Chapter 137

Chapter 137: Insight

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Lin Muyu entered the space and walked toward Xiaomu, who was curled up on the bed, sleepy-eyed and rubbing her eyes, asking with anticipation:

“Xiaomu, what’s your newly awakened ability?”

“You… can see for yourselves, I’m so sleepy…”

Xiaomu’s voice was soft and fluffy, carrying the nasal tone of someone who hadn’t fully woken up.

As she spoke, she stretched out her small hand and placed it on Xiaotao’s wrist beside her. A weak but pure stream of spiritual energy flowed through the contact point into Xiaotao’s body.

The next second, she tilted her head and leaned against Xiaotao’s arm, falling asleep again, her small eyebrows still lightly furrowed as if she hadn’t gotten enough sleep.

“???”

Lin Muyu stood nearby, watching with a face full of question marks.

That’s it?

Xiaotao gently picked up Xiaomu and placed her on the soft bed beside them, then turned back to Lin Muyu with a smile:

“Master, try using ‘Insight’ to look at Xiaomu again?”

Upon hearing this, Lin Muyu immediately concentrated and used “Insight” to look at the sleeping Xiaomu once more.

This time, because she was focusing on the weapon spirit itself, the interface was different from before:

【Name: Lin Xiaomu (Weapon Spirit)

Main Body: Colorful Star – Crystal Transformation Wood

Age: 1,200 years

Abilities: Size Manipulation, Light as a Feather, Incomplete Transformation, Energy Storage】

As she was carefully examining Xiaomu’s new abilities, several lines of supplementary explanation appeared on the panel, as if “Insight” had analyzed more details:

【Incomplete Transformation: Currently can only transform into one weapon form, consumes a small amount of spiritual energy when used, increases with time (form not bound)

Energy Storage: Weapon spirit can accumulate energy through daily sleep and absorbing sunlight, can instantly burst with several times the power after reaching threshold (current progress: 1/100) maximum 1,000】

“Holy crap! Xiaotao, this ability is so convenient!”

Lin Muyu couldn’t help but exclaim in amazement.

“And Xiaomu’s combat ability is really strong too.”

Currently, her two spiritual artifacts, one focused on combat, one focused on support, truly complemented each other perfectly.

She suddenly felt that her cultivation path seemed quite different from others.

Others relied on bitter cultivation to comprehend divine techniques, while she was good, relying on her weapon spirits’ abilities, she had directly unlocked a transparency cheat.

No wonder the protagonists in her previous life’s novels all loved getting abilities like “Fiery Eyes and Golden Pupils.” This feeling of seeing through the essence of things at a glance was simply exhilarating!

Although this “Insight” wasn’t true Fiery Eyes and Golden Pupils and couldn’t obtain 100% accurate information.

But being able to combine clues for speculation, and judging from what just happened, the speculation was quite accurate, it was already practical enough.

There was also Xiaomu’s ability. She hadn’t expected to gain transformation ability so early. She could finally use a cool sword!

Swords had one advantage over other weapons, they could be used for sword flight during the Foundation Establishment stage.

Other weapons had to wait until the Golden Core stage to fly, which was also why the cultivation world loved swords.

However, Xiaomu’s energy storage ability also looked practical, but Lin Muyu guessed it was because Xiaomu loved sleeping that she had this ability.

Truly worthy of being a sleep god.

Looking closely at the text before her, Lin Muyu’s eyes suddenly lit up, and she turned to look at Xiaotao:

“Xiaotao! The more we understand about something, the more accurate ‘Insight’s’ speculation becomes, right?”

“That’s right.”

Xiaotao agreed.

“The more knowledge we understand, the more clues ‘Insight’ can reference, so naturally the speculation becomes more precise!”

Hearing this, Lin Muyu immediately showed Xiaotao a brilliant smile, reaching out to ruffle her soft pink hair:

“Hehe, Xiaotao, I’ll be counting on you from now on~”

She had already made up her mind.

Later, she’d give all those miscellaneous academic texts she had collected to Xiaotao. After all, Xiaotao was a weapon spirit with perfect memory, having her remember more knowledge definitely couldn’t be wrong.

“Master! You need to work hard too!”

Seeing Lin Muyu looking like she wanted to push all the tasks onto her, Xiaotao immediately puffed up her tender little mouth and protested somewhat unhappily.

“Ah well, don’t I need to focus on cultivation?”

Lin Muyu smoothly pinched Xiaotao’s cheeks, seriously “painting a rosy picture.”

“When I cultivate to the Golden Core stage, won’t you as weapon spirits also unlock more powerful abilities? Then we can all become stronger together!”

