Chapter 109 - The reaction arc is too long

  After completing the half-day cultivation work, Lu Xuan waited outside the valley for a while before he shot a spiritual crane passing by the valley. He spent a spiritual stone and returned to his cave.

  As soon as he pushed the door, a black light flashed through the crack of the door.

  Entering the yard, the Cloud-Stepping Lynx sat elegantly on a stone, staring at him coldly with its green eyes.

  Lu Xuan couldn't help laughing, walked up and pulled the two tufts of hair on the tip of the Cloud-Stepping Lynx's ears, causing a cry that was so painful that it was pinched into the bones.

  The grass puppet was still tirelessly patrolling the spiritual field. Lu Xuan recalled that he seemed to have not fed spiritual stones for a long time, and he couldn't help but feel a little sorry in his heart. He took out a piece of broken spirit and stuffed it into the huge grass tumor of the grass puppet. In the

  spiritual spring pool, four iron-clawed crabs hid under the strange stone, and a pair of blue-black claws like big knives kept trying to clamp the boulder.

  Nourished by the spiritual spring water with more spiritual power in the cave, Lu Xuan felt that these young iron crabs were much more lively than before.

  He had no time to rest and inspected the spiritual field.

  He watered the Qingmiao spiritual tea with spiritual spring water, sprinkled fine iron ore around the copper bone bamboo, nourished the Jiao vine with the blood of the green water python, carefully cultivated the Huanyan Luo fruit after finding it, guided the changes in the lines on the streamer wood, and checked the blood jade ginseng, the spirit firefly grass, the Yinhuai...

  After checking all the spiritual plants, half a day had passed.

  Although it was quite busy, Lu Xuan enjoyed it.

  The spiritual plants in the spiritual field of the cave involved white light ball rewards, which must not be abandoned. The task of cultivating monkey orchids can get sword seals as task rewards, and can be used to exchange sword seals for rare spiritual seeds later, so it is also extremely important. With the light ball rewards

  and rare spiritual seeds as the hope, Lu Xuan felt that it didn't matter if he was busy.

  The next day, he roughly checked the growth status of the spiritual plants in the spiritual field of the cave, and went to the valley without stopping.

  "Junior Brother Lu, haven't you fed all the monkey orchids yet?"

  Yan Ping asked as he passed by Lu Xuan after he finished his work.

  "Yes, Senior Brother Yan, today is a little slower than yesterday."

  Lu Xuan said with a smile. When Yan Ping entered the house, his spiritual consciousness swept across the spiritual field and came to a remote corner.

  The spiritual power surged quietly, and the earth-attracting technique was used. The spiritual soil near the rhizome of a monkey orchid loosened instantly, and he pulled it out with a light pull.

  Then, it was quickly planted in the spiritual soil, and the earth-attracting technique controlled the spiritual soil to tightly surround the rhizome of the monkey orchid.

  A thought came to his mind.

  [Monkey orchid, a second-grade spiritual plant, can be used to refine some elixirs that enhance spiritual power after maturity. ]

  [It likes to eat strange insects, and the expression of the petals will change with its own state. ]

  [Today's insects are really delicious! Absolutely! ]

  "Huh?"

  Lu Xuan looked at the center of the petals in front of him, which maintained an indifferent expression, with a question mark on his face.

  "Is this the state you show when you think the food is delicious?"

  He learned from the monkey orchid's current state that it was extremely satisfied, but its expression showed a strong indifference.

  The actual performance was too different from its current state.

  Since it was not good to stay in the spiritual field for too long, Lu Xuan returned to the wooden house with doubts.

  After resting for half an hour, he came to the spiritual field and planned to perform a round of spiritual rain.

  When passing by the spiritual plant he dug out, he found that the expression in the petals of the monkey orchid had changed significantly from before.   

  From the previous indifference to the current smiling expression.

  "There is indeed a change, but is this change related to the immediate state just now?"

  Lu Xuan thought to himself while performing the Spirit Rain Technique absent-mindedly.

  Suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed through his mind.

  "Is it normal for it to change? It's just that because it is a spiritual plant, it can't react instantly like a cultivator or a spiritual beast."

  "In other words, the reaction arc is too long?"

  The more Lu Xuan thought about it, the more he felt that this was possible. Although the monkey-faced orchid showed a very human expression, it was just a spiritual plant after all. It couldn't express its mood instantly with facial expressions like a cultivator or a spiritual beast.

  This may also explain why the previous cultivators couldn't find a better way to cultivate the monkey-faced orchid.

  They may have also done experiments to make different reactions based on the monkey-faced orchid's expression.

  But this experiment went astray from the beginning.

  The current expression of the monkey-faced orchid either shows the state of the previous stage.

  In this case, adjusting the cultivation method according to the expression is naturally ineffective.

  Either after a period of incubation, the monkey orchid's expression matches its current state and can be cultivated, but it takes a certain amount of time to feedback the cultivation effect, causing the cultivator to make a wrong judgment.

  With this conjecture, Lu Xuan kept an eye on the changes in the monkey orchid's expression at each stage when performing the Spirit Rain Technique and raising the alien insects.

  Knowing the principle, there is no need to dig up the monkey orchid and replant it. After a few days, he summed up a general rule.

  There are two main factors that can affect the monkey orchid, which happen to be the two methods of cultivating them.

  Among them, the influence of the Spirit Rain Technique is not very large. After performing the Spirit Rain Technique, most monkey orchids show a smile or cold expression after about an hour.

  When raising alien insects, the monkey orchid has the greatest impact. Depending on the type of alien insect, the petals of the monkey orchid will show various exaggerated expressions after about half an hour.

  Lu Xuan deliberately selected various types of alien insects to raise the monkey orchid that he had pulled out. He found that although the alien insects had a more or less nourishing effect on the monkey orchid, due to different tastes, its expression changed in various ways.

  When eating the alien insects that tasted average or even bad, the petals would show expressions such as anger, sadness, and indifference, thus affecting the growth of the monkey-faced orchid.

  "In this way, we can understand the effects of the Spirit Rain Technique and the alien insects on the monkey-faced orchid based on the delayed expressions of the monkey-faced orchid, and make subtle adjustments."

  "In another sense, it can also be regarded as fine cultivation, but this kind of cultivation can be explored and summarized by oneself, provided that the mystery of delayed expression changes is discovered."

  Lu Xuan secretly sighed in his heart.

  "The next step is to further confirm this discovery and then make a fortune from it."

  The mystery hidden in the expression of the monkey-faced orchid is not of great value to him.

  He did not want to keep this discovery in his heart and digest it slowly, but planned to tell others and make a fortune.

  Lu Xuan first thought of the Sinong Hall, but the Sinong Hall did not directly cultivate spiritual plants, and he did not know any powerful cultivators in it.

  Moreover, if he passed by the foundation-building cultivator behind the monkey-faced orchid spiritual field, he might be unhappy.

  Planting a large number of monkey orchids means that they are of great value to him. Lu Xuan considered again and again and decided to inform the foundation-building monk behind the monkey orchid through Sister Yao.

  Of course, he had to prove that his discovery was feasible and effective first.

  (End of this chapter)