Chen Yang's rebuttal was correct in the ordinary sense, and his understanding was not wrong either. It's not impossible for a person to die from sheer pain, it's just that the pain hadn't reached that degree.
In this kind of situation, a person indeed can die from pain, which is why Chen Yang felt Beisitian was talking nonsense. This, of course, was also related to her age. If someone older had said this, he might have had such thoughts in his mind, but he wouldn't have reprimanded them so bluntly.
Chen Yang just thought that more and more young people like Beisitian were emerging, saying things without responsibility based on their subjective judgments, which is why he spoke out impulsively.
But he didn't expect that young person from the Qingyu School to question him this way, leaving him somewhat embarrassed and secretly wondering if such a case where a person was alive with rotting intestines inside did exist.
