Chapter 180 – Spirit Seed Mutation
Chapter 180 – Spirit Seed Mutation
For Lu Xuan, body refining was just an after-dinner snack, and planting was the main course.
For the next period of time, apart from going to feed the Jiao Dragon Python a little bit every day and tending to the Burning Yuan Wood, he spent the rest of his time in the courtyard, carefully cultivating the Spirit Plants and raising the Spirit Beasts.
After the last batch of Spirit Glow Grass was all picked, the remaining two hundred Spirit Seeds, he planted one hundred and fifty of them in the empty Spirit Field area, using them to raise his cultivation and condense the Spirit Seeds.
The remaining fifty, he planted inside the cavern to keep the yin acacia company.
Then, he dug a channel between the ancient well and the cavern, introducing the Yin Cold Spring into the cavern to further improve the spiritual qi environment within the cavern.
The cavern had limited space after planting the Yin acacia, and planting fifty Spirit Glow Grasses already seemed a bit crowded.
With these Spirit Glow Grasses, Lu Xuan intended to see if he could slowly influence the traits of the Spirit Glow Grasses after they matured by changing their growing environment.
Inside the cave, after the introduction of the Yin cold spring water from the ancient well, the only thing that could be called a special environment was this cavern.
And to influence the traits of the Spirit Plant through the environment, it needed to act for a long period of time, and it was very difficult to do it artificially.
Lu Xuan can only look forward to the breakthrough to Foundation Establishment, can have a greater right to choose, at that time will have to choose a spiritual qi environment complex mountain, so that used to cultivate a variety of spiritual plants, to facilitate the spiritual plants to produce mutations.
The two hundred Spirit Glow Grass seeds planted quickly took root and sprouted, growing out a small section of tender green slender leaves, very pleasant.
The previously planted Mystic Immortal Peach and Flame Fruit Spirit Seeds also sprouted separately.
Three tiny pink-white peach branches gently trembled in the breeze, and a little pink leaves grew out and swayed, and at a glance, there was a sense of flavor.
“Yuko, I want milky white Yuko…”
Lu Xuan gazed at it for a while, and strange thoughts could not help but surface in his mind.
He took a deep breath and gave himself a purification spell, instantly entering Sage Mode with no desires.
At the Xuan Insect Vine, the Black Beetles that had been in the state of eggs finally hatched out one after another, and more than a dozen ebony insect chambers crowded densely on the Xuan Insect Vine, distinct from the chambers established by the other two types of demonic insects.
The Hidden Winged Cicada, Black Beetle, and Silver Threaded Mantis, the three types of Demonic Insects had already been domesticated by Lu Xuan, so they got along quite peacefully, growing together with the Xuan Worm Vine and each other.
“The three kinds of demonic insects, numbering more than twenty, are enough for the Xuan Worm Vine’s preliminary growth, any more would rather lose the balance established between each other.
When it grows to a certain stage, then we will find a few good demonic insects to live in symbiosis with the Xuan Bug Vine.”
Lu Xuan sighed as he looked at the strangely shaped Xuan Bug Vines.
In the Spirit Field, the other Spirit Plants were growing in an extremely good state, and under Lu Xuan’s careful cultivation, they were all working hard to grow in order to bring him the Light Cluster Reward as soon as possible.
After inspecting the spirit field once, Lu Xuan came to the ancient well with obscure patterns drawn on it and took out the fifty Spirit Glow Grass Spirit Seeds that were placed in the ice-cold spring water.
The Spirit Seeds had been induced under the icy cold conditions for some time, so it was time to test the results.
There was no great change in the form of the dry and slender spirit seeds in his hand, after being nourished by the spring water for quite a long period of time, they only looked slightly fuller than before, and when grasped in his hand, there was a faint feeling of ice coldness.
Lu Xuan took the spirit seed and arrived at a blank spirit field area.
He executed the Earth Drawing Technique, and the structure of the spiritual soil in front of him changed slightly, a narrow crack appeared, incorporating the Spirit Glow Grass Spirit Seed into it.
