Innovation and Renewal, a Grandmaster of Medicine

Ye Renxin did as he promised. After organizing the notes he had recorded on the first day, he began teaching Chen Ming the art of medicine.

The Nine Heart Begonia lineage had been passed down for a thousand years. Over those millennia, it had accumulated a vast collection of medical books and records concerning all kinds of illnesses.

Even for members of their own clan, they had to begin studying from childhood and spend decades learning nearly all this knowledge. To add to it or innovate upon it required extensive research and a long passage of time.

Even though Chen Ming only intended to learn part of it, Ye Renxin considered it exceedingly difficult. He had originally prepared to spend several months guiding Chen Ming through the basics, only to see him rapidly flipping through books.

When he asked—

It was photographic memory, the kind of extraordinarily pure photographic memory where Chen Ming could memorize and even understand something after a single glance.

Ye Renxin watched Chen Ming devour the books his family had collected over ten thousand years like a mouse that had burrowed into a rice bin. Chen Ming read, took notes, pondered, and summarized as he went, occasionally even commenting on the contents of the medical texts.

"Senior Ye, did you put different covers on these two books? Seventy percent of their contents overlap, and the remaining thirty percent isn't particularly profound either. Even though they cite different sources, there are discrepancies in certain places despite the highly overlapping content."

"Senior Ye, isn't this edition wrong? The table of contents makes it look like a medical text from the Star Luo Empire a thousand years ago, but the names of two or three Spirit Beasts in the text weren't established until at least the last two hundred years. And this material looks fake too, deliberately aged. The knowledge itself is fine, but this definitely isn't a thousand-year-old medical text."

"Senior Ye..."

"Senior Ye..."

"Senior Ye..."

During the day, Ye Renxin stayed with Chen Ming. Chen Ming read books, while he watched Chen Ming turn the pages, answering some of Chen Ming's questions from time to time.

Sometimes, Ye Renxin already knew about the problems Chen Ming discovered. But at other times, even after reading these books for so many years, he had never noticed such issues within them.

At first, Ye Renxin would occasionally question Chen Ming to test just how good his memory was, to see whether he had remembered anything incorrectly or mixed anything up.

But after questioning him closely, he discovered that Chen Ming remembered things even more clearly than he did. Chen Ming could not only retain the contents of the books, but also expand upon them and connect them with other knowledge.

Later on, Chen Ming could even answer Ye Renxin's questions while flipping through books. His recollection of the texts was flawless, and his answers were excellent, sometimes even surpassing Ye Renxin's original thinking.

Only then did Ye Renxin understand why Dugu Bo had said that Chen Ming was his great opportunity.

Such talent, such comprehension, and such creativity in innovating upon existing foundations—it was simply beyond imagination.

Ye Renxin would rather believe that Chen Ming was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast in human form than believe he was merely an ordinary human. This had nothing to do with benefits like Spirit Rings or Spirit Bones. Ye Renxin simply wanted to find a reason for himself and his ancestors, who had painstakingly studied medicine generation after generation.

Yet no matter how Ye Renxin examined him, he could only conclude that Chen Ming was an ordinary human.

Within Nine Heart Begonia Mansion, Chen Ming also met Ye Renxin's granddaughter, Ye Lingling. However, Ye Lingling was rather introverted by nature. They merely exchanged greetings when they met and left it at that. They could only be considered acquainted, not familiar.

In Chen Ming's eyes, the most valuable thing about the Nine Heart Begonia Clan was not its own methods, but the case records it had accumulated over a thousand years. These cases were often unusual, involving conditions that differed from ordinary people, and each treatment method differed from conventional approaches.

Damage to one's origin, damage to one's Martial Soul, damage to one's soul...

Even members of the Nine Heart Begonia Clan could not necessarily cure these problems completely, but every generation recorded them and left them behind for themselves and their descendants to solve in the future.

Here, Chen Ming even found a small note concerning Dugu Bo. Although it did not directly write Dugu Bo's name, its annotation read: "Martial Soul backlash, unstable origin. Poison entering the marrow, bringing disaster upon descendants." Its contents recorded the Jade Phosphor Snake poison and Dugu Bo's condition.

