The First Deal

Using the "Mountain Collapse Combat Calculation" method to calculate techniques, the stronger and more distinct the enemy's abilities, the more difficult it becomes to calculate during combat.

However, upon reflection and further calculation, the gains are often even greater.

In the Great Yuan World, only the Diba Deng the Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms can still be used, but he has not yet mastered it to a superb degree.

After Chu Tianshu's decisive battle with Yan Tiemu'er, he would often recall that battle.

Recalling Yan Tiemu'er's palm techniques and comparing them with the Dragon-Subduing Palm, he realized that this was the beginning of successfully incorporating them into his own martial arts.

At this moment, the crimson dragon shadow circled around Chu Tianshu once, then shrank continuously and disappeared back into Chu Tianshu's palm.

Along with the ball of "Fire of the Upper Origin," it also crashed into Chu Tianshu's palm, only to be extinguished on the spot.

[The Fire of the Upper Origin:]

In the vast Spirit Realm, in the eastern Eastern Wasteland beyond the seas, there are three mountains and one valley. They are called Eastern Extreme Mountain, Julingyutian Mountain, Li Mountain, and Warm Source Valley.

In the valley of three mountains, where poisonous fire boils, fire scorpion spirits abound. The Flame Demon Clan takes them, refines them nine times, and offers them as sacrifices to the altar to Familiar Puppet.

Characteristics: Fire merges with the upper primordial energy. Although it is Evil Spirit, it resembles fire, infiltrating the human brain or overlapping with the soul and thoughts. Those possessed by it will have many strange thoughts, their vital energy will be greatly depleted, but their physical and mental heat tolerance will greatly increase, their Mind Power will be immediately strengthened, and they will be able to control fire out of thin air.

Chu Tianshu glanced at the token.

This Evil Spirit spirit isn't large, but this characteristic makes it quite troublesome.

For ordinary practitioners of Mind Power, if they are vigilant, they can simply keep the energy out of their bodies first, which would be fine.

If one is not careful and has already been invaded by this Evil Spirit, even if one's physical strength is greater than that of the Evil Spirit, it will be difficult to expel it on one's own.

Moreover, since this thing is a puppet, it will likely remain dormant most of the time, but when the time comes, a powerful expert from the Flame Devil Race could give an order and strongly interfere with the victim's actions.

Bass!

Chu Tianshu lowered his hand, flicked his thumb, and the Three-Seven Sword was drawn an inch from its sheath.

A wisp of Mind Power stored within the sword drifted away like a ribbon, connecting with the patient's soul and sending it back into the body.

Sanqi (a type of medicinal herb) is inherently a sword of healing. Even though it has undergone many transformations, the Mind Power stored within it still retains certain medical attributes.

Aqing Gong was both surprised and delighted. He reached out to help the old woman and asked Tang Rongfa, "Who is this?"

"From China."

Tang Rongfa didn't want to talk much here, only saying, "This patient's injury is quite serious. He needs to rest well after returning home and do a lot of rehabilitation. If he has enough willpower and the rehabilitation goes well, there shouldn't be too many aftereffects."

Rehabilitation is actually a very painful process.

Patients are already prone to psychological fragility, and during rehabilitation, their bodies may give them various false signals, making them suspicious and wondering if they are overexerting themselves, which is actually detrimental.

Once you heed those wrong signals, even a doctor's advice will be difficult to heed.

"He certainly doesn't lack perseverance."

Aqing Gong sighed, "Old Tang, don't you remember him? This is Liu Hanqiang. Back when we were fighting here, he was one of your best boxers."

Tang Rongfa, then looked at the old man on the stretcher. "It's him?"

Chu Tianshu asked out of curiosity.

Boxing competitions in the Americas, both overt and covert, are a thriving and highly popular phenomenon that continues to this day.

Therefore, Tang Rongfa also organized some illegal boxing matches back then, but he had to pay taxes.

Liu Hanqiang is one of his boxers. He trains very hard and has idolized the first generation of Chinese boxing champions since he was a child.

As early as 1919, Chen Hanqiang, a Chinese, had already won the championship title in the Australia International Professional Boxing Tournament.

This man was later invited by Huo Yuanjia to return to China to participate in the Jingwu Association, where he opened a boxing training class and worked there until the late 1950s.

Liu Hanqiang even named himself after this first-generation boxing champion. He was 1.8 meters tall and had trained himself to be exceptionally strong.

