Chapter 233 (Part 1): Obscure Secret Manual

The Saint Sect members held an all-night meeting, calling for reinforcements from the Central Continent, while Hua Jian, after receiving Linglong’s reminder, rushed back to the Red Flower Building without pause and began putting her little idea into practice.

After screwing over a few little cuties, Hua Jian felt she was ready and could serve as a functional substitute for those people from Wanling Sect.

Heh, this thing was not as hard as Linglong said; she got the hang of it with just a casual try.

“But the senses of Spirit Beasts are pretty strange. They feel much stranger than what I’m using now…”

“You’re using a chicken’s eyes right now. How could it not be strange?”

Huaxinyuan, who had been watching the latter half of Hua Jian’s experiment from the side, chuckled twice.

Then she was glared at by one person and one chicken in the same posture.

Well, it seemed the control was quite synchronized.

“For a Spirit Beast to possess, I do have a recommendation: choose those Snow Crystal Rabbits on the Ice Plain. Their Soulforce is fragile, but they are extremely adapted to the severe cold climate of the Ice Plain.”

Huaxinyuan gave a light cough and used a suggestion to dissolve the current awkwardness.

“The most important thing is that these little things are everywhere, so there’s no need to spend effort searching for them.”

The chicken Hua Jian was currently controlling was not suitable for entering a Secret Realm, while the Snow Crystal Rabbit Huaxinyuan mentioned was the exact opposite; no matter where such a small creature appeared, it would not make anyone feel surprised.

Who would pay attention to a cute little rabbit by the roadside whose color was almost identical to the snow?

“Snow Crystal Rabbit? I think I’ve seen them in pet shops in the city. They seem a bit different from ordinary Spirit Beasts.” Hua Jian had also seen these little cuties.

Because of their snow-white cute appearance, these little things were quite popular pets among humans.

They did not need much careful care and could survive for a long time just by eating snow.

However, their combat strength also matched the impression their appearance gave, being purely Combat Strength Five.

Their ability to survive on the Ice Plain depended entirely on how fast they bred.

The main point was: if you can’t eat all of us, we’ll just keep having babies and grow our clan.

“Not bad. They possess some characteristics of elemental life, which gives them extremely strong adaptability to the Ice Plain. But once they leave a cold place, their Physique becomes a death warrant.”

Huaxinyuan nodded and told Hua Jian the secret of the Snow Crystal Rabbit in full detail.

To max out Ice Plain adaptability, the Snow Crystal Rabbit gave up everything; combat strength and adaptability to other environments were completely absent.

If they lived somewhere else, they would immediately die from failing to adapt.

Completely different from the Spiritual Civet Hua Jian raised, the Shuanghua Lingmao could not only live in cold regions but also act as a little overlord in places without ice and snow like the Central Continent.

That was how a powerful Spirit Beast should perform.

But the Snow Crystal Rabbit also had something to say: what are your racial stats, and what are mine?

The talent points available to our Snow Crystal Rabbit clan are only this many.

Even if we train to the end, we can’t reach Ling Wang Realm. Being able to reach the current situation is already very good.

You can’t expect a tricycle to run at the speed of a sports car.

As for Hua Jian, the Snow Crystal Rabbit’s shortcomings were not that fatal.

Fragile Soulforce and weak strength meant this kind of Spirit Beast was easy to control, and being everywhere meant she could casually catch a few little rabbits and throw them into the Secret Realm.

This kind of cannon fodder, which could be caught casually and whose death required no heartache, was really useful.

Unlike the Spiritual Civet, whenever something dangerous happened, Hua Jian did not dare let it out, afraid the little thing would get bumped or hurt.

“Mm, I’ll go buy two and bring them back to try!”

“Don’t rush. Let your subordinates handle this kind of thing. They can bring you back a whole cage.”

Huaxinyuan pressed Hua Jian’s shoulder and pushed her back into her seat.

“You should just stay here honestly and wait for Gu Zhu and the others to reply.”

Going to help at the Snow Lotus Secret Realm counted as a relatively important operation, so Huaxinyuan naturally did not dare let Hua Jian go alone.

After Hua Jian found her and explained her idea, she quickly reported the matter to the sect and waited for the elders’ reply.

If the elders in the sect thought this could be done, then she would take Hua Jian to the Snow Lotus Secret Realm.

If not, then she could only watch Hua Jian and not let her run around.

Now that there was no reply, she could only assume the sect had not agreed.

To avoid Hua Jian going and never returning, she could not let Hua Jian leave her sight.

This rambling topic was the same, purely stalling for time.

Hua Jian naturally also knew Huaxinyuan was stalling for time and watching her to keep her from running around, and now she could only cooperate properly.

Anyway, she really did still need to do some preparatory work.

Once that work was done, Wanhuagu’s reply should arrive.

She felt Wanhuagu would not oppose her idea.

She was not risking herself; she was only sending an avatar into the Secret Realm to gather information.

Gu Zhu had no reason to object.

