In the manor's infirmary, lawyer Leonard Hughes watched Ling Tian's treatment with great tension. Beside him was Dr. Durant, a renowned neurosurgeon in the United States, whom Leonard had hired at great expense.
The two men were separated from the treatment room by a large glass pane. Inside the treatment room, Ling Tian was alone with the patient.
Leonard Hughes knew that he couldn't discern whether Ling Tian could truly cure his father's illness with his own medical knowledge. He needed someone to lend credibility, and thus, the chief physician, Dr. Durant, bore this responsibility.
They watched as Ling Tian expertly injected the patient with a medicinal solution. When asked about the solution, Ling Tian refused to disclose its nature, but he did mention that it was a nutritional agent designed to activate brain cells and promote their regeneration.
Lawyer Leonard Hughes was impressed by Ling Tian's explanation, but Dr. Durant scoffed at it.
In his opinion, nerve cells were incapable of further division. Humans were born with nerve cells that divided and grew until a certain age, after which this process would cease.
When Ling Tian first proposed this treatment plan, Dr. Durant had already concluded that Ling Tian was a fraud.
Next, Ling Tian took out over a dozen silver needles from his medical kit and began to insert them into the patient's body, continuously manipulating the needles.
Ling Tian's actions were intended to accelerate the patient's metabolism and enhance the absorption of the injected medication.
"Dr. Durant, what is your assessment of this Chinese doctor's medical skills?"
"His acupuncture technique is very professional; I can tell that. His needle insertion is precise and swift, indicating rigorous training and extensive clinical experience," Dr. Durant conceded, offering a fair assessment.
In fact, American doctors were not unfamiliar with acupuncture as a treatment method. Although the United States did not recognize traditional Chinese medicine licenses, it did have professional certification for acupuncturists.
Americans viewed acupuncture as a highly effective physical therapy that could alleviate certain ailments. This understanding allowed Dr. Durant to comment on Ling Tian's acupuncture skills.
"However, I don't believe his acupuncture will be of any help to the patient. Acupuncture can only speed up blood circulation and relieve muscle soreness.
This patient is elderly, and his immune system is already very weak. Stimulating it with acupuncture will be of no use.
Especially with a disease like Alzheimer's, where brain cells die locally, stimulating the immune system is futile..."
As they were conversing, they saw Ling Tian take out several more silver needles from his medical kit. These needles, however, appeared different, measuring nearly 20 centimeters in length.
What happened next made Dr. Durant and Lawyer Leonard Hughes' scalps tingle, nearly scaring them to death.
Ling Tian, holding the silver needles, unceremoniously plunged them into the patient's face and head. They clearly saw Ling Tian insert the needles into the patient's eye sockets, temples, and cheeks.
The needles, over 20 centimeters long, were entirely submerged into the patient's head.
"My God, what is he doing? He's a butcher! He's killing him! Stop him!" Dr. Durant shouted hysterically.
In Dr. Durant's view, inserting such long needles into the brain would result in immediate death. He believed Ling Tian was using the guise of medical practice to satisfy his sadistic urges.
However, he was then taken aback because the patient's vital signs displayed on the large screen on the wall were all normal!
Especially the patient's electrocardiogram and pulse were very stable, leaving him unsure of what to do.
Thus, they watched as Ling Tian continuously rotated the base of the silver needles with his hands.
What they saw was merely the surface. In reality, Ling Tian's internal True Essence was continuously flowing into the patient's body, mending the damaged brain cells and nerve cells.
The once withered and weakened nerve cells, nourished by Ling Tian's True Essence, became plump and vibrant.
If a geneticist were to observe these cells with a high-powered electron microscope at this moment, they would be even more astonished. The telomeres within the mitochondria of these cells, which were originally very short, were now repaired to a length comparable to that of an infant's brain cells.
The entire treatment process lasted over an hour. Ling Tian finally stopped the acupuncture, having expended more than half of his True Essence. Ling Tian needed to catch his breath.
He took out a bottle from his medical kit, retrieved a pill, and swallowed it. Ling Tian used the Hui Yuan Dan, a pill specially made with precious medicinal ingredients, to quickly restore his stamina, mental energy, and True Essence.
At this time, the patient's brain had entered its optimal state, with highly active brain cells. If not for the numbing effect of Ling Tian's silver needles, the patient could have even woken up.
However, Ling Tian knew that this state could not last long. The immediate priority was to repair the damaged brain cells.
Next, Ling Tian formed hand seals and recited incantations. He performed a spell that accelerated cellular division to repair wounds within the human body.
Of course, using such a spell had side effects. Energy was conserved; promoting cell division required the consumption of other energy and nutrients, leading to a decline in the patient's condition.
However, Ling Tian had already administered nutritional medication to the patient beforehand and nourished the patient's brain with True Essence. At this moment, there was a large amount of True Essence flowing through the patient's meridians, all of which Ling Tian had injected.
The spell quickly took effect in the patient's brain. The body's continuous supply of nutrients and True Essence was absorbed into the brain. Then, the brain cells and nerve cells, which had remained unchanged for decades, suddenly began to divide.
The newly formed brain cells and nerve cells, under the nourishment of ample energy and True Essence, began to grow at an accelerated rate.
During this process, Ah Gou periodically replenished the patient with nutrient solutions and injected large amounts of True Essence.
This process continued for another hour. It was already midnight when Ling Tian finally finished.
"Mr. Ling Tian, how is it? How should the next stage of treatment proceed?" Lawyer Leonard Hughes shouted hysterically through a microphone across the large isolation glass of the treatment room.
"The procedure is complete, and I believe it was very successful. As for the efficacy, you can see for yourselves!"