Preparing to Depart

Wu Xiu said, "Your sister is right. Whether you study medicine or live your life, you must have the ability to distinguish between good and evil, loyalty and treachery. If a good person is sick, we should do everything we can to cure him. If a bad person is sick, it is God's punishment, and he deserves it. We don't need to care. Otherwise, if we save those evil people, we will kill more good people. As for your reluctance, it is just womanly compassion. If you really can't bear it, just close your eyes."

Murong Qing was surprised that Yu Shuying's master would say such "morally sound" things, which changed her opinion of him and reduced her resistance.

"But, the Medicine King's 'Essential Prescriptions Worth a Thousand Gold Pieces of Gold' says, 'Human life is of utmost importance, more precious than a thousand pieces of gold.' For a doctor, regardless of social status, wealth, good or evil, loyalty or treachery, every life is worth a thousand pieces of gold."

"Have you read 'Essential Prescriptions Worth a Thousand Gold'? Did you understand it?"

I only understand 70%.

"At your age, and without a good teacher, it's already quite impressive that you've learned 70% on your own," Wu Xiu nodded in satisfaction. "The Medicine King's words naturally have their reasons, but the 'Essential Prescriptions Worth a Thousand Gold' is a medical classic. We only need to study the medical principles; the rest are personal opinions, our own interpretations, so we don't need to worry about them too much."

But I...

"If you really can't let go, you can try to understand it from a different perspective. For example, only good people have the right to enjoy life, while bad people don't. A bad person's life isn't a life, so naturally, it doesn't belong to a wealthy person."

Wu Xiu lived for over a hundred years. The saying goes, "At seventy, one can follow one's heart's desires without transgressing the rules." She could easily circumvent this. So what if the Medicine King said it? Could he come back to life and argue with later generations, "That's not how I interpreted what I said back then"?

If that were truly the case, the Confucian School disciples of the Li State would have been killed long ago.

Seeing that Murong Wu still looked like he couldn't accept it, Wu Xiu couldn't help but sigh. Why was her sister so heroic while her brother was so soft-hearted? If this boy had half of his sister's decisiveness, she wouldn't have to worry about anything. Half of the medical skills she had learned in her life were related to poison. If he didn't learn poison and only studied medicine, he wouldn't be able to inherit her mantle.

Then, a thought struck him, and he said, "Actually, using poison is a form of compassion."

Murong Wu blinked, puzzled, and asked, "Compassion?"

Si Ming, standing to the side, smelled the familiar scent, glanced sideways, and thought to himself: Keep bluffing, keep bluffing.

"Swords have no eyes. Imagine severing someone's limbs with a single blow. Except for those who have reached the Spirit Transformation, how could an ordinary person possibly regrow them? But poison can be countered with an antidote. Therefore, using poison to harm someone is more compassionate than killing with weapons."

Seeing Murong Wu's expression of understanding, Wu Xiu immediately waved her sleeve, and Ying Zhou swayed, regaining his freedom.

"Look, without bloodshed or injury, a conflict was resolved peacefully. This is the mercy of poison. As the saying goes, the lesser poison harms both the user and others, while the greater poison benefits the country and its people."

"The greatest poisons are those that harm the country and its people... So that's how it is!"

Murong Wu suddenly realized, and an excited expression appeared on his face. He said, "Senior, please accept me as your disciple!"

Chapter 543 Preparing to Depart

Murong Wu was still fooled by Wu Xiu and performed the apprenticeship ceremony the next day.

Murong Qing did not stop her. Although she still had some concerns, her concerns were about moral character, not ability. After all, Senior Wu was a member of the Heaven's Will Palace, which was the greatest guarantee.

After thinking about it all night, she finally chose to trust.

Murong Wu's firm stance remains "benevolence." Moreover, he is already fourteen years old this year, and it is time for him to learn to be independent and take responsibility for his own life.

Wu Xiu had two disciples in her early years. One died young due to grudges in the martial world, and the other did not advance to the Nascent Spirit Transformation and thus could not outlive his master. Therefore, after Murong Wu became her disciple, he only had one senior sister, Yu Shuying. Yu Shuying did not treat her junior brother with disdain because of Murong Qing. Instead, she gave him a precious gift—a Black-Striped Azure Toad that feeds on poison.

Generally speaking, masters who roam the world rarely take on apprentices, and they usually only consider it when they are older. Firstly, when they are young, they are in their prime and have unlimited potential, and they are too busy cultivating themselves to have time to teach others. Secondly, they also want to avoid the situation where the master outlives the apprentice. You want to find someone to pass on your mantle, but you are still alive while the person who was to inherit the mantle has died of old age, and in the end, you have to choose a successor again.

