Chapter 198 – Swordgrass’s Advanced Version
Chapter 198 – Swordgrass’s Advanced Version
“A second-grade Yin Soul Bead that can nourish and grow Yin Soul Grievances is not bad.”
Lu Xuan sighed as he looked at the ebony bead in his hand that was filled with Yin Qi.
“However, Yin Soul Grass is a vintage-type spirit plant that can theoretically grow forever, it is just limited by the variety, cultivation environment, and other factors, so it cannot achieve the point of longevity.”
“A second-grade Yin acacia should be able to grow to over a hundred years, as for a thousand years, it’s hard as hell.”
“I remember that after planting this Yin acacia, it’s been about two years until now, two years is about the normal maturation time of a second grade spirit plant, does it mean that the yearly classified spirit plants, as long as they grow up to a certain stage, will be rewarded with light clusters?”
“Perhaps when the Yin acacia grows to seven or eight years, or even ten years, it will additionally receive a light cluster reward?”
Lu Xuan guessed in his heart, then shifted his attention to the Second Grade Yin Soul Bead in front of him.
He took out the Grievous Soul Bell he had bought from the House of Ten Thousand Treasures from his storage pouch, and his spiritual sense controlled the several Grievous Souls lurking in the inner wall of the bell to fly out and enter the Yin Soul Bead.
Several pale figures immediately appeared on the surface of the ebony bead, lying tightly on their backs, with enjoyment faintly visible on their faces with blurred features.
“Not bad, the grudging souls in the Grudging Soul Bell can be nourished a bit more by placing them in the Yin Soul Bead, when we go to Sword Gate Town next time, let those five Ghost-faced Stone Mushrooms have a big meal.”
Lu Xuan looked at the Yin Soul Bead’s grievances, and a kind smile appeared on his face.
“Letting you all eat and drink before sending you on your way, I’m really merciful.”
As he was lamenting, he sensed a foreign bird entering the range of the mountain peak.
His figure instantly transformed into a wisp of cloud smoke and drifted to the foot of the mountain in a flash.
The foreign bird appeared to be a puppet beast, with a pair of wooden heads stuffed in its eye sockets, turning slightly sluggishly, and the plumes on its wings appeared to be organized from numerous tiny sword blades, looking incredibly sharp.
The wooden eyes sensed Lu Xuan’s presence, the puppet alien bird opened its beak and a clear voice came out.
“Senior Brother Lu, I’m Shen Ye, I left two Sword Grass Spirit Seeds for you in the Hall of Si Nong, I don’t know if you still have a few memories of them.”
“I learned from Xia Chen in the Sinnon Hall that you have advanced to the Foundation Establishment realm and have become an inner disciple of the sect.”
“Congratulations on your fish leaping through the Dragon Gate and soaring to the heavens.”
“In addition, the promise I made to you before is still valid, as long as Senior Brother can cultivate those two swordgrasses, I will introduce Senior Brother into the Sword Hall and join in cultivating improved swordgrasses.”
“If senior brother is interested, he can follow this puppet bird of mine over to the Sword Hall to take a look.”
Shen Ye’s voice then disappeared as the puppet alien bird closed its beak and stared at Lu Xuan with a pair of wooden eyes.
“The Sword Hall …… cultivates improved sword grass.”
The importance of sword grass to the Heavenly Sword Sect had long been roughly understood clearly by Lu Xuan.
When he was in the Hall of the Sword, he attempted to exchange his Sword Seal for Swordgrass Spirit Seeds, but he was not qualified to plant Swordgrass due to his status as an Outer Sect Disciple.
Previously, when he was at the Lin Yang Market, the sword grass that he had accidentally cultivated had left behind a cluster of light that had opened up the rare and precious Sundown Thunder Sword Pill, and he therefore had a not-so-small interest in the sword grass.
Without the slightest hesitation, Lu Xuan signaled the puppet alien bird to lead the way to the location of the Sword Hall that Shen Ye had mentioned.
A moment or so later, he arrived in front of a large formation that enveloped a huge space, with countless sword qi swimming freely like fish on its surface.
Outside the large formation, there was already a gentle cultivator waiting for Lu Xuan, the cultivator was carrying a deep black sword box on his back and stood there like a long sword with an internalized sword intent.
