Chapter 485: Drawing the Silk from the Cocoon
Chapter 485: Extracting the Silk from the Cocoon
The fire hemlock led Lu Xuan and the others through the spirit field ridges.
“The Inferno Soil is unique to the Fire Cloud Cave, once it is transplanted from the Fire Cloud Cave, it will slowly lose its fire spirit flavor with the passage of time and become ordinary spirit soil.”
“Therefore, in order for the clan not to let this Inferno Soil go to waste in this way, they let our clan live in the Fire Cloud Cave.”
“It just so happens that the environment here is suitable for us to live and cultivate, so we hit it off and lived here for a long time, generation after generation, and have been here for an unknown number of years.”
“Most of the spiritual plants in the spiritual fields are of the second and third grade, and there are also two types of fourth grade, with the fire spiritual plants being the main ones.”
“This time when that inexplicable spiritual plant mutation occurred, the clan’s spiritual planters used many methods, but they failed to achieve any results, and they couldn’t even find the cause of the mutation.
If it can’t be resolved successfully, it would be a great loss for our clan.”
The more Fire Hemlock said, the more intense the color of worry on his face.
“Don’t worry, Uncle Fire Hemlock, Master Lu is the most famous Spiritual Plantsmith in the Heavenly Sword Sect, even Uncle JieDan is not as good as him in Spiritual Plantsmanship, and this time, he was also the first one to discover the root cause of the Fire Essence Chi’s mutation.”
“With him here, he will definitely be able to preserve the many spirit plants in the spirit field.”
Fire Liner said in a deep voice.
“Senior Brother Lu, then I’m counting on you.”
Lu Xuan nodded and walked to the front, carefully inspecting the condition of the spirit plants in the spirit field.
Many of the spirit plants in the spirit field were somewhat similar to the Fire Essence Chi at that time, with black and red thin lines inside the plants, the thin lines varied in thickness, the thinnest was only the size of a hair, the thickest was almost equivalent to half of his finger, several of them were together, occupying nearly half of the area of the spirit plants.
He secretly performed the Earth Drawing Technique, and the hot soil of the spiritual field changed slightly, and the root system of the spiritual plant detached and combined with the spiritual soil, allowing him to quietly complete the planting procedure.
[Fire Essence Cheese, Third Grade Spiritual Plant ……]
[Red Thunder Wood, Third Grade Spiritual Plant ……]
His mind condensed on the spirit plant, and a thought surfaced in his mind.
“Sure enough the root of the mutation is the same, it’s all that mysterious Demonic Flame Insect at work.”
After Lu Xuan understood a bit, his heart was greatly settled and he turned his head to look at Xu Yong and the two of them.
“Next, it’s going to be troublesome for you two, Senior Brother Xu and Senior Sister Zhou.”
“You can cast relatively fine ice-cold attribute spells to act on the mutated spirit plants, I will use my spiritual sense to observe the state of the spirit plants, and when the time is ripe, I will notify the two of you in a timely manner.”
Ice-cold spells acting on fire-attribute spirit plants were likely to cause serious damage to the spirit plants, requiring Lu Xuan, who was able to be informed of the detailed state of the spirit plants, to grasp the degree of it.
“Good.”
Xu Yong and the two of them nodded their heads and said Spiritual energy surged within their bodies.
A cloud of ice mist floated out from Xu Yong’s body, and in an instant it came to the vicinity of a spiritual plant in front of him, wordlessly wrapping the spiritual plant.
Gaze perception, can be found in the ice fog has endless fine ice spikes, a few invisible, wantonly fluttering.
As for Zhou Yunning, a miniature white jade coffin emitting an extremely cold aura appeared in front of her.
She pointed towards a spiritual plant not far away, and the coffin transformed into a white light, covering the diseased area of the spiritual plant, constantly changing its form, and eventually becoming a spiritual plant branch and leaf mold, clinging on tightly.
Lu Xuan’s Spiritual Sense spread out, staring closely at the movement of the black and red thin lines inside the spirit plant.
A moment later, the spirit plant under the ice fog first changed.
The black and red threads swam faster and faster, revealing a weak vitality.
“It’s ready, Senior Brother Xu.”
Lu Xuan said softly, and then, in the eyes of the Fire Hemlock’s eager eyes, his Spiritual Consciousness transformed into silk and seeped into the Mutant Spirit Plant.
