Ren Yisheng's Astonishment

"Pathological?"

Zhang Xuezhou was taken aback.

For a moment, he wanted to discuss his schizophrenia in private and see whether Ren Yisheng could treat him for free.

But after spending only a few dozen minutes together, Zhang Xuezhou felt that he and Ren Yisheng weren't close enough for that. In particular, he needed the man to keep his schizophrenia a secret, lest Canglan Academy make him take a leave of absence and leave him without even the qualifications to visit Ren Yisheng's home.

Things had always proceeded one step at a time. Charging straight in, fast and impatient, was obviously liable to end in failure.

"The spot between my eyebrows is white!"

Zhang Xuezhou had been a little overworked lately, so it was normal for a trace of fatigue to show between his brows.

In someone else's eyes, perhaps that meant the spot had turned black from worry and overwork making him ill.

But he couldn't quite judge how to handle the matter, so after Ren Yisheng raised the subject, he could only steer the conversation toward appearances.

"White?"

Ren Yisheng was slightly taken aback, then corrected himself.

"The spot between the eyebrows is where essence, Qi, and spirit converge. If the body shows signs of illness, that spot is where they appear most plainly on the surface," Ren Yisheng said. "In ancient times, it was called the yintang, which is why there's a saying about the yintang turning black!"

"The shoutang is where essence, Qi, and spirit converge. If control of the shoutang is lost, essence, Qi, and spirit will inevitably spill away to nothing!"

Zhang Xuezhou dropped the subject of the spot between his eyebrows turning black and pointed below his nose instead, indicating that the shoutang was where the body's essence, Qi, and spirit converged.

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