Once the main issue was solved, healing flesh wounds was very easy.

Fengyu used his spiritual inspiration for its intended use - a simple funnel taking in healing spells and delivering them to the wound.

With the inspiration, he no longer had to be careful when casting the beam spell. He would simply fire it and use 90% of his spiritual power each time.

Mistakes here weren’t significant, since the flesh could simply be opened and operated on to.

Having repeated the same procedure so many times, he had become used to his patient feeling incredible pain, so... he simply didn’t consider taking a less painful approach.

One could only guess how much his future patients would suffer...

...

The treatment in this regard was done rather quickly, but Fengyu wanted to learn how to use his inspiration better, leading to a slight delay.

Lu Fang’s treatment was done in a total of nine months - longer than initially anticipated. Though because of the visible progression of the recovery, Lu Fang’s mother never cut the monthly payment of 10.000 spirit stones.

Especially last month when she saw he had been fully healed, she directly handed over the last 20.000 spirit stones, telling him that the other two rewards would be handed over right after Lu Fang was released.

"Brother Fengyu," Lu Fang said as he looked at this doctor, a doctor who had caused him endless pain, yet at the same time also healed his soul.

Building a house and your own tool, playing with ducks and enjoying nature... these were all things no one asked of Fengyu, and maybe there were just simple matters... but Lu Fang understood that it was these things that allowed him to regain his spirit.

"No need to say more. This was a treatment, more so than just a treatment of your wound. I may not know what has caused this wound, nor whether you will take this danger again. But you should remember one thing - physical wounds are but mere temporal wounds.

The spirit and soul are eternal, as long as your mind is at its peak, no matter what injury you suffer, you will be able to recover.

In the future if you feel like playing a bit with the ducks, just come and Zimu will let you in." Fengyu smiled and said kindly.

Maybe it was a part of his character he hadn’t known before, or maybe it only awoke with his age progressing towards the 50’... but he felt that helping such young people regain their spirit and see the vast world was a responsibility of his, a senior cultivator.

Lu Fang choked when he heard it, his eyes gleaming with relief. So, he didn’t need to leave permanently!

He slowly smiled, a smile that hadn’t been seen on his face after the fight, and thanked Fengyu several times, telling him that he would definitely come back to visit again.

Fengyu smiled and didn’t think too much of it. Now that Lu Fang had recovered, he would be extremely busy and barely find time to come back to see him.

Lu Fang left that day, a package arriving on Fengyu’s, carried by a courier at the peak of the first stage.

He handed over the box with extreme care, requiring several signings and proofs of identity from Fengyu before he left.

Fengyu opened it inside the field and saw a large package of raw wool - it consisted of three colours even. 70% of the wool was light blue, 20% was dark blue, and 10% was white.

He looked at them, feeling the spiritual power flowing through the whole piece - a full second stage piece of wool!

Such an item here, Fengyu didn’t know how much it was worth.

A single sheep’s full wool can be used for a full second stage robe, often even with excess. He once again felt that this deal was extremely worth it!

Besides this piece of wool, there was a jade slip. This was probably the second stage breeding skill...

"Never mind, everything I’ve read about cultivation until now seems to subtly hide the content of stages beyond your own. It’s best not to look into it and instead wait for when I reach the second stage to learn it!" he thought that he was doing very well currently, and that he didn’t have the time nor energy to learn something else.

In the nine months, he had barely been able to cultivate for a short time every day, leading his cultivation foundation to have been changed by 10% from the former art to the current Spiritual Herding True Art.

He planned to increase the time he spent on cultivation from now on to quickly complete transforming his foundation and enjoy the benefits this cultivation art would bring him.

Just as he was engrossed in planning the next few months, he heard a soft quack coming from the side.

A young duckling looked at him, quacking softly.

There were four white circles on its body - one on each wing, one on its chest and at the end of its back.

With each step it took, a surge of spiritual power gathered from all around, streaming into its body as if forcefully trying to fill its dantian fully.

Fengyu looked at the text hovering above it -

[Qi Gathering Spiritual Duck, use 99 Beast Origin Essence Cores to improve bloodline to second-grade first stage?]

A peak-grade first stage spiritual duck requiring only a few cores to reach the second stage...

This was Mother Duck’s first child born after she awakened her bloodline - Spirit Circle!

Fengyu thought for a long time and decided to take this name. When this duck was still in its egg, it only had two circles. When it was born, two became three. Finally, when it reached maturity just a week ago, it became four circles!

A vague sense told him that each circle belonged to a small circle it had reached...

How many circles would Spirit Circle grow in the future?