Chapter 539 – Black Star City
Chapter 539 – Black Star City
“It’s a pity that there aren’t enough Nascent Soul Grass Beads in my hand, or else I would definitely have to catalyze the other two Dragon Skeleton Grasses that are kept in the Spectral Spring Spirit Lin.”
Lu Xuan looked at the two slender dragon-shaped black grasses swimming happily in the deep, cold spring water and lamented.
The remaining ones in the secret realm were basically all fifth-grade and were not suitable to be taken out, and the only fourth-grade Earth Emperor Jujubae was left in the secret realm by Lu Xuan due to its extremely high requirements for spiritual qi and spiritual soil, and its harsh growing conditions.
Returning to his cave, Lu Xuan didn’t stop and continued to condense spirit seeds for the fifty Waterfly Grasses.
Five days later, all of the Waterfly Grass Spirit Seeds had been successfully condensed, and Lu Xuan had collected around two hundred and fifty azure blue elongated Spirit Seeds.
He toured through the spirit field and hesitated for a moment before deciding to bring the four Arrow Vines with him.
The Arrow Vine was a Fourth Grade Altered Spirit Plant, its growth needs were not very great, it only required Lu Xuan to provide the arrow spirit power, and all of them had already entered the growth stage, so it might be halfway to maturity before they even returned to the Sect.
The many spirit beasts in the cave, he intends to bring along the Treading Cloud Lynx and the Demon Ghost Vine, and leave the rest in the cave.
As he waited patiently, about ten days later, a talisman flew into the cave.
After being informed of the information on the talisman, Lu Xuan looked solemn, his eyes glanced at the cave with a few lingering glances, and flew to the outer sect gathering place.
At the top of a flat and wide mountain, he found his fellow disciples who had gone out together this time.
After confirming his identity, Lu Xuan entered the body of a scaly dragon puppet lying at the top of the mountain.
This Jiao Dragon puppet was huge, more than twenty feet long, and inside, there was a different world, with two rows of simple houses, and a narrow aisle in the center, with layers of prohibitions laid out outside.
After the personnel arrived, the auger dragon puppet shot up into the sky and went straight into the clouds.
Lu Xuan sat quietly in the small internal room, inclining his head, looking through a small window at the clumps of white clouds receding extremely fast outside, a sense of déjà vu in his mind.
More than twenty years ago, he himself was still a tiny Qi Practicing Cultivator, and in order to seek a peaceful environment for farming, he had paid an exorbitant amount of Spirit Stones, and had traveled all the way to Sword Gate Town aboard the treasure ship of the Wan Bao Lou’s deliveries.
At that time, also so through the window of the treasure ship looking at the swiftly past white clouds, eyes full of anticipation apprehension.
And now, the state of mind has changed a lot, the bottom of the heart.
“Things are different, back then, that tiny Spirit Plant Master, wouldn’t have thought that such a short period of time could grow to today’s point, right?”
Lu Xuan’s mind was filled with thoughts.
While he was lamenting, three crisp knocks came from outside the house.
“Please come in.”
Lu Xuan said softly as he moved his spiritual energy to revoke the simple aura restriction arranged in the house.
A slim middle-aged cultivator with a stern aura walked in.
“Good day, Senior Brother Zhou.”
Lu Xuan rose and saluted.
The visitor’s name was Zhou Qi, Foundation Establishment Perfection Cultivation, the two of them were both Sword Hall disciples, and had entered the Sword Pool together to retrieve swords, and were considered nodding acquaintances.
Lu Xuan learned from Shen Ye that this Zhou had tried several times to break through to the JieDan realm, but all ended in failure, realizing that there was no hope for advancement, he quenched his desire to forge ahead.
He was extremely strong, and this time he was the one to lead the team.
“Senior Brother Lu, practicing gongfu?”
The middle-aged cultivator looked at Lu Xuan, his stern features calming down a few points.
Lu Xuan had a great reputation within the Sword Hall, although his cultivation level was still only in the middle stage of Foundation Establishment, far inferior to Zhou Qi, but with his ability to cultivate sword grasses, as well as the third-grade Wind and Thunder Sword Grass Condensation Seeding Method that he had turned in, his status, and potential was a little bit stronger than Zhou Qi.
