The King's Commission

After sending Liu Shuyue back to the Liu family, Lin Qing gave him a thumbs-up.

"Nice work!"

Chen Xuan folded his arms and refused to fall for it. "You're eyeing Mala Village too?"

"I'm thinking of both of us. After the battle in Jiufeng City, I made an important discovery: cultivators are incredibly useful!" Lin Qing's eyes gleamed. "Don't think they became stronger just because they upgraded from muskets to cannons. I dare say these people are naturally the best weapons platforms. They run faster than ordinary people, have more developed neural responses, and their hand-eye coordination is amazing! Even without cybernetic bodies, some of their metrics have already reached cybernetic levels. If we could get some entry-level military cybernetics and combine them with their high obedience, it would be like the store had a professional army."

No wonder she had suggested installing an auxiliary cognition chip in Liu Shuyue. If she could adapt well to a cybernetic body, that would prove the expansion plan was viable.

"But she once said you'd modified yourself too much and that your Three Souls and Seven Po weren't complete, so you couldn't learn spells."

"Maybe. Then could the shopkeeper, who hasn't modified himself at all, learn their spells without a transaction?" Lin Qing countered.

Chen Xuan was rendered speechless.

When wandering around Mala Village, he occasionally went to observe how the villagers cultivated. When the mood struck him, he even tried imitating them a few times. His conclusion was that Qi-Sensing cultivation was basically incompatible with him.

"I don't think the two are directly related. As for her saying that your soul was incomplete, I think the essence of it is that your brain underwent mutations, not that something is missing from your soul," she continued. "Installing too many cybernetics can indeed cause