Chapter 110: Laughing Even When You’re Dead
Chapter 110 – Laughing Even in Death
When Lu Xuan was caring for and cultivating the Monkey-faced Orchids, he purposely selected six of them, secretly numbered them, and raised these six Monkey-faced Orchids with different Spirit Insects respectively, and recorded their delayed changing expressions, constantly summarizing the patterns.
Three days later, these six Monkey-faced Orchids, under his adjusted cultivation method, all maintained a smiling or laughing expression throughout the day.
“Serving you guys quite comfortably huh.”
Lu Xuan sighed and decided to inform Senior Sister Yao of his discovery.
The beautiful woman lived alone in a small courtyard with three elegant wooden houses and a small garden with exotic flowers and plants.
“Senior Sister Yao, is she in? There’s something to trouble senior sister.” Lu Xuan knocked on the door.
“Senior Sister Lu, please come in, I don’t know what’s so important?”
The beautiful woman walked out of the house and asked with a smile.
“In the process of planting the Monkey Face Orchid, I happened to make a discovery that it is highly likely to slightly enhance the quality of the Monkey Face Orchid, so I purposely came over to report it to you, Senior Sister.”
“Really? What’s the discovery?”
A trace of curiosity flashed in the beautiful woman’s eyes, half-heartedly.
“I have observed and summarized for a period of time, and found that the expressions inside the petals of the Monkey Face Orchid are closely related to its own state, so if we can adjust the means of cultivation according to its expressions, and try to satisfy its needs as much as possible, then we will be able to improve the quality of the spirit plant.”
Lu Xuan said in a deep voice.
“The Spiritual Planter who planted the Monkey Face Orchid before had once made this deduction, only that he ultimately failed to discover any mysteries, and thus adopted conventional cultivation methods, ignoring those strange expressions.”
“Can Master Lu tell us in detail what mysteries lie within the expressions?”
Lu Xuan frowned and pretended to ponder.
“If Senior Brother’s method is indeed feasible and effective, then I will definitely report it truthfully to the Foundation Building Master Uncle behind the Medicine Garden.”
The beautiful woman seemed to see the worry in Lu Xuan’s heart and smiled as she promised towards Lu Xuan.
If the quality of the many second-grade Monkey Face Orchids in the Pill Garden could really be improved, when she reported it to the Foundation Establishment Master, Lu Xuan would certainly receive a reward, and she, as the manager of the Pill Garden, would likewise receive a lot of credit.
Thus, there was absolutely no need to monopolize Lu Xuan’s cultivation method.
“Senior Sister Yao is polite, I was just organizing my words.”
“The mystery hidden within is simple, the expression presented by the Monkey-faced Orchid has an extremely long delay, so it’s easy to mislead the Spiritual Planters who cultivate them.”
“There are two main factors that affect the change in expression, most notably the taste of the Spirit Worm, the difference in taste will cause the Monkey-faced Orchid to react with an expression after half an hour.”
“The other factor is the spirit rain technique, the amount of spirit rain will slightly affect the expression in the petals of the Monkey-faced Orchid, after about an hour.”
“As long as one observes and feels out the rules of it, one can keep the Monkey-faced Orchid in a state of contentment, thus enhancing the quality of the plant.”
“I see.”
The beautiful woman kept nodding her head, suddenly realizing that the mystery hidden in the expression was actually quite simple, but if Lu Xuan hadn’t pointed it out, she wouldn’t have known when she would have discovered the mystery.
“It seems that Senior Brother Lu does have an extremely good talent in the path of cultivating spiritual plants.”
She couldn’t help but exclaim.
“From tomorrow onwards, I will follow the method you mentioned, Senior Brother Lu, to cultivate the Monkey-faced Orchid in the Spirit Field, and I’m sure that Senior Brother’s discovery will definitely bring me an unexpected surprise.”
The beautiful woman quickly made a decision.
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“I disagree!”
“Monkey Face Orchid is a second grade spiritual plant, valuable and precious, and with such a large quantity, how can we change the cultivation method as if it were child’s play?”
“Just cultivate it according to the original way, I strongly disagree with changing it so easily!” Outside the wooden house, the ordinary looking Yan Ping’s face flushed red as he said excitedly.
