Tang Clan Pharmacopoeia

The Tang Clan's ancestral medical text, the only medical book in the world that uses poison as medicine.

It blends the teachings of Miaojiang and Buddhism: a single bowl of water holds eighty-four thousand insects, and the insects are poison. They too divide into the Five Elements and Six Harmonies, corresponding to the five organs and six viscera. Too much brings harm, too little brings illness, exhausting them brings weakness, and mistaking them brings madness.

Humans are not untouched by the Five Poisons; the poison simply has not yet stirred. Only by nourishing it with medicine, making it follow the heart and not resist, turning the body's poison to one's own use, can a hundred illnesses be kept from invading.

Effects

Requirement: Scholarship 20 (LV5)

Level	Effect	Martial Points
LV1	Poison Resistance 2, Paralysis Resistance 2	5
LV2	Poison Resistance 3, Paralysis Resistance 3	5
LV3	Poison Resistance 4, Paralysis Resistance 4	5
LV4	Poison Resistance 6, Paralysis Resistance 6	5
LV5	Poison Resistance 8, Paralysis Resistance 8	5
LV6	Poison Resistance 9, Paralysis Resistance 9	5
LV7	Poison Resistance 10, Paralysis Resistance 10	5
LV8	Poison Resistance 12, Paralysis Resistance 12	5
LV9	Poison Resistance 14, Paralysis Resistance 14	5
LV10	Poison Resistance 15, Paralysis Resistance 15, Medicine LV1	5 (50)

• Medicine: When you Brace, recover HP based on maximum HP (2% at level 1, up to 10%), and additionally metabolize accumulated poison and paralysis buildup. Affects certain Story events.

Acquisition Method

• After the siege event, return home and follow the Second Senior Brother; he gives it to you (Tang Zheng favorability 3.5★)
• Early Nov Year 2 — the Fourth Senior Brother buys it ($1200)

Notes

• The original Pharmacopoeia has been lost. This book is a miscellany written by based on the Poison Classic's pharmacology, blending external alchemy methods, medical principles, and his own experience and insights. Even outsider disciples who read it are not bound by the Clan Rules.