Chapter 40: The Fruit of the Illusory Smoke
Chapter 40 – Illusory Smoke Luo Fruit
After Lu Xuan rewarded the Cloud Treading Lynx, he took out the special Spirit Seed shaped like smoke from his storage bag.
He found an empty area in the Spirit Field and performed the Earth Drawing Technique, and just the right cracks appeared in the Spirit Soil to incorporate the Smoke Spirit Seed.
Immediately afterward, his mind converged on the seed inside the spiritual soil.
A thought appeared in his mind.
“Illusory Smoke Luo Fruit, a third-grade spiritual plant, a spiritual fruit that matures, after taking it, it can accelerate the cultivation speed of illusion arts while enhancing the power of the arts.”
“It can also be used to raise demonic beasts with related abilities or refine certain special pills.”
“The growing process of the spirit plant will continuously breed smoke, and even after accumulating for a long time it is possible to form a low-grade illusionary realm, where the spirit plant is hidden in the illusionary realm, and its location is difficult to discern.”
“I’m right in front of you, why can’t you find me?”
Lu Xuan’s mind flashed through the detailed information and instant status about the Spirit Plant.
“Third grade spirit plant, this time it’s rich!”
Lu Xuan couldn’t help but rejoice as he digested the information that appeared in his mind.
Third Grade, that could be considered entering the Foundation Establishment category.
So far, the best spirit plants inside the spiritual field were two second grade plants, the Sword Grass as well as the Dark Marrow Chi.
Other plants such as the Blood Jade Ginseng, Red Cloud Pine, and Pure Snow Lotus were all first grade, and there were even dozens of ungraded Spirit Glow Grasses.
The two second-grade spiritual plants were obtained in the same way as the Illusory Smoke Luo Fruit, both being unknown spiritual species that were plucked and successfully planted with the help of the information revealed by the instant status.
If one did not have this magical ability, even if one obtained an unknown spiritual seed, one would only be blind and unable to do so.
After planting the Illusory Smoke Luo Fruit Spirit Seed, Lu Xuan’s Spiritual Consciousness noticed that from inside the seed, wisps of extremely faint smoke seeped out, difficult to see with the naked eye.
“When it grows up a bit and there is more smoke, I guess it will play hide and seek with me, but I can see the instant state of the spirit plant, so I don’t have to worry about not being able to find it.”
Lu Xuan cast the Spirit Rain Technique towards the Spirit Plant and secretly thought.
After planting the Illusory Smoke Luo Fruit Spirit Seed and getting clear about its characteristics, Lu Xuan went to the other areas of the Spirit Field to inspect the growth status of the various Spirit Plants.
Inside the Red Cloud Pine’s fine red pine leaves, the five pinecones had grown a point larger in size, and it looked like they were getting closer and closer to maturity.
Lu Xuan was looking forward to this first-grade spirit plant. The previous mature spirit plants, whether it was the Spirit Glow Grass or the Moon Eclipse Fruit, were all just no-grade spirit plants, so he didn’t know what kind of light rewards a first-grade spirit plant could bring.
The Sword Grass and the Dark Marrow Chi are also growing well, but they still have a short time to go before they mature.
The spiritual soil around the Sword Grass was plowed out by the Meaningful Sword Intent into many tiny trenches, and the Sword Intent was even sharper.
The dark red mycelium extending out from the Dark Medulla Chi surrounded the decaying spirit wood tightly, absorbing the nutrients from the decaying wood obviously faster than before, Lu Xuan estimated that it wouldn’t be long before there would be new decaying wood again.
The Pure Snow Lotus stood proudly in the Spirit Spring Pool, several white jade-like lotus leaves were not as tender as the ones that had just grown out, and had already quietly grown open without realizing it.
After the Spirit Glow Grass matured more than ten plants at the very beginning, it all of a sudden entered the stage of rapid maturation.
Lu Xuan looked over and collected ten fully matured Spirit Glow Grass.
The remaining dozens of plants could also be harvested, but they weren’t fully mature, so Lu Xuan kept them for now for fear of affecting the light cluster rewards.
Out of the ten Spirit Glow Grasses, two perfect quality ones appeared, and out of the remaining eight, five were of good quality and three were of superior quality.
“Harvested one plant of Spirit Glow Grass, gained six months of cultivation.” *2
“Harvest one plant of Spirit Glow Grass, gain September cultivation.”
“Harvest one Spirit Firefly Grass and gain one year’s cultivation.”
Inside the ten plants, there were four white light clusters that brought cultivation rewards.
