Chapter 546: The Black Market
Chapter 546 – Black Market
Arriving outside the courtyard, Lu Xuan looked around the formation that enveloped the entire courtyard to confirm that there were no abnormalities before entering inside the courtyard.
The formation he had laid down was just an ordinary Third Grade Protective Formation, the previously opened Fifth Grade Illusionary Five Elements Formation stayed in Swords Gate Town to guard the small courtyard of the netherworld.
There was nothing of value in this courtyard in Black Star City, it only served as a simple protection.
After entering the small courtyard and closing the formation, Lu Xuan then completely relaxed.
“Hunting demonic beasts and whatnot, it’s still not as good as staying in the sect and farming.”
He somewhat missed the simple and fulfilling life of farming within the sect before.
“Even though the harvest of demonic beast blood and meat was quite large, and I earned another two hundred or so medium-grade spirit stones, it’s still more cost-effective to farm.”
He rested for a little over half a day and was really itching to do so, so he came to the courtyard and took out a pile of E Spirit Loam from the Taotou Bug Sac, spreading it evenly on the surface of the courtyard’s spiritual fields.
Immediately afterward, he also took out the more than two hundred Water Glow Grass Spirit Seeds that he had brought with him.
Performing the Earth Drawing Technique, the structure inside the spiritual soil changed slightly, and a thin crack appeared.
Lu Xuan placed an azure blue elongated Spirit Seed into the cracks, and the Spirit Soil flowed slightly, covering up the Spirit Seed.
As he did so, he placed all the Water Glow Grass Spirit Seeds one by one, and as the spiritual energy in his body revolved, the clouds above the spiritual field churned, and soon, wisps of spiritual rain drifted down, seeping into the Water Glow Grass Spirit Seeds inside the spiritual field.
The mind condensed on the spiritual seeds in the shallow layer of the spiritual soil, and a thought emerged from the mind.
[Water Glow Grass, Second Grade Spiritual Plant ……]
“Finally, I can find something to do.”
“It can’t be helped, the talent is too poor, and I can’t cultivate, so I can only grow spirit plants to maintain the appearance of cultivation.”
A smile surfaced at the corner of Lu Xuan’s mouth, feeling the two hundred or so Waterfly Grass Spirit Seeds in the Spirit Field slowly absorbing the faint spiritual qi inside the Spirit Rain, his heart was incomparably satisfied.
After he had initially cultivated all the Water Glow Grass Spirit Seeds, he took out four more Arrow Vines from the Taotsu Bug Sac.
“Fortunately, with the Taotou Bug Sac, a spatial treasure, it can maintain the vitality of the spiritual plants very well, or else put it on for a period of time, there will definitely be no small damage to the spiritual plants, and if this affects the light cluster rewards, then it will be too late to cry.”
Lu Xuan smiled and said to himself.
The Arrow Vines did not require a high growth environment, the cultivation conditions were relatively simple, and they were all in the rapid growth stage, so he brought them out of the sect.
Of the four Arrow Vines, one of them had the fastest growth progress and had already entered the maturity stage, while the other three, planted at the latest time and not being seedlings to start cultivating, had a slower progress.
Lu Xuan executed the Instantaneous Arrow Technique, and a Spiritual Power arrow was shot into the Arrow Vine, and at once, the small arrows hanging breathlessly low on the vines were induced to stand up violently, overflowing with a vigorous upward force.
One by one, Lu Xuan executed various Spirit Plant Basic Techniques before returning to the house and practicing the Divine Diffraction Scripture, Delusion Breaking Pupil Technique, and other techniques.
Soon, ten days passed, and since he had just returned to the city not long ago, the Black Star City didn’t immediately arrange new tasks for him, allowing him some time to catch his breath.
Lu Xuan couldn’t wait to do so, and stayed in the small courtyard to cultivate spiritual plants every day, occasionally going out to get together with the few people he had befriended, Sun Yunming.
On this day, as he was casting the Spiritual Rain Technique on the tender shoots of the Water Glow Grass that had just sprouted their tips, a talisman flew outside the courtyard.
