Urban Divine Doctor Descends the Mountain
Chapter 1091 - 1090 I Would Rather Die

Chapter 1091: Chapter 1090 I Would Rather Die

Meanwhile, just now, on the other side.

Gu Lingfei hurriedly made a call to Lin Dong, who was at the moment training the "Piranha Special Operations Team" at the War Department. When he received Gu Lingfei’s call, he asked with confusion:

"Ling Fei, what’s wrong?"

Gu Lingfei quickly said, "Teacher Lin Dong, are you aware of the situation with Paocai Nation’s Eastern Medicine?"

Lin Dong hadn’t been paying attention to that, as his mind was focused on the upcoming large comparison of the War Department and the meeting with King Kunlun in a month’s time.

He couldn’t help but ask, "What’s going on with the Eastern Medicine of Paocai Nation?"

"The Eastern Doctors of Paocai Nation, under the leadership of their number one Divine Doctor ’Medical Sage Jin Yuan,’ have started to challenge our Dragon Country."

"Our Gu Family Medical Hall has become one of the first targets of their challenges."

"The owner of the largest Eastern Medical Hall in Demon City, who is also one of the students of Medical Sage Jin Yuan, Park Fangzheng, is currently engaged in a Medical Fight with my father. And it’s that vicious kind of Poison Battle!"

"A Poison Battle?" This was the first time Lin Dong had heard the term and he asked, "What does that mean?"

"It means mutual poisoning and mutual detoxification. If someone can’t find the antidote, unless they kneel down and beg the other party, the winner has the option not to provide an antidote for the loser! The loser will be in danger of losing their life!"

"That Park Fangzheng is said to be the number one Poison Master in all of Dong, and my father might be no match for him. Teacher Lin Dong, could you come with me to our Gu Family Medical Hall?"

On hearing this, Lin Dong’s face darkened.

About the Eastern Medicine of Paocai Nation, Lin Dong had previously encountered an Eastern Medicine practitioner named Li Huanzhen.

He came to Dragon Country to challenge the Hua Family and won against the head of the Hua Family, taking down their golden plaque.

Lin Dong back then had intervened to defeat him, making him hang the golden plaque back up and admit that the ’Eastern Medical Scripture’ was plagiarized from Dragon Country’s major work of Chinese medicine.

When he left, he left behind a sentence saying his master was Medical Sage Jin Yuan, and that he would come to Dragon Country to challenge the famous doctors of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Lin Dong felt that this kind of exchange in the field of medicine, if it was a friendly competition for mutual improvement, was something he would welcome.

But clearly, those Eastern Doctors did not think so!

Just look at this Poison Battle, could this be the act of a respectable member of the medical profession?

A doctor’s original intention is to save lives and heal the wounded. Their way of using poison fights to issue challenges is a complete betrayal of the medical profession’s original intention.

Lin Dong was very angry at the moment, and he replied, "Ling Fei, I’ll come to you right away so we can meet these Eastern Doctors!"

"Good, having Teacher Lin Dong there, we will be in safe hands," Gu Lingfei sighed with relief.

She might not even realize it herself, but Lin Dong had repeatedly given her an immense sense of security. It’s as if with Lin Dong present, there was nothing much to worry about.

With him there, it was a kind of reassurance!

...

Back at the Gu Family Medical Hall.

At the moment, Gu Jiangming was suffering from the effects of the poison administered by Park Fangzheng, which had already started to act and rapidly spread through his body.

One of his arms had swollen to twice its original size and was bruised all over.

Gu Jiangming, unable to identify the poison for the time being, was thus unable to detoxify it.

He could only hurriedly apply the ’Gu family needle method’ to seal the blood vessels in his arm to slow down the spread of the venom.

"Gu Jiangming, it’s useless, your method of using acupuncture to seal the blood vessels will not eradicate the spread of the venom,"

"It will only slightly delay the time!"

"I can tell you the truth, even if you use Gold Needles to seal the acupoints, the venom will still spread. You have at most half an hour; if within half an hour, you still can’t detoxify, then you shall die!"

"I’m giving you a heads-up now; when the time is near, kneel down and beg me, and I will help you detoxify the venom inside you!"

Gu Jiangming let out a muffled groan but didn’t respond, his mind racing as he continually thought.