At that time, he could be considered one of Tang Rongfa's confidants.

Unfortunately, as Tang Rongfa larger and larger, his cultivation also became increasingly refined.

Liu Hanqiang was not good at cultivation and had never been able to Aperture Opening, so no matter how hard he trained, it was useless.

Liu Hanqiang gradually fell out of favor under Tang Rongfa, and it's unclear in which year he retired.

Chu Tianshu had noticed long ago that the calluses on this patient's hands had never faded, and despite his advanced age, he was still so fit and strong.

For those who haven't yet Aperture Opening to the path of spiritual cultivation, maintaining such physical strength in old age is extremely difficult.

It seems that even after being relegated to the bottom and retiring in disgrace, Liu Hanqiang never gave up on his aspirations.

"It's him."

Tang Rongfa looked at the old woman. "You shouldn't go home. I also run a sanatorium. You can come there from now on, and you'll have free care and rehabilitation assistance."

The old woman quickly replied, "Our family is doing well. It's quite rare that the old man was able to retire successfully. He has a good pension, so we don't need to trouble others."

Tang Rongfa a little uncomfortable listening to this.

What does it mean to say that successfully retiring is quite rare?

Although it seems to be the truth.

Memories stirred within him, and he sighed inwardly, saying nothing more.

"There's really no need to worry too much about rehabilitation."

Chu Tianshu smiled. "However, whether an employee is Aperture Opening or not should be treated differently under your supervision."

Tang Rongfa asked in surprise, "Does the miracle doctor mean... he's Aperture Opening?"

"What?! I 'Aperture Opening?!"

The old man on the stretcher, still half asleep, heard this and suddenly sat up, his eyes unfocused, staring straight ahead.

"Have I Aperture Opening? Or am I dreaming again?"

Tang Rongfa quickly patted his shoulder, and a surge of Mind Power soothed him, causing him to drift off to sleep again.

Chu Tianshu chuckled and said, "The environment is different now. The chances of someone Aperture Opening are much higher than before, especially for someone like him who has persisted for so many years."

When the environment is bad, talent, perseverance, and even opportunity are all indispensable; when the environment improves, perhaps only one of them is needed.

Tang Rongfa's gaze towards Liu Hanqiang clearly showed a deeper level of contemplation.

Even if someone becomes Aperture Opening in old age, their potential is vastly different from before.

Such people don't need to engage in fighting and killing. Simply nurturing them, letting them learn the techniques after Aperture Opening, and guiding the younger generation can provide a better educational experience than before. Naturally, they deserve different treatment.

"With his perseverance, once he Aperture Opening of it, he'll definitely experience a period of rapid progress. I think he's worth a lot of medicinal herbs, or perhaps you should buy him a External Elixir No. 2."

Chu Tianshu said leisurely, "You have so many people under your command. How about buying External Elixir No. 2 those who have reached the Aperture Opening Aperture Opening, and External Elixir No. 1 for those who haven't?"

The External Elixir series of products are domestically developed auxiliary training devices. They look like a metal ball and can be charged using household appliances.

Initially, it was only popularized in schools, but its reach has since expanded.

"External Elixir products are also readily available on the black market here, but the price is at least dozens of times higher than at the source, and the scale is not large."

Tang Rongfa murmured, "And under my command, if you include their families, there are tens of thousands—"

Anthony strode over and put his arm around Tang Rongfa's shoulder.

"We probably have several million people under our command."

Tang Rongfa startled and came to his senses, speechless.

Reporting millions? That's a bit outrageous.

"Several million? It seems they'll have to be sold in batches."

Chu Tianshu smiled and did not object, saying only, "I will report my opinion back, and someone will contact you afterwards. Let's consider this our first business deal."

Anthony felt hot all over.

If there is a stable supply of External Elixir products, even if you only have No. 1 and No. 2, the profit margin can be quite considerable.

Besides, even if this is done well, it will only be the beginning.

"Mr. Chu."

Anthony couldn't help but ask, "Does this External Elixir series have the official sales rights in the Americas exclusively with us, or do other companies also have them?"

Chu Tianshu laughed heartily, "That depends on how well you do."

We will definitely do our best.

Anthony pondered, "Now that we have the official version, we need to crack down on piracy. We need to suppress those black market goods and similar products currently circulating in the market."

"It seems there's another thing to discuss at tonight's gathering."

Upon hearing this, Chu Tianshu narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Let me see what everyone is capable of before tonight's gathering."

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