Chapter 288 – Sharks, a new cultivation direction?

Chapter 288 – Sharks, A New Cultivation Direction?
Ten thousand feet in the air.

The Wind Falcon flapped its broad pale green-colored feathered wings to maintain its shape in the drumming gale.

Lu Xuan stood on its back, looking down.

One island after another was densely scattered, varying in size, and the sea stretched along with the islands all the way to infinity, having a magnificent beauty under the golden daylight.

“Finally, we’ve reached Empty Underworld Island.”

Lu Xuan muttered as he looked down at a large island that was at the forefront of the archipelago in terms of size.

He didn’t go to any other place after leaving the Lin Yang Marketplace, following the route delineated by the sect, he arrived near the Empty Underworld Island after two days of effort.

He put the Wind Falcon away and slowly landed on the Empty Underworld Island.

Empty Underworld Island stretched for hundreds of miles, with many jagged and strange rocks on the island, and only in the center of the island lived many cultivators and mortals.

Lu Xuan walked on the green stone streets.

From time to time, there is a sea breeze blowing, and between the coolness there is a vaguely salty and fishy smell.

There were many cultivators on the street, mainly at the lower levels of Qi Practicing, occasionally seeing one or two mid-level Qi Practicing cultivators, and none at the higher levels.

The island cultivators and the Lin Yang market has obvious differences, wearing rough wild, exposed skin is tanned and shiny.

There were quite a few stalls on both sides of the street, and the goods on them were also very unique.

“Fellow Daoist come over and take a look, there’s a large amount of Silver Silk Algae, freshly picked from near the sea, only three spirit stones a catty.”

A dark youth beside him saw Lu Xuan surveying the things on his stall and greeted him warmly.

On his stall, there was a large pile of silver-colored seaweed, and there was still a moist scent on the seaweed, like a large mass of dampened silver hair.

“What is this silver seaweed for?”

Lu Xuan grabbed a ball of silver silk algae and asked curiously.

“After air-drying and mashing it, it can be used as a refining material for many pills.”

“I see, it’s just that I don’t really need it at the moment.”

Lu Xuan politely declined and continued to wander around the streets.

Not only were the spiritual plants, the demonic beast materials, magic weapons, and talismans on the stalls were all distinctive as well.

Many of the demonic beast materials originated from the sea at first glance, there were sea fishes and sea turtles in different forms, and almost all of them contained a rich water-based spiritual energy.

The spells and talismans are also closely related to the sea, Lu Xuan saw a lot of water control type spells and talismans.

“Huh?”

In the middle of wandering around, Lu Xuan suddenly stopped in his tracks and stopped in front of a stall.

On the stall, there were two dying sea beasts locked up.

The sea beasts had strange forms, their lower bodies were not much different from that of a sea fish, and they were covered in dense greenish-black scales and had a pair of short webbed feet.

Let Lu Xuan slightly surprised is, in front of this sea beast upper body actually has a few similarities with humans.

Pupils turquoise, nose flat, many sharp teeth from the lips out, from time to time there are light green saliva drops to the ground, a fishy smell came.

Although it looked hideous, the features had obvious human traces.

“May I ask fellow Daoist, what is the origin of this sea beast?”

The stall owner was a burly man with a long scar like a centipede on his face, and a ferocious look.

“Fellow Daoist, this is a shark, living in the deep sea, these two heads are what my companion and I went through a lot of trouble to get our hands on, they can be used for domestication, or you can directly obtain a variety of materials from their bodies.”

The burly man vaguely probed Lu Xuan’s breath, his spiritual sense seemed to be deeply plunged into the vortex, knowing that he had touched an iron plate, the centipede scar on his face involuntarily trembled twice, and said with a smile.

“Why does the shark …… have a few similarities with the human race?” Lu Xuan pressed down the urge to try to feed the sharks and continued to ask.

“It is rumored that there is a kind of shark beast in the deep sea that lures cultivators into traps, forcibly copulates, and finally gives birth to such a monster that is neither human nor beast.”

