Chapter 109 – The Reflex Arc is Too Long
Chapter 109 – Reflex Arc Too Long
After half a day of cultivation work was completed, Lu Xuan waited outside the valley for a while before hitting a Spirit Crane that was passing through the valley, spent a Spirit Stone, and returned to his cave.
Just as he pushed the door, a black light flashed through the doorway.
Entering the courtyard, the Cloud Treading Lynx sat on a rock with an elegant posture, its turquoise eye pupils staring coldly at him.
Lu Xuan couldn’t help but walk up and grabbed the two tufts of hair on the tips of the Treading Cloud Lynx’s ears, eliciting a clipped-to-the-bone wail.
The Grass Puppet was still tirelessly patrolling the Spirit Field, Lu Xuan recalled that he hadn’t fed the Spirit Stones for what seemed like ages, and couldn’t help but feel a hint of apology in his heart as he touched out a piece of Broken Spirit and stuffed it into the Grass Puppet’s giant grass tumor.
In the Spirit Spring Pool, four Iron Chelated Crabs hid underneath the strange stones, a pair of large knife-like greenish-black chelipeds constantly attempting to pinch the boulders off.
Nourished by the Spirit Spring water in the cave that was even richer in spiritual energy, Lu Xuan felt that these Iron Chelk Crab hatchlings were quite a bit livelier than before.
He didn’t have time to rest and made his rounds in the spirit field.
Watering the Spirit Spring Water for the Clear Wonder Spirit Tea, sprinkling Fine Iron Ore around the Copper Bone Bamboo, nourishing the Jiao Vine with Aqua Python’s blood, carefully cultivating the Phantom Smoke Luo Fruit when he found it, guiding the changes of the grain pattern on the Flowing Light Wood, as well as the Blood Jade Ginseng, Spirit Glow Grass, and the Yin Sophora …….
After all the spiritual plants have been inspected once, it is already half a day past.
Although relatively busy, Lu Xuan is happy in it.
The spiritual plants in the cave’s spiritual field involved the white light cluster reward, which was something that could never be discarded, and the task of cultivating the Monkey-faced Orchid that he had received would enable him to obtain the Sword Seal that was the reward for the task, which he would subsequently be able to use to exchange for the rare spiritual species, and was therefore also extremely important.
With the light cluster rewards and rare spirit seeds to look forward to, Lu Xuan felt that it didn’t matter if he was a bit busy.
On the following day, he roughly inspected the growth status of the spirit plants in the cave’s spirit field, and without stopping, he came to the valley.
“Senior Brother Lu, haven’t fed all the Monkey-faced Orchids yet?”
Yan Ping asked as he passed by Lu Xuan after he finished his work.
“Yes, Senior Brother Yan, today is going to be slightly slower than yesterday.”
Lu Xuan smiled and said, waiting for Yan Ping to enter the house, he swept his Spiritual Sense across the Spiritual Field to a remote corner.
Spiritual energy surged quietly as the Earth Drawing Technique was executed, and the spiritual soil near the rhizome of a Monkey-faced Orchid instantly loosened, and with a gentle pull, he ripped it out.
Then, he quickly planted it inside the spiritual soil, and the Earth Drawing Art controlled the spiritual soil to tightly surround the Monkey Face Orchid rhizome.
A thought surfaced in his mind.
[Monkey-face Orchid, Second Grade Spiritual Plant, when mature, it can be used to refine certain elixirs that enhance spiritual power.]
[Likes to eat foreign insects, and the petal expression will produce various changes according to its state.]
[Today’s bugs are just too delicious! It’s absolutely delicious!
“Hmm?”
Lu Xuan looked at the center of the petals in front of him, which maintained an indifferent expression, with a questioning look on his face.
“Is this the state that manifests itself after you find food delicious?”
He understood through the Monkey-faced Orchid’s immediate state that it was now in extreme contentment, but its expression exuded an intense coldness.
The actual performance was too far from its instant state ah.
Since it wasn’t good to stay in the spirit field for too long, Lu Xuan returned inside the wooden house with doubts.
