Frenzied Study and Body Training!

"You're too kind, Miss Louise. My name is Lan Tian. You may call me Physician Lan. I've only just arrived here, so I don't know where one might find a place to read books?"

"I don't usually have much to do, and I enjoy reading."

Lan Tian said with a smile.

In this current era, the number of soul masters was still not large. A one-ring soul master with a first soul ring of a hundred years, even if he was only of the healing system and only level twelve, still held an illustrious status.

This was also why countless people would risk everything to become soul masters.

At the very least, from Louise, Lan Tian gained the satisfaction of his vanity.

Louise smiled and said, "No wonder Physician Lan looked unfamiliar to me. This shop wasn't a clinic before either, so it turns out you're newly arrived. There is naturally a place to read books. It's in the very center of the city. There's a Nuoding Library there that stores quite a few books. If you don't mind, you can use my card to enter. That library requires one gold soul coin for every visit, so not many people go there. It's usually very deserted."

As she spoke, she took out a gold card.

This was specifically for going to the library to read books, equivalent to a membership card.

"That's really too much. I'd feel bad."

Lan Tian was tight on money. Reading books actually cost one gold soul coin? That was way too damn expensive.

Even darker than him. No wonder no one went to read there.

"It's fine. You've helped me, so this is nothing."

"Please take it. Don't be polite."

"Goodbye. I'll head back first."

Louise took the initiative to hand the gold card to Lan Tian, then turned and left.

Ever since he had treated Louise, the reputation of his Lan Tian Clinic had also begun to gain some fame.

Perhaps this was also the result of Louise deliberately helping promote him behind the scenes.

In the days that followed, Lan Tian took patients and treated illnesses during the day, charging corresponding fees based on the severity and urgency of the injured person's condition, and he did earn quite a bit of money. When Louise had time, she would occasionally bring delicious food and drinks over to see him, and introduce her friends as well—all of them rich people.

He also got to know quite a few people. By treating the wealthy, he not only built a good reputation, but also earned his first pot of gold from it.

During this period, his life was very regular. He saw patients normally during the day, and after dinner at night, he went to Nuoding Library, entered using the gold card Louise had given him, and read so obsessively that he forgot food and sleep, crazily making up for all kinds of knowledge about this world.

Although it was all basic knowledge, it was enough.

After he finished reading and returned to the clinic, he used meditation in place of sleep.

A soul master's cultivation time each day had an upper limit.

For a one-ring soul master, it was four hours.

Once the time was up, the meridians' absorption of spiritual energy would become saturated.

So cultivating at night was the best choice.

After he had money, the backyard of his shop began to be expanded and was planted full of Blue Silver Grass.

This could form a small mimetic environment. For him, whose martial soul was also Blue Silver Grass, it had the effect of accelerating cultivation. Though the effect was very weak, it was better than nothing.

"It looks like my guess was correct. Because my first soul ring absorbed Blue Silver Grass of the same origin as my soul ring, and it was even four hundred years old, the quality of my Blue Silver Grass martial soul improved. My innate soul power should have risen, which means my current cultivation efficiency is actually much faster than it was over the previous nineteen years."

"This is a good thing. It proves that my path is correct."

"Blue Silver Grass only needs to brainlessly stack life attributes, improve the quality of the martial soul, and lay a solid foundation for the martial soul. In the later stages, my cultivation speed may not necessarily be slow. It may even be faster."

"But this is destined to be a long process. I'll need to endure it for a long time, and it will take great patience."

"Ah."

Lan Tian sat cross-legged in the middle of the pile of Blue Silver Grass, ending today's four hours of meditation cultivation. Feeling the cultivation process over these days, he summarized his insights and reflections.

"Besides that, I also need to have a good body. I need to know simple fighting techniques and self-defense. Thankfully, over these nineteen years, I've always been building the basics."

Lan Tian stood up. After nineteen years of bitter physical training, every muscle on his body was filled with strength. Eight-pack abs were just standard.

He would never rely everything on Blue Silver Grass. His own strength was the foundation.

Now that he had the recovery ability of Blue Silver Grass's Endless Life, he could train his body, close-combat killing techniques, and the like even more recklessly.

As long as it didn't kill him, he trained as if it would.

In his previous life, he had watched many martial arts films, TV dramas, and anime.

He summarized them all and slowly trained.

The improvement of his physical cultivation also had an assisting effect on the improvement of his soul power.

When he trained, he could precisely control his soul power, distributing it to every part of his body to make precise adjustments to strength, defense, and speed.

Ordinary soul masters were inferior to him when it came to pure physical fighting.

And he also knew that in this world, unless a soul master's martial soul was animal-based, they would not place importance on training the strength of the physical body.

This was also one of his advantages.

With a sharp weapon in hand, as long as he got close, he was confident he could kill the other party.

No matter how powerful a soul master was, as long as their soul power level was not truly too high, that fragile body only needed to be stabbed in a vital spot such as the heart, neck, or head. A small knife would be enough.

He had already finished reading the books in the library, and there was a high chance he would not go there much in the future. That meant he would have more time freed up to train himself.

Early in the morning, after eating and drinking his fill, he left the clinic.

He arrived at a blacksmith shop in Nuoding City.

He had come to find a good piece of refined iron to forge some things he had already drawn up.

The iron used by the village blacksmith shop before had all been very ordinary, and it was already outdated.

Now that he had money, he naturally wanted something better.

"Physician Lan, it's you. Welcome to my humble shop. What do you need?"

The shopkeeper greeted Lan Tian warmly when he saw him.

Lan Tian had already gained a bit of fame, and on top of that, the shopkeeper had once come to him for treatment, so their relationship was very good.

Lan Tian smiled and answered, "Boss Shi, I need the best refined iron in your shop to forge some things for me."

"Easy enough. I'll give you a discount. Do you have the blueprints?" Boss Shi said with a smile.

Lan Tian took two rolled-up blueprints from his pocket and handed them to the man.

"Boss Shi, just make them according to the blueprints. See how much it will cost."

Boss Shi took them and opened them to look.

The drawings were very precise.

There was a small knife, somewhat unusual in shape. It was his first time seeing one like it.

It was a surgical scalpel used by doctors, small, nimble, easy to carry, and extremely sharp, able to easily cut through the skin of a person or even an animal.

Aside from that, there were also some things like tweezers, which would be used in the clinic.

That was because after some patients underwent surgery to remove foreign objects, following up with Endless Life treatment would heal them very quickly.

This world did not have the Western medical system of surgery.

The second sheet of paper showed the weighted rings Lan Tian had designed for himself, covering all four limbs.

Each ring was required to weigh one hundred jin. Four in total meant four hundred jin.

To him, that was not much of a problem.

After carefully considering it, Boss Shi said, "If everything is forged from refined iron, it will cost at least ten gold soul coins. I'll give you a discount, so nine gold soul coins will do. Physician Lan, what do you think?"

He immediately explained, "The money will mainly go toward the refined iron. Also, although these things are small and delicate, they require very precise control. Ordinary people couldn't make them. I'm the only one in the shop who can do it, so I'll have to handle it myself."

Lan Tian nodded. "That's fine. How long before I can pick them up?"

He was not short of nine gold soul coins right now.

Running a clinic really brought in money fast.

Of course, the main reason was still that the wealthy friends Louise introduced to him paid generously.

As for the others who were not very rich, he naturally earned less from them.

Boss Shi thought for a moment, then said, "I can get it done within a week."