Chapter 1945 — The Cause of Amnesia, Part One
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"Yes, Mr. Lin is a divine doctor! Years ago I had a stroke that crooked my mouth and eye, and rheumatism in my legs — Divine Doctor Lin cured me in a single stroke!" Remembering that her own illness had been healed by Wei Zhao, Granny Sun was suddenly filled with confidence.
"Heh... whether I can cure it, I'll have to examine you first. I'll do my best!" When Wei Zhao had treated Granny Sun's crooked face and bad legs before, he had examined nothing else about her health — time had been short, and his only aim then had been simply to cure those two ailments and pin the blame on Zhen Yingjun.
"All right — what do you need me to do?" Granny Sun asked hastily.
"Granny Sun, just sit on the sofa and hold out your hands; I'll take your pulse." Wei Zhao could probe the condition of another person's body with his qi, so he needed nothing else from her. "All you have to do is relax."
"All right!" Nodding, Granny Sun sat down on the sofa beside Wei Zhao and held out both hands.
Wei Zhao closed his fingers around Granny Sun's pulse and began using true qi to inspect the state of her body — but no sooner had his technique circulated than his qi met obstruction. He discovered that most of the meridians inside Granny Sun had been destroyed, and those that remained were clogged with stagnant blood. It was not as severe as Yang Huaijun's case, where the heart meridian was damaged and life itself hung in the balance; but at the very least, it was now utterly impossible for her to become a cultivator and practice true qi. The condition was strikingly similar to Uncle Qing's!
Uncle Qing's meridians, too, had been destroyed, leaving him unable to practice internal martial arts — and Granny Sun was plainly no different.
If so, then Granny Sun's crooked mouth, lopsided eye and lame leg could never have been caused by a stroke or rheumatism; they had been the doing of meridians blocked by stagnant blood. Both conditions involved obstructed meridians and their treatments were broadly alike, but the causes behind them were entirely different.
Wei Zhao had not looked closely at the time, so he had simply cured the two ailments — her crooked face and her bad leg — assuming they were brought on by a stroke. Now, it seemed, that was not the case.
But this was nothing beyond Wei Zhao's ability. He said to Uncle Qing, "Uncle Qing, my silver needles are in my school bag. Run out and find a pharmacy and buy me another box."
Severed meridians Wei Zhao could mend with his qi, but years of accumulated stagnation had to be drawn out with the needles — that old blood was already dead tissue, and no qi could ever dissolve it.
"Right away!" Uncle Qing sprang to his feet and ran out of the villa to buy the needles.
Wei Zhao, meanwhile, set about using his qi to repair the damaged meridians in Granny Sun's body.
Meridian repair was work Wei Zhao had done a thousand times over. Granny Sun had no idea how he was treating her, but she felt a warm, pleasant comfort suffusing her whole body, as if vitality had returned to every part of her!
Even Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu, standing nearby, noticed the change in Granny Sun, for her face was altering before their very eyes. The wrinkles and wear of age had vanished, replaced by smooth, luminous skin — in the space of a few moments Granny Sun seemed to have grown several years younger!
Wei Zhao was not especially surprised by this. With Granny Sun's meridians blocked and ruined, her metabolism had naturally suffered terribly; once they were mended, a radiant complexion was only to be expected — just as Uncle Qing, whose meridians Wei Zhao had repaired back then, had likewise seemed to grow several years younger overnight.