A squirrel that loves to hoard food suddenly awakened a divine technique for synthesizing resources, leaving Lin Jing at a loss for words.
Isn't this just bullying the poor thing, making it unable to hoard anything?
Seeing the heart-wrenching expression on the squirrel's face, Lin Jing's lips curled slightly.
The squirrel immediately stopped crying and fixed its gaze on Lin Jing.
Lin Jing smiled, "I'm happy for you. From today onwards, you're not just an ordinary spirit beast; you're a treasure beast!"
"Squeak!" The squirrel was still thinking about the Spirit Rice.
"Think positively, your Spirit Rice has just been stored in a different form, transforming into spiritual energy that's always with you. Haven't you noticed your spiritual power has greatly increased?"
Lin Jing's words awakened the squirrel from its delusion. Only now did it realize it was close to reaching Qi Cultivation level four, with its stamina and spiritual power fully replenished.
The squirrel was instantly at a loss for how to express its current feelings, standing there in a daze.
Lin Jing continued to guide it; otherwise, with such a divine technique and its current temperament, the squirrel's mindset might continuously collapse in the future.
It needed to rectify its bad habit of only looking at "quantity" rather than "quality."
At least, it should have a balance of both.
"This divine technique is great, you should practice it more."
"Think about it, although Spirit Rice seems scarce to us right now, after Foundation Establishment and Core Formation, we'll have as much as we desire."
"Even if we have storage bags or a Storage Ring, using them to hoard Spirit Rice is too wasteful."
"Not all resources should be hoarded."
"Since your pupil technique can combine a certain amount of low-level resources into high-level ones, we should only hoard high-level resources in the future."
"You've seen the effects of golden Spirit Rice."
"In the future, if we acquire high-level Spirit Fruits or Pills that are difficult to digest, this golden Spirit Rice might be the key to consuming high-level resources beyond our current level!"
"Squeak!" The squirrel found some logic in that.
"Moreover, now that you've mutated into a treasure beast, many bad people will certainly covet you."
"This golden Spirit Rice... we can also use it as a weapon!"
"In your hungry state earlier, you were nearly losing your sanity. If we fed a couple of golden Spirit Rice grains to the enemy and mixed in hundreds of doses of laxatives, we might win without a fight!"
The squirrel took a step back, lifting its head, Spirit Rice with laxatives?
That makes sense!
When the storage bag arrives, it also wants to stockpile a few hundred doses of laxatives!
However, delivering Spirit Rice into the enemy's mouth might be a bit challenging?
"Squeak!?"
"Uh." Lin Jing was taken aback; he was just speaking off the cuff. Why is this squirrel seriously considering the feasibility now?
"It's feasible." Lin Jing added, "Have you forgotten your kind's signature skill, the Flying Leaf Technique?"
"As long as you throw the leaves accurately, you can certainly throw Spirit Rice accurately as well."
Hearing this, the squirrel pondered.
That's true!
It immediately picked up a fallen leaf from the ground, its gaze sharp as it looked to the side, and with a wave of its little hand!
In the next moment, the fallen leaf flew out, transforming into a green light that severed a branch from the tree in the courtyard!
Snap!
The branch fell to the ground.
In various martial arts works in Lin Jing's previous life, there was a realm of martial arts where "plucking leaves and flowers could harm people," which was quite remarkable, but in this Cultivation Realm, this technique was merely a basic attack method of the spirit beast squirrel.
Seeing that it hadn't grown rusty with this skill, the squirrel nodded in satisfaction.
And seeing this, Lin Jing rubbed his chin and said, "I wonder if a pile of ordinary leaves... could be synthesized with your pupil technique."
Once he had the idea, Lin Jing acted immediately.
With True Qi, assisted by his cloth shoes, he shook down the leaves of the green trees in the courtyard with a few kicks.
A carpet of fallen leaves left the trees bare.
The squirrel watched and fell into silence.
"Squeak squeak squeak!"
Leaves, in the place where it used to live, were truly countless and weren't of much value. Even as its attack weapon, it never hoarded them.
The fact proved that the squirrel didn't actually hoard everything!
But now... following Lin Jing's idea, it swept over the carpet of fallen leaves with its Glazed Immortal Pupil.
It was also curious if ordinary leaves could be synthesized.
In the next instant.
Two beams of emerald light shot out from the squirrel's eyes.
Landing on tens of thousands of ordinary leaves.
Soon after, a similar scene occurred. Under the cloak of emerald light, these tens of thousands of ordinary green leaves, just like the Spirit Rice before, disappeared without a trace!
What appeared anew was a single red leaf, like a maple leaf.
Though the spiritual energy waves emitted by this single maple leaf were not as strong as a single grain of ordinary Spirit Rice, seeing it successfully synthesized, Lin Jing was quite surprised and immediately urged the squirrel, "Throw it and see."
"Squeak squeak..." The squirrel excitedly ran to pick up the red leaf. However, as it just picked it up, its eyes became sore, perhaps due to excessive pupil power consumption, making it quite uncomfortable.
Seeing this, Lin Jing quickly stepped forward, placing his hand on the squirrel's head, and activated the "Nurturing Technique," enveloping the squirrel's head in a halo, alleviating its mental fatigue.
"Are your eyes okay? I was careless. You're only at Qi Cultivation level three. Using a divine technique twice in a row must be quite exhausting." He was worried.
Having spent nearly a month together, he certainly didn't want anything to happen to this squirrel.
"Squeak!" The squirrel rubbed its eyes itself and then pushed away Lin Jing's hand. Although it felt quite uncomfortable, it was more eager now to understand the power of this red leaf!
Upon acquiring the red leaf, it vaguely sensed a very close connection with this leaf, as if it had been refined by itself!
Swoosh!
The squirrel aimed at the bare tree and threw the leaf. In the next instant, a red glow flashed, and this time, the speed of the flying leaf far exceeded that of the previous green flying leaf. In an instant, a thick branch fell, its surface unbelievably smooth.
And that wasn't the end.
The previous green flying leaf, which cut down a branch, flew not far before it lost power and drifted down. But this time, the red flying leaf, not only continued to fly farther, but the squirrel, with eyes wide open, discovered an unbelievable fact.
The Flying Leaf Technique had the squirrel using spiritual energy to launch the leaves, and once the leaves were in flight, they attacked in a straight line.
But for this time's red flying leaf, after it left, the squirrel could actually feel like it could control the leaf's flight path at will and even call it back!
With a thought, the red flying leaf immediately made a turn and flew back toward them, slicing a stone stump under the tree in the process.
Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!
With concentrated control from the squirrel, the red flying leaf flew along the ground, soaring and spinning in mid-air.
"Squeak!!!" This scene made the squirrel's eyes light up!
Lin Jing was also slightly taken aback. Elder Mo had said that compared to the powerful fighting monkeys, horned oxen, and fire-element-using Fire Spirit Sparrows, the power of the squirrel tribe was not outstanding.
The Flying Leaf Technique had limited usefulness in battle.
But now, the Flying Leaf Technique wielded by the squirrel seemed different from its origins.
This was practically the art of controlling objects! Leaf manipulation!
It was as if it had acquired a life-bound magical tool, a red leaf...
The squirrel became more engrossed in it, pointing skyward, the red leaf soared as if to pierce the sky, to cut down immortals!
"Who doesn't have eyes and is throwing stuff around in the sky?!" An angry voice came from the clouds, and a celestial crane made an appearance.