"Pfft..."
Chen Tao, his expression filled with pain, suddenly spat out a mouthful of dark blood and then became still.
"Hubby!"
Du Haixia's face turned pale with fright at the sudden change. She knelt beside the sofa and shook her husband vigorously.
But Chen Tao seemed truly dead, showing no signs of movement.
"Doctor Luo, please, save Chen Tao, please..."
Du Haixia no longer believed Chu Fan and begged Luo Wuwen to intervene.
Luo Wuwen glanced at Chen Tao's darkening face and shook his head.
"He can't be saved."
"I told you earlier, this needle will definitely cost him his life."
Du Haixia gasped, unable to accept this reality, and fainted on the spot.
Chen Yicheng's eyes were red, staring at Chu Fan as if he wanted to kill him.
"You, you killed my father!"
"You pay up!"
"If you don't pay now, you're not leaving!"
It had to be said that Chen Yicheng, this unfilial son, was extremely competent in his role.
With his father motionless and his mother fainted, his first thought wasn't to call for an ambulance or see if Chen Tao could be saved, but to demand money from Chu Fan.
Chu Fan remained calm in the face of this.
All the changes in Chen Tao were within his expectations.
The God of Medicine once said, "For incurable diseases, there is no breakthrough without destruction; after destruction, there is establishment."
In simple terms, to cure an incurable disease, one must go through the process of death to achieve a complete recovery.
For a heaven-defying elixir like the Blood Replenishing Pill, let alone mere paralysis,
Even if one was at death's door and took it, their life could be pulled back.
"Kid, pay up!"
Chen Yicheng lunged in front of Chu Fan.
"Is money that important to you?" Chu Fan countered.
"Stop blabbering. I have proof, you said yourself that if something happened to my dad, you'd compensate one million!"
"Now that you've killed him, one million isn't enough!"
Chu Fan let out a helpless cold laugh, turned, and helped the unconscious Du Haixia to lie down on the sofa, then sat beside her.
"Wait three minutes. If Uncle Chen doesn't wake up after three minutes, I'll give you ten million."
"But if Uncle Chen wakes up, you'll shut your damned mouth and stop scheming.
If you only ever talk about money, it's not for Uncle Chen and Auntie Du's sake that I wouldn't slap you to death."
Chen Yicheng's face turned unpleasant at being rebuked. He snorted and took out his phone to start the timer.
Luo Wuwen walked to Chen Tao's side, felt his nose to confirm he wasn't breathing, and then looked at the calm Chu Fan.
At this moment, he felt a strange sensation.
Under normal circumstances, if someone died during treatment, the practitioner would be flustered and anxious, looking for ways to compensate.
Chen Tao had stopped breathing, yet Chu Fan wasn't the least bit worried.
This peculiar situation made Luo Wuwen wonder what he was doing.
Was he feigning composure?
Or did he truly believe Chen Tao would be resurrected in three minutes?
The strange feeling prompted Luo Wuwen to shift his gaze to Chen Tao's back.
As he looked at the path of the needle insertion points, his pupils gradually widened.
"This... is this the Grand Luo Immortal Needle Array, lost for ages from the God of Medicine?"
Luo Wuwen asked himself.
The Grand Luo Immortal Needle Array was rumored to be able to cure any illness.
Even an elderly person in their final moments could live for another ten years after performing this immortal array.
Regarding the Grand Luo Immortal Needle Array, Luo Wuwen had only heard of it once at a medical exchange conference from the most renowned Medical Emperor of the Dragon God Country.
He had even sketched the general path of needle insertion, which he had learned from a damaged ancient text.
He only knew the route but not the specific sequence of acupoints, making it impossible to perform the technique.
The more he looked now, the more Luo Wuwen felt that the needle path on Chen Tao's back was exactly as the Medical Emperor had described.
Coupled with Chu Fan's composure.
Luo Wuwen could no longer remain calm. He turned to Chu Fan and asked with a trembling voice, "Little brother, you, is this the Grand Luo Immortal Needle Array?"
