Chapter 110: Chapter 108: The Reflex Arc is Too Long l
Translator: 549690339
After half a day’s work of cultivating, Lu Xuan waited for a while outside the valley before catching a passing Spirit Crane. He spent a Spirit Stone to return to his cave residence.
As soon as he pushed the door open, a black light flashed through the crack.
Upon entering the courtyard, the Cloud Leopard, with its elegant posture, was perched on a rock with its emerald eyes staring coldly at him.
Lu Xuan couldn’t help but chuckle, went forward, and lightly tugged at the two tufts of fur on the tip of the Cloud Leopard’s ear, drawing a deep cry.
The Grass Puppet, as always, tirelessly patrolled the Spirit Field. Lu Xuan remembered that it had been quite a while since he had fed it any Spirit Stones and felt a bit of guilt in his heart. He took out a Broken Spirit Stone and stuffed it into the large grass node of the Grass Puppet.
In the Spiritual Spring Pool, four Iron Claw Crabs were hidden under strange rocks, their broad, black pincers constantly trying to break the huge rock.
Nourished by the richer spiritual power of the spring water in the cave, Lu Xuan felt that the Iron Claw Crab Juveniles were much livelier than before.
There was no time to rest. He made a tour of the Spirit Field.
He watered the Clear and Wonderful Spirit Tea with Spirit Spring Water, sprinkled Fine Iron Ore beside the Copper Bone Bamboo, nurtured the Flood Dragon Vine with Azure Water Python Blood, carefully cultivated the Phantom Smoke Fruit he found, guided the pattern changes on the Flowing Light Wood, and took care of the Blood Jade Ginseng, Spirit Firefly Grass, Yin Locust Tree…
After looking over all the Spirit Plants, half the day had already passed.
Though occupied, Lu Xuan found joy in the work.
The Spirit Plants in the cave mansion’s Spirit Field, which were related to the rewards of the White Light Group, absolutely could not be ignored. Moreover, the task of cultivating Monkey-faced Orchids, which could yield Sword Marks as a reward, could be used to exchange for Rare Spirit Seeds in the future, making it immensely important as well.
With the reward of the Light Group and Rare Spirit Seeds as encouragement, Lu Xuan was not bothered by the extra work.
The following day, after briefly checking and being satisfied with the growth state of the Spirit Plants in the cave mansion’s Spirit Field, he did not delay and went to the valley.
“Junior Brother Lu, have you not finished feeding all the Monkey-faced Orchids yet?”
After Yan Ping had finished his work, he passed by Lu Xuan and asked.
“Yes, Senior Brother Yan, I’m slightly slower than yesterday.”
Lu Xuan laughed and said, waiting for Yan Ping to enter the room. His Spiritual Sense swept over the Spirit Field and came to a secluded corner.
Spiritual Power quietly surged, the Earth Pulling Technique was used, the Spirit Soil near a Monkey-faced Orchid’s root instantly loosened, and he lightly pulled it up.
Then, he quickly planted it back into the Spirit Soil. The Earth Pulling Technique controlled the Spirit Soil to tightly wrap around the Monkey-faced Orchid’s root.
A thought surfaced in his mind.
[Monkey-faced Orchid, a Second-Level Spirit Plant, can be used to refine certain Elixirs that enhance Spiritual Power after maturation.]
[It loves to eat Strange Worms, the expressions on its petals will change according to its condition.]
[The worms today are too delicious! Absolutely wonderful!]
“Huh?”
Lu Xuan looked at the center of the petal in front of him, which maintained an indifferent expression, a look of confusion on his face.
“Is this your state of finding food delicious?”
Through the instantaneous state of the Monkey-faced Orchid, he understood that it was currently in a state of extreme satisfaction. But its expression showed a strong indifference.
The actual representation was quite different from its instantaneous state.
Due to not wanting to stay in the Spirit Field too long, Lu Xuan returned to the wooden house with his doubts.
After resting for half an hour, he came to the Spirit Field, intending to cast a round of Spirit Rain Technique.
As he passed by the Spirit Plant he had dug up, he found that the expression within the petals of Monkey-faced Orchids had changed noticeably from before.
It had shifted from a previous coldness to a current smile.
“Indeed, there is a change, but could this change be related to the instantaneous state just now?”
Lu Xuan absent-mindedly applied the Spirit Rain Technique while he pondered in his heart.
Suddenly, a spiritual light flashed through his mind.
“Could the changes be normal, but because they’re Spirit Plants, they can’t react in real time like cultivators or Spirit Beasts?”
“Or in other words, is the reaction delayed?”
The more Lu Xuan thought, the more probable it seemed. The Monkey-faced Orchids did reveal distinctly human expressions, but after all, they were only plants. They couldn’t immediately reveal their feelings through facial expressions like cultivators and Spirit Beasts.
This might explain why the cultivators in the past could not discover a better way to cultivate Monkey-faced Orchids.
They may have conducted the experiments, reacting differently based on the expressions of the Monkey-faced Orchids.
But the experiment went astray from the beginning.
The current expression of the Monkey-faced Orchids either showed a previous stage of their state.
In this case, adjusting the cultivation methods based on facial expressions would naturally be ineffective.
Alternatively, it could match its current state after some delay, but only after some time could the effects of cultivation be expressed, leading to erroneous judgments by cultivators.
After making this guess, Lu Xuan kept an eye on the changes in the expressions of Monkey-faced Orchids at various stages while he applied the Spirit Rain Technique and nurtured Strange Worms.
Understanding the principle, he no longer needed to dig up and replant the Monkey-faced Orchids. Several days later, he had summarized a general rule.
There were two main factors affecting the Monkey-faced Orchids, corresponding exactly to the two methods of cultivation.
Among them, the impact of the Spirit Rain Technique was not very significant. After applying it, most Monkey-faced Orchids displayed a smiling or cold expression about two hours later.
When feeding Strange Worms, the Monkey-faced Orchids were affected the most. Depending on the type of worm, the petals of the Monkey-faced Orchids would display various exaggerated expressions approximately an hour later.
Lu Xuan purposely picked different types of Strange Worms and raised them. He found that although the Strange Worms had some nourishing effect on the Monkey-faced Orchids, because of different tastes, they caused variations in their expressions.
When they consumed worms with mediocre or even poor tastes, the petals would display expressions of anger, heartbreak, and indifference. This would then affect the growth of the Monkey-faced Orchids.
“In this way, one can understand the effects of the Spirit Rain Technique and Strange Worms on it by the delayed expression of Monkey-faced Orchids, and thus make subtle adjustments,” he contemplated.
“In another sense, this could also be regarded as detailed cultivation. This form of cultivation can be explored and summarized by oneself, as long as one discovers the secret of delayed expression change.”
Lu Xuan contemplated silently.
“Next is to further confirm this discovery and then use it to make a fortune.”
The secret contained in the expression of Monkey-faced Orchids was not of huge value to him.
He did not intend to keep this discovery to himself, but instead planned to inform others and take advantage of it.
The first place that Lu Xuan thought of was the Agricultural Department Hall, but the Agricultural Department Hall doesn’t directly cultivate Spiritual Plants, and he didn’t know any powerful cultivators there.
Moreover, bypassing the Foundation Establishment cultivator behind the Monkey-faced Orchid might provoke his dissatisfaction.
Growing a large number of Monkey-faced Orchids meant that they were quite valuable to him. Lu Xuan pondered again and again and finally decided to inform the Foundation Establishment cultivator behind the Monkey-faced Orchids through Senior Sister Yao.
Of course, he had to first prove that his discovery was viable and effective..