Chapter 9

Once the first genius, Lin Jianhao, after losing his cultivation, no longer had the qualifications to live in the inner courtyard. The huge disparity from heaven to hell was something that ordinary people could not bear, and even Lin Jianhao could not.

But for his son, Lin Nan, he had to silently endure all of this.

Survive.

"Father, you seem to be quite injured. Let me take a look!" After helping his father lie down on the bed, Lin Nan held his father's wrist and frowned slightly.

On Earth, Lin Nan was specially recruited as a student at a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) university, naturally because he had real skills. One could say that, apart from beautiful women, his only hobby was TCM, especially acupuncture, massage, and point pressing, which were somewhat mysterious.

This was thanks to the orphanage where he grew up. The director was a retired TCM doctor. Influenced by the director and with the director's intentional cultivation, Lin Nan, before the age of twenty, surpassed his mentor. Especially in the study of ancient acupuncture techniques that had lost their true transmission, Lin Nan reached a high level.

However, it was only theoretical research, as Lin Nan on Earth could not perform acupuncture with qi.

But after crossing over to this world and recovering his cultivation, performing acupuncture with qi became effortless.

However, the just-recovered Lin Nan had not yet had the chance to try it. Healing his father's injuries would be his first attempt!

The seemingly useless Dingshui Divine Needle finally had a use...

"No problem, it will naturally get better in a few days. I've had such injuries dozens, if not hundreds of times. Father has... cough... has a... cough... a number..."

"Blood? Father!" Lin Nan's expression turned to shock, and without hesitation, a surge of true essence directly extended out.

"Boom!"

"This kid..." Lin Jianhao's eyes suddenly widened, and as he fell unconscious, a smile appeared on his face. He knew that his son was worried about him and was definitely going to use true essence to heal his injuries. However, his son was too anxious, and the true essence he emitted was too strong, which his already heavily injured body could not withstand.

Unbeknownst to Lin Jianhao, the moment he closed his eyes, Lin Nan did not show any surprise. He directly placed his hand on Lin Jianhao's wrist and closed his eyes. Clearly, Lin Nan had intentionally knocked his father unconscious.

In the memory of the tragic man, there was no TCM in this world. To be precise, there were no real doctors in this world. What they called doctors were martial arts experts and alchemy experts. Martial arts used true essence to heal injuries and treat diseases, while alchemy used heavenly and earthly spiritual medicines to heal injuries and treat diseases. The principles were the same, relying on energy.

Therefore, Lin Nan intentionally knocked his father unconscious to avoid unnecessary suspicion.

"Thump, thump, thump, thump..."

The pulsating heartbeat was immediately clearly transmitted to Lin Nan's hand.

Lin Nan found that after washing his meridians and refining his body, his perception had become extremely strong. When taking the pulse, he did not need to concentrate as he did on Earth; he could clearly capture the most subtle characteristics of the pulse, easily observing the excesses and deficiencies of the five organs, the strengths and weaknesses of the six腑, and the prosperity and decline of the body.

"Lung lobes ruptured, the lesser yin of yang is almost depleted, lung yang is inflamed!"

"Liver and gallbladder swollen, liver fire attacking the heart!"

"Heart meridian blocked, heart fire about to burn!"

"Both kidneys filled with blood, kidney yang devouring yin... It's so serious? If this were an ordinary person, they would have died long ago! And Father, despite being heavily injured, still brought me the medicine and went to the ancestral hall in the back mountain today..."

When he was supporting his father back, Lin Nan had already felt that his father's injuries were not light, but he did not expect them to be so severe.

Lin Nan could not imagine the pain his father had endured and the strong willpower needed to act as if nothing was wrong, to avoid making him worry.

After all, this condition was like being on a hot pot, with a burning fire in the body!

This made Lin Nan even more moved, as his father had done all this to earn the Hundred Herbs Soup for him!

"Fortunately, Father was once a peak expert at the Fourth Extreme Realm, with an exceptionally tough physical body and meridians... I should use four liang of Gegen, three liang of Ephedra without the joints, two liang of Licorice, and two liang of White Peony... Damn, there are hairy Chinese herbs here..." Lin Nan habitually wrote out a prescription but then realized his mistake.

In the Divine Martial Continent, there were only spiritual medicines, which contained not only medicinal properties but also the essence of heaven and earth, far surpassing the Chinese herbs on Earth.

Without a doubt, as long as Lin Nan could identify their medicinal properties, he could concoct even stronger medicines than on Earth!

But...

It required time and money.

And the current Lin Nan could not even afford the cheapest spiritual medicines. The only way to help his father was through acupuncture.

"Father was clearly severely injured by a fire attribute technique of the Five Elements. If using the treatment methods of this world, a martial artist would need to use true essence to resolve the fire attribute energy that has deeply penetrated the five organs and six腑, disrupting the yin-yang balance, which would be very exhausting... Even water attribute energy would need to be equal, let alone other energies for absorption and refinement..."

"But I only need to use qi to guide the needles, unblock the meridians, and balance yin and yang. It shouldn't take many sessions to clear the fire attribute energy from Father's body! Compared to healing with true essence, this is like using a small force to move a great weight!"

"Whoosh!"

A golden light flashed, and the comical golden needle flew out of Lin Nan's ear.

Holding the needle, Lin Nan instantly seemed to transform, emitting a calm and focused aura, his expression becoming extremely concentrated.

This was Lin Nan's first time using qi to guide the needles, but he was not at all nervous, as if he had practiced it countless times before.

In fact, the former Lin Nan had indeed practiced it countless times.

However, at that time, he was only practicing the "intention," using "intention" to guide the needles. This was a level of acupuncture that had been derived in the absence of "qi." Under the state of using "intention" to guide the needles, the feeling and effect of needling were much better.

Of course, for Lin Nan, who was always a show-off, there was another very important point: it made him look even more like a master, exuding a highly skilled aura!

"Buzz!"

Lin Nan suddenly urged his true essence into the golden needle, and a faint red glow immediately spurted out from the needle tip, extending to about eight inches.

"Eight inches! This is already my limit. To make it longer, I need to break through to the Three Flowers Realm. However, as long as I don't encounter special situations, it should be enough. When I have money, I can get some decent silver needles..."

The eight-inch length was the limit of what Lin Nan could control with his true essence.

As soon as he said this, Lin Nan quickly acted, accurately and without error, inserting the comical golden needle into several acupoints, including Baihui, Dazhui, Dayuan, Daleng, Dachong, Taibai, and Taixi.

Shallow and deep, lifting and inserting, twisting and turning, piercing and pricking, he inserted a total of forty-nine needles in quick succession, then quickly removed them, with no apparent pause in between, as fast as lightning, yet smooth as flowing water!

If there were experts from the TCM acupuncture field on Earth who saw this, they would be incredibly shocked, because the needle technique Lin Nan was using was none other than the Daoist divine needle technique "Tou Tian Liang," which had long lost its true transmission!

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