Chapter 15

Dr. Kureha saw that he listened, and she stopped talking. She turned and walked outward, asking as she went, "The things I gave you are sincere enough. Shouldn't you also hand over your medical books?"

Xunjing followed her and let out a laugh, "The medical books are all memorized in my mind. Recently, I've copied over a hundred of them, and you can have these first."

"The rest still need to be copied, so I hope you'll bear with me."

Well, there was no helping it even if she didn't bear with it.

Dr. Kureha paused and glanced at Xunjing, though she didn't doubt the truth of his words, "Fine, a hundred or so books will be enough for me to read for a while."

"Your memory is more formidable than I thought."

The two quickly returned to the living room.

Under Dr. Kureha's gaze, Xunjing waved his hand and took out the more than one hundred newly copied medical books from the space-time gate's storage, placing them on the table.

He said to Dr. Kureha, "Here, these are the ones I finished copying. You can flip through them, but I can't give you the books. I don't want to copy them a second time."

"You can copy a set yourself, right?"

He still planned to use a portion of the medical books later to trade with Tsunade for the medical and ninjutsu techniques in her possession.

As for dealing with Konoha Village?

He hadn't entertained that thought from beginning to end.

For now, he didn't want to get involved with the Third Generation and the others.

"You brat, you really know how to put me through the wringer, this old woman!"

After hearing that, Dr. Kureha's expression stiffened for a moment, and she ungraciously grabbed a medical book and began flipping through it.

As for Xunjing pulling out so many books out of thin air, she was only slightly surprised and didn't take it too much to heart.

Having lived for hundreds of years, she had seen far too many bizarre Devil Fruit abilities.

Spatial storage was not common, to be sure, but it wasn't her first time encountering it either.

"Heh!"

Xunjing spread his hands with a smile, "Those original medical books of yours, you certainly wouldn't let me take them away either. In the end, I'd still have to copy them myself. We're even."

With thousands of medical books piled up here at Dr. Kureha's place, heaven knows how long it would take if he copied them all.

So he didn't plan to start writing right now; he would just memorize all of them first.

When they came in handy later, he would just pick and choose what to copy.

Having a good brain simply made things convenient.

Next, accompanied by his mother, Xunjing went to a nearby town and bought a large batch of medicinal herbs.

It was enough to last for quite a while.

Upon returning, he set to work compounding the medicine.

Dr. Kureha watched as Xunjing's movements were a bit rusty at first, but before long, his compounding techniques and proficiency soared as if they had wings, though she didn't feel particularly surprised in her heart.

Relying on his pharmaceutical experience from his past life, Xunjing was able to produce finished products right upon starting.

Initially, it was purely because this body was not yet fully accustomed to the movements, but after a little practice, it became smooth.

[You have compounded a portion of Conditioning Potion, pharmacy proficiency +1, Traditional Chinese Medicine proficiency +1.]
[You...]

He compounded more than twenty portions of medicine in one go.

Ten portions were for his mother, and the rest were all for himself.

"Mom, drink a bottle and try the effects."

Xunjing handed a portion of the potion to Uchiha Chisato.

"All right."

Uchiha Chisato tilted her head back and finished it in one gulp.

Before long, she felt wave after wave of heat surging through her entire body.

Those hidden injuries and chronic ailments vanished in the blink of an eye, like mist blown away by the wind.

Immediately following that, her stomach began to rumble loudly, making her ravenously hungry.

Xunjing seemed to have calculated this step ahead of time; with a wave of his hand, he pulled the previously stored meals out of the space-time gate and placed them on the table.

He tilted his chin toward his mother, "Eat up. Practice the Life-Nourishing Art only after you finish eating, and the effects will be best."

Having said that, he also downed a bottle of Conditioning Potion, put everything else away, and closed his eyes to carefully experience the changes in his body.

[You drank the top-grade Conditioning Potion, your bodily functions are repairing... your lifespan is beginning to increase...]

He could clearly feel that the organ problems dragged down by congenital deficiencies over the years were improving one after another.

By the time the medicinal effects were mostly absorbed, his stomach was starving as well.

Xunjing opened his eyes, walked over to the table and sat down, grabbing the meat of a Sea King and taking large bites.

With a single gulp of meat, a surge of heat immediately welled up in his stomach, rapidly spreading throughout his body.

