Elder Xu Xueqing of Tianshu Tower was an anomaly throughout Tianshu Tower, even throughout all of Linghuang Island. She had a great many friends and almost no enemies.
That was all because of the cultivation method she practiced.
An ancient mental method: the Immortal Path of Everlasting Spring. The spiritual power cultivated through this technique was balanced in nature, with no particular offensive ability, and its enhancement of oneself was not first-rate either. Swordsmanship and spells alike were mediocre; it could basically be said to be unsuited for combat. It did have one advantage, however: it excelled at linking to the aura of life, safeguarding the flame of life, and could even advance one's cultivation by healing others.
Naturally, this "advancing one's cultivation" did not mean that curing a patient automatically granted one a chunk of spiritual power—this was not a game where one gained experience points. While treating others, the Immortal Path of Everlasting Spring could use the process of their injuries steadily improving to refine one's own spiritual power, while sensing the gradually awakened vitality within the patient's body to temper one's own will.
This followed the same principle as certain cultivation methods that "advanced through battle." So long as it was not a demonic cultivation method that absorbed an enemy's cultivation during battle, it merely used combat to continuously temper one's spiritual power, forging one's own strength into something as mighty as steel refined a hundred times, while naturally condensing Martial Dao True Meaning amid battle.
But choosing this cultivation method, while meaning one treated others kindly and upheld the notion of non-contention, also meant one's combat ability would not be very high.
In other words, this cultivation method was tantamount to placing one's hope of long survival in other people's belief that "everyone needs a doctor