Chapter 63 – Diseased Spiritual Plants
Chapter 63 – Diseased Spirit Plant
After the two of them came out of the Yu Family, Lu Xuan parted ways with Cultivator Wu and headed to the Hundred Herb Hall.
In the Hundred Herb Hall.
A strong medicinal fragrance permeated every corner, giving one a refreshingly cool feeling as soon as they entered.
“Lu kid, you finally showed up, been looking for you for a long time.”
Steward He grabbed Lu Xuan by the arm, his tone hurried.
“Just sent medicine boys to your home, didn’t find you, luckily you came over on your own now.”
“Elder He, did something happen?”
Lu Xuan’s expression stared, he was clear that if the old man did not have an emergency, he would not have sent someone to his home to find him.
“Has there been any abnormality in your Spiritual Field recently?”
The thin old man looked around, seeing that no one had noticed this side, he asked softly.
“A few days ago when I was tending to the spiritual plants, I discovered some rodent insects, which were quite different from what was recorded in the books, and I doubt if there was a mutation.”
Lu Xuan told the truth.
“That’s the thing, it’s not just your spirit field, other spirit planters in the Hundred Herb Hall, and even the spirit fields in the entire marketplace have had such occurrences.”
“Some people have deduced that the evil spirits that have come in to the workshop market are too many and too strong, unknowingly polluting the spirit veins of the workshop market, making the spiritual qi become muddy and unappealing, and it has caused the foreign insects to undergo mutations.”
“In order to minimize the losses, the alchemists of the hall decided to gather all the spiritual planters that cooperated with the Hundred Herb Hall to discuss a solution.”
What the thin old man said caused Lu Xuan to look grave.
“You don’t have to worry, this is a major event related to all the Spiritual Plantsmiths and even all the cultivators in the workshop, it won’t be left unattended, you just have to follow their actions.”
Steward He saw Lu Xuan’s face this heavy and spoke out to comfort him.
“When will the small meeting be held?”
“It’ll be a while, so wait here for a while.”
Lu Xuan nodded his head, and when his mind calmed down, he handed over the thirty-nine mature Spirit Glow Grasses in his hand to the thin old man.
It was still the same original price, three spirit stones and fifty broken spirits for good quality, twenty broken spirits added to each plant for top quality, and four spirit stones per plant for perfect quality.
Fourteen good quality plants, nineteen superior quality plants, and six perfect quality plants, totaling one hundred and forty-three Spirit Stones and thirty Fragmented Spirits for Lu Xuan.
Lu Xuan’s wealth was back to over three hundred.
He watched as more and more Spiritual Planters entered the inner room, so he followed along.
In the spacious hall, there were one to twenty Spiritual Planters who had a cooperative relationship with Hundred Herb Hall, most of whom Lu Xuan did not recognize, and only a few of whom he had dealt with.
Lu Xuan’s entry however drew the attention of some cultivators for being too young.
To become a decent Spiritual Planter, one had to have a lot of experience in planting.
Among the cultivators present, no matter whether they were dedicated to cultivating spiritual plants for the Hundred Herb Hall or establishing relatively open partnerships, the youngest was over forty years old, and Lu Xuan sat in the crowd with a feeling of standing out from the rest.
Inside, there were cultivators who had heard of Lu Xuan’s reputation, and knew that although he mainly cultivated no-grade Spirit Glow Grass as well as first-grade Blood Jade Ginseng for the Hundred Herb Hall, he had a very high rate of top-grade quality when cultivated, and there was even no lack of perfect quality spiritual plants.
Therefore, one after another, there were cultivators who came over to climb down the friendship and get acquainted.
Not long after, all the spirit plant masters arrived, and a bearded cultivator wearing a green shirt walked over. He swept his gaze over all the Spirit Plant Masters present, and paused slightly as he passed by Lu Xuan.
“My humble self, He Zongguang, is an ordinary alchemist of the Hundred Herb Hall, I’m sure you’ve heard of him.”
“All of you present, whether you work with the Hall full-time or freely, are the best of the best in the Spiritual Plantsmiths, and I’ve summoned you all here because I want to inform you of a major event that involves the interests of all Spiritual Plantsmiths.”
Seeing the attention of all the Spiritual Plantsmiths being drawn to himself, the bearded cultivator nodded and continued.
“Come in, all of you may have heard about it or witnessed the planted Spiritual Plants having unknown changes.”
“As the number of alienated cultivators grows, the evil spirits that have infiltrated the marketplace are becoming more and more arrogant and domineering, and the spiritual fields are slowly experiencing unfavorable changes.”
“The foreign bugs that infiltrated the spiritual fields became more aggressive and destructive, and there were also some spiritual plants that underwent inexplicable lesions, such as these two.”
The bearded cultivator took out two abnormal spirit plants from his robe.
One was the Blood Jade Ginseng that Lu Xuan had once planted, and on the body of the ginseng, a grayish area had appeared in the originally crystal clear location, like the accumulation of countless fine gravels.
The bearded cultivator gently touched a piece of gray and white area, at once, the blood jade ginseng gray and white area in his hand noiselessly cracked, turned into fine sand scattered on the ground.
Another spirit plant Lu Xuan had not seen, the main body of the spirit plant was a blood-colored leaf.
At this moment, on the blade, there is a piece of black fluff growing, countless fluff squeezed together, gently fluttering, as if a piece of mold has grown.
“These are the two spirit plants that have produced lesions, the cause is unknown, and the diseased parts have irreversible damage to the spirit plants.”
“Moreover, the lesions may also be contagious, in case they infect each other, the spiritual plants in that large spiritual field will all suffer extinction.”
The bearded cultivator said with a serious expression.
“In order to avoid affecting the spirit plants cultivated by all of you, and thus affecting the alchemy of the Hundred Herb Hall, I’ll make two suggestions here.”
“First, be careful and watch out, strengthen your sense of precaution while enhancing your means of protection.”
“Defensive formations can be arranged to keep the alienated demonic insects out of the spirit field, and corresponding techniques can also be used to monitor the growth of the spirit plants, it is best to observe them several more times a day, so as to try to avoid the spirit plants from experiencing alienation and contamination.”
“Secondly, it’s a group effort to come up with a solution to the diseased spirit plants.”
“You all have unique skills in cultivating spirit plants, so it must be easier for you to figure out ways to prevent or solve the lesions, and if it’s feasible and effective, the Hundred Herb Hall will surely give you a generous reward.”
The spirit plant masters present either closed their eyes in contemplation or discussed with each other, and negotiated several solutions, but all of them could only treat the symptoms but not the root cause, unable to solve the problem from the root.
Lu Xuan sat in the corner, his mind drifting as an odd idea was born in his mind.
“I also wonder if I can see the instant state of the spirit plant after bringing this diseased spirit plant back and planting it in my own spirit field?”
The more he thought about it, the more he felt it was feasible to plant the spirit seed or seedling in his own spiritual field and nurture it to maturity bit by bit, thus obtaining the white light cluster that could be opened to various rewards.
Among them, there were several factors that affected the rewards of the light ball, whether or not Lu Xuan cultivated the spirit plant throughout its growth period, the grade of the spirit plant itself, and the quality of the cultivated and matured plant, and so on.
If one were to bring back a spirit plant in a diseased state and successfully plant it, it would be great if one could see its immediate state.
By using this to cultivate it to maturity, even though one didn’t put in much effort during the growth process, and there might not be any or only basic rewards from the Light Cluster Rewards, the recovered Spirit Plant itself alone would be of great value.
“We must get one or two diseased spirit plants and go back to the spirit field to experiment.”
Lu Xuan secretly thought.
(End of Chapter)