Chapter 29 – Invitations
Chapter 29 Invitation
Lu Xuan ultimately didn’t buy the young brocade colored chickens.
Although he felt an inexplicable bond, the two and a half year maturity cycle deterred him and he had no choice but to give up.
His main goal in raising spirit beasts was to obtain the white light cluster, and two and a half years was enough time for him to breed a first or even second grade spirit beast to maturity.
Using this time to raise this little chicklet was a bit of a waste.
He left the stall and continued to loiter.
In the end, there was finally a not-so-small harvest.
At one of the stalls, an extremely rare first-grade spirit species, the Pure Snow Lotus, was discovered.
Although the Pure Snow Lotus was of first grade, it was extremely rare, and the planting conditions were recognized as harsh amongst spiritual planters.
The lotus seeds produced after maturity could keep the cultivator’s mind clear for a certain period of time, avoiding being eroded by evil spirits, and it was also the main material for the second-grade elixir Yunling Dan, which could slightly enhance the spiritual awareness of qi cultivators.
Lu Xuan bargained and finally took the white jade-like spirit seed for seven spirit stones.
Being of the same grade, the price of the Spirit Seed was quite a bit more expensive than the Red Cloud Pine as well as the Blood Jade Ginseng, showing the great value of the Pure Snow Lotus.
Returning to the courtyard, he placed the Pure Snow Lotus Spirit Seed into the Spirit Spring Pond and operated his spiritual energy, the Earth Drawing Technique that had already reached the Proficient Realm incorporated the snow-white Spirit Seed into the Spirit Loam without changing the structure of the Spirit Spring.
After successfully planting it, Lu Xuan’s mind focused on the spirit seed in the shallow layer of the spirit soil.
A thought flashed through his mind.
“Cold icy rain slaps haphazardly on the lotus ……”
The reason why the Pure Snow Lotus was so difficult to plant successfully was that apart from needing an environment similar to a spiritual spring, it also needed to be moisturized by the spiritual rain that contained an icy cold aura, so that it could grow smoothly.
Lu Xuan’s Spiritual Rain Technique had already reached the realm of purity after being performed countless times.
It was just that wanting to contain an icy cold aura was still difficult for him.
The Ice Basic Technique, he had learned it when he first started practicing, but due to his average talent, he slowly gave it up and mainly used it to practice the Spirit Rain Technique and the Fireball Technique.
Later on, he obtained the Earth Drawing Technique and the Gengjin Sword Technique from the white light cluster, and didn’t get the Ice System Technique Experience Pack.
He experimented quite a few times, and eventually barely released a Spirit Rain Art with a hint of ice, pouring it onto the Pure Snow Lotus Spirit Seed.
It was only after he had been practicing for a few days that the probability of success in releasing the spell improved a bit, and his spiritual sense sensed that the snow-white spirit seed in the Spiritual Spring Pool was undergoing a quiet change.
On this day, Lu Xuan was cultivating the spirit plant when a slightly familiar voice came from outside the courtyard.
“Fellow Daoist Lu, are you at home?”
Lu Xuan recalled the voice in his mind before he remembered the owner of the voice.
He had been there twice after he had entered into an autonomous cooperation with the Hundred Herb Hall, once to bid on the remaining Spirit Glow Grass, and once to give the Hundred Herb Hall a regular report on the growth of the spiritual plants.
Among them, he had gotten acquainted with a few spirit plant masters, and the owner of the voice was one of them, named Lei Fei, with a cultivation level of the third level of qi cultivation, and because of the not too far distance, he had spoken with him a few more times.
Lu Xuan opened the courtyard door and welcomed him out.
At a glance, he saw Lei Fei and a cultivator with a somewhat gloomy temperament behind him.
“Fellow Daoist Lu, this is Li Qing, a good friend of mine for many years.”
“This is Fellow Daoist Lu Xuan, he has a good talent in planting spirit plants, and has entered into a partnership with the Hundred Herb Hall at a young age.”
Lei Fei introduced the two to each other.
Lu Xuan gave a greeting and led the two into the house.
“Fellow Daoist Lu Xuan, I came over here this time because I have something to look for you, Li Qing and I intend to invite you to join us in entering the Southern Departure Mysterious Realm and searching for spirit medicines.”