This knowledge was immensely important. Even in the Douluo World, which did not place much emphasis on medicine and relied more heavily on Martial Souls, Spirit Skills, and medicinal substances themselves, these numerous methods of treatment and this body of knowledge remained priceless treasures.

By analyzing and recording these methods and medical cases, Chen Ming not only successfully derived Silent Nourishment, a means of replenishing one's origin, but also uncovered several further possibilities.

For instance, one of the Nine Heart Begonia cases involved a genius from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. This genius possessed Innate Full Soul Power and pure bloodline, yet he had a fatal flaw concerning Dragon Transformation.

As he grew older and stronger, his Dragon Transformation talent would uncontrollably and permanently alter his body. In the end, he would become a man clad in dragon skin, while even his mind gradually became beastlike.

At the time, the Nine Heart Begonia Clan had no way to cure him completely. They could only use their methods to stabilize his Martial Soul, then, after consulting with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, cripple his Martial Soul. Only then was his life preserved.

Although this was an illness, the record gave Chen Ming an idea of how to control this ability in reverse.

Among the files recorded by the Nine Heart Begonia Clan, there were quite a few such special cases.

Moreover, in relatively recent records, Chen Ming found a description of Yu Xiaogang. It clearly studied and recorded Luo Sanpao's traits and condition, along with an annotation: "Martial Soul mutation. It should originally have undergone a favorable evolution with limitless potential, becoming the Golden Sacred Dragon, but ultimately failed and deteriorated due to insufficient personal potential."

What followed was a detailed record of common knowledge and experimental findings concerning how to resolve Yu Xiaogang's condition. Chen Ming even saw a note that would have been exceptionally painful for Yu Xiaogang.

"If one can obtain support from a top-grade divine medicine or a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone with dragon attributes, there may be a chance to compensate for the congenital deficiency."

Since he had once studied at Nuoding Academy, Chen Ming was certain that Yu Xiaogang knew absolutely nothing about this note. Otherwise, given his personality, he would never have let the matter rest.

To repay Ye Renxin for granting him such open access, Chen Ming handed Ye Renxin an answer sheet one month later.

He recorded most of the knowledge he had gathered and the results he had deduced in his mind. Organized by category, he explained in detail the pathological changes and causes of various common illnesses, as well as different methods of treatment and relief.

How to prevent them, and how to use basic medicinal techniques to provide appropriate treatment under crude conditions.

Rheumatic bone pain, muscle strain, insomnia...

Snake venom, diarrhea, abdominal pain...

Knife wounds, spear wounds, sword wounds...

Chen Ming used separate sections to describe various methods of treatment, then divided them into four volumes.

One was a civilian edition, allowing ordinary doctors without exceptional medical skills to use these methods to help common people cure illnesses, contain infectious diseases, and relieve various common ailments.

One was an edition for Spirit Masters, describing various emergency treatment plans, detoxification methods, and ways to treat injuries in the wilderness. It explained how to control damaged Martial Souls and replenish them oneself, as well as how to provide emergency treatment for damaged meridians without leaving hidden complications.

One was a military edition, recording various rough but effective battlefield first-aid and treatment methods. It especially provided targeted summaries for common circumstances such as knife wounds, sword wounds, and wound infections. It could greatly improve an army's survival rate and combat strength.

The final volume was a general outline, recording all the methods and ideas in detail.

Strictly speaking, this was not innovation, but an approach that expanded upon the classification and summarization of previous generations' knowledge. Very little of it could truly be called new.

But that did not mean accomplishing such a thing was easy. Some people had even been born into the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and later studied at Spirit Hall, yet after copying a great deal, they could not even copy properly, and even managed to spoil it by adding something unnecessary.

In terms of its assistance to and influence on medicine, Chen Ming's work systematically explained and connected an enormous body of knowledge. It was enough to call him a grandmaster in the history of medicine.

Facing Chen Ming's answer sheet, Ye Renxin could only sigh that every generation brought forth new talents.