Chapter 12: Sword Grass
Chapter 12 Swordgrass
Back at home, Lu Xuan took out the near-dry Spirit Seed from his bosom and scrutinized it.
The parched Spirit Seed was slender like a sword, grayish-black in color, and perhaps due to the fact that it had lost a lot of its vitality, its form was slightly dried up.
Although Xu Wan had already informed Lu Xuan that she and Zhang Hong had once planted another identical spirit seed, only that it was unsuccessful, Lu Xuan was very confident.
After all, as long as he succeeded in planting this parched spirit seed, he would be able to understand the subtle needs of the spirit seed through his instant status, check for gaps and fill them in, and would most likely be able to successfully cultivate it.
As soon as he thought of it, Lu Xuan found a small open space in the spirit field and operated the Earth Drawing Technique, and a tiny crack appeared between the spirit soil, just enough to accommodate the parched spirit seed into it.
After burying the dried up spirit seed, Lu Xuan continued to activate the Earth Drawing Technique, gathering the weak spirit qi in the spiritual field and converging it towards the spirit seed.
After absorbing several experience packs, the Earth Drawing Technique had undergone a qualitative change, not only could it change the terrain on a localized scale, it could also slightly induce the flow of spiritual energy in the spiritual field.
After the faint spiritual energy in the spiritual soil was incorporated into the spirit seed, Lu Xuan’s mind was a little apprehensive as he pooled on the dry spirit seed.
A thought flashed through his mind.
“Sword Grass, Second Grade Spirit Seed, the spirit plant has a blade like a sword when it matures, sharp and tough, a natural material for refining flying swords.”
“It feels like it’s about to dry up, let’s have a heavy rain of aura to moisturize it to the fullest!”
After digesting the thought, Lu Xuan was overjoyed in his heart.
As expected, after planting this parched Spirit Seed, not only did he learn the information of the corresponding Spirit Plant, he was also clear about the detailed needs of the Spirit Seed.
As he instantly revolved the spiritual qi in his body, misty vapor instantly appeared in the sky above the parched spirit seed, and immediately after, wisps of spiritual rain fell down and merged into the soil.
The Sword Grass Spirit Seed, having been in a drought for a long time, greedily absorbed the spiritual rain.
After a round of spiritual rain, Lu Xuan’s Spiritual Sense probed the Swordgrass Spirit Seed and found that it was still in a parched state.
“More, I want more, the more water the better.”
“A mere second-grade spirit seed, my cultivation at the third level of Qi Practicing is still not enough to satisfy you?”
Lu Xuan snorted, and with his already incomparable proficiency in the Spirit Rain Technique, he sent out another round of Spirit Rain almost instantaneously.
“More, I want more!”
Lu Xuan snorted coldly, little man, let’s see if I don’t moisturize you to death!
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After seventeen rounds of the Spiritual Rain Technique, Lu Xuan clenched his teeth tightly as he once again revolved his body’s Spiritual Qi.
In the air above the Sword Grass Spirit Seed, there was a bulge of Spiritual Qi, and soon, it dissolved into nothingness again, not a single drop of Spiritual Rain falling.
“There’s no more, there really isn’t a single drop.”
He staggered to his feet, only feeling dizzy and starry-eyed.
This was the negative effect of overusing aura.
Although his cultivation had stabilized at the third level of Qi cultivation and was much deeper than before, no amount of Reiki would be able to withstand such continuous and unceasing use.
His mind gathered on the Sword Grass Spirit Seed.
“More, I want more ……”
Lu Xuan shivered and hurriedly moved far away.
However, the fine moisturization of the Spiritual Rain Technique so many times was not without effect, and he sensed that the Swordgrass Spirit Seed in the soil had become much fuller, with a vibrant appearance.
After two days passed, Lu Xuan focused on this second-grade Swordgrass Spirit Seed in addition to his basic care for the rest of the spirit plants. Without knowing how many rounds of the Spirit Rain Technique had been cast, the Spirit Seed’s immediate status had finally changed.
“Sword Grass, Second Grade Spiritual Plant, requires a certain amount of Spiritual Qi during cultivation, in addition to that, from time to time, it also requires Sword Qi to contain it and stimulate growth.”
