Little Parrot had an exceptional capacity for learning. Though puzzled, it still began imitating Chen Jue's pronunciation, producing sounds like "ah, woo, uh..." from its mouth.
Through his mental magnetic field, Chen Jue could sense the confusion it gave off. Just like a toddler learning to speak, it needed a process to go from initial incomprehension to pronouncing the sounds, and finally to understanding what the language meant.
Human infants' language development was divided into stages of learning single syllables, imitating multiple syllables, and using words to express themselves. The entire process took roughly twenty-four months.
For some young children whose intelligence developed more slowly by nature, this process would take even longer.
Chen Jue was teaching Little Parrot human speech partly to see how far an intelligent creature on this unfamiliar planet could develop its brain.
Aside from that, Chen Jue also wanted to test his own cultivation by teaching this exotic hatchling, and discover different sparks of thought in the process.
After learning a few sets of sounds, the little fellow began to look tired, its head repeatedly nodding with sleepiness. Learning pronunciation consumed both physical and mental energy, and it had been out of its shell for less than a day. Being able to keep learning for a few sounds was already very impressive.
Seeing it grow drowsy again, Chen Jue cupped it in his hands and returned it to the inflatable mattress. Then he sat cross-legged, grabbed two pieces of life ore, crushed them in his hands, and began practicing the last skill he had yet to explore: Seven-Star Life Extension.
This skill was a secret Daoist art that required circulating blood, qi, and primordial qi along a specific route to seven major acupoints of the human body. Aside from the Shangqu Acupoint, the body's