The stall owner pondered for a moment and explained to Lu Xuan.

“Cross-species mating? Breaking through reproductive isolation?” Lu Xuan subconsciously thought.

“What kind of offspring will be bred after demonic beasts of different species and different bloodlines mate with each other?”

He seemed to have discovered a new direction of cultivation, cultivating Spirit Plants with the induction of Spirit Seeds, as well as by changing the environment in which the Spirit Plants grew, thus causing them to mutate.

And it seemed that if one wanted to change the bloodline of a spirit beast, one could consider it from spirit beast hybridization.

Lu Xuan thought secretly, resolving that he might be able to experiment with it when he had the chance.

The likelihood of spirit beasts of different bloodlines mating and giving birth to offspring was almost nil, and there were quite a few dangers in the process, but Lu Xuan could grasp the detailed status of the spirit beasts, so he thought that he could make adjustments accordingly at any time, greatly increasing the success rate.

He continued strolling through the streets for a while and came to the center area of Empty Underworld Island.

“Tell your island master that the Heavenly Sword Sect is here.”

In front of a majestic building, Lu Xuan said to a gatekeeper cultivator.

“Heavenly Sword Sect? Yes, yes, yes! I’ll go now!”

The gatekeeper cultivator was first stunned and immediately reacted, rolling and crawling into the building.

Soon, a sound of chickens flying and dogs jumping came from the building, and immediately, a large group of cultivators hurriedly came out.

“I don’t know that senior has arrived, I’m sorry for the loss, please forgive me!”

At the head of the group was an elegant cultivator with slightly white cheeks, with a high level cultivation of Qi Practicing, when he saw Lu Xuan and felt the fluctuation of his Spiritual Energy at the Foundation Establishment Realm, he was instantly convinced by eight or nine percent, and he deeply bent down to greet him.

The ten or twenty people behind him similarly saluted respectfully.

“Is the visitor the Empty Underworld Island Lord Song Yu?” Before Lu Xuan came over, he had slightly understood some information about the Empty Underworld Island, knowing that the Empty Underworld Island was run by a small family with the surname Song, and the Island Master was named Song Yu.

“It is precisely me, I wonder how senior became called?”

Song Yu’s eyes stole a glance at Lu Xuan, and seeing the identity nameplate unique to the inner disciples of the Heavenly Sword Sect that he took out, he solemnly asked.

“Lu Xuan, but I’ve heard that your Song family has some affinity with there Heavenly Sword Sect, so it’s fine to call me Senior Uncle, there’s no need to make it so raw.”

“Yes! Master Uncle Lu, please come in.”

The elegant cultivator welcomed Lu Xuan into the majestic building.

There were many other small clans similar to the Song Clan, most of which were established by exiled Heavenly Sword Sect disciples.

Many of the outer disciples had no hope of breaking through, and their many promotions to the Foundation Establishment realm had ended in failure, so when they were disheartened, they walked out of the sect and branched out outside.

Therefore, the established family has a close connection with the sect, attached to the sect, guarding a certain place for the sect, providing all kinds of alchemy, refining and cultivation resources, and taking what they need.

When Lu Xuan was still in the Qi Practicing Stage, he had gone to solve a pest problem once, and that small clan was the aforementioned situation.

The Song Family was similarly like that, but was much more powerful.

“How was the situation on the island during the time of the handover? The Empyrean Spirit Fish didn’t run into any major accidents, right?”

Lu Xuan walked at the front and asked Song Yu, who was a body length behind him.

“Everything is as usual, that senior uncle from before made a thorough arrangement before he left, and during this period of time, the island was quite peaceful even though there was no Foundation Establishment senior uncle sitting on the island.”

“Two waves of small sea beast poaching behaviors appeared in the offshore area where the Empty Underworld Spirit Fish are kept, but they were all repelled by us, and not a single one was stolen.”

Song Yu lowered his head and replied respectfully.

(End of Chapter)