Idle Cultivation

Ten Arcane Cards were kept close, while the other old Spirit Cards were put in his bag. With time to spare, Duke took a car to the Spirit Tower.

It wasn't that he wanted to go out and have fun.

It was because he had made some money and wanted to exchange for a meditation method.

Back then, to allow Xiao Yi to help with cultivation, he had chosen the easiest Blank Paper Meditation, making it convenient for Xiao Yi to cultivate in his stead without affecting his own actions.

Now, it seemed Xiao Yi was powerful enough that even a more difficult meditation method could be substituted for cultivation.

This was Duke's second time at the Spirit Tower, and he was already familiar with the way.

He went straight to the meditation method management office. Mr. Willgang, whom he had met before, was still in charge. He had some impression of Duke: "It's you, what are you here for?"

"Uh, Mr. Willgang, I want to exchange for a meditation method."

"Exchange meditation methods?"

"Yes, the efficiency of Blank Paper Meditation is too poor."

"Hmph, I already warned you, you must choose a suitable meditation method..." Willgang rolled his eyes, "Forget it, you young people, not many of you have clear heads... Which meditation method do you want to choose? I'll warn you in advance, re-imprinting a meditation method costs 1 gold dragon each time. Be careful when you meditate, don't confuse the two meditation methods!"

"Okay, I choose Field Meditation."

"Hmm?" Willgang frowned and looked at Duke's information sheet, "Are you sure? With your below-average talent, I advise you to honestly choose Bedrock Meditation."

"No, I want to challenge myself!" Duke insisted.

It wasn't like he was cultivating himself; it was the Ninth-Ring Arcane Artifact Xiao Yi who would be cultivating. How difficult could a mere Spiritual Apprentice level meditation method be, no matter how high the difficulty?

"Heh." Willgang was amused to the point of anger.

He decided not to persuade Duke any further and said to his assistant, "Swipe the card and take him to imprint Field Meditation."

The same room, the same machine.

He put on the helmet, and mysterious energy enveloped his mind. A brand new meditation method was imprinted in his Spirit Sea through the energy transmitted by the instrument.

A moment later, the imprinting was complete.

Duke didn't linger and returned directly to the small inn.

"Xiao Yi, is Field Meditation ready?"

"It has been preliminarily debugged successfully. However, the meditation difficulty of Field Meditation is greater than Blank Paper Meditation. It's possible that when Xiao Yi cultivates on your behalf, she might be easily disturbed by external factors."

"It's fine, let's try cultivating with it first."

Duke wasn't worried. If it failed, he could always switch back to Blank Paper Meditation.

Ever since he had Xiao Yi, a Ninth-Ring Arcane Artifact with top-tier artificial intelligence, he felt his Spirit Sea was like a computer, and Xiao Yi was the CPU of this computer.

It was just that currently, apart from the CPU, all the other hardware of the computer was too low.

It was fine to run a low-end "software" like Blank Paper Meditation, but it was hard to say if it could handle a slightly higher-end "software" like Field Meditation.

Immediately.

He began researching the old Spirit Cards he had bought from the Scrap Card Station, while Xiao Yi started cultivating Field Meditation in his Spirit Sea. A moment later, he felt Spirituality being absorbed by his body.

However, just as he was about to communicate with Xiao Yi, this feeling of absorbing Spirituality quickly faded.

"Sorry, Master, an error occurred during the cultivation of Field Meditation, and it has now crashed. Xiao Yi is summarizing the reasons for the failure," Xiao Yi replied.

"It failed, that's okay. Summarize the experience and try again next time!"

"Okay, Master."

"Also, when I'm sleeping, Xiao Yi, you can switch the meditation method to Field Meditation to increase cultivation efficiency."

One night passed. Duke woke up early in the morning and checked the condition of his Spirit Sea.

He found that after switching to cultivating Field Meditation, the condensation speed of Spirit Liquid had indeed improved, but the improvement was not significant. There would only be a noticeable difference between various meditation methods after long-term cultivation.

"I heard that the Chen Jiao Grand Hotel in the city center is built directly above a Spirit Spring, and every room has a misty Spiritual energy field... I wonder what the effect would be for cultivation. When I have money, I must try it!" With beautiful expectations for the future, Duke checked out and left.

The Black Beetle Car, as usual, sped along the route to Snakehead Town.

Accompanied by a Great Knight escort, they safely arrived at the station.

"Phew, safe return!"

Duke glanced in the direction of his home and gave a self-deprecating smile, "It's just ten Arcane Cards, there aren't that many blind dangers coming for me."

Even so, caution is the parent of safety.

The next time Duke went out to buy Spirit Cards on commission, he would still treat it with caution, ensuring that danger was always kept away from him.

Back at the shop, he handed the consumables to Lisa and the others to handle. He hurried to the kitchen to eat. Ever since he hired Aunt Abby to cook and clean, he no longer had to waste time on housework.

After lunch.

Duke first went directly to the address Rony had left. However, Rony was not at home, and after knocking for a long time, there was no response. Duke had no choice but to return to the shop and come back to knock in the evening.

This time, the door opened, and he met Rony.

"Did you buy the Arcane Cards?" Rony's eyes lit up.

"Of course."

"Alright, swipe the card!" Rony took out his Spirit Dragon Card and swiped 50 silver dragons for Duke, then accepted the Arcane Card. "Boss Duke, you did good work. I'll come back if I need anything else."

"It's my honor to serve you." After receiving the money, Duke politely took his leave.

When he returned to his shop, he suddenly felt a lightness in his body. He quickly understood that the binding force of the agreement contract was dissipating.

"Amazing!"

Duke's curiosity about the Spiritual Arcana field grew, wondering how many extraordinary and incredible powers it held.

In the evening, after locking up the shop, Duke returned to his warehouse-converted residence. He began flipping through books while waiting for Xiao Yi's Nth attempt to cultivate the Field Meditation.

All day long, Xiao Yi had been continuously cultivating, failing, and summarizing.

The lamplight illuminated the small room, leaving only the sound of Duke flipping through books.

He didn't know how much time had passed, but the sensation of absorbing Spirituality had lingered, never fading.

At this moment, Xiao Yi's voice came through, "Master, I have successfully 'idled' the cultivation of Field Meditation. I've confirmed that all erroneous factors have been completely eliminated."

"Idling" was Duke's term for Xiao Yi cultivating in his stead.

It was currently one of Xiao Yi's most important functions.

"Very good. By the way, Xiao Yi, how is the improvement of the Desert Eagle progressing?" Duke hadn't forgotten the other task he had given Xiao Yi: to "equip" the Desert Eagle with a silencer.

Xiao Yi replied, "While formally cultivating Field Meditation, I cannot allocate more computing power for improvements. Currently, the progress on the Desert Eagle's modification is stuck at the material application stage."

The forging of Arcane Artifacts not only required spell models but also material application.

Only when suitable materials fused with Spiritual Power could Arcane Artifacts be forged to accommodate spell models. Otherwise, the spell models would never be released, and the Arcane Artifacts would become useless junk.

Xiao Yi then added, "I suggest Master purchase more books related to materials. I need to expand the database to complete the material application for the subsequent Desert Eagle improvement project."

"Don't worry, I'm looking at them right now," Duke said, shaking the book in his hand.

The book was titled Compendium of Spirit Metal Smelting Formulas. It recorded a large number of publicly disclosed spirit metal smelting formulas, most of which were expired patents.

The Tower of Erudition announced expired patents every year.