Seeing Luo Chao and Nicholas Mirotic at each other's throats, seemingly ready to come to blows at any moment, the oldest person present, Jiang Lianqing, stepped forward.

Jiang Lianqing slowly walked between Luo Chao and Nicholas Mirotic and spoke in a very amicable tone, "You two needn't be so heated. Give me some face, and let this old man share his views on Chinese and Western medicine!"

Seeing Jiang Lianqing step up, Luo Chao composed himself.

Although, nominally, Jiang Lianqing, despite being eighty years old, is Luo Chao's apprentice, Luo Chao has never truly regarded Jiang Lianqing as such.

On the contrary, Luo Chao holds Jiang Lianqing in high esteem.

Luo Chao has always been a young man who respects the elderly and cares for the young, especially facing someone like Jiang Lianqing, rich in life experience and erudition. Luo Chao respects Jiang Lianqing greatly, so he immediately stopped.

As for Nicholas Mirotic on the other side, he was just putting on a show of bravado. Those muscles of his were alright for gym equipment, but when it came to real fights, they were useless.

Fighting mainly depends on one's experience and ruthlessness. Even a muscular person might not have an advantage against someone experienced in fighting, especially when the opponent is someone like Luo Chao, the Soldier King of Huaxia's Dragon Fang Team!

Seeing both calm down, Jiang Lianqing began to speak in his weathered voice, "From my many years of life experience, I recall that in my era of old Chinese medicine, treating illnesses was simple and cheap."

"Firstly, every Chinese doctor was a general practitioner, treating everything from five senses, five organs, trauma, obstetrics, pediatrics, to cold and heat syndromes and lumps - nothing was beyond their scope!"

"Secondly, Chinese medicine required no instruments; diagnosis was made through observation, listening, inquiry, and pulse-taking. Moreover, the sources of Chinese medicine were easily accessible and cheap, often everyday foods or herbs found on the mountain or even by the roadside!"

"Lastly, Chinese medicine didn't need complex tools or surgeries; a single Silver Needle could stimulate the meridians and treat many diseases."

"However, with the advent of Western medicine, everything became complex and expensive. You never know which department's doctor to see, and often a single specialist can't fully treat your illness."

"Without instruments, Western medicine is like a fool, unable to diagnose any illness; without pharmaceutical factories, it's like an idiot, unable to treat any illness; without various complex tools, it's like a cripple, unable to do anything!"

"Contemporary Western medicine started with dissecting corpses and gained its healing ability with the invention of antibiotics. Western medicine sees only dead, isolated organs, tissues, and cells. It misses the living, internal relationships of yin and yang, the Five Elements, and the connections between meridians, acupuncture points, qi, and blood organs!"

"Therefore, I say, Western medicine is clueless about the science of human life. They treat the human body like a machine, using instruments to check which part is broken, thinking that swapping or cleaning parts solves it. But they don't grasp how complex the human body and life are beyond this mechanical viewpoint!"

Luo Chao and the Huaxia Chinese Medicine practitioners nodded repeatedly upon hearing Jiang Lianqing's words.

With his years of life experience and clever metaphors, Jiang Lianqing articulated the distinctions between Chinese and Western medicine vividly and reasonably, even convincing someone like Luo Chao, who usually loved debating and reasoning!

"Hmph, you old fellow, you're saying all this, and I admit our Western medicine does rely on instruments, but that's science! Yet, your Chinese medicine, relying on experience and some acupuncture and massage to heal, I won't comment. But this guy mentioned the Three Souls and Seven Spirits earlier; I'd like to ask you all, is this Chinese medicine or superstition?!"

Despite this, Nicholas Mirotic remained unconvinced and questioned further.

"Mr. Nicholas Mirotic, I can tell you unequivocally, the Three Souls and Seven Spirits I mentioned are not superstition but a mysticism that modern science cannot yet explain!" Luo Chao said confidently.

"In our Chinese medical theory, when a person is about to die, the Seven Spirits scatter first, followed by the Three Souls. Illnesses occur when the Spirits scatter, so medication is needed to stop it from dispersing. If both the Spirits and Power Spirits scatter, it easily leads to possession by ghosts!"

"Of course, in your Western terms, that possession can be seen as a kind of mental illness!"

Luo Chao deliberately referred to it as a mental illness because he knew that someone like Nicholas Mirotic, who'd never seen a ghost, wouldn't believe in possession and might accuse him of promoting superstition!

Seeing Nicholas Mirotic silent, Luo Chao continued, "In Chinese medical theory, a person's spirit can be termed as the Soul. The Soul consists of three parts: the Heaven Soul, Earth Soul, and Life Soul, and the Spirits are seven: One is Sky Charge, two is Cleverness, three is Qi, four is Power, five is Pivot, six is Essence, and seven is Hero."

"We Huaxia people often say a child has lost their soul, or a woman's gaze captivates the soul, or someone else's soul was taken by a fox spirit. These aren't just jokes but possess actual physiological and pathological significance!"

"We in Chinese medicine believe a person has Three Souls: the names are Tai Guang, Shuang Ling, and You Jing, these are the three components of the divine."

"If one soul is lost, it's still fine; losing two, one can survive. But lose all three, and the person becomes a living corpse!"

"Do you know what the standard for determining life and death is in Chinese medicine? Modern medicine, that is, your Western medicine, used to determine life and death by the heartbeat and breathing twenty or thirty years ago."

"Later, it was discovered that many without a heartbeat or breath were revived after a long time, so they changed the standard to brain death."

"But many judged brain-dead, vegetative by your Western medicine were revived by Chinese medicine, leaving you Western doctors puzzled about how to determine life and death!"

"In contrast, Chinese medicine believes that when a person loses their spirit, even if their flesh continues to walk, move, eat, and drink, they are already dead!"

"As a Huaxia poem beautifully says, 'Some people are alive, but they have already died!' Among the Three Souls, Tai Guang is the most crucial, the light of life. If it's gone, so is the person!"

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