Chapter 238: Lu Yuan’s Money-Making Plan 1
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Lu Yuan had thought of training the Paper Men to achieve specific goals a long time ago.
As for the matter of letting these Paper Men, or rather, word spirits, help him cultivate cultivation techniques, this was something Lu Yuan had accidentally discovered.
In the beginning, he merely felt that there were too many of these Paper Men, and it was not easy to distinguish between them.
If he only used numbers to tell them apart, he felt that he would get their numbers wrong.
Say for example he instructed Number One and Number Two to do two separate tasks.
It was fine if there were only a few tasks to cater to, but once the number of tasks increased, Lu Yuan would not be able to keep track of the tasks he designated.
For example, this time, when Lu Yuan left the Imperial capital, he planted quite a number of Paper Men in the city.
The function of these Paper Men was very simple. They served as surveillance cameras.
It allowed Lu Yuan to grasp the situation in the Imperial capital.
Thanks to the Paper Men, he also discovered those strange fellows lurking in the city.
However, as time passed, the Paper Men all looked exactly the same, and they were only distinguished by simple numbers.
As a result, Lu Yuan had to ponder carefully every time before he could distinguish where a certain Paper Man was located.
This was very inconvenient to manage!
Therefore, Lu Yuan wondered if there was a better way to help him tell the Paper Men apart.
In the end, he decided to use words to differentiate them.
Each Paper Man was represented by a character.
Not only could this make the Paper Men more recognizable, but when carrying out a task, he could even send out the corresponding Paper Men that could form the mission name.
This way, everything would be very straightforward.
However, there was something Lu Yuan did not expect. Rather, he had underestimated the ability he currently possessed.
The first time he gave a Paper Man a character, or rather, a name, it actually changed.
Not only did the Paper Man’s ability develop based on the name it was given, its personality mirrored the character they represented.
This was a new discovery for Lu Yuan.
After that, he observed these little guys.
He realized that after these little fellows changed, they had greater synergy with each other.
For example, when Paper Men named Fire and Wind came together, they could actually set off an even bigger flame.
During this process, Lu Yuan discovered the existence of something similar to an array.
Of course, this was all subconsciously done by the Paper Men.
If he had to describe it, the special array formed by the combination of these words was more like a unique talent of the Paper Men.
Lu Yuan did not expect that his casual action could actually produce such a huge change.
He had underestimated the miraculous effect of his skill after its advancement.
He had also underestimated the power of the heavens contained in his nine-patterned golden core formed through the way of the heavens.
Lu Yuan felt that there were two reasons why he was able to create Paper Men with special abilities.
Firstly, it was because of his Divine Soul Paper Binding Technique, which gave these Paper Men divine souls that were not inferior to that of ordinary monsters.
Secondly, it was because his spiritual energy contained the power of the heavens.
Although this power of the heavens was not much, the Paper Men did not contain much spiritual energy in the first place.
It could even be said that each of these Paper Men was coalesced from Lu Yuan’s power of the heavens.
So far, Lu Yuan discovered that he could at most create 300 Paper Men with words.
If he made any more, he felt as though he was pushing his limits.
This was because the making of these Paper Men required Lu Yuan to consume more divine soul compared to making ordinary Paper Men.
In the short term, 300 was Lu Yuan’s limit. He could not create more Paper Men.
However, just these 300 named Paper Men gave Lu Yuan a pleasant surprise.
For example, right now, he was training these Paper Men to form the fusion cultivation technique he had just obtained, the Mountain River Mystical Black Tortoise Diagram.
As a fusion cultivation technique, the Mountain River Mystical Black Tortoise Diagram included three parts: array formation, spiritual energy cultivation, and body tempering.
Among them, the array formation aimed to borrow the power of the surrounding rivers and mountains.
Spiritual energy cultivation referred to Lu Yuan cultivating the mystical black tortoise power, which could greatly increase the toughness of his spiritual energy and serve as his defense.
Body tempering referred to him training his body.
Lu Yuan used 300 Paper Men to simulate the first chapter of the Mountain River Mystical Black Tortoise Diagram, which was related to Core Formation Stage cultivation.
During this process, he also discovered that each Paper Man could actually act as multiple words in the array.
Otherwise, with so many similar words in a cultivation technique, Lu Yuan did not have the energy to make corresponding Paper Men for each word.
Lu Yuan became more and more excited as he looked at the Paper Men in the courtyard. They followed some kind of rule and stood in formation. Then, their bodies turned ethereal, becoming characters that were shining gold.
Not long after, these golden characters arranged themselves in the air, listing out the contents of the Mountain River Black Tortoise Diagram, Core Formation Chapter.
Then, the golden characters began to fade.
In the end, a little golden tortoise appeared in front of Lu Yuan.
Lu Yuan looked at the little tortoise in front of him. His mouth was wide open, and he narrowed his gaze in surprise.
He was even more shocked when he saw the little tortoise’s information through his interface.
[Characterized Mystical Black Tortoise]