Chapter 313: Small Gifts
Chapter 313 – A Small Gift
“Got on a big load!”
Seeing this teenager who was practically on the verge of becoming a bloody man, Lu Xuan was wary.
Since the skinny cultivator, he had already discovered and resolved more than a dozen loose cultivators who had been invaded and contaminated by evil spirits, and to his surprise, there were actually so many blood-coagulating Yin worms that had taken the initiative to come to his door.
“Many thanks, senior.”
The teenager bowed his head somewhat coyly, the color of blood within his body continuously surging upwards towards his head.
The surrounding dozen or so people kept moving, vaguely surrounding Lu Xuan.
“No need to be so polite, first time meeting, I’ll give you a few small gifts to play with as firecrackers.”
Lu Xuan looked kind as he took out three crimson stone beads from his storage bag.
Under the Delusion Breaking Pupil Technique, the blood lines in the teenager’s body as well as the many surrounding cultivators were becoming more and more active.
“Oops, accidentally dropped them.” Lu Xuan exclaimed, striking first.
Three Explosive Flame Beads fell and flew out in a zigzag pattern.
At the same time, channels of blood arrows shot out from the teenager’s seven orifices, and a huge blood-colored cavity instantly covered his head.
The cavity hole carried a rich bloody odor and attacked Lu Xuan like lightning.
Before it could take shape, Lu Xuan leaped high into the air.
There was a bang.
The three Explosive Flame Beads exploded, and endless, hot lava-like flames enveloped all the contaminated cultivators.
A blood-coagulated Yin Insect flew out from within its carapace, with pale red feathers, and on the blood-red tentacles at the end, crimson flames were like possessed bones, blazing and enduring.
“Ah!”
The Blood Man Junior failed to sneak attack, but was instead caused great damage by Lu Xuan’s Explosive Flame Bead, and under pain, countless blood-colored tentacles drilled out from all around his body, and his entire body transformed into a blood insect monster, drumming its blood-colored patterned feathered wings, and flew towards Lu Xuan, who was still in the air.
Countless blood red tentacles grew out from the end, like lances, attacking Lu Xuan from all directions.
Lu Xuan was calm and composed, his spiritual energy surged and he pinched his sword technique, the Wind and Thunder Sword in his hand transformed into a dark light and chopped at the bloodworm monster.
In an instant, the wind rose and thundered in the huge square, and sword qi spread across.
A blood red tentacle was split in two by the Wind Thunder Sword and fell to the ground, bouncing around haphazardly.
The Blood Condensation Yin Insect King let out a strange cry, and all the tentacles melted silently, turning into a streak of blood light that rolled backwards upwards and merged into the blood vessel-like body.
“Eh? Can’t be beaten?”
Lu Xuan let out a light eep as the Fourth Grade Great Sun Sword Talisman slipped down from his sleeve, a strand of spiritual energy seeping into it.
The crimson blazing sun at the center of the sword talisman instantly shone brightly, and countless crimson sword qi shone like daylight, and in a swooshing sound, it densely shot towards the Blood Gnawing Yin Bug King.
Under the attack of the endless great sun sword qi, the bug king finally couldn’t support it, his body was riddled with holes, and his blood color became dim extremely quickly, never able to recover its original state.
“How terrifying, I almost got hit by this evil bug.”
Lu Xuan held the Great Sun Sword Talisman and landed on the ground.
The entire square was scorched black, and all the loose cultivators contaminated by the Blood Gnawing Yin Insect were all turned into black ash.
Luckily, Lu Xuan had prepared for this and deliberately guided these Blood Curdling Yinworms to a remote place, so it didn’t affect the other normal cultivators in the square, and only a few of them suffered minor injuries.
The bug king inside that teenager, he estimated that it had a strength not weaker than that of an early Foundation Establishment cultivator, together with the remaining dozen or so Blood Condensation Yin Worms, it would be difficult for an ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivator to quickly resolve it.
Fortunately, Lu Xuan had numerous treasures on him.
