“Physician yan, you’re a good person!”
“But I can’t let you work for nothing.”
“How about this? I’m a little short on cash at the moment.”
“Let’s value one packet of black tiger powder secret medicine at ninety silver dollars!”
“Here are silver notes worth nine hundred silver dollars. Give me ten packets of black tiger powder secret medicine first.”
“For the next ten days, I’ll come here every day to drink a bowl of black tiger powder secret medicine. What do you think?”
Jiang Wangzu thought for a moment, then took out nine Hundred-Yuan Silver Banknotes and placed them in front of Little Medical Immortal.
Little Medical Immortal: “???”
Come on, buddy, you’re this rich and still so low-key?
Taking out nine hundred Silver Dollars in one go—this was proof of a wealthy man with real means!
Not to mention Shen City’s poorest residents, even ordinary people with stable jobs in Shen City earned less than nine silver dollars a month.
After deducting all kinds of expenses for the year, they could not save fifty silver dollars.
Jiang Wangzu had produced nine hundred Silver Notes in one go—the equivalent of an ordinary person’s savings over twenty years.
No wonder they said that studying required poverty, while martial arts required wealth. Without money, poor people could not practice martial arts!
“One packet of black tiger powder secret medicine a day?”
“Are you crazy?”
“Even a Martial Artist who had achieved Great Achievement in Strength Training wouldn’t dare take Strength Training Secret Medicine this way!”
“Although I’m not a martial artist, I’ve come into contact with quite a few martial artists.”
“Even a Martial Arts Genius with an unusual constitution, especially capable of absorbing the effects of Secret Medicine, who had achieved Great Achievement in Strength Training...”
“One packet of strength training secret medicine every three to five days is already the limit.”
“You haven’t reached great achievement in strength training yet, have you?”
“Taking Strength Training Secret Medicine so frequently will waste its medicinal effects at best. At worst, it could kill you.”
Yan Ruyu looked at Jiang Wangzu and spoke in disbelief.
“Black Tiger Powder Secret Medicine is special, and so is the Cultivation Method I practice. Taking one packet of Black Tiger Powder Secret Medicine a day is part of my Martial Lineage’s heritage. Physician Yan, don’t worry.”
“If you don’t believe me, physician yan, you can examine my body at any time and see whether anything is wrong.”
“Then why don’t we start refining the black tiger powder secret medicine today?”
Jiang Wangzu was already impatient.
He wanted to improve more than anything. He dreamed of it every night!
“All right!”
Since Jiang Wangzu had said so, Yan Ruyu nodded as well.
After all, everyone had secrets, and martial arts heritage had existed for a long time. Every school and sect had its own special features.
Having achieved his goal, Jiang Wangzu left at once.
The people waiting to be treated were growing impatient, and some had begun cursing loudly.
However, physicians were still respected in this era. A physician as famous as Little Medical Immortal was even more so.
So the patients only dared curse outside the consultation room. Once they stood before Little Medical Immortal, they lost their nerve.
After trouble broke out at Longjiang Wharf, the Police Station and the Cao Gang increased their patrols. Even so, the people remained panic-stricken.
Jiang Wangzu saw people from the Police Station chop up a pig and several chickens and throw them near Longjiang Wharf, claiming they were offering a Sacrifice to the Longjiang River God.
In truth, Jiang Wangzu knew that they had already adopted the Cao Gang Adviser Gu Changqing’s terrible idea.
Thus, Longjiang Wharf had become a powder keg.
The humanoid aberration in the water could burst through the surface at any moment and go on a killing spree.
Although Jiang Wangzu had cultivated the Iron Crotch Technique to Perfection and obtained Golden Twin Kidneys, greatly increasing his strength, he was still no more than a Martial Artist at Minor Accomplishment in Strength Training.
He could handle a few Ruffians and thugs, but if he encountered a terrifying Exotic Beast, he would not even be enough to fill its teeth!
That day, Jiang Wangzu heard every word of the conversation between Cao Gang Adviser Gu and Police Station Squad Leader Li Lei.
