Tang Qi's delight came from the additional skill that had appeared on the Skill Bar.
Skill: Secret Medicine Studies (Uninitiated!)
After the Meditation Method, Furnace Eyes, and Chaga Combat Technique, Tang Qi had gained another skill, even though he had yet to master it.
With a slight shift of thought, belated Information Fragments surfaced after Secret Medicine Studies.
Information Fragment One: Uninitiated Secret Medicine Studies, originating from part of the knowledge of the Primitive Secret Medicine School. They were once active during the Old Calendar Thirteenth Era and were the Maya Secret Medicine School's primary rivals. They pursued the replication, restoration, and beneficial alteration of nature and the primitive, before ultimately vanishing mysteriously.
Information Fragment Two: Digest this knowledge and concoct three basic Primitive Secret Medicines to advance to "Secret Medicine Apprentice."
"Three?"
Seeing this, Tang Qi silently immersed his mind in his memories. He quickly found the three Primitive Secret Medicines amid the tangled recollections: Rubber Man Secret Medicine, Wind's Whisper Secret Medicine, and Spirit Communication Secret Medicine.
The formulas for the three secret medicines emerged one by one.
At the same time, so did the meanings represented by the secret medicines.
The Primitive Secret Medicine School appeared to have originated from a tribe that lived in jungle regions and eventually established a prosperous civilization. Yet that tribe was ultimately defeated by the Maya civilization because of the enormous disparity in their preparations for war.
Just like the secret medicine school's philosophy, that civilization clearly was not skilled at war.
Though it was only part of the knowledge, Tang Qi discovered that it contained few secret medicines for strengthening the body or enhancing combat power. At most, there were several curse-type secret medicines.
Rubber Man Secret Medicine was a rare one that strengthened the body, but what it enhanced