“No, just looking out the window for a while.”
Lu Xuan laughed.
“I know from other fellow sect members that Senior Brother has always stayed within the sect, focusing on cultivating spiritual plants, and this time, he’s traveling to a region 10,000 miles away, I wonder how well he’s adapted to it, Senior Brother Lu?”
“More or less apprehensive.” “After all, I’m just an ordinary, mediocre Spirit Plant Master, my cultivation is all piled up by pills, and I’m not good at fighting, I don’t have any rare magic weapons, and the only thing that I have to show for it is the few handfuls of sword techniques that I’ve diligently practiced in order to cultivate sword grass.”
Lu Xuan’s acting was extremely skillful, maintaining his own Spirit Plant Master persona very well.
“Senior Brother Lu need not worry, if anything really happens, Senior Brother and I and the other fellow disciples will protect you, Senior Brother.”
Zhou Qi smiled.
“Then thank you, Senior Brother Zhou, I can’t thank you enough.”
Lu Xuan hurriedly expressed his gratitude to the stern middle-aged man.
“The city we’re traveling to this time is called Black Star City, less than two thousand miles from the Black Demon Abyss, and there are often Extraterrestrial Demons and Evil Sneaks that run out from within and wreak havoc in the city, causing great damage.”
“On the worst occasion, the city guard formation was directly breached by the demons, the cultivators living inside, and ordinary humanoids were killed or injured by a small amount, and it took a long time for several major clans to join forces to clear them out.”
“The frontline frontal confrontation against the demonic evil spirits has the strongest forces of several major clans, all we need to do is to protect the city’s perimeter, and guard to clean up the sporadic demonic evil spirits that appeared in Black Star City.”
“Relatively speaking, it should still be relatively safe.”
Zhou Qi introduced the details of this town guard mission to Lu Xuan.
“Then I’m relieved.”
Lu Xuan nodded gently and said with a smile.
The Jiao Dragon Puppet flew at an extremely fast speed, and in less than two days, it arrived outside Black Star City.
Lu Xuan, along with dozens of other Heavenly Sword Sect cultivators, flew out and looked at the huge city in front of them.
The city was surrounded by a thick greenish-black wall, with various patterns drawn on the surface of the masonry and aura surfacing, the entire city was shrouded in a huge aura shield.
The Black Star City had suffered from many demonic and evil invasions, and was full of devastation as far as the eye could see. Many cultivators harnessed flying swords and magic weapons to fly around within the aura shield, and a spiritual sense swept over Lu Xuan and the others.
“Fellow Daoist Zhou, you have finally arrived.”
A tall young man with a sturdy figure and gnarled muscles flew out from inside the shroud and looked towards the group of Heavenly Sword Sect cultivators led by Zhou Qi, a few hints of relief exuding from his tone.
“It was a long journey, please don’t be offended, Fellow Daoist Wan.”
“I wonder what the current situation is in Black Star City?”
Zhou Qi asked the tall youth.
Lu Xuan’s keen Spiritual Awareness perceived that this tall youth with the Wan surname was at a comparable cultivation level to Zhou Qi, also at the Foundation Establishment Perfection Realm.
“It’s fine for now, it’s just that I have to guard the city from time to time, and I also have to patrol the city’s perimeter every day.”
“There are also occasional occurrences of cultivator alienation, lurking demons attacking and other things inside the city, it hasn’t been very peaceful.”
“That’s good.”
Zhou Qi nodded his head and rushed to the huge aura shield with the tall youth.
At the edge of the shroud, three cultivators bowed respectfully towards him.
“Senior brother, just in case evil spirits parasitize and sneak into the city, we need to check on senior brother as well as all of you Heavenly Sword Sect Fellow Daoists, please forgive me.”
“No harm done.”
Zhou Qi agreed cheerfully, the procedures that should be in place still needed to be followed, lest the rest of the sect cultivators gossip.
The cultivator took out a grayish copper mirror and shone it on the Heavenly Sword Sect’s people one by one in accordance with the order.
The copper mirror did not produce any visions, and Lu Xuan followed the group of fellow disciples into the city.
(End of Chapter)