Li Lei said that only a Martial Artist at Great Completion of Force could probably deal with the Aquatic Aberrant Beast.
Adviser Gu said that the Aquatic Aberrant Beast’s physical body was comparable to an Innate Grandmaster’s.
Jiang Wangzu had only just encountered the Martial Dao, so he still did not understand what realm Great Completion of Force or an Innate Grandmaster represented.
The title Innate Grandmaster sounded impressive. Such a person was certainly among the foremost Martial Artists.
Even if he cultivated Black Tiger Fist to Perfection, he would still be far inferior to an Innate Grandmaster.
This meant that he was nowhere near a match for the aquatic aberrant beast.
So during Patrol Duty that afternoon, he kept far from Longjiang and did not dare approach it.
Time passed bit by bit.
Jiang Wangzu finally made it to evening, then set off for the Rear Courtyard of Jishi Hall.
Little Medical Immortal Yan Ruyu had left the door open for him in the rear courtyard.
He knocked, and Little Medical Immortal Yan Ruyu’s voice came from inside the courtyard: “Come in!”
Jiang Wangzu entered the courtyard. Little Medical Immortal glanced at him, then said, “Close the door.”
She continued preparing the Medicine Formula for refining Black Tiger Powder Secret Medicine, then placed the Medicinal Herbs into a specially made clay pot in the proper order.
When the medicinal broth in the clay pot began to boil, Little Medical Immortal sniffed the evaporating liquid and nodded in satisfaction.
“The Secret Medicine is ready. Practice Stance Training beside the clay pot and absorb as much of the evaporating medicinal liquid as you can. Ignore everything else.”
“The Strength Training Secret Medicine will finish refining in about half an hour!”
Although Little Medical Immortal Yan Ruyu had seemed lively during consultations and had even wanted to play matchmaker for Jiang Wangzu...
When it came to her professional field, she became extremely serious.
“Good!”
“Good!” Jiang Wangzu nodded, stood beside the clay pot, and performed Crouching Tiger Stance.
He suspended the crown of his head, opened his chest and raised his back, sank his Qi into the Dantian, and relaxed his shoulders while dropping his elbows!
He entered the state at once.
In Martial Dao Cultivation, nothing was more important than Stance Training.
Many cultivation method heritages had corresponding stance training.
Jiang Wangzu’s Black Tiger Fist also had corresponding stance training.
As his Black Tiger Fist reached Entry, his Crouching Tiger Stance reached Entry as well.
The two were one and the same from the beginning.
Thus, his path as a Martial Dao Evil cultivator differed completely from the conventional route, leaving his Lower-Body Fundamentals inadequate.
However, he did not care. Once his Black Tiger Fist reached Minor Accomplishment, his Crouching Tiger Stance would reach Minor Accomplishment as well.
If he trained his Black Tiger Fist to the Realm of perfection...
Then his Crouching Tiger Stance could also reach the great perfection realm.
A Stance Training technique at the Great Perfection Realm could make up for his unstable lower-body foundation and lay a solid foundation for his advancement to a stronger realm.
“Entering the state so quickly—not bad.”
“It’s just that this stance training technique looks... well, your practice is rather poor!”
Little Medical Immortal Yan Ruyu glanced at Jiang Wangzu as he practiced Stance Training with concentration and silently assessed him.
Half an hour later.
Half an hour later, Jiang Wangzu felt that the medicinal liquid in the clay pot had reached the limit of its effectiveness, and Little Medical Immortal noticed it too.
She poured a bowl of pitch-black, extremely thick medicinal liquid from the clay pot. Once it had cooled, she said to Jiang Wangzu:
“Drink it while it’s hot, then digest its effects through Stance Training or practicing your Fist. Use your stomach to refine the medicinal power into your Sinews, Bones, Flesh, and Blood!”
Jiang Wangzu lifted the bowl of black tiger powder secret medicine and drained it in one gulp.
A surge of heat burst from his stomach and coursed through the Eight Extraordinary Meridians and all his Limbs and bones.
Jiang Wangzu felt unbearably hot, as if he had swallowed a mouthful of magma and wanted to spew it back out.