Chapter 7: Exploiting the Bug

However, improving a prescription is something that requires a certain level of Pharmacology knowledge before one can attempt it.

Therefore, Ning Feiliu still planned to go back and systematically study the Pharmacology of the Douluo Continent first, before thinking of ways to improve the prescriptions.

"Alright, many thanks, Master Ji." He nodded at Ji Boda with a smile, then prepared to leave.

"Take care, Young Master Ning." Upon learning of Ning Feiliu's status as a direct descendant of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Ji Boda's attitude became even more humble as he spoke hurriedly.

Ning Feiliu left the medical clinic directly, holding the *Compendium of Prescriptions* in his hand, and he had an idea in his mind.

Now that he had this book of prescriptions, he could take the "answers" to find the "questions."

Simply put, he could pretend to be ignorant and go to various medical clinics to find the common pills listed in the *Compendium of Prescriptions*, then trigger tasks.

Then he would look at the detailed prescriptions in the *Compendium of Prescriptions*, and in this way, he could complete the tasks steadily.

And the key was that Ning Feiliu discovered that after he completed the tasks, the detailed contents of those prescriptions were like they had been carved into his mind, remembered quite firmly.

So, completing these tasks was actually equivalent to helping him memorize the prescriptions.

But soon...

Alchemist Baron Renata?

So he continued to grind tasks without the slightest pause.

Ning Feiliu was slightly stunned, but in the background story, Renata also came from an alchemy family that started with alchemical drugs, and she was also an alchemy master in the field of drug alchemy who was only slightly inferior to Singed.

When he obtained sixty years of Singed's alchemy experience, finally, what appeared was no longer Singed's experience.

Gradually, Singed's experience seemed to have been squeezed dry by him; cumulatively, it amounted to a full fifty years of experience.

【Query the detailed prescription for Divine Turtle Pill, obtain one year of Singed's experience】

Task after task was triggered by Ning Feiliu and easily completed by him.

【Query the detailed prescription for Ice Crystal Paste, obtain two and a half years of Singed's experience】

【Query the detailed prescription for Cold-Dispelling Soup, obtain half a year of Singed's experience】

"There are no more tasks..." Ning Feiliu took a deep breath, then shook his head and said helplessly.

No sooner said than done, Ning Feiliu went straight to another medical clinic.

Instead, it changed to—【Query the detailed prescription for Gold Jade Powder, obtain half a year of Renata's alchemy experience.】

Singed's and Renata's alchemy experiences were instilled into Ning Feiliu's mind as each task was completed.

This was purely a bug-exploiting way of completing tasks, which made him feel extremely comfortable.

In the medical clinic, he faced the shop assistant and pretended to be ignorant while asking about various pills, directly triggering one task after another.

The task for the last prescription in the *Compendium of Prescriptions* was also completed by him.

【Query the detailed prescription for Golden Elixir Trauma Medicine, obtain three years of Singed's experience】

As the last line of small text before Ning Feiliu's eyes shattered, it transformed into experience and knowledge that surged into his mind.

Under the strange gaze of the medical clinic apprentice, he spent five Copper Soul Coins to buy the pill before him, then left the clinic.

After walking out of the clinic, Ning Feiliu muttered to himself, "Next, I need to get in touch with other prescription books to grind tasks and experience again."

However, his mind now possessed sixty years of alchemy experience from the alchemist Singed, as well as thirty-eight years of alchemy experience from the Alchemist Baron Renata.

Under the infusion of so much experience and knowledge, he suddenly had an understanding of the several prescriptions in the *Compendium of Prescriptions* he held.

"First of all... this method of using herbs is too backward; one can use those methods of extracting drugs to extract the effective components from the herbs."

Ning Feiliu muttered to himself, "Then make them into tablets or potions; this can make the effects of these pills even better."

This was Ning Feiliu's shift in perspective regarding the Douluo Continent's prescription knowledge, moving from the traditional medical approach to the modern medical approach of his past life, after obtaining the experience and knowledge of Singed and Renata.

In the traditional medical approach, whether it is Chinese medicine or Western medicine, it is actually biased toward concepts like mutual generation and restraint, or balance and harmony—a kind of ethereal conceptual medicine.

It is, relatively speaking, more empirical and idealistic.

For example, traditional Western bloodletting therapy, or traditional Chinese yin/yang harmony and five-element balance.

These belong to things that are relatively mystical but lack scientific basis.

Especially in the aspect of drug treatment, traditional medicine does not delve into what the truly active components of a drug are, or why they work.

For example, the Calming Decoction used in the imperial palace of his past life to calm the minds of princes and princesses.

Like those princes and princesses in the imperial palace.

The people in the palace did not want to see them too active, lest they cause trouble.

Thus, the concubines in the harem often had their children take this Calming Decoction.

And its prescription consisted of five drugs: cinnabar, realgar, scorpion, fried silkworm, and licorice!

Among them, the truly useful component of cinnabar is called mercury, and the main component of realgar is tetraarsenic tetrasulfide, which, after being heated to a certain temperature in the air, can be oxidized into the highly toxic component arsenic trioxide, which is arsenic.

Using these two heavy metals as herbs—the result, well... is naturally self-evident.

Thus, after the princes and princesses took it, symptoms of heavy metal poisoning appeared, and naturally, the effect of calming the mind was achieved.

This is where the drawbacks of traditional medicine lie, although many of the things summarized by traditional medicine through empiricism are also useful.

For example, using the stems and leaves of sweet wormwood in traditional Chinese prescriptions to treat malaria, and using willow branch boiled water to dispel wind, promote diuresis, and relieve pain and swelling for edema problems.

However, from the perspective of modern medicine, the reason sweet wormwood stems and leaves can treat malaria is because of the artemisinin inside the herbs.

Willow branch boiled water can dispel wind, promote diuresis, and relieve pain and swelling because it contains salicylic acid.

After extracting them, they are even more effective.

Therefore, compared to the scientific concept of modern medicine in rigorously extracting the main components of drugs, traditional medicine still has a certain gap.

And the current Pharmacology of the Douluo Continent is clearly traditional medicine based on empiricism.

The alchemy experience that Ning Feiliu instilled into his mind through tasks is a very systematic and standardized modern medical concept.

He has now planned to go back and attempt to use scientific methods to extract the effective components of drugs.

Although there are no Precision instruments in this world, he can still use some earlier methods of drug extraction to extract the effective components of drugs.

For example, the water-dissolving method, leaching method, solvent extraction method, distillation method, and so on...

These are all capable of extracting the components of medicine, but as for which specific part of these components plays a role, he will have to determine that slowly through experiments.

And later, when conditions allow, he can also use the knowledge in his mind to create some relatively Precision alchemy experimental instruments.

Just as Ning Feiliu was walking while thinking, suddenly, the sound of whispering came from the side.

(End of this chapter)