ZHOU WANG'S MAD DECISION 3

Zhu Su ordered Liu Ku and Teng Shuo to call Shao Rong into the palace. They returned a few days later.

"Master Shao! "Zhu Su immediately greeted Shao Rong who was on the knees to salute him. "So glad to see you again."

Shao Rong looked up, smiling. "Our yuanfen is apparently still continuing, Zhou Wang. Thereby you can get insight from Heaven to call me here."

"That's right, the yuanfen between us still go on. And your yuanfen to dedicate yourself to all Kaifeng people even have been opened!..."

Shao Rong grinned like a Cheshire cat. "Yes... I am so happy, you give me a great chance to dedicate myself to all Ming people... even to the whole world."

In a flash, Zhu Su thought he had misheard. Moreover, Shao Rong also gestured as if nothing special had occurred. Even though Zhu Su, Liu Ku, and Teng Shuo were now staring closely at him, he made no additional comments about it. He only said, "I have brought a lot of medicinal herbs for your research project."

"Very well! Alright, Master Shao, let's come in!"

Having been inside the medical center, Shao Rong immediately took out all of his medicinal herbs collection. He displayed them on the table. His action shortly caught the attention of the whole medical center. The table was soon dense with all Team of Wellbeing members.

"Hey! Such a strange plant! What's its name?" Qing was the first one to speak up.

"It is called Tougucao. Its other name, Tianzhima. In addition, to being consumed, we can also use the leaves to treat swelling due to Toxic," Shao Rong explained.

"How about this?" Rui lifted up a leaf. "Is it watermelon leaf?"

Shao Rong shook his head. "Like watermelon leaf, huh? No, it's different, yet the name is almost the same. It is called Yexigua (Wild Watermelon). We can use the leaves to treat swelling due to Toxic."

"You said, Jinjincai can also be used for Swelling due to Toxic. Then it means that you have already had three kinds of medicinal herbs for Toxic?" This time Zhu Su asked.

"That's right. Most of the herbs I collect are for Toxic."

"Why?"

"Because this is the most dangerous of all diseases. This syndrome will mostly result in death. The Syndrome of Heat, Wind, and Cold may also cause death, but it is still far less than Toxic Syndrome. This is also an important specter in Yi Nan Za Zheng * . That's why I'm interested in focusing on this syndrome. And my treatment has been proven to be very effective in curing the patients. In my clinic, all of my patients are those with severe and difficult symptoms to cure."

"So, do you think that the medicine for Toxic Syndrome are enough to treat all the difficult-to-cure symptoms?" Li Heng asked.

After all, Shao Rong was not only an expert in medicine, he was also an expert in Divination and Aura Interpreter. He immediately figured out that Li Heng was belittling him, and that question was aimed at testing him - to be precise, to prove his incompetence.

However, Shao Rong tried every effort to control his tension. With a calm expression like calm lake water, he replied, "Of course not. My treatment is based on the Basic Theory of Chinese Medicine, in this case, Bianzheng Lunzhi * . The different results we get in diagnosing, the therapy we give to the patients is different. Not everyone who looks for my help suffers from Toxic Syndrome. But," His eyes glistened sharply, "So many people from big cities who can't be cured by the great healers come to me, and get better because of my Principles of Therapy."

"Do the Principle of Therapy which you claim is superior to the great healers in big cities is originated from the Mao Shan Sect?"

"Yes."

"Which department are you from, Dude?"

"Is that important for you to know?"

Now Shao Rong stared sharply at Li Heng. Li Heng stared back at him. "Yes, it's important. We have to know the knowledge we use, is it from a white sect, or heretic sect."

"Physician Li! Master Shao is not a cult member!" Noticing the tension was starting to arouse, Zhu Su quickly intervened.

"Heretical knowledge is always not immediately found in the beginning. So, rather than postpone it, we'd better finish this as early as possible," Li Heng expressed his opinion.

"And if I say that I am from the White Sect, will you believe me, Sir Physician?" Shao Rong raised his eyebrows higher. His tensions began to be out of his control.

"Master Shao, please don't get angry with Physician Li." Trying to calm down the heated atmosphere, Zhu Su now turned to Li Heng. "Physician Li, haven't you agreed not to immediately make a negative stigma? It's only Master Shao and you get so bothered! You know, I intend to find more witchdoctor who come from Jianghu Sects!"

"Your Highness, do you mean your words?!" Zhu Su's statement had provoked tensions.

"Yes, I mean it. Because I want this project to be successful whatever it takes!" Zhu Su answered in perseverance.

In the silence that occurred for a moment, Shao Rong clapped his hands.

"Amazing." He praised. "Your Highness, I have never met anyone like you, not even in the sect where I get cultivation. Everyone tends to follow their subjective choices. Some choose only Yin, or only Yang. But you are different. There is no aggregation of Yin or Yang in your concept... You have already jumped into Wu Ji."

Zhu Su widened his eyes as he gazed at Shao Rong. The young man's words were exactly the same as Gao Qing. "I have... really jumped into Wu Ji?"

Shao Rong nodded. "Yes," He said. "And because of that, you must defend your principles at all costs."

"Shao Rong! Don't slip the concepts of Wu Ji and Tai Ji * into the law of true or false. It is a common sense that the Black Cult is against the law!"

That Kaifeng official who just shouted soon lowered his head as Zhu Su glared at him. "I apologize, Your Highness... but I hope you may understand. If you insist on searching for the practitioners from various kinds of Jianghu Sects - including Dark Cults - then you will be labeled an immoral leader!"

An immoral leader?! How come this official dared to accuse him of that?! And it seemed that not only a person was accusing him. Even though all of them bowed their heads respectfully, but he knew... they were all accusing him of being an immoral leader.

Just because the idea was anti-mainstream and unacceptable by social norms?

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* Bianzheng Lunzhi = the comprehensive analysis of clinical information gained by the four main diagnostic TCM procedures: observation, listening, questioning, and pulse analysis, and it is used to guide the choice of treatment either by acupuncture and/or TCM herbal formulae.

* Yi Nan Za Zheng = a Chinese proverb which means difficult and complicated disease.

* Tai Ji = a Chinese cosmological term for the "Supreme Ultimate" state of undifferentiated absolute and infinite potential, the oneness before duality, from which Yin and Yang originate, can be compared with the old Wuji.