NOVEL NEXT WORLD Chapter 55: Chapter 55: Special Talent
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During the previous reporting journey, Ling Yi learned some information about the camp from Jiang Yuan.
Cold Wind Camp, with a garrison of ten thousand troops, is the main camp of the four ten-thousand-strong armies in the northern region of Waterwood Principality. It oversees the alert line between Waterwood Principality and the Icebound Forest, preventing the soul beasts within the Icebound Forest from moving south and threatening human settlements.
In the vast Cold Wind Camp, there are three medical corps. In the third corps where Ling Yi is stationed, there are two Two-Ring Great Soul Masters, seven One-Ring Soul Masters (including Ling Yi), and four Non-Soul Masters.
Jiang Yuan didn't mention the situation of the first medical corps, so Ling Yi is still in the dark about it. The second medical corps has a Three-Ring Soul Venerable in charge, with five Two-Ring Great Soul Masters and eleven One-Ring Soul Masters under him.
To be honest, these numbers seem quite meager to Ling Yi.
A principality of such stature, one of the five major military departments, has only this small number of medical personnel in its main camp, which is truly lamentable.
To put it in perspective, even in Wood Plant City, the Green Leaf Junior Soul Master Academy has two Great Soul Masters specializing in healing, not to mention the healers and senior healers in the Soul Master Main Hall.
However, not long after, Ling Yi learned that the main camp's configuration is actually one of the best among all military departments.
In the other camps scattered along the northern border of the principality, Non-Soul Master medical personnel are the majority, with only a few healing soul masters, who are considered rare talents.
Now, as a rare talent, Ling Yi lacks the awareness of being a soul master and instead sits on an open-air wooden stool with the four Non-Soul Master medical personnel from the main corps, eating from a communal pot.
Through conversation, Ling Yi learned about the four Non-Soul Master medical personnel.
The eldest of the four, whose name is long forgotten, is known as Old Medicine Man. His spirit weapon is the Fine Needle, and he has exceptional skills in compounding medicines and suturing, particularly adept at treating blade and sword wounds. He has zero innate soul power.
The long-armed young man who spoke to Ling Yi is named Tang San, around twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old. His spirit weapon is the Blood-Stop Herb, and he is skilled in treating dislocations and hard injuries. He is a Third-Rank Soul Scholar.
The other two young men are named Xiao Bing and Song Yi, roughly the same age as Tang San. Xiao Bing's spirit weapon is Lemongrass, and he is proficient in treating blunt force injuries. Song Yi's spirit weapon is Mint, and he has some knowledge of antidotes. Both are Second-Rank Soul Scholars.
On the Douluo Continent, due to the existence of spirit weapons, various soul rings and soul skills, as well as spirit weapon attributes, have each shone brightly. In the distant past, there was an even more brilliant civilization of soul artificers.
People's lives have been greatly facilitated by the existence of spirit weapons.
However, because of spirit weapons, the various industries in this world, in Ling Yi's eyes, are deformed.
Leaving aside the cultural aspects and other crafts besides blacksmithing, let's focus on the medical field.
Does the Douluo Continent have a tradition of medical knowledge?
The answer is clear: yes!
Not only does it exist, but it is also quite remarkable!
Yue Guan, the Chrysanthemum Douluo, possesses the Marvelous Mushroom Sky-Connecting Chrysanthemum spirit weapon and knows its effects, which is understandable. However, his ability to recognize the Heartbreak Red just by its fragrance suggests that either he has a relevant lineage or the Spirit Weapon Hall has records of such knowledge.
In the original timeline, Tang San, with the toxicological knowledge from the Tang Sect of another martial arts world, theoretically overwhelmed Dugu Bo, who was titled 'Poison.' Taking advantage of Dugu Bo's lack of knowledge, Tang San swept away the treasures in the Ice and Fire Dual Eyes.
However, this only indicates Dugu Bo's personal lack of knowledge in toxicology, not that the toxicology level on the Douluo Continent is inferior to that of Tang San's previous world.
Even Dugu Bo, who was overwhelmed, has considerable knowledge of poisons, able to cultivate poisonous flowers and plants, set up toxic mists, and suppress mixed poisons like the Multicolored Mixture, which even Tang San found challenging and was temporarily at a loss to deal with.
In any world, knowledge is a form of wealth, a very valuable form of wealth!
Therefore, the Yang Family of the Rupture Clan, with its patriarch Yang Wudi, can immediately recognize the Fragrant Qiluo Immortal Flower and know that its fragrance can neutralize all poisons, making it a formidable counter to all toxins.
Similarly, the White Crane of the Agility Clan, by chance, acquired another immortal-grade herb, the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng!
Furthermore, when Tang San encountered the Deep Sea Demon Whale King and narrowly escaped death, he was saved by Jixiang, a doctor on a pirate island with zero innate soul power. Aside from his excellent surgical skills, the fact that he immediately recognized the Dragon Lingzhi Leaf when Tang San took it out shows that the tradition of toxicology exists and is frequently used to treat injuries on the Douluo Continent.
Similarly, if a pirate island can have someone like Jixiang, then wouldn't the military of the various empires, kingdoms, and principalities on the Douluo Continent also have such talents?
It's important to note that while healing soul masters have excellent healing effects on various internal and external injuries, their rarity and the difficulty of cultivation mean that their numbers have always been limited.
Thus, in the vast military system, special talents who can treat injuries have found fertile ground to thrive and showcase their skills.
Therefore, when Ling Yi, through various channels, discovered a group of people within the military who possessed medical and toxicological knowledge outside the spirit weapon system, he began to plan his entry into the military.
It's not that only the military has such people, but they are the most accessible within the military.
Furthermore, even without these special talents, Ling Yi would still seek an opportunity to enter the military.
Where else, besides the military, can provide him with thousands of human subjects?
The soul power meditation method for beasts can be studied using hundreds of cats and dogs to create a basic version.
The human cultivable Basic Internal Skill would require observing the differences in the meridians of many different people.
Having just arrived, Ling Yi doesn't plan to do anything immediately. His goal is to first integrate into this new environment. Only by integrating can Ling Yi gradually obtain what he desires.
Patience is a valuable trait.
Fortunately, Ling Yi, who has spent years hunting in the old forest, is a patient and qualified hunter.
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