Chapter 3: Frost Armor Technique
Chapter 3 – Frost Armor Technique
After waiting for Zhang Hong to leave, Lu Xuan didn’t make any delays, and with all of his belongings, he prepared to go out to seek a solution for the Black Budworm Larva.
Before leaving, he pulled out a small stone the size of a fingernail cap and came in front of the Grass Golem.
The small stone was pure white in color, with a faint fluctuation of spiritual energy, it was precisely a small piece of broken spirit, split from a lower grade spirit stone, which was widely used amongst Qi Practicing low level cultivators at Lu Xuan’s level.
“Eat and drink and then give me a good look at home!”
He stuffed this small piece of shattered spirit into the gray grass tumor on the grass puppet’s head and commanded down in a serious tone.
With the spirit energy supplement from the broken spirit, the grass golem emitted an extremely faint spirit light around its body, as if it was more energized.
Although he was not too assured about this slow to react caretaker puppet, Lu Xuan had no other way but to hope that the spiritual plants in the courtyard were safe and sound during the time he was out.
After leaving the house, Lu Xuan quickly walked on the green stone road.
The compound he lived in was located in the northern district of the Lin Yang Fang City, and most of them were low-level Qi Practicing cultivators like him, harboring dreams of being able to break through and change their destiny, densely packed into the tiny area.
As for the center of the market, it is the place where those big clans and big powers keep their own places, and it is rare for Lu Xuan to go there on weekdays.
He hadn’t gone out for a while, so he was slightly uncomfortable, looking at everything in front of him, familiar yet unfamiliar.
A half a zhang long deep yellow paper bird carrying a cultivator from the low altitude slowly cheated through, the bird body has different lengths of burrs, can be seen to use the years have been a long time.
Immediately after that, a multi-legged organ beast swept past Lu Xuan’s head, and it could be seen that there were twenty to thirty cultivators sitting on it.
Multi-legged Organ Beasts were a common mode of transportation in the marketplace, and by paying only a few tens of broken Spirits, one would be able to reach the center of the marketplace in a short period of time.
There were no air ban formations on the outskirts of the marketplace, and there were many other spirit beasts and flying machines like this, and occasionally a sword light would pass by in a hurry higher up in the sky.
Sword light is formed by a cultivator driving a flying sword, meaning that it is at least a high level cultivator practicing qi, for the current him it is an unattainable existence.
Lu Xuan couldn’t help but show a hint of envy, to ride a sword in the blue underworld, to traverse the heavens and earth, for him in both his previous life and in this life, it was a distant dream.
He gathered his mind and quickened his pace, and moments later, he arrived at a gathering place of cultivators in the Northern District.
The gathering place had quite a few stores and stalls, and although it was not as good as the central area on all levels, it was more than enough for a Qi Practicing low level cultivator like him.
Lu Xuan weaved his way through the crowd and quickly found a middle-aged cultivator in a corner.
The middle-aged cultivator was also at the second level of Qi Practicing cultivation, with a thin figure and no meat hanging on his face, causing his cheekbones to protrude high.
On his upper lip was a pair of eight-rowed mustache, his eyes darted around, quickly sweeping over to the other cultivators.
Lu Xuan knew that he was surnamed Huang and lived not much far from his yard, having mingled in the gathering place for a long time, he knew all sorts of gossip about the Northern District like the back of his hand.
It was just that if one wanted to ask him about anything, one needed to pay a certain amount of money.
Sensing Lu Xuan’s line of sight, the eight-character mustache on the lips of the middle-aged man surnamed Huang curled up slightly, squeezing out a smile and welcoming Lu Xuan.
“Junior Fellow Daoist Lu, it’s been a long time, I wonder what I can do to help you?”
Lu Xuan returned the smile.
“There is indeed something I need to ask you, Senior Brother Huang.”
“I’ve heard that Senior Brother has an extremely wide network and is familiar with cultivators of all cultivation stages in the Northern District, could you introduce me to a few of them?”
“There are a few requirements, firstly, a cultivator at the fourth level of Qi cultivation, and secondly, proficient in spells with high lethality that can be finely controlled, or similar spell weapons.”
“Lastly, limited to within the northern district and able to be found immediately.”
Lu Xuan said to the middle-aged cultivator surnamed Huang, while handing over a handful of Shattered Spirits.
He didn’t have the luxury of finding a cultivator of a higher cultivation level, although it might be faster to solve the Black Sprout Worm larvae, the reward for hiring a Qi Practitioner of the fifth level was more than double that of a Qi Practitioner of the fourth level.
