Chapter 25 – Red Whiskered Carp
Chapter 25 – Red Whiskered Carp
When he left the Hundred Herb Hall, Steward He had instructed that when cultivating the Blood Jade Ginseng, he should try to separate them as widely as possible and not allow them to get entangled together, lest they affect each other’s growth.
Only after planting the Blood Jade Ginseng Spirit Seed did he learn the exact reason.
Spirit seed or spirit ginseng can move slowly in the spirit field, if they are close, they will be attracted to each other and cling to each other for a long period of time, plundering each other’s vitality until they are divided into winners and losers wither away.
Of course, spiritual planters usually don’t make this extreme situation appear, and after noticing that the roots of the spiritual ginseng are entangled together, they use methods to separate them.
“Being attracted to each other, then you and me, entangled together, then sucking each other’s vitality until separated by me.”
“How does it feel like a pair of lovers, while I am the parent who mercilessly breaks them apart.”
Lu Xuan couldn’t help but sigh.
Luckily, he didn’t have much else but time, so he could make sure that there wouldn’t be a situation where the two Blood Jade Ginsengs would run into each other.
“This Blood Jade Ginseng shouldn’t have a male and female, right?”
He shook his head and shook out the image of the Blood Jade Ginseng entangled together in his mind.
After the twenty Blood Jade Ginseng Spirit Seeds were planted, Lu Xuan performed the Spiritual Rain Technique to moisturize them, and the wisps of Spiritual Rain seeped into the soil, being greedily absorbed by the jade-like Blood Red Spirit Seeds.
Next, he planted a hundred more Spirit Glow Grass seeds that were like dried tea leaves separately, again using the Spirit Rain Technique to provide them with nutrients.
The new spirit field was about ten times larger than before, and after planting one hundred Spirit Glow Grass seeds as well as twenty Blood Jade Ginseng seeds, a small half of the area was still empty.
Lu Xuan intended to use it to plant the Red Cloud Pine, Dark Pith Ganoderma, and Sword Grass, and if he found any other good spiritual species, then he would try to buy them and plant them as well.
“How should I maximize the use of this Spirit Spring?”
He looked at the spirit field, the spirit spring with shallow spring water, and fell into deep thought.
Spirit spring water was usually used to assist in alchemy, brewing wine, making tea, and would also be taken directly by cultivators to be able to slightly increase their body’s spiritual energy.
However, it was a bit of a chicken rib for Lu Xuan, with the cultivation rewards brought about by the Spirit Glow Grass, that tiny bit of Spiritual Energy was a bit unappealing to him.
“In the case of aquatic spiritual plants, although they are relatively rare, they are not unheard of, so you can try to look for them in the bazaar or stores.”
“This Spirit Spring is not a small area, so I don’t think we can find that many aquatic spirit plants, it would be a bit of a pity if it’s wasted like this.”
“Perhaps one or two spirit fish can be raised?”
An idea suddenly popped into Lu Xuan’s mind, and it was getting stronger and stronger.
“Growing spirit medicines inside a spirit field will bring a light cluster reward, if we were to cultivate spirit beasts, would that be a reward?”
Thinking of this, he couldn’t help but get a little excited.
“It’s not a loss if there isn’t, and the spirit fish raised in the spirit spring water can be sold for a good price, so if there is, then it’s a big profit.”
“It has to be tried.”
This idea in his heart grew stronger.
He opened the formation and left the courtyard.
First, he made a trip back to the old courtyard, where there were still ten Spirit Glow Grasses that were about to mature in the courtyard’s spirit field.
He harvested a batch, waited for two days, and by the way, helped Xu Wan transplant two Eclipse Trees to her home, and after he was done, all the Spirit Glow Grasses had all matured.
Of the ten Spirit Glow Grass plants, six were of good quality and four were of superior quality, presumably due to the lack of spiritual power in the spiritual field, he had yet to plant a higher quality spiritual plant.
Of the ten white light clusters that appeared, four brought him cultivation ranging from a few months to a total of more than two years, making the spiritual qi in his body more solid.
Three other light masses brought three first-grade talismans, while the other three were spell experience packs, two Earth Drawing Techniques and one Gengjin Sword Technique, with Lu Xuan having a deeper understanding of two spells.
