Urban Extraordinary Immortal Doctor
Chapter 416: The Ultimate Showdown of Medical Skills

Chapter 416: Chapter 416: The Ultimate Showdown of Medical Skills

The fifth needle among the "Imperial Conquest Ten Needles," "Five Elements Needles," is the strongest needling technique Wang Miaomiao can currently perform, as well as having the best therapeutic effect on various diseases among the first five needles.

Of course, with each needle in the "Imperial Conquest Ten Needles" being more powerful than the last, it is destined that each one will exhaust more True Yuan and mental effort.

Wang Miaomiao originally planned to face Nangong Ming in the ultimate duel using the fourth needle, "Four Symbols Needle," from "Imperial Conquest Ten Needles," but after some deliberation just now, she decided to go all out and use the fifth needle, "Five Elements Needles," hoping to steadily secure the first place.

The exertion of True Yuan and mental effort required to perform the fifth needle had reached the limit that Wang Miaomiao’s current strength could bear, and after administering the needle, she would likely collapse due to the excessive depletion of True Yuan and physical strength.

But for the honor of Doctor Pavilion, Wang Miaomiao decided to take the risk.

Five silver needles, emitting a faint silver gleam under the light, slipped silently into five key acupoints on the woman’s body under the delicate manipulation of Wang Miaomiao’s slender jade-like fingers, as if endowed with sentience and life.

Streams of water-like True Yuan, through the bodies of the five silver needles, surged into the woman’s limbs and throughout her meridians and blood vessels under Wang Miaomiao’s continuous twirling and manipulating, causing her excess fat to tremble uncontrollably and her blood to roar and rush like a torrential flood, flowing ceaselessly.

The incessantly trembling fat and the rapidly flowing blood caused the woman’s body temperature to rise, and soon sweat began to seep out from all over her skin.

Unlike the sweaty man treated by Nangong Ming, the woman’s sweat did not flow down her body but evaporated directly into mist, slowly rising upward.

Wang Miaomiao continued to drive her True Yuan, manipulating the five silver needles on the woman’s body, and during this process, her True Yuan rapidly diminished, and soon streaks of white vapor began to emerge from the top of her head.

Among the thousands of guests seated under the president’s stage, some were martial artist-cum-medical practitioners. They could tell from this sight that Wang Miaomiao was giving it her all, using her own True Yuan to drive the needling technique.

Although these guests were practitioners themselves, they couldn’t fathom the intricacies of the "Five Elements Needles." Instead, they worried that such a consumption of True Yuan for needling might harm the woman’s body and at the same time damage Wang Miaomiao’s own Cultivation, deeming it more trouble than it was worth.

If Wang Miaomiao caused injury to the woman during the treatment, then no matter how effective her weight loss treatment was, she would be deemed a failure by the judges and lose her first-place position.

Nangong Ming and Wang Miaomiao, each showcasing their unique skills on the president’s stage not far from each other, were providing weight loss treatments to the man and woman respectively, one with palm techniques, and the other with acupuncture.

Nangong Ming moved with grace like drifting clouds and flowing water, his palm techniques rapid like lightning and thunder, seeming not so much to be treating a patient but performing a set of extremely profound martial arts, giving a visually stunning impression.

Wang Miaomiao, however, simply walked slowly around the woman, intermittently raising her hands to manipulate the five silver needles on the woman’s body, without any other flashy movements. To the guests watching below, it seemed rather dull and uninteresting.

Therefore, in the hearts of the guests, the balance of victory naturally tilted toward Nangong Ming.

Time passed quickly, and half an hour went by in an instant.

In this half-hour of treatment, both Nangong Ming and Wang Miaomiao had expended a great deal of True Yuan and mental effort.

As an Earth Rank Martial Artist, Nangong Ming had profound True Yuan that was depleted quickly but recovered just as quickly, so he wasn’t much affected.

Wang Miaomiao, although she had practiced the special cultivation technique passed on by Fang Bai, was after all only a Yellow Level Martial Artist. After a significant consumption of her True Yuan, she appeared somewhat powerless, her face turned pale, and her hands started to tremble slightly as she administered the needles.

It was during the half-hour treatment process that the nearly thousand guests at the venue, through the large screens flanking the dais of the conference center, observed a miraculous change taking place in the bodies of the two obese individuals.

The excessively fatty areas on the two individuals, under the palm techniques of Nangong Ming and the acupuncture treatment of Wang Miaomiao, were noticeably slimming down.

There is a saying: amateurs watch the excitement, professionals watch the technique.

In the eyes of the majority of the guests, the therapeutic effects of Nangong Ming and Wang Miaomiao seemed quite similar, but to the ten highly skilled medical judges, subtle differences were discernible.

The obese man treated by Nangong Ming, although much slimmer, had loose, wrinkled skin in the areas he had lost weight, lacking elasticity and luster, as if the fat beneath had been suddenly emptied.

This kind of condition was obviously caused by losing weight too quickly, a very normal occurrence, which would need some time of exercise and recuperation to recover from.

The obese woman treated by Wang Miaomiao, however, fared much better.

As Wang Miaomiao used acupuncture to dissolve the fat in certain areas of the obese woman, she also gave brief massages to those areas. As a result, under the continuous nourishment of her True Yuan, the skin of those rapidly slimming parts appeared much firmer and more luminous.

Therefore, although the obese man and woman treated by Nangong Ming and Wang Miaomiao had lost about the same amount of weight, when it came to the results, Wang Miaomiao obviously had an edge.

If this situation continued, by the time the predetermined treatment duration was over, Nangong Ming would undoubtedly lose.

Nangong Ming, observant and attentive, was treating the obese man while also keeping an eye on the situation over there.

Coming from a reclusive medical family, Nangong Ming possessed superb medical skills and extraordinary vision. With just a fleeting glance towards Wang Miaomiao, he knew that if he did not come up with a plan, he would decidedly lose this ultimate medical competition.

"Bitch, you’re forcing my hand!"

Nangong Ming, driven by malice, flicked his finger, and a red insect, as thin as a hair and nearly invisible to the naked eye, shot towards Wang Miaomiao’s nape like a phantom.

The insect, known as the "Fire Dragon Silkworm," was a rare and venomous creature. Although tiny in size, its toxicity was extreme. A single bite would cause instant numbness, and without timely medical treatment, the victim’s body would fester and rot, leading to a gruesome death.

Because "Fire Dragon Silkworms" were not easy to raise and overly malicious, when Nangong Ming left his seclusion, his seniors specifically admonished him not to use such venomous insects unless it was absolutely necessary.

Nangong Ming had resorted to such a vile tactic as he saw no hope for victory and was driven to desperation by Wang Miaomiao.

As for whether Fang Bai would notice that he was the perpetrator after Wang Miaomiao was bitten by the "Fire Dragon Silkworm," Nangong Ming, in the heat of the moment, did not carefully contemplate these potential consequences.

In the presence of nearly a thousand guests, no one except for Fang Bai had noticed Nangong Ming’s subtle actions, nor did they see the "Fire Dragon Silkworm" he had released.