Chapter 60 – Altered Spirit Insect
Chapter 60 – Alienated Spirit Engulfing Insect
Wan Bao Lou’s reputation was extremely good in the marketplace, and Lu Xuan heeded good advice and listened to the advice of the clear young girl, delivering three spirit stones as a deposit and leaving his identity information.
According to what the young girl said, in about five to ten days, snake demonic beast blood would be transferred over from the other distributions of the Wan Bao Lou, but Lu Xuan could come over to pick up the goods on his own, and based on the quality of the demonic beast blood that was shipped in, he would make up for the remaining Spirit Stones.
With that, he returned to the courtyard with the Misty Concealment Formation Disk.
When he returned, the Grass Puppet was still in the corner of the spiritual field, the gray grass tumor on its huge head extending out several gray and black withered grasses, slowly and meticulously weaving its limbs.
In such a small half day’s work, only two arms were knitted out, and the elbows had yet to see a shadow.
Sensing Lu Xuan’s aura, the gray grass weaving action paused slightly and retracted into the tumor on its head, its head turning slightly as if welcoming Lu Xuan.
Lu Xuan returned to the house and took out the Misty Hidden Mist Formation Disk.
The array disk was grayish-white in color, with many arcane and obscure runes drawn on it, and a faint mist seeped out from both sides of the runes, lingering in the sky above the array disk for a long time.
“A second-grade defensive formation with a little bit of a maze formation attached to it, even if it’s a high level Qi Practitioner cultivator who wants to break the formation, it’s never easy.”
The previous formation outside the courtyard was left by the dental firm, considered as an invisible benefit of Lu Xuan’s huge lease of the spiritual fields, with a grade of first grade, and the defense could only be considered ordinary.
Now that it had been replaced with the second grade Misty Concealment Formation, Lu Xuan was even more relieved, and didn’t have to worry about the spiritual plants inside the spiritual fields being coveted by others.
His spiritual energy seeped into the array disk and slowly triggered it according to a certain pattern.
Numerous runes lit up on the array disk, and the faint mist in the sky above him dispersed in all directions as if blown by a breeze.
Immediately afterward, a semi-transparent aura shield appeared outside the courtyard, and Lu Xuan kept adjusting it so that it covered the entire courtyard in just the right amount.
At the same time, a light mist appeared from nowhere, quickly enveloping the entire courtyard, if one were to look at the spiritual field from above, one could only see a dense white mist, neither the spiritual plants nor the mansion could be seen clearly, even if one’s spiritual sense seeped in, one would only be plunged into the thick mist.
Lu Xuan spiritual sense constantly dialing the runic pattern, outside the shrouded fog also followed the movement of gathering and dispersing, as if there is an invisible hand in the control.
“Alright, the second-grade formation is set up, as for this first-grade formation of the Tooth Bank, we’ll find time to return it to them one day.”
Lu Xuan stood in the spirit field and looked outside the courtyard.
Under his control, the spirit field was not affected by the mist in the slightest.
After setting up the formation, Lu Xuan rested for a moment and began to check the state of the spirit plants in the spirit field.
With his mind focused on the spirit plant, he quickly learned of its immediate status.
When he came across one that was in need, he would come up with a Spiritual Rain Technique, Wood Born Technique, to fulfill the spirit plant’s every subtle need.
“It feels like the roots are a bit heavy, not like the root-on-root kind of heavy, as if something is sucking the roots hard.”
When he passed by the Blood Jade Ginseng area, Lu Xuan suddenly noticed that a Blood Jade Ginseng was a bit off.
It was clearly keeping a safe distance from the other Blood Jade Ginsengs, but it was displaying an unusual state.
Based on the immediate state of the Blood Jade Ginseng, his Spiritual Sense slowly probed out and seeped inside the spiritual soil.
Under the perception of his Spiritual Sense, Lu Xuan realized that there was a light black thing clinging to the Blood Jade Ginseng’s rhizome that was buried deep inside the Spiritual Soil.
