"Wait until I’ve understood the research fully, then we can start refining."
...
After dinner, he arrived at the dormitory hall.
The apprentices ford their own circles, each playing around.
The hall was filled with the joyful yipping of the fox apprentices.
In front of Bai Mo’s bed, dozens of flower pots were arranged in a formation.
In each flower pot, there was a model of a human head mushroom.
Bai Mo crouched down, moving among them, applying dicine to each of their ears.
So had dicinal powder, so had liquid dicine, so had ointnt... All these dicines were either used in Ear-Enlightening Soup or were interdiate products in its refining process.
Bai Mo left no detail unchecked, testing everything involved in the refining process, trying to grasp the addiction chanism within.
As the dicines were applied, so ears showed no reaction, so trembled, so curled up, and so even emitted smoke... Bai Mo’s Divine Sense enveloped them all, observing everything, constantly thinking seriously.
Soon, all the dicines were applied.
Just as Bai Mo was about to proceed with the next step in research, he suddenly heard the singing of the fox choir!
"Ying ying ow~"
"Ying ying ow~"
"Ying ying ow ow ow~"
Bai Mo frowned... Listening to their chatter was fine, but hearing them sing was indeed a bit torturous.
"Huh?"
He pondered for a mont and suddenly had an idea, imdiately calling White Claw over.
"Co, move these human head mushrooms to face the choir and let them be the audience!"
...
Black Claw was right in the fox choir!
Currently squatting in the formation, with chest held high and chubby head raised, singing out of tune.
"Ow ow ow!"
"Ow ow ow!"
"Ying ying ow ow ow!"
Every fox in the choir sang with great enthusiasm.
They believed they sang well and that the team sang well.
Seeing their master setting up an audience of human head mushrooms opposite the choir made them even more spirited!
Though human head mushrooms weren’t real humans or real audiences, they made the choir feel a bit more formal!
Black Claw tucked its foreclaws behind it, inhaled deeply, and sang loudly!
"Ow ow ow!"
"Ying ying ying!"
"Ow ow ying ying ying!"
It realized that its singing seed a bit out of harmony with its siblings... But it didn’t matter; standing out made it easier for the audience to distinguish its unique voice from the rest of the choir!
It glanced at the audience and was delighted to find several human head mushrooms were smiling!
"Ow ow ow!"
"Ying ying ying!"
It sang with even more energy, feeling that these human head mushrooms were indeed advanced, able to appreciate the beauty of fox singing!
...
Not only Black Claw, but other foxes, seeing the audience, sang with even more enthusiasm!
Seeing an audience smile, they inhaled deeply, puffed out their chests, and sang loudly!
Bai Mo endured the loud noise, standing next to the mushroom audience, Divine Sense enveloping all the human head mushrooms.
Among the forty-eight human head mushrooms, twenty-five showed varying degrees of pain... This was normal; anyone attacked by noise would feel pain.
But the problem was, twenty-three of them were actually smiling!
Bai Mo furrowed his brows, pondering the formula for Ear-Enlightening Soup.
"This formula... The problem is not small."
"It’s quite a big issue!"
And so, amidst the choir’s singing, Bai Mo sat cross-legged on the ground, among a pile of human head mushrooms, pretending to be part of the choir’s audience, even smiling at the apprentices, prompting them to sing louder!
But actually, Bai Mo secretly sealed his own ears.
He closed his eyes, his Divine Sense spread like invisible wind, focused like water, enveloping all these human head mushrooms, observing the differences after the application, observing their reactions after hearing the fox choir’s singing.
Each human head mushroom’s mind was full of colors, like rainbow clouds.
Bai Mo explored them, also refining his Divine Sense, trying all sorts of ways and techniques to make his Divine Sense finer, more flexible, less harmful, and able to delve deeper into the models’ minds.
Outside the hall, the night was deep, and the wind roared.
Inside the hall, the foxes sang vibrantly, ying ying ow ow.
