Medicine

Chapter 7 Medicine

After returning to the cold palace, Li An changes her clothes and sits in a lotus position on her bed. She should try to assimilate the different types of toxins that she has just ingested from the Ghost Whisperer plant.

2 days later… Li An opened her eyes and she quickly ran outside. She began to vomit and excrete a few unnecessary things in her body. The ordeal she experiences is not something a baby should be going through, but her now strong physique can handle such a trivial thing.

Li An looks at her now glowing pale skin with awe.

"This feeling is awesome…" she muttered as she could feel energy coursing through her veins.

Then with a thought, she suddenly spits from her mouth and when her spit landed on the wooden floor one could see smoke rising from it. Then the wooden floor slowly began to melt with a sizzling sound.

"Scary…" she muttered as she walked towards the eroding part of the floor.

"I can control whether I want to produce toxins from my body…" she said with a slight smile.

Though she has to concentrate to be able to produce any type of toxin from her body, she is already content with what she has gained.

"Now your body is immune to thousands of known poisons out there…" Seedee said with a proud tone.

After scanning the surroundings, Seedee has finally found such a rare species of plant. It did not hesitate to draft a plan to help Li An get a strong defense against poisons.

As the experiment was a success, Seedee was happy as it was able to gain a large amount of wisdom points from the successful trial.

"I am now going to teach you medicine. This type of knowledge is wide and deep. Living beings have such vast and miraculous things in their body… There is a saying that… It might be easy to kill a person, but it takes an effort to save a life. However, with such effort, one can gain a tremendous amount of knowledge and wisdom…" it monologues with a hint of excitement in its tone.

Li An could not help but frown for a bit. She knew that Seedee wanted to grow fast, so she did not hesitate to help it. With her help it would be able to grow and with its growth comes power and opportunity for her.

Looking at the floating seed before her which suddenly materialized, Li An could not help but show a faint smile on her face.

As Seedee shows itself to Li An, she suddenly sees hundreds of thousands of thick books and scrolls floating in the air. The scrolls began to float around behind Seedee making him look like some kind of God of knowledge.

"You are going to learn these things inside the void from now on… After you have learned enough you will then start to apply them in real life." Seedee said as it suddenly swirls around and enters Li An's head.

Along with it follows the books and scrolls floating behind. Just like a whirlpool, Li An saw the books entering her mind as her consciousness faded to black. Her small figure suddenly disappeared from where she sat and an empty cold room was left in silence.

Inside the void space, Li An began learning from one book after another. She began to digest the knowledge written on the books. In the books that were presented to her, she started to learn from ancient medicine to modern ones.

She did not have a concept of time inside the void space. Actually, inside the void space, time seems to have stopped. Li An has already learned that whenever she is inside the void space in her mind, she can learn as much as she needs without worrying about the outside world.

That is the reason why she has gained a lot of knowledge though she is still a baby.

Inside her void space, Li An did not feel the need to eat or sleep. This is because time does not exist in the void so her body would not receive any fatigue. Only her mind would gain knowledge while her body would be stagnant.

She did not feel anything and just learned more and more knowledge from the mountains of books and scrolls.

Soon, Li An closed a scroll and heaved a deep sigh.

"That was really interesting… Though I have read tons of books, I can still recall them in my mind with just a thought," she muttered after pondering the many books she had read.

Li An could only look at the other books still floating in the air while shaking her small little head.

"You've already learned the fundamentals of medicine… You have to gain wisdom so that you can further engrave them in your mind and body…" Seedee suddenly said while it appeared by Li An's side.

"Well, since you are still here, let's have another set of books to learn…" Seedee added when a number of books floated in the air.

"What… are those…" Li An muttered but after reading the title of the books and scroll, she suddenly paused.

She has already learned the basics of fighting and her fundamentals and foundation is already good according to Seedee. So when she read the title of the books, she could not help but become curious.

Then a scroll landed on her little hand which she immediately opened.

Looking at the words on the scroll which she immediately understood, Li An could not help but feel a bit excited.

"Fighting technique…" she muttered with a slight grin on her cute little face.

She could not help but feel excited upon reading those words. With her stable understanding of fighting fundamentals, her punches and kicks are already refined, though she cannot execute them perfectly due to her small body. 

But she always felt excited whenever she would fight the denizens of the cold palace.

Since she has been living alone in the cold palace, she has fought against the creatures that would lurk and try to hunt inside the cold palace. She knew that those creatures were coming from the trees outside, so she would welcome them as her practice partner and also her food.

But now, it seems that Seedee wanted her to advance into another step in her fighting progress.

Without hesitation, Li An began to immerse herself in studying the words in the scroll. She could not help but move her body while reading the scrolls as she wanted to practice them immediately.

However, due to her small figure she would be 70% unable to execute the moves perfectly.

But still she continued on practicing the moves not minding her mistakes.

After reading the books on techniques, Li An saw her surroundings begin to arrange and the large library appeared once again.

Seedee, on the other hand, floated in front of her while showing a contented look.

"Very good… Now it is time for you to go out and explore…"

…

While Li An was training in the cold palace, a brooding danger is currently ensuing in the middle empires of Phrana and Gushan. The two empires are known to be the largest empires in the continent of Lamba. The two empires have been at odds with each other for hundreds of years.

The battle between the two empires was started by the Phrana empire which was in need of resources. Phrana empire is an empire with mostly dry land and deserts around them.

As the need for resources grew, the Phranans decided to attack the Gushan people for their resources. Actually, they could attack the other smaller empires, but that would be to their disadvantage due to the terrain those empires have.

The dangerous mountains and beasts that are located in the land prevent a wide-scale invasion of the Phranans to the other smaller empires.

However, the Gushan Empire, which is just the opposite side of the middle empire, was an easy target for them… or so they thought.

When the first battle between the two empires erupted hundreds of years ago. The Phranans were thoroughly defeated by the Gushan Empire army.

It appears that the Gushan army was far more skilled in battles than the Phranans army. However, the Gushan army did not pursue their retreating enemy after they reached the desert. This is because the Gushan army generals knew the dangers of the desert.

This defeat did not deter the Phranans from attacking the Gushan empire.

And so for hundreds of years, the two empires battle, dying the borderlands in crimson blood.

However, history is about to change as the Phranan empire seems to have developed a new weapon of war.

The Phranan soldiers are confident that they will be able to finally invade the Gushan empire using the new war machine that their new war counselor has invented.

And so, the Phranan army began their war preparation for their quest for conquest.

…

However, this plan was not a secret to other empires which suddenly became weary of the Phrana Empire. They knew that if the large Gushan Empire fell, then the Phranan Empire might make their move to the rest of the empire.

And so, the gears of war began to move as the other empires also began their war preparations. This particular time in history was written by historians as the time of the Great Chaos.

Though chaos would cause suffering to the people, it is also the time for heroes to emerge.