Chapter 345 - The Mastermind Behind the Scenes! (1/2)

Chapter 345 The Mastermind Behind the Scenes!“Wait a minute.”

The student who blocked Fang Qiu’s path had extremely short hair and was wearing a tracksuit. He looked very upright and righteous.

He stopped Fang Qiu, looked straight at him, and said, “Fang Qiu, I hope that you’ll reflect on some of your actions!”

He sounded very solemn.

“You’ve won a lot of accolades after the Battle of the Pulse of Pregnancy and improved the perception of Chinese Medicine. Chinese Medicine has just barely managed to inch out of the shadow of Western Medicine and has just been acknowledged as scientific, so how could you do such a thing at this crucial juncture?”

“You might just be a student but do you even know how many people look up at you as a representative of Chinese Medicine because of your outstanding results earlier?

“As a representative of this field, I urge you not to make a mistake. Don’t bring down the reputation of Chinese Medicine with you and cause the perception of Chinese Medicine that has just barely improved to drop again!

“Even if Qigong truly exists, you can’t perform it at such a crucial juncture!”

Fang Qiu froze in surprise for a brief moment.

Then, he nodded and said, “I will take your suggestion into consideration. However, you’re probably thinking too highly of me. I’m only a student. I can’t represent Chinese Medicine.”

“You’re right,” the student replied. “At least you have some self-awareness. You’re not fit to represent Chinese Medicine, neither are you able to represent Chinese Medicine, but to the netizens, you are associated with Chinese Medicine. I’m not here to create trouble. I acknowledge that you’re highly-skilled in this field, but I hope that you’ll need my warning!”

Then, the student turned and left.

Fang Qiu shook his head with a soft sigh as he watched this student leave.

Then, he returned to his dorm.

There were a lot of people gossiping and making snide remarks about him on his way back to the dorm, but he ignored them all.

He arrived at his dorm.

“You’re back?”

Sun Hao, who took the first bed closest to the door, immediately rose to his feet. He gathered the stack of letters that were put together in a neat pile on the desk and said, “Take a look at these letters. They are all for you.”

He passed the letters to Fang Qiu.

“What are these?” Fang Qiu asked in confusion.

“Let’s not mention it,” Zhou Xiaotian said with a wry smile.

“You should take a look at them yourself,” Zhou Benzheng said as he shook his head.

“Alas,” Sun Hao said as he heaved a sigh of resignation.

He said helplessly, “I assumed that they were love letters when I first received them. After reining in our curiosity for the longest time, we finally gave in to our curiosity and opened one of those letters, only to find that it was just a letter advising you against performing Qigong.”

Fang Qiu glanced at the letters in his hand and noticed that they were all sent anonymously.

He walked up to his desk, placed these letters on the desk, and opened up all these letters one at a time out of curiosity.

As expected and just as Sun Hao predicted, the letters were all from others urging him not to use Qigong, not to indulge in old-fashioned superstition, and to focus on getting progressively better.

He was surprised to see that most of the authors of these anonymous letters had even formulated a plan for him.

For example, they suggested that he should release a statement to say that he was merely interested in Qigong and that he was just looking into it out of interest.

They also suggested that he should post a statement on Weibo clarifying his stance and announce that he was not practicing Qigong but that he was just practicing a set of movements to strengthen his body.

A strange feeling washed over him as he read these letters.

He had not even met these people, but they protected him and believed in his abilities.

He felt very grateful to these people who continued to support him after what he had done.

However, he did not feel like he was making a mistake. In fact, he would be able to help even more people in the future through his actions, so he had no intention of stopping.

His three roommates gathered around him and looked through the contents of every single letter.

They spent quite a lot of time going through the letters.

Then, Zhu Benzheng placed a hand on Fang Qiu’s shoulder and remarked, “Kid, the controversy surrounding this issue has become even greater, and as I’m sure you can tell, the school has been greatly affected as well. Now that you’ve read these letters, I’m sure you know that the situation does not bode well for you.”

“What do you intend to do next?”

His three friends stared at Fang Qiu in concern.

“I’ll carry on,” he said calmly.

He said these three simple words.

He had always moved forward without looking back, and this was how he managed to achieve a breakthrough in his martial arts abilities. There was no turning back, and he would never retreat, especially since he was not making a mistake.

Why did he have to retreat?

The foundation of Chinese Medicine was blood and Qi that was then reinforced with the five elements and Yin-Yang theories. Thus, why couldn’t he mention Qigong? Why couldn’t he practice Qigong?

The detractors of Chinese Medicine had doubted the very foundations of Chinese Medicine and if he continued to conceal this information, when would Chinese Medicine ever rise to greatness?

“Are you not afraid of others attacking or slandering you? Aren’t you afraid that you would hamper the progress of Chinese Medicine?” Zhu Benzheng asked.

“Yes, it hadn’t been easy to improve the perception of Chinese Medicine,” Zhou Xiaotian added.

“How has the perception of Chinese Medicine improved? It is all because of the kid that the perception of Chinese Medicine has improved. Have you seen him damaging the reputation of Chinese Medicine? At least, I haven’t seen him doing that before,” Sun Hao said.

Sun Hao’s words made Fang Qiu smile.

He looked at Zhu Benzheng and said, “My conscience is clear!”

“As for affecting the reputation of Chinese Medicine, the progress of modern Chinese Medicine has been impeded by Western Medicine for almost a century. In fact, modern Chinese Medicine was forced to conform to the framework of Western Medicine. This is detrimental to the progress of Chinese Medicine.”

“Moreover, Qi exists, and Qigong can be used to cure illnesses.”

“As long as there is another method to heal others that could bring true Qi into existence, then why should I care whether I live or die?”

His three friends gave him the thumbs up after they heard his words.

They understood that Fang Qiu had his own reasons for insisting on doing what he did.

Then again, who didn’t?