Bai Mo sat among a pile of mushrooms, eyes closed, simultaneously trying, learning, refining, and contemplating.
Bang~
Another model’s mind was touched by Bai Mo’s Divine Sense, silently collapsing. The model’s smiling face turned dazed.
A sharp fox in the choir noticed, instantly widening its eyes, singing even more vigorously! Because an audience mber had beco so amused by their singing that they’d turned silly!
"Ying ying ying~"
"Awoo~"
Bang~
Yet another model’s mind silently crumbled as Bai Mo’s Divine Sense touched it. The mournful look on the model’s face froze.
In the choir, a clever fox noticed, imdiately perking up its ears, full of defiance! Is this audience made of stone? Even the singing of the Fox Choir couldn’t move it?
"Awo!"
White Claw jumped out of the choir and started conducting with its paws.
"Ying ying awoo~
"Ying ying awoo~"
Its two front paws rose high, signaling to its fellow foxes to raise their voices and increase the intensity!
Bang~
Bang~
Two more audience mbers were dumbfounded, their smiles frozen.
The Fox Choir sang even more energetically, more excited, this audience... has taste!
Bang~
Bang~
Two more audience mbers, their faces mournful and completely stiff, looked even worse than before.
The Fox Choir scoffed and continued singing, this audience... bumpkins!
...
In the blink of an eye, a whole night passed.
In the morning, the air in the cafeteria was filled with a fragrant, moist aroma.
As it turned out, today’s breakfast was the throat-soothing Celestial Fragrance Golden Treasure Soup!
Beside each small stone table, every fox disciple held a bowl of this soup, the golden, translucent base topped with round white fruits exuding a warm fragrance.
White Claw, Black Tail, Black Nose, and a few others sat around a small stone table.
"Awoo awoo awoo!"
White Claw took a sip of the soup, and indeed, its throat felt smoother!
A few foxes huddled their furry heads together, whispering.
"Ying ying ying!"
"Awoo awoo awoo!"
"Ying ying ying!"
... Previously, so foxes secretly said that the choir’s singing was awful.
... But Master cooking this Celestial Fragrance Golden Treasure Soup clearly shows support for the choir!
... Saying the choir sounds bad is... nonsense!
At the front of the cafeteria, Bai Mo also had a bowl of Celestial Fragrance Golden Treasure Soup, sipping it slowly.
He didn’t need to soothe his throat, drinking this stuff purely as a sweet treat.
As he drank, he recalled the phenona observed last night, quickly thinking, occasionally scribbling on the table.
"Is it like this?
"Didn’t get it wrong, right?"
He suddenly had a hypothesis about the addiction chanism of the Ear-Enlightening Soup... Now, combining last night’s experints and observations, the more he thought about it, the more this hypothesis seed plausible!
"Think more about it..."
As he thought, he gradually beca engrossed, gradually losing himself.
In his mind, he quickly deduced the entire addiction chanism, deducing the thirty-two factors involved, sixty-eight processes, and the derived changes...
"No... can’t think like this.
"It’s too complicated this way.
"Researching this problem requires a new model, a new thod."
He leaned back on his chair, gaze vacant, imrsed in his thoughts.
Sotis frowning, sotis smiling, sotis writing in the air, as if calculating.
Finally...
"It’s true!
"I understand!
"No wonder the Ancient Immortals never researched this problem... it’s indeed too difficult for them."
Bai Mo grinned, stretching his stiff neck, waking from his deep contemplation.
Yet he saw that the cafeteria was empty; the disciples had long finished eating and went off to work.
The half bowl of Celestial Fragrance Golden Treasure Soup beneath his hands was also nowhere to be seen.
"Huh?"
"Awoo awoo awoo!"
It was Black Nose, full of joy, bringing back the master’s half bowl of soup, placing it in his hands.
"Ying ying ying!"
Just now, the master’s soup had cooled down, so it took it to warm it up for him.
It is the professional chef of Fox Mountain, and it understands; this soup tastes best when hot!
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