Chapter 162 – Hugging a Thigh Starts with Formation
Chapter 162 – Holding a Thigh Starts with Formation
“Buying the Demonic Beast Eye Pupil cost more than two hundred spirit stones, and the bug egg is another hundred or so, this spirit stone isn’t well-spent.”
Lu Xuan sighed as he held the Black Beetle Bug Eggs and the bottle containing the Silver Thread Mantis.
“One is used to cultivate the Fourth Grade Hundred Pupil Guile Wood, and the other is used to cultivate the Fourth Grade Xuan Insect Vine, it’s still acceptable.”
After buying the Demonic Beast Eye Pupil and the Bug Egg Larva, he now had about 1,400 spirit stones on him, this fortune was like a huge sum of money for him during his time as a casual cultivator, but in the Heavenly Sword Sect, it was completely insufficient.
He came to the area of the spirit field where the Xuan Insect Vine was located, the Xuan Insect Vine had not yet sprouted, it was just that the Cryptic Winged Cicada Insect Eggs that he had buried earlier had almost fused with the spirit seed, and the surface of the spirit seed looked like it had a strange sense of harmonization.
Lu Xuan picked several places and executed the Ground Drawing Technique of the Grand Completion Realm, smoothly placing the Black Beetle Insect Eggs onto the surface of the Xuan Bug Vine Spirit Seed.
As for the two Silver Thread Mantis larvae, Lu Xuan had just taken them out of the bottle when the two larvae that originally wanted to quickly flee away seemed to sense something, stopping above the Xuan Worm Vine and constantly sniffing around.
Then, with a pair of alabaster-like forelimbs, they dug into the spirit soil, wanting to get close to the Xuan Worm Vine.
Lu Xuan couldn’t see past it and directly executed the Earth Drawing Technique, creating a direct passage for the two Silver Thread Mantis larvae.
The larvae, one after the other, couldn’t wait to burrow into the passageway, as if they were glued to the Xuan Bug Vine Spirit Seed, lying tightly motionless.
“A first grade Cryptic Winged Cicada, Black Beetle, and a second grade Silver Thread Mantis should be enough for the Xuan Bug Vine’s early growth.”
Lu Xuan toured around the spirit field, called a spirit crane, and came to the front of the Concubine Hall.
In the Concourse Hall, it was much more lively than usual, with dozens of cultivators standing in front of the huge light curtain.
Lu Xuan bypassed the light screen and came to the side and back, canceling the Demonic Beast Eye Pupil task that he had set up last time.
Sect cultivators went out to explore, hunting demonic beasts was the norm, and if he kept hanging on to the Demonic Beast Eye Pupil task, Lu Xuan estimated that he wouldn’t be facing bankruptcy for long.
The fourteen eye pupils that the female cultivator had brought with her, plus some that were on their way, were enough to cultivate the Hundred Pupil Guile Wood for a while.
After revoking the task, Lu Xuan realized that the number of cultivators standing in front of the huge light screen was increasing, and he couldn’t help but gently touch one of the cultivators next to him, asking curiously.
“May I ask Senior Brother, why does it feel like the Concourse Hall is much more lively than usual, is something good happening?”
“Is this something you don’t even know?”
The young cultivator turned around and asked with some surprise.
“I basically cultivate spirit plants on weekdays and rarely go out, so I don’t know the recent movements of the sect very well.”
“I see.” The young cultivator nodded, seeing that Lu Xuan did not seem to be faking, he explained.
“Not long ago, about a thousand miles away from the sect, a small secret realm appeared, and rumor has it that some of my fellow disciples obtained quite a few good things from that secret realm.”
“That’s why the quests regarding that secret realm have been quite hot lately, and I heard that the sect is also planning to organize some Foundation Establishment Master Uncles to go ahead and completely open up the secret realm.”
Lu Xuan suddenly realized that everything in the newly discovered secret realm was unknown and full of infinite possibilities, as early as when he was in the Lin Yang Marketplace, he had often heard similar rumors about who had obtained high grade techniques, rare treasures, and other such things in the secret realm.
In the new secret realm, the possibility of obtaining opportunities and treasures was much greater than usual, so it was no wonder that the fellow disciples present were so excited.
“Do you want to go over and take a look together, senior brother? With a Foundation Establishment Senior Uncle escorting us, with the strength of the Heavenly Sword Sect, we can completely level that small secret realm.”
The young cultivator reddened his face and invited Lu Xuan.