It was like a tumor had grown on top of the Blood Jade Ginseng’s rhizome, and with a more detailed perception, he was able to detect that the pale black tumor was made up of hundreds of tiny bugs and insects. The numerous bugbears were buried deep in the soil, motionless, drawing on the life force of the Blood Jade Ginseng, and if they hadn’t realized that the immediate state was a bit different, I’m afraid that it would only be possible for them to notice after they had gone deeper into the Blood Jade Ginseng’s rhizome.
“Looking at this, it should be Spirit Engulfing Bugs, I just don’t know when they mixed into the spirit field to plague my spirit plants.”
Lu Xuan’s expression was relieved, the book at home, Common Hazardous Demon Insects and Solutions, recorded this kind of foreign insect.
Acting in the soil, they loved to gnaw and devour the roots of spirit plants, and in the pre-engagement stage, it was usually hard to find their traces.
Rodent worms into the spiritual field in an unknown way, after all, before the array is only a product, limited protection, and not all day twelve hours has been open, rodent worms themselves are very small, extremely difficult to completely block, plus again in the soil action, more defensible.
Of course, it is also possible that there are rodent insect eggs left in the depths of the soil, hatching out, then looking for the blood jade ginseng rhizome.
Although Lu Xuan had previously cleared the insect eggs inside the Spirit Field from time to time, it was difficult to ensure that it was completely cleaned up.
He revolved his spiritual energy and executed the Earth Drawing Technique.
Although the experience pack of the Earth Drawing Technique that had exploded from the white mass of light wasn’t as much as the Gengjin Sword Technique, Lu Xuan’s mastery of the technique had also reached the Minor Achievement Realm.
Under his exquisite control, the Spirit Loam moved quietly, not disturbing the Spirit Engulfing Insects clinging to the Blood Jade Ginseng’s rhizome at all.
It was only when the rhizome was exposed and stimulated by light that they reacted.
The pale black tumors instantly split and transformed into hundreds of tiny black insects, like a black mist, emitting sharp chirps and attacking Lu Xuan from all directions.
Lu Xuan flung his left hand, and a slender red needle transformed into a phantom and stabbed at the Engorged Spirit Insects, flying recklessly in the swarm and leaving a red line of shadows.
After a few moments passed, the red thread needle flew back to Lu Xuan, and from the head of the needle all the way down, it stabbed hundreds of tiny Rodent Spirit Insects.
“There’s something wrong with these Rodent Spirit Insects, they’re very different from what’s recorded in the book, I remember it’s recorded that they’re not very aggressive.”
“And these ones in the Spirit Field can transform into a black mist and attack in a swarm, there is a clear difference between them and normal Spirit Engaging Insects.”
Lu Xuan looked at the red needle in his hand, and with a movement of his spiritual energy, crimson flames emerged from the slender body of the red needle, instantly incinerating the numerous tiny Rodent Spirit Insects that pierced through into black ash.
“According to this mobility of theirs, they shouldn’t be the Rodent Spirit Insect eggs that were left in the Spirit Soil before, otherwise, I would have been able to discover that they wanted to be unfavorable to the Spirit Plants long ago.”
“Then there’s only possibility that it’s an outside intrusion, I just don’t know what it’s been affected by that it’s changed so drastically.”
Associating it with the alienated cultivators that kept appearing in the workshop market recently, Lu Xuan felt a hint of something wrong rising.
“What kind of evil spirits did the Wang Family mess with in that new secret realm, and what did they get from it, making the entire Square City unsafe.”
The first thing Lu Xuan remembered was the scene last time when the Wang Family cultivators returned with many loose cultivators, and listening to the discussion of the cultivators next to them, it seemed that they had snatched away some kind of treasure in the process of reclaiming the new secret realm, which had lured the evil spirits inside, making the Marketplace City not quite peaceful for a long time.
“I hope it’s just me thinking too much.”
Lu Xuan’s heart was heavy as he carefully searched each and every spirit plant in the spirit field, but fortunately, he did not find any more traces of the Alienated Rodent Spirit Insect.
Being in such a crisis-ridden cultivation world, Lu Xuan only wanted to plant spirit plants in peace and quiet, but it was difficult to fulfill even this small request.
He looked at the Second Grade Sword Grass and Dark Pith Ganoderma that had been planted in the spiritual field for nearly half a year, and his hope for their early maturity became even more urgent.
(End of chapter)