Doctor Zhang finally came to his senses. “Senior Doctor Chen, you know this… con artist?” He asked with some difficulty.
Senior Doctor Chen furrowed his brows and replied seriously. “How can you say that, Lil Zhang? What do you mean by a con artist? This person here is an esteemed divine doctor.”
Doctor Zhang was stunned. His suspicion that Doctor Zhang had gone mad became even deeper. Otherwise, he would not have sided with that con artist.
“You must be confused, Senior Doctor Chen! This guy isn’t a Divine Doctor! How can he cure leukemia?” Doctor Zhang said urgently.
“Hah! Lil Zhang, you don’t know the extent of Divine Doctor Tang’s medical skills. You’ll admit that he’s a divine doctor once you have witnessed it with your eyes,” Senior Doctor Chen tried to convince Doctor Zhang.
“Do you remember that a while ago, the son of the previous Secretary got into a car accident and became comatose?”
“Yes, I remember that. Isn’t he cured?” Doctor Zhang said.
“Yes, he is. Do you know who cured him though?”
“Isn’t that you, Senior Doctor Chen?” Doctor Zhang answered doubtfully.
“Ha! That’s what is written in the official records. The truth is, Divine Doctor Tang had cured him with acupuncture. If you don’t believe that, you can ask the Hospital Director. The truth was reported to him back then.”
Doctor Zhang’s jaw dropped when he heard that.
“Not only that! There’s Old Master He too. Back then, Old Master He was suffering from a cranial hemorrhage and multiple organ failures. He was already on the brink of death, but Divine Doctor Tang saved him and extended his life for three years.”
Doctor Zhang was dumbstruck. He could not close his mouth.
‘How is that possible…?’ He stared at Tang Hao, trying to process the information.
If that was true, then what was the point of going through medical school just to be defeated by a kid of seventeen or eighteen?
That was utterly ridiculous!
“I can understand how you’re feeling now, Lil Zhang. I didn’t believe it either when I first met Divine Doctor Tang. Now I’m a believer.
“Divine Doctor Tang’s medical skills are extraordinary. We’re no match for him!” Senior Doctor Chen said.
Doctor Zhang’s face was still sullen. He gritted his teeth and said, “All that might be true, but I don’t believe that he can cure Xin’er’s leukemia! She’s already in the late stage. There is no way in this world that she will be fully cured.”
“Well…” Senior Doctor Chen hesitated. He turned to look at Tang Hao.
“That’s true. Modern medical technology can’t cure her. However, there’s something in this world that exceeds the capabilities of medical science,” Tang Hao said calmly.
“If everything goes well, I can produce a remedy in three days. The seventy percent chance I said earlier is the success rate of producing the remedy. If the remedy is a success, then the probability of curing her is one hundred percent.”
Doctor Zhang smirked. “One hundred percent? That’s a pretty big claim! I don’t believe it!”
“You don’t believe it? We’ll see!” Tang Hao said coldly.
Doctor Zhang had been picking on him ever since they met. He had tolerated him out of respect that he was a doctor, but his patience had its limits.
“No! What happens if there’s a complication? As Xin’er’s doctor in charge, I can’t agree to that!” Doctor Zhang yelled.
“Hmph! I’ll bear all responsibility if any complications arise. It’s not like you can cure her anyway!” Tang Hao smirked.
“You…” Doctor Zhang was livid. His fists were clenched tightly.
“Hey, calm down, you young people! I’ll ask the opinion of the Director. Then, I’ll get Xin’er’s mother’s consent. If both of them agree, we will proceed,” Senior Doctor Chen said, then went out of the room to make a phone call to the hospital director.
Meanwhile, Zhao Qingxue made a phone call to Xin’er’s mother.
After explaining the situation to them, both the hospital director and Xin’er’s mother agreed to it.
“I’ll be producing the remedy then. I’ll inform you when I’m done!” Tang Hao said while giving Doctor Zhang a side-eye. He left the room with Zhao Qingxue.
