Cultivator Dissection Diary, Day 1: Experimental subject's injuries not healed yet. Since I'm here, invited subject to do rehabilitation exercises. Rejected.

  Cultivator Dissection Diary, Day 2: Only the second day, injuries definitely not healed. Asked again about rehabilitation exercises. Rejected.

  Cultivator Dissection Diary, Day 3: Experimental subject showed weak resistance. After sufficient ideological work and using food as bait to seek consent, subject still refused.

  Cultivator Dissection Diary, Day 4: Lin Lin, Lin Lin, how have you sunk this low.

  Even if the subject agreed, it wouldn't help her recovery.

  And don't you have anything to do at night? Have you dealt with all the previous body fragments?

  Have you dug the grave for the two maids' corpses?

  Have you dissected the three elders' bodies?

  The world is still immersed in the ignorant fantasy of cultivation.

  This world still needs you, Lin Lin, to awaken it.

  Today was good. Got all these trivial problems solved.

  Set up a burial ground for all the deceased in the forbidden area behind Qingfeng Valley.

  Named it: Qingfeng Sect, One Big Happy Family.

  Cultivator Dissection Diary, Day 5: Sorry, I couldn't resist. But rejected again.

  Cultivator Dissection Diary, Day 6: Confirmed that Foundation Establishment females have greatly reduced physiological desires.

  Reproductive capacity also greatly reduced.

  Connecting to Conjecture No. 4, the so-called Foundation Establishment Pill probably contains some kind of parasite.

  The parasite grants humans supernatural power, turning them into cultivators.

  During this process, it secretes large amounts of hormones, reducing human fertility.

  No wonder they can't have universal cultivation. Otherwise, if everyone cultivated, there'd be no demographic dividend left to exploit.

  Dissecting the three elders' bodies confirmed this conjecture.

  Their lower bodies were severely atrophied.

  And the shattered core nuclei looked like parasite remains.

  New conjecture: What about the Demon Cult's Bliss Sect? How do they still have physiological capabilities?

  Anyway, today's experiment went smoothly. Verified previous conjecture. Made a major academic breakthrough.

  Cultivator Dissection Diary, Day 7: Continuing to ask about rehabilitation exercises, as a reward for the great academic progress.

  After making preliminary academic progress, Lin Lin put aside male-female physical matters and tirelessly continued his research work.

  First, he needed experimental equipment: various glass slides, glass beakers, glass test tubes.

  He also needed to design his own light path, grind glass lenses, and manufacture a microscope.

  Doing it all himself wasn't enough. So, as acting sect leader, he recruited skilled artisans.

  Second, through threats and persuasion, Lin Lin extracted information from Liu Yueyan about where Liu Fenghai had hidden cultivation resources.

  Many times, late at night, Lin Lin sneaked into the Sect Leader's chambers. Following Liu Yueyan's intelligence, he dug up large amounts of spirit stones, medicinal herbs, and cultivation manuals.

  Among them was a manual related to the Blood Servant Sect of the Demon Cult.

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  Through this Blood Servant Sect manual, Lin Lin became more certain that demon beasts were his next breakthrough direction.

  It also gave him a preliminary plan for his experimental direction.

  Currently, the biggest obstacle to Lin Lin's experimental conjectures was too few experimental subjects.

  The Sect Leader and three elders' bodies had been blown in two, and the core nuclei were usually located in the abdomen.

  Possibly damaged core nuclei and half-bodies greatly affected the experimental data.

  The only living Foundation Establishment subject, Liu Yueyan, was still recovering. And she needed to be saved for more important experiments.

  If Lin Lin wanted to quickly break through in his research, he'd have to take risks everywhere, setting traps to capture Foundation Establishment experts.

  But that was risky, and would alert the enemy.

  Therefore, in the early stage of research, he had to lower the experimental threshold.

  Of course, if any Foundation Establishment experts delivered themselves, he'd set traps and take them down on the spot.

  Lin Lin found Ma Zhaoyuan and the other two again. As acting sect leader, he began adjusting cultivation resources.

  First, the sect needed to purchase demon beasts. As many live ones as possible. Didn't need to be precious, as long as the demon cores were intact.

  Second, set up a slaughterhouse next to the pill refinery, responsible for dissecting corpses.

  After that, prepare to expand the ice room.

  This summer, disciples were forbidden from using ice from the ice room.

  All the ice would be used to store demon beast corpses.

