The atmosphere in the assembly began to grow heavy.
Whenever a great transformation swept through the Sacred Way of any school, some people suddenly soared into the sky like brilliant stars, while others sank like stones into the deep sea, raising not the slightest ripple.
Sometimes, a contest of Sacred Ways was not a struggle over right and wrong, but over whether one still had the right to keep walking the Sacred Way.
Fang Yun continued his explanation as though he had not seen the members of the Medical School leaving.
After explaining exterior and interior patterns, Fang Yun paused briefly, then said slowly, "Next, I will discuss methods of treating epidemic diseases. This necessarily brings us to the eight methods of treatment: the Diaphoresis Method, Emetic Method, Purging Method, Harmonizing Method, Warming Method, Clearing Method, Reducing Method, and Tonifying Method. The eight methods summarized by Sage Zhang Zhongjing are of paramount importance, so this student will not elaborate further. However, although the same eight methods are used, the principles behind treating cold damage diseases and warm-heat diseases differ, as do the actual treatments. Therefore... please consider this carefully. I will take a short break."
Having finished speaking, Fang Yun stepped down from the lectern and returned to his seat.
Everyone in the assembly immediately began whispering to one another, filling the air with an irritating buzz.
Ao Huang was both agitated and excited. Once Fang Yun was seated, he whispered, "We'll hear Literary Guts cracking any moment now, won't we? The exterior and interior patterns you discussed at the beginning still fell within Zhang Zhongjing's Eight Principles. Fundamentally, they still followed the Cold Damage School. Although a few details differed, they didn't mar the larger picture, and most people could accept them. That's why only a few left. But