“No no no, I still have spirit plants in my spirit field that I haven’t picked yet, I can’t delay the harvesting season.”
Lu Xuan hastily refused, the Foundation Establishment cultivator escorting the exploration of the secret realm, on the good side, it was to ensure the safety of the disciples within the clan, on the bad side, it meant that there was a high probability that there were demonic beasts of the third grade and above, or bizarre level evil spirits within the secret realm.
Moreover, even if it is a foundation cultivator, it can’t shelter every cultivator, if it happens to miss one, and the missed cultivator happens to run into a third-grade demonic beast or trickster-level evil spirit, then it’s very likely that there will be no return.
With the Unsullied Jade, Hidden Spirit Cloak, Sundown Thunder Sword Pill and other means in hand, Lu Xuan was confident that he could save his life in front of a third-grade demonic beast, but he still didn’t have any thoughts of taking any risks.
“When the cultivation level rises a little bit more and there are more treasures, then we can consider going out.” Lu Xuan said secretly in his heart.
Then, he very calmly walked out of the Concubine Hall and called a Spirit Crane to send him back to his cave.
After tending to all the spirit plants in the Spirit Field, Lu Xuan went to the Spirit Spring and took out an Iron Chevron Crab from underneath a strange rock.
The Light Cluster Reward that came with the Iron Chelid Crab when it was fully matured had already been turned on, and Lu Xuan had kept the remaining two Iron Chelid Crabs under the strange stone at the Spirit Spring in order to ensure that he would be able to eat the freshest ingredients.
“Prepare! Prepare!”
The Cloud Treading Lynx gently walked over, its thick white cloud-like paws easily slapping the unruly Iron Chelle Crab unconscious, followed by the Grass Puppet coming over and extending two gray grass ropes from its own body to tie the Iron Chelle Crab up tightly.
Without waiting for Lu Xuan’s command, the Wind Falcon Young Bird grabbed the grass ropes and directly placed the Iron Chelated Crab inside the pot.
“You say you’re a grass puppet that only eats spirit stones, grass spirit elemental liquid, what’s the point of being so active as well?”
Lu Xuan glared at the grass puppet, which slowly retreated back into the spirit field with its huge gray grass head.
“Let’s eat!”
Lu Xuan lifted the lid of the pot, not caring about the rapidly churning heat, and flipped the reddish steaming crab shells open, revealing the golden, fatty crab meat inside.
“White, tender, fresh and fragrant, one word, absolute!”
Lu Xuan swallowed a mouthful of crab meat and couldn’t help but exclaim.
The Treading Cloud Lynx and Wind Falcon Cub next to him looked at him with unblinking eyes, as if urging him to hurry up and get them a piece.
Lu Xuan wrenched off a crab leg for each of them, letting them gnaw on it on their own, and the two little ones hugged tightly, gnawing on it until their faces were covered in oil.
“Niko!”
While one person and two little ones were enjoying the delicacy, a somewhat familiar voice attracted Lu Xuan’s attention.
He followed the sound and the mysterious luan bird that appeared last time once again appeared inside the courtyard without a sound.
“Come, give you a crab leg!”
Lu Xuan threw a crab leg over, and the luan bird gently shook its white plume, nodding slightly in gratitude.
“Spiritual intelligence is so high.”
Seeing this, Lu Xuan couldn’t help but sigh, last time, due to the luan bird appearing too abruptly, he was worried that venturing out to explore would cause displeasure to the luan bird, thus he didn’t properly perceive the luan bird’s origins.
Since Lu Xuan had come to the cave again, he wasn’t as polite as he should have been.
His mind quietly coalesced on the luan bird, and the information he received made him feel doubly shocked.
[Xuan Tian White Luan, Growing Stage, Third Grade Demonic Beast, a descendant of the Heavenly Sword Sect’s Protector Spirit Beast, the Sixth Grade Xuan Tian White Luan, with the potential to grow to a Seventh Grade Spirit Beast.]
“Protector Spiritual Beast Descendant …… Potential to grow to a seventh grade Spiritual Beast …… This is properly a thigh that is growing rapidly!”
Lu Xuan sighed inwardly, the talent of the mixed blood Ink Scale Jiao that he had seen before was already considered quite good, but in front of this Xuan Tian White Luan in front of him, it would be completely inadequate.
“The first step to capturing a spirit beast’s heart is to first capture its stomach.”
“To hold a thigh, one must first start with nurturing it!”
Recovered about seventy to eighty percent.
(End of chapter)