Chapter 40: Tai Chi Creation Needles

Huaxin Hospital.

As the primary affiliated hospital of Peking University, it received patients in numbers comparable to crucian carp crossing a river, many of whom traveled from all over the country with great expectations.

Zhang Bingnan skillfully steered her sports car into the garage and led Zhou Chen toward the intensive care unit.

Throughout the journey, Zhang Bingnan's mouth never stopped as she incessantly questioned Zhou Chen about his medical expertise.

She asked about his martial lineage and what the powerful acupuncture secret technique he had displayed was called.

Was it the legendary Thirteen Needle Techniques of the Ghost Gate or the Divine Needle of Taiyi?

Annoyed by the endless stream of questions, Zhou Chen simply decided to give his acupuncture secret technique a name.

Since his acupuncture technique was deduced according to the meridians for cultivation in the "Taiji Creation Manual," he named it—the Taiji Creation Needles.

"Wow, just hearing the name sounds so cool! Can you teach me?" Zhang Bingnan's beautiful eyes gleamed.

"No." Zhou Chen refused resolutely.

Zhang Bingnan acted cute: "Little brother, teach me~"

Now was not the time, and Zhou Chen had no inclination to waste time on things like teaching disciples.

He simply said to Zhang Bingnan, "The Taiji Creation Needles are still beyond your control. After all, an acupuncture technique possessing such mysterious power also carries immense danger. The slightest carelessness could result in injuring the patient. Therefore, when your medical skills surpass those of your grandfather, I will teach you."

Zhang Bingnan's grandfather was Zhang Mingxu, a towering figure in the traditional Chinese medicine community.

Zhang Bingnan felt somewhat disappointed, but there was nothing she could do.

Acupuncture wasn't simply a matter of knowing the acupoints and the order in which to insert the needles.

First, you had to diagnose the patient's illness before you could treat it with acupuncture.

Moreover, acupuncture required vast experience. If an acupoint was missed, or the depth was too shallow or too deep, or if one realized midway that the diagnosis was wrong, it could cause irreversible harm to the patient's body.

Furthermore, the more advanced the acupuncture technique, the higher the demand on the practitioner's level of traditional Chinese medicine expertise.

This was why Zhang Bingnan looked at Zhou Chen with fanaticism and adoration. To have achieved such accomplishments in traditional Chinese medicine at this age meant his future was beyond imagination.

Outside the intensive care unit.

A group of medical titans dressed in white lab coats gathered together, each with furrowed brows, discussing treatment plans.

"Little Divine Doctor!" Zhang Mingxu saw Zhou Chen approach and immediately wore a look of joy.

The gazes of the others also turned toward him, mostly carrying a look of scrutiny.

As chief physicians of Huaxin Hospital, they enjoyed considerable fame throughout Yanhuang and even the global medical community.

Most of these people practiced Western medicine. It wasn't that Western medicine practitioners looked down on traditional Chinese medicine as undeserving of its reputation, but rather that Zhou Chen's extreme youth made it somewhat difficult for them to accept.

Although they refrained from acting out due to Zhang Mingxu's status as honorary president, the meaning conveyed in their eyes was self-evident.

Zhou Chen turned a blind eye to all of this.

"What's wrong with that pregnant woman? I remember that although the fetus suffered an impact back then, I used acupuncture to protect their mother-and-child life meridian, so there shouldn't have been any major problems."

Zhang Mingxu sighed. "The fetus was fully developed. After the collision, the amniotic sac ruptured."

Zhou Chen frowned. "I know the fetus was fully developed and labor contractions could have been induced."

Zhang Mingxu shook his head. "We already tried, but it failed. The most important thing is that a C-section was attempted, but the fetus's life meridian seems to have completely severed. As a result, the current situation is that the mother and the fetus share a single life meridian. Once the fetus is extracted, the mother will die instantly."

"This is the first time we have encountered such a situation, which is why we invited you here. Does my young friend have any countermeasures?"

Zhou Chen walked into the intensive care unit. In less than two days, the pregnant woman had lost a massive amount of weight, as if most of her vital energy had been devoured.

Zhou Chen took the pregnant woman's pulse and used his spiritual sense to scan her abdomen.

"Huh?"

