Free Web NovelChapter 406: Chapter 393: A Joint Effort
Over the next two days, Gu Ming and a group of senior Beastmasters worked together to develop and modify the specific procedures for Relay Cultivation.
The general process involved several High-star Pet Beasts working in intervals. Meanwhile, Gu Ming and Professor Zhang improved the Spiritual Fragment Analysis Method, with each taking responsibility for a part of the Cultivation.
More specifically, Gu Ming designed this part to be the stage that would bear the pressure.
In other words, when the Insect Baby used the Spiritual Fragment Analysis Method, all the geographical information and environmental data it absorbed was handed over to the dozen, or even two to three dozen, Pet Beasts behind it. These Pet Beasts would then use their collective Spiritual Power to compute, analyze, and withstand the corresponding Illusion Technique attacks.
The Insect Baby merely acted as the "front desk," using its Perception Ability to sense the geography and collect vast amounts of information from the Illusion Realm.
Nearly ninety-nine percent of this information wouldn’t even pass through its brain.
It simply served as a relay station, performing the initial sorting by dividing the large blocks of information from the Spiritual Field into thirty portions and sending them to the Pet Beasts responsible for the Relay Cultivation.
Then, after being jointly analyzed and cultivated by the other Pet Beasts, the filtered and relatively safe environmental information was sent back into the Insect Baby’s body along the circulation path, completing one Great Cycle of the Cultivation Technique.
One might wonder why, since the information was already filtered, the final analysis wasn’t simply left to the High-star Pet Beasts present.
But none of the senior Beastmasters present raised any objections. Gu Ming breathed a secret sigh of relief. ’No need to come up with an excuse now.’
To be honest, this method could have been used entirely by the High-star Pet Beasts themselves.
It would only require a slight modification to the Cultivation Technique, changing the start and end points of the Relay Cultivation to different Pet Beasts.
However, doing so would have made the development process for the Cultivation Technique even longer.
In terms of time, that would have been inconvenient.
During the practical application phase, Gu Ming himself couldn’t come close to keeping up with the thought processes of the Eight-star masters.
This was all thanks to the sharp commentary from the masters, which he saw through his system’s perspective.
He would occasionally interject a few words through the comment feed, offering minor pointers that often led to breakthroughs for the Beastmasters.
The various difficulties within Relay Cultivation no longer seemed so daunting to them, and they mastered it almost as soon as they began.
「By the early morning of the second day.」
Everyone had already worked out a version of the Spiritual Fragment Analysis Method that could accommodate thirty Pet Beasts working in a relay to help the Insect Baby digest, analyze, and filter information.
As everyone on-site threw themselves vigorously into Cultivation, the Array in the Insect Baby’s Sea of Consciousness began to slowly operate.
It was worth mentioning that after experiencing the dream-trials of numerous Primordial Dream Butterflies,
the Insect Baby’s Spiritual Power had grown with incredible speed, already surging to a quality that only a Two-star Level Pet Beast should possess.
Because of this, its Sea of Consciousness was now able to support a large-scale Array, which was necessary to run the calculations for this extra-large-capacity Cultivation Technique.
Before long, after each of the Pet Beasts experienced a great upheaval within their own Sea of Consciousness, they once again sent their Mana and segments of Divine Sense Spiritual Power into the Insect Baby’s body.
Assisted by the Array, the Spiritual Power within its tiny body seemed to dissolve into a mass of flowing water, constantly shifting and computing in a dynamic state until the process was successfully completed.
It finally calculated a relatively safe path through the second sublevel, a route that would allow the entire team to advance one hundred meters.
One shouldn’t underestimate that one hundred meters. In a place like this, a safe passage of a hundred meters was enough to shock the entire archaeological team.
The group followed the Insect Baby’s lead, advancing and retreating, shifting left and right. Occasionally, they even had to charge into a dangerous zone and fight back with Spiritual Techniques.
Soon, the group successfully arrived at the point one hundred meters away.