Finding the Demonic Flame Insect that had been stimulated to reveal its vitality, he tugged the demonic insect and slowly swam through the spiritual plant. Wherever he passed, he avoided the main structure of the spiritual plant, trying to minimize the damage.
“It’s coming out it’s coming out.”
Fire Hemlock couldn’t help but murmur, his expression excited.
A black and red foreign insect slowly ripped out from the leaves of the spirit plant, its body twisting unnaturally after being stimulated by the outside spiritual energy.
“Fire Patriarch, this is the Demonic Flame Insect that caused the spiritual plant to mutate.”
“This bug is extremely rare in the cultivation world, probably brought by an exotic region, it loves to suck the vitality of fire-based spirit plants, and when parasitized in the spirit plant’s body it fuses with the spirit plant, making it extremely difficult to separate out.”
“Forcibly separating it will cause serious damage to the spirit plant, or even direct death.”
Lu Xuan handed the black and red foreign insect in his hand to Fire Hemlock.
“So it’s this thing that’s wreaking havoc on the thousands of spirit plants in the Fire Cloud Cave!”
Fire Hemlock looked at the Demonic Flame Insect in his hand that was trying to break free from its bonds and gritted his teeth.
A wisp of crimson flame surged out from the tip of his finger, directly burning the Demonic Flame Insect into black ash.
“In order to separate the foreign insect, there must be a powerful cultivator who specializes in ice magic spells to stimulate the Demonic Flame Insect inside the plant to reveal its original form under the subtle control of the magic spells, and subsequently, there must be a spiritual planter who understands spiritual plants to take out the Demonic Flame Insect under the premise of avoiding the spiritual plants from being harmed as much as possible.”
As Lu Xuan spoke, he noticed that the spirit plant underneath Zhou Yunning’s coffin also had a slight movement.
At his signal, the Cold Knight Female Cultivator withdrew the frigidly deformed coffin, revealing the mutated spirit plant that was condensed with a thin layer of frost inside.
Lu Xuan carefully removed the Demonic Flame Worm inside as he had done.
“The spirit plant that got rid of the worm needs to rest well for a period of time, it needs more fire spirit power, as well as finer cultivation, please pay more attention to this point, Fire Patriarch.”
Lu Xuan instructed the Fire Hemlock.
Fire Hemlock, along with the several Fire Cloud Cave Spirit Plant Masters behind him, nodded their heads in unison, keeping this in mind.
“There might be Demonic Flame Insect eggs hidden inside the Spiritual Plants, after the adult insects have been cleared away, I’ll check the Spiritual Plants in the Spiritual Fields in detail.”
“It’s going to be more trouble for you, Fellow Daoist Lu, but unfortunately, the clan’s Spirit Plant Masters are not well-trained and don’t have the ability to discover the insect eggs, so so many spirit plants in the Spirit Field will have to work hard for you, Fellow Daoist Lu.”
Fire Hemlock sighed and turned his head towards the several Fire Cloud Cave clansmen behind him who were shrinking their heads, his tone had three parts scolding and seven parts anger.
“You few, follow behind Master Lu properly, if you can’t serve Master Lu well, I’ll hold you responsible!”
Several people nodded their heads in succession.
Lu Xuan didn’t care about this, and wasn’t afraid of what the Fire Cloud Cave Spirit Plant Master would learn.
While observing and cleaning up the Demonic Flame Insects inside the Mutant Spiritual Plants, he transmitted his voice to Flame Liner.
“Senior Fire Brother, this Devil Flame Bug’s origin is unknown, I don’t know if it’s a problem in the outside world or in the Fire Cloud Cave itself, so keep a good eye on the surrounding movements, and it’s best to uncover the mastermind behind it.”
“Thanks to Senior Brother Lu for reminding me, I will pay good attention.”
Fire Liner expressed her gratitude to Lu Xuan and similarly transmitted her voice.
In this way, Lu Xuan and Zhou Yunning cooperated with each other, slowly but steadily clearing out the Demonic Flame Insects that were parasitizing the spirit plants.
The more times he cleaned up, the more comfortable he became, and the speed at which his Spiritual Consciousness Spiritual Power pulled out the Demonic Flame Insects became faster and faster, and the damage to the Spiritual Plants became more and more slight.
There was quite a sense of smoothness and naturalness in pulling out the insects.
(End of chapter)