Your Lord Has A Screw Loose?
Chapter 747 - 749: Time Difference Between Two Worlds, Spirit Art in Medicine

Chapter 747 -749: Time Difference Between Two Worlds, Spirit Art in Medicine

“There’s a problem with the flow of time, damn, a ratio of one to 1.2???”

Qin Muye was somewhat flabbergasted; he had successfully connected with experimental equipment in the Xuanzhen Realm’s colonization world, and had achieved a transmission device.

But a problem arose; although in his eyes the Xuanzhen Realm and the Spirit Realm might originally have been the same world, due to long separation, a slight difference in the flow of time had occurred.

It was roughly that the time flow rate in the Spirit Realm was twenty percent faster than in the Xuanzhen Realm, hence, after connecting the two worlds through the device, there was a massive consumption.

This issue hadn’t arisen before because he had the backing of the “Lord Era,” which directly synchronized the time flow of the worlds he connected via the Super-Space Transmission Channel. Now that Qin Muye had resigned, he definitely wouldn’t have that privilege anymore.

That was a benefit for employees, not for Qin Muye, an outsider, so he would have to bear this cost himself.

However, this wasn’t necessarily a bad thing; at least Qin Muye could utilize the difference in time flow for research.

“After connecting the two realms, I can proceed confidently with my work; otherwise, losing contact with the Xuanzhen Realm would really be troublesome.” Although he had left an incarnation in the Xuanzhen Realm, its capabilities were limited, and the Three Sects’ Sect Masters could easily see through an incarnation that it wasn’t the real body, and who knows what they might do.

He first checked on the situation of his incarnation, realizing that the Three Sects’ Sect Masters hadn’t come looking for him, or perhaps they had and, realizing it wasn’t his real body, left without his incarnation noticing them.

Fortunately, it was nothing serious.

After ensuring there was no major issue, he examined the feedback from the Divine Dao System. It had already started damaging the Xuanzhen Realm itself but the Three Sects’ Sect Masters hadn’t noticed, blinded instead by the vast benefits from the Divine Dao.

Yet, Qin Muye did not let his guard down; for all he knew, the other side might be acting just like him, not coming to kill him just yet, which was enough to confirm he hadn’t been exposed.

His attention naturally returned to the green caterpillar he had in hand.

The caterpillar had recently undergone its first molting, changing from its original black lines to a normal green caterpillar, leisurely munching on leaves.

“Completely devoid of any spiritual intelligence, no wonder it’s said to be brainless.”

When it comes to spiritual beasts, the general public usually favors cats, dogs, or primate-type spiritual beasts because such creatures can be domesticated from a young age and can even understand commands to a certain extent without a contract initially. If raised with care, these creatures can become even more intelligent and might develop protective, loyal attributes like Acquired Spiritual Beast Techniques.

Acquired Spiritual Beast Techniques are similar to Innate Spiritual Beast Techniques but only arise in certain spiritual beasts, those that have gone through specific experiences and formed a certain mental and emotional resonance.

Like protecting a master, which allows them to instantly return to the Spirit Master’s side during danger, and loyalty, even more incredible, creates a mystical connection with the Spirit Master, sharing half of any damage received.

These two Acquired Spiritual Beast Techniques are rated as Divine Rank in spiritual beast techniques—simple, brutal, and powerful. Who wouldn’t like them? The rating in spiritual beast techniques looks at effectiveness, not rarity; even the rarest junk is still junk.

Regrettably, Qin Muye’s green caterpillar had absolutely no chance of developing these two Acquired Spiritual Beast Techniques, which can only arise before the spiritual beast contract is made. Once contracted, these techniques can never develop because after the contract, there’s already complete loyalty; can icing on the cake compare to sending charcoal in snow?

As for Insect Spiritual Beasts, it’s rare for them to develop Acquired Spiritual Beast Techniques, and much less so for the green caterpillar, with no relevant records to speak of.

“But it has all three Innate Spiritual Beast Techniques, I was worried this thing wouldn’t develop successfully.”

These days, Qin Muye had been constantly observing the green caterpillar. Its condition seemed stable, but it always seemed to struggle, especially with the third Innate Spiritual Beast Technique, “Insect Healing,” which felt almost like it was devolving.

Qin Muye soon confirmed that it was indeed devolving.

