Chapter 153: The Underworld Package The Hidden Winged Cicada
Chapter 153 – Underworld Package Crypt Winged Cicada
“Thanks to Master Lu’s concern, it’s generally going quite well.”
“It’s just that there was a little accident in the middle, there was still an evil sect trail behind the evil sneaks in the city of scattered cultivators, but the evil cultivators that were attracted were solved by me together with a few senior brothers and sisters.”
“Two people were injured as a result, but fortunately it wasn’t very serious, and in addition to the quest rewards, we also got quite a lot of harvest, so that little injury was worth it.”
A hint of a smile surfaced on Xu Shaoze’s resolute face as he returned.
“There’s an evil cultivator figure behind the evil sneak? That’s indeed a bit menacing, good thing you’re all fine.”
Lu Xuan sighed with emotion.
“Menace and opportunity often go hand in hand, and it was their appearance that allowed us to gain additional rewards.”
“In addition, this experience of fighting for a ray of life in a fight to the death can also further enhance one’s cultivation.”
A trace of envy duly appeared in Lu Xuan’s eyes.
“I really envy you guys, Senior Brother Xu, for being able to have such colorful experiences of clearing out evil spirits and exterminating evil cultivators, thus obtaining various cultivation resources.”
“Unlike me, who was born cautious and only dared to stay in the sect, planting spiritual plants and raising spiritual beasts.”
“Getting all sorts of treasures to reward.”
Of course, the last sentence was Lu Xuan’s internalized addition, displayed in front of Xu Shaoze filled with his envious demeanor.
The two of them chatted idly for a while before Xu Shaoze excused himself and left.
Lu Xuan returned to the house, had his dinner, practiced his gongfu for a while, and went to sleep with his clothes on.
On the following day, after tending to the spiritual fields and plants, Lu Xuan went to Sword Gate Town.
Underneath the giant sword that was a hundred feet tall, a wide green stone square.
The square was bustling with many cultivators setting up stalls on it.
Among these cultivators, there were Heavenly Sword Sect’s outer disciples, there were also the subordinates of the sect’s inner disciples with extraordinary backgrounds, and more were the casual cultivators who came here either in admiration of the name or by chance.
Lu Xuan slowly walked through the many stalls, carefully searching for his target.
He had come out this time, mainly to inspect and plant the three evil spirit plants in the rented courtyard, and incidentally to see if there were any nutrients they needed, the eggs needed by the Xuan Worm Vine, and of course, it would be the best if he could come across an unknown high-grade spirit species.
The three kinds of netherworld spirit plants require a resentful soul, bones, and fresh eyes respectively.
Bones and fresh eyes were relatively easy to solve, and could be obtained from the bodies of demonic beasts.
Grieving souls, on the contrary, were the most difficult, after all, the Sword Gate Town was not far from the Heavenly Sword Sect, not many evil cultivators dared to come over to this side to take a look at it, and those who came and went were in the style of the righteous, at least on the surface.
“May I ask fellow Daoist, what is the origin of this demonic beast?”
Lu Xuan said as he pointed at the corpse of a complete demonic beast on the stall.
The corpse was relatively well-preserved, the leopard prototype could be seen, and on the beast’s skin, there were purple lines, and the blood on the wounds had just solidified not long ago, so it was obvious how fresh the corpse was.
“This is a first grade demonic beast Purple Cloud Leopard, speed is extremely swift, I set traps with fellow cultivators before catching one, it’s just a bit of a pity, when I caught it, it was already seriously injured and dying.”
The stall owner was a slightly chubby youth, seeing Lu Xuan’s Heavenly Sword Sect outer disciple’s attire, his expression flinched and he hurriedly returned.
“First grade demonic beast, Purple Cloud Leopard.”
Lu Xuan gently nodded, the Hundred Pupil Guile Wood had an increasing demand for eye pupils as it grew itself, but fortunately, it was still in the early stages of growth, and the eye pupils of a first grade demonic beast were already sufficient.