In addition, the Spirit Glow Grass had already been eroded more severely, and if he couldn’t solve it in time, he would lose more than just one or more Spirit Glow Grasses, as well as those white light clusters with unknown rewards when the Spirit Glow Grasses matured.
That’s why Lu Xuan, who has always been frugal, endured the pain of paying so many broken spirits, and also requested that cultivators at the fourth level of qi cultivation be able to find it right away, all in order to be able to solve the black budworm larvae as soon as possible.
The middle-aged cultivator took the broken spirit handed over by Lu Xuan, and the smile on his face was obviously much more eager and natural. “There are quite a few cultivators at the fourth level of Qi Practicing in the Northern District, however, there aren’t many that can fulfill the other few conditions you have, Little Fellow Daoist Lu.”
“As far as I know, there are three in the neighborhood.”
“One is Fairy Ling Yun, whose cultivation is quite advanced, and has a set of Red Cloud Needle artifacts that are used in a mesmerizing manner, satisfying the two requirements of strong lethality and fine control at the same time.”
“There’s also Fellow Daoist Qin Ming, who is quite accomplished in ice-based spells, and may be slightly lacking in lethality, but is second to none in control.”
“Finally, there is also Daoist friend Li Xu, obsessed with the Way of the Sword, with a handful of sword qi into silk skills, also meets the requirements of Lu Xiaoyou you.”
He told Lu Xuan the addresses of the three Qi Practicing Fourth Layer cultivators, and after seeing him nod his head to indicate that he remembered, he said with a smile:
“Why don’t I accompany Little Fellow Daoist Lu on your journey and take you to visit these three fellow cultivators?”
“Senior Brother Huang’s good intentions, Mister Lu’s heart is appreciated, so I won’t trouble Senior Brother additionally.”
Lu Xuan knew in his heart that it was another price, clasped his fists in thanks and turned to leave.
He wasn’t worried that the middle-aged cultivator would cheat himself, after all, this was his livelihood for eating, it was impossible to smash his own rice bowl.
……
Yard.
On the back of the Spirit Glow Grass that was eroded by the thin black lines, a thin layer of frost with bone-chilling coldness spread rapidly.
The black budworm larvae sensed the rapid approach of the biting coldness, and the thin threads twisted about to break free from the leaves.
But the speed of breaking free can not catch up with the speed of the spread of frost, a thin black line and a thin ice frost frozen.
Snowflake-like frost instantly solidified, became hard, snapped, a shallow layer of ice fragments shattered, along with the black budworm larvae fell together.
A white tender palm reached out and caught all the shattered ice flakes.
“Wow, Senior Brother Qin is really as good as his name suggests, a hand of Frost Armor Technique is used in an extraordinary manner, I admire it.”
Lu Xuan looked at the Spirit Glow Grass blades that were unharmed under the frost and exclaimed in half-truth.
The owner of the tender white palm was a fat white cultivator, smilingly stuffing the shattered ice piece into his bosom.
“Luckily, I didn’t freeze the Spirit Plant blades while resolving the Black Sprout Bug larvae.”
“I observed the nearby Spirit Flowering Grass for you, Dao Friend, and did not find any traces of Black Sprout Bug Larvae, so you can rest assured that you will be able to spend the next period of time.”
“It’s just that when I looked around the courtyard, the protective power of this small piece of spirit field of yours, Fellow Daoist Lu, is a bit weak, so that it may still be affected by similar events in the future.”
The fat white cultivator reminded Lu Xuan.
Lu Xuan waved his hand.
“Let’s talk about future matters later, this time the reward is ……”
“Six Spirit Stones and fifty Broken Spirits, as agreed before.”
A Spirit Glow Grass was worth far less than six Spirit Stones more, the reason why the reward was so much was mainly to solve the pest problem in the Spirit Fields, but also because Qin Ming was a middle stage Qi Practicing cultivator.
A harmless smile appeared on the white fat cultivator’s face.
Lu Xuan took out fifty crushed spirits, counted them twice, and one by one, he plucked out six more spirit stones from his waist, inclined his head, and handed them to the fat white cultivator.
“Thank you, fellow Daoist Lu.”
The fat white cultivator Qin Ming received the spirit stones and left the compound.
Lu Xuan’s heart ached as he felt the Spirit Stones that were getting farther and farther away from him, and he couldn’t help but spit in secret.
“Traitor!”
(End of chapter)