After the three of them exchanged a few pleasantries, Lei Fei got straight to the point and said towards Lu Xuan.
“Entering the Secret Realm? With the three of us at the third level of Qi Practicing cultivation, wouldn’t it be dangerous?” Lu Xuan asked directly.
Secret realms were either naturally formed or left over from ancient times, and usually had all sorts of treasures, spiritual medicines, techniques, magic weapons, etc., but they were often accompanied by great risks, mysterious and bizarre evil spirits, powerful and terrifying demonic beasts, and so on.
Most of the spiritual plants and beasts need to grow in a pure or special aura environment, and they are seldom seen in the ordinary wild.
And those ancient legacy of the secret realm, every time you open, there will be many rare treasures, which makes many cultivators happy, moths to the flame general influx into a variety of secret realm, in order to find a trace of chance.
For example, the newly discovered secret realm this time attracted many forces, large and small, as well as thousands of loose cultivators in the city of Lin Yang Fang, just to seek a misty so-called chance.
The big clans in the cultivation world usually occupied the heavenly sanctuaries alone, and even spawned small worlds, so they didn’t have to fight to the death for a tiny bit of cultivation resources like ordinary cultivators.
Seeing Lu Xuan worried about safety, Lei Fei explained.
“The Southern Li Mysterious Realm has been developed for hundreds of years, and the evil demonic beasts in it have been cleaned up pretty much, so it’s extremely rare that you’ll run into them.”
“Moreover, we only intend to go to the outer perimeter of the secret realm, we won’t be exploring deeper, although we can’t guarantee absolute safety, basically nothing will go wrong.”
“You and I, although we are both spiritual planters, but we can’t be willing to be mediocre on this, what we should fight for is still more to fight for.”
He advised Lu Xuan.
Lu Xuan pondered for a moment and continued to ask.
“Then this time when we go to the Secret Realm, there will be a lot of delays on the road and in the Secret Realm, right? Wouldn’t that delay cultivating the Spirit Plants?”
“On the way there are flying boat magic weapons, it’s only a day or two of work to go back and forth, in the secret realm it might take a bit longer, after all, it’s not always possible to pick the spirit plants.”
“As for delaying the growth of the spirit plants, such a short period of time, how much of an impact can it have, just keep planting when you return.”
Lu Xuan was silent, but secretly snorted in his heart.
“It won’t have much of an impact on your spirit plant, not necessarily on mine.”
“After going out for a few days, although the spirit plants will look like they’ll grow normally, I guess it’ll be hard to get good quality or even top quality spirit plants.”
“I was thinking of growing a perfect quality spirit plant to see what light cluster rewards I would get!”
Lei Fei replied truthfully.
“I’m sorry, fellow Daoist Lei, I’m a person who has always focused on cultivating spirit plants, I’m not good at fighting, and I don’t have magical artifacts and talismans to fall back on, and my current cultivation at the third level of Qi cultivation is also a result of pills piling up on me.”
“So, for the sake of safety, I won’t explore that Southern Departure Mysterious Realm with the two Fellow Daoists.”
Lu Xuan politely declined.
“Alright, respect your choice, Fellow Daoist Lu.”
Lei Fei touched his nose and said resentfully.
The two didn’t stay long and left the compound, intending to invite other cultivators again.
“This Lu Xuan, is too timid and fearful, with a cultivation level of the third level of Qi Practicing, going to a secret realm that has been developed for hundreds of years and still worrying about danger.”
“Still talking about what delayed him from planting spiritual plants, he just planted some Spirit Glow Grass, what can be delayed?”
Just as soon as he left the house, Lei Fei couldn’t help but complain.
He originally thought that inviting a cultivator at the third level of Qi Practicing would be a sure thing, but he didn’t expect to eat a closed door at Lu Xuan’s place, making him unavoidably furious in his heart.
“Alright, if you don’t go, you don’t go, let’s go invite others.”
“Although this person is cautious, he is overly cautious, with him acting in such a manner, it will be very difficult to get the chance.”
“In this life, he can only be an ordinary Spirit Plant Master who is at the mercy of others.”
Li Qing looked back at the courtyard where Lu Xuan resided, and there was a hint of contempt in his tone.
(End of Chapter)