Zhou Chen let out a soft sound of surprise, not expecting such a development to occur.

At first glance, it seemed both mother and child were alive, but in reality, two lives shared only a single life meridian.

The life meridian was also known as the gate of life; it was the pulse channel that circulated the breath of life, serving as the main vessel of life and the primary vessel of the Eight Extraordinary Meridians.

However, due to the previous collision, Zhou Chen could sense that the mother and fetus now shared only one life meridian.

Because the mother was severely injured by the impact and her potential vitality had already been stimulated by the acupuncture technique, she had become extremely weak.

Meanwhile, although the fetus had suffered the collision, it remained intact and was frantically absorbing the mother's vital nutrients.

Therefore, for doctors like Zhang Mingxu, when forced to choose between saving the mother or the child, they would undoubtedly choose the mother.

Yet now, even if they wanted to save the mother, they were powerless. Removing the fetus would inevitably cause the mother's life meridian to snap completely.

Conversely, leaving things as they were would result in the fetus absorbing all of the mother's vital nutrients.

Thus, a Western medicine practitioner had suggested directly injecting medication into the fetus to cause its death, thereby preventing it from continuing to drain the mother's vital nutrients.

"Such an overbearing fetus," Zhou Chen murmured.

Under normal circumstances, if such an accident occurred, the fetus would simply be aborted.

Clearly, however, this fetus was somewhat special. Having suffered a severed life meridian of its own due to the collision, was it preparing to seize the mother's life meridian?

Zhou Chen's spiritual sense enveloped the infant, observing it closely.

"Interesting."

This infant was indeed unusual. Externally, it appeared to be a baby girl, but internally it still possessed male organs.

Before even being born, it was surrounded by the dual qi of Yin and Yang within its body—a textbook definition of a congenital Yin-Yang spiritual physique. No wonder it was so overbearing.

An infant with such innate talent, if placed in the ancient era of cultivation, would undoubtedly have been an peerless genius with supreme bone structure.

Unfortunately, in the current Dharma-ending age, let alone a congenital Yin-Yang spiritual physique, even someone with immortal aptitudes would find cultivation impossible.

To solve this problem was actually quite simple.

One only needed to directly extract the Yin qi from the infant, use it as the origin, and reshape a new life meridian for the mother.

The mother and infant were one entity, consistent at their origin, and could be harmonized through acupuncture.

"Do you have acupuncture needles?" Zhou Chen asked.

Zhang Mingxu took out an acupuncture pouch from his pocket.

Zhang Mingxu's acupuncture needles were also custom-made, and their material performance was even more flawless than needles forged from pure gold.

Zhou Chen once again deployed the Taiji Creation Needles, using them to rouse the congenital Yin-Yang dual qi within the fetus, and then used his soul power to guide this stream of congenital Yin-Yang dual qi through a complete microcosmic orbit across the pregnant woman's entire body.

The entire process required Zhou Chen to continuously insert and withdraw the needles, repeating the action until he had needled 365 times.

Finally, he successfully extracted the Yin qi from within the congenital Yin-Yang dual qi and transformed it into the mother's new life meridian.

Although doing this would damage this congenital Yin-Yang spiritual physique, it didn't matter much in the current Dharma-ending age.

Who knew, perhaps right now some peerless prodigy with a so-called Holy Body or Demonic Body was busy moving bricks on a construction site, serving as a mighty god of labor.

"Phew~ It's done. There shouldn't be any major problems now. Just let the mother and fetus receive nutrient solutions for a period to replenish their nutrients, and the fetus can be delivered normally when the time comes." Zhou Chen breathed a sigh of relief.

Hearing Zhou Chen's words, Zhang Mingxu was the first to step forward to take the pregnant woman's pulse.

"Two life meridians! How did you do it?" Zhang Mingxu was immensely shocked.

This was no longer as simple as just using acupuncture needles to stimulate vital potential; this was literally creating a life meridian out of thin air!

Zhou Chen found it difficult to explain using the terminology of ancient cultivators.

He casually replied, "There were actually two life meridians inside the fetus to begin with; I merely separated one out."

Though spoken casually, it sounded to Zhang Mingxu like an elementary school student struggling to comprehend university lectures.