Chapter 0008: Three Souls and Seven Spirits

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The common saying is that a person has three souls and six spirits.

In fact, it's really Three Souls and Seven Spirits.

The Three Souls are the Fetal Light, the Refreshing Spirit, and the Shadowy Essence.

The Seven Spirits refer to the Swallowing Thief, Corpse Dog, Filth Remover, Stinky Lungs, Sparrow's Shade, Non-Poison, and Submissive Arrow.

A normal person has all Three Souls and Seven Spirits intact, but if someone is missing one of them, then they are not normal.

The first time Ye Qiu saw Li Qianqian, she was being carried into the hospital on a stretcher by the nursing staff. At that moment, Ye Qiu saw that Li Qianqian was missing the Refreshing Spirit among her Three Souls and Seven Spirits.

After returning from a trip with friends during the Spring Festival, Li Qianqian was as if she had lost her soul, like a walking corpse, utterly listless. It was then that her Three Souls and Seven Spirits became problematic.

However, ordinary people do not know this.

Even the other doctors had no idea, which led to Li Qianqian's Refreshing Spirit being disturbed and her being in a coma for over two months, and now it had reached the most critical point, seriously affecting the Fetal Light.

When the Fetal Light among Li Qianqian's Three Souls and Seven Spirits leaves her, it signifies that Li Qianqian will have died.

What Ye Qiu needs to do now is to call back the Refreshing Spirit and Fetal Light from Li Qianqian's Three Souls and Seven Spirits.

Li Qianqian's soul is near her; it's just that normal people can't see it.

Having received the silver needles from the female nurse, Ye Qiu now directly targets the acupoints on Li Qianqian's head with acupuncture, locking in the other spirits that are about to be lost.

Then he summons those two spirits back.

The renowned doctors of both traditional and Western medicine at Jinling Hospital are watching, thinking that Ye Qiu is simply performing acupuncture on Li Qianqian.

However, Chen Fang is curious. Her son, who had grown up without any contact with Traditional Chinese Medicine, seemed very familiar with acupuncture.

By now, Chen Fang was no longer as frightened as before.

She believed that if her son dared to speak and act that way, he definitely could awaken Li Qianqian, the daughter of the deputy mayor.

As Ye Qiu administered acupuncture to Li Qianqian, his lips moved slightly, but nobody else heard what he was saying. At this time, he saw Li Qianqian's soul in the sky above the hospital.

Li Qianqian's soul had been following her ever since she was brought to the hospital, never straying too far.

This situation was similar to those patients on the brink of death who experience a momentary revival.

Li Qianqian's current condition could also be described as a fleeting revival, because she too was hanging on to her last breath, with her Fetal Light and Refreshing Spirit already departing.

Ye Qiu was not only summoning her spirits but also offering Li Qianqian's soul a path to return.

After her soul left her body, Li Qianqian originally could not find the way back. Her soul longed to return to her body but couldn't.

Now, with Ye Qiu's summons, Li Qianqian's soul was slowly returning to her body.

Once Ye Qiu finished the summons and removed the silver needles, he announced, "It's done."

Li Zhiguo, Lu Xiuyu, Secretary Xiao Zhang, Chen Fang, and even Zhou Peng all anxiously looked towards the hospital bed where Li Qianqian lay. In their hesitation about whether a miracle would occur, it seemed as if Li Qianqian still hadn't awakened—right?

But there was a clear change on the electrocardiogram monitor.

"Qianqian is awake!"

Less than two minutes later, Lu Xiuyu saw that Li Qianqian truly had awakened. Although her eyes were still confused, she was indeed awake.

Lu Xiuyu rushed over to tightly embrace her daughter.

Just moments ago, she thought she was about to lose her daughter forever, but now, her child had returned.

"Qianqian, you scared me to death!"

Li Zhiguo was also visibly moved. He had never expected that this ordinary young man could truly cure his daughter's illness.

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The doctors from Jinling Hospital around, whether representatives of renowned Western doctors or those of famous Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) practitioners, were feeling both embarrassed and ashamed.

At first, they had watched Ye Qiu with an attitude of expecting to see a joke.

But now, Li Qianqian had really woken up.

However, up to this moment, they were still unclear about what exactly had been ailing Li Qianqian, and how Ye Qiu had managed to awaken her.

Ye Qiu had just performed acupuncture on a few specific points on Li Qianqian's head, points which those TCM practitioners knew of. But, they didn't understand what was the actual use of this treatment.

"Young man, do you know what exactly has befallen Miss Li?" an elderly TCM doctor asked.

"She first lost the Refreshing Spirit from her Three Souls and Seven Spirits, and then long-time unconsciousness led to the loss of the Fetal Light," Ye Qiu said.

Ye Qiu kept his explanation simple.

But, aside from those elderly TCM doctors, the representatives of Western medicine present did not understand what the Three Souls and Seven Spirits were.

This was because the concept of the Three Souls and Seven Spirits was related to Taoism and TCM but had nothing to do with Western medicine. Although the West also believed in the existence of the soul, their concept was entirely different from that of China.

Moreover, Western medicine does not deal with matters of the soul.

"Could it be that just now, Miss Li's Fetal Light had already left her body, causing her to nearly lose her life?" another elderly TCM doctor asked excitedly.

It was evident that he had grasped the situation.

No wonder they had conducted a full-body examination on Li Qianqian and hadn't found a single issue in the data and lab reports.

A modern medical device would certainly not detect the loss of a soul.

Ye Qiu merely nodded his head.

At this moment, those elderly TCM doctors felt that this young man was not simple, as he could even cure such a difficult illness.

"How did my daughter come to be in this condition?" Li Zhiguo asked.

"I suspect that she encountered something unclean, which affected her soul, and when she returned home, her Refreshing Spirit had already left her body. Then, living life with no consciousness for some time like a walking corpse, she fell into a coma. Over a long period, this affected the Fetal Light, leading to her nearly not surviving till tomorrow evening," Ye Qiu speculated.

"How do you know this?" Lu Xiuyu was profoundly impressed by Ye Qiu, as what he had just described matched her daughter's condition perfectly.

"I have studied medicine," Ye Qiu replied.

However, at this moment, aside from those Western doctors from Jinling Hospital and Zhou Peng who were very curious, Chen Fang was also wondering when her son had ever learned such impressive TCM skills.

"My daughter has always loved adventures. During the Spring Festival, she went out to play with friends, and I don't know exactly where they went. When she came back, she was just as you described," Lu Xiuyu continued.

"In that case, I guess that they must have gone to some secluded mountain, where the impure miasma invaded her body and affected her Three Souls and Seven Spirits," Ye Qiu deduced.

However, now that Li Qianqian had been awakened, it meant she was temporarily safe.

"Young man, is my daughter now fully recovered?"

Li Zhiguo asked.

"She is only temporarily out of life-threatening danger. Her body is still very weak and needs treatment," Ye Qiu said indifferently.

"Then please treat her quickly!"

Lu Xiuyu, wiping the tears from her eyes, urged.

Lu Xiuyu now saw that Li Qianqian had awoken, but her consciousness still seemed quite fuzzy and not fully clear. Yet, just moments ago, Lu Xiuyu could see that this ordinary young man had the ability to cure her daughter's illness.