Chapter 144: The Fortunes of a Part-time Crane
Chapter 144 – The Blessing of a Working Crane
After obtaining the quest information, Lu Xuan didn’t stay much longer, renting a Spirit Crane and arriving at the Beast Harnessing Hall.
He asked his fellow disciples in the Beast Harnessing Hall about the specific habitat of the Spirit Crane, and circled around a few peaks to find a vast watery place.
The water covers an area of hundreds of acres, at this time there are hundreds of spiritual cranes roosting here, many spiritual cranes are plumes white, elegant posture, or in the water in the water, or in the low altitude stretch wings, Lu Xuan looked for a long time, only to see a pair of long-necked entwined, ears and temples of the spiritual cranes.
As if sensing Lu Xuan’s arrival, a cultivator flew out from the depths of the water, with dark skin and a cultivation of the ninth level of qi cultivation.
“This senior brother is courteous, my name is Xu Yi, I am the administrator of this water swamp, may I ask what is the name of the senior brother, did he come here to solve the problem of the birth of the spirit cranes?”
“Good day senior brother Xu, my name is Lu Xuan, as senior brother said, I received that Spirit Crane Fertility task in the Concourse Hall, and came over to have a look at the Spirit Crane habitat.”
“So it’s Senior Brother Lu, it’s been a hard journey, first follow me to rest for a moment.”
Xu Yi smiled with a trace of eagerness on his face as he guided Lu Xuan through the water and swamp.
Half a moment later, the two of them arrived in front of a wooden house building, the floor area was not big, only three or four huts, but the environment was good, surrounded by water on all sides, with a good view.
“So many spirit cranes in the sect are all raised by you alone, Senior Brother Xu?”
After the two chatted for a few moments, Lu Xuan asked curiously.
“Haha, I’m not the only one, but I’m the one who is mainly responsible for these spirit cranes.”
“The spirit cranes inside the water swamp are still only a small portion, most of the spirit cranes are now staying in various parts of the sect, transporting fellow disciples and earning some spirit stones for the Beast Harnessing Hall.”
“When night falls, they will basically return to the water swamp, and only a few of the spirit cranes remain guarding the important places in various parts of the sect.”
The dark-skinned Xu Yi laughed.
“Hundreds of spirit cranes in the water swamp or a handful? Then the total number is at least thousands of miles, right?”
Lu Xuan asked in a shocked voice, surprised at the large number of spirit cranes.
“The most recent census of the number of Spiritual Cranes counted more than two thousand three hundred Spiritual Cranes, however, this is already the lowest number in all the years, I remember that when I just took over this water swamp, the number of Spiritual Cranes in it was more than three thousand.”
“The main sect has a greater demand for spirit cranes, whether it’s for summoning, or transportation, it’s a good target.”
Xu Yi explained.
Lu Xuan thought deeply, the sect area was vast and sprawling, just a single Thousand Dragon Lake stretched for hundreds of miles.
And most of the outer disciples didn’t have flying magic weapons, how to shorten the rush hour was a huge problem for them.
Although cultivators in the Qi Practicing realm have mastered light body techniques or possessed speed-type talismans, they are relatively slow and consume a great deal of money, which is not very cost-effective.
Spirit crane can be a good solution to this problem, the speed is very fast, not weaker than some flying magic weapon, no matter near or far, each time consume a spirit stone, in the Qi Practitioner high level cultivator’s affordable range.
“So many spirit cranes, how to solve the food that they usually eat?”
Lu Xuan had no small interest in how to raise a large number of Spirit Cranes.
“The food is easy to solve, let them find some spiritual grass roots, tender leaves, or spiritual mussels and snails or whatever inside the water and swamp.”
“From time to time, the Beast Harnessing Hall will provide some specially cultivated spirit insects to feed the spirit cranes them.”
Xu Yi casually asked.
“……”
“Spirit cranes earn so many spirit stones, and they’re just feeding them some of this stuff?”
