Chapter 17: “why Can She Live So Long?”
Just this single second-hand book alone could match the value of a third of a medical clinic, showing just how expensive things related to Soul Masters could be.
However, this book was indeed impressive, basically completely cataloging common Soul Beasts and Soul Skills.
When he first got this book, Huo Yuhao flipped through it and saw that the author was a Limit Douluo from a thousand years ago who personally traveled the Continent to record Soul Beasts and Soul Skills.
The boy carefully read the detailed introduction to the Sunflower, as well as the possible Soul Skill effects.
After discovering that they were basically all healing or support type Soul Skills, an dissatisfied expression appeared on his face.
“Ah? Support Type?”
“No, Clinic Master, can you recommend some Soul Skills with attack power?”
Although he didn’t recommend ordinary Blue Silver Grass going assault type or control type, since the customer was asking for it, following the principle that the customer is God, Huo Yuhao patiently introduced him to other Soul Beasts.
“This is the Dream Flower, generally growing in cold caves on the outskirts of Star Dou Great Forest, producing illusionary Soul Skills. How about it?”
“Illusionary Soul Skills aren’t straightforward enough, petty tricks, I don’t want it!”
Hearing his words, a vein popped on Huo Yuhao’s forehead; these words had struck at him.
Suppressing his temper, he continued: “Thunder Vine, growing in Thunder Canyon, generally produces lightning-summoning Soul Skills. How about it?”
“Still depends on the weather, too much luck involved, no good!”
“Sword Grass, growing in Disaster Mountain Range, absorbing its Soul Ring can give plant Martial Souls sharp properties, and also grant defense-breaking Soul Skills. How about it?”
The boy hesitated a bit but still shook his head and said: “Range too small, short distance, no good.”
Huo Yuhao was genuinely a bit angry now. He slammed the book on the table and said: “Hiss~ No way, for a first Soul Skill, do you want to reach the heavens? This won’t do, that won’t do.”
“How about this: you go to Star Dou Great Forest, keep heading to the core area, and after reaching Lake of Life, kill the Ten Thousand Demon King, the Soul Skill you get will definitely satisfy you.”
The boy’s eyes actually lit up. Just as he was about to say something, his mother next to him covered his mouth, then said apologetically to Huo Yuhao:
“Sorry, Clinic Master Huo, this child has been reading those wuxia novels at the mansion and got his brain all muddled.”
“I think the Sunflower is pretty good, easy to obtain, and the Soul Skills gained are very useful.”
Hearing this, the boy wanted to make a fuss but quieted down after his mother gave him a fierce glare.
Huo Yuhao glanced at the boy, then used paper and pen to write down the precautions for the Sunflower and its locations before handing it to the middle-aged woman.
The middle-aged woman took it with endless thanks, then pulled out three Silver Soul Coins and a book from the small bag behind her and handed them to Huo Yuhao.
“Clinic Master, sorry for troubling you earlier.”
“This book can be considered extra reward. This is the Profound Heaven Skill that my grandmother brought out from Tang Sect when the branch family split years ago.”
“There were actually some secret skills too, but unfortunately they were lost during the later hardships; only this Profound Heaven Skill was kept.”
“If you don’t mind, please accept it. These days, Tang Sect doesn’t even exist anymore, and no one cares about cultivation methods leaking out.”
Huo Yuhao watched the two leave the medical clinic, then looked at the classics in his hand with a mix of laughter and tears.
Without even joining Tang Sect, he had so easily obtained Tang Sect’s most core cultivation method.
This even made him suspect if Buddha had intervened.
Anyway, with nothing to do, Huo Yuhao flipped through the Profound Heaven Skill.
The meditation method recorded inside was indeed much better than what Huo Yuhao was using now, involving more meridians and more reasonably so.
However, Huo Yuhao noticed something off inside: the general outline clearly mentioned the framework of the Eight Extraordinary Meridians, but the later content only introduced the few main meridians used for cultivation.
Core knowledge like the Eight Extraordinary Meridians and related diagrams were completely unrecorded. Besides that, many places had text that felt obviously discordant, as if parts had been deleted by someone.
Huo Yuhao immediately understood: Tang Sect’s Profound Heaven Skill had likely been castrated, and with the later decline, the version in his hands was probably worlds apart from the original.
“Useless to eat, wasteful to discard.”
This was Huo Yuhao’s evaluation of it; currently, the only useful part for him was the recorded meridian knowledge.
This cultivation method, he really didn’t dare to practice, fearing it had some additives that could cause him problems.
Causing problems would be a small matter; if he unknowingly got leashed by a God King’s dog chain, he’d really be done for.
……
At this time, Jiang Nannan finally brought her mother to Huo Yuhao’s shop entrance.
Seeing the offbeat slogan on the signboard, she still gritted her teeth and brought her mother inside.
After all, this was her last hope.
After entering the shop, Jiang Nannan called out to Huo Yuhao, who was reading at the counter:
“Clinic Master, please take a look at my mother, I beg you.”
Huo Yuhao looked up and saw a stunning girl with golden wavy long hair, her face full of tear stains, supporting her mother and looking at him with pleading eyes.
Seeing her, Huo Yuhao’s brain CPU spun wildly, instantly retrieving several keywords.
“Blonde hair, beautiful, mother ill, Xuan Feng City, Profound Nether Sect.”
“Good grief, this is Jiang Nannan’s hometown?!”
Huo Yuhao now finally figured out the time point: Jiang Nannan was currently in third year, about to start fourth year.
That meant four more months until the normal plot began, when Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm and Ilex would both gather in Star Dou Great Forest.
His two biggest cheats from the original work were about to come online.
Under Jiang Nannan’s pleading gaze, Huo Yuhao temporarily set aside his thoughts, quickly got up to help support her mother to the sickbed in the back room.
Then he asked Jiang Nannan about the patient’s condition.
Jiang Nannan hurriedly recited every diagnosis from Xu Wei word for word to Huo Yuhao.
“Clinic Master, please save my mother, she’s suffered too much, I… I…”
Huo Yuhao interrupted her out-of-control emotions: “You go out for a bit first, let me check the situation.”
Jiang Nannan nodded heavily, then suppressed her sobs and retreated to the front hall.
After Huo Yuhao drew the curtain, he slowly used his spiritual power to probe her mother’s condition bit by bit.
Especially the heart area—this check revealed a shock.
“Holy crap, ventricular septal defect, atrial septal defect, patent ductus arteriosus, pulmonary valve stenosis.”
“All the congenital heart conditions one could encounter, now all present.”
“How exactly has she lived to now? How is this even survivable? Medicine doesn’t exist anymore!”
Huo Yuhao looked at the woman on the bed with a face full of astonishment.
To put it bluntly, in his previous life, this woman would have at least five Nobel Prizes in Medicine on her body.
Any one of these conditions could overwhelm an ordinary person, but she pulled off a grand slam and stayed lively for over thirty years.
As long as he could figure out the basic principle of how she survived this long, the medical world’s research on hearts could leap forward fifty years.
With curiosity, Huo Yuhao continued probing, then realized why she had lived to now.
This woman’s Martial Soul was the same as Jiang Nannan’s, Soft Bone Rabbit, with innate Soul Power not low, estimated at around level six or seven.
The beast Martial Soul combined with higher innate Soul Power continuously supported her existence with its origin.
However, as time passed, her physical fitness weakened, the Martial Soul origin declined and could no longer compensate for her bodily functions, and heart problems began to erupt.