“Are you confident about this, Tang Hao?” Zhao Qingxue asked apprehensively.
“Don’t worry! I’ll do my best!” Tang Hao replied calmly.
In fact, he was quite confident about it.
Leukemia was a disease of the blood. If blood was the problem, then the most direct remedy was to remove the bad blood and infuse new blood into the patient’s body. That would cure the disease at its source.
What medical sciences could not do, alchemy could.
Chapter 159 - What A Miracle!
Two days passed in the blink of an eye.
Tang Hao had been researching the art of pill-making in those two days. Meanwhile, he had requested the help of Liu Dajun and the other bosses in gathering ingredients.
The pill that he was going to make was called the Blood Substitution Pill. Five out of the eighteen required ingredients were extremely rare and could not be easily found in the open market.
Fortunately, it was much easier to find what he wanted online and have them delivered. He could easily buy anything across the entire Huaxia.
Tang Hao had prepared ten portions of ingredients in two short days. That allowed for ten attempts.
He only needed one success out of the ten attempts.
That night, Tang Hao sat at the rooftop of the building and started making pills.
Tang Hao was considered a pill-making novice after having succeeded in making the Jade Bone Pill and the Qi Restoration Pill. However, he was still very far away from being considered a true practitioner.
In any case, he knew that he had to be patient in his research. There were no shortcuts in the art of pill-making.
He ignited the alchemical furnace and controlled the intensity of the flames, then inserted the ingredients one by one.
Once the ingredients were refined, the fusion process started.
“Boom!” An explosion was soon heard.
Smoke poured from the furnace and blackened Tang Hao’s face.
Tang Hao was a little frustrated. He composed himself and started the process again.
The process of making the Blood Substitution Pill was a lot more difficult than the Jade Bone Pill or the Qi Restoration Pill. Tang Hao’s face darkened, both literally and metaphorically, after each failure.
He failed eight times in a row.
Tang Hao took a break. He thought long and hard about his failures and analyzed every step, then started his ninth attempt.
This time, he took precautions at every step of the process, and the process went without a hitch.
Half an hour later, a pill was made.
He opened the lid of the alchemical furnace. A blood-red pill the size of a longan fruit was ejected from the furnace and landed in the middle of Tang Hao’s palm.
Tang Hao beheld the pill, then smiled contentedly.
Now that the pill was done, there was hope for Xin’er!
The next morning, Tang Hao sent Sis Xiangyi off at the door after breakfast. Then, he gave a call to Zhao Qingxue and Senior Doctor Chen.
After that, Tang Hao rode on the little three-wheeled motorcycle and went to the hospital.
He hopped off the little three-wheeled motorcycle at the entrance to the hospital and saw Senior Doctor Chen already waiting for him there. Behind him were many doctors, both young and old, in their white coats.
Every one of them looked at Tang Hao. Some of them looked doubtful, while others were excited.
In the past few days, the news of Divine Doctor Tang had spread throughout the entire hospital.
Everyone was actively discussing how the Divine Doctor was going to cure a little girl’s leukemia.
Most of the doctors did not bel
ieve it. They were there to observe the procedure while being suspicious of the so-called Divine Doctor.
“You’re finally here, Divine Doctor Tang!” Senior Doctor Chen stepped forward to shake Tang Hao’s hand.
Many other doctors also stepped forward to greet him.
Doctor Zhang stood at the back of the crowd, watching all that with a steely gaze.
‘Divine Doctor? I’d like to see you humiliated in front of everyone today!’ He thought as his lips narrowed into a mocking grin.
A short while later, a convoy of police cars came through the entrance. There were five or six of them.
The car doors opened and many police officers came out.
Tang Hao was surprised when he saw that. Not only Zhao Qingxue was here, but also Captain Zhou, Captain Gao, and even Commissioner Xia.
‘What a spectacle!’ Tang Hao thought.
“Lil Bro Tang!” Commissioner Xia greeted Tang Hao heartily as he came forth and shook his hand.
