Chapter 357: A Good Uselessness
Pan Xiaolian had been a healer a long time, though for most of her life that had simply meant bandaging wounds or giving a sick person a herb known to help with their symptoms. She’d watched, powerless, as many villagers had succumbed to injuries and diseases.
That had all changed with the arrival of the sect leader. She and the other former village healers had received knowledge techniques and training far more advanced than anything they’d known previously. At the same time, the miraculous healing pills made that knowledge almost worthless as most issues could be resolved by alchemy.
The main contribution Pan Xiaolian made in helping a patient who entered the pavilion was to determine if the person needed a Major Healing Pill or if a minor one would do. Which was both frustrating and amazing.
She couldn’t help but feel a bit useless. Literally anyone could hand out a pill. But she couldn’t complain about the results. Now that the vast majority of the villagers had been inducted into the sect, there were no more deaths to mundane causes. No one even suffered from the sniffles.
Younger idiots suffered injuries from doing stupid things as teenagers were wont to do, but those issues were easily resolved. One young man on the last expedition had fought a spirit beast that was too strong and had his arm bitten off. He’d simply popped a Major Healing Pill in his mouth, and his limb regrew in minutes.
When he’d returned to the sect, he hadn’t even thought to report to the Healing Pavilion to have it checked. Pan Xiaolian hadn’t found out about the injury until weeks later and, after dragging the young man in to be examined, found that he was essentially good as new.
Being useless as a healer was a good thing, but sometimes it didn’t feel like it, especially considering that so many resources had been expended to create the pavilion. The entire team felt like they weren’t contributing as much as they should be.
The Martial Pavilion trained warriors who would become the sect’s protectors. The Alchemy Pavilion would one day create miraculous medicines that could fix any injury and cure any disease. The Formations Pavilion eventually would be able to replicate the miraculous arrays the sect leader so easily made. And so on and so on.
Up until less than a week prior, the entire Healing Pavilion felt like they’d be relegated to handing out the creations the Alchemy Pavilion made, something most cultivators could do perfectly well on their own.
Then the sect leader introduced the Acupuncture technique. It required true expertise to perform and fixed issues that couldn’t be resolved just by popping a pill. Once the technique was mastered, she and her team would provide a valuable service to the sect.