Having finally had some time to rest, Si Ming didn't idle away his time. He devoted all his energy to cultivating the "Vacuum Zero-Energy Furnace." This internal skill, which sacrifices other abilities and puts all skill points into Internal Cultivation, has finally lived up to his expectations. Including the time he spent in France, it took him less than a month to raise this internal Internal Cultivation to level four, reaching the average level of a citizen of Su State.

If it weren't for the concerns about the side effects of Super Martial Dao Cultivation Method, Si Ming would have wanted his companions to collectively cultivate the Vacuum Zero-Energy Furnace. It wouldn't need to replace the main Cultivation Method; they could simply dedicate a little time each day to cultivation and obtain a backup True Qi pool—it would be an incredibly profitable business.

After much deliberation, Si Ming finally decided to let Hualiu cultivate.

The bodies of the Monster Race are different from those of humans, and their meridian systems are completely different. Therefore, they cannot cultivate normal internal energy Internal Cultivation. However, the "Vacuum Zero-Energy Furnace" has nothing to do with meridians. It simply absorbs zero-point vacuum Zero-Point Energy and stores it in the Qi Sea. As for which meridian to follow, it is up to you. Therefore, this internal Internal Cultivation does not have the effect of stimulating human potential, unlike other Internal Cultivation that can strengthen flesh and bones when being practiced.

As for the aftereffects of the Super Martial Dao, there's no need to worry. The Monster Race is inherently a twisted existence, and the effects of the Super Martial Dao are at most adding poison to poison. If you're lucky, you might even be able to fight poison with poison.

The only difficulty lies in how to impart physics knowledge to others. To cultivate the "Vacuum Zero-Energy Furnace," one must at least master undergraduate-level physics knowledge, which Si Ming is only barely adequate in. To impart this knowledge to others, one must either have an excellent grasp of the knowledge points or possess a higher level of knowledge; otherwise, one will only mislead others.

Finally, Si Ming simply bought all the physics textbooks for junior high, high school, and university from the bookstore and gave them to Hualiu to study on her own. How much she could learn depended entirely on her own abilities. Anyway, the opportunity had been given, and whether she could seize it was up to her.

The following week was peaceful and uneventful. Although he didn't go out to play, for Si Ming, being able to cultivate quietly without being disturbed by other matters was the best way to rest. In particular, he clearly felt his own power growing stronger day by day, and he was completely immersed in it and couldn't extricate himself.

Cultivation brings me joy!

The reason why most people find reading a boring thing is not only because they are forced to do it, but also because learning is a step-by-step process. You need to accumulate a certain level before you can move on to the next level. Before that, you can't see your own growth at all, and you will have the impression that you are standing still and that there is no change from today to yesterday.

If reading could be like playing a game, with an experience bar, main quests, side quests, and daily quests, such as how much experience you gain for attending a class attentively, how much experience you gain for completing a test, how much reward you get for ranking in the top ten of an exam, and how much experience you still need to level up.

By digitizing learning data, students can clearly see their progress, which can greatly enhance their interest and motivation in learning. While it may not make everyone fall in love with learning, at least half of the students in a class will become so engrossed in learning that they can't tear themselves away, doing tests every day to accumulate experience points and enjoying the process.

A few days later, the other members of the club arrived as agreed, along with two uninvited guests.

"In a sense, Barbarian Continent is also my home turf, so how could I, as a semi-host, be absent?"

Si Jingyu approached gracefully, fanning herself, followed by Si Shuiyun.

"I only went there two years ago, what kind of host are you!"

With the sound, Si Huaruo suddenly landed on the roof, angrily saying, "I found it strange. These past two days you secretly had Shuiyun pack your luggage, clearly planning to go on a long trip, and you even deliberately created a troublesome matter for the Lineage to send me away."

"It seems the plan has failed."

"Of course, I can tell what you're up to with my gut feeling. Don't even think about leaving me behind this time."

Since they were already going as a group, Si Ming didn't mind having three more people. After thinking for a moment, he approached Ying Zhou and asked, "Do you want to come along?"

"No interest. That man definitely hasn't given up. I can feel his malice. I need to hurry up and become stronger so I don't have time to go out and stroll with you."

"In everything, you must know how to relax and find the right balance. Being constantly tense will only lead to less effective results. Besides, the places we're going to this time include the founding sect of the 'Brahma Sea Asura Art.' Don't you want to learn from their experience?"

"... Wait for me a moment, I'll go pack my things right away." Ying Zhou immediately ran towards the room.

Murong Qing over and said, "I won't go. I don't have the ability to cultivate and improve at the same time while traveling and fighting. For me, it's much faster to progress by staying at home and working behind closed doors. Besides, most of the benefits of the Black Tortoise Martial Form to my Cultivation Body haven't been converted yet. I have a feeling that once I completely absorb the Black Tortoise Martial Form, I can try to challenge myself to advance to the Nascent Spirit Transformation. Originally, I planned to try this step in four years, but my trip to the Barbarian Continent brought the plan forward, so I need to be more careful."