He hoped to identify the components of the venom based on the symptoms presented during the onset of the poison.

"In these venoms, there’s the Red-crowned Crane..." Gu Jiangming said.

"That’s correct, you’ve identified one poison. But it’s useless, let me tell you, the poison I administered to you just now contains a mixture of eight different poisons. Recognizing one is pointless," Park Fangzheng said with a shrug.

Gu Jiangming’s face turned iron blue, and at the moment he continued to jab needles into himself.

But evidently, it wasn’t very effective.

As time ticked by, twenty minutes had passed in a flash.

At the moment, only ten minutes remained before the poison would take his life.

And the venom within Gu Jiangming’s body had now spread beyond just his arm.

It could be seen that dark Qi had appeared on his chest, abdomen, and other areas.

The dark Qi spread incessantly within his body, accompanied by pain.

"It hurts so much!" Gu Jiangming screamed in agony. At this time, he had only managed to identify the components of two poisons.

But this was far from enough.

"Gu Jiangming, stop struggling. Admit defeat, just kneel and beg me, and acknowledge that your Traditional Chinese Medicine comes from our Eastern Medicine. I will help you neutralize the poison, and you will be fine!" Park Fangzheng said to a pained Gu Jiangming.

"To have me acknowledge Traditional Chinese Medicine comes from your Eastern Medicine, dream on! Even if I die, I wouldn’t admit such groundless accusations!" Gu Jiangming said loudly.

"Quite spirited, aren’t you? But let’s see how much longer you can hold on!" Park Fangzheng said with a sneer.

He didn’t believe anyone could truly be unafraid of death.

When the final minutes approached, he didn’t believe his opponent wouldn’t beg him. Wouldn’t utter those words!

Disappointingly for him, with only five minutes left until the poison would claim Gu Jiangming’s life, Park Fangzheng asked once more if he would beg for mercy.

But Gu Jiangming’s answer remained the same.

Park Fangzheng couldn’t understand, "Gu Jiangming, are you truly not afraid of death? Tell you what, you don’t have to kneel! Just say the words that Traditional Chinese Medicine comes from Eastern Medicine. I will help you neutralize the poison!"

It was probably because he felt forcing someone to kneel was indeed too humiliating. Gu Jiangming, as a renowned doctor, would rather die than suffer such an indignity.

So he withdrew that condition.

As long as Gu Jiangming spoke the words ’Traditional Chinese Medicine comes from Eastern Medicine,’ he would immediately help him neutralize the poison.

He thought that for such a simple sentence, Gu Jiangming wouldn’t risk his life in defiance, right?

Yet Gu Jiangming’s answer remained unchanged.

"In your dreams!"

"You..." Park Fangzheng was also infuriated, "Fine then, just wait for the poison to take your life!"

Time continued to slip away.

And by now, the poison inside Gu Jiangming made him increasingly agonized; he curled up on the ground, moaning in pain.

Seeing this, the people from the Gu Family Medical Hall couldn’t stand it anymore.

In pain, they pleaded, "Doctor Gu, forget it, just admit defeat."

Gu Jiangming looked at those Dragon Country doctors persuading him and shook his head, before declaring resoundingly:

"I can admit that I am outskilled, but I cannot admit that Traditional Chinese Medicine comes from Eastern Medicine. That is the medical experience summed up by countless predecessors of our Dragon Country, created through the heart-wrenching efforts of countless people..."

"Do you not see, Shennong risked his life tasting hundreds of herbs..."

"Do you not see, Li Shizhen climbed mountains and waded through rivers, pouring his heart and soul into compiling the Compendium of Materia Medica..."

"Do you not see, the tale of Hua Tuo in the Period of Disarray treating Guan Yu’s bone-scraping injury, risking his wellbeing to advise Cao Cao, enduring injustices but still selflessly passing down the Qing Nang Medical Book..."

"Do you not see, Zhang Zhongjing, who practiced medicine all his life, saving countless people before composing the ’Treatise on Cold Injury’, thus achieving the name of Saint of Chinese Medicine..."

"Now, these Eastern Medicine practitioners want me to deny the fruits of my predecessors’ labor. I, would, rather, die, than, comply!!!"