Chapter 75: Lick Long Enough, And You’ll Have It All

After roughly understanding the functions of the Treasure-Seeking Tower, Lu Yuan did not hesitate. He fetched spiritual grasses and spiritual herbs to run an experiment.

First, he used an ungraded Spirit Firefly Grass. The Treasure-Seeking Tower stretched out a long, slender arm, took the Spirit Firefly Grass that still had spirit liquid beads lingering on it, and swiftly placed it into its own square, proper body.

Lu Yuan’s sharp divine sense sensed that as the Spirit Firefly Grass was placed inside, the Treasure-Seeking Tower’s size increased slightly.

Next, he used a first-rank Snow Condensing Fruit. After the Snow Condensing Fruit was placed inside, its size increased a little more.

After that, Lu Yuan took a section of Purple Bone Bamboo and placed it inside the Treasure-Seeking Tower. The wooden house’s height instantly grew by about three inches.

His divine sense entered the Treasure-Seeking Tower. The several types of spiritual herbs were arranged by rank from top to bottom. The Spirit Firefly Grass was at the very bottom, the Snow Condensing Fruit was in the middle, and the Purple Bone Bamboo was at the very top.

“This is probably what’s meant by treasure sorting.”

Lu Yuan continued stuffing spiritual grasses and spiritual herbs into the wooden house. The Treasure-Seeking Tower was rather picky. After two or three ungraded ones were placed inside, it tucked its arms tightly beneath its broad, flat head.

Only at Lu Yuan’s demand did it reluctantly stretch out its tiny wooden arms and place the spiritual herbs inside.

For first-rank spiritual herbs, the quantity it could accept was much larger. Only after more than ten stalks did it express the thought that it did not want any more.

As for second-rank ones, there was even less need to say. As soon as the Purple Bone Bamboo was taken in, it immediately stretched its arms back out again, cupping its hands together higher than the roof.

It looked exactly like it was begging.

Seeing that Lu Yuan still had not moved for quite some time, the Treasure-Seeking Tower, having felt out a few of Lu Yuan’s preferences, automatically transformed its body and switched between different forms.

At the end, it even started playing at high difficulty. It opened a little window on the wooden house with its arms, or propped up its bloated body on one leg and performed a one-legged golden rooster stance.

Seeing how hard it was working, Lu Yuan felt pleased and tossed section after section of Purple Bone Bamboo into the Treasure-Seeking Tower.

Of course, that kind of growth was not without limits. After the wooden house grew to more than five feet tall, the Purple Bone Bamboo’s effect on its growth rate became much smaller.

After finishing his experiments with spiritual herbs, Lu Yuan continued using other things.

When spirit seeds were placed inside, the effect was not as good as mature spiritual herbs. Spirit stones were slightly better than spirit seeds and were extremely effective at increasing its size.

Next came talismans and ritual implements. The Treasure-Seeking Tower accepted them all, and the wooden house’s size increased a little more.

After that, Lu Yuan used living things for the experiment.

First, he placed inside a Yinfire Ant that was relatively small in size and second from the bottom in strength.

After the Yinfire Ant entered the Treasure-Seeking Tower, it was not immediately spat out. All he heard was a clanging, banging sound coming from inside.

Soon after, a faint scorched smell drifted out from within the wooden house.

The Treasure-Seeking Tower shook twice, then spat the fiery-red Yinfire Ant to one side. A trace of fire poison aura also drifted out from inside the wooden house.

“Looks like living things can still be placed inside. It’s just that the Treasure-Seeking Tower’s own protection is very weak. A single Yinfire Ant can pose quite a threat to it.

Unless necessary, it’s better to place living things inside as little as possible, unless I can guarantee that the living thing’s behavior can be restrained.”

Lastly, Lu Yuan took several cultivation method jade slips from a corner of the stone cave and placed them inside the wooden house.

As soon as they were placed inside, perhaps because the jade slips’ material was fairly ordinary, the Treasure-Seeking Tower immediately spat them back out.

“Too superficial. Just because the materials aren’t good, you spit out such precious cultivation methods.

Knowledge is power, understand?

Learn from Little Paper Man. An illiterate Aberration with limited spiritual intelligence went from writing crooked, wobbly characters at the very beginning to moving the brush like flying, mastering multiple scripts. It was precisely because of its thirst for knowledge that it achieved what it has today.”

