Medicinal Formulas

Anyang Martial Arts School.

Shi Yi's apprenticeship ceremony was held as scheduled.

At the ceremony, Shi Yi saw many new faces.

Apart from several local gentry from Anyuan Town, nearly everyone who came was a disciple of Anyang Martial Arts School.

The ceremony was not particularly grand, but that was only normal.

Other than when a master first began taking disciples or accepted a final closed-door disciple, taking in disciples under other circumstances would not be made into too great a spectacle.

Following the proper rites, Shi Yi presented his tuition gift, performed the apprenticeship ceremony, listened to Lu Feng's instructions, and heard the school rules announced.

After the entire process was complete, Shi Yi officially became Lu Feng's disciple.

From then on, in the eyes of the others in Anyuan Town, their fates were bound together—sharing glory and sharing ruin.

Such apprenticeship rites had become increasingly rare on Blue Star. Only certain traditional trades might still preserve them.

As Blue Star developed with the times, most places had gradually turned into simple payment for instruction. The relationship between master and disciple was no longer so close, and there were even cases of disciples being taught only to starve their masters to death.

Everything was measured against money, while benevolence, righteousness, and morality were slowly cast aside! Some people rose precisely because they had less morality than others. It sounded deeply ironic, yet it was also painfully real.

At the apprenticeship ceremony, Shi Yi also met the surviving disciples Lu Feng had mentioned, aside from the third, sixth, and eighth.

Of the twelve disciples Lu Feng had previously accepted, five had died.

Only the fourth and twelfth remained at Anyang Martial Arts School. The seventh was in an escort agency, while the eleventh had joined the army.

At the ceremony, Shi Yi only saw the fourth, seventh, and twelfth.

The three of them were also quite friendly toward Shi Yi, clearly knowing something of the situation.

The twelfth was Zhao Cheng, the person who had entered Lu Feng's tutelage immediately before Shi Yi. He had already been under Lu Feng for several years.

In recent years, Lu Feng had stopped accepting disciples. Of course, that was also because those people's natural aptitude and comprehension had failed to meet his requirements.

As the apprenticeship ceremony ended, everyone gradually dispersed.

Shi Yi had also thoroughly integrated into Anyuan Town and was no longer an obscure nobody.

At the very least, when others mentioned Anyang Martial Arts School, they might mention him in passing.

He had gained a little fame because of Anyang Martial Arts School.

Inside Shi Yi's rented house in Anyuan Town.

"The Lesser Heavenly Cycle Strength Training Fist has finally appeared in the techniques section of the panel. It even skipped past the beginner stage and directly entered the minor accomplishment realm."

After Shi Yi fully performed an entire set of the Lesser Heavenly Cycle Strength Training Fist, the technique section of the panel gained the Lesser Heavenly Cycle Strength Training Fist. At the same time, the note behind it changed directly from (Beginner) to (Minor Accomplishment).

It was as though it had detected his cultivation progress and upgraded automatically.

This allowed Shi Yi to confirm that the reason no prompt had appeared in the technique section previously was that the technique had been incomplete.

During his daily cultivation, Shi Yi mostly practiced only the six moves of the Blood Essence Realm. He could also feel his blood essence growing and his strength increasing along with it.

It was just that he could not see the technique's progress in the panel's technique section.

"My cultivation progress in the Blood Essence Realm has been fairly good."

"Based solely on my current cultivation pace, I'll definitely complete my Blood Essence Realm accumulation within two months at most. Then I can attempt to break through to the Flesh and Blood Realm."

"It's a pity the technique section doesn't display specific progress. Otherwise, I could calculate the time precisely."

Although Shi Yi could not see the technique's exact progress, he could still roughly estimate his body's blood essence accumulation based on his physical condition.

With his Double Pupils, he could clearly see the changes in the blood essence within his body. Thus, doing this was not difficult for him.

