Chapter 2425 - 2418: Zhang Xi
"Miss Zhang Xi, what do you mean by that?" an expert on the panel asked in confusion.
"I mean these patients weren’t healed by her!" Zhang Xi coldly glanced at Mi Xue.
"Zhang Xi, do you have any evidence?"
Zhang Xi didn’t reply but instead walked up to Mi Xue and asked, "So, are you healing with traditional Chinese medicine or Western medicine?"
"Chi, Chinese medicine..." Mi Xue, overwhelmed by Zhang Xi’s presence, struggled to breathe.
"You claim your method is Chinese medicine? How is it that I feel you don’t understand it at all?" Zhang Xi leaned closer to Mi Xue, arrogantly asking, "Tell me, what are the basic techniques of acupuncture? What happens if one eats seaweed with onions? Which acupoint should be pierced for abdominal pain? What is the function of Lysimachia christinae?"
Zhang Xi’s series of sharp questions caught Mi Xue off guard.
These are all fundamental knowledge in Chinese medicine, yet Mi Xue didn’t know them.
"I, I don’t know..." Mi Xue was so anxious she was about to cry.
At this moment, Wang Dadong came over and held Mi Xue’s hand.
"Who said you need medical knowledge to heal? My teacher doesn’t understand it but still heals people!"
"How does one prescribe medication or perform acupuncture without knowing medicine?" someone questioned.
"My teacher heals without using medicine, nor acupuncture."
"Are you kidding? Healing without medicine or needles?"
"It seems this lady indeed healed without using medication or needles."
"So, how did Miss Mi Xue heal them?" Sun Siwen approached.
Holding Wang Dadong’s hand, Mi Xue quickly calmed down and said calmly, "I heal by removing the illness qi from a patient’s body."
"Illness qi? What kind of thing is that?"
"Never heard of it."
After Mi Xue’s explanation, everyone looked puzzled, including the Four Great Ghost Doctors, who had never heard of the term.
"The human body has self-repair functions; any illness can be cured through self-repair. But once an area is invaded by illness qi, its repair ability deteriorates, causing disease. Hence, removing illness qi allows the body to heal through its immune system," Mi Xue explained.
"Then if someone’s hand is broken, can removing illness qi cure it?" Li Shizhen asked.
Mi Xue shook her head, "Of course not. Illness qi refers to disease, while a broken hand is an injury. These are two different concepts."
Li Shizhen felt embarrassed upon hearing this, even though he was called a Divine, he mixed up injury and disease.
"Then a blind person whose blindness is due to illness qi, can Mi Xue heal that by removing it?" Sun Siwen asked.
"Of course I can."
"Great, we happen to have a blind patient here. Please treat their illness according to your theory," Li Shizhen said with a smile, not believing that this method could work. His ancestor Li Shizhen wrote the ’Compendium of Materia Medica’, if illnesses can be cured without medication, then his ancestor’s book would be useless!
The audience immediately echoed, "Yeah, the theory is novel, does it really work?"
"Bring the patient up!" Mi Xue glanced at Wang Dadong, and after seeing him nod, her confidence grew, and she spoke to the host.
Soon, a blind person was led to the arena.
Wang Dadong didn’t check why the person was blind and directly signaled Mi Xue to place her hands on the person’s temples.
Everyone looked on quietly at Mi Xue, unsure how she would remove illness qi.
About two minutes later, Mi Xue let go of her hands.
"The treatment’s over?" Sun Siwen asked.
"Finished!" Mi Xue nodded.
"Impossible!"
Voices of disbelief came from the audience; if a touch was all it took to heal, wouldn’t she be like an immortal?
The blind person then opened their eyes.
"I, I can see!" the blind person exclaimed excitedly.
"You can really see?" Sun Siwen, still in disbelief, waved his hand in front of the person.
"Truly miraculous!" the crowd, seeing that the person regained sight, couldn’t help but believe.
Thunderous applause erupted throughout the venue, lasting endlessly.
Witnessing this scene, Zhang Xi finally lowered her head, looking extremely bleak, and quietly exited the crowd.
"You don’t need to be so self-conscious; your medical skills are already amazing," someone called out to her just as she left the plaza.
Raising her head, Zhang Xi saw Wang Dadong smilingly looking at her.
A self-mocking smile crossed Zhang Xi’s face, "I thought I was amazing, but compared to her, I’m nothing. Her method is something I’ve never heard of."
Wang Dadong privately found it amusing; all this was nonsense he’d made up, it would be odd if she knew.
"Don’t belittle yourself; if you hadn’t encountered my teacher, you definitely would have won first place," Wang Dadong said.
Zhang Xi’s expression turned painful, shaking her head, "Without first place, nothing matters."
"Why do you want first place so badly?" Wang Dadong asked.
"Sorry, Grandpa, Xier let you down." Suddenly, Zhang Xi pulled out a dagger from her pocket and aimed to stab at her own heart.
Wang Dadong was shocked, activated the Riding the Wind Technique, flashed to Zhang Xi’s side, snatched the dagger, and hurled it to the ground.
"Are you crazy? You’re so young; what does one failure matter? Is it worth seeking death over?"
𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺
With the dagger gone, Zhang Xi painfully crouched on the ground, shaking her head, "What do you know, you know nothing!"
"I may not understand, but I do know life is extremely precious, and giving it up so easily—have you considered your parents’ feelings?" Wang Dadong shouted in anger, as a doctor, he despised such disregard for life.
"Haha!" Zhang Xi suddenly laughed, a laugh more sorrowful than crying, "My parents’ feelings? If I had them, maybe I’d know."
Wang Dadong was stunned, "You, you don’t have parents?"
"I had them, but they died, killed by those so-called divine doctors!" Zhang Xi roared.
"What happened?"
"I once had a wonderful family; I had a dad, a mom, and a grandpa..."
After hearing Zhang Xi’s story, Wang Dadong finally understood the situation. Apparently, twelve years ago, the Imperial Capital had not only the Four Great Ghost Doctors but also the Zhang Family, descendants of Medical Saint Zhang Zhongjing.
Zhang Zhongjing was a famous physician from the late Eastern Han Dynasty, revered as the Medical Saint. It’s said he once held the rank of filial piety and served as Prefect of Changsha, earning the title Zhang Changsha.