Chapter 88 – Dragon’s Baleen
Chapter 88 – Dragon Bearded Grass
High above the sky, a mountain and river swept past Lu Xuan’s feet in a hurry.
At this moment, he was sitting on a huge black giant eagle.
The giant eagle’s body was three to four feet long, its wings spread out over ten feet, and its feathers had sword blade-like deep black plumes, making it extremely fast.
Second-grade demonic beast Iron Feather Eagle, Wang family kept, Lu Xuan had seen a third-grade level Iron Feather Eagle in the bazaar, more than double the size of this one.
The Iron Feathered Eagle is surrounded by an aura shield, blocking the bayonet-like winds high in the sky.
The giant eagle flew extremely smoothly, without the slightest bump on its back.
Together with the two Wang Clan Qi Practicing high-level cultivators, there were nearly twenty people sitting on the eagle’s back.
“Fellow Daoist Lu, I can’t believe I can bump into you here.”
A simple-looking cultivator slowly moved to Lu Xuan’s side.
“Fellow Daoist He.” Lu Xuan said with a smile.
The cultivator’s name was He Ping, a Spirit Plant Master, Lu Xuan had met him once in the Hundred Herb Hall, and it was said that he was related to that Foundation Establishment Dan Master, and managed a medicinal garden for the Hundred Herb Hall.
Among the cultivators who had traveled to the Secret Realm to help the Wang Family deal with the Spirit Plants, there were a total of fifteen Spirit Plants Masters, and three of them, including Lu Xuan, were closely related to the Hundred Herb Hall.
Lu Xuan observed a little, most of the fifteen Spiritual Planters were at the middle level of Qi Practicing, and only one old man had a high level of Qi Practicing cultivation.
At least on the surface.
“I just saw you observing the others, I reckon that fellow Daoist Lu might not be too familiar with the Spirit Plant Masters present, would you like me to introduce them a little?”
He Ping said with a smile.
“Then I’ll trouble you, Fellow Daoist He.” Lu Xuan was just begging for it.
“These ten-odd people all have notable skills in growing spiritual plants, which is why they were invited by the Wang Family.”
“The old man at the head, who is at the high level of Qi Practicing, belongs to the Wang Family name himself.”
He Ping introduced them one by one, indeed, as Wang Ruhai had said earlier, most of the ten or so Spirit Planters came from extraordinary backgrounds, and Lu Xuan’s heart was slightly relieved.
“Can Fellow Daoist He introduce me to the situation regarding the secret realm?” Lu Xuan asked smoothly.
“Fellow Daoist wouldn’t have entered the Secret Realm yet, right?” A trace of eccentricity surfaced in He Ping’s eyes as he asked in a surprised tone.
“Truth be told, indeed I haven’t.”
Lu Xuan said frankly.
“Due to his ordinary cultivation, not being good at fighting, and being greedy for life and fear of death, he has killed the idea of entering the secret realm to explore the opportunities, and has devoted himself to cultivating Spirit Plants.”
“Fellow Daoist Lu must have given up all of this in order to have a cultivation skill that surpasses all others at such a young age.”
He Ping straightened his complexion.
“The secret realm, the source is mainly two parts, one is the ancient legacy, this kind of may be able to get a big chance, but it also hides a huge risk.”
“There is also a kind of ingenuity, formed by chance, by chance, to form a side of heaven and earth by itself, if it is not long out of the world, there are generally a large number of cultivation resources inside, but there are also many demonic beasts and evil spirits, opportunities and risks exist side by side.”
“The one we’re going in this time is the second kind.”
He Ping said gushingly.
Half a day passed and the Iron Feathered Eagle slowly landed down in a valley.
Beside it, there were already Wang Clan cultivators waiting on the side, seeing the Iron Feathered Eagle with its wings closed, holding a large piece of demonic beast meat and walking over.
“Here is the edge of the secret realm, the next step is for me and fellow Daoist Li Jianfeng to take you to your destination.”
The elegant scribe Wang Ruhai said with a smile. Lu Xuan curiously glanced around, the lofty mountains and forests were so steep that his spiritual sense could sense that it was obscured by some unknown spiritual power.
