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Chapter 113: Chapter 102 Yu Biao: Challenge Chen 94, Dare to Fight? (10,000 characters, please subscribe)_2

“Bone strengthening!”

Chen Jie questioned in confusion, but upon hearing this, Doctor Bai gently nodded and said, “Yes, exactly, bone strengthening.”

“Ming Jin hones the skin and flesh, Dark Force strengthens the sinews and bones. After the Refining Body Realm, one needs to exercise the twelve major tendons in the body, making the long tendons as supple as supporting willows, this is the training goal of the next Realm, also known as the Liu Jin Realm.”

“After the Liu Jin Realm, one begins to temper all the bones in the body. When the bones become as refined as steel, one has reached the fourth Realm, the Iron Bone Realm.”

“And the Elixir that aids in transitioning from the Liu Jin Realm to the Iron Bone Realm is the Bone Strengthening Pill, similar in function to the Skin Tempering Soup and Blood Replenishing Soup.”

“The bones of this Bull Horn Shrimp, when dried and ground into powder, become Water Dragon Bone Powder, an essential auxiliary medicine. In fact, the most precious part of this fish is the horns, while the flesh, refined into Blood Replenishing Soup, is rather ordinary.”

Chen Jie understood Doctor Bai’s words; the true use of the Bull Horn Shrimp was to act as an auxiliary medicine for the Bone Strengthening Pills, making the Blood Replenishing Soup a secondary use.

Indeed, it made sense upon reflection: one is for the Late Dark Force Iron Bone Realm, and the other for the Late Ming Jin Refining Body Realm; the difference between them was clear at a glance.

However, for Chen Jie, the benefits of the Blood Replenishing Soup seemed a bit more significant than those of the Bone Strengthening Pills.

Doctor Bai continued, “By the way, the scales of the Bull Horn Shrimp need not be removed, for they are highly nourishing. When making the Blood Replenishing Soup, however, one must remove the heart of the fish. This Bull Horn Shrimp is quite yin, dislikes the yang, and thus its heart has a yin nature, great for nourishing yin. It can damage yang, however, and is not suitable for men to consume. But for women, it can be quite beneficial for beauty, facial complexion, and regulating the body.”

“Yunjin, that girl, I have noticed her complexion has been rather dull lately, it seems like staying up late has damaged her liver Qi. You could use the heart of this fish along with some cassia seeds and Cuscuta chinensis to make a bowl of Liver Nourishing and Qi Protecting Soup for her to replenish her vitality. Men cannot just focus on their career; sometimes, they also need to look back on their loved ones, lest they end up with their career intact but their family gone…”

Upon hearing this, Chen Jie humbly took the lesson.

The more one lives, the clearer one understands. This was true for Doctor Bai, who often prefers not to be verbose, yet frequently imparts life lessons drawn from experience.

Like him, who, in his youth, was fiercely competitive and obsessed with medicine, yet neglected those around him.

Looking back, those who were by his side were no longer there, things are no longer the same, for years he has felt indebted to Bai’s family’s mother, who was with him through hard times but was not there to enjoy the good. In a blink of an eye, she was gone.

No matter how much you wish to make amends, it is impossible; one can only live with regrets for the rest of their life.

Doctor Bai said this and then returned to his room; being older, he did not like staying up late.

But Chen Jie was unable to sleep, staring at the Bull Horn Shrimp, waiting for midnight to come.

Finally, midnight arrived, and the familiar System alert sounded.

[Today’s intel has been updated (Level 2)]

[1. Today you encountered Yu Biao, who confirmed through a test that you are the murderer of Yu Sanliu and now bears the intent to kill you!]

[2. Today you met Li Sanding, who spent his years of savings to purchase a Blood and Flesh Pill on the Black Market. This pill, refined from a venomous insect known as Poison Blood Worm, can forcibly elevate a Martial Artist’s Realm to the Refining Body Realm, but in doing so, it severs their path on the Dao of Martial Arts, allowing for no further progress.]

[3. Today you discussed the Land Officer Competition, revealing that both the Fishing Guild and Guild Cao place great importance on it, with both Gang Leaders inquiring about the matter.]

[4. Today you practiced the Water Manipulation Palm Technique, indicating that your diligent training has made your mastery of the technique increasingly proficient, nearing the Expert Level.]

[5. Due to your strong belief, you gained relevant intel about the Blood Replenishing Soup, an Old Tang prescription that primarily uses the blood and flesh of the Bull Horn Shrimp, complemented with ginseng, astragalus, cassia seeds, and other sixteen herbal medicines to form a rather complete prescription with little room for improvement. However, when stewing the soup, do not use a ceramic pot; switching to an iron pot yields better results!]

Chen Jie looked at the intel and began to analyze it item by item.

The first point didn’t need much thought; he knew that he and Yu Biao had become mortal enemies, and given the chance, both would spare no effort to eliminate the other – one for vengeance, and the other to prevent future troubles.

The second piece of intel was quite intriguing.

The Second Ship Leader, Li Sanding, actually went to the Black Market to buy a toxic Blood and Flesh Pill—an exorbitant price to pay for advancement to the Refining Body Realm while severing the path of Martial Arts progression.

He desperately needed this opportunity to confront Yu Biao.

It must be said that Li Sanding was really committed, and he needed this chance too much.

He was too eager to progress.

Chen Jie discovered that the Jianghu was full of medicines that assisted in cultivation, including some pills with special effects.

For a Martial Artist to progress, they need to constantly acquire potent medicines to elevate their Realm. To rely solely on gradual cultivation might only result in advancing one or two Realms in half a lifetime.

For example, it might take someone else three to five years to reach the Skin Buff Realm through cultivation alone, while he only needed over one hundred taels of Silver and three doses of Skin Tempering Soup to succeed.

Put another way, three doses of Skin Tempering Soup saved someone else five years of time.

Isn’t it obvious why ‘the rich practice warfare and the poor practice literature’?

To progress from Skin Buff to Refining Body might take a decade of cultivation, but perhaps all he needed was one dose of Blood Replenishing Soup.