I'm Really Not the Demon God's Lackey Chapter 236: Medicinal Study

Dragons?

Lin Jie’s smile stiffened. What the heck?

Dragons for their medicinal properties? Did Li Shizhen have such an unorthodox philosophy?

Did I pass her the rule book for Dungeons and Dragons by accident instead of Compendium of Materia Medica?

Or is this young lady trying to pull a prank on me?

No, wait.

Lin Jie watched on as Prima blinked innocently several times. He marveled at the beauty of those pure, immaculate eyes craving for knowledge.

A thirst for knowledge wasn’t deceiving, so she certainly wasn’t pulling his leg.

Considering the cultural differences, she must have misinterpreted something.

While maintaining his slightly stiff smile, Lin Jie started to recall relevant content from Compendium of Materia Medica, which he had perused many years back.

Lin Jie’s memory of Compendium of Materia Medica had gotten hazy over the years as he had used it for some light reading back in his high school days. Fortunately, he still retained some of the content in his mind.

The corner of his lip twitched as he realized that there really was “Dragon” as a category of medicine.

So that was it.

Li Shizhen’s philosophy was indeed unorthodox.

Compendium of Materia Medica was a very well-organized book.

For instance, there were categories of the five elements such as water, fire, earth, etc. And of course, most importantly, there was a section for herbs.

There was also a category for plants which was broken down into sub-categories like grain, leaves, and fruits, while the category under animals branched out into finer categories such as insects, scales, and others…

And this ‘Dragon’ fell under the category of ‘scales.’

However, it was neither a mythical European Dragon nor the Huaxiaosaurus (Of course, no one would know Li Shizhen’s thought process). Rather, it referred to fossils of mammals such as elephants, rhinoceros, horses, etc.

Lin Jie was slightly dejected. He had really given himself a false alarm. Having spent so much time in this other world, the first image that had come to his mind was a winged dragon.

It was indeed merely a mi

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