Lu Qing didn't lift his head, his hands ceaselessly moving. In an instant, he had inserted over ten needles into Old Wang's leg, sealing the wound inflicted by the snake bite.
Seeing Lu Qing's adept and decisive needlework, coupled with the strange blockage he had experienced himself, Uncle Li couldn't help but realize that the youth before him was no ordinary person.
He dared not make a fuss anymore, worried he would interfere with Lu Qing's procedure.
The others had also co around and held their breath, careful not to even let out a sigh, their eyes wide as they watched Lu Qing work.
Seeing that they were reasonable, Lu Qing breathed a sigh of relief.
Life was of utmost importance. If these people had continued to be disruptive, he would have had to resort to extraordinary asures.
Only undisturbed could he focus on saving a life.
After sealing the wound on Old Wang's leg, amidst the silence, Lu Qing opened Old Wang's upper garnts.
Then, his brows furrowed involuntarily.
All he could see was the chest of Old Wang blanketed with a bluish-black Qi, leaving only the heart untouched.
But the bluish-black Qi was slowly seeping toward the heart, visible to the naked eye.
Lu Qing knew that once this bluish-black Qi covered Old Wang's heart, it would be an indicator that the snake poison had fully invaded the heart.
By then, detoxifying and saving the man would be much more difficult.
He couldn't afford to delay, so he continued to take out a silver needle from his needle bag. Almost in the span of a breath, he inserted eighteen needles around Old Wang's heart area, creating an intricate needle array, completely sealing off his heart.
Once the needle array was ford, the leading and trailing energies connected, and it imdiately began to buzz vibrantly, casting wave after wave of silvery light.
The progress of the bluish-black Qi, which had been gradually creeping toward the heart, was abruptly halted.
It was firmly blocked outside the needle array, utterly unable to penetrate.
This miraculous scene left the onlookers, especially the young apprentice, completely dumbfounded.
Having secured Old Wang's heart, Lu Qing finally exhaled a breath.
The patient was lucky. If he hadn't been brought in on ti, or if Lu Qing hadn't happened to be there,
Just a little more ti and the snake poison would have fully infected the heart, and he feared Old Wang would have surely been dood.
"Young Master, is there hope for Old Wang?" asked Uncle Li cautiously after seeing Lu Qing stop his work.
"It's hard to say," Lu Qing shook his head. "The snake poison he's afflicted with is quite peculiar. It doesn't act quickly but is particularly troubleso. You must have given him snake dicine, but it doesn't seem very effective, right?"
"Yes, yes, yes," Uncle Li hurriedly replied, "As soon as Old Wang was bitten, we gave him dicine. We thought it was fine at first, but the situation kept worsening. That's why we brought him here."
Being Herb Gatherers, often wandering deep in the mountains, Uncle Li and his companions had considerable experience in preventing venomous snake and insect bites.
Every ti they went up the mountain to gather herbs, not only would they carry a dicine bag to repel snakes and insects, but they would also always be prepared with antivenom.
The purpose was to be able to administer first aid promptly in case they were accidentally bitten.
"Moreover, it's strange. The snake that bit Old Wang is a Jin She, one we commonly see in the mountains.
Usually, Jin She are timid and flee at the sight of humans, very rarely attacking.
Their venom is not very potent, and as long as it's treated promptly, it's generally harmless.
But today, the Jin She that bit Old Wang didn't flee. It was very aggressive.
Old Wang had just seen it when it lunged and bit him!"
Uncle Li rambled on, recounting the situation at that ti.
Hearing this, Lu Qing had a notion in mind but knew now was not the ti to inquire; saving the man was more urgent.
Lu Qing turned to the young apprentice and said, "Young Master, I need to bleed Old Wang to detoxify him, and I'll need dicinal support. I'll recite the prescription, and you grab the herbs. Can you brew them as quickly as possible?"
The young apprentice, already astounded by Lu Qing's miraculous acupuncture skills, nodded eagerly in response to his instructions, "Okay... okay."
"Now grab the herbs. Half-leaf Sunflower, half an ounce; White Snake Flower, one ounce..."
Lu Qing recited the formula, his hands not slowing in their task. In an instant, a sharp little silver knife appeared in his hand.
