A moment later.
Watching Jiang Yingxue's departing figure, Zhang Ming chuckled softly.
"I wonder whether it can be exchanged for Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures—and what kind of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures they might be?"
A single Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure called the Marrow Cleansing Flower had multiplied Zhang Ming's martial talent.
It had transformed someone with poor aptitude into a genius.
If he obtained more Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, just how powerful would he become?
Zhang Ming found it hard to imagine.
"But in theory, exchanging for them shouldn't be a problem."
"Though there are martial artists with superhuman abilities here, at its foundation, this is still a feudal ancient world. Food is more important than anything else."
At that thought, Zhang Ming could not help laughing, grateful that this was a Martial Arts World.
"Phosphate Fertilizer is a great weapon of the agricultural age. If this weren't a Martial Arts World, I truly wouldn't dare take it out."
There was no need to elaborate on the importance of Phosphate Fertilizer.
In a true ancient world, if even the slightest rumor leaked out, the Zhang Family would certainly be finished.
Such a treasure had to belong to the Empire, to the imperial clan, monopolized by the imperial clan like salt and iron.
But precisely because this was a Martial Arts World—
Phosphate Fertilizer was important, but not important enough.
Especially when Zhang Ming himself was not strong, and the Zhang Family was utterly ordinary.
Because no matter how many good things one possessed, without powerful Warriors, one would ultimately be unable to take the stage or become someone entitled to a slice of the cake.
And if one could not become someone entitled to divide the cake, naturally no one would consider using underhanded means against them.
"Fine, I'll wait and see. Hopefully, I won't be disappointed."
Zhang Ming needed Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, but if he truly could not obtain them, it did not matter.
This was merely an idle move. Best if it worked; if not, then so be it.
"Now, let me properly examine the [Formless Witness Technique]."
"I wonder whether this cultivation method can truly help me on the Immortal Path?"
He did not know, but it was worth trying.
Five days later.
[Ignite Comprehension] successfully raised the [Formless Witness Technique] to Grand Completion.
Sensing the memories and insights of the Grand Completion level within his mind, Zhang Ming sighed with emotion.
"The [Formless Witness Technique] truly is a rare ocular technique. Through unique cultivation methods, it elevates one's vision to a realm beyond the ordinary and into the sacred."
"Those who cultivate this technique can use their eyes to capture the slightest movements anywhere, at any time—whether distant prey or concealed hidden weapons."
"The eyes are like invisible swords, capable of piercing through an enemy's defenses in an instant, carrying the power to intimidate and perceive the deepest layers."
"This cultivation method currently has three layers: Brightvision, Darkvision, and Microvision."
"The first layer, Brightvision, is comparatively simple. It can raise the cultivator's sight to the limit of ordinary people, granting extraordinary vision in normal environments."
"The second layer, Darkvision, allows the cultivator to clearly see everything around them in darkness, as though it were daytime. Not only does it enhance night vision, it also heightens their perception of the surrounding environment."
"The third layer, Microvision—the last layer of the [Formless Witness Technique]—allows the cultivator's eyes to perceive the microscopic world. Like the Buddha, they can clearly see the eighty-four thousand microorganisms in a single bowl of water."
"The Buddha observing a bowl of water? Eighty-four thousand insects?"
"Isn't that a microscope? A human-shaped microscope?"
Zhang Ming cried out in astonishment, finding it unbelievable.
"This is Martial Dao? No, rather, this truly is worthy of Martial Dao."
"A human-shaped microscope!"
Zhang Ming could not imagine how much help cultivating Microvision to the third layer would bring him.
"With a microscope, there's no need to mention anything else. Its support for the paths of medicine and poison alone would be unimaginable."
There was no need to elaborate on the significance of the microscope's invention to the development of technological civilization.
It had greatly advanced fields such as biology, physics, and medicine.
And in such a feudal era, a Flesh Microscope would likewise provide Zhang Ming with unimaginable assistance.
"Haha, it looks like the title of Great Zhou's First Divine Doctor is mine for sure."
With a microscope, Zhang Ming could easily study all kinds of medicinal herbs, plants, and the human body.
Together with the assistance granted by [Ignite Comprehension]—
If he still could not obtain the title of First Divine Doctor, Zhang Ming would truly find a block of tofu and smash himself to death against it.
Besides—
Medicine and poison were inseparable.
The First Divine Doctor and the First Poison Doctor meant the same thing!
"If I can cultivate to the third layer, then even a Martial Saint who can split mountains and sever rivers—I'm confident I could poison them to death."
Though Grand Completion-level medical skills were superb, the foundation from which those skills arose was ultimately ordinary medicine.
They were effective against ordinary humans, but whether they would work on Innate Realm experts, Grandmasters, Martial Saints, and the like remained unknown.
After all, who knew whether monsters capable of splitting mountains and severing rivers, whose fists carried the force of hundreds of thousands or millions, were even the same species as humans?
But things were different now.
If he cultivated the [Formless Witness Technique] to its last layer and was given enough time, Zhang Ming was absolutely confident that he could poison a Martial Saint!
"How interesting."
"Other transmigrators: their fists suppress mountains and rivers; if anyone refuses to submit, they fight."
"But when it comes to me, why am I always thinking about poisoning people and plotting in the shadows?"
With a soft sigh, Zhang Ming explored the reason.
"When all is said and done, it's because I'm a scholar, not some martial brute who only knows how to use brute force."
As a modern person, a veteran of nine years of compulsory education, there was nothing wrong with calling himself a scholar.
And as a modern scholar, whether Zhang Ming wanted it or not, the education he had received in modern society—
Had made him subconsciously believe that fighting with real blades and real guns at close quarters was the last resort.
The superior approach was to eliminate one's opponent from a thousand miles away, without them noticing a thing.
"On the other hand, I'm not an idiot."
"Which true expert isn't someone who has immersed themselves in Martial Dao for decades?"
"I'm a newbie who has only just begun cultivating martial arts. If I don't think about playing to my strengths and avoiding my weaknesses, and insist on clashing head-on with the natives, would my brain have short-circuited?"
If a civilized person from modern society ran to a primitive tribe to compete with its people in hunting, would that not mean their brain was broken?
If he had a choice, he would definitely compete with them in mathematics and language!
Dragging the enemy into the field he excelled in and pinning them to death there—that was normal thinking.
"Besides cultivating the [Formless Witness Technique], there is another matter: I must break through to become an Innate Martial Artist as soon as possible."
"On the Hundred Beasts Sect's side, I theoretically have one year, but if I proceed normally, I'll need three years to break through to the Innate Realm."
As he had said before, even with the Martial Dao experience of the Grand Completion-level [Mighty Bull Cultivation Method], tempering the body and broadening the meridians could not be accomplished overnight.
Rubbing his chin, Zhang Ming thought of something.
"Normal methods require three years. What if I don't use normal methods?"
Two paths instantly emerged in his mind.
One was to continuously strengthen and enhance the [Mighty Bull Cultivation Method], increasing his foundational cultivation speed.
The other was to borrow external assistance.
Reaching out, Zhang Ming took out the prescription for the Mighty Bull Great Medicine from the gap in his bookshelf.
"After my medical skills reached Grand Completion, I've always felt that something is wrong with this prescription. It's all hazy and unclear, with certain parts that don't quite fit together."
"Could I try correcting it next time?"
"And simply eating Demonic Beast Meat raw probably isn't the most suitable method of using it, right?"
"For example, refining pills? Or combining the two?"
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