Recovery from Injuries

The pungent smell of healing pills wafted into his nostrils.

Shen Yuan slowly opened his heavy eyelids.

He was lying on a soft couch in a healing chamber. Wounds large and small across his body had been coated with ointment and wrapped securely in layers of bandages. The dislocated bone in his left shoulder had been set back in place, and waves of dull pain kept rolling through him.

Outside the window, the sky had already darkened. The lingering glow of the setting sun slanted through the lattice and into the room.

The scenes from that vast void—the appearance of the Martial Performance Saint Emperor's lingering remnant and the transmission of the Myriad Transformations Deduction Mind Method—remained vividly branded in his mind.

It had not been a dream.

With a thought, Shen Yuan sank his consciousness into his sea of awareness.

The Martial Arts Heavenly Stele still floated quietly there, dark and ancient. Yet upon its surface, an exceedingly faint ancient pattern had appeared. Within his sea of awareness, the complete [Myriad Transformations Deduction Mind Method] existed, countless profound insights flowing through it.

Shen Yuan silently recited the mind method's formula.

In that instant, he could clearly sense that the way the Heavenly Stele connected to his soul had changed.

In the past, every deduction and simulated battle required his soul to bear the brunt of the pain feedback. Now, with this mind method, more than half the painful backlash from simulations could be filtered away, leaving only the crucial combat insights. The drain on his soul would greatly decrease. At the same time, the efficiency of his calculations had risen; with the same amount of Martial Dao Points, he could complete more rounds of deduction and trial-and-error.

Excellent. Shen Yuan sighed inwardly.

Had he obtained this mind method earlier,