Compared to when he first ate Sea King meat, his digestive capacity now was more than ten times stronger.

These were all the fruits of these past days of practicing the Life-Nourishing Art, eating Sea King meat, restoring his Life Origin, and enhancing his physique.

After finishing off an entire plate of Sea King meat, Xunjing slipped over to the nearby open space and began practicing the Life-Nourishing Art.

[You ate Sea King meat in conjunction with practicing the Life-Nourishing Art, proficiency +7, lifespan +7, Life Origin +0.025.]
[You ate Sea King meat in conjunction with practicing the Life-Nourishing Art, proficiency +7, lifespan +7, Life Origin +0.025.]

"Heh, the effect really is even better. Not bad!"

Looking at the prompts, Xunjing's face bloomed with a smile.

At this rate, he would definitely be able to fully recover within a month.

"You brat, concocting so many potions all at once—without a proper preservation method, the medicinal efficacy is going to slip away, you know!"

Dr. Kureha occasionally glanced over in this direction, reading her book while casually reminding him.

In her heart, however, she secretly pondered: the way they recovered their bodies earlier—was it relying on this? Some kind of conditioning and nourishing cultivation method? It really had some tricks to it.

She wanted to learn it as well; perhaps it would be beneficial to her too.

Yet now was not the time to bring it up, as she didn't have anything impressive on hand to offer.

She planned to spend a bit more time together, prepare some bargaining chips, and then talk to Xunjing about the Life-Nourishing Art.

This thing clearly looked like an important secret transmission; bringing it up out of the blue would instead be awkward.

"Thanks!"

Xunjing replied while practicing his form, "I have a special preservation method on my end; the medicinal efficacy won't scatter."

"My bad for meddling!"

Dr. Kureha glanced at him, then cast a look at the meals on the table that were still steaming as if just out of the pot, and instantly understood in her heart.

Uchiha Chisato hadn't paid attention to this matter earlier, which could be considered her oversight.

"Where is that coming from? Since you were willing to remind us, we'll take note of this favor!"

Uchiha Chisato smiled and picked up the conversation.

This witch was much easier to talk to than she had imagined.

Most importantly, the other person's strength was right there.

Uchiha Chisato figured she had to maintain a good relationship with Dr. Kureha.

A medical expert of this caliber was hard to come by.

[You and Dr. Kureha exchanged medical insights, Traditional Chinese Medicine proficiency increased by 15 points.]
[You finished reading Dr. Kureha's collection of books, Traditional Chinese Medicine and medical arts merged into a single skill, and proficiency increased by another 12 points.]

For the next ten full days, Xunjing's daily routine was exceptionally regular.

In the morning, he first drank a bottle of Nourishing Potion, then ate the meat of a Sea King voraciously, and followed it by practicing the Life-Nourishing Art.

He kept practicing until his body could no longer hold out before stopping.

In the afternoon, he would flip through the medical books at Dr. Kureha's place and take an hour or two to chat with her about medical skills and exchange experiences.

When he had spare time, he would also copy out the Traditional Chinese Medicine classics memorized in his mind and give them to Dr. Kureha.

In this way, not only was his body nurtured back to health, but he was also sturdier than before, and time passed in a flash.

In the blink of an eye, ten days had vanished without a trace.

"Hoo..."

After finishing a set of the Life-Nourishing Art, Uchiha Chisato felt her whole body incomparably relaxed, as if she had unloaded a heavy burden that had weighed on her for many years.

She could clearly and distinctly feel that her body had returned to its peak condition.

"I feel completely nimble!"

Uchiha Chisato reined in her movements, turning her head to say to Xunjing and Dr. Kureha.

"Oh? Let me take a look!"

Hearing that, Dr. Kureha put down the book in her hand, and Xunjing also stopped his cultivation.

The two of them took turns examining Uchiha Chisato.

Afterward, they nodded together, "Mm, she's indeed fully recovered!"

Dr. Kureha added another line, "Furthermore, the effects of the Soul-Nourishing Potion are still ongoing, and the damaged Soul Origin has also recovered by one percent."

"If you want to completely heal the injuries to your soul, you must continue drinking the Soul-Nourishing Potion every day from now on."

"Don't break off the Life-Nourishing Art either; keep practicing it."