Wave after wave of spiritual energy rose violently within Lu Xuan’s body, and he flew around, controlling the spiritual energy to calm down gradually.
“Increasing my cultivation for almost three years at once, planting makes one mesmerized ah……”
Lu Xuan leisurely sighed.
“Harvesting one Spirit Glow Grass, obtaining a Grade 1 Talisman Sword Qi Talisman.” *3
“Harvesting one Spirit Glow Grass, obtaining a Grade 1 Talisman Exorcism Charm.”
“Harvest one plant of Spirit Glow Grass and obtain the Art of Wood Born.”
Four talismans appeared in Lu Xuan’s hands one after another. Although the first-grade talismans only had a good killing effect on Qi Practitioner low-stage and middle-stage cultivators, and it was difficult to threaten Qi Practitioner high-stage cultivators, however, as long as the number of them was large enough, and the firepower was fierce enough, it was not impossible to exterminate a Qi Practitioner high-stage cultivator.
After absorbing the white ball of light containing the Wood Born Art, Lu Xuan’s understanding of it became even more profound and thorough, as if he had performed it hundreds of times in a flash, and was even more relaxed when he performed it.
The last white light cluster was left by a perfect quality Spirit Glow Grass.
Lu Xuan picked it up, and the light mass transformed into countless points of light that surged into his sea of consciousness.
Immediately, a thought emerged from the sea of consciousness.
“Harvested one Spirit Glow Grass, obtained a First Grade Qi Nurturing Dan Formula.”
“Another Dan formula.”
Lu Xuan recalled the information of the Dan Formula that appeared in his mind and instantly grasped its refining technique.
Types of materials, quantities, handling methods, fire control, and the moment of release ……
Although he hadn’t practiced it yet, he already had a wealth of experience in refining this First Grade Qi Nourishing Dan.
“Together with the Peiyuan Dan formula obtained earlier, there are currently two Dan formulas.”
“If I absorb the light mass with the Dan formula again, and increase my refining level to skilled or even proficient, then I can try it out in my spare time.”
Lu Xuan packed the ten Spirit Glow Grasses he had collected in a jade box and put them into his storage bag.
According to the current maturation rate of the Spirit Glow Grass, he estimated that he would have to go down to the Hundred Herb Hall again in another two or three days.
After inspecting the Spirit Fields once, Lu Xuan planned to go back to his house to cultivate.
Seeing this, the Cloud Treading Lynx on the side stopped teasing the Red Bearded Carp in the Spirit Spring Pond, and with its four cotton-wool-like paws gently stepping on the ground, it elegantly followed behind Lu Xuan.
“Fellow Daoist, may I ask if you are at home? We are the deacons in the workshop.”
“Coming in the workshop market has seen evil figures appearing all around, in order to maintain the order of the workshop market, routine inspections are carried out, I hope that you, Fellow Daoist, will understand and be accommodating.”
Not long after, a voice sounded outside the courtyard.
“A door-to-door inspection by a workshop market deacon?”
Lu Xuan knew that it was not good to refuse, and with doubt, he opened the courtyard door.
Outside the courtyard, there were three cultivators standing, each with a discreet expression, one at the fifth level of Qi Practicing Cultivation, and the remaining two at the third level of Qi Practicing Cultivation.
“Greetings, fellow Daoist.”
The cultivator at the fifth level of Qi Practicing was clearly the leader among the three, and he greeted Lu Xuan when he saw him come out.
Lu Xuan nodded his head in greeting, his expression restrained.
“I don’t know how a few fellow Daoists check?”
“We will use our magic weapons to search the courtyard that you live in, and at the same time, we will also release an Evil Dispelling Spell on you, so please forgive us.”
A cultivator at the third level of Qi Practicing behind him explained.
“Releasing an evil dispelling spell is fine, but to carefully search the courtyard of the mansion, that’s really a bit inconvenient, after all, no one wants their privacy to be violated at will.”
Lu Xuan politely refused, releasing the spells on himself was fine with him, but to search the mansion he was not too happy about it, after all, he didn’t want others to see those rare spiritual plants in the spiritual fields.
If there really was an evil spirit, the spell would be enough to detect it, there was absolutely no need to enter the house to search, those big families and powers in the marketplace, or even Wang Shan next door, Lu Xuan concluded that they would not enter the house to search in detail.
“The helplessness of the casual cultivator ah ……”
“If it really doesn’t work, this is the only method.”
Lu Xuan let out a dark sigh as his fingers reached for his sleeve.
When the three saw this, they were like enemies.
(End of Chapter)