First, Lu Qing removed the silver needles from Old Wang's leg.
With a small silver knife, he carved a cross incision on the snake bite wound.
Thick black blood imdiately began to slowly flow from the wound.
"Bring a bowl over," Lu Qing ordered.
Uncle Li imdiately found a large ceramic bowl used for patients taking dicine: "Young Master, here's the bowl."
Lu Qing took the bowl and placed it under Old Wang's injured leg.
He then flicked his fingers and waved them toward Old Wang's chest.
The array of eighteen silver needles instantly started to buzz again and began to tremble.
As the silver needles vibrated, everyone saw that the poison blood at Old Wang's wound started to co out at an increasing rate, dripping into the ceramic bowl.
When the poison blood flowed out, it imdiately released a stench that made everyone's head spin upon inhaling it.
Lu Qing frowned and imdiately said, "Step back a bit, this snake poison is no small matter. If you sll too much of it, I'm afraid you'll be poisoned too."
Upon hearing this, Uncle Li and the others were shocked and quickly retreated, covering their mouths and noses.
They beca even more puzzled: wasn't it just a Jin She? How could it suddenly beco so formidable?
It was as if the Jin She they knew was a completely different creature.
Seeing Uncle Li and the others stepping back, Lu Qing, standing straight with an unchanged expression, continued to operate the needle array and forced out the poison blood from Old Wang's body.
With the continuous operation of the needle array, the poison blood from Old Wang's body kept seeping out from the wound on his leg.
Soon, the ceramic bowl was filled.
This ti, without needing Lu Qing's instruction, Uncle Li, with quick thinking, found a large ceramic pot and brought it over to Lu Qing, covering his mouth and nose.
Lu Qing poured the bowl of poison blood into the ceramic pot and continued to extract the poison.
In this manner, Lu Qing, under his relentless operation of the needle array, forced out three large pots of poison blood from Old Wang's body, until they saw the blood flowing from his leg wound gradually turn red.
This scene turned Uncle Li and the others pale.
They dared not imagine that with so much blood lost, could Old Wang still survive?
Fortunately, their concerns were unnecessary.
Because as the poison blood continued to be forced out, Old Wang's chest, which had been barely breathing, finally began to move, starting clear breathing.
His swollen, cyanotic leg also reduced in swelling significantly, and the cyanosis on his face had disappeared, showing a hint of color.
Just at this mont, the apprentice ca out from the inner hall holding a bowl of dicine broth, cautiously: "Young Master, the dicine is ready."
"Give it to ."
Lu Qing took the dicine, swept it with his 'Superpower' and found that although the fire had been a bit too strong and had lost quite a bit of its dicinal properties, at least it was still usable.
He administered the dicine to Old Wang, helped him assimilate the power of the dicine with acupuncture, and then removed all the silver needles. At the sa ti, he covered the pot of poison blood to prevent it from spreading further.
"Young Master, how is Old Wang now?"
At this point, seeing Lu Qing was done, Uncle Li and the others approached.
"The snake poison in his body has mostly been forced out by . There are still so remnants of the poison, but after taking this dicine, he should be able to clear it completely.
However, Old Wang's inner organs have been severely damaged by the snake poison this ti. I'm afraid it will take him quite so ti to recover.
In a mont, I'll write a prescription for nourishing the body. Have him take the dicine regularly, and after a while, he should be able to recover."
"Thank you, Young Master, thank you very much."
Hearing this, Uncle Li grabbed Lu Qing's hand, thanking him effusively.
"Young Master doesn't know, Old Wang has three children, and his wife is disabled. The whole family of five depends on him for food.
If he were gone, I really don't know how those orphans and widows would survive!"
Uncle Li said, choking up.
The others also expressed their thanks to Lu Qing.
"There's no need to be so polite," Lu Qing said with a smile, "I am a doctor, and my teacher always teaches that as a doctor, we must take it as our responsibility to treat and save the sick. This is all part of what I should do."
"Oh, I wonder which great doctor is your teacher, to be able to teach such an outstanding Divine Doctor like yourself."
At that mont, a gentle voice ca from outside the dical hall.
"Teacher!"
The apprentice, excited upon hearing the voice, called out.
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