Chapter 771: News Announced

Ren Hongbo carefully cleaned the patient’s wound, applied fresh medicine, and repeatedly reminded him of precautions regarding his diet and blood sugar control before leaving in a hurry.

As for the trivial matter of the patient going out to bask in the sun, in a surgeon’s eyes, it was merely psychological comfort. He naturally wouldn’t pry, let alone consider it a proper “medical treatment.”

Throughout the morning, Li Xu didn’t monopolize the work in the emergency department. Instead, he mostly followed behind the chief resident, Gao Jingyun. Acting as an observer and manager, he familiarized himself with the City Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine’s emergency department—its staffing, equipment, admission procedures, and current issues.

During this time, he only intervened to provide precise dialectical diagnoses and treatment plans for two complex cases with disputed diagnoses. Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, it was lunchtime.

In the afternoon, Li Xu continued to hustle between the emergency department and the inpatient wards.

Meanwhile, at Feng City Medical College.

A blockbuster piece of news sprouted wings and swiftly spread to every corner of the campus.

“Did you hear? Tomorrow afternoon, our outstanding alumni, Senior Brother Li, is returning to our alma mater to give a massive public lecture.”

“What? Are you serious? Where? What time?”

“The academic affairs office just posted a notice on the campus network. It’s a university-wide public lecture in the grand auditorium that holds over a thousand people.”

“Holy crap, I’ve finally waited for this day. I missed it last time, so I definitely have to go this time.”

Upon learning that Li Xu was coming to lecture the entire school, the student body was buzzing with excitement. Wang Xue, Li Lin, Tang Changchun, and the others who had been fortunate enough to attend that small internal seminar became the prime targets for students eagerly seeking details.

“Li Lin, didn’t you go intern at the Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine? You must have seen Senior Brother Li, right? Is he even more handsome in person than in the videos? Are his medical skills really that godly?” In the cafeteria, a few junior female students surrounded Li Lin, gossiping with stars in their eyes.

Li Lin was thoroughly basking in the glory right now. He deliberately cleared his throat, putting on a profound and enigmatic expression. “That goes without saying. Brother Xu’s skills are beyond your imagination. Let me tell you, just yesterday, in the emergency department…”

He went on to embellish the glorious tale of Li Xu performing manual Bone Setting and single-handedly turning around the conditions of all the critically ill patients in the emergency department. The surrounding students were left dumbfounded, gasping in amazement.

As the descendant of a prestigious family, Wang Xue was relatively more reserved. However, she couldn’t hide the anticipation and excitement in her eyes. She had long since compiled Li Xu’s lecture from that day into tens of thousands of words of notes, studying them repeatedly. She was desperate to hear his higher-dimensional insights on traditional Chinese medicine once again.

The school spared no expense in drumming up hype for this lecture. Not only did they string up massive banners across the campus—*Warmly Welcome Our Outstanding Alumni, Vice President of the City Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Dr. Li Xu, Back to Campus to Lecture*—but the school’s publicity department had also preemptively invited several local mainstream media outlets and newspapers in Feng City to provide full-coverage reporting.

The school leaders knew perfectly well that Li Xu was now a golden signboard, serving as the best possible admissions brochure for Feng City Medical College.

Night fell.

After returning home and finishing dinner with Song Sisi, Li Xu buried himself in his study.

Recently, he had spent almost all his free time in there. During the day, he ran the clinic, did rounds, and performed surgeries at the hospital. Only at night could he calm his mind and focus on something he considered even grander and more important than treating illnesses and saving lives: organizing ancient texts.

On the desk lay several thick, thread-bound books that he had hand-copied and annotated himself.

They were the *Yellow Emperor’s Outer Canon* and *Liu Juanzi’s Ghost Remedy*. Both books were peerless treasures sequentially bestowed upon him by the system, and both were ancient traditional Chinese medical texts that had been completely lost or fragmented in real history.

However, the two differed in nature.

Although the original text of *Liu Juanzi’s Ghost Remedy* was lost, it had, after all, been recompiled during the Southern Qi Dynasty. Currently, about five surviving volumes were still handed down, and traces of it could be found in some major medical libraries and ancient text archives. Therefore, if Li Xu were to present a portion of its lost content and claim it was a solitary copy passed down in his family, or something he had unearthed at an old bookstall, it would be shocking but barely plausible.

But the *Yellow Emperor’s Outer Canon* was a completely different story.

This divine ancient book, which enjoyed equal fame with the *Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor*, was almost entirely lost. Throughout the successive dynasties, only highly fragmented contents circulated in unofficial folklore and notes, and even their authenticity could not be verified.

It was like the Atlantis of the traditional Chinese medicine world—a divine medical kingdom that only existed in legends.

Li Xu was desperate to publish the contents of these two books, especially the ultra-advanced concepts regarding microscopic anatomy, surgery, and even organ transplantation found in the *Yellow Emperor’s Outer Canon*. Doing so would benefit the entire traditional Chinese medicine community and human medicine as a whole.

However, an innocent man invites disaster by harboring a treasure. He had to concoct an absolutely reasonable, airtight justification—or rather, find an extremely clever excuse.

How did this content come about? What proof was there that they were the legendary *Yellow Emperor’s Outer Canon* or *Liu Juanzi’s Ghost Remedy*? If he made a rash claim, how would he explain it to those rigorous textual critics and historians?

After all, the significance of these two books far exceeded the realm of pure clinical medicine. To the traditional culture, historical traceability, and even cultural confidence of all of Huaxia, they were national treasures with the explosive yield of a nuclear bomb.

Moreover, in modern academia, there was still massive debate over whether the *Yellow Emperor’s Outer Canon* had actually existed in history at all. Many people believed it was merely a forged work by later generations.

If a young doctor in his twenties were to suddenly jump out and claim that not only had he seen the fragmentary remnants of the *Yellow Emperor’s Outer Canon*, but he could also provide massive amounts of coherent, specific content that had clinically proven to have terrifyingly miraculous curative effects…

And if this content were then verified by linguists and textual critics based on writing style and ancient taboos, proving it was highly likely genuine content from antiquity…

The consequences would be unimaginable.

It wouldn’t just simply alarm the Xinglin Realm. The entire archaeological and historical communities, and even the highest-level national cultural departments, would be immediately alerted. They would absolutely follow the breadcrumbs, leave no stone unturned, and perhaps even mobilize state power to investigate Li Xu’s social connections to trace the specific location where these ancient texts had been unearthed or preserved.

When that time came, they naturally wouldn’t discover that Li Xu possessed a system, but it would still cause him no end of trouble.

Therefore, Li Xu definitely had to find an opportunity to publish these two books, because it was his responsibility. However, before doing so, he had to be extremely meticulous in his approach and set up a flawless, seamless plan.