This secondhand book alone is worth a third of a medical clinic, showing just how expensive things related to Soul Masters can be.
However, this book is indeed impressive, basically covering all common Soul Beasts and Soul Skills.
When Huo Yuhao first got the book, he flipped through the pages and discovered that it was a record of Soul Beasts and Soul Skills personally traveled the continent a thousand years ago by a Limit Douluo.
The boy carefully read the detailed description of the Sunflower and its possible Soul Skill effects.
After discovering that most of the Soul Skills were healing or support-type, a dissatisfied expression appeared on his face.
"Ah? Support type."
"No, Master, can you give me some offensive Soul Skills?"
Although he didn't recommend that ordinary Blue Silver Grass go for a power-attack or control type, since the customer had made this request, adhering to the principle that the customer is always right, Huo Yuhao patiently introduced him to other Soul Beasts.
"This is the Dream Flower, which usually grows in the cold, dark caves on the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest. It produces illusion-type soul skills. What do you think?"
"Illusion-type soul skills aren't bright enough, they're underhanded tricks, I don't want them!"
Hearing his words, a thumbs-up appeared on Huo Yuhao's forehead. These words really hit him hard.
He suppressed his temper and continued, "Thunder Vine, grows in Thunder Canyon, and generally produces lightning-attracting soul skills. How about it?"
"It depends on the weather, too much luck involved, not good!"
"Sword Grass, grows in Calamity Mountains, absorbing soul rings can give plant martial souls sharpness and also defensive soul skills. How about it?"
The boy hesitated for a moment but shook his head and said, "Small range, short distance, not good."
Huo Yuhao was really angry. He slammed the book on the table and said, "Hiss~ No, a first-class soul skill, do you think you can fly to the heavens? This won't work, that won't work."
"How about this, you go to the Star Dou Great Forest, keep going towards the core area, after you reach the Lake of Life, kill the Demon King, the soul skill you get will definitely satisfy you."
The boy's eyes actually lit up, and just as he was about to say something, his mother covered his mouth and then said apologetically to Huo Yuhao,
"I'm sorry, Master Huo, this child has been reading those wandering knight novels in the mansion, and his brain is all confused."
"I think the sunflower is pretty good. It's easy to obtain, and the soul skills you get from it are very useful."
The boy, about to cause a ruckus after hearing this, quieted down after being glared at by his mother.
Huo Yuhao glanced at the boy, then wrote down the precautions and locations related to the sunflower on paper and pen, handing it to the middle-aged woman.
The woman thanked him profusely, taking out three silver soul coins and a book from her small bag and handing them to Huo Yuhao.
"Master, thank you so much for your help earlier."
"This book is extra compensation. It's the *Mysterious Heaven Technique* that my grandmother brought from the Tang Sect when it split up."
"Actually, there were some other unique techniques, but they were lost in the process of traveling. Only this *Mysterious Heaven Technique* survived."
"If you don't mind, please accept it. These days, the Tang Sect doesn't even exist anymore; nobody cares about the outflow of techniques."
Huo Yuhao watched the two leave the clinic, looking at the book in his hand with a wry smile.
He had obtained the Tang Sect's most core technique so easily, even without joining the sect.
This made him wonder if Buddha had intervened. Since
he had nothing else to do, Huo Yuhao flipped through the Xuan Tian Gong.
The meditation methods recorded inside were indeed much better than what Huo Yuhao currently used, involving more meridians and being more logically sound.
However, Huo Yuhao noticed something amiss. While the general outline clearly mentioned the essentials of the Eight Extraordinary Meridians, the subsequent content only introduced a few major meridians used in cultivation.
The core knowledge of the Eight Extraordinary Meridians and related diagrams were completely missing. Furthermore, many parts of the text felt noticeably incongruous, as if a portion had been deleted.
Huo Yuhao immediately understood: the Tang Sect's Xuan Tian Gong might have been censored, and its later decline resulted in the version he possessed being vastly different from the original.
"Useless to use, yet a pity to discard."
This was Huo Yuhao's evaluation of it; the only useful part for him so far was the recorded knowledge about meridians.
He truly dared not practice this technique, fearing that some hidden ingredients might have been added, causing him problems.
Problems were a minor issue; if he unknowingly got caught on the God King's leash, he'd be truly doomed.
…
At this moment, Jiang Nannan finally arrived at Huo Yuhao's shop with her mother.
Seeing the nonsensical slogan on the signboard, she gritted her teeth and led her mother inside.
After all, this was her last hope.
Once inside, Jiang Nannan called out to Huo Yuhao, who was reading at the counter:
"Master, please look after my mother, please."
Huo Yuhao looked up and saw a stunningly beautiful girl with long, wavy golden hair, her face streaked with tears, supporting her mother and looking at him with pleading eyes.
Seeing her, Huo Yuhao's brain started working overtime, instantly searching for several keywords.
"Blonde hair, beautiful, mother is sick, Xuanfeng City, Xuanming Sect."
"Good heavens, this is Jiang Nannan's hometown?!"
Huo Yuhao finally figured out the timeline. Jiang Nannan was in third grade, and would be in fourth grade when school started.
That meant there were only four months left before the normal plot began, and Tianmeng Ice Silkworm and Ilex would gather in the Star Dou Great Forest.
His two biggest cheat codes from the original story were about to go live.
Under Jiang Nannan's pleading gaze, Huo Yuhao temporarily put aside his thoughts and quickly got up to help her mother to the bed in the back room.
Then he asked Jiang Nannan about the patient's condition.
Jiang Nannan hurriedly repeated all the symptoms diagnosed by Xu Wei to Huo Yuhao word by word.
"Master, please save my mother. She has suffered so much, I...I..."
Huo Yuhao interrupted her out-of-control emotions and said, "Go out for a while, I'll come and see what's going on."
Jiang Nannan nodded heavily, then stopped sobbing and retreated to the front hall.
After Huo Yuhao drew the curtain, he slowly used his spiritual power to examine her mother's condition bit by bit.
Especially her heart—the examination revealed a shocking truth.
"Holy crap, ventricular septal defect, atrial septal defect, patent ductus arteriosus, pulmonary valve stenosis!"
"Every congenital heart defect imaginable—it's all there!"
"How has she survived this long? How can she live like this? Medicine is obsolete!"
Huo Yuhao stared at the woman on the bed in astonishment.
Frankly speaking, in his previous life, this woman would have been worthy of at least five Nobel Prizes in Medicine.
Any one of these diseases would be fatal for an ordinary person, yet she had achieved a grand slam and remained healthy for over thirty years.
If the fundamental principle behind her longevity could be understood, medical research on the heart could leap forward by fifty years.
Driven by curiosity, Huo Yuhao continued his investigation and realized why she had survived.
This woman's martial soul was the same as Jiang Nannan's—a Soft Bone Rabbit—and her innate soul power was considerable, likely around level six or seven.
The beast martial soul, combined with her high innate soul power, continuously sustained her survival.
However, as time passed, his physical condition weakened, and the decline of his martial spirit essence could no longer compensate for his physical limitations, leading to the onset of heart problems.
(End of Chapter)