“Do you think I should prepare some self-defense measures for these little things so they don’t get killed by accident?”

“There are too many accidents a Snow Crystal Rabbit can encounter. It’s not something you can solve by preparing some self-defense measures. You’d be better off hanging a bamboo tube on them, stuffing a small note inside, and letting any cultivator who sees it know this little rabbit is a scout sent in from outside.”

The Snow Crystal Rabbit was too weak.

Any random encounter was a life-or-death crisis.

No matter how thoroughly Hua Jian prepared, it would be useless.

It was better to keep it simple and make these little rabbits the purest scouts.

They did not need the ability to resist.

If they encountered danger, dying was just dying.

However many died, she could just send that many more in. These little rabbits were truly worthless.

“How many Snow Crystal Rabbits can you control at once?”

“Hmm, if I control them manually, I can’t control more than five in fine detail. More than ten and each one’s operation gets mixed up.”

Hua Jian gave an approximate number.

“But if I passively receive the messages they send back and let them do what I want them to do, then it’s quite simple.”

Most of the time, Hua Jian did not need to actively control them.

She only had to give these little things an order, and they would find their own way to that place.

At this time, the role Hua Jian played was actually replacing these little things’ subconscious.

The commands she gave would be regarded by the Spirit Beasts as their own thoughts.

The Spirit Beasts would complete this thought in the most ordinary way.

For example, if Hua Jian now ordered the chicken she controlled to leave the room, this chicken, which had just become a Spirit Beast, would stupidly ram into the room’s door, trying to smash the door apart and fly out.

This was the only way in its mind to leave the room.

Hua Jian could also intervene in this process, breaking leaving the room into individual steps, making the chicken execute her command more precisely.

The more direct method was for Hua Jian to replace the chicken’s Divine Sense and control the chicken’s body.

But the cost was that this required more energy.

The amount of energy these methods consumed went from small to large, while the accuracy of executing Hua Jian’s commands was exactly what you paid for.

One could only say that was how things were. Don’t expect it to get much better.

At least it was still what you paid for.

When she did not actively activate them and only passively received the information sent back, Hua Jian could still send a relatively large number of scouts into the Secret Realm.

But… then again, this time the Secret Realm was obviously quite large.

The rabbits she sent into the Secret Realm might enter a state of lost contact because they were too far from her.

“This is what I’m more worried about right now.”

“Then do you have any solution?” Huaxinyuan pressed.

She did not know much about this sort of thing. In front of Hua Jian, she could only count as a student who knew nothing.

Hua Jian shook her head. It was not that there was no solution, but saying it might give someone a fright.

“I’ll go into the Spatial Rift, then find the location of that Secret Realm and stick myself onto it. That way I can move together with the Spirit Beasts I send out.”

After hearing Hua Jian’s method, Huaxinyuan directly reached out and rubbed Hua Jian’s forehead, then held Hua Jian’s head and gently shook it twice.

“There’s no water in there and no fever. How could you say such foolish things?”

Did Hua Jian know how shocking what she said was?

Still lingering outside the Secret Realm and following the Spirit Beasts that entered it, how was that different from entering the Secret Realm herself?

Oh, this method actually seemed even more dangerous.

Surviving and moving within a Spatial Rift was something quite difficult even for a Ling Emperor, let alone Hua Jian, who was only a Ling King.

Huaxinyuan did not even know how Hua Jian could say such a thing.

Had she really been fooled lame by the people from the Saint Sect?

“How is it foolish? This is already the best method. My Physique allows me to survive in a Spatial Rift. Even if I encounter danger, using the Space Talisman will let me return to the cultivation world.”

Hua Jian said her method was truly not a random thought; it was the worst result she had considered deeply.

Compared to entering the Secret Realm herself to explore, the advantage of her method was that the Space Talisman could function normally.

If she encountered danger, she could directly escape, unlike inside the Secret Realm where she had to worry about whether the Token would work normally.

To an ordinary Ling King, the Spatial Rift was like a hopeless deadland, but to her it was not much of a dangerous place.

Her true body was a strange lifeform that wandered between Secret Realms.

Surviving in such a place was merely Hua Jian’s Instinct.

She only needed to plant her roots on the Secret Realm, and she would not need to worry about getting lost.

She could even secretly devour part of the Secret Realm’s energy when it merged into the world.

Calculating it this way, wasn’t doing so an absolute profit?

“Your courage is a bit too great… No, wait, if you put it that way, can’t you cling to the Secret Realm from outside it?”

“Oh right! I can start from the entrance of the Secret Realm, grow roots from the entrance side, and slowly spread my range of influence. That way, I can both keep my true body in a safe place and expand my control range over the Spirit Beasts.”

Hua Jian struck her palm and hurriedly changed her plan.

Her method was also simple to describe: advance outward step by step, consolidating each gain.

Using the Secret Realm’s entrance and exit as the main base, she would spread her roots toward other parts of the Secret Realm.