Chapter 623: Dark Tide
Chapter 615 – Dark Tide
After confirming that Zhang Zhizong was dead beyond death, Lu Xuan expressionlessly arrived in front of his corpse.
As early as the moment he came across Zhang Zhizong, the Cloud Treading Lynx had realized that he had a strong evil spirit aura about him, and Lu Xuan, who was already cautious, naturally raised his vigilance to the highest level.
As soon as he noticed the abnormality on Zhang Zhizong’s body, he struck first and killed him completely in the first instance with thunderous means.
“Go and take a look around the neighborhood to see if there are any of his accomplices.”
High above the sky, under the control of Lu Xuan’s Spiritual Consciousness, the Void Nightmare Eye shuttled at extreme speeds, checking over the area with Lu Xuan as the center, finding no trace of the other three cultivators as well as other cultivators.
“How is it that there are so many cultivators who only want to get something for nothing by looting others?”
“Could it be that Spiritual Planters look like they are easily bullied?”
After confirming that there were no abnormalities, Lu Xuan lamented in his heart and came to the headless corpse.
“Eh? Where did the storage bag go?”
A hint of surprise surfaced on his face, and after searching carefully, he actually did not find the storage bag on Zhang Zhizong’s body.
Seeing this, Lu Xuan was overjoyed in his heart, with these dark green Spirit Thunder, the seventh-grade Ethereal Wood Green Thunder Vine would take root and sprout in just a matter of days.
Secondly, the storage bag on his body had already been taken away, considering that Zhang Zhizong was only a loose cultivator with average cultivation, this was a bit more likely.
With this thought in his mind, he came to the cave’s spiritual field and took out a dark green thunder bead from his storage bag.
Some ordinary Spirit Thunder, dozens of special Thunder Beads condensed from Dark Green Spirit Thunder, more than a dozen drops of Dark Green Thunder Liquid, and hundreds of pounds of Thunder Death Crystals scraped off the seventh grade Green Horned Thunder Rhinoceros’ body.
The blood, flesh, and bones of a late stage Foundation Establishment cultivator counted as extremely high-quality fertilizer for those evil spirit plants in the netherworld spirit fields.
As his mind condensed on the spirit seed, he could find that the mass of green light had become much more active under the nourishment of the dark green thunder qi, exuding a powerful vitality.
“This trip to the Thunder Sea, thanks to the blessing of that Feeding Fae Thunderhawk Beast, I accidentally obtained quite a few good things.”
Spiritual energy seeped into it, and the Thunder Bead gradually disintegrated into a ball of dark green thunder qi, which was controlled by Lu Xuan to seep inside the Ethereal Green Thunder Vine Spiritual Seed.
More importantly, gaining the trust of that Seventh Grade Greenhorn Thunder Rhinoceros Beast was one of the greatest intangible treasures.
Normal cultivators might not carry precious treasures around with them, but they would definitely have at least one storage bag on their body, or else there would be a lot of inconvenience when they went out to explore the secret realm and so on.
Smoothly returning to the cave, Lu Xuan inspected the formation outside the cave, confirming that there were no signs of abnormality, and then entered it with confidence.
“Something’s not right.”
Lu Xuan mused.
“Fortunately, the corpse is not bad.”
Thinking again of the strange appearance on Zhang Zhizong’s body before he attacked himself, he estimated that nine times out of ten, it was related to that young cultivator.
Lu Xuan returned to the house and took stock of his harvest from this outing.
He thought optimistically in his mind.
As Lu Xuan thought in his heart, the youth with an evil spirit aura that he had just bumped into at the entrance of the passageway came to his mind.
“The effect is good, it’s going to be a lot stronger than ordinary Wood Spirit Lightning.”
There was no storage bag on the corpse, so there were only two scenarios, one was that Zhang Zhizong possessed an extremely high grade spatial treasure that Lu Xuan’s Spiritual Awareness could not even detect.
He sealed the two parts of the body with talismans and put them into the Taoworm Sac, rushing towards the mouth of the passageway as fast as he could.
“Together with those dark green thunder liquid with stronger effects, at least the spirit plants don’t have to worry about problems in the pre-growth and mid-growth stages.”
With this thought in his mind, he took out another large amount of Thunder Death Crystals that he had gleaned from the Green Horned Thunder Rhinoceros.