“Lil Bro Tang… Oh, no, I should call you Divine Doctor Tang here!”
“Don’t call me that, I guess you can just call me Doctor. The ‘Divine Doctor’ title is too grand for me!” Tang Hao smiled drily.
“You’re just being humble. I’ve already heard of what you did.”
Commissioner Xia smiled. “I’ll have to personally thank you this time. I’ve watched Xin’er grow up and I’ve treated her as my granddaughter. I feel so sorry to see her suffer!
“His father was a hero. He sacrificed himself while he fought with a criminal to save a crowd of people. All of us are concerned about Xin’er’s condition,” Captain Zhou said as he came forth to greet Tang Hao.
“You don’t have to thank me now. We can wait until she is cured!” Tang Hao said.
Commissioner Xia laughed. “You sound like you’re very confident!”
Tang Hao smiled but did not reply. However, his expression had given Commissioner Xia, Captain Zhou, and the other police officers a confidence boost.
Zhao Qingxue came over with a woman of about thirty years of age.
The woman looked sickly and tired. She was obviously overworked.
“Sis Wu, this is the Divine Doctor that I’ve been telling you,” Zhao Qingxue said to the woman as she pointed at Tang Hao.
That woman rushed forward and grabbed Tang Hao’s hand. “Can you cure my daughter, Divine Doctor?” She asked urgently.
Tang Hao grinned widely. “Don’t worry, you can leave it to me!”
The woman smiled with relief, though she still looked worried.
The Divine Doctor looked too young. She would not have entrusted her daughter’s life to him, if not that she had run out of options, and that Zhao Qingxue and even Commissioner Xia vouched for him.
“Alright, we should begin!”
Tang Hao turned around and walked toward the hospital room.
Everyone followed behind. It was a majestic scene.
People who did not know what was going on might think that there was a sting operation!
Tang Hao, Senior Doctor Chen, and a few nurses entered the room, while the rest waited outside.
Lil Xin’er was sleeping soundly on the bed.
Tang Hao went next to the bed and retrieved two items from his bag. One was a small jade bottle, while the other was a glass vial filled with a dark red fluid.
Tang Hao opened the vial and fed Lil Xin’er a small amount of the liquid.
That was an anesthetic.
The Blood Substitution Pill would cause great pain to the entire body. It was safer to anesthetize her first.
About two minutes later, Tang Hao opened the little jade bottle and took out the blood-red pill.
He opened Lil Xin’er’s mouth and placed the pill inside. Then, he channeled qi to dissolve the pill.
Tang Hao breathed a sigh of relief.
“It’s done!” He said.
“What? That’s it?” Senior Doctor Chen could not believe it.
“That’s it! Now we’ll just have to sit around and wait for about half an hour!”
Tang Hao clapped his hands and sat down on a nearby chair.
Senior Doctor Chen also sat down and waited.
The nurses were clueless as they looked at each other. They sat down and waited.
About eight minutes later, a nurse pointed at the bed and exclaimed in surprise. “Everyone, look!”
Senior Doctor Chen jumped. He was dumbstruck when he saw what happened.
Lil Xin’er was still sleeping on the bed, while bright red blood oozed out of every pore of her body and stained the sheets.
“What’s going on?” Senior Doctor Chen was immediately worried.
“Don’t worry! That’s normal!” Tang Hao reassured them. “You’ll see the effects very soon.”
Blood pooled on the bed, and the nurses got up to wipe it away.
Another ten minutes or so passed before the blood stopped.
The nurses cleaned up Lil Xin’er’s body. When they looked closely at her, they exclaimed in surprise.
Lil Xin’er was originally sickly and pale. However, her face was now flushed with color and even looked slightly plump.
They looked at the skin on her body and found that color had also returned to her body.
“Oh my god… this is a miracle!”
Senior Doctor Chen trembled with excitement.
Chapter 160 - That’s How You Should Wear It
Everyone in the room exclaimed in surprise.
Senior Doctor Chen and the nurses were extremely emotional.
