Over the next few days, Xia Xi settled into a guest room at the Butterfly Mansion.
The room was not far from the treatment room, which made things convenient.
Aside from his daily training, he spent each day grinding his skill in the treatment room.
After all, this was their medical headquarters, and injured Swordsmen were brought in for treatment every few days.
As long as their injuries did not involve curses, Xia Xi could often treat them a little faster than even the Kocho Sisters.
It also happened to give Xia Xi the chance to make his final push toward Medicine Lv. 5.
Apart from that, he studied the derivative sample with the Kocho Sisters.
They called it "studying together," but their division of labor was actually quite clear.
Kanae handled the overall analysis and adjustments to the formulas.
Shinobu followed her older sister's lead, handling the actual experiments and recordkeeping.
As the eldest daughter of a family of pharmacists, Kanae naturally possessed broader and deeper knowledge than her younger sister.
What Shinobu Kocho truly excelled at was [poison].
When it came to [medicine] and [pharmacology], she was still learning from her older sister much of the time.
As for Xia Xi...
He could only offer the two of them substantial help when his [Medicine] skill took effect.
Beyond that, he tossed out scattered concepts from modern medicine at the level of a Baidu doctor.
Terms like antibiotics, targeted drugs, extracorporeal circulation, and organ transplants.
They were not much use for treating people, but he certainly had plenty of ways to sound impressive.
So much so that even a professional like Kanae sometimes listened with her eyes lighting up.
Shinobu Kocho was also entirely focused.
Only her focus seemed to lie in a somewhat different direction.
She simply watched