BXBX NOVEL Chapter 671 - What's Fang Qiu's Standard in the Martial Arts Community?
Chapter 671 What’s Fang Qiu’s Standard in the Martial Arts Community?
Furthermore, the World Medical Exchange Conference had been continually extended because of this mysterious kid from the East.
This was the only exception ever since the first World Medical Exchange Conference up till now!
After understanding about the agenda of the entire conference, plenty of media outlets began to publicly announce that traditional medicine had completely overturned every reasoning of its modern counterpart.
There were even some media agencies that said this was the most alarming and glorious day in the history of development in medical studies!
Under the influence of their media sources, the Western viewers and readers began to readily focus their attention on this issue.
“There is another pathway in our bodies?”
“What exactly are meridians?”
“Can something that can’t even be seen during dissections really exist?”
“Is this actually true or not? Can something that can’t be seen by the naked eye really exist?”
“In that case, aside from meridians, are there other things in this world that exist just like air and can’t be seen by the naked eye?”
“This kid from the East is really cool. Not only did he prove the source of his knowledge theoretically, he even used a more concrete method to prove that he was right at a live event, while being doubted by everyone else. He’s really too cool to be true!”
Naturally, the focus of the Westerners was not on the usage of Fang Qiu’s medical theories— they felt that it was not too different from theirs, and that it was something for their hospitals and governments to focus on instead. What they were most interested in, however, was that a young person had broken the corrupting influence held by a bunch of old fogeys in an global organization.
“This is really very cool!”
“We are in the age of youth power now. It’s about time those old fogeys at the medical conference retire.”
Of course, the world of modern medicine was shook up the most.
All of the practitioners of modern medicine dared not believe that something could exist in the human body, aside from the usual tissues and organisms that were noticeable by the naked eye. Furthermore, how could the existence of something like that be proved by a kid from Huaxia?
“What are meridians?”
“What are acupuncture points?”
The results of this medical conference had mercilessly smashed their knowledge into pieces.
The entire modern medicine community began to debate.
“How could something like that happen?”
“How could this be possible?”
“Don’t tell me that there are things that exist in this world which we can’t see?”
“If there are things that we cannot notice with the naked eye, then can humans really be considered as the most intelligent beings on this planet?”
“Have I understood this world in the wrong way, or have I been fooled by this world all along?”
“If the meridians and acupuncture points studied in Chinese Medicine are unnoticeable yet real, why can’t I believe that angels and God himself really exist as well?”
Within a short span of time, all sorts of discussions had filled the modern medicine community.
A portion of modern medicine practitioners had even started to feel lost.
Since the meridians described in traditional medicine texts and practices really existed, were what these practitioners learning, those very same studies which overturned the traditional ideas of medicine, actually wrong or right?
Which was actually better— modern or traditional medicine?
Of course, there were also some people who refused to believe.
“This is totally sensationalist!”
“How can things that we can’t see possibly exist? How could they exist in this world if we can’t see them?”
“I feel that there must be something wrong with this entire affair. Even though this kid from the East proved the existence of meridians at the medical conference, we still need a long time to thoroughly ascertain the credibility of his claims.”
“All things need to undergo a very long trial period before we can actually come to a conclusion. In this world, any big event will always be sensationalized every day at the start. The more sensational the news, the more people will want to follow the trend. The truth will only begin to gradually surface once all the short-lived enthusiasm has died down and everyone has begun to calmly research about the issue!”
Late at night, in Huaxia.
In the Wulin online forum.
“Let’s discuss—what sort of level is the power Fang Qiu displayed at?”
Some busybody had made a post, taking advantage of the enthusiasm of this medical conference.
Included in the post was the power Fang Qiu displayed during the medical conference as well as a video someone secretly took of him teaching others to channel their Qi in the school.
Plenty of people began to take notice the moment the post was made.
Out of curiosity, many of them had clicked on the post to read it and join in the discussion the instant it appeared.
Naturally, many of the contributors also consisted of people who had viewed the entire live stream of the medical conference.
One after another, everyone expressed his or her own view in the post.
“It evident that Fang Qiu has learned how to channel the so-called Qi of Chinese Medicine before, from the fact that he can train others in Qigong and that he can use it. However, from the stuff that he showed at the medical conference, most likely he has just achieved a little success in it.”
“I agree with the poster above. While watching the live stream, I heard that Fang Qiu took more than 10 years to reach this level in Qigong. His currently status definitely matches the description of only having trained in Qigong but not martial arts… After all, without the aid of martial arts, it will be impossible to reach the peak of Qigong cultivation.”
“How is this still up for debate? Guys, don’t just be amazed by Fang Qiu’s medical skill. Any clear-minded person will be able to tell with one look that this kid’s prowess in battle is weak— he doesn’t have the quality of an expert. At most, he can just be considered as an avid Qigong practitioner.”
“Still, he must be extremely intelligent to have gained a little skill in Qigong without a foundation in martial arts!”