“Miracle! This is a miracle!” Senior Doctor Chen muttered incredulously.
There was no other word to describe the scene in front of him, other than a miracle.
Lil Xin’er’s complexion was no different than a normal, healthy girl.
He felt as though he was in a dream. Was that really leukemia, the cancer of the blood, which made people shudder when they heard its name?
The Divine Doctor cured it in half an hour, just by feeding the patient a pill!
That was too amazing!
“You’re incredible, Divine Doctor Tang!” Senior Doctor Chen said emotionally as he grabbed Tang Hao’s hands.
The nurses also regarded Tang Hao with newfound respect.
Tang Hao smiled. “Don’t be too emotional, Senior Doctor Chen. Let me perform another examination on Lil Xin’er.”
“Yes, yes!” Senior Doctor Chen immediately let go of his hands.
Tang Hao stepped next to the bed, then gently pressed two fingers on Lil Xin’er’s wrist. After a while, he breathed a sigh of relief.
“Alright, there’s no more problems!” Tang Hao smiled. “Lil Xin’er’s body is still weak. She just needs some nourishment and she’ll be out of the hospital in no time.”
“You’re amazing, Divine Doctor Tang! You’ve once again blown away my expectations!” Senior Doctor Chen said heartily.
Meanwhile, the atmosphere in the corridor outside the room was heavy and tense.
The doctors and the police officers waiting outside were starting to become impatient. They frequently looked at the closed door.
“It’s already half an hour!” Someone in the crowd mumbled as they looked at their watch.
“I don’t believe that he can cure leukemia!” Doctor Zhang smirked as he leaned against the wall and looked toward the door.
“I don’t believe it either. Cure leukemia by feeding a pill? That’s nothing but a fairy tale!” Another doctor chimed in.
“Right! That’s just too far-fetched!”
Many doctors agreed with them.
The police officers started to become apprehensive when they heard the doctors’ discussion.
Just then, the door opened and Tang Hao stepped out.
The corridor immediately exploded with activity.
“How is it, Divine Doctor Tang?” Everyone asked as they crowded around him.
“Calm down, everyone!” Tang Hao said loudly as he waved his hands. “Everythi
ng went fine! Xin’er’s leukemia is cured!”
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they heard that. Soon, cheers erupted.
Wu Lingfang, Xin’er’s mother, was crying tears of joy.
Doctor Zhang felt a shiver run down his spine. He stood stiffly on the spot.
“How is that possible?” He tried to process the news as his face gradually turned ashen.
“I don’t believe it! It’s leukemia we’re talking about! How is it so easily cured? Are you sure that you’ve cured it? We still need to run some tests!” He roared savagely.
The cheers immediately ceased. The atmosphere in the corridor was once again heavy.
“Right, how can it be so easily cured? This must be a scam!” Many doctors concurred.
Senior Doctor Chen came out of the room and said, “You can go into the room and witness for yourself if you don’t believe it. We can run the tests later and see who’s right!”
“Right! We’ll have to look at the patient first! Then run some tests!”
The group of doctors rushed into the room. The older doctors were more nervous than the young ones.
They were all dumbstruck when they rushed next to the bed and looked at the patient closely.
They had seen the patient with their eyes half an hour ago. She looked thin and sickly. Just half an hour later, she had undergone a huge transformation. Her face was flushed with color, and she looked perfectly healthy.
“Oh my god! This is incredible!” The old doctors exclaimed in surprise.
Doctor Zhang squeezed past the crowd to see. He was immediately shocked and stood there like a block of wood.
His face turned pale in an instant. His body shook and wavered as though he was a leaking balloon, and he almost fell sitting down.
“How could it be…” He mumbled in a daze.
“Quick! Push her into the laboratory!”
Very quickly, the doctors came to their senses and rushed to work. They pushed Lil Xin’er out of the room to perform some tests.
The test results were soon released. Lil Xin’er was proven to be completely cured of leukemia, and she was on her way to full recovery.
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