After he learned that all the Monkey-faced Orchids in the Spirit Fields would have to adjust their cultivation means, his reaction was unusually intense, beyond Lu Xuan’s imagination.
“Senior Brother Yan, I’ve been observing for some time, and I’m basically certain that the Monkey Face Orchid’s petal expressions are closely related to its own state, so as long as it is cultivated in accordance with the laws I’ve summarized, it’s possible to enhance the quality of the Monkey Face Orchid when it matures.”
Lu Xuan gently advised, he originally thought that after convincing Senior Sister Yao that the road ahead would be straight, but he never thought that he would run into Yan Ping as a roadblock halfway.
“Senior Brother Lu, the Heavenly Sword Sect has so many Spiritual Planters, of which not a few have planted Monkey Face Orchids, and there is even a Foundation Establishment Senior Uncle.”
“None of them have discovered the mystery within the Monkey Face Orchid expression, but instead it was discovered by you, an outer disciple who just joined the sect not long ago, aren’t you a little too confident?”
“I have planted these Monkey Face Orchids for so long, you come in midway and say that you want to change their cultivation method, if anything goes wrong and the Foundation Establishment Master Uncle blames it, can you afford it?”
Yan Ping’s chest was heaving violently, the strong fluctuations within his heart were visible.
Lu Xuan was silent, what Yan Ping said also had some truth to it.
Although he had absolute certainty that he could raise the quality of the Monkey Face Orchid, it was a bit unbelievable in Yan Ping’s opinion.
If the change did work, he wouldn’t get much of the credit, but if something went wrong, he would have to take the blame for planting and cultivating the Monkey Face Orchid for so long.
In the silence, the beautiful woman stood out and said.
“What Senior Brother Yan said also makes sense, after all, he has put a lot of thought into these Monkey Face Orchids, changing the way of cultivating the workshop must be done with his consent.”
“The method you mentioned, Senior Brother Lu, is currently in the experimental stage, how about this, the Monkey-faced Orchid in the Spirit Field has nearly one hundred plants, so it will be directly divided into two halves, one half will be cultivated in the regular way by Senior Brother Yan, and the other half will be in accordance with the method you used, Senior Brother Lu.
What do you two think?”
Lu Xuan and Yan Ping looked at each other and nodded in agreement.
Two months passed by, and the Monkey Face Orchid in the Spirit Field entered the ripening stage.
During these two months, Lu Xuan and Yan Ping had each carefully tended and cultivated the Monkey Face Orchid that had been allocated to them.
After that argument, the two had distanced themselves, occasionally meeting and nodding to say hello, without much communication.
Lu Xuan didn’t think about it and focused on cultivating the Monkey Face Orchid.
After the Monkey Face Orchid entered the maturity stage, Senior Sister Yao didn’t wait for the Spiritual Plant Progress Bar to fill up before picking it like Lu Xuan did, but instead, she directly picked all of the Monkey Face Orchid’s petals.
The orchids picked from the Monkey Face Orchid planted by the two were stacked separately.
The pile belonging to Lu Xuan all exuded smiling expressions, and with more than fifty smiling faces crowded together, it was rather a bit more bizarre.
“To die with a smile on your face, it’s not in vain that I’ve been fulfilling every tiny request of yours all this while.”
Lu Xuan sighed and looked at the Monkey-faced Orchid petals cultivated by Yan Ping, their expressions varying and contrasting.
“It’s been a hard time for the two senior brothers, let me handle the inventory of these two piles of mature Monkey Face Orchids.”
Senior Sister Yao said with a smile.
Lu Xuan and the two of them nodded their heads, Yan Ping looked grave, he was experienced in growing Monkey Face Orchids and was naturally able to see the subtle difference between the two qualities.
“Senior Brother Yan, pick fifty-five mature Monkey Face Orchids, of which thirty-eight are of ordinary quality, fourteen are of good quality, and the remaining three are of superior quality.”
Yan Ping looked calm, the quality of these Monkey Face Orchids did not differ much from what he expected.
However, once he saw the more than fifty Monkey Face Orchids planted by Lu Xuan, he had mixed feelings in his heart and could hardly calm down.
(End of Chapter)