Chapter 169 – Hidden Scale Fish Killed in a Thousand Years
Chapter 169 – Hidden Scale Fish Killed in a Thousand Years
The Water Lin Jiao maintained its composure and didn’t move a muscle as the young cultivator stared at it dead on, Lu Xuan adjusted his breathing and took out the Split Silver Blade.
The short silver-white blade slowly pierced into the Water Lin Jiao’s abdomen.
Although the Water Lin Jiao was a Second Grade Jiao Dragon, its abdomen was not protected by scales, plus it wasn’t known for its defense, so it wasn’t very difficult for the First Grade Split Silver Blade to pierce in.
Lu Xuan gripped the hilt of the silver-white Split Silver Blade with force, and slowly but firmly made an opening.
Immediately afterward, his Spiritual Sense probed into it, searching extremely carefully between every muscle and sinew.
“Found you.”
Somewhere inside the Water Lin Jiao’s body, although it looked no different from flesh and blood, his Spiritual Sense sensed a slight abnormality, and he made an instant decision, controlling that small mass of abnormality, and quickly removing it from the Water Lin Jiao’s body before it could react.
A strange fish appeared on the ground.
The strange fish was about a foot long, slender and translucent, with only a black lateral line constructed within the body, and a nearly transparent giant sucker on its head.
“What is this?”
“There are indeed other demonic beasts present within the auger dragon, Master Lu is truly fiery-eyed.”
The side cultivators, seeing the strange fish coming out from within the Water Lin Jiao, were talking about it.
Lu Xuan didn’t make a sound and took out a piece of demonic beast meat from the barrel next to him and placed it in front of the strange fish.
The strange fish seemed to have found a chance to live, its body swayed and drilled into the demonic beast meat like a stream of water.
“Having found you the first time, I can naturally find you the second time.”
Lu Xuan snorted coldly, easily pulling the strange fish out from inside the demonic beast meat.
The reason why he took out the demonic beast meat was to prove to the other cultivators that this fish possessed the ability to possess parasites, and secondly, to take this opportunity to learn detailed information about the strange fish.
A thought flashed through his mind.
[Hidden Scale Fish, first grade demonic beast, weak in attack, good at concealing itself in the water, non-toxic and edible].
[Usually parasitized amongst water genus demonic beasts, during the hatchling period, the hatchling Cryptic Scale Fish will look for an opportunity to burrow into the backdoor of the demonic beast, noiselessly fusing with the demonic beast’s body and sucking out the essence of the demonic beast’s flesh and blood.]]
“Hmm????”
Lu Xuan couldn’t help but freeze when he saw this message for the first time.
“Senior Brother Lu, what is this strange fish? How did such a big fish get inside the Jiao Dragon?”
Although the next few people were also keeping Jiao Dragons and Pythons in the Thousand Dragons Lake, cultivation was still a priority for them, and keeping Jiao Dragons was just a way to earn Sword Marks.
Thus, there wasn’t much deep understanding in the path of spirit beasts.
Lu Xuan paused and finally decided to tell the truth.
“This strange fish is called the Hidden Scale Fish, I’ve read in a certain tome that it normally parasitizes in the bodies of water genus demonic beasts and feeds on the essence of the demonic beast’s blood and flesh.”
“As for the way to enter the demonic beast’s body ……”
“As far as I know, it enters from the back door part of the demonic beast.”
The faces of the crowd all showed a puzzled look, looking at the ground still struggling hard with the Cryptic Scale Fish, they all felt a dark tightness behind them.
“But why wouldn’t it be discovered by us? These augur pythons, which have been raised by us since they were young, and we would occasionally check on their physical condition, but we have never found any trace of this strange fish.”
A cultivator asked in doubt.
“It’s simple, this Hidden Scale Fish’s concealment ability is extremely strong, it almost blends in with the scaly dragon, only at close range, slowly searching bit by bit with Spiritual Awareness, would it be possible to discover their traces.”
