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Chapter 875: The House of a Thousand Machines
Chapter 875: The House of a Thousand Machines
As the wine flowed, a young cultivator with a honest face approached Lu Chen.
"Friend Lu, why are you drinking alone here? Come, join me for a few cups!"
The young man, with a slight drunkenness, said to Lu Chen with a smile.
"All of you have experience in hunting the evil demons and are discussing related topics. I, Lu, cannot join in," Lu Chen replied with a smile.
"That's true," the young man nodded. Suddenly, a flying sword appeared in front of him, exuding a chilling aura and faint mist, weaving through the air between the two of them.
"Friend Lu, how about this fifth-grade flying sword I obtained from Tianxing Cave? I risked my life hunting seven or eight evil demons to get this!" The young man's eyes lit up as he proudly displayed his sword.
"Impressive! It's no wonder you're able to obtain such a treasure from Tianxing Cave. I admire your skills, Friend Zhang," Lu Chen said, secretly mocking the young man's awkward attempt to change the subject. He feigned a hint of envy, satisfying the young man's desire to boast.
"Haha, if there's another opportunity like this, make sure you don't miss out, Friend Lu!" The young man laughed heartily.
"Definitely, definitely," Lu Chen agreed.
After the gathering, he didn't linger and bid farewell to the other cultivators, returning to his cave abode.
Half a month passed in the blink of an eye, during which he stayed in his cave, cultivating spiritual herbs. Ye Xuan had contacted him again, and the Hundred Poison Heart-Eating Insect returned to feed on the evil demon's poison, filling its belly once more.
As soon as she left, Lu Chen immediately helped the insect detoxify. With its previous experience of feeding on the demon's poison, the Hundred Poison Heart-Eating Insect's toxicity had clearly strengthened. Lu Chen only needed to stand by and wait for it to recover.
One day, as he was cultivating the field of Myriads of Grasses, he suddenly sensed a slight disturbance in the spiritual energy within his cave.
With a sweep of his spiritual sense, he saw that the grass puppet, which usually patrolled the spirit field day after day, had stopped in its tracks, unmoving.
On its chest, the ancient tree heart, a mottled cyan color and a thousand years old, was now reduced to a shallow layer.
Vines of green light coursed through the gray-green body of the grass puppet, seemingly brimming with vitality. It stimulated the two arrow vines on its shoulders, causing the various arrows to raise high, as if ready to strike.
The green light flowed through the grass puppet's body again and again, causing the gray-green grass ropes to disintegrate invisibly and turn into countless fine grasses that danced in the air.
From the large lump on its head came a tremendous attractive force, like a giant whale sucking in water, frantically absorbing the spiritual energy from the surrounding plants and trees. Soon, a vortex of spiritual energy formed.
As it absorbed more and more spiritual energy from the plants and trees, the countless fine grasses converged once more, forming vibrant green grass ropes that slowly constructed a new body for the grass puppet.
"I wonder if there's enough spiritual energy from the plants and trees in the cave," Lu Chen thought, gazing at the vortex of spiritual energy that showed no signs of abating. Knowing that the grass puppet had reached a critical moment in its breakthrough, he immediately took out a small emerald-green jar from his storage bag.
As soon as the mouth of the jar tilted down, strands of extremely pure emerald-green spiritual energy drifted out, guided by Lu Chen's spiritual sense, and merged into the vortex of spiritual energy above the lump on the grass puppet.
Before long, about a tenth of the jar's contents had been poured out, and the vortex was now filled with lush emerald-green spiritual energy, brimming with vitality.
With the addition of the spiritual energy compressed and transformed over the years by the Divine Wood Green Jar, the grass puppet gained a new lease of life, and its absorption speed increased drastically.
After a few breaths, the vortex dissipated, and a brand-new puppet appeared before Lu Chen.
It still had a large head and slender limbs, with a huge lump on its head. However, its originally gray-green body had transformed into a vibrant emerald-green, and the grass ropes were now more tightly connected, with faint threads of green light flickering, giving the grass puppet a touch of liveliness and dynamism.
The puppet possesses a certain degree of spiritual intelligence and is proficient in various wood-based techniques. It has an almost obsessive idea about patrolling the spirit fields.
"As expected, it has advanced to a fifth-grade puppet."
A smile appeared on Lu Chen's face.
"However, why does it have an obsession with patrolling the spirit fields? Could it be that the idea has been deeply ingrained in its mind after decades of constant suggestion, along with the mechanical nature of its patrols?"
He couldn't help but find it amusing and chuckled softly.
After sending a congratulatory thought to the newly advanced Grass Puppet, his gaze fell on the white light group that had quietly appeared.
As the Grass Puppet continued its patrol of the spirit fields with its long, thin legs, Lu Chen reached out and gently touched the surface of the light group.
In an instant, the light group shattered silently, turning into countless fine light points that quickly condensed into a small house silhouette and vanished into Lu Chen's body.
At the same time, a thought flashed through his mind.
The Grass Puppet has broken through to the fifth grade and obtained a sixth-grade treasure, the House of a Thousand Machines.
As the thought vanished, a bizarre mechanical house appeared before Lu Chen.
The size of an infant's head, the intricate and exquisite structure of the Thousand Machine House was comprised of countless intricate mechanisms that kept it in a constant state of flux.
Lu Chen focused his spiritual sense on the house, immediately understanding its intricacies.
The House of a Thousand Machines is a special product of the Thousand Machine Sect, composed of countless mechanisms. After being refined, it can be controlled at will, changed according to one's heart, and houses a vast space within. It can move freely and possesses strong adaptability in various complex environments, as well as defensive strength equivalent to a sixth-grade protective formation.
Only in its original state can it be stored within a spatial treasure. After any changes, it will exhibit a degree of repulsion towards other spatial treasures.
"A sixth-grade treasure, the House of a Thousand Machines. This light group reward is quite interesting."
Lu Chen looked at the mechanical house before him with great interest.
As he probed it with his spiritual sense, he felt the profound complexity of its mechanisms. Even with his powerful spiritual sense, he felt a sense of dizziness and disorientation.
"The Thousand Machine Sect's puppetry and mechanisms are truly extraordinary."
Lu Chen marveled inwardly.
"The Grass Puppet was a low-grade puppet he obtained from a loose cultivator's stall. The Multi-Treasure Pavilion he visited earlier and now this House of a Thousand Machines all originate from the Thousand Machine Sect, demonstrating the sect's vast reach."
"In the future, I can use this House of a Thousand Machines as a temporary base when I'm out and about. It offers more flexibility and comfort than a formation of the same grade."
Lu Chen thought to himself.
"However, there's one thing to keep in mind. When using the House of a Thousand Machines, I can't store it within another spatial treasure."
He reminded himself and with a thought, the mechanical house disappeared into his storage bag, only to instantly reappear and enter the Beast Pouch within his dantian.
"This is the original state of the House of a Thousand Machines."
Lu Chen experimented a little, probing it with his spiritual sense as he slowly refined this newly acquired spatial treasure.
(End of Chapter)
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