Chu Fan's eyelids lifted slightly. "Who are you?"
"Do we know each other?"
"Kid, Doctor Luo is a renowned physician in Shanhai City. You'd better watch what you say!" Chen Yicheng chimed in.
Chu Fan couldn't even be bothered to look at him.
Ignored, Chen Yicheng took a deep breath, suppressed the anger in his heart, and thought he would wait another two minutes.
If his father didn't wake up in two minutes, he would settle the score with Chu Fan.
Luo Wuwen didn't argue. He refocused on Chen Tao's back, examining it and thinking carefully.
At this moment, he truly regretted not actively asking for the Medical Emperor's contact information back then.
Otherwise, he could confirm now whether the silver needle path on Chen Tao's back was the long-lost Grand Luo Immortal Needle Array.
If it was, then no matter what, he would have to kowtow to Chu Fan and beg for the method of performing the Grand Luo Immortal Needle Array.
With this technique, Luo Wuwen knew it would be effortless to become the strongest physician in Shanhai City.
Three minutes, not long, not short.
When the timer showed three minutes, Chen Yicheng, holding his phone, walked up to Chu Fan.
"Kid, three minutes are up, you..."
"Cough cough..."
A hoarse cough suddenly sounded.
The black color on Chen Tao's face rapidly disappeared, and his complexion quickly turned rosy.
Seeing his father awaken, Chen Yicheng was stunned, and Luo Wuwen was also dumbfounded.
Although he had expected this outcome.
Guesses were guesses, but facts were king.
A person who had clearly stopped breathing suddenly came back to life. Luo Wuwen, despite being a physician, had never witnessed such a thing.
Chu Fan walked to Chen Tao's side, swept his palm over the area above his back, and all the needles were collected.
"This..."
Luo Wuwen was once again shocked.
As a physician, how could he not understand the method of withdrawing needles?
Chu Fan's technique was unheard of and unseen.
"Uncle Chen, how are you feeling?"
Chen Tao felt himself slightly and replied with a smile, "I feel very good, warm all over."
"Then Uncle Chen, you shouldn't lie down anymore, sit up!"
Chen Tao was taken aback. "Can I sit up by myself?"
Chu Fan nodded. "Uncle Chen, you can feel warmth all over, why can't you sit up?"
As soon as he said this, Chen Tao suddenly realized that before, he had almost no sensation from his neck down.
His expression became excited as he tried to support himself and sit up slowly.
"I, I can really move now?"
"I can really move now?"
Chen Tao looked at his raised hands in disbelief.
He had never imagined that he would be able to lift his hands again.
Du Haixia slowly awoke and saw her husband sitting up on the sofa, raising his hands with a dazed expression.
"Hubby, you, you can really move now?"
"Yes, I can really move now!"
The couple embraced, crying with emotion.
Chen Yicheng, having regained his senses, watched this scene, his throat constricting.
He hadn't expected Chu Fan to actually cure his father.
"Uncle Chen, because you haven't moved for a long time, your limbs will need time to regain their strength slowly."
"Later, I'll have someone send over a medicinal soup. After you drink it, your recovery will be even faster!"
The couple nodded gratefully.
*Thud!*
The heavy sound of knees hitting the floor rang out beside them.
"Master, I, Luo Wuwen, was blind just now. Please, Master, do not hold grudges."
"Master, please, take me as your disciple!"
Luo Wuwen heavily kowtowed on the floor, his voice muffled, with considerable force.
The distinguished Physician Luo of Shanhai City kneeling to Chu Fan and begging to be taken as a disciple?
Chen Tao's family of three was dumbfounded.
Chu Fan seemed not to see him, ignoring him completely, and sat down on the side.
"Master, please, take me as your disciple."
"Master, if you don't agree, I, Luo Wuwen, will kowtow to death here today."
Luo Wuwen followed Chu Fan.
Chu Fan chuckled.
"Elder, I'm sorry, but if you must die, die outside. Don't die here and scare people."