Chapter 78 - 63: Skill That Amazes All

Chapter 78: Chapter 63: Skill That Amazes AllPei Yu supported Lisa as Xu Chunliang opened the needle box, took out a filiform needle, and his gaze fell on Lisa’s back. Her back was exposed low, almost revealing her entire white spine, making it convenient to administer needles. In broad daylight, it wouldn’t be appropriate to strip her clothes and leave her chest and back bare.

Zhao Yongsheng had witnessed Xu Chunliang’s skillful acupoint technique to defeat adversaries, but he did not know that Xu Chunliang also practiced acupuncture. Years of medical experience told him that traditional Chinese medicine was not as effective or rapid for emergency treatment as Western medicine. Lisa was at the brink of life and death, and the only way to snatch her back from death’s grasp was to perform a tracheotomy. But Pei Lin had not yet found the tools he needed. A skillful woman cannot cook without rice, and he had the necessary skills but could not perform them.

The ambulance would take at least ten minutes to arrive. It was already too late.

Xu Chunliang decisively inserted the first needle, targeting Da Zhui.

The Da Zhui acupoint is the meeting point of the three yang meridians and the Governor Vessel. The yang heat of the hand and foot’s three yang meridians converges here, located on the midline of the back, in the depression below the spinous process of the seventh cervical vertebra.

Xu Chunliang used the rapid insertion technique to quickly insert the filiform needle subcutaneously, passing through the fat layer and supraspinous ligament. After breaking through the ligament, the filiform needle clearly had a heavy and tense feeling. He continued to advance five millimeters to stimulate the second needle sensation, as if the insertion site were filled with gas expanding, with pressure spreading outward up to two inches.

As he rotated the filiform needle, he used his index finger to flick the needle handle vigorously, producing a buzzing sound like a bee’s wings in rapid movement. The vibration spread through the needle to the tip, creating a swirling sensation in the acupoint that spread in a wave-like manner along the Governor Vessel.

He withdrew two filiform needles and simultaneously inserted them into the Da Shu acupoint, also known as the Ben Shen acupoint. Ben means root, and Shen opposes ghosts. The acupoint’s qi and blood originate from the heavenly system. It pertains to the foot’s sun bladder meridian, located beside the Governor Vessel.

Inserting vertically, using the rapid puncture method, he broke through the skin, fat layer, and inserted the needle tip into the supraspinous ligament, stimulating the first needle sensation. At this needle sensation, the needle was retained for three minutes.

He then selected two more needles, this time choosing the Feishu acupoint. The lung organ, and "shu" for transmission, is located on the back, transmitting the lung qi, belonging to the foot’s sun bladder meridian.

This insertion was the deepest, and the deeper the needle, the more dangerous it was. Any slight deviation could damage the patient’s internal organs, requiring strict expertise from the acupuncturist. The acupuncture point needed precise insertion.

Xu Chunliang used the twisting insertion technique, breaking through the skin, subcutaneous tissue, trapezius, major and minor rhomboid muscles, and sacrospinalis, stimulating the third needle sensation. A strong feeling of expansion came from deep within the acupoint, with a spreading diameter reaching three inches. After a minute of needling, he slowly elevated the needle, retracted into the fascial plane between the trapezius and rhomboid muscles, stimulating the second needle sensation, with the area of expansion halving in size, like a ball deflating halfway. The airflow moved within the foot’s sun bladder meridian.

Lisa felt as if a stream was flowing through her back, an unprecedented sensation. She still couldn’t breathe, but the suffocating sensation in her chest had noticeably lessened.

After pausing for a minute, Xu Chunliang continued to withdraw the filiform needle from the Feishu acupoint. The needle tip stopped at the outer fascial layer, with a slight stinging sensation. The expansion on her back continued to shrink, and the diameter was now less than an inch, with the airflow from the Feishu acupoint continuously flowing into the meridians.

It was a peculiar feeling, as if channels were dug throughout her body, with clear water streaming through. Lisa’s complexion visibly began to ease, although she still hadn’t regained her breath.

"I found it!" Pei Lin yelled as she ran over with a scalpel and an infusion tube. Zhao Yongsheng’s entire focus was on Lisa’s face. Although he didn’t know what method Xu Chunliang used, one thing was certain: Lisa’s asphyxiation was visibly improving.