“As for the scaly dragon, although it is clear within its heart that there is a slow flow of essence and blood within its body, it is unable to discover their existence because of the parasitic ability of the hidden scale fish.”
Lu Xuan very patiently answered for the cultivator.
“Senior apprentice-brother Lu, I still have one last doubt, please solve it for me.” “How much harm will this parasitized Cryptic Scale Fish in the Jiao Dragon’s body cause to the Jiao Dragon?”
The several people beside them coincidentally perked up their ears, their attention focused on Lu Xuan, and this was also the question that they were most concerned about deep down in their hearts.
After all, every cultivator present had at least dozens of Jiao dragon pythons in their hands, and if this Cryptic Scale Fish caused serious damage to the Jiao dragons under their command, then they would not be able to take it in their stride.
“The harm is not great, it will mainly affect the growth of the scaly dragon, and will not jeopardize lives.”
Lu Xuan replied affirmatively.
This answer also made the crowd feel much more at ease.
The young cultivator withdrew the golden circle on the Water Lin Jiao’s body, and a faint spiritual light filled the pale white jiao dragon’s body, covering the wound left by Lu Xuan.
After treating himself, the Water Lin Jiao looked at the direction where Lu Xuan was and gave a low roar towards him filled with gratitude.
Lu Xuan watched it disappear into the water and returned to his senses, continuing to draw blood and probe the remaining Jiao Dragon Python.
Solely, there was no sign of a new Hidden Scale Fish amongst the Jiao Dragons behind him, causing the young cultivator next to him to relax quite a bit.
“It was hard work this time, Senior Brother Lu.”
He handed Lu Xuan a black cloth bag that was bulging with quite a few spirit stones.
“Senior brother is polite.”
“Although the Hidden Scale Fish has been discovered by me, there is no guarantee that it won’t hide something else, so I also have to bring the Jiao Dragon’s Essence Blood back to my cave to study it properly.”
Lu Xuan instructed two sentences, smiled as he took the cloth bag and weighed it imperceptibly, and the experienced man immediately felt that the weight in his hand was somewhat inconsistent with the amount of spirit stones the cultivator had presented earlier, and was obviously a bit heavier.
He put the cloth bag into his storage bag.
“Senior Brother Lu, help me look at it first!”
“Senior brother, look at me look at me, the auger I manage is closest to here.”
“Don’t be in a hurry, senior brothers, all of you will take a good look.”
Lu Xuan said gently.
With the double temptation of the Spirit Stone and the Jiao Dragon Essence Blood, he couldn’t even do it if he wanted him not to go!
He selected a cultivator at random and headed to the piece of water where the cultivator was in the midst of his ecstatic look.
With the previous experience, the speed of the blood draw and inspection was a few points faster than before.
Of the dozens of augur pythons, none were found to be in any abnormal state.
Lu Xuan rushed to another one without stopping his hooves, rushing with vigor.
This scene fell in the eyes of the crowd, thinking that he was concerned about the safety of the spirit beasts kept by his fellow disciples, and all of them were touched, and the little bit of unhappiness that had arisen before completely dissipated.
In the past, Lu Xuan drew blood from all the Jiao Long giant pythons at a high intensity and high frequency, and among them, there were a total of eight Jiao Long giant pythons that had been parasitized by the Hidden Scale Fish.
Every time an abnormality was found, the cultivator behind the scene would also take the initiative to increase Lu Xuan’s reward by giving him more spirit stones.
Lu Xuan also had more and more Jiao Long Essence Blood in his storage bag, and the bottles and jars piled up together were close to becoming a small mountain.
“Senior Brother Lu, what insights do you have about these Cryptic Scale Fish?”
When the last scaly dragon had finished drawing blood, all the scaly dragons within these waters had been drawn by Lu Xuan.
“It should be that a certain scaly dragon caught from the outside world has hidden hidden scale fish in its body, and then after raising it in the Thousand Dragon Lake, it grows and reproduces at the bottom of the lake, and slowly chooses the scaly dragon it wants to parasitize.”
Lu Xuan guessed.
(End of chapter)