Put plainly, "Interlocking Pear" was a kind of antibiotic Aaron intended to make.
There were no antibiotics in ancient times. Even emperors and chancellors, generals and high officials, were far from few among those recorded in the histories as having died from things like back carbuncles.
When it came to fighting bacteria, Chinese herbal medicine clearly could not produce results as immediate as antibiotics.
A single Fire Jujube could not cure every illness, but paired with Interlocking Pear, it came close.
Naturally, Aaron had brought this out so he could better play the role of a divine charlatan.
After all, he had experience traveling through multiple worlds. Even without a cheat ability, he could rise to prominence after lying low for a while.
However, for crucial products like gunpowder and fertilizer, his plan was that he had to make them, but not right away. He had no power or foundation of his own; making them now would only benefit others for nothing. After all, those two had far too little protection against theft. Once they were put into large-scale production, they could easily be imitated, causing the technology to spread.
In contrast, things like antibiotics could be prepared on a small scale and used by only a handful of people. Aaron could handle the entire process himself and keep it secret.
After all, he had tried making things like Allicin before.
"Interlocking Pear and Fire Jujube can cure all ailments. If they could be widely promoted, they would surely bring blessings to the common people—boundless merit indeed."
Scholar Gu sighed with emotion.
Trying to morally blackmail me? Once it truly gets promoted, won't people like you be the first to profit from it?
Aaron sneered inwardly, then said solemnly, "We Daoists value karmic affinity. I have an affinity with