Xu Chunliang then re-gripped the double needle handles at the Da Shu acupoint, pushing them deeper, with the needle tips piercing the sacral ligament, stimulating the third needle sensation at the Da Shu acupoint.

Lisa felt an unprecedented strong expansion sensation, spreading upwards below her occipital bone, down to the edges of her twelfth rib, and extended outward to the rear edge of her shoulders, like a large amount of gas was injected into her chest in a short time, akin to a suddenly inflated balloon.

Pei Yu, holding onto Lisa, felt it most clearly. She distinctly felt Lisa’s chest protruding forward, pressing against her own chest, and the astonishing elasticity almost pushed her backward, remarkably similar to inhaling deeply with all your might, expanding the thorax to its limit.

Lisa felt a clear flow rushing down from the top of her head, cascading along her spine as if a waterfall was flowing across her back, clearing all blocked pores and airways throughout her body.

Pei Lin came up beside Zhao Yongsheng, passing the tools she found to him. Zhao Yongsheng hadn’t even noticed her arrival, and Pei Lin had to remind him, "Director Zhao, quickly!"

Zhao Yongsheng gestured for her to be silent.

Xu Chunliang withdrew the filiform needle from the Da Shu acupoint into the rubbery supinate ligament, stimulating the first needle sensation. The previous expansion sensation rapidly contracted within a short time, compressing from the entire chest range to a two-inch diameter.

"Ah!" Lisa’s throat emitted a roar-like sound, with a foul gas expelled from her rapidly contracting chest, released through her throat, and sprayed onto Pei Yu’s face.

It was as if she expelled every bit of air from her lungs.

Xu Chunliang retained the needle at the Da Shu acupoint, first withdrawing the needles from the Feishu and Da Zhui acupoints.

"Ah!"

Lisa breathed heavily, and although her breaths were large and seemed difficult, she had regained autonomous breathing, with the feeling of suffocation gradually disappearing.

A distant ambulance siren was heard approaching.


Xu Chunliang put the remaining needles back into the needle box and said to Pei Yu, "She will be fine. First, take her inside to rest. I will remove the needles in ten minutes." The first needle sensation at Da Shu had to be maintained for fifteen minutes.

Zhao Yongsheng went to explain to the emergency staff, while Pei Lin and Pei Yu helped Lisa inside to rest.

The police arrived, witnessing the chaos outside the shop, began taking photographs for evidence, and then questioned Pei Lin about the details.

Lisa, having survived a near-death experience, felt fortunate but also began to reflect on the problem today’s event posed. She did not want complications and was relieved not to cause further trouble. She consulted with her sister and decided not to pursue the matter further.

After everything had settled, they then realized that Xu Chunliang had disappeared without a trace. Zhao Yongsheng only remembered Xu Chunliang saying he needed to return items after pulling the needle from Lisa, but he never came back.

The actress Lisa was evidently frightened by what happened today. She asked Pei Lin to express her gratitude to Xu Chunliang and left with her assistant without even attending the lunch banquet.

Pei Lin made several phone calls to Xu Chunliang, but his phone went unanswered. Both she and Pei Yu understood that they owed Xu Chunliang a huge debt of gratitude.

Zhao Yongsheng was still deeply shaken, and he kept replaying the scene of Xu Chunliang saving a life. Previously, he always believed that traditional Chinese medicine was far inferior to Western medicine in emergency rescue, especially in modern emergency medicine where traditional Chinese medicine has almost no presence.

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, tracheotomy, and similar emergency techniques had nothing to do with traditional Chinese medicine. Before today, if someone said needle acupuncture could treat acute airway obstruction, he would have deemed it a fantasy, even a reckless approach. But his decades of clinical medical understanding had been overturned.

If Xu Chunliang hadn’t intervened, that actress would have been doomed. Even if Pei Lin had promptly found the tracheotomy kit, and he performed the tracheotomy, it would leave scars on the patient’s throat, which could be a disaster for an actress.

Zhao Yongsheng gazed at the tightly closed doors of Huichun Hall, for the first time wanting to step inside to unravel the mysterious secrets hidden behind its signboard.