Chapter 1028: Chapter 1028: Checkmated an Army Chapter 1028: Chapter 1028: Checkmated an Army “I’ve lost,” after the competition ended, without waiting for the selected authoritative judges to announce the result, Wang Xuyun took the initiative to concede. “Luo’s acupuncture skill is much more superb than mine. I believe he has truly inherited Elder Luo’s teachings and mastered the intricacies of the Taiyi Divine Needle.”
As he spoke, he gave Luo Ziling a respectful fist salute. “Witnessing the exceptional skill of the Taiyi Divine Needle today, coming to this year’s conference was well worth the trip.”
Wang Xuyun’s voluntary admission of defeat surprised many people.
However, his magnanimity earned him a round of applause.
Everyone clapped, both for Wang Xuyun’s candidness and for the acupuncture skills of both competitors.
Those involved in traditional dicine have, to varying extents, so understanding of acupuncture.
The acupuncture skill of both competitors was so formidable that it left them in awe.
Wang Xuyun is a high-profile figure; he often shows off his acupuncture technique, so many have seen his skills.
The revival of the reputation of the Thirteen Needles of Guin is inseparable from Wang Xuyun’s efforts over the past few years.
His diligence earned him recognition and also helped restore the renown of the Thirteen Needles of Guin.
Many acupuncture techniques passed down from ancient tis, such as the Taiyi Divine Needle, Fire Needle, Thirteen Needles of Guin, Burning Mountain Fire, Piercing Sky Cooling, Mysterious Acupoint Skill, and others, are known to modern people; however, many of these skills have either been lost or the successors haven’t fully inherited the achievents of their predecessors. But the Thirteen Needles of Guin is widely recognized as having a lineage and has ford its own school, largely thanks to Wang Xuyun and his father, who have thus earned the respect of their peers.
However, Luo Liansheng and his grandson Luo Ziling have a different way of practicing acupuncture; not only have they continued the legacy of their predecessors, but they have also innovated these techniques with their own abilities. In other words, their current acupuncture skill has significantly diverged from what is recorded in ancient texts.
Compared to the Taiyi Divine Needle described in ancient books, their present use of the acupuncture skill has notably improved in all aspects.
Therefore, Luo Liansheng and Luo Ziling have never claid to be successors of the Taiyi Divine Needle. They believe this acupuncture skill is a creation of the Luo Family after improvents.
There was one occasion when Luo Ziling was treating Li Haiyang; upon ntioning this matter, Li Haiyang jokingly suggested that it could be called “Luo’s Acupuncture Skill.”
At the start of today’s Chinese dicine annual conference, when the host ntioned that Luo Ziling was a successor of the Taiyi Divine Needle, Luo Ziling himself was quite surprised.
Because they had never called themselves such.
“I now believe you are a successor of the Taiyi Divine Needle,” bowed Wang Xuyun respectfully to Luo Ziling, “I wish to honor you as my master and learn the Taiyi Divine Needle from you.”
“Actually, I’m really not a successor of the Taiyi Divine Needle,” Luo Ziling returned the bow. “Our acupuncture skill indeed originates from the Taiyi Divine Needle, but it is not exactly the sa as the Taiyi Acupuncture thod recorded in the Acupuncture Skill texts. My grandfather and I have improved this thod and, with our experience, the effectiveness of our treatnt for diseases is now much better than the original thod. I don’t know if all the seniors have heard about the recent incident where many respiratory infection patients at the First Affiliated Hospital of Yan University dical College were isolated. I cured all those patients with our improved acupuncture skill coupled with my own prescription. If anyone does not believe, they can verify with the First Affiliated Hospital of Yan University.”
“I know, I know about that,” said a young-looking female student raising her hand excitedly, “I saw it on the news channel of Yanjing TV Station last night. I rembered it when I saw you today; you looked so familiar.”
Upon hearing this, Luo Ziling couldn’t help but burst into laughter, astonished that the news program had already been broadcast.
The female trainee beca even more excited when she saw everyone’s attention focused on her.
She took out her phone, opened Yanjing TV Station’s app, and showed everyone the news segnt through a playback feature.
A technician saw what was happening and imdiately used a projector to display the segnt from Yanjing TV Station for everyone to see.
After watching the news segnt reported and presented by Chen Xiaoyi, everyone looked at Luo Ziling with renewed respect.
No one doubted the authenticity of the news because many renowned doctors from the First Affiliated Hospital of Yan University, a famous hospital in Yanjing, appeared in the program.
In fact, many people knew that the First Affiliated Hospital of Yan University was treating patients with severe respiratory infections, but they didn’t know what had happened in the end. They had thought the patients’ prospects were grim. To their surprise, all of them had made a turnaround.
“I actually quite enjoy boasting and sharing my achievents with others,” Luo Ziling laughed, then explained to Ouyang Feifei, “But I don’t do this to earn a reputation for myself. I want to promote such events to make people realize the power of traditional dicine. At a ti when many consider traditional dicine to be pseudoscience, I need to work hard to promote it so that it will be taken seriously by more people, and this in turn will help it develop. Only when it attracts more attention and more people are willing to delve into it will traditional dicine start to flourish. And if traditional dicine continues to develop, more people will benefit.”
Ouyang Feifei nodded in agreent and gently said, “If everyone were like you, traditional dicine would certainly flourish.”
Many people had gathered around Luo Ziling, and though their conversation was private, others nearby could hear it.
Many knew that Luo Ziling was showing off, but they didn’t have too much of an issue with it.
Luo Ziling’s display of superb dical skills today, along with the events reported in the television program, made too many people look at him with awe.
At that mont, He Yan ca over, gave Luo Ziling a bow, and said reluctantly, “Regarding our earlier competition, I admit defeat.”
One of his disciples had fild the contest between the two. After watching the replay, seeing Luo Ziling’s thod and speed of inserting acupuncture needles and the accuracy in finding acupoints, he couldn’t help but admire.
Everyone was right; Luo Ziling’s acupuncture skill had indeed reached a state of perfection. He did not dare claim his skills were better because that would be slapping his own face and would only invoke disdain from everyone, so he had no choice but to concede.
But to say out loud that he wished to take Luo Ziling as his master—that, he could not bring himself to do.
At nearly sixty years old, how could he face becoming a disciple to Luo Ziling, who was just over twenty? And even more problematic was when Wu Sanming said, “Teacher He, after Mr. Wang admitted defeat, he agreed to take Mr. Luo Ziling as his master. What about you?”
This thoroughly cornered He Yan, but he had made a promise in front of so many people and now Wu Sanming was asking him publicly, leaving him no room to back out.
“I am willing to take Mr. Luo Ziling as my master to learn his acupuncture skill!” Saying this, he gave Luo Ziling a formal bow.
Ouyang Feifei’s eyes lit up upon seeing this, and she quickly whispered sothing into Luo Ziling’s ear.
Luo Ziling was imdiately taken aback…..
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