"Ouch~ It hurts!"
A young man sat on a chair in the clinic, his face bruised and swollen. Huo Yuhao pinched his left wrist, and after hearing him cry out in pain, he moved it slightly downwards.
"What about this side?"
"Master Huo, I can't feel anything."
Huo Yuhao nodded, picked up a pen and paper to write in his notebook, and then said to him, "Your wrist is fractured."
"The crack isn't very deep, I'll treat you right away."
After confirming the injury, Huo Yuhao performed a local reversal technique on his left wrist.
Huo Yuhao was becoming increasingly adept at using this technique.
At first, he could only use the reversal technique on the whole body, but now he could perform a local reversal.
The physical energy generated after the reversal only affected one area, which not only greatly reduced the user's energy consumption but also alleviated the patient's pain.
The young man gritted his teeth, enduring the excruciating pain of his flesh churning, and felt an unbearable itch in his left wrist.
This wasn't his first time here for treatment, and he was prepared for this.
"Alright."
Hearing Huo Yuhao's words, he was greatly surprised, panting heavily, and examined his left wrist several times.
"Hehe, Master, your medical skills are truly superb."
"If it were those healing soul masters in the Soul Arena, this hand would probably need to rest for a few days before I can fight again."
Huo Yuhao was a little helpless when he heard that his first thought was to fight.
"They have a point. You should rest for a few days."
The young man shook his head and said, "That won't do. I'm counting on making money through Soul Battles."
"As you know, I'm already level 20, just one more soul ring away from becoming a Great Soul Master."
"I'll definitely absorb a hundred-year soul ring for this second one."
"Otherwise, I won't even have a chance to break through to Soul Master."
"If I fight ten more Soul Battles, I can earn enough to hire a Soul Hunting Team."
"Alright, Master, I'll be leaving now."
The young man jumped up from his chair, placed the money on the table, and excitedly left the clinic, heading straight for the Soul Arena.
In fact, Huo Yuhao knew that even if this young man absorbed a second Soul Ring of a hundred years, he would still find it difficult to break through to Soul Master.
His first Soul Ring was a ten-year Earth Attribute Soul Ring, which was not only of low age but also conflicted with his own Martial Soul attribute.
The Wind Attribute Swift Wolf was already of average strength, and the wrong Soul Ring polluted the Martial Soul's origin. Coupled with the hidden injuries left from years of fighting in the Soul Arena, it was basically destined that he could not break through to Soul Master.
Huo Yuhao had already seen more than a dozen people in similar situations.
For Soul Masters, this situation was a common phenomenon, or rather, those Soul Masters in the original work who had optimal or even overpowered configurations were extremely rare.
Having watched countless Soul Battles in Xuanfeng City, Huo Yuhao had rarely seen anyone obtain the optimal Soul Ring configuration.
Either the first ring was a hundred-year-old ring with unsuitable attributes, or the attributes were suitable but the age was too low.
Jiang Nannan's Martial Soul and Soul Ring configuration were among the best in Xuanfeng City.
"Or perhaps, this is the true nature of this world."
After seeing off his first customer that morning, Huo Yuhao returned to the counter to organize his medical books, constantly using pen and paper to draw the pathways of the human body's meridians, drawing upon his recent practical experience.
During this time, Huo Yuhao, through the Xuan Tian Gong and the human anatomy diagrams accumulated over ten thousand years in Douluo Continent, discovered that all Soul Masters capable of cultivation have three open meridians.
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Even if these meridians weren't open before the age of six, they would definitely open after awakening one's martial soul and gaining soul power.
Some medical books refer to these three meridians as the main meridians, and some even believe that all meridians are derivatives of the main meridians.
Huo Yuhao was overjoyed upon seeing this; it turned out that someone in this world had already paved the way for him.
When he eagerly went to find the follow-up information, a bookstore owner he frequented informed him that the master researching this field had been executed by the royal family of the Douling Empire a thousand years ago.
The reason was that the content of his research offended the authority of the royal family and nobility; they not only ordered him to be burned alive but also confiscated all his books.
What Huo Yuhao could see now was purchased from the Sun Moon Empire.
It is said that the Sun Moon Empire was particularly interested in this theory at the time, and Mingde Hall wanted to bring the master to the Sun Moon Empire but failed.
In the end, they forcibly sent people to snatch a complete set of the master's works from the Douling Empire.
After reading the entire book, the head of Mingde Hall at that time was heartbroken.
His scathing criticism of the Douling Empire could be heard throughout the entire Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy.
It's said the insults were incredibly vulgar, and they even went to the Emperor of the Sun Moon Empire to berate the Douling Empire for a whole day and night.
They kept saying the Douling Empire was ignorant, ruining a peerless genius and squandering the best opportunity for the Soul Master world to unravel the mystery of meridians.
And indeed, a thousand years had passed on the Douluo Continent, yet there had been no progress whatsoever in meridian theory.
It was also said that the Douling Empire felt that simply killing someone wasn't enough and wanted to scatter the master's ashes at the city gates for everyone to trample on.
The head of the Mingde Hall was truly enraged; he had never seen such a foolish nation.
Ignoring the Sun Moon Empire Emperor's advice, he immediately took his self-developed level-nine soul tool and a large group of equally indignant soul masters and flew across half the continent overnight to attack the Douling Empire's capital, Lingdou City.
The head of the hall rushed into the palace, dragged the bewildered Douling Empire Emperor from his sleep, and slapped him several times across the face.
After a fierce battle, they seized the master's ashes and took all his manuscripts back to the Sun Moon Empire.
The Douling Empire dared not speak out, forced to remain silent.
Then, the current head of the Mingde Hall personally supervised the mass printing of the master's posthumous works, hoping to preserve this legacy of meridian theory within the Sun Moon Empire.
He even wrote a line on the title page:
"Later generations, this book is the greatest regret of our time. I hope you can carry on the torch of your predecessors and successfully climb the mountain of meridian theory."
"Name: Yi Hongchen."
Huo Yuhao, who had finally found and read the book, understood the Mingde Hall head's feelings at the time.
The master had almost meticulously explained the three main meridians and their derivatives using rigorous methods and illustrations. He
was just one step away from deriving the meridian theory towards the Eight Extraordinary Meridians, and had even predicted their specific functions.
But after writing only the title and preface for the Eight Extraordinary Meridians section, the book abruptly ended,
making Huo Yuhao feel like he was participating in a challenge to stop the flow of energy.
"Damn it, the Douling Empire's royal family! A bunch of insects! What era are we living
in that they still burn researchers alive!" "When will Soul Masters ever be great again, surrounded by these insects!"
Jiang Nannan heard Huo Yuhao's complaints as soon as she entered, her eyes filled with confusion.
She stood prettily in the doorway, pursed her lips, and clutched a repaired bag tightly behind her back.
(End of Chapter)