Because some evil spirits are not extremely wicked, and may even be quite pitiful, the practitioner will leave them a way out, which is also to protect the practitioner from backlash and leave the consequences to the person being treated.
The book also records an example of someone who received thirteen needles at once. That person was a traditional Chinese medicine doctor surnamed Liao. The thirteen needles were his family's acupuncture technique. After receiving the thirteen needles, Dr. Liao suffered a backlash, and neither he nor his descendants met a good end.
The original owner's maternal grandfather also had the surname Liao and knew this acupuncture technique. Could the original owner's maternal grandfather have been a descendant of the Liao family?
The book also says that the Thirteen Ghost Needles are only the surface-level needling technique; there are another thirteen needles behind it, specifically used to protect the practitioner.
Before receiving acupuncture, one should first apply a few needles to seal the seven orifices to avoid any backlash.
Even so, most of the doctors who used this acupuncture technique were in poor health, or even had few children and few descendants.
Li Xiyue wondered to herself, "The original owner's maternal grandfather's family was also very small. Could it be because of this acupuncture technique?"
The Thirteen Points correspond to thirteen acupoints and thirteen mnemonic rhymes.
In the eyes of Taoism and Traditional Chinese Medicine, the human body is a huge network of meridians, including twelve regular meridians and eight extraordinary meridians. These meridians govern different organs of the body, each performing its own function, thereby ensuring the normal functioning of the three souls and seven spirits in the human body.
Acupoints are the intersections of meridians. Different meridians have different functions and importance of acupoints, hence the distinction between "life acupoints" and "death acupoints".
Doctors treat illness by finding the vital points, while harming people by finding their fatal points.
Because life is governed by Yang and death by Yin, this Yin and Yang constitute the Tai Chi universe of the human body, and the acupoints that are exactly at the intersection of Yin and Yang are the Thirteen Ghost Points.
In the eyes of the ancients, ghosts and monsters were directly related to people's life and death. People have three souls and seven spirits. The three souls govern the spirit, and the seven spirits govern the body. If ghosts or monsters invade the seven spirits, the body and organs of a person will become abnormal, and the doctor only needs to treat the symptoms.
If a person's three souls become tainted by ghostly energy, they will suffer from mental instability, go mad, and become insane.
Sun Simiao, the "King of Medicine," said in his book "Prescriptions Worth a Thousand Pieces of Gold" that this set of acupuncture techniques is specifically for treating strange diseases and has remarkable effects on symptoms such as possession by evil spirits and ghosts, inexplicable madness, and sudden loss of mental health.
The book also contains a diagram of the Thirteen Ghost Needles acupoints and detailed explanations, as well as mnemonic rhymes.
The record was incredibly detailed, and Li Xiyue was somewhat tempted after reading it.
After much deliberation, Li Xiyue made a decision: she would learn.
Whether or not to use it is one thing, but whether or not it will work is another matter entirely.
She bought a model of acupoints in traditional Chinese medicine from a virtual shopping mall and began to study it by writing a book.
She was so engrossed in her studies that time slipped by, and before she knew it, she had been studying all night.
As dawn broke, she stretched and stopped.
This acupuncture technique can't be learned in a day or two, and a fat person doesn't get fat overnight. We'll continue tomorrow.
She drank a cup of spiritual spring water and made herself breakfast in the space.
I poached two eggs, cooked a pot of lean meat porridge, and made a cup of soy milk.
After eating and drinking her fill, she left the space. She hadn't slept all night, but she didn't feel sleepy. On the contrary, because of the new learning tasks, she was full of energy.
On summer mornings, before the sun has even risen, the eastern sky is already ablaze with fiery red.
The roosters crowed in unison, and the barking of dogs echoed through the village, heralding the arrival of a new day.
Meanwhile, from the educated youth settlement, another commotion arose...
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