Cultivation Struggles of a Lowly Fox

Meticulously adjusting the Inscriptions as she saw fit. She finally saw a change in her system.

Inscription R-1 -> R-2

Divine Calligraphy R-1 -> R3

Heavenly Fingers R-1 -> R-2

Aiko was satisfied with that change and filled her Pen with the Inscription Ink.

She then slowly inserted the Inscription Ink into the grooves, and that’s when the magic started to happen.

The Qi was being sucked inside as clouds gathered inside the Formation set up by the Grandmaster.

It was the Heavenly Phenomenon that was being suppressed by the Formation!

Aiko didn’t stop her hand and kept inserting the Inscription Ink inside.

The grooves slowly filled up and lit up the Inscription on the Lamp.

Aiko was very meticulous, not missing or spilling anything. It had to be done carefully, even if she were to be exhausted!

The Qi got sucked into the Lamp as it slowly came to life. The Heavenly Phenomenon above them also increased. It now started to form rainbow clouds as the colours descended around the Lamp.

Aiko naturally wanted to shoo the clouds away since they bothered her, but those clouds were so relentless that they didn’t even listen to her, Wolfy and just entered the Lamp!

Aiko was angered, but didn’t think much about it for the time being. Her system didn’t say anything about this, so it was probably a good sign.

An hour later. Aiko was finally completely exhausted, but-!

[100 Ghost Parade Lamp (Repaired)(Reworked)]

[Description: Slightly incomplete version of [100 Ghost Parade Lamp], it’s quite limited, but it’s no longer as damaged as before.]

{Rarity: Lost Treasure (Can’t be determined until fully repaired.)]

[Effects:

Ghost Storage(3/50): Liu Ru, Slave 1, Liu Zhi

Ghost Qi Storage: 100,000/100,000

Ghost Qi Efficacy: +3

Ghost Qi Conductivity: 70%

Ghost Qi Leakage: 2%

Ghost Nurturing: Degraded

Ghost Nurturing Efficacy: 1%

Ghost Nurturing Size: 5

Ghost Healing: Slow

Ghost Healing Efficacy: Broken

Ghost Healing Size: 10

...

...]

[Owner: Aiko (Not Completely Refined)]

Moon Aiko finally finished this wondrous thing, and she earned quite a few goodies from it!

[You have earned the Title: [Restorer]!]

[You have earned the Title: [Pioneer]!]

[You have earned the Title: [Ghost Princess]!]

Smithing R-1 -> 2

Forging R-1 -> 2

[New Art: [Restoration]!]

Restoration R-1(?)

[Can’t be graded properly as there are a few Restoration Cultivators alive.]

After those nice messages, Aiko finally passed out...

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’The Ghost and Ghost Qi got sucked in...’ Ah Cy felt some kind of force tugging on her Soul, but it was not powerful enough to affect her.

She shook her head gently. She would keep the Lamp in here and move Aiko to rest.

Aiko was currently vulnerable as she was completely exhausted, so it was a good idea not to keep her around something that could affect the Soul.

Ah Cy moved Aiko when the Grandmaster suddenly arrived back.

”Did I miss anything?” The Grandmaster looked at the exhausted Foxy.

”You have missed a lot, Grandmaster.” Ah Cy chuckled.

”Dammit...” The Grandmaster sighed. ”I really wanted to see how it ended.”

”You can still look at the finished product.” Ah Cy narrowed her eyes.

”Don’t glare at me like that, young one. I won’t steal something from a junior, much less a guest!” The Grandmaster felt offended.

...

’Damn! I really want that!’ The Grandmaster regretted his words as he stared at the almost restored Treasure. His Soul yearned for it, and for a good reason.

This Lamp was able to nurture his Soul! That was unheard of!

You would normally find a special spring or some kind of Soul Treasure that could strengthen the outer layer of your Soul, but this thing nurtured the Soul itself!

Unfortunately, there was a certain Peak Elder who was keeping her eyes on him, so he couldn’t take it. He was so damn jealous that he almost turned green!

”Still feeling the same, Grandmaster?” Ah Cy teased him.

”Very funny. I’m agonising over here, and you are making fun of me.” The Grandmaster flicked her forehead for making fun of him.

Ah Cy massaged her forehead, smiling lightly.

”And you already stabilised your foundation-” The Grandmaster was speechless. ”Did you get infected by that Fox? Why are you not normal like us old dudes?!” He cried out gently. The world was such an unfair place...

”It’s fine, Grandmaster.” Ah Cy giggled before leading him away for tea. She would entertain him until Aiko woke up and refined that Treasure.