This valley was the stronghold of the Wang family, and other cultivators who wanted to enter the secret realm must find another way to enter.
At Wang Ru Hai’s signal, a cultivator of the middle level of qi cultivation stepped out and used a piece of magic mirror to open the secret realm’s outer barriers, the spiritual qi surged and a small door that could allow two people to pass through appeared in front of the crowd.
Lu Xuan and the other Spiritual Planters followed behind the two Wang Clan members and fishtailed their way in.
In a trance, Lu Xuan arrived at a strange space, a barren place as far as the eye could see, with a few scattered plants of strange shapes growing on the black and red soil, and the sky was dark and gloomy.
“This is the secret outer perimeter, let’s speed up and head directly to our destination.”
Li Jianfeng, who had been silent all this time, said in a deep voice, his figure was like an arrow off the string, shooting into the distance.
More than a dozen Spiritual Plantsmiths either executed their body techniques or activated their magic weapons, closely following behind.
Lu Xuan also affixed two Swiftness Talismans to his legs and was in the middle of the crowd leaning back.
Along the way, the barren land gradually came to life, and as he deepened into the secret realm, Lu Xuan began to spot cultivator sightings.
After seeing the large number of people on their side and the high level Qi Practitioner leading the group, the scattered cultivators surrounding the secret realm were all like birds of prey, leaving in a panic.
Half an hour later, Lu Xuan’s group arrived in front of a large, rocky mountain.
After circling around amongst the rocks, they finally arrived at their destination.
“This is it.”
Wang Ruhai said as he pointed at the mountainside.
On the mountainside, on the surface of quite a few black and red strange stones, there was an inconspicuous dark red strange grass growing.
Two feet long, towered on the surface of the rock wall rocks, shape curved, the top is extremely thin, densely grown together, like a bunch of weird tentacles.
“Dragon’s beard grass, second grade spiritual plant, only the dragon’s beard grass here has produced some kind of mutation under the influence of the special environment of the secret realm, many dark red long whiskers have a certain degree of aggressiveness, usually there is no difference with the normal dragon’s beard grass, but it will suddenly attack the cultivator during or after picking.”
“The intensity of the attack is not big, probably equivalent to cultivators at the second or third level of Qi cultivation, but due to the fact that they are mixed in with the Longbeard Grass after picking, they often damage the normal spirit plants, making it a pain in the ass.”
“And there are also some strange ingredients in the normal Dragon’s Beard Grass that are integrated into the plant, making it difficult to detect and separate them, making it difficult for the second-grade spirit plants to have the corresponding value.”
“Therefore, it is necessary to rely on all of you spirit plant masters, with the help of your experienced insights in cultivating spirit plants, to recognize the mutated dragon beard grass, and separate out what is inside the normal dragon beard grass, and pick it properly and hand it over to us.”
“Here is one hundred spirit stones as part of the payment in advance, and after we get out from the secret realm, there will be a large amount of spirit stones and spirit medicines to thank you all.”
“The Spirit Planter who handles the most Dragon Beard Grass will also have a generous additional reward.”
Wang Ruhai took out a large amount of spirit stones from his storage bag and divided them into fifteen small piles, floating them in front of Lu Xuan and the others.
“One hundred spirit stones, valued between a first and second grade magic weapon, is not bad.”
Lu Xuan smiled at the hundred spirit stones and put them into his storage bag.
“However, it’s not worth it for me to risk my life, just follow the other Spirit Planters and feel for the fish.”
Lu Xuan thought secretly.
The few Qi Practicing Middle Stage cultivators from the Wang Clan who had come over began to set up the campsite, and among the Spirit Plant Masters, there were already people who walked up to the Dragon Bearded Grass, holding up their Shield Phantasms as they scrutinized the grass.
There were also a few people who came together, discussing in whispers how they should go about recognizing the normal Longbeard Grass.
Lu Xuan followed behind these people, nodding his head in agreement from time to time, looking at the several Spirit Plant Masters who had already penetrated deeper into the territory of the Longbeard Grass, and the corner of his mouth skimmed.
“A hundred spirit stones, what are you fighting for!”
(End of chapter)