Yin Hu returned to the pavilion. He secured the entrance by tying small ropes into the holes on the other side to prevent anyone from sneaking in easily. Activated his perception ability. Pulled out his spear and finally focused on making sure no one approached him while he was focused on finding the perfect mutation.

It wasn't much considering he hadn't seen lick or hide of any monsters or beasts in the forest, but he was no fool. He had strangers in his camp. While they seemed pretty righteous and good, especially that Zhong Da, he couldn't trust anyone blindly.

The costs were simply too high for anything like that.

Cultivation worlds were designed to create brutal people that would take advantage of any opening, even if they were well meaning individuals usually. Being unable to make due in a perfect opportunity was a quick way to die while accomplishing nothing in life. The worst thing that could happen to a cultivator.

Legacy and their names ringing in the annals of history drove an innumerable amount of men and women to do dumb things.

All for recognition and honor.

Yin Hu had no interest in either one currently.

His only interest at this very moment was not fucking up and turning the girls into hideous half human, half animal hybrid creatures. Girls, especially, seemed to care more about the way they looked compared to men. He could imagine having a male disciple that would actively choose to have bear arms, even if it made no sense objectively.

Bears didn't have thumbs after all, but the increase in power and edginess superseded the look and functionality of it.

Alright! Let's do this no more wasting time!

Yin Hu started with Jun. He approached the girls and prompted the system to provide him the same message he got previously. Going over the same progress he had finished not even ten minutes ago. Making sure he could get the same vague feeling he got from the system. The option to reject or accept options would dictate how much he would try to experiment.

It took a couple tries until he received the confirmation through a sense rather than a message.

Again, the system was still broken.

He was just learning about new functions it had never provided him with.

He brought out a chair from his rice bag and sat on it next to Jun's bed. He placed said bag on his lap and started to search. He could try to experiment as much as he wanted now. Try unfitting combinations that no one in their right mind would attempt.

The first was a bowl of rice and a dozen Superior Mana Stones.

Yin Hu had recognized a long time ago that his rice was special. It was on a tier all on its own. Especially compared to anything made by anyone in this cultivation world. From the way the girls reacted to it and had to cultivate after every meal. Down to how ruined his palate was.

He had a suspicion that the rice had done exactly that somehow. Maybe it had a specific energy? Or was it so saturated with energy that he couldn't eat anything that was close to its level?

There was no way to really test that even if he wanted to. Which he didn't.

Better things were available to experiment on.

He prompted the system with the two types of items in the bowl. A screen appeared before him unlike the usual way the system showed up. It flashed white and black for a second before it turned into static energy like an old T.V. From the early 2000s. Complete with noise too.

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Yin Hu stared for a second. There was nothing he could even get a hint of what was the outcome of the combination or whether it was accepted—

Error…

That popped up in red letters on the screen. Both vanished a second later.

Error…

Wrong Dimensional System Activation Sequence Initiated…

Error…

Unable to sync system parameters…

System Recalibration to suitable Dimensional System Activation Sequences…

Provided Resources -

Vagrant King's Rice

12 Superior Mana Stones- Grade SSS+

Mutations Available -

ArchMage of Purity - Tier SS

Mana Primus - Tier SSS

Vagrant ArchMage of the Living Flora - Tier—

ErRorr…

Unsuitable item in dimensional plane…

Wrong energy source…

Please provide proper resources that are applicable to the Dimensional System Activation Sequence…

Yin Hu stared at the response he had been given with his breath held. Everything could have gone wrong within seconds had the system puttered out and failed him again. If he had messed up and provided Jun with a mutation that would literally kick her out of the dimensional plane itself, he would not have forgiven himself.

Or would it make her the weakest being on the planet considering there isn't even an ounce of the necessary mana in the entire world? There was no way to tell, nor did he want to know what would happen. He would leave that bit alone.

He sent both items back into his bag. The rice seemed somewhat more applicable than the mana stones, but he wasn't so sure he liked the title of Vagrant added to anything else. He had a bad impression of what a vagrant was. More importantly, it reminded him of the island too much to let it appear before him all the time.

Suffering the sight of it so much would drive him mad.

Instead, he pulled out more traditional items in a cultivation world. Yin Hu searched deep within his bag. Further than any time before this. Going through thousands and thousands of items until he found a few that didn't seem like they would break the system.

A basic knight's longsword and a shield that seemed to fit together. Both seemed very strong and could channel qi quite well, but they were nowhere near the Spirit Weapons in terms of sheer brute force. They were the edge of what he would call the mundane.

The highest a normal weapon could go before it formed a spirit of some kind to bolster it beyond what was realistically possible.

He placed the two items together and prompted the system again.

Provided Resources -

Knight Heraldry Set 1 of 1 -

Grace Warriors Guardian Set -

Sword of the Grace Warrior

Shield of the Grace Warrior

Mutations Available -

Grace Cultivator of Heaven - Tier C+ -

Grace Warrior Elite - Tier C-

Guardian of the Yin Hu Sect - Tier A+

The only one between the three options he liked was the last one. Guardian of the Yin Hu Sect was an A+ tier. Which he assumed meant potential in terms he could clearly understand. There was a massive difference between what he would think an A tier would be compared to a C tier.

More so if the levels grew harder to progress the higher you went.

Yin Hu shook his head. He'd already seen SSS+ now with the rice. It didn't feel right to settle for something as low as C+ when other possibilities would provide something far greater. He just needed to find the right one.

He wondered if getting something applicable to their Spiritual Root Element would change the tier as well. Would being a wood element cultivator negatively affect the tier of a Guardian of the Yin Hu Sect? Or would it remain at the A+ tier? He had no clue what to think.

Caution was his final decision at this point.

There were simply too many unknowns for him to risk anything at all. He couldn't ask the system for an explanation. No lore background on the classes and mutations. Nothing prompted the system to tell him what element the mutation would take on. Would it change her roots over all to a new element or would it keep its original?

If that was the case, then didn't him giving them their weapons already be a negative? A wood element sword would lose its effectiveness if her Spiritual Roots suddenly turned into a spirit element like Shui's. There had to be some consistency.

Yin Hu looked back into his spacial rice bag.

A thousand uncertainties crossed his mind with every passing second. The longer he thought, the worse his situation became.

He shook his head.

No point over thinking this opportunity! Let's do our best, then figure out what happens next some time later. Right now, the goal is only to get the most applicable mutation available and one that doesn't sound like it will throw her out of the dimensional plane altogether… though I don't actually know what that means fully.

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