis.
"I can understand how you diagnosed the red-eye disease, but how did you realize he has a mental illness?" someone asked, evidently a question everyone was concerned about.
"Have you forgotten about ’observation, listening, questioning, and diagnosis’ in ancient medicine?" Lin Tian replied confidently.
"Oh, that’s how it is."
"Is there really observation, listening, questioning, and diagnosis? I thought it was just a legend."
"I didn’t expect such a young man to have such high medical skills."
"Yes, yes, how could the medical skills passed down by our ancestors be inferior?"
Liu Mang was both anxious and angry. This kid is clearly twisting the truth. How dare he credit all this to ancient medicine?
Just then, Lin Tian’s light words reached Liu Mang’s ears again, "Your Western medicine pales in comparison to ancient medicine!"
This sentence, processed specially by Spiritual Qi, was only audible to Liu Mang.
Hearing this, Liu Mang was even more enraged. He pointed to Lin Tian’s nose and cursed, "You little brat, what do you know? What’s so great about ancient medicine? It is far inferior to Western medicine, by an astronomical distance!"
Lin Tian shrugged, "But it was ancient medicine that just saved you."
"Who needs ancient medicine to save me? Is there no one in Western medicine? Does it take a snot-nosed kid like you to save me?" Liu Mang cursed more furiously, completely ignoring the occasion.
If it were normal circumstances, he would never be so inappropriate. Unfortunately, the opponent in front of him was Lin Tian, someone who could use Spiritual Qi to ignite his anger.
Lin Tian hadn’t said anything yet, but the people around were already displeased. Especially the officials, who frowned, blatantly disparaging ancient medicine, are you trying to cause trouble? Moreover, people just saved you; it’s a bit ungrateful, isn’t it?
The ancient medicine experts present were even more displeased, pointing at Liu Mang and cursing, "Who the hell do you think you are? Is it so amazing to study Western medicine as a Celestial Dragon Continent person? Have you forgotten you have Celestial Dragon Continent blood in you?"
"Pfft! You old thing, do you think you’re great for studying Western medicine? Besides asking for money with your mouth, what else can you do?"
"Exactly! If you Western medicine practitioners didn’t have such advanced equipment, you probably couldn’t even find the cause of the disease!"
As practitioners of ancient medicine, as Celestial Dragon Continent people, as men. Can they watch the culture they love be insulted? Absolutely not!
Though they were cultured people, they had no hesitation in firing back.
Meanwhile, the Western medicine practitioners weren’t taking it lying down. Some even stood up from their seats, ready to counterattack.
An unprecedented war of words among doctors was about to unfold.
Just then, Lin Tian suddenly stood on the table, overlooking everyone present. Converting Spiritual Qi into his voice, he shouted, "Everyone stop arguing! He’s just having a mental episode, he’s a patient, and we should forgive him!"
What a good ancient medicine practitioner, not only rooted out someone else’s red-eye disease but showed such leniency too.
Such a kind person, such a kind person.