Chapter 161 – Silver Thread Mantis
Chapter 161 – Silver Thread Mantis
“Fourth grade formation Thousand Illusory Cloud Smoke Formation, a third grade spirit plant is just extraordinary, it’s not in vain that I’ve carefully cultivated you for so long.”
Lu Xuan looked at the formation disk with clouds and smoke hanging upside down in his hand, a look of surprise appeared on his face.
He was worried about the protection of the small courtyard in Swords Gate Town, but he didn’t expect it to be solved so quickly by the light mass reward brought by the Illusory Smoke Luo Fruit.
Inside the small courtyard, there were currently three types of spiritual plants planted, namely the third-grade Ghostface Stone Mushroom, the third-grade Thorn Bone, and the fourth-grade Hundred Pupil Guile Wood, each of which was extremely precious and could not be compromised in the slightest.
The center of gravity had to be placed within the sect, and he could only occasionally go over to take a look, in this case, worrying was unavoidable.
Although the sword door town is not far from the Heavenly Sword Sect, do not have to worry about what demonic beasts and evil spirits invade, most of the cultivators in the town and the Heavenly Sword Sect has a close relationship with the disciples, but the hearts of the people are treacherous, if a long time did not see the owner of the yard, it is difficult to guarantee that there will be people do not give birth to bad intentions.
Now, with this Thousand Illusion Cloud Smoke Formation, which integrates illusion, maze, and killing formations, Lu Xuan doesn’t have to worry about this aspect.
He put the array disk and the Illusory Smoke Luo Fruit into his storage bag. The Spirit Fruit was originally intended to be swallowed by the Cloud Treading Lynx, but considering that its pair of eye pupils were only good at identifying evil spirits, taking the Illusory Smoke Luo Fruit that enhanced the ability of illusions would not have much of an effect, and so he called it quits.
In the next few days, he stayed in the cave most of the time, cultivating spiritual plants, raising spiritual beasts, and from time to time, he went to the Thousand Dragon Lake to feed the remaining dragon pythons.
Every time he went over, the spirit cranes did not accept his spirit stones, and after a few frequent visits, Lu Xuan only had to give up on this idea and bring some ordinary spirit fruits for daily hospitality as a token of appreciation.
The rest of the time, will be used to cultivate skills and techniques, although the cultivation of a few months may not be able to compare to a strain of Spirit Fluorescent Grass, but more or less can improve a little cultivation.
The days went by extremely leisurely, especially after just picking the third-grade Illusory Smoke Luo Fruit and obtaining the fourth-grade Thousand Illusory Cloud Smoke Formation, it was even more peaceful and self-satisfied, with a few more points of fulfillment.
“Senior Brother Lu, are you home please? I received a Demonic Beast Eye Pupil quest that you posted earlier, and came over to hand over to you.”
Outside the courtyard, a clear and cold female voice came.
“In.”
Lu Xuan answered and hurriedly ran over to open the courtyard door.
A female amendment with an elegant temperament was stationed in front of the door.
The female cultivator entered the courtyard, casually found a wooden pier and sat down, taking out three slender transparent bottles from her storage bag.
The bottle is filled with light green liquid, which is soaked with various types of demonic beast pupils, each pupil is rich in vitality, as if it has just been cut out of the demonic beast’s head in general.
“I went out this time to get fourteen complete demonic beast eye pupils, ten of which originated from first grade demonic beasts, four of which originated from second grade demonic beasts, each of which was taken down shortly, and preserved with a special spirit liquid, it should be able to meet the requirements of Lu Shidi you.”
The elegant female cultivator slowly said.
Lu Xuan took the bottle, and his spiritual sense probed into it, feeling the freshness of the pupil, confirming that what the female cultivator said was true.
“This eye pupil is rather special, originating from a second grade demonic beast, the One-Eyed Brute Rhinoceros, with an amazing brute strength, as well as a certain illusionist ability.”
The female cultivator saw Lu Xuan looking at a huge deep black eye pupil in the bottle and spoke out to explain.
Lu Xuan nodded his head gently as he heard this.
