I Come to Teach You Cultivation-Chapter 53 - 9: An Unconventional Lesson in Enlightenment

Chapter 53: Chapter 9: An Unconventional Lesson in Enlightenment

As a transmigrator whose soul came from the 21st century, Li Boyang deeply understood the importance of knowledge.

Therefore, despite how exhausting Li Jingshu’s physical training was, Li Boyang would still spare half a day to let her read and learn to write.

"Which tutor uses medical books and the Herb Scripture to enlighten children..."

Sitting on her specially made small stool, Li Jingshu complained as she flipped through the books on the desk.

Yes, what Li Jingshu was flipping through now was not some animal hide, bamboo slip, or silk, but a roll of paper.

In fact, when Er Tu threw these books in front of Li Boyang, his understanding of this era was once again thrown into disarray.

In Li Boyang’s inherent impression, paper-making had always been a unique patent invention of ancient China.

On Earth in his previous life, Western civilization was still using parchment as a recording and writing tool until the early 14th century.

It was only after Li Boyang’s careful study and analysis that he noticed that these papers were not made through paper-making techniques.

This rolled paper was actually closer to papyrus invented by ancient Egyptians.

Not paper made in the conventional sense by soaking and breaking down fibers, but directly pressed from some special natural plant.

So, these papers were thin, fragile, and extremely limited in production.

Even with the extraordinary means displayed by Er Tu.

When handing these books to Li Boyang, he also showed a face of heartfelt pain.

In Er Tu’s words at the time, these were rare treasures that only a priest could afford to use.

In terms of preciousness alone, these rolls of paper might even be more valuable than the knowledge recorded on them.

"Who can blame us for only having these medical books and Herb Scripture?"

Though standing only as high as Li Jingshu’s sitting height, Li Boyang’s every word and action was full of the tutor’s authority.

"Today we are going to learn about the human anatomy, and you must at least memorize the names of those organs and tissues..."

"First, this is the heart, which is the center of the body’s blood supply."

"It is responsible for the circulation of blood throughout the body; once damaged here, it is basically impossible for normal creatures to be saved."

"And here is the liver, though not as crucial as the heart, it bears the body’s most important detoxification function."

"These two characters are pronounced ’bladder’, it is..."

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Sitting quietly on a branch nearby, Xiluo was eavesdropping on Li Boyang enlightening Li Jingshu.

Unlike the carefree Li Jingshu, Xiluo had long known that Li Boyang mixed a lot of his own content in the enlightenment process.

For example, the division of human tissues and organs and the knowledge of various meridians and acupoints.

Although the medical books brought back by Er Tu indeed contained content about human anatomy, and it was so detailed and precise it made one’s skin crawl.

But most of that content only stayed on the surface and did not delve deeply into the specific roles and functions of those organs.

Let alone that Li Boyang would occasionally teach Li Jingshu how to perform self-rescue in emergencies.

Forcing the heart to beat with cardio-pulmonary resuscitation...

Emergency hemostasis by pressure and compression...

Directly piercing the trachea to allow someone suffocating to breathe without the mouth and nose...

Even though Xiluo had never seen Li Boyang perform it in practice, she had no doubt about the correctness of the knowledge he was teaching.

Sometimes Xiluo would even be a little suspicious.

Was Li Boyang teaching Li Jingshu medical skills, or ways to kill?

The knowledge points he talked about, applying them differently could be excellent methods of killing and torture.

Especially when combined with the various drug effects in the Herb Scripture, it often created an option where "death is more difficult than survival."

Fortunately, Xiluo was not human, and would not have that kind of empathetic feeling, but instead listened with great interest to Li Boyang’s explanation.

The structure of animals and humans may be different, but the basic principles are still the same.

Not to mention ordinary animals, even the strong spirit monsters, if attacked in their vital points and weaknesses, wouldn’t fare much better than ordinary animals.

Of course, the reason Xiluo could listen so patiently.

Besides Li Boyang mockingly calling her illiterate in the morning, there was actually another more important reason—learning the Proverb Talisman.

Li Boyang actually realized early on.

This world was different from the Earth of his previous life; some things couldn’t be copied exactly.

For example, the twelve Proverb Talismans left by the Huai River Witch, those were things completely absent from Earth. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

Initially, Li Boyang simply understood them as characters with inherent mysterious power.

After all, weren’t all kinds of fantasy novels in his past life written this way?

However, until Li Boyang began a more in-depth study of the Proverb Talismans, he found his thinking was still too superficial.

The twelve talismans were only the surface; proverbs were their foundation.

When these twelve talismans are separately dissected, each is composed of countless proverbs, and these proverbs can also be taken out individually to be effective.

From this perspective, these talismans are essentially a form of high-dimensional text.

Speaking of the concept of "high-dimensional text" might sound a bit abstract.

It’s much easier to understand if it’s simply thought of as text containing more information, or even energy.

To give a perhaps slightly inappropriate analogy.

English is a phonographic script, and also a standard linear thinking script.

Theoretically, English can express different meanings through different combinations of 26 letters.

But the flaw of this phonographic script is that whenever a new concept appears, a corresponding new word must be created.

Especially when delving deeply into a specialized field or when two regions are isolated for too long.

Those newly created words become barriers to mutual understanding.

An invisible professional barrier is thus formed, greatly hindering cultural exchange and dissemination.

Conversely, Chinese characters are ideographic, combining word shape, pronunciation, and rich meaning and cultural connotations.

Each character not only represents a sound but also contains multilayered information like history, culture, and philosophy, showing great inclusiveness and expansibility.

Even if encountering a new concept never seen before, ordinary people can roughly deduce what it might be through the combination of characters.

Three verticals and a horizontal look like "mountain," adding a horizontal line above the baseline is "up," adding it below is "down."

Sun and moon together form "bright," two trees make "forest," and one more tree than forest is "woods."

It is precisely because of this feature of containing more information.

If a person has learned simplified Chinese characters, they can with high probability also understand the corresponding traditional characters without needing to set up too many learning barriers.

Of course, the corresponding downside is that the learning threshold for ideographic text is extremely high.

To learn English, one only needs to memorize words and their meanings, maybe some rural idioms at most.

While learning Chinese requires combining it with the respective culture and context to avoid misunderstandings during reading and comprehension.

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