Wound healing therapy

  Although the ancient painting scroll's medicinal garden temporarily cannot continue to plant herbs, Ye Chen was still very surprised.

  He now has three pieces of herbs in his hand, all of which are as high as six grades.

  It's known that medicinal herbs of fourth grade and above are not sold in the herbal shops on Beimu Academy. They have long been bought out by wealthy families, large merchant guilds at high prices, and won't fall into the hands of ordinary people like Ye Chen.

  These three sets of six-grade medicinal herbs will be extremely beneficial for his physical refinement.

  Ye Chen took a bundle of herbs, one of which was Liu Pin Chi Xue Teng, and decocted it in a pot. After half an hour, it became a bowl of red medicinal soup.

  "Red Blood Vine, sixth grade. Treats internal injuries, activates blood and resolves stasis."

  Ye Chen endured the pungent and bitter taste, and drank it all in one gulp. A strong medicinal power of hot medicine soup entered his abdomen.

  He immediately sat down cross-legged and began to meditate, absorbing the power of the medicine.

  Martial artists mainly cultivate their physical bodies through tempering. The students of the lower courtyard, every day they use their fists to hit wooden stakes, kick wooden stakes with their feet, and collide with wooden stakes with their bodies, in order to train their own flesh, increase their resistance to impact, and enhance their vital energy.

  Every day, hitting the wooden stake accumulates minor meridian fractures, also known as internal injuries. In the blood vessels, small blood clots will also be left behind.

  The higher the intensity of practice, the greater the degree of internal injury.

  It may not be serious for a day or two, but as time goes on, the fine meridians in various parts of the body rupture and extend, blood clots constantly block the blood vessels, plus injuries to muscles and bones, minor injuries become major ones, and it will start to affect physical fitness.

  If there is no timely treatment of internal injuries and removal of blood stasis with Chinese herbal medicine, high-intensity training will instead cause a sharp decline in physical fitness.

  Years later, the internal and external injuries did not heal in time, accumulated heavily, enough to make a martial artist become disabled, spending the rest of his life in pain on his sickbed.

  This principle is well understood by all martial artists.

  However, many ordinary young warriors can't resist the temptation of getting stronger quickly, eager to make rapid progress, and at first, their training is vigorous and advancing by leaps and bounds, breaking through one level of power in just a year. But lacking in nourishment from herbs, their physical condition rapidly declines afterwards, and instead of achieving quick success, they stagnate at the initial or intermediate stages of body refinement.

  Ye Chen used to temper his body for two hours every day, which was already the limit of his cultivation.

  For this, he had to work hard in the academy to find miscellaneous jobs and earn money to buy tempering and medicinal herbs. However, he could only afford first-rate and second-rate herbs, which were not very effective for healing and refining his body. Once he over-practiced, his body would feel uncomfortable.

  "The six-grade treatment of herbal medicine is indeed powerful!"

  Ye Chen sat cross-legged and circulated the medicinal properties of the Chi Blood Vine Decoction.

  He felt the hidden minor internal injuries, the micro-fractured meridians, recovering under the powerful effect of the Six-Petal Crimson Vine. The blood vessels that were blocked and aching in secret places quickly became unobstructed. His skin no longer felt sore, the damaged tendons and ligaments were soothed, and even the bone marrow where he was injured slightly numbed.

  "I used to practice and had a lot of internal injuries accumulated inside my body, which I was worried about how to completely eliminate. These six types of medicinal herbs for treatment seem to be able to completely eradicate the internal injuries."

  Ye Chen was overjoyed.

  In fact, for a warrior in the fourth layer of body refinement, using four-grade herbs of corresponding rank is sufficient for tempering and healing. There's no need to use high-grade herbs. Ye Chen used sixth-grade Red Blood Vine to heal himself, which was somewhat wasteful.

  But it is undeniable that the efficacy of the medicine is surprisingly good.

  "It's just a waste, let it be! Having eliminated the hidden danger, the cultivation of the fourth layer and beyond in the Refining Body period will be much smoother. From now on, we need to increase the time spent on cultivation and intensify the physical training!"

  Ye Chen sat for a while, then jumped up and threw a few punches, his movements fierce and nimble, feeling extremely refreshed and invigorated, with no stagnation in his blood vessels.

  "Next is taking Bupleurum! Nourishing the origin and consolidating the foundation, strengthening Qi and blood."

  "There is also snake gall fruit, which treats external injuries of skin and flesh."

  Ye Chen brewed a large bowl of sixty-year-old ginseng bitter soup and drank it all in one gulp.

