Watching Wang Quan laugh wildly, Ma Qingqiu and the others knew this was the joy of his harvest.
"I'm not jealous!"
"My little underlings will mature soon too. When the time comes, they'll refine brains and cleanse my five viscera and six bowels for me day and night."
"My joy will be no less than Wang Quan's."
Mei Niang and the other Dao Seal Cultivators comforted themselves too.
The Orthodox Cultivators, on the other hand, felt little about it.
They were now wholly focused on empowering the Daoist Scriptures, spending all their remaining time refining methods and spells.
They had absolutely no energy to study anything else.
External brains?
Heh, what was there to study about those things?
"We have to labor every day in the Second-Layer World. Even a hundred external brains would be useless!"
"Once we return to the Present World, attaching dozens or hundreds of brains to refine methods and spells will be the way to go."
"These fellows are fiddling with brains that can be attached in the Second-Layer World purely to waste resources, waste time, and flaunt their wealth."
"It's no big deal!"
"Hmph!"
The crow flew and the hare raced:
One month...
Three months...
Five months...
After the Bump Spirit Monsters under Wang Quan became able to cleanse brains, the Way of Idiocy Spirit Monsters raised by Ma Qingqiu, Ruo Jinghong, and the others also stumbled their way into cleansing brains.
Soon:
All the Dao Seal Cultivators had attached external brains, five viscera and six bowels, and the like, roaming the Second-Layer World without restraint.
Mei Niang, in particular, was a mischievous, clever woman, the smartest of them all.
After attaching some external brains, she awakened true wisdom.
"No matter how capable I am alone, I'm still just one person."
"If one me becomes