Their leader, Chief Arno, stood on the dark cavern floor, gazing at the aurora-like bands of light drifting around him. He couldn’t help but exclaim, "Incredible!"
Looking back, the team had only endured three Spiritual Attacks and had avoided falling into the Illusion Realm.
This was all because the Insect Baby had sensed and calculated an absolutely safe path.
Only by relying on its incredibly sharp senses could it find this constantly shifting safe route.
Unlike the first sublevel, the Illusion Realm on the second sublevel wasn’t fixed but was constantly moving, which was precisely why everyone had found it so difficult to navigate before.
Even High-star Beastmasters in this cavern were frequently pulled into the Illusion Realm, becoming trapped and forced to expend massive amounts of Spiritual Power to break free.
But with Mianmian’s help, they didn’t have to struggle so hard.
It had to be said, Lu You’s Pet Beast was an immense help.
This naturally drew everyone’s attention to this key contributor.
"How is it only One-star? We should get it to Two-star as soon as possible.
"Its Spiritual Power is already up to standard, so what is its body lacking? Let us help you supplement its nutrition."
Lu You hurriedly waved her hands in refusal, but the senior Beastmasters were just too enthusiastic.
Before she could even finish, their Divine Senses had already perceived what the Insect Baby was lacking, and they began presenting generous gifts:
A piece of Celestial Mountain Meat Block to nourish its flesh and blood.
A Heart of Clear Spring for the Patterned Ring Worm to enhance the quality of its Mana.
Another person directly sensed the aura of its Foundation Establishment Platform. It seemed related to the Dragon Race’s Dragon Pattern Tripod, so he decided to gift a drop of Dragon Race Essence Blood.
This drop of Essence Blood came from a Five-star member of the Pure Water Dragon Race.
It was a priceless treasure on the open market, something that everyone would fight to obtain.
Yet here in this underground cavern, the Eight-star master casually offered it to Lu You, saying:
"Have Mianmian consume this. I can help you with the Refinement of this drop of Essence Blood.
"This drop of Essence Blood has already been diluted a hundred times over; it won’t alter the Patterned Ring Worm’s racial bloodline.
"It will only introduce a trace of Dragon Blood. Refining it will improve your Mianmian’s Blood Qi and the efficiency of its Cultivating Technique.
"Besides, its Foundation Establishment Platform is a Dragon Race’s Tripod, which will also accelerate the Refinement. Will you accept it?"
Although the Foundation Establishment Method hadn’t been around for long, all the masters present had studied it and knew what the method lacked most.
’How could she bring herself to accept something so valuable?’
"This is a gift from an elder. Don’t refuse. We’re in the middle of a rescue, so stop wasting time," an old man said, his eyes glaring as his mustache bristled.
The glare gave Lu You goosebumps all over, and even her Sea of Consciousness trembled slightly.
She could tell that some of them were getting genuinely anxious.
She had no choice but to helplessly accept the gift, and Gu Ming also gave her an encouraging nod.
With encouragement from all sides, Lu You had her Pet Beast absorb the drop of blue blood.
The Insect Baby had just finished a cycle of the Spiritual Fragment Analysis Method, and its Spiritual Power was at a low ebb.
After drinking a vial of natural Holy Water that one of the masters provided to restore its Spiritual Power, it began to recover. At the same time, it circulated its technique to sense the pure-blooded Dragon Race’s Essence Blood and began a thunderous Refinement.
Everyone released their own Pet Beasts to assist the process from the sidelines.
Meanwhile, on the outskirts of the crowd, Chief Arno of the archaeological team peered in toward the group.
He spotted a blurry, human-like figure lying at a distant fork in the path, seemingly fast asleep.
This would become their next exploration target.
By the time the Insect Baby had finished resting, the drop of Essence Blood had also been completely refined.
In just two hours, its Foundation Establishment Platform was already more than halfway complete, and the quality of both its flesh and blood and its Spiritual Power had improved dramatically.
