"This…" School Head Mo and School Head Zhao fell silent.
They had seen the young man's talent in beast taming and smithing, but in the Way of Medicine…
One must know that treating a patient was an extremely complex study. Due to differences in constitution and cultivation technique, each patient's condition was unique. Even if two people were suffering from the same ailment, the medicine that was effective on one might not necessarily be effective on the other.
In order to make the correct judgements for a treatment, knowledge was not enough. One needed vast amounts of experience as well.
As such, most physicians chose to roam the world and even frequent battlefields. Only by expanding their horizon and encountering more patients would they make progress in the Way of Medicine.
As such, the older a physician was, the more skilled they were likely to be.