"What the heck is this!" Lin Jing’s face turned completely black.
He thought the liquid flowing out of the Ling Bamboo would be bamboo sap, but who knew the stream got stronger and stronger, forming a high-pressure torrent, questioning whether the water arrow technique of Qi Cultivation Cultivators could have the same power.
He struggled to control the freely spraying Ling Bamboo water with both hands.
The Mechanical Bamboo Dragon created by Elder Yu can "create fire from wood," but this "creating water from wood" is just too much.
Before long, Lin Jing slipped down from the wall, looking speechlessly at the speechless Pine Leaf Mouse, "Which great immortal’s divine technique is this Glazed Immortal Pupil from the upper realm, how did it end up being so unreliable."
The Pine Leaf Mouse saw Lin Jing was okay, spread its hands, indicating it didn’t know.
It thought that next time when there’s something new, they should get Elder Black Bear to help with the experimentation.
Experimenting by themselves is too dangerous!
"Makes sense," Lin Jing nodded, Elder Black Bear of the Demon Core Stage is equivalent to a human cultivator at the Golden Core Stage; trying new things shouldn’t be too difficult for him.
Putting the blue Ling Bamboo on the ground, Lin Jing rubbed some bamboo water with his finger and sniffed it.
"Very refreshing, no sweet taste, unlike bamboo sap, this water flow probably doesn’t have the medicinal properties of bamboo sap."
"But, it’s not ordinary water, it feels like Spiritual Creek Water nurtured by Spiritual Qi in a spiritually rich place."
"If that’s the case, it’s not very useful, but it can be used to water Spirit Plants, perhaps it can make our Spirit Rice and Spirit Beans grow faster and increase yield."
Once he finished speaking, the Pine Leaf Mouse pointed at the big hole in the wall, is this for watering?
Are we sure it won’t wash away the spirit rice?
"We can collect it and then use it for watering, and I roughly understand its effects now, it should be controllable later," Lin Jing said, "I read in a book about a type of Spirit Plant, named Celestial Spring Tree."
"It can accumulate water vapor from the heavens and earth, then store it inside, and once full, it sprays the water sources into the sky, forming a celestial spring."
"In an ancient country, there was a village with a Celestial Spring Tree, and a child accidentally cut open its bark, the record said that village battled flooding for three years!"
"The effect of this blue Ling Bamboo should be similar; it might have accumulated too much water vapor during its recent mutations, causing it to spray out."
"So, as long as we don’t let it accumulate water vapor for too long after this, we can pour out the Spiritual Liquid every day."
The Pine Leaf Mouse looked at Lin Jing admiringly, knowing so much!
"Reading more books really does no harm," Lin Jing looked at the Pine Leaf Mouse, adjusting imaginary glasses.
Reflecting on how good it is to cultivate, having read so many books without becoming nearsighted.
Suddenly, Lin Jing remembered something, "I was worried about what mechanical beast to make; now I have an idea."
"Too complicated mechanical beasts are impossible for us to make short-term."
"To eat at the cafeteria sooner, let’s make a small support-type mechanical beast instead."
"Not just a toy that can move, and not demanding the combat capabilities of the Mechanical Bamboo Dragon... let’s make a mechanical turtle that can find its way automatically and water the Spirit Plants!" Lin Jing said while clapping his hands, thinking it had great potential.
"With the blue Ling Bamboo that can accumulate water vapor automatically, it should save us quite a bit of effort making it."
The Pine Leaf Mouse scratched its head with its long tail.
"Squeak?" Why a mechanical turtle and not a mechanical frog?
One of the five basic water-type Spirit Beasts of the Beast Taming Sect is the Rain Frog, which can pray for rain to water Spirit Plants.
Compared to a turtle, it is more familiar with the Rain Frog.
"Because I have the Longevity Body." Lin Jing said.
"Turtles have always been a symbol of longevity, don’t you think a mechanical turtle fits better with the Longevity Body?"
He took out the insights on Mechanical Techniques given by Elder Yu, as well as the ingenious soul core.
The former is crucial for making the mechanical turtle, which he must learn gradually, while the latter... is not needed for now.
The mechanical turtle he intends to make shortly is clearly a simple "watering can," while the ingenious soul core serves more complex advanced mechanical beasts.
It’s the heart of a mechanical beast.
"Methods arise from techniques, machines originate from the heart."
Mechanical beasts "move the whole body with one hair," although wondrous, also have flaws; advanced mechanical beasts are essentially made up of multiple mechanical systems, compared to simple mechanical beasts, they can have some "senile dementia."
In life-and-death magical duels, they become the enemy’s living targets.
The ingenious soul core, as the core of mechanical techniques, greatly solves this problem. It can act as the connection medium between the Mechanist and the mechanical beast, bonding the heart and mind of the Mechanist, allowing control over the mechanical beast’s actions with the power of heart and mind.
Thus, with added Mechanist awareness, the mechanical beast can be more flexible and react quickly in battle!
After the Rising Dragon Festival, Lin Jing’s name spread among both outer and even inner sects.
Though his fame grew, Lin Jing and the Pine Leaf Mouse’s cultivation life remained simple: studying what needed to be studied, storing what needed to be stored; other outer disciples rarely saw them.
For Lin Jing, this wasn’t tedious, it’s not that he enjoyed it, but after decades in his past life, he had developed the habit of settling down and enduring boredom.
Besides, compared to before when he had struggled for years only to become just a face in the crowd, the potential transcendence brought by his current cultivation made him feel his efforts more worthwhile and motivated.
"The tree wishes to rest, but the wind continues to blow."
Outer Sect, Battle Arena.
A massive collision resounded around; a battle ape drenched in blood, chest covered in heavy claw marks, eyes lifeless, lay next to the former number one outer disciple He Yiming, who looked burnt to a crisp from flames, painfully lying beside the battle ape.
Seeing this scene, many outer disciples below covered their mouths in disbelief. Usually, within the sect’s Battle Arena, disciple sparring was relatively gentle; excluding deep-seated grudges, seldom did fights get this close to seriously injuring someone.
"Sorry for not holding back, but Elder Li wasn’t wrong; the disciples within the sect are indeed a bunch of overly protected flowers, really vulnerable."
The speaker was a black-clad youth stroking a leopard beast; many newly entered outer disciples didn’t know this person. Besides him, three others with similar cold aura were nearby.
They didn’t seem to regard He Yiming, the number one in Battle Arena points, highly.
"Are these people... from my Beast Taming Sect too?"
An outer disciple couldn’t help but ask.
Beside him, the news-informed Senior Brother Ziran, who rushed over, looked at the rumored blood-veined black clothes and his face changed, speaking seriously, "They are disciples of the outer sect’s Demon Hunting Hall, this batch... many of them came back alive."