Ves wanted to spread the advantages of cultivation to his clan.
He decided to start with his grandfather and his living mech because they were relatively new additions to the Larkinson Army.
They did not experience as much growth as other pairs. Their spiritual states had only changed relatively recently and should still remain fairly malleable.
Although Ves was slightly concerned about impacting Benjamin's relatively poor physical fitness, he understood on a rational level that his grandfather was not as fragile as he looked!
Venerable Benjamin Larkinson possessed all of the traits of a genuine high-tier expert pilot outside of physique.
His reforged willpower was even stronger and more solid than the willpower of other Larkinson mech pilots!
Prodigies such as Venerable Joshua and Venerable Jannzi may have grown remarkably quickly over the past decade, but their life experiences and mental development could not match up to a grandfather who already lived a full life of ups and downs!
Ves considered Benjamin to be a good test subject for that reason. The old man had already endured great trauma in the past and could easily take a few blows.
It was difficult for Ves to explain what he wanted to do the Blood Star.
Cultivation was not part of the culture of modern humanity. Ves suspected that the MTA and CFA deliberately suppressed this concept in order to deprive the Five Scrolls Compact of support back in the old galaxy.
"So let me get this straight." Benjamin said as he rubbed his gloved fingers against his wrinkled chin. "You have come up with a tech that can upgrade the Blood Pact and help my mech and I grow faster, is that correct?"
"You can say that. It's a little more complicated than that. I need both of you to adjust your behavior, acquire a set of new habits and possibly meditate on a cultivation mantra. I am trying to figure out if you can skip on that last part. It is troublesome for you and your expert mech to spend conscious effort on deliberate cultivation. I am hoping that I can whip up a solution that will essentially allow you and your living mech to cultivate on autopilot."
The old expert pilot looked completely lost at this point. He eventually threw up his hands.
"Just do what you want. My mech and I will cooperate with you as best as possible."
After gaining his grandfather's tentative approval, Ves began to conduct a series of tests and examinations.
The new mech testing chamber built adjacent to his private workshop came extremely handy at this time.
The large compartment offered a decent amount of space for the Blood Star to fly around and test its skills against dummy targets.
As Venerable Benjamin was having the time of his life by hacking its sword against different bots, Ves constantly studied the spiritual condition of the Blood Star.
A lot of different ideas entered his mind as he gathered a huge amount of interesting data.
His vastly expanded depth in cultivation science had opened a new world to him. Ves found that he could notice a lot of small but important variables that he completely overlooked in the past!
The more he studied the Blood Pact, the more he admired how he managed to make it come to life.
Even so, his greater vision and understanding also caused him to wince at times whenever he spotted aspects of it that were either suboptimal or completely detrimental!
This was an unavoidable consequence of indirectly forming a contract cultivation method. The Carmine System did the best it could to forge a permanent spiritual bond between the mech and the mech pilot.
"It has character, but... there is far too much room for improvement for me to leave it alone."
Cultivation science centered around developing the most efficient and effective ways to convert energy into growth and more specifically metaphysical growth.
As Ves adopted the mentality of an engineer to this important side project, he meticulously deconstructed the existing natural cultivation methods and utilized his extensive theoretical frameworks to formulate a lot of improved cultivation processes.
Ves was actually working with three cultivation methods rather than just a single one at this time.
First, his grandfather unconsciously 'practiced' the mech piloting cultivation method that was automatically dispensed by the Kingdom of Mechs through a mechanism that Ves could not detect.
With the understanding that Ves possessed today, he already understood that mech pilots actually did not have to do anything special in order to 'cultivate'.
They just had to do their jobs and actively engage in training or fight in real combat missions to make actual progress!
As long as they possessed sufficient spiritual potential, each of them had a chance to exceed the extraordinary threshold and form extraordinary willpower, all without requiring any conscious direction!
Even their breakthroughs were secretly managed by the Kingdom of Mechs in order to ensure they proceeded smoothly and without any errors!
Just as with his own mech designer progression trajectory, there was nothing that Ves could do to alter or improve the cultivation method for mech pilots.
The only way he had any hope of doing so was to gain enough authority over the Kingdom of Mechs and change the cultivation method from the root!
Ves shook his head. "I don't need to worry about this. I should focus on what I can control."
Right now, he needed to formulate at least one general cultivation method for living mechs and one dual cultivation method for the users of the Carmine System.
"The two should complement each other."
If a living mech was able to grow stronger through its own efforts, it would be able to provide more assistance to its mech pilot.
The existence of a Blood Pact between the two meant that this reinforcement relationship became a lot more effective!
Ves could easily imagine that Carmine pilots would be able to grow five times if not ten times faster than their more regular counterparts!
Of course, the premise of sustaining this rapid growth was whether the Carmine mech could continue to grow fast enough on its own to provide a lot of cultivation assistance to its bonded pilot.
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