“Senior Brother Lu, come over and gather, a few senior brothers have returned from outside the city, it’s rare to have such a good opportunity.”
A slightly familiar voice came out from inside the talisman, Lu Xuan recognized the owner of the voice as a mid Foundation Establishment disciple of the Sect, the two of them had some friendship on their way over.
He was not in a position to excuse himself and followed the location on the talisman to a wide courtyard.
In the courtyard, there were already more than ten Heavenly Sword Sect disciples gathered together, exchanging something with each other.
“Look, the clan’s most powerful Spirit Plant Master has come over!”
“Good day, Senior Brother Lu.”
“Master Lu is here?” When the crowd saw Lu Xuan, they greeted him warmly.
Lu Xuan’s attainments in Spirit Plant Master had long been known amongst his fellow cultivators, and almost everyone was interested in befriending him; after all, everyone wanted to have a high-grade swordgrass, and maybe Lu Xuan could help cultivate one someday.
“I don’t dare to apologize, fellow sect members are too kind.”
Lu Xuan clasped his fists and laughed in embarrassment.
He and his fellow disciples greeted each other and stayed quietly in the corner.
“Senior Brother Lu, where did you go a while ago?”
A naive young cultivator leaned over and asked him.
“Senior Brother Guo, I took on a mission to go out of the city to clean up demonic beasts earlier, and spent some time at the fringes of the city.”
Lu Xuan remembered the youth’s name and explained.
“No wonder I haven’t seen any sign of you in Black Star City, and there were fellow disciples who asked me about your whereabouts!”
“Oh? Which senior brother misses Mister Lu so much?”
Lu Xuan asked curiously as his heart stirred.
“It’s Senior Brother Zhou Qi Zhou, probably because he is worried about Senior Brother Lu’s identity as your Spiritual Planter, and is afraid that you might run into some danger.”
The youth said without thinking.
“I’m sorry for Senior Brother’s concern.”
Lu Xuan sniffed and nodded.
“It’s good that Senior Brother Lu has returned safely, after all, the situation is so bad right now that news of great sect disciples falling will circulate from time to time.”
The youth’s face showed sorrow.
“Indeed, however, my fellow disciples should all know that I have a cautious character, and although I have very little experience in fighting, and I don’t have any powerful treasures, I will never put myself in danger.”
Lu Xuan smiled and laughed at himself.
After a small gathering with the cultivators of his sect for half a day, he returned to the courtyard.
“Taking advantage of the fact that I have more free time now, I can take a look at the black market that Sun Yunming is talking about, maybe I can pluck out some unknown spirit species from it.”
He had a sudden thought, and the idea of going to explore the Black Star City’s black market nourished in his mind.
“Black Star City is located near the Black Demon Abyss, there are many demonic beasts and evil spirits, so naturally, it will also have many strange and bizarre things, so there might be some mysterious unknown spirit species.”
The more Lu Xuan thought about it, the more he felt that the possibility was high, so he sent out a transmission talisman to Sun Yunming to obtain the entry qualifications as well as the detailed time of the opening of the market from him.
When the time came, he first found an unoccupied corner, and after confirming that there wasn’t any prying eyes with his Void Nightmare Eyes, he put on the Thousand Devices Creepy Mask and changed into an ordinary-looking mid Foundation Establishment cultivator, and came to the location of the black market.
The black market is located in the ruins of Black Star City, all around are broken walls, but vaguely can be seen arranged with powerful formations.
Occasionally there are cultivators, basically are foundation realm, sporadic one or two practice qi high level cultivation, into the broken walls, inspired a jade seal in the hand, instantly into the hidden extremely well hidden formation.
Each of the cultivators almost all use techniques and magic weapons to conceal their cultivation appearance, but under Lu Xuan’s Delusion Breaking Pupil Technique, it is still possible to roughly discern the spiritual cultivation of their bodies.
“All of them are quite cautious, looking at this situation, they’ve come to the right place.”
Lu Xuan secretly thought.
(End of Chapter)