“Senior sister, according to the requirements on the mission, each first grade demonic beast’s eye pupil is ten Spirit Stones, the three second grade demonic beast eye pupils are all relatively ordinary, so I would like to acquire them for thirty Spirit Stones each.
This one-eyed savage rhinoceros’ eye pupil is slightly more special, fifty spirit stones, what does senior sister think?”
The elegant female cultivator hesitated for a moment and nodded her head in agreement.
“Then thank you, Senior Sister Lu.”
These demonic beasts were originally needed to be hunted for another mission of hers, and removing the eye pupils was just a matter of passing, and although Lu Xuan’s opening price was a bit low, it was good enough to earn such a large amount of extra money. Lu Xuan handed over two hundred and forty spirit stones to the Qing Ya female cultivator and took the dozen or so demonic beast eye pupils from her.
“The cost of planting high grade spirit plants is a bit big ah, the Hundred Pupil Guile Wood of the fourth grade cost me more than two hundred spirit stones at once.”
“It’s still Spirit Glow Grass that’s real, there’s an aura environment where it can grow.”
“But high grade has the benefits of high grade, these initial investments are nothing in front of the value of the spirit plant itself, not to mention, I still have the light cluster rewards!”
After waiting for the female cultivator to leave, Lu Xuan returned to the house and looked at the dozen or so eye pupils floating and sinking in the light green liquid.
He had put all the eye pupils into the Sheng Sheng Bag, which could maximize their freshness.
“Master Lu, are you at home? Got you an insect egg, a larva over here.”
Half a day passed, and Lu Xuan was inspecting the spirit field when another mellow voice came from outside.
Lu Xuan opened the door to the courtyard, and a tall cultivator with perfect qi cultivation was standing at the door.
“I wonder what kind of insect eggs, larvae, Senior Brother has found?”
After welcoming the tall cultivator inside, Lu Xuan made a pot of spirit tea and asked the cultivator.
“Senior Brother Lu, this time I’ve gone through a lot of effort, you also know very well that Demon Insects are extremely protective of their eggs and larvae, trying to find it is more than ten times more difficult than finding an adult insect.”
“I spent a few days in the Red Miasma Valley before I found two kinds, a first grade Black Beetle and a second grade Demon Insect larva, the Silver Thread Mantis.”
The tall cultivator fiercely poured a mouthful of spirit tea and said to Lu Xuan, taking out two things from his storage bag.
A bottle contained several insect eggs, flat and round, black and shiny, like a small stone.
The other bottle contained two mantis larvae, about half a finger long, all white like jade, the forelimbs were like a pair of small knives, and a thin silver line could be seen faintly on the back.
“The eggs are Black Beetle Insects, first grade demonic insects with seven grains, usually living near strange stones, with a good defense ability after maturity, and can be used as refining materials for certain pills.”
“These two larvae, on the other hand, are Silver Thread Mantises, Second Grade Demon Insects, extremely fast and with strong attack abilities.”
The tall cultivator introduced Lu Xuan in detail.
Lu Xuan nodded, this Black Beetle didn’t know if it was a molting and shedding type of insect, but as long as it was raised, it more or less played a symbiotic role with the Xuan Worm Vine.
As for the Silver Thread Mantis, it perfectly matched the needs of the Xuan Bug Vine, and the two could grow together.
Of course, have to say one thing is that, this silver thread mantis look quite easy on the eyes, face value in the bugbears he saw, understood inside is considered the first class.
“Senior brother, I’m going to acquire this Black Beetle at six spirit stones per grain, and the Silver Thread Mantis larvae at thirty-five spirit stones each, what do you think?”
Lu Xuan’s bid was already considered relatively reasonable, and the tall cultivator didn’t care much about a tiny bit of spirit stones gained or lost, directly nodding his head in agreement.
Lu Xuan took out one hundred and twelve spirit stones and handed them over to the tall cultivator.
“Senior Brother Lu is quick, next time if I find any more bug eggs or larvae, I will come over to bother you again.”
The tall cultivator took the spirit stones and got up to take his leave.
(End of chapter)