As soon as Xuanya’s figure disappeared at the end of the bamboo forest path, Lu Qiancha immediately calmed her mind and once again immersed herself in repeatedly practicing the “Er Zi Gui Yuan”.
She moved her thoughts slightly and summoned the Heaven and Earth Chessboard, which contained the Dao of Chess, suspending it at her side in an attempt to use its Dao Rhymes to deepen her understanding of this newly acquired technique.
Once, twice, three times
With each cycle of guiding her intent, sketching trajectories, and returning everything to origin and annihilation, deep in Lu Qiancha’s heart lake, that elusive, mist-like profound Dao Rhyme finally became gradually clear to her senses.
She could perceive it, touch it, and eventually capture it firmly.
The feeling was like a dormant seed breaking through the hard earth, tender shoots bursting forth with life; or like an invisible zither string being quietly plucked by the fingers of fate, sending ripples through her heart lake.
It made her heart surge with excitement, eager to try, its wonders as vast as the stars, dazzling and enchanting.
Yet this insight was like sand slipping through her fingers, vanishing in a blink, making her anxious and restless, able only to brand it deep in her soul through thousands of cycles of tempering.
Finally.
After countless failures and minute adjustments, aided by the dual support of the “Guiyuan Record” mental method and the Heaven and Earth Chessboard’s Dao Rhymes, Lu Qiancha united her mind and spirit, successfully separating and condensing a wisp of pure Dao Rhyme from her ethereal insights.
Without hesitation, she carefully guided this newly captured Dao Rhyme out and quickly placed it into the magic cube she carried with her.
A wave of irrepressible excitement surged in Lu Qiancha’s heart—the Dao of Chess was finally about to receive a substantial enhancement.
This would be a truly lethal combat technique and another trump card for saving her life.
However, the expected Chess Dao Manifestation did not appear.
Just as the thought flashed through her mind, the magic cube in her hand shone with flowing light and abruptly changed shape. In an instant, it transformed into three ancient, brownish-yellow cards.
At a glance, Lu Qiancha saw that these cards looked exactly like the Magnetism Mushroom Card she had previously obtained.
Her gaze was instantly drawn to the peculiar pattern on the card.
On the first card, a strangely shaped mushroom was depicted—the main body resembled a huge U-shaped magnet, with a gray-white stalk.
At the curved connection of the U-shaped magnet, there was a prominent purple bow-shaped bulge.
This was the Magnetism Mushroom.
Lu Qiancha immediately recognized this classic image.
At the same time, she couldn’t help but mutter in her heart: So, the Dao Rhyme I captured this time wasn’t of the Dao of Chess, but rather a law about gravity or magnetism.
She helplessly scratched her little ear, her gaze dropping to carefully read the tiny characters inscribed below the card:
[Magnetism Mushroom]
[Magnetism: Sleeps during the day. When awake, can attract metallic objects within a certain range.]
[Decompose: Can slowly decompose attracted metallic objects. The higher the item’s quality or rank, the longer decomposition takes. During decomposition, the original properties of the metallic object will be temporarily nullified.]
[Cooldown: Half an hour.]
[Introduction: “I declare! I really don’t eat iron tools! I just keep getting knocked out by those clueless things flying by…” said an anonymous Magnetism Mushroom.]
Lu Qiancha blinked her large, watery blue eyes. With a trace of anticipation, she slowly infused her spiritual power into the first Magnetism Mushroom Card.
Poof.
A mushroom with a massive U-shaped magnet cap and a remarkably robust body instantly appeared on the ground in front of her.
Unlike the petite Magnetism Mushroom sprout she’d seen before, this one was sleeping soundly.
Its personified cap wore a classic “-_-” expression, and several tiny “Zzz” bubbles floated above its head, gently rising and falling with its breath.
Lu Qiancha took out a small iron sword and gently placed it beside the sleeping Magnetism Mushroom.
There was no reaction.
As expected, there was absolutely no magnetism while it slept.
Lu Qiancha pouted, unable to resist reaching out her little paw to poke curiously at the giant magnet hat on the Magnetism Mushroom’s head.
The sensation was a bit surprising—it wasn’t the cold, hard feel of metal as she’d imagined, but instead a soft, bouncy, wonderfully elastic texture, quite intriguing.
This peculiar feeling made her unconsciously bring her finger to her mouth for a light nibble, her little head spinning with thoughts: In a few days, I’ll have to find those foreign merchants from afar and buy some coffee beans to try. Maybe that’ll solve the mushrooms’ problem of sleeping during the day.
As soon as the idea arose, Lu Qiancha was suddenly startled.
Her heart skipped a beat; she quickly pulled her finger from her mouth and hurriedly took out a clean handkerchief, carefully wiping off the saliva.
Then, she nervously perked up her two little ears, alertly turning her small head to look all around, quietly spreading out her powerful spiritual sense.
After confirming that her master Xuanya’s aura was indeed not nearby, the little wolf cub let out a long sigh of relief, relaxing her tense little shoulders.
“Whew—good thing Master isn’t here, or I’d be in for a beating.”
“Grr~”
Just thinking about her master’s strength when she hit people made Lu Qiancha involuntarily shiver a little, a low, lingering whimper of lingering fear escaping her throat.
She shook her head vigorously, as if shaking off those terrifying thoughts. Composing herself, the little wolf cub turned her gaze to the remaining two brand-new cards.
The image on the second card was even stranger: its main body resembled a clover, but its three leaves had been replaced by three robust magnets, black on top and red on the bottom.
Altogether, it looked just like a miniature wind turbine.
Lu Qiancha looked at the small characters below.
[Trifoliate Magnet]
[Strong Magnetic Field Burst: After being planted, generates an extremely powerful magnetic field, instantly attracting all metallic objects within a vast range. Effect lasts one minute.]
[Cooldown: Fifteen minutes.]
[Introduction: “Everyone loves to call me ‘Magnet King’, and ‘Disarm you!’ is my loudest slogan. But honestly, I don’t even understand myself—how exactly does the ‘whoosh’ of spinning wind turn into the ‘zip’ of magnetic pull…”—A perplexed Trifoliate Magnet.]
Looks like this plant traded away the decomposition trait and a shorter duration for an even more domineering, wide-area magnetic power.
Lu Qiancha twitched her sensitive ears, quickly analyzing its traits.
With a thought, she infused spiritual power into the second card.
Poof.
A Trifoliate Magnet instantly appeared on the ground.
Almost as soon as it took root, the three magnet-leaf blades at its top began spinning rapidly, emitting a “whoosh” of wind.
A powerful suction force burst forth, and the small iron sword Lu Qiancha had just tossed aside was instantly pulled over with a “swish,” sticking tightly to one of the spinning magnet leaves and spinning around at high speed.
Lu Qiancha was slightly surprised.
She scratched her little ear and pondered: It seems that these mushroom variants or derived forms basically don’t have the daytime sleep restriction—only the original prototype mushroom is so fond of sleeping.
It actually won’t sleep during the day?!
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