fifth form

Chapter 3191 Preaching
Having delayed his entry into this world for ten days, Zhang Xuezhou's normal stay time was only five days.

These past few days he has been negotiating with Hongku, and he has also shown the new emperor how the Southern Bright Fire Technique can restrain the Yang Soul Incarnation Technique. He has also borrowed three parts of luck to replicate the elixir.

As for visiting Changxin Palace and catching Jin Chang, these events seem insignificant.

If we were to talk about what he gained, Zhang Xuezhou felt that the greatest insight he gained from discussing philosophy with Rong Tianding was the direction he discovered in the field of cohesion.

He was somewhat eager to return to reality and tell Ren Anran that this direction might also be helpful to Ren Yisheng and others buried in the ground.

Zhang Xuezhou returned to the real world in the palace, not in a more risky mansion.

"There's no need to worry. These days will surely pass, and we will definitely not be the ones living in constant fear in the future!"

Only Yi Shuo was waiting for Zhang Xuezhou in a side hall of the palace. Zhang Xuezhou looked at Yi Shuo, who was barely maintaining her composure, and couldn't help but comfort her.

Marrying him is not a good thing; no matter how much glamour he has, it will inevitably crumble under the weight of reality after intimate contact.

Zhang Xuezhou was undoubtedly a person with a halo in Yishuo's eyes, but his behavior after marriage was not satisfactory, and he lacked the intimacy and liveliness of a newlywed couple.

Zhang Xuezhou had many things piling up on his shoulders, including grudges, medical treatment, and power struggles. The situation was not as rosy as he had imagined.

It would be one thing if the troublemakers were of a lower level, but the key issue is that Zhang Xuezhou and his group have provoked a top-tier cultivator.

Compared to Daojun and the others, Yi Shuo was just a greenhorn, completely incapable of resisting.

Looking at Zhang Xuezhou's beaming face, she felt all the thoughts she had imagined before marriage about playing an important role vanish completely.

"You seem somewhat remorseful?"

Zhang Xuezhou's senses were incredibly powerful.

Yi Shuo couldn't hide anything from him, just as he found it difficult to lie to Dao Jun.

With a simple guess, Zhang Xuezhou quickly understood Yi Shuo's psychology.

"I'm counting on you to adjust my cultivation and strength," Zhang Xuezhou said with a smile. "Participating in things doesn't require being at the forefront; providing support from the rear is more important!"

“I always feel like we haven’t accomplished anything. Even after six months of marriage, your physical problems haven’t improved at all. It was only thanks to your own use of rare and precious herbs that you were able to overcome them,” Yi Shuo said.

“That’s my problem, not yours,” Zhang Xuezhou waved his hand and said, “When I’m lucid, I wander around aimlessly, and when I’m lying down, I’m restless. No patient is as good as me and I can’t treat them!”

“My husband is a man destined for great things, how could he be wasting his time?” Yi Shuo shook her head repeatedly and said, “It is me who is wasting my time, sitting in the palace and the Imperial Medical Academy all day long. I have done a lot of research, but my skills have not improved by the slightest. I am far inferior to my husband’s powerful magic!”

“Your medical skills focus on strengthening the body’s foundation and minimizing damage,” Zhang Xuezhou said. “My techniques are only used in emergencies and are extremely harmful to the body. Even if the wounds are healed, it is very possible that the other person will die suddenly!”

Zhang Xuezhou keenly noticed Yi Shuo's emotional fluctuations.

Such emotional fluctuations are rare, but they are not unusual for cultivators at the Divine Power Realm.

Upon entering the realm of supernatural powers and reaching the latter three stages of cultivation, almost all supernatural power cultivators believe they are capable of achieving great things, but in reality, this is merely a threshold.

Even without mentioning Yi Shuo, it took the new emperor several years to reach the level of supernatural powers.

At the Divine Power Realm stage, cultivators will inevitably follow their own hearts, thereby determining their future direction.

The state of self-centeredness is not the same as idealism, but changes in one's state of mind can lead to many behavioral effects, and may even result in the controllability of supernatural powers.