“Fine then, Master must cultivate properly~”

Xiaotao casually swatted away the hand misbehaving on her face, ultimately sighing softly and agreeing.

What could she do?

The master she had chosen, she’d have to pamper her even through tears.

“Oh right, Xiaotao!”

Lin Muyu suddenly slapped her forehead, as she abruptly remembered the important matter, her tone becoming somewhat urgent.

“Which ability did you mention before about saving the little girl?”

She had urgently returned to break through to Foundation Establishment stage precisely for this matter.

Xiaotao reminded her:

“Master, just channel spiritual power to open Insight and look at my ability panel, then you’ll know!”

“Oh, oh!”

Lin Muyu channeled her spiritual power, once again activating the Insight ability to look at Xiaotao.

Instantly, clear text appeared before her eyes, it was all of Xiaotao’s ability information.

Lin Muyu read through each word carefully, her pupils suddenly contracting.

Besides “Insight,” Xiaotao had gained another ability: “Transform Real to Illusory, Transform Illusory to Real.”

【Transform Real to Illusory, Transform Illusory to Real: Can condense illusory things sketched by divine consciousness into physical entities, and can also transform touched real objects into an illusory state.

The spiritual materials and spiritual energy thresholds required for casting can be analyzed through “Insight.”

If breaking illusion realms or formation-type spells is needed, corresponding attribute formation cores must be prepared in advance, using formation cores as guides to compete for formation control.】

She suddenly raised her head to look at Xiaotao, her eyes wide as saucers:

“Xiaotao! This ability is so powerful…”

This little one Xiaotao, just how many undiscovered surprises was she still hiding?

The most correct decision Lin Muyu had made in this lifetime was obtaining Xiaotao.

“Hehe, it’s not that powerful.”

Hearing Lin Muyu’s praise, Xiaotao said somewhat embarrassedly.

Although Lin Muyu didn’t know how powerful this ability was for now, just from reading the text, it was definitely not weak.

Used well, it would certainly be a divine technique.

“So according to the analysis, to save the little girl, I need to prepare formation cores first, right?”

Lin Muyu pointed at her chin with her fingertip, but her brows furrowed lightly.

But what were formation cores?

What kind of formation cores were needed?

Were other materials needed too?

The more she thought about it, the more confused she became, and she raised her hand to rub her temples.

Actually, ever since coming out of that illusion realm, she had been thinking about learning some formation knowledge.

But during this period, she had been busy cultivating and hadn’t had time to study formations.

Moreover, she had heard from senior brothers and sisters that learning formations was very troublesome and would even involve some advanced mathematical knowledge.

Although in this cultivation world, Lin Muyu, who had attended university, wasn’t weak in mathematics.

But formations emphasized powerful computational ability, and most of the mathematical knowledge in Lin Muyu’s mind was useless.

Simply put, the mathematics in this world was completely without technique, it relied entirely on mental brute force.

Currently, her understanding of formations remained at the crude stage of using spirit stones to set up arrays.

Lin Muyu had tried using spirit stones to set up a Spirit Gathering Formation, which was the most basic formation, but unexpectedly still failed.

This dealt her a tremendous blow.

Just when Lin Muyu was worried about not knowing what to do, a flash of inspiration suddenly struck her mind.

Xiaotao was a weapon spirit, maybe she knew the secrets of formation cores!

Lin Muyu immediately turned around, staring at Xiaotao with bright eyes, her face full of expectation.

Xiaotao understood Lin Muyu’s meaning and shook her head like a rattle drum:

“Master, don’t look at me like that, I actually haven’t studied formations either.”

“Ah?”

The expectation on Lin Muyu’s face instantly deflated by half, then she moved closer again, reaching out to grasp Xiaotao’s arm and shake it, her tone soft and wheedling:

“It’s okay, you can learn if you don’t know~ Xiaotao is so smart, you’ll definitely learn it quickly!”

“Why doesn’t Master learn it herself?!”

Xiaotao suddenly stepped back, angrily placing her hands on her hips, her cheeks flushed pink with anger.

“Where’s the logic in a master being lazy and making the weapon spirit learn things!”

She had spent 5,000 years on Wanbing Mountain, doing nothing but sleeping and sunbathing every day, how leisurely it had been.

But after following Lin Muyu, she had become much busier, having to handle everything herself.

Though she said this, Xiaotao wasn’t really angry in her heart.

The feeling of being relied upon by Lin Muyu was much more comfortable than staying alone in the darkness.

She just couldn’t help worrying.

These skills should really be mastered by the master herself to be safe.

What if someday she encountered some accident and wasn’t around, how would Lin Muyu manage without these abilities?