After resting for a small half hour, he came to the Spirit Field with the intention of casting a round of the Spirit Rain Technique.
As he passed by the spirit plant that he had dug out, he noticed that the expression inside the petals of the Monkey Face Orchid had changed significantly from before. It had changed from its previous coldness to its current smiling expression.
“There is indeed a change, just that this change would have something to do with the immediate state just now?”
Lu Xuan thought in his mind as he absentmindedly cast the Spiritual Rain Technique.
Suddenly, an aura flashed through his mind.
“It’s normal for it to change, it’s just that due to being a Spirit Plant, it can’t manage to react instantly like a cultivator or a Spirit Beast.”
“That is to say, the reflex arc is too long?”
The more Lu Xuan thought about it, the more he felt that this was a possibility, although the Monkey-faced Orchid exuded an extremely humanized expression, after all, it was only a spiritual plant, there was no way to do it like a cultivator or a spirit beast, where the facial expression instantly revealed its own mood.
This may also explain why the previous cultivators could not find a better way to cultivate the Monkey-faced Orchid.
They might have experimented with different reactions based on the Monkey-faced Orchid’s expressions.
But this experiment went down a crooked path right from the start.
The current expression of the Monkey-faced Orchid either showed the state of the previous stage.
In this case, adjusting the cultivation means according to the expression was naturally ineffective.
Either after a period of gestation, the Monkey-faced Orchid’s expression matched the current state of itself, and could be cultivated, it would take a certain amount of time before the cultivation effect was fed back, causing the cultivator to cause a misjudgment.
With this conjecture, Lu Xuan kept an eye on the Monkey-faced Orchid’s expression changes at various stages as he performed the Spirit Rain Technique and cultivated the foreign insects.
Knowing the principle, there was no need to dig up the Monkey-faced Orchid and replant it, and after a few days, he summarized a general rule.
There were two main factors that could affect the Monkey-faced Orchid, which happened to be the two means of cultivating them.
Among them, the influence factor of the Spiritual Rain Technique was not very large, after casting the Spiritual Rain Technique, most of the Monkey-faced Orchids exuded a smiling or cold expression after about an hour.
The greatest influence on the Monkey-faced Orchid was seen when breeding foreign insects, depending on the type of foreign insect, the Monkey-faced Orchid petals would shed a variety of exaggerated expressions after about half an hour.
Lu Xuan purposely selected various types of foreign bugs to feed the Monkey-faced Orchid that he had once plucked out, and found that although the foreign bugs had a nourishing effect on the Monkey-faced Orchid to a greater or lesser extent, the different tastes led to various changes in its expressions.
When eating an average or even poorly flavored foreign bug, the petals would show expressions of anger, sadness, and apathy, thus affecting the growth of the Monkey Face Orchid.
“In that case, it’s possible to learn about the effects of the Spirit Rain Technique and the foreign insects on the Monkey-faced Orchid based on the expressions that it delays shedding, so that it can be finely adjusted.”
“In another sense, it’s also considered fine cultivation, only that this kind of cultivation can be groped and summarized on its own, provided that it discovers the mystery of the delayed change in expression.”
Lu Xuan secretly sighed in his heart.
“The next step is to further confirm this discovery and then make a fortune through it.”
The mystery contained in the Monkey-faced Orchid’s expression was not of great value to him.
He didn’t want to keep this discovery in his heart and slowly digest it himself, but instead planned to inform others and make a fortune.
Lu Xuan’s first thought was the Sinnoh Hall, but the Sinnoh Hall didn’t directly cultivate spiritual plants, and he didn’t know any powerful cultivators in there.
Furthermore, crossing the words of the Foundation Establishment Cultivator behind the Monkey Face Orchid Spirit Field might upset him.
Growing a large number of Monkey Face Orchids meant that it had a not insignificant value to him, Lu Xuan considered it over and over again, and decided to inform the Foundation Establishment Cultivator behind the Monkey Face Orchids through that Senior Sister Yao.
Of course, one had to prove that his discovery was feasible and effective first.
(End of chapter)