Lu Xuan’s mind coalesced around the Spirit Seed in the Spirit Soil, and instantly, a thought emerged from his mind.
[Spirit Glow Grass, a no-grade spirit plant that can be used as a refining material for several types of healing pills after maturity.]
[Due to the Spirit Seed being in a damaged state, it is possible that the cultivated Spirit Glow Grass will not be able to enter the maturity stage properly, and its quality will be greatly affected.]]
“Out of the blue, but it was expected.”
Lu Xuan had long been prepared for the Spirit Seed’s seed structure to be damaged after being stimulated, and continued to plant another Spirit Fluorescent Grass Spirit Seed with an expressionless face. [Spirit Glow Grass, no rank ……]
“There is no change, normal spirit seed.”
He continued to plant the third spirit seed.
A thought surfaced in Lu Xuan’s mind.
[Spirit Glow Grass, no rank ……]
[Fae Spirit Plant, stimulated by icy cold spirit power during the period of the Spirit Seed, after maturity, the plant contains a slight ice spirit power within the plant].
“Finally induced a successful Spirit Seed! A Fae Spirit Glow Grass that contains ice-based spiritual energy, although it didn’t raise its grade, it’s still a good start.”
The appearance of a Mutant Spirit Glow Grass Spirit Seed greatly pleased Lu Xuan in his heart.
He had long since learned from that Senior Uncle He that improving Spirit Plant varieties required a long period of experimentation and could not be achieved overnight, thus, he had long been prepared to fight a long battle.
As one after another Spirit Seed was planted, Lu Xuan was able to determine the changes after each Spirit Seed was induced through his mastery of its state.
In the end, fourteen Spirit Glow Grass Spirit Seeds had failed to be induced, and the quality of the planted Spirit Glow Grasses had greatly deteriorated when they matured, or worse, they were unable to root and germinate, and were reduced to waste seeds.
There were five Spirit Seeds that were successfully induced and became mutated Spirit Plants, cultivating Spirit Glow Grass with a slight ice system spiritual power.
The remaining thirty-one did not change at all.
Lu Xuan placed these Spirit Seeds in separate categories and entered the house, taking out the remaining fifty Spirit Seeds that were placed in the Dan Furnace and baked delicately with a gentle fire.
After planting them separately into the spirit field, the fifty spirit seeds were sifted into three categories.
The environment in the Dan Furnace seemed to have a stronger inducing quality, and out of the fifty spirit seeds, only twenty of them maintained their original state, unchanged.
Of the remaining spirit seeds, twenty-three of them even showed negative states and failed to induce.
Luckily, seven of the spirit seeds had successfully mutated and matured with a slight fire spirit power.
“Although the Dan Fire has been controlled to the lowest level, the destructive, stimulating nature is still stronger than the spring water in the ancient well, thus getting more damaged or even useless spirit seeds.”
Lu Xuan analyzed inwardly.
He had discovered a major advantage of his own when it came to improving the varieties of spirit plants.
When other Spirit Plant Masters improved their Spirit Plant varieties, they needed to plant all the induced Spirit Plants that were able to grow to a certain stage before they could screen out the Spirit Plants that had mutated successfully.
He, on the other hand, as long as he buried the spirit seeds into the spirit soil, he could judge the changes after the induction of the spirit seeds and directly select the mutated spirit plants.
Failed spirit seeds could be directly discarded and eliminated, while the remaining spirit seeds that maintained their original state could be induced repeatedly until they succeeded or failed.
In this way, although the initial cost was higher, a large number of mutant spirit plants could be collected in a short period of time, facilitating later experiments and greatly shortening the time for the improvement of spirit plant varieties.
“In the next period of time, what I’m going to do is to induce the remaining ordinary spirit seeds once again, and then cultivate the mutant spirit plants to obtain a large number of mutant spirit seeds through the method of spirit seed condensation.”
“Inducing again, condensing the seeds again, if this virtuous cycle continues, it will definitely be possible to improve the Spirit Glow Grass Spirit Seed.”
Lu Xuan thought with confidence.
(End of Chapter)