Chapter 36: Using Blood as a Guide, Refining the Soul into Medicine
"Blood is the medium of the Soul. Taking a person's blood is equivalent to taking a part of their Soul. The core of the Blood Medicine Art is built upon this foundation."
"Even if the physical body does not carry Spirit Power, the Soul itself is still a medium for it. This is one of the reasons why Evil Spirit Masters often use the blood and Souls of ordinary people."
"I will first teach you the most basic Blood Refining methods. Next, we will extract the essence from these hundred odd pounds of pig blood."
"A Spirit is the combination of Bloodline and Soul. As long as a creature lives in the Douluo world, there is no such thing as absolutely no Spirit Power. For most lives, it is simply below a certain threshold. If all humans trace their Bloodline back to its source, there must have once been a Spirit Master among their ancestors, just as the ancestors of wild beasts were Spirit Beasts."
"What we need to do next is find the energy hidden within these impurities and then begin the purification process..."
Blood Refining was one of Zhang Peng's old specialties, so guiding Chen Ming in it was naturally effortless for him. Under Zhang Peng's instruction, Chen Ming began adding various materials into the pig blood little by little, trying to extract its essence.
After several failures, Chen Ming finally succeeded for the first time, drawing out a trace of Spirit Power from the pig blood through displacement and extraction.
Seeing Chen Ming succeed, Zhang Peng merely shook his head.
"Continue. It still isn't pure enough. What you extracted was Spirit Power from the auxiliary materials, not from the blood itself. Your purification process was too impatient, which led to incomplete displacement... Come, watch my demonstration..."
Once, 5 times, 10 times...
After his first successful Blood Refining, Chen Ming did not fail again. Even so, it took him more than 10 consecutive attempts before he finally produced a finished product that earned a slight nod from Zhang Peng.
After successfully refining ordinary blood as a raw material, Chen Ming began refining the blood of low level Spirit Beasts instead. He purified the energy and Bloodline within while weakening the toxicity and resentment as much as possible, then mixed different kinds of blood together to refine medicine.
Watching Chen Ming's progress, Zhang Peng did not praise him much aloud, but inwardly he was extremely pleased.
Chen Ming's Blood Refining speed was not as fast as his own had once been, but Zhang Peng had never judged Chen Ming by his own standards. After all, their Martial Souls were completely different. His own Martial Soul made him naturally more sensitive in this area, while Chen Ming's Martial Soul was like a brute with almost no talent for mental force, gaining no enhancement in perception at all.
In the end, the Blood Medicine Art had been created by a Super Douluo skilled in blood manipulation, based on his own knowledge. While it did not absolutely require the learner to possess blood manipulation abilities, it was naturally more suitable for those with such talents.
Under those circumstances, being able to progress so quickly meant that, in Zhang Peng's eyes, Chen Ming's talent in this field was no worse than his own and might even surpass it in some aspects.
After all, Zhang Peng's mastery of Blood Arts came with the assistance of his Martial Soul. Back then, he had also tried cultivating the Medicine Arts for a time, only to discover that he simply had no talent for them. He had learned less than half of the true essence of the Blood Medicine Art and could only use it for Blood Refining to assist his cultivation.
Chen Ming, on the other hand, displayed excellent talent in both aspects. In the future, he would definitely be able to inherit the true essence of this technique.
Under Zhang Peng's guidance, Chen Ming refined several different kinds of Spirit Beast blood. Some of it he consumed directly for cultivation, while the rest served as the core materials, combined with various medicines for pill making.
After nearly 2 months of hard work, Chen Ming's cultivation had risen by more than 1 rank, leaving him only a small step away from Rank 20 and his 2nd Spirit Ring. In terms of technique, he had also stepped into the entry level of this strange Blood Medicine Art Legacy.
"Blood Coagulation Powder, for external use, can stop bleeding and make wounds heal quickly. Blood Producing Powder, for oral use, can improve the body's blood generating ability. Spirit Settling Powder, for oral use, can adjust a Spirit Master's condition and accelerate the recovery of Spirit Power..."
"Blood Dispersing Powder, when ingested, causes blood and qi to fall out of harmony for several days, leading to a decline in condition. Because its principle differs from normal toxins, most healing type Spirit Masters cannot detect it, and most healing type Spirit Abilities are ineffective against it."
"Boiling Blood Pill, after taking it, blood surges and combat strength increases for a short time, but this is followed by a backlash period. The side effects can be quickly removed with Spirit Settling Powder."
"Teacher, are these medicines really so rare outside? I feel their effects aren't particularly strong. They seem similar to the common 'Great Strength Pills' mentioned in all kinds of Spirit Master biographies." Chen Ming looked suspicious as he took stock of the powders and pills he had refined over the past 2 months.
To put it plainly, the things he had refined would not count as especially strong even in a Wuxia world, much less a Xuanhuan one. In cultivation novels, they would basically be the kind of things sold by entry level loose cultivators in the marketplace.
Moreover, even though these were medicines from a Xuanhuan world, judging from their actual effects, Chen Ming felt that common medicines from his previous world were not necessarily weaker and might even be stronger.
"You think I would lie to you? Even if these are only entry level formulas, their effects are still much better than the common Golden Sore Ointments outside. If a low level Spirit Master obtained one of these formulas, they could pass it down to their descendants and accumulate considerable wealth for at least several generations."
Zhang Peng held his forehead and explained to Chen Ming, "Do not compare the formulas in our hands or the various Legacies recorded in the Holy Spirit Cult's books to ordinary things. These are Legacies left behind by top tier experts, or the results of accumulation over dozens of generations. Although these powders and pills are only entry level formulas within the Blood Medicine Art, they are still superior to most things in the entire Spirit Master world."
"Think about the level of the people in the Holy Spirit Cult who are qualified to leave behind biographies. At minimum, they are Spirit Saints. Outside? A Spirit Saint can leave behind a proper Legacy that lasts hundreds of years, yet many Spirit Master families that have existed for centuries might not even produce a Spirit King."
"I can eat 10,000 year Spirit Beasts for dinner, but if you face one, then you will just become dinner for it. Unless you meet something like a 10,000 year silkworm chrysalis, once a 10,000 year Spirit Beast decides to kill you, you most likely will not be able to escape."
"Teacher, I have a question. Humans have existed for at least over 20,000 years now, so why are medical skills only at this level?" Chen Ming asked sincerely.
"Medical Skill itself is only a lower grade substitute for healing type Spirit Masters. If not for the huge number of commoners and the fact that Spirit Masters also need medicine to assist their cultivation, then Medical Skill would be even worse."
"It is not that famous great physicians have never appeared in history. It is just that they usually only passed their Legacies to their own descendants or Disciples and would not spread them externally. That is why medicine and medical skills have advanced so slowly."
"If we are talking about who possesses the strongest Medicine Arts in this era, then it is definitely the Sun Moon Empire. The Sun Moon Empire as a whole focuses on cultivating through medicine, with conventional cultivation as a supplement. In history, there were even cases where a Titled Douluo was piled up by medicine at all costs."
"You could say the Sun Moon Empire uses the strength of the entire nation to research spirit tools and medicine. These 2 technologies are like 2 legs supporting the strength of the Sun Moon Empire's Spirit Masters."
"The Blood Medicine Art is strange and powerful. But compared to the Medicine Arts of the entire Sun Moon Empire, it is still somewhat inferior... However, for you and me, it is more than enough."
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