Urban Genius Divine Doctor

Chapter 257: Chapter 257: Another Challenge

This was precisely the effect Wang Chenning wanted. He paid no mind to the fury and roars from the Koreans in the audience, letting them vent their anger with a smile on his face.

After the curses and boos died down a little, he spoke again. "If I were you, I’d be curious. Why is this young man so arrogant, and what gives him the right to be?"

"Would an incompetent braggart have the guts to make such wild claims in front of so many people, in front of the media? So, why don’t you see what I’m capable of first!"

Wang Chenning’s words made many people calm down.

What Wang Chenning said was indeed true. This was a matter of national honor.

Huaxia valued its reputation above all else; under normal circumstances, they wouldn’t let someone run rampant like this.

For him to act this way, to dare spout such arrogance at a conference like this, it couldn’t just be a senseless act.

While Wang Chenning was speaking on stage, Wu Jingyi had already gone to communicate with the South Korean staff. Soon, the first slide of Wang Chenning’s prepared lecture appeared on the projection screen.

But many Koreans disdained to listen to Wang Chenning’s lecture. They stood up in agitation, demanding the staff throw him out.

At that moment, Pu Zhengyang stood up. He motioned for the crowd to quiet down and said, "Since this young friend from Huaxia speaks with such confidence, why don’t we first hear about his accomplishments? If they are indeed worthy of our study, then we shall study them well. If he is merely an incompetent fraud, then we can express our anger. How about it?"

Pu Zhengyang held considerable prestige in the South Korean traditional medical community. After he spoke, the clamor in the hall gradually subsided.

Wang Chenning immediately seized the opportunity to begin explaining the content of his presentation.

For the first part of his lecture, Wang Chenning brought up the incident where he helped solve a major problem for the affiliated hospital of the University of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

The moment Wang Chenning began describing the symptoms, many people started to listen intently.

They, too, had encountered such cases, but their final treatment results had been quite poor.

When Wang Chenning announced that all forty-five patients admitted to the First Affiliated Hospital of the University of Traditional Chinese Medicine had been fully cured and discharged—with no fatalities and no one suffering from lasting side effects—the entire hall erupted once more.

Many people refused to believe this result and stood up to accuse Wang Chenning of falsifying the data.

"If anyone doesn’t believe it, you can go to the First Affiliated Hospital of the University of Traditional Chinese Medicine to review the case files, or you can follow up with the discharged patients."

Following that, Wang Chenning played video clips of the treatment process, as well as a segment from his interview with Zhao Xiao’an.

During the interview with Zhao Xiao’an, he had explained many medical theories and treatment principles. His idea back then was to use the program’s broadcast to let more people know how to prevent and treat the illness.

He never expected it could be played as a commentary today, saving him the trouble of explaining it all again.

This first part of Wang Chenning’s lecture alone made many people change their attitude toward him. Quite a few of the older, accomplished doctors in this field no longer looked at him with contempt, but instead listened very seriously to the rest of his presentation.

Although Wu Jingyi and a few others had helped him prepare the presentation, the content was extremely detailed, as most of it had been provided by Wang Chenning himself.

His reinterpretation of the scope of diagnosis and treatment, his new summary of integrating Chinese and Western medicine, his further fusion of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, and his systematization of self-created needling techniques—they were all novel concepts.

Gradually, the noise in the hall died away, and everyone listened intently.

When he reached the most brilliant parts of his lecture, besides the applause from the Huaxia delegation, some of the Koreans also joined in.

Wang Chenning’s lecture lasted a full hour and a half.

The lecture concluded with a final video.

The video showed Wang Chenning performing acupuncture on a patient. His dazzling needle techniques made many gasp in amazement once more.

However, someone immediately asked Wang Chenning if the video had been sped up; otherwise, how could such swift needling techniques be possible?

Wang Chenning just smiled without answering.

After the presentation finished, Wang Chenning bowed to the audience and once again issued his challenge.

After challenging the South Korean medical elites in attendance one more time, Wang Chenning added a remark that made the Koreans want to jump up and curse him: "If you don’t dare to accept my challenge, then I can only assume you have conceded defeat."

The moment he finished speaking, someone stood up to accept his challenge.

The one who accepted his challenge was a middle-aged man in his forties named Jin Yingzhan.

Before coming here, Wang Chenning hadn’t received any files on this person, so he knew nothing of his capabilities.

But he figured this was just a traditional medicine practitioner of average skill; otherwise, he wouldn’t be so unknown.

Wang Chenning didn’t refuse, readily accepting the other’s challenge.

In truth, it was difficult to determine a clear winner in many aspects of traditional medicine competitions. The easiest way to decide a victor was, naturally, through acupuncture.

Competing on effective needle technique was intuitive and practical; the result was obvious at a glance.

Therefore, many of the medical duels in the traditional medical world were direct competitions in acupuncture.

After the middle-aged man named Jin Yingzhan came on stage, he also directly proposed a competition of needling techniques with Wang Chenning.

"You set the rules," Wang Chenning said magnanimously, his previous arrogance gone. "I’ll perform according to whatever rules you set!"

Jin Yingzhan didn’t propose any rules that would favor him. He simply suggested that he and Wang Chenning each perform on an acupuncture dummy to see who could land more effective needles.

Soon, the staff brought out two practice acupuncture dummies.

After the host announced the rules of the competition, the two men immediately sat down and prepared to begin.

They would both perform needling at the same time for a one-minute time limit. Once the minute was up, they had to stop immediately, and the winner would be the one with more effective needles.

With the cry of "Begin!", the needles in their hands seemed to transform into flitting butterflies.

The minute passed quickly. At the host’s shout of "Stop!", both men withdrew their hands, one after the other.

Soon, the number of effective needles was counted.

Jin Yingzhan had 245 effective needles—not a bad score at all.

As for Wang Chenning’s count, the Korean staff had to recount three times before they could finally confirm the number.

"365 needles!" The moment this number was announced, the entire venue erupted.

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!" someone stood up and exclaimed excitedly. "Theoretically, no matter how fast a person is, they couldn’t achieve that number. You’d have to hit more than six needles a second to reach that count! Even if you weren’t aiming for the acupoints and just stabbing into empty air, that would be incredibly difficult."

But most people simply remained silent.

The entire process of Wang Chenning and Jin Yingzhan’s needling had been projected onto the big screen by the cameras. Anyone who had watched closely could see the difference between the two.

The speed of Wang Chenning’s wrist movements was fast yet rhythmic, showing no trace of nervousness.

Achieving such a count within the time limit was clearly no problem for him.

Not many people stood up to question Wang Chenning, and their voices were quickly suppressed.

Wang Chenning had won with an indisputable advantage.

The host had just announced Wang Chenning’s victory when another person stood up from the crowd.

"I am Li Si Zhuang, the Sect Leader of the Southern Medical Sect. I would like to have a match with Mr. Wang."

Seeing that one of South Korea’s most renowned traditional medical experts had stood up to challenge Wang Chenning, the hall erupted in an uproar once again.

Zhao Xiao’an, who had been observing from the sidelines, immediately instructed her assistant to prepare for a live broadcast...

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