Chapter 148 – Traveling with the Spiritual Crane
Chapter 148 – Spirit Crane Traveling
“By the same token, the Spirit Crane will not go on to breed and raise offspring under such conditions of self-preservation.”
“After all, they are not ordinary beasts, their spiritual intelligence is higher, and although they cannot break free from their bonds, this point can still be chosen on their own.”
Lu Xuan looked at Xu Yi and slowly said.
“Then, according to what Senior Martial Brother Lu said, how should this problem be resolved?”
“It’s very simple, reduce the pressure on the spirit cranes, improve the food and housing environment, give the spirit cranes room for promotion, and the mother cranes in their childbearing period receive more care.”
“Naturally, they will be willing to reproduce.”
Hearing Lu Xuan’s words, Xu Yi pondered for a moment.
“Improving the eating and living environment is the simplest point, find a few more fellow disciples on weekdays and try to feed them more spirit mussels, spirit snails, spirit fish, etc., and the area of the water and swamp can also expand quite a bit more.”
“As for what Master Lu said about giving the spirit cranes room for promotion, I’m not quite able to understand it.”
“Also, lightening the burden of the spirit cranes is a bit difficult to do, after all, the sect is so vast, and the many outer disciples need a large number of spirit cranes to be summoned and transported.”
Xu Yi said.
Lu Xuan did not think twice and replied.
“Although Spirit Cranes are tools, they are not ordinary tools, for those most diligent Spirit Cranes, Senior Brother can appropriately give them something similar to Beast Spirit Pills.
It is important to let them see that as long as they work hard to earn Spirit Stones, they can hope to improve their strength and break through the shackles of their own bloodline.”
“I do have a suggestion on how to lighten their burden.”
“Senior brother, I don’t know if you’ve noticed that in certain regions, the number of spirit cranes appears to be somewhat redundant.”
“Those regions have a small number of traveling cultivators, so there is absolutely no need to arrange so many spirit cranes in the vicinity.”
“Senior brother and the others can go and investigate and count what the average number of Spirit Cranes needed per day is in each location, at each time period.”
“Based on the statistics, more spirit cranes can be placed in popular areas, such as the Hall of Concubine Affairs and the Hall of Dans, and the number of spirit cranes can be reduced in remote areas.”
Xu Yi’s eyes lit up.
“Master Lu’s suggestion is good. According to your method, a large number of unnecessary Spirit Cranes can be saved from being placed, and it will also be able to make it much easier for them to combine labor and rest.”
“Senior brother is overpraised.”
Lu Xuan smiled modestly.
“If the conditions are right, we can also cooperate with our fellow disciples from the Artifact Hall and Formation Hall.”
“Refine a small contact magic weapon, one on the Spirit Crane and one on each of the outer disciples, the Spirit Crane doesn’t have to wait in place.”
“When it is necessary to take a spirit crane, fellow disciples can contact each other in advance through the artifact, and the spirit cranes in the vicinity will be able to swiftly arrive and go forward to carry them.”
“It’s even possible to set up a formation, with functions such as formation positioning, contact, and control.”
“After a fellow disciple makes a request to carry a Spirit Crane through a magic weapon, the Beast Harnessing Hall brothers on this side of the formation can immediately know about it, and based on the location of the fellow disciple, immediately notify Spirit Cranes that are in a nearby idle state to go there.”
“In this way, all the spirit cranes are in high speed, and for the same distance of transportation, fewer spirit cranes are needed and the transportation efficiency is higher.”
“Of course, this is just an idea of mine, not having much research in formation refining and the like, I don’t know how difficult it would be to truly realize.”
Lu Xuan said with a smile.
“Senior Brother Lu is truly a whimsical person to come up with such a method.”
“The other conditions are fine, the requirements for formations are a bit high, so it is estimated that it would take a Foundation Establishment Master Uncle who specializes in the art of formations to be able to do it.
However, it’s completely possible to give it a try, and if it can really be done, Senior Brother Lu would be a great achievement!”
Xu Yi tsked, marveling at Lu Xuan’s idea.