  Snake gallbladder is decocted into a medicinal liquid and poured into a large medicine bath tub.

  Then he took off his coarse linen clothes and jumped into the hot medicinal tub with a "plop", sitting in the snake gallbladder medicinal liquid.

  The scalding medicine made Ye Chen's whole body feel hot and painful, almost making him cry out in agony, with tears of pain welling up.

  Soon, Ye Chen felt a warm and bitter medicinal power flowing from his abdomen to the deepest part of his bones, and suddenly he felt that every inch of his bones was nourished.

  "Refining the body in the initial stages of one to three layers, exercising the skin, fascia and bone marrow."

  "In the middle stage of body refinement, from the fourth to sixth layer, the bone marrow throughout the body becomes solidified, and the qi and blood within the bone marrow gradually become more concentrated. ...The more concentrated the qi and blood are, the more they nourish the sinews, bones, and pulse, which in turn refine the physical constitution. A warrior's internal energy also grows stronger accordingly."

  Ye Chen is now in the fourth layer of the Refining Body stage, and it's exactly the time when he should be fully focusing on enhancing his Qi and Blood.

  Sixty years of bitter ginseng's medicinal power can maximally stimulate the intense flow of Qi and blood.

  Ye Chen absorbed the medicinal properties of Ku Shen with all his might, transforming it into Qi and blood within his bone marrow.

  At the same time, a stream of external heat mixed with the medicinal properties of snake gall fruit penetrated his skin and repaired the external injuries.

  "This medicinal herb combination is a very good herbal formula for tempering and refining the body. If one has ample financial resources, using such a formula every day to refine their physical constitution will undoubtedly lead to extremely rapid progress in tempering the body."

  Ye Chen felt the huge impact brought by the abundant medicinal power, and thought of the explanation of the efficacy of this medicine by Zhang Lao, the owner of the herbal medicine shop. Moreover, what Zhang Lao said at that time was only a three-product herbal medicine, not the six-product herbal medicine he used now.

  "I used to use only low-grade herbs, but the effect was very weak and not satisfactory for treating internal injuries. The progress of my body's refinement was also very slow. Now that I've started using sixth-grade herbs, the medicinal power has increased by dozens of times! The effect is immediate!"

  Ye Chen said quietly.

  "A set of sixth-grade medicinal herbs, the price is at least hundreds of taels of silver. Enough to match the expenses of a common household in Wuguo for ten years, it's really expensive! ... However, the efficacy is also surprisingly good. If you use this prescription to temper your body regularly, it seems that you can reach the fourth layer of the Tempering Body stage soon. There is hope to break through to the sixth layer of the Tempering Body stage."

  Ye Chen sat in the medicine basin, absorbing the medicinal properties of the bitter ginseng, feeling a surge of vigorous qi and blood flowing within his body, gradually filling up his skeletal frame.

  He is now fifteen years old. According to the rigid requirements of the Academy, he must reach the sixth level of Body Tempering before the age of twenty. Otherwise, he will be kicked out of the Academy directly.

  Ye Chen sat for nearly an hour, absorbing the medicinal properties of the Gentiana scabra and Snake Gall Fruit, before getting out of the medicine bath, wiping off the wet medicine liquid, feeling refreshed and light as if he had become a new person. He changed into a clean linen shirt and lay down on the bed to sleep.

  At night, a sliver of moonlight spilled in through the window, and Ye Chen lay awake on the simple wooden bed.

  "There are still two packs of herbs left, which can be used for about half a month. These benefits all come from the ancient painting scroll, but you must not lose this painting scroll, and you must hide it safely! If this ancient painting scroll is stolen, there will be no place to cry."

  Ye Chen's mind was filled with random thoughts.

  There are also thieves in the Beiyue Academy, otherwise the academy would not arrange for disciples to patrol inside and outside the courtyard at night to prevent theft.

  However, his house was empty, with only a table and a bed, it was clear at a glance, and he didn't know where to hide.

  Ye Chen turned over, thought for a while, searched around the room, found a hemp rope used for miscellaneous tasks, tied the ancient painting scroll to his body, and lay down again.

  "Stick close during the day and tie up at night, see who can steal it away!"

  Ye Chen revealed a faint smile, and fell asleep contentedly. The next day, he still had to go practice the "Tiger Leaping Knife Technique". Enhancing his physical cultivation was important for refining his physique, but without a top-notch martial skill by his side, he would just be a powerful brute with weak combat strength.

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  The next chapter 【6 Initial Knife Method】, will be released at 12:00 tonight.