“I want this Purple Cloud Leopard’s entire body skeleton, as well as its pair of eye pupils, so make a price, fellow Daoist.”
Lu Xuan said blandly.
“Whole body bones as well as eye pupils?” The slightly chubby youth was first stunned, then delighted.
Lu Xuan’s request initially made him feel strange, but it immediately turned to surprise.
After all, in this Purple Cloud Leopard’s corpse, the most precious values belonged to the beast’s skin, blood, and demonic beast’s meat, the bones were slightly less valuable, and as for the eyeballs, that was even more needless to say.
Only certain special rare demonic beasts, the pupil of the eye would be the most valuable material on the body.
“If you want it, twenty spirit stones can take away the bones and eyeballs of the Purple Cloud Leopard.”
He tentatively said to Lu Xuan, in the past contact, the Heavenly Sword Sect cultivators have always been generous, so he also slightly raised the price, but did not dare to be too obvious, after all, the status difference was too great, for fear of attracting trouble.
“Twenty spirit stones?” Lu Xuan’s expression was cold.
“Do you think I don’t know the material market?”
“This Purple Cloud Leopard is only a first grade demonic beast, the whole body material is full of up to sixty Spirit Stones, of which the bones are considered to be the less valuable part.”
“As for the eyeballs, they don’t have much use at all, and I only have a collecting hobby in this area.”
“Ten spirit stones.”
Even though he currently had more than 1,800 spirit stones in his possession, with the idea of saving a little is a little, Lu Xuan directly cut it in half.
After some haggling, Lu Xuan finally got the bones as well as the pupils of the eyes of this Purple Cloud Leopard for twelve Spirit Stones.
After taking it down, he continued to wander around the stalls, during which he also found a second grade demonic beast skeleton with most of its body, which he eventually bought at a price of thirty Spirit Stones.
“The third grade Barbarian Armored Bull skeleton from last time was enough for the Thorn Bone to absorb for a long time, now that I bought two fresh skeletons, it’s kind of a little treat for it.”
“It’s a pity that the spiritual plants in the courtyard only need resentful souls, bones, and eye pupils, when can we get some other netherworld spiritual plants.”
“At that time, blood, beast meat, bones, souls, hair, and so on, all of them will be utilized, one by one, to put together a netherworld package out.”
Lu Xuan couldn’t help but think deep within his heart as he didn’t continue to buy demonic beast skeletons and focused on searching for Fresh Eye Pupils.
Demonic beast skeletons brought intact to Swords Gate Town were relatively rare, and with Lu Xuan’s average luck, he didn’t continue to find fresh eye pupils, but luckily, he found a special stall.
The stall owner was a young man with a gloomy face, and there were some strange things placed on the stall, including strange bug corpses soaked in various liquids, rare materials obtained from demonic bugs, and some bug eggs with strange shapes.
“This fellow Daoist, I don’t know how this Hidden Winged Cicada Insect Egg is sold?”
Lu Xuan said as he pointed at a branch, between the branches, seven or eight insect eggs the size of the tip of his pinky finger could be found, the eggs were elongated and pale white, at first glance they looked like grains of spiritual rice.
He had seen such eggs in the Insect Scriptures, which could hatch out a first-grade demonic insect, the Cryptic Winged Cicada, which belonged to the molting and shedding category of demonic insects, and was just in line with the needs of the Xuan Insect Vine.
“Twenty spirit stones.”
The shady-looking stall owner looked up at Lu Xuan, somewhat surprised by his knowledge of Hidden Winged Cicada eggs, and coldly replied back.
“Fifteen spirit stones, take away this branch, what do you think, fellow Daoist?”
The shadowy youth didn’t speak, shook his head and closed his eyes.
“Eighteen spirit stones, this price is already fair, if you, Fellow Daoist, don’t agree, then I can only give up, it’s only seven or eight first grade Demon Bug eggs anyway.”
Lu Xuan kept testing the youth’s bottom line.
“Good.”
The shadowy youth opened his eyes and nodded in agreement.
(End of chapter)