Chapter 81. A Little Innovation
After simplification, the entry requirement for the Minor Cloud Rain Technique became: Take 100 deep breaths, fully enjoying nature’s fragrance and beauty.
So, Yun Jin had already mastered it on her way here.
Now was the perfect time to fleece her Senior Brother a bit. Two hundred points of emotional value instantly credited to her account!
“Senior Brother, what were you saying earlier? Sword cultivators generally what?” Yun Jin asked.
Yue Zhao gritted his teeth, “Oh, I meant to say sword cultivators are most suited to also practice plant cultivation. The combination is simply invincible!”
“I agree!” Yun Jin said enthusiastically. “Senior Brother, I’ve discovered that my Minor Cloud Rain Technique, combined with sword techniques, is simply amazing.”
Yue Zhao had sworn to himself.
In this lifetime, he would never let Yun Jin show off again!
But at this moment, he couldn’t help but ask, “Isn’t the Minor Cloud Rain Technique used for nourishing plants? How does it combine with sword techniques?”
“Think about it, Senior Brother! Isn’t the Minor Cloud Rain Technique essentially a water-based sword technique? What’s most fascinating is that water can generate lightning, and the Minor Cloud Rain Technique actually contains a trace of thunder essence. This thunder essence is extremely yang, perfectly complementing sword techniques. For water-attribute sword techniques, under the enhancement of the Minor Cloud Rain Technique, the power is doubly amplified, beyond words.”
Yun Jin spoke eloquently.
Yue Zhao listened in a daze, unable to resist saying, “The Minor Cloud Rain Technique can only be used on plants. What you’re describing probably can’t be achieved.”
No one had ever heard of the Minor Cloud Rain Technique assisting sword techniques.
But Yun Jin knew.
It really could.
Because after mastering the Minor Cloud Rain Technique, the system had unprecedentedly offered three simplification directions.
The first direction was the same as the original, just an auxiliary plant cultivation technique.
The second direction began to diverge, turning the Minor Cloud Rain Technique into a water-based domain. Within this domain, water-attribute techniques would gain increased power, naturally including water-attribute sword techniques.
The third direction’s imagination broke through the sky. After casting the Minor Cloud Rain Technique, one could capture lightning from the clouds, condensing it into a bolt of azure lightning with formidable attacking power.
It’s worth noting that lightning-attribute spirit roots are extremely rare mutations.
But this simplification direction could directly evolve lightning techniques from the Minor Cloud Rain Technique.
An ordinary, unremarkable plant cultivation technique with no offensive capabilities suddenly became a powerful offensive skill.
Yun Jin currently needed all three of these directions.
She used some simplification chances on each direction, then fused the three functions, naming it: New Minor Cloud Rain Technique.
Currently, the New Minor Cloud Rain Technique was at the entry level. To continue improving it, the simplification condition was: Converse with water-attribute plants to receive their blessing, greatly increasing cultivation speed.
Chatting with plants… was too awkward.
The key was, she hadn’t even grown her own spirit plants yet.
Yun Jin had already planned to have Gu Jinghong run to other herb gardens to complete this task.
As long as she wasn’t personally embarrassing herself, it didn’t matter.
“Senior Brother, Second Senior Sister’s Lotus Flower Sword Technique is a water-attribute technique. I’ll demonstrate it under the Minor Cloud Rain Technique for you to see,” Yun Jin said with a grin.
Yue Zhao struggled internally.
He feared Yun Jin might succeed, showing off once again.
He also feared she might succeed, and he’d miss seeing it.
“Go ahead,” Yue Zhao said resolutely.
Yun Jin took her sword and entered the cloud area.
Spirit rain continued to fall as Yue Zhao tried to sense what was happening.
Suddenly, his expression changed.
Just now, he felt Yun Jin’s water-attribute power increase slightly.
Was this… an amplification effect?
Such a range-based amplification technique would be considered Mystic or Earth grade, even fought over.
Yet Yun Jin had derived this from a low-grade Yellow technique?
This… This wasn’t scientific!
Beneath the clouds, Yun Jin began the opening stance of the Lotus Flower Sword Technique. As lotus flowers bloomed, the domain nourished them, and the sword qi they emitted became increasingly formidable.
Yue Zhao could distinguish between Yun Jin’s innate ability and the domain’s enhancement.
So, his lips trembled as he muttered, “Minor Cloud Rain Technique…”
You call this a Minor Cloud Rain Technique?
This is the most basic technique for water-attribute plant cultivators. Most have practiced it.
If you randomly grabbed one and told them this was the Minor Cloud Rain Technique,
They’d bash their heads against a wall for you to see.
Yue Zhao thought the Minor Cloud Rain Technique becoming an amplification domain was already outrageous enough. But as the Lotus Flower Sword Technique neared its end, Yun Jin suddenly reached out her hand and shouted, “Nine Heavens Mystic Thunder, heed my command, gather!”
Yue Zhao jolted, quickly looking at the cloud layer.
In that small patch of black clouds, lightning was actually condensing.
When the lightning had gathered, Yun Jin held her spirit sword, drawing the lightning into it, then shouted fiercely, “Break!”
The sword tip pointed into the distance.
Bang! A huge boulder shattered! Before the fragments could scatter, they turned to powder in the next moment.
Yue Zhao reached out to close his own jaw.
Hehehe.
Water generating lightning, there seemed to be such a saying.
But water techniques becoming lightning techniques, who would believe that?
“Senior Brother, how’s my Minor Cloud Rain Technique?” Yun Jin dispelled her technique and walked over to Yue Zhao with a grin.
Yue Zhao was silent for a moment, then asked, “Are you sure this is… the Minor Cloud Rain Technique?”
“How could it be?” Yun Jin said instinctively.
Oh? It’s not?
Yue Zhao felt inexplicably relieved.
Thank goodness, the Minor Cloud Rain Technique indeed couldn’t be so overpowered.
The next moment.
Yun Jin said matter-of-factly, “I’ve already named it: New Minor Cloud Rain Technique! It has a ‘New’ in front.”
New Minor Cloud Rain Technique…
New my foot.
Yue Zhao screamed internally, isn’t it still the Minor Cloud Rain Technique?
Had the heavens decided his transmigration journey wasn’t exciting enough, so they sent this Junior Sister to punish him?
“Senior Brother, I still have two more techniques, Earth Control and Insect Banishment Finger. Wait while I master them,” Yun Jin said.
Yue Zhao watched her alternately digging with a hoe and staring down insects she’d dug up.
All told, it took less than the time to drink a cup of tea.
She told him she had mastered both techniques.
Yue Zhao smiled, “With Junior Sister’s talent, that’s quite normal.”
Hehe.
Normal my foot!
He just wanted to go back to sleep and see if this was all a dream.
“Senior Brother, I’ve made some small innovations with these two techniques too. Want to see?” Yun Jin proposed excitedly, having fused new simplification directions.
“Sure,” Yue Zhao responded, somewhat dazed.
And so.
He watched as Yun Jin’s Earth Control turned gentle soil into surging waves, with terrifying spikes growing from the ground.
Then all ten of her fingers shot golden light. The power was no longer just for killing insects; it could easily kill people.
She had turned a simple Insect Banishment Finger into the Six Meridians Divine Sword!
“Senior Brother, what do you think of my modifications?” Yun Jin looked at Yue Zhao expectantly.
(End of Chapter)