Purposely selecting some smaller in size, his palm transformed into a crystalline jade color and directly rubbed the Thunder Death Crystals into grains of light green sandstone.
Afterwards, it was evenly sprinkled in those spiritual fields planted with thunder genus spiritual plants, and performed the Earth Drawing Technique to fuse the light green sandstone with the spiritual soil.
After incorporating the Thunder Death Crystal gravel, Lu Xuan could detect the sense of fulfillment that the Thunder Storm Lotus, Purple Violet Extended Thunder Fruit, and other Thunder Genus Spiritual Plants passed over.
Feeling the vibrant vitality on the spirit plants, the corners of his mouth rose, his heart equally satisfied.
After returning from the Sea of Thunder, Lu Xuan immediately resumed his usual planting rhythm. Every day, he would walk around the spiritual fields, performing basic cultivation techniques such as the Spiritual Rain Technique and the Wood Born Technique over and over again, inspecting the growth status of all the spiritual plants, and once he found out that there were any subtle needs, he would try to satisfy them as much as possible, to ensure that the spiritual plants would be able to grow in the best possible condition.
In addition, he raised and teased the many spirit beasts in the cave, cultivated the Divine Diffraction Scripture, the Delusion Breaking Pupil Technique, and other techniques, perfected the two Fifth Grade Sword Techniques, and refined pills to earn spirit stones.
Soon more than a month passed.
On this day, he was making his rounds in the spirit field when suddenly a familiar voice came from outside the cave.
“Fellow Daoist Lu, can you be in the cave?”
The voice was solemn, and it was none other than Lei Zheng, who had already had quite a few encounters.
Lu Xuan hurriedly greeted him.
“Fellow Daoist Lei, long time no see, how have you been?”
He opened the formation and warmly greeted Lei Zheng.
“Fine.”
Lei Zheng squeezed out a smile on his serious face.
“I had something to pass by Fellow Daoist’s cave, so I thought I’d come over to pay a visit.”
The two entered the small courtyard.
Lu Xuan brought over spirit fruits and spirit tea and sat down to chat with Lei Zheng.
“It seems like there are more and more spirit plants inside Fellow Daoist Lu’s cave.”
Lei Zheng swept over the spirit plants hidden in the thick white mist and lamented.
“Spirit plant masters, they can’t help but see their favorite spirit plants, and after stabilizing in the Thunderfire Star Cave, they searched everywhere for some spirit plants.”
Lu Xuan smiled back.
“How are the protective formations outside your cave?”
Lei Zheng suddenly asked.
“It’s not bad, after all, these spirit plants are almost counted as my entire fortune, so I pay extra attention to this point.
The array should be able to keep out some of the curmudgeons, and I’m not afraid that there will be demonic beasts and insects that will barge inside the spirit field and scourge my spirit plants.”
Lu Xuan said vaguely, and did not say that the two protective formations were both of the fifth grade, and that even a few pre-JieDan cultivators would not be able to break through the formations in a short period of time.
From his previous trip to the Thunder Sea Medicine Garden, he already had quite a bit of trust in Lei Zheng, but he was still far from revealing the two fifth-grade formations to him.
“Why is Fellow Daoist Lei asking this?”
Lu Xuan curiously said.
“Fellow Daoist Lu has been staying in his cave to cultivate Spiritual Plants, so he may not be aware of the recent occurrence of several unusual events in the Thunderfire Star Cave.”
“Some evil sneaks or evil cultivators have invaded the scattered cultivators’ caves and abused the cultivators inside in an extremely cruel manner, and it is said that the deaths were extremely tragic, with their divine souls being hooked away to an unknown destination, and only bits and pieces of their flesh remaining.”
“Quite tragic indeed.”
Lu Xuan sniffed, a chipper look appearing on his face, a few moments of worry in his tone.
“Therefore, it would be best for Fellow Daoist Lu to be a bit more careful during this period of time, so that you won’t be invaded by evil cultivators or evil spirits that could harm you, Fellow Daoist.”
“Thank you, Fellow Daoist Lei, for reminding me.”
Lu Xuan said with a sincere expression.
For Lei Zheng to be able to purposely come over to remind him, he had not wasted his trust in him.
(End of Chapter)