  Hearing Lin Lin was playing so big, Ma Zhaoyuan, as expected, jumped out to stop him again.

  This time, even the usually well-behaved Zhang Shan couldn't stand by.

  The reason was simple: Qingfeng Sect's cultivation methods mainly relied on pills.

  There were also cultivation sects in this world that focused on demon beasts.

  And most of these sects were established in places overrun by demon beasts, convenient for hunting them nearby.

  Qingfeng Sect's advantage was that Qingfeng Valley could grow exotic herbs and flowers.

  Live off the land, live off the water.

  Qingfeng Sect was destined to be a sect that relied on pill refinement.

  Purchasing large numbers of live demon beasts was time-consuming and labor-intensive, and wouldn't help the sect's cultivation at all.

  Lin Lin stood up to explain to the three.

  "Elders, of course I know that. But right now, the spiritual energy in the Moonlight Wine is excessive, causing the three elders and the Sect Leader to be unable to exit seclusion for a short time. I thought of using demon beast power to transform the moonlight, so they can come out early."

  Perhaps because he'd been rebutted so many times before,

  Ma Zhaoyuan even knew how to argue back: "Qingfeng Sect has always been a pill-focused sect. If we purchase large numbers of live demon beasts, it will inevitably alert other sects. Acting Sect Leader, please think twice."

  No choice. After much cajoling and persistence, Lin Lin finally settled on an order: five adult Madness Wolves, five adult Blue Jade Spiders.

  The reason for choosing Madness Wolves and Blue Jade Spiders was that these monsters were within Qingfeng Sect's territory.

  Obtaining live specimens of these monsters didn't require trading with other sects.

  They could simply put out bounties to nearby hunters or sect disciples. So the cost of obtaining live specimens was much lower.

  Moreover, Qingfeng Sect really needed to cull some demon beasts.

  Because Liu Fenghai and the other three elders were completely absorbed in cultivation, low-level monsters had proliferated nearby.

  The demon cores and materials from these low-level beasts were worthless.

  Without bounty rewards, no one was willing to hunt them.

  Now, using the opportunity to capture demon beasts, they could also clear out these proliferating monsters. Killing two birds with one stone.

  After talking about cultivation, it was time to talk about people.

  After Liu Fenghai seized Qingfeng Sect, he did nothing but overtax and oppress the people. He never did any real work for them.

  But that was about to change.

  Qingfeng Sect had quite a few mortal currency assets. They could just use them for infrastructure construction.

  Calculating the time, it was still summer. They could discuss road repair with the prominent families near Qingfeng Sect.

  Once the artisans arrived, they could plan the route and project.

  After the autumn harvest busy season passed, during the slack farming season, they could summon villagers to repair the roads.

  Ma Zhaoyuan and the other two listened, utterly confused.

  After Lin Lin finished, Ma Zhaoyuan asked, "Senior Brother Lin, what's the use of repairing roads? We're cultivators. In the future, we'll all have flying artifacts."

  Lin Lin replied impatiently.

  "Benefit the people. Grace the world. Is that not allowed?"

  At this, Li Wangxuan piped up in his childish voice, "Survival of the fittest. The strong rule. Those mortals have no cultivation potential. They're weak. They deserve to be as cheap as weeds."

  "Right. Those commoners being trampled beneath our feet is already immense grace." Ma Zhaoyuan stomped the floor hard, as if really grinding those people, who shared the same roots, into mud.

  Zhang Shan chimed in, "The cultivation world has always been like this. Repairing bridges and roads is the mortal's duty. It has nothing to do with us."

  Facing this "torrent of public opinion," Lin Lin had to compromise. "I didn't say large-scale infrastructure. I just said repair the road from Qingfeng Valley's mountain gate to Qingfeng Town."

  "In the future, junior disciples without flying artifacts can conveniently visit Qingfeng Town. Merchants passing through Qingfeng Town might also come here to set up stalls."

  When it came to fun and games, everyone was willing to listen.

  Zhang Shan and Li Wangxuan immediately had no objections.

  Only Ma Zhaoyuan still worried that too much contact with mortals might expose the fact that the Sect Leader and elders were in seclusion.

  Lin Lin was completely defeated by this troublemaker. He decided to move Ma Zhaoyuan's death date up a little.

  And following the principle of "respect the dead," Lin Lin announced that road repair would be temporarily shelved.

  First, settle the matter of the demon beast bounty.