“I only saw the most basic method of Qi cultivation and meditative Qi channeling from start to end. Just from these two points alone, I can’t see any actual standard in Qigong within him at all.”
“To civilians, such simple Qi cultivation tricks are very hard to do. However, they are just beginner-level skills in the martial arts community. After all, Qigong is not as powerful in battle as kung fu.”
A countless number of people joined in the heated debate in the forum.
Everyone knew that Fang Qiu was very skilled in medicine and they knew that he had managed to prove the existence of Qi. To civilians, this was something that was especially shocking, but to members of the martial arts community, there was nothing surprising about it.
This was because everyone in said community knew about the existence of Qi.
Needless to say, so did the Martial Superiors.
They had already been cultivating their internal Qi in the first place.
Those martial artists who have not attained Martial Superior rank also knew that Qi existed. This was because there many Martial Superiors in the world, and there were plenty of posts about internal Qi in online forums.
Moving on to the issue of meridians.
Aside from Martial Superiors, all other martial arts practitioners were also perfectly clear about the location and uses of each meridian.
As such, the martial arts community were not really moved by what Fang Qiu had done.
But, if one thought about it carefully, the reason why Fang Qiu was able to do such things might be very much linked to kung fu.
Even though Fang Qiu was trained only in Qigong, but it was a subset of kung fu as a whole. Weren’t some ancient martial arts schools divided into groups focused on Qi-based and physical attacks in the first place?
To be honest, the martial arts community was just here to join in the fun.
However, just as everyone was engaged in heated discussion, the appearance of someone caused a commotion among the posters.
“In truth, meditative Insight and the internal Qi of the martial arts community can already be considered as two completely different systems. You can attain Insight after practicing internal Qi up to a certain level, but it’s something that’s useful but not really important to us martial arts practitioners. As such, normal people will not head in this direction.”
“Therefore, from Fang Qiu’s display, we can say that he is only of a rather ordinary level. If you really want me to say what’s the difference between him and an ordinary civilian, well, most likely it’s just that he has trained in Qigong for a prolonged period of time, causing his body to be fitter than normal folks.”
As soon as this statement came out, it immediately attracted many people’s attention.
They noticed the poster’s ID with another look.
He Lanshan!
“The Timeless Blade, Saber of 100 Slashes, Blood-Splatterer, He Lanshan!”
“The God himself!”
“My heavens, we even managed to draw the attention of the Timeless Slasher, the great He Lanshan himself!”
“My respects to you, my hero!”
“Please guide me, Sir, and teach me some techniques.”
“I’m wonderful in bed and 18 this year. Would you like to meet me?”
“I bow at your feet! Please help me breakthrough the plateau I’m stuck at and teach me some new skills!”
“My bust, waist and hip sizes are 85, 58 and 90 respectively. I’m currently at the peak of the martial arts practitioner. I’d like to meet you and train with you.”
A countless number of people began to leave messages and provide support for He Lanshan’s comments like crazy.
He Lanshan was ranked 8th in the Wulin Genius List, and he was skilled in using sabers.
He wielded a divine weapon— a huge saber made of bronze. It was an ancient relic, but it was exceptionally sharp and could easily slice the high-end sabers and swords made with modern technology into two. As such, he was known as the Timeless Blade by the martial arts community at large.
Also, ever since he entered the martial arts community, he had defeated hundreds of opponents within just a few years and shot up the Wulin Genius List to attain 8th rank. It was the reason why he was also called the Saber of 100 Slashes!
This man was greatly supported by and popular with the younger generation of the martial arts community.
As he had achieved his current status by sweeping across the senior ranks of his community as a youth, many of the younger martial artists treated him as their idol.
Of course, more importantly, he was handsome!
Legend had it that he was incredibly good looking.
For the entire night, Huaxia was embroiled in heated debate all over.
Out of the various trending topics on Weibo, there were three related to Fang Qiu. It proved that ever since the issue about the existence of meridians had never dropped, ever since it became a trending topic.
Other news related to him had also shot up to the list of top ten hottest topics. It looked like he was close to hogging all of the trending news topics for now.
At the same time, he had also took up the first three spots on the list of top ten hottest topics on Tieba.
Without a doubt, the topic trending the most was Fang Qiu’s feat of proving the existence of meridians, while the other two were about the shaming of Li Canming as well as the various reports and comments the Western media had done about Fang Qiu.
Over in Switzerland…
After the conclusion of the medical conference, and after he had spent half of the entire day answering the questions of those who had surrounded him, Fang Qiu was directly dragged by someone else into another conference room of the WHO building. Under the request of everyone else, he explained about matters related to Chinese Medicine to them in detail once again.
Of course, he mainly talked about the concept of Chinese Medicine and how its practitioners approached and treated the same kind of illnesses faced by their counterparts in the West.
Aside, he even explained about Chinese medicinal products in detail to everyone.
He talked about the cause for the medicine to take effect, their inherent qualities and their properties.
In fact, he spent a few hours to lay out the foundations of Chinese Medicine to his audience in detail; they only went back halfheartedly after it was midnight.