Third-grade Explosive Flame Bead, can instantly trigger a wide range of flame burning, from the Flame Fruit white light clusters, the probability of opening out is great, he has no less than twenty in his storage bag. Fourth-grade Great Sun Sword Talisman, from the Sword Nurturing Gourd light mass, for the middle or even late Foundation Establishment cultivators are likely to be easily killed, against a third-grade realm of the insect king naturally not a problem.
Lu Xuan even only exerted about 10% of the Great Sun Sword Qi within the Sword Talisman.
After resolving the Blood Condensation Yin Insect King on Empty Underworld Island, Lu Xuan continued to search around the island.
After searching twice, he only found a few scattered scattered cultivators who had been invaded and contaminated by the Evil Insects, and cleared them out in passing.
Amidst Song Yu’s heavy gratitude, Lu Xuan returned to his own small courtyard.
He thought for a moment and took out a summoning talisman from his storage bag.
On a huge island, Shi Zhong frowned slightly as he led a few Qi Practicing high-level cultivators to a corner of the island at speed.
Just a short while ago, he had received an urgent request for help; a large number of evil insects had appeared in their original form, burrowing out of the bodies of the scattered cultivators and attacking in a frenzy, causing many casualties.
With his powerful outpouring of assistance, the numerous evil insects were quickly disposed of.
It was just that the look of worry on his brow did not lessen by half in the slightest.
After fishing for sea fish offshore and Lu Xuan discovered the anomaly, he and Zhou Bingyu both returned to the island they were stationed on and made adequate arrangements.
When the Evil Sneaks began to appear and erupt, there were many preparations made and they did not fall into a panic situation.
However, the evil spirits were more difficult than he had imagined.
First of all, it was difficult to detect, fused with the host, and if a Qi Practicing cultivator searched it, he would probably miss the past.
Furthermore, it was difficult for ordinary cultivators to cope with evil bug attacks, and apart from some means of exorcism, most of the time they couldn’t do much damage to the evil bugs.
Therefore, he had been in a state of busyness in recent times, putting out fires everywhere, and hardly ever had a good rest, not to mention going out to sea to fish.
Suddenly, a summoning talisman appeared in front of him.
Shi Zhong felt Lu Xuan’s hidden aura on the talisman, assured that the talisman would be stimulated, and a familiar voice came.
“Fellow Daoist Shi, how are you doing?”
“Quite a few traces of Evil Worms have been found on the Empty Underworld Island, and as far as I understand it, those Blood Worms are called Blood Condensing Yin Worms, which can swallow all the blood of their hosts without a sound, storing it within their own bodies, and it is a common means of obtaining Essence Blood by practicing the Evil Art of the Blood Dao.”
“Therefore, it is likely that there are evil cultivators hidden behind it, so please be more careful, fellow Daoist.”
“In addition to the common exorcism and purification talismans and spells, fire-based spells can kill evil insects to a certain extent, and Vast Brightness-type sword spells might have strange effects.”
Shi Zhong pondered for a moment and input a message into the talisman.
Lu Xuan’s move could be considered a blessing in disguise for him.
The detailed description of the Evil Insect’s origin and ability, the method of response given, and the crisis hidden behind it, made Shi Zhong feel much more relaxed at once.
On the Empty Underworld Island, two summoning talismans landed in Lu Xuan’s courtyard one after another.
It was from Shi Zhong as well as Zhou Bing Yu, both of them expressed their gratitude to Lu Xuan respectively, and specially confided that after solving the intruding Evil Sneaks, they would search for news of the Spiritual Liquid for Lu Xuan properly.
“It’s also considered that I didn’t send this favor in vain.”
Lu Xuan pinched the talisman and secretly sighed.
After resolving the Evil Insects on the Empty Underworld Island, Lu Xuan didn’t bother with the other islands invaded by Evil Sneaks, and only conveyed some information about the Evil Insects to Shi Zhong as well as Zhou Bingyu in passing.
Although the two of them were from great clans and had seen a lot of things, the Blood Condensing Yin Worm was after all an evil thing, and they did not have Lu Xuan’s ability, so even if they had heard of the name of the Evil Worm, they might not be able to solve it properly.
He then sent a passing favor to the two, and the two did not let him down, each expressing their gratitude after receiving Lu Xuan’s summons.
(End of Chapter)