I Am Your Natural Enemy

Chapter 938 - 343: Gifts and Returns, A Life Out of Time (5k)

Wen Yan had read existing books on meridians and had seen mannequins, but the annotations were quite different from what he wanted to compare.

Because this thing is not like the blood circulation system, which has benefited from the contributions of many anatomy teachers, allowing precise three-dimensional modeling.

This thing is fundamentally not precise, if you say it exists, it can’t be precise, if you say it doesn’t, there are numerous cases proving it’s indeed useful, so the result is mostly as if it exists.

In the end, when applied, it greatly tests personal competence, with high difficulty in replication and high learning costs.

Just like the Scorching Sun Fist of Fuyu Mountain, first-stage children can learn it, as a foundational boxing technique it’s completely fine, but starting from the second stage, without Scorching Sun, it instantly becomes a technique for kidney deficiency.

The thing Wen Yan wanted could only be found by asking someone, and in the end, might require the person to use needles on him to precisely determine the locations.

At this moment, he looked at the book Doctor Wei gave him, the meridian map recorded within it was slightly different from what he had seen before.

This meridian map seemed more like it was added based on modern anatomy, including detailed diagrams, the first draft should be purely hand-drawn, very meticulous.

Wen Yan was looking at the meridian map of the right arm, which resembled the blood circulation map, also like a tree branch, branching continuously level by level.

Under such fine detail, Wen Yan looked at the map, compared it, and from a glance, it had at least 80% overlap with what he had developed.

The branching points were the best to compare, they had an 80% overlap.

Whether it completely overlapped, the map couldn’t confirm a hundred percent because during Wen Yan’s own practice, he experienced it multiple times, some areas slightly deviated, which might cause big issues.

But this map seemed to have no issues.

This high degree of overlap was the first time Wen Yan saw, at least from the previous materials he found, the map didn’t show such a high degree of overlap.

Looking at the map, some areas overlapped, but had no reference value at all, because merely looking at the map, Wen Yan’s practice route had some overlap with the blood circulation map.

In the book Doctor Wei gave, merely the right arm, the first and second-level branches had a high degree of overlap, as for the third-level branches, there were almost none on the map.

To be honest, Wen Yan was somewhat shocked, he was basically sure that this route was roughly the same as his practice.

The shocking part was here, if not for Grandma guiding him, letting him practice now, starting one day would need him to die a hundred eighty times, sometimes, practicing one day would trigger lock blood three to four hundred times.

He tried valiantly while cheating, and the other party could still achieve high overlap in the first and second-level branches, how did they do it? Were they cheating?

"This... is too precious."

Wen Yan glanced at a partial diagram, and didn’t dare to accept it casually.

If it were an ordinary book, Wen Yan would take it without hesitation, even this one weighed heavily on him.

Doctor Wei’s eyes flashed a trace of surprise.

"It’s just an ordinary published copy."

"No, I mean, the contents within are where your father’s painstaking efforts are, too precious."

"If you can see it, you should definitely have it." Wei Jing smiled and pushed the book back.

"The value of this book is very high, why hasn’t it been considered important?"

"Born in an inopportune time, perhaps." Wei Jing smiled calmly.

Wen Yan glanced at the publication date of the book, over thirty years ago, and it was clear Wei Jing didn’t wish to discuss it, so he didn’t ask further.

"I am Wen Yan, living nearby, I won’t be polite with the book, thank you."

"Wei Jing, you’re welcome."

"Did Wei have any thoughts about reprinting it? I believe your father spent countless efforts on this, willing to publish it as a book, certainly hoping to spread it. I happen to know some friends who may help."

"This..." Wei Jing was momentarily unsure what to say, he couldn’t properly say he didn’t want it reprinted.

"Rest assured, Wei, don’t worry, just nod, and leave the rest to me. I think it’s too unfortunate for this book to be buried."

"Then I’ll trouble you."

Wen Yan was delighted, genuinely happy, taking a stroll with a Sparrow Cat turns into a major gain.

After bidding farewell to Wei Jing, he walked away lightly, hugging the book.

Wei Jing watched Wen Yan’s silhouette from afar as he walked deeper along Ornament Avenue, feeling an indescribable sense of appropriateness, as if everything here should be this way, very ordinary.

He sighed softly, feeling both glad the book met someone who recognizes its value, and worried the other party recognizes it too well, forcing him into the spotlight.

In that moment, Wei Jing’s heart was quite conflicted.

Wen Yan held the book and returned home; the content was not particularly easy to understand, on a first read-through he only understood half.

But those meticulously hand-drawn diagrams were understandable at least, suitable as reference for comparison.

He carefully compared his limbs and torso, the maps of first and second-level branches were just comparison diagrams, with no deviation.

After a rough read-through, Wen Yan knew he found treasure, many of the contents were deeply researched.

As a doctor, the research direction was fundamentally medical-related, not related to practice.

The book’s philosophy was that the human body is a whole. As healers, they can’t just look at local parts, they must consider the whole before thinking about specific areas, performing dialectical thinking, and then adjust treatment methods based on the actual situation.