The situation of use it or lose it also applies to spiritual beasts. The Resilient Insect Body was still okay, related to genetics and nutrition, but Insect Healing was different; it was almost completely devolving.

The green caterpillar was too utterly weak for its self-healing power to be of any use. What use was self-healing if it got eaten? Does it regenerate in the stomach of birds or beasts that catch it?

In another couple of millennia, the green caterpillar probably wouldn’t have the Insect Healing innate spiritual beast technique anymore.

When Qin Muye arrived at this conclusion, he was totally flabbergasted; no wonder no one ever catches three innate green caterpillars, whereas those with two innates are sometimes heard of.

So, in fact, the three-day-old green caterpillars are basically used up one by one.

“Eat, eat, eat, all it does is eat every day, and it even looks utterly carefree,” Qin Muye said with a darkened face as he watched the caterpillar.

If it weren’t for needing this thing for experiments, Qin Muye would have thrown it to feed the birds. Why should he exhaust himself while this creature lives worry-free and blissfully every day?

“Hmm~ But no worries, your carefree life is over.”

The caterpillar, which was nibbling on a leaf, suddenly paused; then its skin began to wriggle as if sensing the presence of a predator. It arched its body to investigate but, sensing no danger, it went back to munching on the leaf on its own.

“Besides Spit Silk, the Spiritual Beast Techniques of Resilient Insect Body, Insect Healing, Iron Will, and Soul Ascension are all passive types, and these are the hardest to increase in level proficiency.”

Fortunately, all I need to do is operate.”

Qin Muye glanced at the green caterpillar and sighed again, “Well, surgery on this thing isn’t really feasible. It’ll just have to pop some pills instead.”

The four Spiritual Beast Techniques really just come down to physical condition, mental quality, and soul strength.

So, since the caterpillar couldn’t train itself, Qin Muye fed it Experience Medicine to help it improve its proficiency.

This was also something he had to do out of necessity.

As for Spit Silk, forget it, let’s just use medicine for everything. After all, even if you really let this caterpillar train, it wouldn’t manage to develop Spit Silk to Heaven Rank in three months.

Insect Dao Spiritual Beasts aren’t without their Spirit Beasts reaching full development at this stage, but probably no one other than the founder of the Evolution Secret Technique from Xuanzhen Realm could have nurtured a caterpillar to such bizarre levels, especially since caterpillars have such a brief stage.

Therefore, Qin Muye had to find a way to cheat for it, after all, he couldn’t just shout “Breakthrough!” and then have the level proficiency of the Spiritual Beast Technique increase directly.

After a busy session, Qin Muye produced five Experience Pills and placed them in a glass bottle, then grabbed the caterpillar which was happily munching on a leaf.

“Say goodbye to your leaves, from today on, you won’t taste such fresh leaves anymore, only these not-so-great-tasting Experience Pills,” he said.

“Eating these five should be enough to max out the level of Spiritual Beast Technique. If not… then just eat another five, since they’re fairly easy for me to make.”

“Alright, finish them within a month…, cough, ten days. If not, I’ll help you.”

As Qin Muye threw the caterpillar into the glass bottle and watched its confused attempt to crawl out, his mood significantly brightened.

The caterpillar, after realizing it could not escape, and sensing something edible beneath its feet, bit into it immediately.

How should I put it, Qin Muye almost burst out laughing.

Seeing the skin of the caterpillar unceasingly twitch backward, its whole body expressed two words: disgusting!

This was a flavor specially concocted by Qin Muye; the caterpillar had no taste system, but it was easy for Qin Muye to make it experience flavor.

No need to modify the caterpillar. Just modifying the Experience Pill was enough.

After taking a bite, the caterpillar arched its body, frantically trying to crawl out, but alas, the effort was fruitless.

“I’m telling you, this stuff might taste bad—and I did that on purpose—but this is for your own good!” Qin Muye shamelessly said, not caring whether the caterpillar understood him or not; he felt that enjoying a laugh was the best part.

“I haven’t been this happy in a long time.” Qin Muye stored the glass bottle and then delved into his research.

The research naturally involved the flow rate problem between the Xuanzhen Realm and the Spirit Realm, which was time-related and naturally demanded serious investigation, as, if he wanted to break through to higher levels rather than endlessly getting stronger at the ninth rank, researching time was the best choice.