Chapter 510 - 510: Medical Skills Upgrade

After giving her the name, Zhao Yuan asked a few more things about Lingzi. Unfortunately, the Bone Woman knew very little about her.

Although Lingzi had subdued her long ago, she was usually kept under a seal. Lingzi would only break the seal when she needed her services. As a result, the Bone Woman wasn't clear on Lingzi's identity, origins, specific abilities, and so on.

'It seems Lingzi was very cautious and didn't trust anyone.' Zhao Yuan felt a touch of regret. He had hoped to learn Lingzi's secrets from the Bone Woman, but it turned out to be a dead end.

Shaking his head, he set the matter aside for now and proceeded to impart the White Bone Withering and Flourishing Technique to the Bone Woman.

The Bone Woman was stunned.

She had never imagined that she could actually receive a Cultivation Technique, and one that was so perfectly suited to her!

With this technique, she could finally embark on the path of Cultivation. In the future, she might even have the chance to become a Demon Immortal or a Demon God!

In other words, Zhao Yuan had given her a path to a magnificent future!

Overcome with joy and astonishment, the Bone Woman immediately dropped to her knees and kowtowed deeply to Zhao Yuan.

If her previous kneeling had been forced by the brand that made her acknowledge Zhao Yuan as her master, this time, she knelt willingly, from the bottom of her heart.

Ever since becoming a Bone Woman, no one had ever treated her so well. Lingzi and the others who had subdued her before had all treated her as nothing more than a servant, a tool to be commanded. They wouldn't dream of giving her a suitable Cultivation Technique; they wouldn't even offer a single word of thanks. She was simply summoned and dismissed at their whim.

With Zhao Yuan, she felt warmth for the first time in over three hundred years.

If skeletons had tear ducts, she would have been weeping with gratitude.

Zhao Yuan made a gesture as if to help her up. "Get up. You can cultivate here in the living room. If there's anything you don't understand, just make a note of it. I'll be back tomorrow to answer your questions."

"Yes. I will cultivate diligently and live up to your expectations, Master!" the Bone Woman replied, kowtowing once more. She did it with such force that her skull popped off and went rolling to the side. RATTLE RATTLE. She hastily scrambled after it to pick it up.

The scene was so comical that Zhao Yuan couldn't help but chuckle. He then went into his bedroom and took the wakizashi Lingzi had left behind from his Storage Ring Space.

This short Japanese sword was incredibly sharp and emanated a piercing cold aura. Just holding it made him feel as if half his body was freezing solid. Zhao Yuan knew this chill was not Innate, but rather Postnatal—something it had acquired.

This was a malevolent blade, forged from the blood and lives of countless people!

After examining it for a moment, Zhao Yuan returned it to the Storage Ring Space, muttering, "Useful or not, I'll keep it for now. At the very least, it's a decent weapon."

Zhao Yuan mulled over Lingzi's origins for a while longer before lighting a stick of Soul-Stabilizing Incense. He lay down on his bed, activated the Concentration Technique, and began to study the final section of *Traditional Chinese Medicine Diagnosis*.

The night passed. Although Zhao Yuan only slept for two hours, the Soul-Stabilizing Incense made his sleep incredibly effective. Far from feeling tired, he felt refreshed and full of vigor.

After this night of study, he had finally completed *Traditional Chinese Medicine Diagnosis*. The Information Leaf immediately presented him with two new textbooks: *Internal Medicine of Traditional Chinese Medicine* and *Traditional Chinese Surgery*.

The prowess of Traditional Chinese Medicine in internal medicine is undeniable. There are many illnesses for which Western medicine struggles to even understand the cause or mechanism, yet Traditional Chinese Medicine can arrive at a diagnosis through its own theoretical framework, provide corresponding treatment, and ultimately cure the patient.

Compared to its achievements in internal medicine, the strength of Traditional Chinese Medicine in the surgical field is, in the eyes of many, not nearly as impressive. Many people, upon hearing the term "Traditional Chinese Surgery," even ask in surprise, 'Traditional Chinese Medicine has surgery?'

In fact, Traditional Chinese Medicine not only has a field of surgery, but it is also highly advanced!

Traditional Chinese Surgery is recorded in detail in the *Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor*, with its origins tracing all the way back to Ancient Times! The *Rituals of Zhou* already had a clear classification for surgeons. Additionally, China's earliest discovered medical text, the *Fifty-Two Disease Formulas*, contains detailed records of numerous surgical diseases.

In addition to its long history, Traditional Chinese Surgery also achieved a very high level of therapeutic skill over millennia of development. It was only in modern times, with the rapid advancement of Western surgical techniques, that Traditional Chinese Surgery gradually waned in prominence.

Even so, it still maintains an extremely high level of expertise in its areas of strength, such as treating carbuncles, swellings, ulcers, sores, and bone injuries. In these aspects, even Western surgery has to concede its inferiority.

'I'm finally starting to learn the clinical subjects!'

Zhao Yuan was thrilled as he looked at the two major textbooks, *Traditional Chinese Surgery* and *Internal Medicine of Traditional Chinese Medicine*.

Most of the knowledge he had acquired so far had been theoretical. The introduction of internal and surgical medicine marked his first step into the clinical realm!

Zhao Yuan was confident that if he could learn, master, and thoroughly understand these two subjects, *Traditional Chinese Surgery* and *Internal Medicine of Traditional Chinese Medicine*, his medical skills would undoubtedly ascend to a whole new level!

He was both excited and full of anticipation.

However, before tackling these two subjects, he first had to master *Acupuncture Theory and Practice Part 1: Theoretical Foundation*. Both internal and surgical medicine utilized a great deal of knowledge from Acupuncture. If he didn't understand it, he would surely be lost when studying those topics, and his progress would suffer.

Having reviewed his gains from the previous night, Zhao Yuan got out of bed and left his bedroom.

In the living room, the Bone Woman was still in the midst of her Cultivation. As a Demon, she didn't experience human fatigue. Combined with the excitement of just receiving a Cultivation Technique, she was eager to spend every second on her practice, wasting none of it.

But when she saw Zhao Yuan emerge from the bedroom, she immediately moved to stop her Cultivation to bow and greet him.

Zhao Yuan waved his hand. "Just keep practicing. Don't mind me." With that, he went into the bathroom to wash up.

Even though he had said that, the Bone Woman still paused her Cultivation, came over to kneel and pay her respects, and only then returned to the living room to resume practicing the White Bone Withering and Flourishing Technique.

There wasn't much to do that day, so after washing up, Zhao Yuan lit a stick of Soul-Stabilizing Incense and practiced the Creation Technique.

Around noon, he had lunch with the faculty from West Hua Medical University and saw them off on a minibus to the airport. Then he returned to his room, activated his Concentration Technique, and continued to study *Acupuncture Theory and Practice Part 1: Theoretical Foundation*.

It wasn't until a little after four in the afternoon that Zhao Yuan called for a car and headed to the airport to pick up Ying Ji and Hao Li.

He didn't check out of his hotel room. Instead, he hung the "Do Not Disturb" sign on the door, leaving the Bone Woman inside to continue her Cultivation.