“Senior Brother Shen!” Lu Xuan hurriedly stepped forward, bending down to salute, the cultivator in front of him was none other than Shen Ye who he had once met, the Hall Master of the Si Nong Hall, with a late stage Foundation Establishment cultivation.
“Senior Brother Lu doesn’t need to be so courteous.”
Shen Ye put away the puppet foreign bird and said with a gentle smile.
“Senior brother came over to the Sword Hall, I think there must be quite a lot of interest in the Sword Grass, so I’ll take you on a tour.”
Shen Ye turned around and waved one hand, an invisible sword blade struck on the surface of the large formation, revealing a gap that could allow two people to pass through.
Lu Xuan hurriedly followed behind the gentle cultivator.
A thin, unnoticeable sword blade swept past his cheeks, as if as soon as he made a move, the blade would transform into an infinite sword qi and cover him.
After entering the large formation, what met his eyes was a huge peak that rose straight into the sky, flying swords of various sizes and shapes freely traveled through the clouds, and sword qi shot out from all parts of the peak, resounding with clanging sword sounds from time to time.
The occasional passing cultivators, each one of them contained a terrifying sword intent, causing Lu Xuan to be somewhat staggered.
“Senior Brother Lu, I didn’t expect you to give me such a big surprise, if I hadn’t occasionally heard Xia Chen talk about it, I wouldn’t have known that you had already advanced to the Foundation Establishment Realm.”
Just as Lu Xuan was observing, Shen Ye, who was as gentle as jade on the side, said with a smile.
After he had gifted Lu Xuan with two Sword Grass Spirit Seeds, he had indeed not expected Lu Xuan to break through to the Foundation Establishment Realm in a short period of time.
At that time, with his understanding of Lu Xuan, Lu Xuan’s qualifications were ordinary, and if he wanted to break through to the Foundation Establishment Stage normally, it would take more than ten years, and he wouldn’t necessarily succeed.
Therefore, at that time, after seeing Lu Xuan, who was at the Qi Practicing Realm, cultivate a swordgrass plant of excellent quality, he felt a sense of pity for his talent and privately gifted two swordgrass spirit seeds.
He also promised Lu Xuan that as long as he succeeded in cultivating it again, he would break the rules and promote him as an inner disciple, introducing him into the ranks of improving swordgrass.
But I didn’t expect that there was still a period of time before the sword grass matured, Lu Xuan actually became a Foundation Establishment Cultivator without saying a word.
Surprised as he was, he was still happy to see it, Lu Xuan’s breakthrough to Foundation Establishment was even better, at least he could cultivate the swordgrass in name only.
“Senior Brother Lu, you’ve exchanged so many spiritual plants in the Si Nong Hall, so I’m sure you’re already clear about the special characteristics of the Swordgrass.”
“Swordgrass is a great foundation for the sect, every swordgrass is a natural sword weapon, even if it’s just an ordinary swordgrass, it’s a good treasure for cultivators in the sect’s Qi Practicing realm.”
“Not to mention, after countless generations of cultivators carefully cultivating and improving the swordgrass, the swordgrass derives many variations, and can even cultivate special swordgrass varieties of the fourth and even fifth grade.”
“Thus, even if you possess more sword seals on your body, without the identity of an inner disciple, you are not qualified to cultivate swordgrass, not to mention mastering the swordgrass’s spirit seed condensation method.”
Shen Ye gave Lu Xuan a detailed introduction about the sword grass.
“Fifth grade …… didn’t realize that there are so many mysteries hidden in the sword grass.”
Lu Xuan secretly sighed with emotion, for Shen Ye’s words believed eight or nine points, he had once seen the variant of the sword grass in the secret realm, the sword peacock, let the then qi practicing small scattered cultivator’s eyes dazzled, his heart was fascinated, and he still can’t forget it until now.
“Swordgrass will gradually produce different changes under the nourishment of different aura environments, different cultivation methods, and different sword qi, sword intent.”
“The most important task of the Sword Hall is to understand and summarize the corresponding laws, to be able to obtain advanced versions of sword grass in bulk.”
Shen Ye said with a solemn expression.
(End of chapter)