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Moon Aiko woke up groggily. Her obscenely huge Beast Core was completely depleted, which shocked her.

But that was only natural since she tried to push herself so far!

Nodding her head gently, she went back to sleep, slowly recovering her Beast Core over the days...

...

Moon Aiko finally stood up from the bed and walked outside. She didn’t really care how she looked, since she wanted to refine that Treasure!

Both Grandmaster and Ah Cy noticed that Aiko woke up, but they didn’t immediately rush over. They were currently talking about how to tackle the incoming disaster.

Moon Aiko was unaware of this and started to refine her Treasure.

...

A day later, Aiko was finished! But she was unable to completely refine it due to its damaged core.

”Shame. I will have to fix it from scratch if I want to refine it completely...” Aiko narrowed her eyes. Thanks to the system, it would not be hard to guess the ingredients, but refining them without messing them up would be difficult.

What she needed was to improve her power and control over Divine Sense.

Nodding her head. Aiko decided to later repair the [The Ever Shaping Cauldron: Divine Meteorite (-); {Resonance}/100%].

For now, there were more Treasures waiting for her!

Moon Aiko slowly turned into Captivating Aiko and went over to where she felt Ah Cy’s energy.

...

”Aiko.” Ah Cy smiled in her new courtyard, but it was quite empty since nothing grew in the garden yet.

”Ah Cy~” Captivating Aiko went to hug Ah Cy. Making the Grandmaster feel awkward.

The Grandmaster coughed lightly.

”Grandmaster.” Aiko smiled before sitting down.

The Grandmaster felt like there was something wrong about the difference in greeting, but he still didn’t give her all the Treasures, so he couldn’t complain too much.

Aiko smiled at him, waiting for him.

”I have delivered the Spirit Boat, but that is not all.” The Grandmaster summoned his Divine Sense and dragged two flying ships over.

”Since you have a Spirit Boat, you can decide if you want to take a flying ship too, but it might be harder to transport.” The Grandmaster warned Aiko.

”It also is not strong enough to deal with the ocean, so don’t even think about taking it to the mainland!” The Grandmaster warned her even more about this, since the ocean was turbulent.

”I understand.” Aiko nodded her head, but she would just store her flying ship into her tails... somehow.

One flying ship was broken, but thanks to it, Aiko could see the thickness of the walls and what was inside.

She could also inspect the core of the ship, which allowed it to move in different directions.

Aiko first jumped onto the wrecked ship. The Flying Stone was already gone, but that was fine. The rooms were separated by Arrays. Each of the Arrays slightly increased the size of the room, but the problem was what would happen if it were deactivated.

Once the Array was deactivated, they wouldn’t be squished inside but thrown outside.

While that was not too big of an issue, if it happened with several rooms... yeah, it would be a disaster where the people would be crushed by getting flushed outside.

Aiko surmised that she would have to adjust this slightly.

The first adjustment would be that anything the disciples would bring inside would be ejected into the hallway. That way, the furniture would stay inside.

Another thing would be to place furniture in such a way that even if the insides would get smaller, it would only get closer to each other and not damage each other.

That way, she didn’t need to eject the beds, different dressers and those kinds of things.

That way, it would reduce the amount of shit it would eject outside for others to deal with.

Of course, any living creature would be ejected just in case they were located in an unfortunate place...

...

With the rooms inspected. Aiko turned her attention to the hallways. They were pretty much used to empower the Arrays of each room, not only making them stronger, but also more efficient.

It seemed like humans had quite the nice ideas, but it was far from polished.

If you damaged the Array outside, it would immediately shrink the rooms and thus eject everything inside.

With that kind of flaw, Aiko didn’t even need to battle these flying ships and just slightly damage the insides to make a complete mess out of it.

Shaking her head gently, she went into the common room/cafeteria.

This place was not enlarged by an Array. That was probably because this place was used to socialise, and it would be difficult to keep things in check if someone harboured evil intentions.

Walking through the cafeteria, Aiko arrived at the back of the ship. It was kind of like a nice deck where you could freely see outside, while still being protected by Arrays.

Aiko nodded her head slightly. This place was quite nice for fishing, so she would definitely create something like that for her flying ship.

The main attraction for her was still the control room.

Walking there, it was a large and empty room, except for the control crystal in the middle.

The whole room was covered in Arrays, and it was obvious where you were supposed to sit in order to control it.

There was one seat for control and eight others for support.

They were probably there to strengthen the defensive formations of the flying ship. Making it more difficult to be invaded, but...

’It feels like it would drain your Qi too quickly.’ The Array was once again far from efficient. There were many typos that blocked the Qi flow or slowed it down. Introducing bottlenecks that never existed before...