Chapter 161: Your Skills Are Inferior to Others

"After taking Western medicine, the results were poor, so you went to see a Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner and were diagnosed with Yang-jaundice. After taking Artemisia Capillaris Decoction and Gardenia and Phellodendron Bark Decoction, the symptoms eased, but your body still feels uncomfortable, right?" Chen Yu asked again.

"Yes, I always feel nauseous and can't eat anything. Doctor Chen, what you said is absolutely correct. This is the previous Traditional Chinese Medicine prescription, exactly the same as what you said, but it had no effect." The patient nodded.

"This condition is damp-heat in the liver and gallbladder. I will write a new prescription, using Codonopsis, Atractylodes Macrocephala, Angelica Sinensis, White Peony Root, and others to regulate it. You will be cured in three days." As Chen Yu spoke, he wrote down the prescription.

"Thank you, Doctor Chen." The patient was overjoyed. Chen Yu had stated his illness in one sentence, which greatly increased his confidence in Chen Yu.

"Let me see." Ma Jiyuan did not believe it at all. He walked up to the patient, looked carefully at the patient's complexion, and then asked him to open his mouth to check the tongue coating.

But the more he looked, the uglier his expression became, because the patient's condition was basically the same as what Chen Yu had described.

"Doctor Ma, is there a problem?" Chen Yu asked.

"How could you be so accurate? Did you find out beforehand? Did you hire a plant?" Ma Jiyuan shouted.

"You were the one who chose the person. I hired a plant?" Chen Yu glanced at him.

"Divine Doctor Ma, don't talk nonsense. Today is my first time coming here, and it's my first time meeting little Doctor Chen. I was also recommended to come here by a friend." The patient said angrily, "Besides, you were the one who chose me."

"Your skills are inferior to others, yet you don't want to admit it?" Chen Yu smiled, "Alright, today I will make you convinced. Let me take a look at your condition."

"Hehe, look at my condition? Are you joking with me?" Ma Jiyuan laughed.

"Doctor Ma is sixty this year, right?" Chen Yu asked.

"That's right, sixty-five." Ma Jiyuan laughed, "Are you trying to say I have some illness?"

"No, Doctor Ma doesn't have any illness, but the highest realm of Traditional Chinese Medicine diagnosis is the Observation of Qi to discern Life." Chen Yu said, "I can infer the physical condition of your relatives based on Doctor Ma's body's Qi mechanism."

"Hehe, please draft a script next time you brag." Ma Jiyuan almost laughed out loud.

"I've really learned something today, haha. Old Ma is first-class at the Observation of Qi, and even he hasn't reached this realm. You say you can? You must be joking." A group of old men laughed, all expressing disdain for Chen Yu.

"Doctor Ma's body is fine, but looking at your body's Qi mechanism, the three Origins are missing one, and your complexion is slightly yellow. Half a year ago, you had a gallbladder removal surgery, right?" Chen Yu smiled.

Ma Jiyuan's laughter stopped abruptly. He looked at Chen Yu as if he had seen a ghost.

"And looking at the pulse and aura of Doctor Ma's Life, you should have one older brother and one younger sister. The brother should still be here, but one of the three Life pulses is slightly sunken. If I'm not mistaken, your sister passed away at around fifty years old, dying of stomach cancer." Chen Yu said again.

"You, how did you know?" Ma Jiyuan was shocked. He stared fixedly at Chen Yu.

"I said, the highest realm of diagnosis is to deduce the principles and mechanisms of Life. Your level hasn't reached it, so it's normal that you don't know." Chen Yu smiled faintly.

Ma Jiyuan's lips trembled. After a long while, he sighed, bowed slightly to Chen Yu, and said, "This old man... admires you."

"Old Ma, you're just admitting defeat like this?" The remaining two were shocked. Ma Jiyuan was very famous for his diagnosis, but he lost in one round. It seems this Chen Yu really has some real skills.

"I lost, lost and convinced. My grandfather taught me that the highest realm of diagnosis is the observation of Life, deducing a person's physical condition or even the condition of their relatives based on a person's life principles and life mechanisms."

"He has been gone for fifty years, and I never thought that someone could actually reach this realm. Admirable, admirable."

"Old Ma, if you lose, you have to admit it. This is a defeat note, sign it." Zhao Lao took out a piece of paper with a smile, on which a defeat note was written.

The general meaning was that so-and-so was defeated by Chen Yu of Xinglinju Tianyun Medicine on such-and-such a day of such-and-such a year.

Ma Jiyuan said nothing, signed his name, and stepped back.

"Two gentlemen, who will go first?" Chen Yu glanced at Wang Shiyuan and Li Chengshan.

"I'll go first. I don't believe this kid can be better than me." Wang Shiyuan stepped forward, took out a needle bag, and spread it out on the table one by one.

One hundred and eight silver needles of different lengths were spread out on the table. Wang Shiyuan was known as the Needle King. His needle technique was extremely powerful, not just in Fengling, but even looking at the whole country.

"Kid surnamed Chen, have you heard of my Wang family's Ji City Needle?" Wang Shiyuan said proudly.

"I've heard of it. It's known as 'one needle determines life or death,' and it's very powerful when it reaches the highest realm." Chen Yu said.

"Hehe, then what do you have that you can show off?" Wang Shiyuan sneered. He was very confident in his own needle technique.

"Watch closely." Chen Yu grabbed with his right hand, and a handful of silver needles were already in his hand.

"These silver needles of yours are ordinary filiform needles, right? There are plenty of them on the market. I can get you as many as you want." Wang Shiyuan laughed.

"They certainly can't compare to your family's heirloom silver needles, but as long as they can treat illnesses and save people, they are good needles." As Chen Yu spoke, he flicked his right hand, and dozens of needles pierced into the ground simultaneously.

Although his needles were ordinary, under the infusion of Chen Yu's True Qi, they pierced into the concrete floor one by one, forming an irregular pattern on the ground.

But this pattern shocked Wang Shiyuan immensely, because this pattern was a long-lost needle technique diagram. He blurted out, "Yin Yang Life-Locking Needle?"

"Not bad." Chen Yu nodded, "You have a discerning eye. It's an upgraded version of the Locking Life Nine Needles."

"This is impossible. This needle technique is recorded in the ancient fragments of the Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon. There are only diagrams, but no one has ever truly seen this kind of needle technique. This... this kind of divine needle can lock Yin and Yang, reverse the two poles, and can even bring back people who have just stopped breathing."

Wang Shiyuan said decisively, "You just laid out a pattern that looks similar. You couldn't possibly really know this needle technique."

"Your concerns are also normal. Everyone here is healthy now, so I can't prove that my needle technique is real. But this needle technique can not only lock Yin and Yang but also treat serious illnesses. Let's find a patient to try it out."

"Help! Is little Doctor Chen, who can bring the dead back to life, here? Help!" Suddenly, a cry for help came from the side.

The onlookers stepped aside, and a path was cleared. A family was seen pushing a pregnant woman and running frantically toward this side.

A man in his thirties, who should be the pregnant woman's husband, rushed over like a madman, tumbling and crawling until he fell to his knees on the ground and shouted, "Is little Doctor Chen here? Help!"

"I am. What happened?" Chen Yu hurried forward.

"Doctor Chen, my wife had a massive hemorrhage during childbirth. When she was sent to the hospital, she had already stopped breathing. The doctor said she... she and the child are both gone. I heard you are a Divine Doctor, you can even make the dead get up and walk a few steps. I beg you to save her."