“Requires sword qi to harbor it, it really deserves to be a second grade spirit plant, the requirements are clearly not at the same level, I think the main reason why Zhang and the two of them failed lies in this, after all, spirit seeds are generally more delicate, who would think of using sword qi to stimulate it?”
Lu Xuan came to a sudden realization, his heart understood where the reason for Zhang Hong’s and their planting failure lay, and he was even more thankful that he was able to grasp the instant state of the spirit plant at all times.
As for the sword qi, he himself had a ready-made Gengjin Sword Technique.
With the spiritual energy running in his body, under Lu Xuan’s mental control, a subtle golden sword qi drilled out from his fingers, passing through the soil of the spiritual field and hitting the sword grass spiritual seeds.
In an instant, Lu Xuan seemed to hear a faint sword roar from the spiritual seed in the soil, and then, the golden yellow sword qi seeped into the spiritual seed, leaving a shallow golden pattern on the surface of the gray-black spiritual seed.
As he did, he offered three more golden-yellow sword qi, leaving an imprint on the sword grass spirit seed, understanding that the sword qi had been sufficient before stopping.
Only after the golden lines on the top of the spirit seed disappeared could he use new sword qi to contain the Sword Grass Spirit Seed.
“Finally successfully planted and started to enter the growth stage.”
“I don’t know what kind of light cluster rewards the Second Grade Spirit Plant can bring ……”
Lu Xuan sighed in relief as he felt the subtle changes in the Sword Grass Spirit Seed through his Spiritual Sense.
He felt more and more the importance of grasping the immediate state of the Spirit Plant.
“Perhaps, it’s possible to go to the workshop market, or the scattered cultivators’ stalls to get some more Unknown Spirit Seeds?”
“Although there aren’t many Spirit Plant Spirit Species that appear in the wild, it’s not unheard of.”
“Spirit plants naturally mature with a certain probability of being produced, and they can also be taken from other cultivators and demonic beasts, not to mention those strange secret realms, where the appearance of anything isn’t unexpected.”
“Perhaps other cultivators also have some unknown spirit plants in their hands, for them, it’s not good to assess the value or successfully plant them out if the type of spirit plant is unknown.”
“And I’m different, I can know the planting conditions of the spirit seed, as long as I can fulfill them, the possibility of success is extremely high, in addition to harvesting the light cluster rewards.”
The more Lu Xuan thought about it, the more he felt that this method was feasible, but once he thought about the few spirit stones he had left in his hands, he quickly calmed down again.
“Seeking an Unknown Spirit Seed is, in the end, a gamble, and although one’s chances of winning are relatively high, one can’t say that it’s a sure win, and more importantly, one doesn’t have enough Spirit Stones to go down.”
After all, buying a wild spirit seed firstly, one could not be sure if it could be planted, and secondly, one did not know what grade it was, it was fine to buy a first and second grade, but if one bought one that did not enter the grade, one might even lose money.
“It’s better to wait for Brother Zhang and their batch of reclaiming the secret realm cultivators to come back, the grade of the spirit seeds produced in the secret realm is more guaranteed, and at the same time, the number of varieties circulating out will be a bit more varied.”
Lu Xuan was under the impression that when he wandered around the bazaar on weekdays, he seldom saw any stalls selling wild Spirit Seeds, and even if there were, they were basically varieties that the cultivators were familiar with, and the traces of unknown Spirit Seeds were almost invisible.
He decided to let nature take its course, usually accumulate more knowledge of spiritual plants, and pay more attention in the bazaar, if he found an unknown spiritual species, and if he had enough spirit stones in his hand, he would try to pan for it.
Still, the spiritual plants in the yard were more important right now.
Twenty Spirit Glow Grass growth potential is extremely good, leaves in the spirit of the rain under the moisturizing, lazy stretch, a little fluorescence in the reflection of daylight, as if the stars flashing.
The Red Cloud Pine grew another two inches or so taller, the fine red needles and leaves on the tree were even more dense, under the stimulation of the Fireball Technique, it was as if it was a hedgehog with red thorns.
The Eclipse Fruit, on the other hand, entered a stage of rapid maturation.
(End of chapter)