Lu Yuan instructed it earnestly.

The Treasure-Seeking Tower obediently tilted its roof, indicating that it nodded in agreement.

Lu Yuan brought the jade slips with him and returned to the stone cave in satisfaction.

When he came to the outer area of the cave abode again, however, he discovered that the wooden house was sneakily staying not far from the Sword-Nurturing Gourd, facing the Sword-Nurturing Gourd that had only recently bloomed.

Sensing Lu Yuan’s arrival, it immediately stood at attention, its two little wooden legs perfectly straight.

“I don’t care how you harm the spiritual herbs inside the cave abode, but I’ll make one thing clear first. You are not allowed to take immature spiritual herbs into yourself.

Otherwise, I’ll burn you straight into wood ash and use you as fertilizer to cultivate spiritual herbs.”

Lu Yuan warned the Treasure-Seeking Tower.

The wooden man retracted and folded its two long legs, turning back into a wooden house. It quietly stayed in place, showing just how peaceful and honest it was.

After opening all the light orbs and finishing his experiments on the Treasure-Seeking Tower’s functions, Lu Yuan stole a moment of leisure amid his busyness, his divine sense lazily lingering in the cave abode.

Little Paper Man had not forgotten the previous experience of Lu Yuan comparing it to something soft and floppy. It also envied the wooden house’s large, thick, solid body, and made up its mind to properly train itself.

So Lu Yuan taught it how to do push-ups.

Little Paper Man supported its body with its two white paper arms and stood on tiptoe.

Its arms and body were equally thin, so it did not need to spend much effort.

After it finished preparing, its arms slowly bent downward.

With a snap, its arms folded into two sections, and Little Paper Man flopped straight onto the ground.

Without borrowing any external force, Little Paper Man stood up stiffly again, then lowered itself. Its arms cautiously and slowly bent downward.

There was another snap, and its arms broke again.

Just like that, it stood up, its arms instantly returned to their original state, then it lowered itself, and its arms folded into two sections again.

This repeated over and over, but Little Paper Man never gave up. It worked hard to train its thin body.

Not far away, the Treasure-Seeking Tower was stretching out its long arms, rummaging back and forth among the spiritual herbs.

The Red-Footed Golden Crow flew out from the stone cave, one foot tightly gripping the Phoenix-Resting Wutong Wood.

After enjoying the enhancement brought to it by the Phoenix-Resting Wutong Wood, the Red-Footed Golden Crow had kept one foot on the scorched wood at all times, even when flying outside the stone cave.

Carrying the Phoenix-Resting Wutong Wood, the Red-Footed Golden Crow landed on a wooden house six or seven feet tall.

The Treasure-Seeking Tower sensed that the Phoenix-Resting Wutong Wood was extraordinary. It secretly stretched out two arms, wanting to grab the Phoenix-Resting Wutong Wood in its hands.

How could the Red-Footed Golden Crow allow its beloved possession to fall into someone else’s hands? Its golden wings spread, and while gripping the Phoenix-Resting Wutong Wood, it shot straight into the clouds.

Splat!

A lump of golden bird droppings landed right in the center of the wooden house.

Sensing the scorching spiritual power aura coming from the feces, the wooden house did not mind at all. It took the golden droppings into its body.

Then it moved its two chopstick-like thin legs and walked in the direction of the Red-Footed Golden Crow.

It deliberately stopped right beneath the Red-Footed Golden Crow’s tail, pointed with its arms at the spot where the droppings had fallen, and signaled the Red-Footed Golden Crow to do it again.

“…This is way too much of a simp, isn’t it? It’s even chasing after a lump of crap with this much effort…”

Lu Yuan could hardly bear to watch.

The Red-Footed Golden Crow stared straight ahead, not even giving the Treasure-Seeking Tower a proper glance. Its wings flapped, tracing a beautiful arc.

At the same time, three more lumps of golden droppings fell.

The Treasure-Seeking Tower found the landing spots. Its arms caught them one by one, and without the slightest hesitation, it sent them all into its body together.

“Uh, this… lick long enough, and you really will have it all…”

Looking at the plump wooden house swaying happily by itself in utter satisfaction, Lu Yuan could not help sighing inwardly.

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