For adults, what is the feeling of being born anew? In short, it’s like opening a new world; further speaking, every glance at this world feels new, always bringing a more novel experience.
There was one thing that once perplexed He Kao, which led to a subconscious rejection, making it hard for him to believe: how did the ancients know the effects of so many dicinal herbs?
In ancient Eastern Country, the number of traditional dicinal herbs recorded in the pharmacopoeia exceeded ten thousand. It should be noted that to include sothing as a dicine, one needs to know its effects and have clear thods of processing and conditions for use.
Considering the use in combination with other herbs, it becos even more varied, a complex and unimaginable big data chaotic model.
There’s a legend of Shennong tasting hundreds of herbs, but in reality, how could it be just hundreds? It must be at least thousands of herbs and millions of prescriptions!
Even if Shennong ate dicine every day, consuming different dicines in various ways, he couldn’t finish them all in several lifetis. Moreover, just taking dicines isn’t enough; he would need to be ill to know which dicine could cure which disease.
To confirm their effects, repeated observation and verification, along with controlled experints, are needed... This is almost an impossible task, not just for Shennong but for any number of people because the prerequisites are too complex.
So He Kao once thought it was very unreliable.
Take the Parasol Tree as an example. Without ntioning the rare Spirit Plant Jade Phoenix Tree, even the ordinary Parasol Tree allows its flowers, leaves, seeds, bark, and roots to be used as dicine.
Each has its specific application, and under different circumstances, the requirents and thods for harvesting and preparation differ.
If you were given an existing prescription, told what to pick, how to process it, how to take it, and what disease it could cure, even if people wanted to verify its effects, it would take great effort and enormous cost.
And this is only the verification part.
What about before any of these prescriptions existed? People didn’t even know the Parasol Tree could cure diseases. Who would randomly use it as dicine and then just happen to discover and summarize what diseases it could cure?
The seeds of the Parasol Tree aside, since they can be pressed for oil or roasted and eaten, but what about other parts?
Using them as dicine is different from consuming bark and roots out of starvation. It often requires special processing thods, rather than direct consumption.
For example, so dicinal materials require repeated steaming and drying, so need to be dried in the shade and roasted, while others can’t be heated and need cool hydration, oil infusion, or alcohol extraction.
If you have precious things like alcohol and oil, why waste them on unknown bark?
The common nature of the Parasol Tree aside, there are many other rarer items, like Natural Cattle Gallstone. Who would have thought of using such things in dicine, let alone creating so many different tested prescriptions?
How did the first person who did this discover it, or what were they thinking?
But today, He Kao has a feeling of sudden enlightennt. The Poison Detection Skill combined with the dicine Identification Skill solved the above confusion.
For instance, with a Parasol Tree, he only needs to identify its roots, bark, flowers, leaves, and seeds, to find out what benefits they could bring to people or what effects they might have under different circumstances, and then try to find the best way to use them.
Even an unknown wild grass gives He Kao endless novel sensations. Previously, he could only simply judge whether it was "poisonous" or not. After breaking through Tier Three and also practicing dicine Identification Skill, he could perceive more profound mysteries.
If you speak mystically, how many wild grasses are there in the world? Even within the sa category, no single plant is completely identical. The environnt they grow in, the years they experience, the climate changes they’ve seen, and the subtle differences in their physical manifestations all play a role.
He Kao headed north, initially aiming to light up a new map, but he was not only illuminating the map but a new world.
He wasn’t just delving into the mountains to taste hundreds of herbs, becoming a little Shennong.
Old Man Jiang probably anticipated long ago that if he broke through Tier Three and practiced dicine Identification Skill, suddenly discovering the spiritual effects of so many things, he might not resist experinting on himself, so he had warned him early on.
Jiang Daozhen said that for his current cultivation, using the twenty-three-year-old Jade Phoenix Tree Seeds as an aid would suffice, and not to recklessly take dicines.
After driving past Hong River, the terrain gradually turned into an open plain, and He Kao no longer persisted in walking along rural roads, but rather got on the no longer congested highway, driving through several big cities and staying in hotels at night.
He is the Hidden Moth, living in hotels but able to return to places he’s been, like cultivating on the Parasol Tree in Pugang Town.
Since he wants to light up new maps, he must certainly visit the big cities at important transportation nodes.
The Alchemy Sect’s dicine Identification Skill can be applied not only in the wilderness to identify plants but also to things seen anywhere, even if sotis it yields indeterminate results.
The Micro Realm Sect also has an Artifact Identification Skill, which, when cultivated to a high Realm, is also called the Spiritual Identification Skill. It mainly identifies the material nature and spirituality of various things, making up for the weaknesses of dicine Identification Skill in this area and can also be practiced concurrently in the future.
He Kao drove from the north bank of the Great River, crossed the Hong River, and then the Ancestor River, traveling through both wilderness and major cities, while also visiting many rural towns for their bustling scenes, discovering many new and unique local products.
Nowadays, with the developnt of online comrce and logistics, many things can be bought online, but you need to know these things exist to think of looking for them... He Kao kept all this in mind.
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