Chapter 148 Linghe travels
"Similarly, Linghe will not reproduce and raise offspring under such conditions that it is difficult to protect itself."
"After all, they are not ordinary beasts. They have higher intelligence. Although they cannot break free, they can still make their own choices."
Lu Xuan looked at Xu Yi and said slowly.
"Then according to what Junior Brother Lu said, how should we solve this problem?"
"It's very simple. Reduce the pressure on the cranes, improve the food and housing environment, give the cranes space for promotion, and give the female cranes more care during the reproductive period."
"Naturally, they want to reproduce."
Hearing Lu Xuan's words, Xu Yi pondered for a moment.
"Improving the food and housing environment is the simplest thing. Find a few more comrades on weekdays and try to feed them more clams, snails, fish, etc. The water area can also be expanded a lot."
"As for what Junior Brother Lu said about giving Linghe room for promotion, I don't quite understand it."
"In addition, it is a bit difficult to reduce the burden on the spirit cranes. After all, the sect is so vast, and many outer disciples need a large number of spirit cranes to carry messages."
Xu Yi said.
Lu Xuan replied without thinking.
"Although the spirit crane is a tool, it is not an ordinary tool. For the most diligent spirit cranes, senior brother can give them something similar to the beast spirit elixir.
We must let them see that as long as they work hard to earn spirit stones, they can hope to improve their strength and break through the shackles of their own bloodline. "
"I have a suggestion on how to reduce their burden."
"Senior Brother, I wonder if you have noticed that in some areas, the number of spirit cranes seems a bit redundant."
"The number of monks coming and going in those areas is small, so there is no need to place so many cranes nearby."
"Senior brother, you can go and investigate and make statistics. What is the average number of cranes needed every day at various locations and time periods."
"Based on the statistical results, more cranes can be placed in popular areas, such as the General Affairs Hall and Dan Palace, and the number of cranes can be reduced in remote areas."
Xu Yi's eyes lit up:
"Junior Brother Lu, this is a good suggestion. According to your method, we can save a lot of unnecessary cranes, and we can make them work and rest more easily."
"Senior brother, that's a great reward."
Lu Xuan smiled modestly.
"If the conditions are right, you can also cooperate with fellow disciples of the Instrument Palace and the Formation Palace."
"Refining a small contact magic weapon, Linghe has one on his body and one on the outer disciples each. Linghe doesn't have to wait where he is."
"When it is time to take a ride on the spirit crane, fellow disciples can contact each other through magic weapons in advance, and the nearby spirit crane can arrive quickly to carry it."
"You can even arrange a formation, formation positioning, contact, control and other functions."
"After a fellow sect makes a request to carry a spirit crane through a magic weapon, the senior fellow from the Beast Taming Hall on the formation side can immediately know about it. Based on the fellow sect's location, he will immediately notify nearby idle cranes to go."
"In this way, all the cranes are operating at high speed. For the same transportation distance, fewer cranes are needed and the transportation efficiency is higher."
"Of course, this is just an idea of mine. I haven't done any research on formations, weapon refining, etc., so I don't know how difficult it will be to actually implement it."
Lu Xuan said with a smile.
"Junior Brother Lu is really fantastic, he can actually come up with such a method."
"Other conditions are good, but the requirements for formations are a bit high. I think it would take a foundation-building master who is good at formations to do it.
However, you can definitely give it a try. If you really can do it, Junior Brother Lu will do a great job! "
Xu Yi clicked his tongue in surprise, admiring Lu Xuan's idea.
"Haha, if that formation is refined, it can be called Linghe Travel."
Lu Xuan said with some evil humor.
Ten days passed in the blink of an eye, and the crow of cranes could be heard every night in the camp.
Nearly half of the more than 40 female cranes were pregnant. After seeing this phenomenon, Xu Yi came over every day and explored the abdomens of the remaining female cranes.
The result made him, who had always been calm, smile from ear to ear. During this period, he revealed to Lu Xuan that the relevant formations and magic weapons suggested by Lu Xuan were being refined intensively. Soon, the method of carrying the spirit crane in the sect would be revealed. There will be earth-shaking changes.
On the other side, after Zhou Zhengqing's camp changed its birth control method, there was no more extreme behavior like Linghe's self-mutilation.
As a result, the fertility rate of the two hundred cranes he raised was not much higher than before, but he could only accept this result sadly.
"Junior Brother Lu, thanks to you this time, the hall has calculated the approximate demand for spirit cranes in each location of the sect. In about a few days, their average carrying capacity will be reduced."
In the camp, Lu Xuan and Xu Yi were walking side by side among the water plants.
"That's great."
Lu Xuan looked at the many spiritual cranes flying freely in the sky in the distance, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
"My mission is completed, it's time to say goodbye to Senior Brother Xu."
Xu Yi already fully understood Lu Xuan's method of increasing Linghe's fertility rate, so he nodded in agreement without making any further reservations.
Lu Xuan returned to the hut, cleaned up briefly, and then came to the water area, intending to call a spiritual crane to send him back to the cave.
"Uh-huh~!"
Just as he was about to get on the back of a spiritual crane, a loud and crisp chirp suddenly came from a distance.
A tall and pure white crane flew over at high speed and landed next to Lu Xuan.
The body volume of this spirit crane is nearly twice that of an ordinary spirit crane, reaching a height of about one foot. Its feathers are as white as jade, and when stretched out, they are three to four feet long.
"A third-grade spiritual crane! The blood of this spiritual crane is extraordinary!"
Lu Xuan's spiritual consciousness swept across the tall crane and sighed in his heart.
Most of the spirit cranes were at the first-grade level, and a few with excellent bloodline could reach the second-grade. This was the first time he had seen a third-grade spirit crane.
"This is the Crane King, a third-grade spiritual beast who is in charge of all spiritual cranes in Shuizhu."
Xu Yi, who had some understanding of the spirit crane's mind, listened to the chirping of the tall spirit crane, and his expression changed instantly.
"King Crane expressed his wish to personally see Junior Brother Lu off for a ride."
Xu Yi's tone was a little incredulous that Lu Xuan, an outer disciple at the ninth level of qi training and equivalent to the foundation-building level Crane King, actually wanted him to ride on him.
"It seems that I underestimated the influence of the method proposed by Junior Brother Lu on the Linghe ethnic group."
He said with some envy.
Lu Xuan looked at King Crane who had squatted down, clasping his hands into fists.
"Thank you so much, Senior He."
After saying that, he jumped up and landed gently on the Crane King's back, sitting obediently and motionless.
The tall crane roared, fluttering its white wings, and soared into the sky.
"Bahah~~"
Lu Xuan heard the chirping of spirit cranes coming from behind, and turned around to look, only to see the hundred spirit cranes he had raised following closely behind the Crane King, bidding farewell to Lu Xuan in this way.
Slowly, the number of cranes behind him increased, two hundred, three hundred... In the end, no less than a thousand cranes were dotted behind the Crane King, overwhelming the sky and the earth, making it a spectacular sight.
Lu Xuan waved his hands towards them.
"If you have nothing to do, you can make more little cranes. I will come over to see you when I have time."