This cultivation speed was already very fast for ordinary people, but for Shi Yi, it could be even faster.

That was because what limited Shi Yi's ability to accelerate his blood essence accumulation was not his technique, natural aptitude, comprehension, or anything of the sort, but cultivation resources.

The Blood Nourishing Powder provided by Anyang Martial Arts School was fairly good for ordinary people, but for Shi Yi, who had already broken through to the Blood Essence Realm, its effect was somewhat mediocre!

"I should also try the supplementary medicinal formulas my senior brothers gave me and see how much they can improve my cultivation progress."

After Shi Yi successfully became a disciple, his three senior brothers had jointly given him two medicinal formulas that assisted Blood Essence Realm cultivation.

Such medicinal formulas were very precious to ordinary people, but to those who possessed them, they were nothing much, because they could be purchased at Anhe Martial Arts School in Ninghe County.

As a subordinate martial arts school of Anhe Martial Arts School, Anyang Martial Arts School naturally also had medicinal formulas that assisted Blood Essence Realm cultivation. However, one had to follow Anhe Martial Arts School's rules and buy them with money.

Shi Yi had looked at the prices written after the formulas. Each portion basically cost around two taels of silver.

Using the two supplementary formulas together would basically cost four taels.

The medicinal effects of one dose could last for two days after decoction. In other words, if Shi Yi wanted to take supplementary medicine every day while cultivating, he would need to spend two taels of silver daily.

Converted into Blue Star's currency, that was around four hundred a day.

"Martial cultivation burns through money far too quickly!"

Shi Yi sighed faintly to himself.

"I wonder whether the medicinal herbs on Blue Star will work?"

This thought arose in Shi Yi's mind.

He had not yet tried Blue Star's medicinal herbs, so for the moment, he could not confirm whether they would work.

"I should try the medicinal herbs on Blue Star as well."

"If I can't buy the ingredients in Anyuan Town then, I'll have another option."

Shi Yi had examined the two supplementary formulas and recognized the names of some of the medicinal ingredients. He felt that their names were similar to those on Blue Star.

As for whether they were truly the same, Shi Yi still needed to confirm through the actual items.

As for the medicinal ingredients whose names he could not recognize, he had no better solution for the time being.

Learning to recognize all these characters had also become Shi Yi's most pressing task.

Fortunately, he had asked Zhao Cheng about it. Zhao Cheng said it had already been arranged, and that in two days he would take Shi Yi to study under an old scholar. Shi Yi only needed to prepare the tuition gift.

"I was first in my grade at Anlan First High School, yet after more than a month in the Central Great World, I still haven't learned all the characters. It really is frustrating."

Shi Yi was deeply moved as well.

In an era like this, people said that the poor pursued literature while the rich pursued martial arts. Yet for ordinary people, studying was no simple matter.

Finding a teacher, preparing tuition gifts, and covering daily expenses were all problems that needed solving.

In ordinary households, it was common for parents and siblings to support one person's studies together. Even so, that student might not necessarily earn scholarly honors.

Because of this, Shi Yi's process of learning characters had become even more troublesome.

Previously, he had learned some characters through shop signs, couplets, and similar methods, but not all of them.

Therefore, he needed systematic study.

He had to wipe out his illiteracy; he could not remain a literary cripple.

"It's gotten dark now, and it's late. I should return to Blue Star and rest first."

After glancing at the sky, Shi Yi did not intend to remain here any longer.

Normally, now that he was Lu Feng's disciple, ordinary people would not seek trouble with him or attack him. But there was always the chance of an exception.

When one slept and rested, one was at one's most relaxed and most likely to be ambushed.

Therefore, ever since renting this house, Shi Yi had never spent the night here. He always returned to Blue Star.

After all, in Great Xia on Blue Star, his safety was guaranteed, and he could sleep with greater peace of mind.

After extinguishing the candle, Shi Yi's thoughts stirred, and he vanished from the room.