Lu Xuan was speechless in his heart, more than two thousand Spirit Cranes in the Beast Harnessing Hall, on average, each head earns a few Spirit Stones per day, that’s estimated to be no less than seven or eight thousand Spirit Stones a day. Such a gold-sucking spirit beast, actually have to go to the water and swamp to find food by themselves?
And so many spiritual cranes crowded in this water swamp, rushing a bit may be able to hit several of the same kind, for soaring in the sky of the spiritual cranes, but also a considerable constraints.
“Working so hard to earn spirit stones, and as a result of not having enough to eat and poor housing, it all flows into the pockets of the Beast Harnessing Hall.”
“This is the blessing of working cranes, life is completely without hope, no wonder they don’t want to procreate at all.”
Lu Xuan sighed at the extent of the black-heartedness of the Beast Harnessing Hall cultivators, and understood the Spirit Crane’s choice very well.
The two of them chatted for a while before another young cultivator found his way to the Water Marsh, and after talking, Lu Xuan learned that the young cultivator’s name was Zhou Zhengqing, and that he was also here for the Spirit Crane’s fertility problem.
Some of the tasks in the Concubine Hall would have a limit on the number of people, while others did not, and the Spirit Crane Fertility Task did not have a limit on the number of cultivators.
“It should be the two of them, Senior Brother Lu and Senior Brother Zhou, who have taken on this task, and for the next period of time, it will be hard work for the two of them to help with the Spirit Crane Fertility Problem.”
Xu Yi straightened his complexion and said seriously.
“Spirit cranes have a wide range of uses in the Heavenly Sword Sect, but these Spirit Cranes kept by the Beast Management Hall are now facing a big problem, the number of Spirit Cranes willing to give birth is getting smaller and smaller, making the total number of Spirit Cranes to be on a downward trend all these years.”
“Especially this year, the number of pregnant spirit cranes is nearly 20% less than last year, if this continues, the sect is running out of enough spirit cranes to transport cultivators.”
A hint of worry surfaced on Xu Yi’s face.
“Among them, there is another issue that needs to be noted, among the spirit cranes, the number of female cranes that refuse to give birth is significantly less.”
“Due to the long gestation cycle, hatching and raising young Spiritual Cranes requires a lot of time and energy, especially during the conception stage, which can lead to damage to one’s own spiritual energy when breeding Spiritual Crane eggs, all of which is also the main reason for the decrease in the number of Spiritual Cranes.”
“Even during the rutting period of the Spiritual Cranes, it can be clearly seen that the mating desire of the Spiritual Cranes is severely reduced, and many of the Spiritual Cranes would rather go out to earn Spiritual Stones than stay inside the water and swamp to nurture the newborn Spiritual Cranes.”
Xu Yi explained the situation of the Spirit Cranes in detail to Lu Xuan and the two of them.
The two of them were silent for a moment as they heard this, seemingly pondering over the solution.
“Senior Brother Xu, I feel that the reason for the current situation is not the Spirit Cranes’ objective difficulty in procreation, but their subjective unwillingness to procreate, so it’s best to start with this aspect.”
Lu Xuan took the lead and said.
With the experience of his previous life, he empathized with the Spirit Cranes’ choices.
“Senior Brother Lu, you’re talking a bit metaphysically.”
Zhou Zhengqing, who was on the side, heard what Lu Xuan said and couldn’t help but speak out in rebuttal.
“It’s just some sinful animal, life and death are in our hands, where does it get to choose whether or not to procreate on its own?”
He turned his head to look at Xu Yi and said with a smile.
“Senior Brother Xu, I suggest taking a simple and direct approach, forcing those spirit cranes to reproduce more often, thus boosting the number of spirit cranes.”
“As it happens, I happened to come by chance to obtain a side art, similar to the art of dual cultivation, which can catalyze the erotic desire of spirit beasts, in addition there is also a method of configuring the drug of ecstasy, with the effect of the two, it is guaranteed that it can cause the spirit cranes to reproduce in large quantities, thus increasing the number of spirit cranes in one fell swoop.”
“Really? Senior Brother Zhou even has such a good method?”
Xu Yi’s eyes lit up when he heard this.
(End of chapter)