Chapter 1006: Old Research
~DING~
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DATA BANKS: Updated!
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Hu Dagao finally finished his explanation after two hours. Lin Wu was pleased with all the information he had gotten from it, and it had helped clarify some of his doubts as well. The system had several notifications too and had managed to add more data to its Data banks.
This was always a welcome thing and Lin Wu only wished it would happen more often. And this wasn’t the end of the information either, as there were more things Lin Wu wanted to ask Hu Dagao.
“Tell me about the Qi Sapping Ticks now. How did your clan raise them?” Lin Wu questioned again.
“The Qi Sapping ticks are one of our clan’s biggest achievements in recent times. It has allowed us to increase our wealth greatly and also speed up the cultivation of our member. Plus it allows us to refine a lot more spirit tools and pills too since we don’t need to depend on the Spirit stones as much.” Hu Dagao felt proud when he said all this.
“Our clan had originally stumbled upon some old documents from a ruin. At first we didn’t know what the ruin was, but after more observations, we determined that it was a ruin left behind by some people who had come from other worlds.
The ruin contained a lot of information about cultivation and various methods of refinement. But in all this, there was one document that was vastly different. It was a document about beast research and how they could be made stronger.
It looked to be a crude document for the most part since it was hand written, which made us think that this was an incomplete work of an expert.
Our elders spent several years researching the document which theorized methods of mutating various beasts.
Since our clan too descends from a beast, they were greatly interested in it. After all, there were several methods that involved the improvement and mutation of bloodlines too. Upon learning this, our clan spent a lot more resources on it.
They tried to find more such documents, but it wasn’t a success. Thus, they searched the entire continent for more such ruins.
We found several such ruins, but none of them held the information we wanted.
This ended up in a slump for us, and several decades passed. During this time, our elders had continued their work with the research and had finally devised a few methods that were actually working.
One of the main test subjects they used was Qi Sapping ticks, since they were quick to breed and easy to control.
We never thought that what was just supposed to be an experimental subject would turn out to be our biggest success.
The Qi Sapping Ticks were mutated to the point where their ability to absorb Spirit Qi had reached a massive level.
The earlier versions were unstable, but over time, we managed to raise ones that could be relatively stable. We also devised methods to refine these Qi Sapping Ticks into pills that could be used almost the same as spirit stones.” Hu Dagao explained in detail.
Lin Wu listened to it all and the system gave several notifications that it had obtained improvements too.
‘If just surface level explanation like this is giving system improvements, just how much will actual research documents help it?’ Lin Wu wondered as a hint of desire appeared within his heart.
Since it considered beasts and their mutation, it was something that could be directly helpful to him. After all, the system had the ability to do the same, but on a far greater level.
Lin Wu continued to listen to Hu Dagao as the man revealed the methods of refining the Qi Sapping ticks. This method killed them and all the Qi within their bodies would be refined into pills.
The only difference was that this refinement wasn’t done in a pill furnace.
Rather, there was a special formation array that had been devised for it.
“Do you have this array with you?” Lin Wu questioned.
“I… do.” Hu Dagao took out a hexagonal formation plate from his spatial storage tool.
Lin Wu could see dense runes carved into it as well as several patterns that were painted on the bottom. It was a combination of different methods of formation creation and was something Lin Wu had seen before too.
‘Its an old method that they don’t use as much now. Seems like they have derived it from the invaders too.’ Lin Wu had easily guessed that all the research documents had come from the invaders of the old time.
The ruins were the biggest sign of those, and it wasn’t unusual for them to be more of them here. After all, Lin Wu had come across them in the Long Continent as well.
Lin Wu and Hu Dagao continued to talk for several more hours.
An entire day passed before Lin Wu finally felt satisfied with his gains and dismissed Hu Dagao. The man was rather exhausted and was filled with gratitude for the break that was given to him.
‘This much should be enough for now. If I want to gain more, I’ll have to head to the sacred land of the Hu clan itself.’ Lin Wu reckoned.
But before doing that, there were still some things that needed to be taken care off. For example, the city that was still in a little trouble. Kulung had already sent out orders and calmed the situation, but it would take some time for the damage to be repaired.
“I’ll test out the refinement array on the ticks first then. It should give the system more data.” Lin Wu muttered to himself.
He took out the formation plate that was given to him and spoke, “System, analyze this.”
~DING~
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SCANNER: Activated
TARGET SELECTED: Formation Plate
SCAN: Completed
TARGET: Analyzed
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TARGET: Qi Sapping Tick Refinement Array
STATUS: Fully Functional
NOTE: The system can replicate the array now.
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Seeing all this, Lin Wu smiled widely.
“Perfect.”