Zhang Xuezhou and Rong Tianding discussed that he would not mind having a long talk with Yi Shuo to clarify the logic behind it.

This kind of systematic content is lacking in various schools of thought today. Most schools simply follow the paths of their predecessors, explaining how the great masters within their schools cultivated themselves and how past outstanding figures achieved their success. It's like copying a calligraphy model; many practitioners know the "what" but not the "why," merely following instructions without understanding the underlying connections. Zhang Xuezhou's explanation is general and doesn't involve medical schools, but his analysis provides a framework.

Just like the framework of realm techniques given by Zhang Weimeng, what he talked about were all theories. Whether one could flexibly apply them to one's own school of cultivation depended on oneself and whether one could fill in what one had learned.

"We cannot simply limit ourselves to the content inherited from the past of a school of thought; instead, we must try our best to break out of this framework!"

If one is not in a position of need, Zhang Xuezhou's words will seem pretentious and empty, like repeating the same old things over and over again. They may sound reasonable, but they lack practical benefits.

Yi Shuo also seemed somewhat confused.

“Once some things are over, go out and see the world,” Zhang Xuezhou said after a few seconds of thought. “Perhaps in the future you can join the legion and combine theory with practice. You will then break through your own limitations and become a good doctor!”

“Then you should still be a doctor,” Yi Shuo said.

“Don’t underestimate the skills of a good doctor,” Zhang Xuezhou said with a smile. “You can repair wounds and put skilled fighters in their best condition, which will have a positive effect both before and after a battle!”

"The higher my cultivation and medical skills, the more I feel the limitations," Yi Shuo said. "The illness can no longer be controlled with a few silver needles, and the medicinal soups and decoctions I prepare are not as good as a top-grade pill!"

“Even the most potent elixir is created by a combination of physician and alchemist,” Zhang Xuezhou laughed. “Without a physician to understand the pharmacology, the alchemist can only frantically try to make it. For example, my attempt at alchemy this time was a complete mess, and it was completely contrary to what I really wanted to achieve!”

"Wasn't that pill successfully made?"

"Difficult to achieve!"

Zhang Xuezhou waved his hand.

Zhang Xuezhou was well-versed in the yin-yang balance of elixirs, but the reactions that occur when elixirs are combined with the human body involve medical principles.

Over the years, he has repeatedly refined elixirs, but he has never produced any top-tier, compatible elixirs. Almost every elixir has side effects, which is largely due to his lack of medical knowledge.

Zhang Xuezhou was only able to take these poisonous pills as tonics by sheer physical strength.

Strictly speaking, none of his pills were up to standard, making him resemble a wandering alchemist from the martial arts world, with a significant gap between him and top-tier alchemists.

He relied entirely on the formulas of his predecessors to refine the Qi-Creating Pill and the Ten-Ingredient Tonic Pill. If he could refine good pills, how could Zhang Xuezhou not hope that the pills he refined would be powerful and have no side effects?

Zhang Xuezhou has limited time, and he is destined to be unable to be perfect in every aspect. He has entrusted some things to Zheng Wukong and Chunyu Tiying. Yi Shuo may be able to take over in the future, and may even be more effective than the two of them.

In his speech, Zhang Xuezhou not only mentioned that spiritual cultivation requires combining theory with practice, but also criticized himself.

This allowed Yi Shuo to quickly grasp the direction of development and no longer feel that medicine was useless.

There are indeed few skilled healers among the great cultivators, but those skilled in medicine play a significant role in a cultivator group, and even an inconspicuous position can play a crucial role.

"I think I touched it..."

Having dispelled her lack of direction, Yi Shuo was about to mention the significance of the 108,000 acupoints for medical theory when she heard a series of knocks on the door of the side hall.

"Dongfang Shuo, before you fall into a deep sleep, let me talk to you about something and see if it's possible for us to move towards our true selves in this direction!"

Zhang Xuezhou gave Yishuo some pointers.

Outside the door, the new emperor's voice carried a hint of joy and excitement.

If it weren't for the slight worry about Zhang Xuezhou's spirit wood staff striking randomly, the door would have been pushed open quickly.