He felt that if the Earth Drawing Art was unleashed at full power, it could induce a tremor of the earth’s terrain, providing a not-so-small attack effect.
As for the Gengjin Sword Technique, there was even less to say, if he were to fight Qin Ming again, even if he had a protective spell similar to a jade tablet, Lu Xuan would have a high degree of certainty that he would be killed in a single strike.
After absorbing all ten white light clusters, Lu Xuan glanced at the courtyard that appeared somewhat empty and turned to leave. Arriving at the scattered cultivators’ bazaar, he found his way through it, finding very few stalls selling spirit beast cubs, or spirit beast eggs and the like, and came to a spirit pet store.
In the store, there were all kinds of spirit beast cubs, flying in the sky, running on the ground, swimming in the water, everything.
Most of them are spirit pets, good and gentle in appearance, not strong in aggressiveness, it is said that the owner of the store is the family of an inner disciple of the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, very proficient in the Royal Beasts.
“This fellow Daoist, please, I wonder what I can do to help you?”
Seeing Lu Xuan looking around after he entered, a clear-cut young girl greeted him with a smile and greeted him.
“I would like to buy a fish spirit beast or two, I wonder what you would recommend?”
Lu Xuan went straight to the point.
“You can take a look over here if you’re looking for fish spirit beasts.”
“This is the Red Bearded Carp, a classless demonic beast with high ornamental value, it can be cooked after rearing it to maturity, the meat is delicious, and the two red whiskers next to the fish’s head can also be used as a material for refining weapons.”
“The Red Whiskered Carp doesn’t have high requirements for the growing environment, ordinary spirit springs can be raised, of course, if it can be fed some spirit rice, then it will be easier to mature.”
“This is the Wu Arrow Fish, also a classless class demonic beast, with a body like an arrow, extremely fast, and usually needs to devour a certain amount of blood and flesh essence when feeding.”
“This one, on the other hand, is the Black Water Python, a first grade demonic beast, amphibious, extremely aggressive, and with a great variation in body size, it can reach about six zhang at its longest.”
“As for the other aquatic demonic beasts, due to their wild nature being hard to tame, there is a possibility that they may injure their masters, and they are not quite suitable for you, Fellow Daoist, to keep.”
The clean-cut female cultivator introduced Lu Xuan to several common aquatic spirit beasts in the Spirit Pet Shop, euphemistically stating that with Lu Xuan’s displayed cultivation at the second level of Qi Practicing, he could at most only raise such demonic beasts as the Black Water Python.
Lu Xuan thought for a moment and then excluded the Woolly Arrowfish as well as the Black Water Python.
Breeding the Black Wrigley Fish required blood and flesh essence, and since he himself rarely had a good meal, how could he possibly have extra demonic beast blood and flesh to feed it.
As for the Black Water Python, Lu Xuan gave up on it the first time he heard that it could be as long as six feet.
His own Spirit Spring couldn’t even fit half of its size, so what was there to feed it?
Moreover, it was now in the experimental stage, and it wasn’t clear whether the white light mass would appear or not.
Thus Lu Xuan was more inclined to choose a spirit fish with a short maturity cycle and a cheap price.
“How can I sell this Red Bearded Carp?”
He asked, pointing at a carp fry in the pool.
The red-whiskered carp, as its name suggests, has two long thin red whiskers near its gills, longer than its body, and swims like two bands that float around.
“One spirit stone a piece if you have red-whiskered carp fry.”
The clean-cut young girl returned.
“Again, it’s classless, and it’s going to be more expensive than the Spirit Glow Grass Spirit Seed as well as the Eclipse Tree Seedling.”
Lu Xuan habitually compared the prices.
“I’ll buy three, how about cheaper, eighty shattered spirits a piece?”
He naturally slashed the price by a hair.
“If you want to buy three strips, I can make the decision to sell them to you for two spirit stones and eighty broken spirits, that’s the lowest price.”
“Two spirit stones for sixty broken spirits, I’ll buy them immediately.”
“Seventy, it can’t be any lower.”
“Okay, deal!”
Lu Xuan said back with satisfaction.
(End of Chapter)