With Ding Yun's diligent self-study and the readily available online resources for most common knowledge, her proficiency in neurological skills was steadily increasing at a visible rate each day.
However, as time went on,
Some issues gradually emerged.
For instance, the proficiency Ding Yun could gain by using her daughter as an experimental subject for neurological exploration was dwindling. Furthermore, acquiring various knowledge related to neurology online was becoming increasingly difficult.
These two factors directly led to a growing difficulty in skill proficiency acquisition. Previously, she might have gained eight or nine points of proficiency per day, but now it was only two or three points, and it was foreseeable that this would decrease further in the future.
Yet, Ding Yun could not resolve either of these issues for the time being.
She was not a doctor; apart from her daughter, the only case she could directly access, she had no contact with other patients. Additionally, while most common foundational knowledge could be found online, more advanced knowledge required a certain threshold.
Especially top-tier knowledge, which was kept highly secret.
Some of it was even beyond the reach of national institutions,
Let alone Ding Yun.
Therefore, after a month, Ding Yun's neurological skill had only just reached level two when her proficiency growth stalled. For three to five days, not a single point was gained. Clearly, this life skill system was fundamentally different from Ding Yun's initial expectation of "practice makes perfect" – that continuous practice would lead to increased proficiency.
But upon closer reflection, it was quite reasonable.
With limited foundational knowledge and no further innovation, repeatedly performing the same action could only increase proficiency in that specific action, with little help to the overall knowledge system.
For example, even if a surgeon practiced appendectomies daily without interruption and eventually became so skilled that they could perform the surgery with their eyes closed, flawlessly and quickly, it wouldn't necessarily mean their other abilities would improve proportionally. At best, it might enhance their speed of incision and surgical technique.
Other improvements
Would still need to be pursued through other avenues.
Ding Yun was now in a situation where she had acquired all the relevant knowledge she could obtain for free.
The improvement gained from constantly repeating within the existing knowledge framework was quite limited. This slight increase in proficiency was already proving to be disproportionately costly. If she still wished to improve her proficiency at a relatively fast pace,
She would either have to find a way to obtain more advanced knowledge,
Or devise her own methods to delve deeper into neurology.
Alternatively, she could become a neurologist and try to come into contact with more similar patients, which might also be beneficial.
However, for the time being, Ding Yun clearly could not obtain more advanced knowledge, nor could she become a neurologist. Fortunately, she still had her spiritual power.
Therefore, she ultimately chose to utilize her spiritual power to meticulously study her own nervous system.
She even experimented on herself appropriately, using spiritual power to stimulate certain nerves, or even damage minuscule neurons, and attempting to repair them.
Because her foundational knowledge of neurology was already quite solid, and she had a detailed understanding of the entire nervous system, coupled with the fact that she only experimented on parts with minimal impact on her body, and she could control the extent of the damage, thus not truly harming herself.
The related experiments proceeded quite smoothly.
Concurrently, her understanding of the human nervous system, the specific functions of various neurons, and the core composition and repair elements of neurons all saw significant improvement.
Her knowledge base also expanded to some extent through her self-study. Correspondingly, the proficiency of her neurological skills finally began to increase again at a slow, visible rate. Sometimes, when she broke through a difficult point and achieved a major breakthrough, her proficiency would even surge by ten or twenty points.
After Ding Yun devised some techniques that could stimulate neuronal self-repair, she used these techniques to assist her daughter's rehabilitation, once again gaining a significant increase in proficiency. This demonstrated that linking theory to practical application could indeed accelerate proficiency growth.
With her spiritual power, studying her own nervous system was akin to Shen Nong having a crystal stomach, allowing her to know at any time what substances or changes would have what impact on the nervous system.
Under such circumstances, how could her research progress be anything but rapid?
In just two more months, Ding Yun's neurological skills reached level three, and she was nearing level four.
The reason for saying this
Was primarily due to her skill proficiency.
It had once again entered a bottleneck period.
Although Ding Yun could use her spiritual power to meticulously observe her nervous system and appropriately stimulate or affect certain non-critical neural pathways,
Even damaging and repairing them.
She dared not conduct such experiments on more critical areas, such as the central nervous system. She feared incapacitating herself, which would be an even worse predicament. After all, Shen Nong was also poisoned to death by himself.
Therefore, after experimenting on the parts of the nervous system she could stimulate and dared to stimulate, her research naturally stagnated, and the increase in proficiency returned to its previous snail's pace.
Fortunately, having learned from the previous shift in her approach,
Ding Yun soon found a new breakthrough: researching the nervous systems of animals. Although different from humans, it could still provide analogous experience and increase her knowledge.
Initially, she bought hamsters, rabbits,
Or chickens, ducks, and geese.
Occasionally, she would also buy a few fish to deepen her understanding of the nervous systems of different creatures. By the time she had researched these small animals sufficiently, Ding Yun had been discharged from the hospital for nearly four months, and her physical health had largely recovered.
After this, she naturally put aside the plan to research animal nervous systems for the time being and resumed her work.
She returned to selling hand-grabbed pancakes at a fixed time and place daily.
This was the original body's primary source of income.
In the past, she operated regardless of the weather, only stopping during student winter and summer breaks due to a lack of customers. This time, it was due to her fracture. However, now that her fracture had healed, she couldn't continue to live off her savings at home; she had to earn money.
But Ding Yun had not been idle at home for the past three months, cooking and studying recipes to increase the proficiency of her general culinary skills. Thus, when she set up her stall again, her general culinary skill level was no longer three, but had reached four.
This was reflected in the improvement of her skills in various aspects, including better control of heat and more refined selection and blending of ingredients. The final result was that the hand-grabbed pancakes she made tasted even better.
The texture of other snacks also improved.
Most importantly, the taste of the sauces was absolutely nice!