“Haha, if we refine that formation, we can call it Spirit Crane Travel.”
Lu Xuan said with some bad taste.
Ten days passed in the blink of an eye, and the cranes cried night after night in the camp. More than forty mother cranes were already nearly half pregnant, and after seeing this phenomenon, Xu Yi had to come over and walk over every day, probing the abdomens of the remaining mother cranes for a while.
The result made the always calm and steady him smile, during which, he revealed to Lu Xuan, Lu Xuan’s suggestion of related formations, magic weapons are in the process of refining, it won’t be long before the way of transporting spirit cranes within the sect will change drastically.
On the other hand, after Zhou Zhengqing’s camp changed the catalytic method, there were no more extreme behaviors similar to the self-mutilation of the spirit cranes.
This resulted in the fertility rate of the two hundred Spirit Cranes he raised not being much higher than before, but he could only accept this result grimly.
“Senior Brother Lu, this time it’s really thanks to you, now that the Hall has tallied the approximate demand for Spirit Cranes at each location of the Sect, it will probably reduce the average amount of their transportation in a few days.”
In the campground, Lu Xuan and Xu Yi were both walking side by side through the water grass.
“That’s really great.”
Lu Xuan looked at the many spirit cranes soaring freely in the sky in the distance, and a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
“My mission is complete, and it’s time to say goodbye to Senior Brother Xu.”
Xu Yi had already fully understood Lu Xuan’s method of increasing the fertility rate of the Spirit Cranes, thus he did not hold back much and nodded his head in agreement.
Lu Xuan returned inside the hut and simply cleaned up a bit before heading to the Water Swamp land area, intending to call out to a Spirit Crane to send himself back to his cave.
“Niko~!”
He was about to straddle the back of a Spirit Crane when a loud and clear chirping sound suddenly came from the distance.
A white-bodied, divine and tall Spirit Crane flew in extremely fast and landed beside Lu Xuan.
This spiritual crane’s body size was nearly twice as large as an ordinary spiritual crane, standing at about one zhang tall, with plumes as white as jade, and three to four zhang long when stretched.
“A third grade level spirit crane! This spirit crane’s bloodline is extraordinary!”
Lu Xuan’s Spiritual Awareness swept over the tall Spiritual Crane and sighed in his heart.
Most of the spiritual cranes were at the first grade stage of strength, a few with excellent bloodline could reach the second grade, and it was the first time he saw a third grade level spiritual crane.
“This is the Crane King, a Third Grade Spiritual Beast, in charge of all the Spiritual Cranes in the Water Swamp.”
Xu Yi, who was slightly familiar with the mind of the spiritual cranes, listened to the chirping of the tall spiritual crane, and his face changed instantly.
“The Crane King expressed his desire to personally give Master Lu a ride for you.”
Xu Yi’s tone was somewhat unbelievable, Lu Xuan an outer disciple of the ninth level of qi cultivation, the crane king equivalent to the foundation level actually wanted to let him ride on his body.
“It seems that I have underestimated the influence of the method proposed by Master Lu on the Spirit Crane community.”
He said with some envy.
Lu Xuan looked at the Crane King who had already squatted down and clasped his hands.
“Then, thank you Senior Crane.”
Saying so, he leapt and gently landed on the Crane King’s back, sitting docilely and motionless.
The tall spirit crane chirped, drumming its clean white wings, and rushed up into the sky.
“Niko Niko~~”
Lu Xuan heard a burst of Spirit Crane calls coming from behind him and turned his head to look, only to see the hundred Spirit Cranes he had bred following closely behind the Crane King, bidding farewell to Lu Xuan in such a way.
Slowly, the number of spirit cranes behind him is getting bigger and bigger, two hundred, three hundred …… to the end, no less than a thousand spirit cranes are distantly adorned behind the Crane King, spreading out in the sky, spectacular.
Lu Xuan waved his hand towards them.
“You can build more little spirit cranes if you’re fine, I’ll come over to see you guys sometime.”
(End of chapter)