Chengyun's Scheme, the Xue Clan of the North (2)

Medicine had always been one of the most significant components of the Plague Extermination World.

Chemical substances capable of affecting the physiological functions of organs and cellular metabolic activity were combined in all manner of ways, eventually becoming medicines.

They were called Synthetic Drugs in Ultimate Bliss and Elixirs in Chengyun, but regardless of their outward form, their fundamental principles remained unchanged.

Because of the northern climate, special raw materials were abundant here. This uniquely favorable advantage had made the entire far north a paradise for alchemists and apothecaries.

Countless new elixir formulas and Synthetic Drugs were born every day.

"Only a basic understanding? That's already quite good."

Xue Zhaoling was not surprised.

Zhou Zhi was unquestionably a genius in the path of Plague Extermination Art, and he was beyond reproach in surgery and Plague Extermination research as well. But a person's energy was limited. Zhou Zhi's twenty years of life had not been enough for him to build much of a foundation in pharmacology and ingredient analysis.

Only, Zhou Zhi himself had no real concept of what he meant by "a basic understanding."

Zhou Zhi had learned his own alchemy from that [Immortal], Jia Rang.

Basically, anything Jia Rang knew, he knew as well. He also possessed Jia Rang's handbook on alchemy. Zhou Zhi had studied it and learned seven or eight tenths of it.

After saying that, Xue Zhaoling fell silent.

Bei Gongru did the same.

The news Zhou Zhi had brought to the Bei Gong Prince's Mansion proved that Fang Tianzhao was preparing to make a move against the north.

Fang Tianzhao, who controlled "Liberation" and sought to centralize all of Chengyun's power, would never tolerate the northern factions led by the Xue Clan wavering between sides.

Originally, the best person to carry out this task had