Chapter 108 – Dynamic Expressions
Chapter 108 – Dynamic Expressions
“Since Senior Brother Lu chose this mission, he should have a good grasp of the Spiritual Rain Technique, right?”
The beautiful woman smiled and said towards Lu Xuan.
“Slightly accomplished.”
Lu Xuan said with self-effacement.
“Cultivating this Monkey-faced Orchid usually requires two things, applying the Spiritual Rain Technique at intervals to nourish them, and the other thing is to raise Spirit Insects on time.”
“Spirit worms are specially cultivated by cultivators within the clan, and many varieties of spirit worms can be used to refine pills, techniques, cultivate spirit plants, raise spirit beasts, and so on.”
The beautiful woman led Lu Xuan into the interior of the valley, where an ordinary looking youth was waiting in front of a wooden house.
“This is Senior Brother Yan Ping Yan, Senior Brother Yan, this is Senior Brother Lu Xuan Lu.”
Senior Sister Yao introduced Lu Xuan and the two of them to each other.
“From now on, it will be mainly the two senior brothers who will cultivate these Monkey Face Orchids, I will stay in the valley all the time, so if there is anything you don’t understand, you can look for me.”
Lu Xuan nodded his head.
He spoke with Yan Ping for a few moments, and then with him leading the way, he chose an empty cabin for his usual cultivation and rest.
After resting for nearly half an hour, Yan Ping came over and called out to him.
“Senior Brother Lu, it’s time to start casting the Spiritual Rain Technique on the Monkey Face Orchid, how about we each take charge of an area?”
Lu Xuan nodded in agreement and came to the area that belonged to him.
The many Monkey-faced Orchids with various expressions looked like they were frozen in place.
Spiritual energy surged within Lu Xuan’s body, and wisps of spiritual rain descended, dripping down onto the petals of the Monkey-faced Orchid’s flower petals, roots and stems, seeping into them.
“Spirit rain stretches thin and long, and the range of the spell is precisely controlled, it’s unexpected that you have such deep attainments in this Spirit Rain Technique, Senior Brother Lu.”
Yan Ping, who was not far away, noticed Lu Xuan’s unusualness in the Spiritual Rain Art at a glance, and a trace of appreciation surfaced in his eyes.
“I myself am a Spiritual Planter, and I don’t know how many times I’ve performed the Spiritual Rain Art in my spare time, and the level of the art naturally rises with it after more times.”
Lu Xuan laughed.
Due to his fine cultivation of Spiritual Plants, he had cast the Spiritual Rain Technique many times a day, and even if he hadn’t opened out the Technique Experience Pack, his level of Spiritual Rain Technique had reached the Grand Completion Realm.
The speed of the spell was faster, the loss of spiritual energy was less, and he could precisely control the landing range of the spiritual rain, and even the spiritual rain, which was already as thin as a hair, could be slightly adjusted in thickness to meet the various subtle requirements of the spiritual plants.
After Ling Tian performed a round of Spiritual Rain Technique, the Monkey-faced Orchid in the spiritual soil was still staring blankly around, the expression in its petals not changing in any way.
After resting for a few moments, Yan Ping took a pot of bugs with different forms from the beautiful woman.
“These are used to feed the Monkey Face Orchid, just stuff them inside the petals, the Monkey Face Orchid will actively devour and absorb the foreign bugs.”
“Feeding one foreign bug per Monkey Face Orchid is enough, feeding more is not good.”
Lu Xuan nodded that he understood, and received half of the foreign insects.
Compared to the wild Black Sprout Insects that he had encountered before, these bugs were much less powerful in terms of attack or damage to the spiritual plants, and were purposely bred on a large scale by the sect’s cultivators for various purposes.
He arrived in front of a Monkey Face Orchid, and the expression inside the petals looked extremely angry.
Lu Xuan pinched up a slender white worm and stuffed it into the Monkey Face Orchid’s petals.
In the center part of the petal, dense spikes instantly gushed out, piercing into the white worm.
The petals then closed, forming a bud-like shape that trembled slightly, seeing that the movement inside was not small.
Not long after, the petals reopened, and an insect skin without any blood or flesh remaining fell to the ground, as if it was a piece of white paper. “This devouring and absorbing ability is a bit strong.”
Lu Xuan couldn’t help but sigh, although this bug didn’t have much offensive power, it still surprised him quite a bit that it was so easily exterminated and devoured by a second-grade spirit plant.
“Hm? You just had a delicious meal, why are you still looking at me so angrily?”
Lu Xuan realized that in the petals that reopened after devouring the white worm, the Monkey-faced Orchid still maintained its angry expression.
He smiled and shook his head as he continued to go feed the other Monkey-faced Orchids with the foreign insects.
When he was done, Lu Xuan was about to go back to the house to rest when he suddenly stopped in his tracks.
His line of sight rested on a Monkey-faced Orchid, and a faint smile flowed from his expression inside the Monkey-faced Orchid’s petals.
“If I remember correctly, this is the Monkey-faced Orchid with an angry expression that I fed in the beginning, only, why has it changed?”
“What caused the Monkey Face Orchid petals to form a dynamic expression instead of a static one?”
Lu Xuan frowned as he looked at the Monkey-faced Orchid in the Spirit Field and fell into deep thought.
“Senior Brother Lu, why are you still standing there when you’ve already finished?”
Yan Ping, who was passing by and preparing to go back to his house to cultivate, asked curiously.
“Senior Brother Yan, I have a doubt about the Monkey Face Orchid, Senior Brother is experienced in cultivating this type of spiritual plant, I wonder if he can answer it for me.”
“Senior Brother Lu please speak.”
“Are the expressions generated inside the petals of this Monkey Face Orchid really just formed randomly, rather than having some sort of pattern? For example, the expressions will change when certain conditions are met.”
“So it’s with this in mind, Senior Brother Lu you’re thinking too much.”
“It is said that the Spiritual Planter who first planted the Monkey Face Orchid also had the same speculation as you, Senior Brother, only that after some experimentation, he still didn’t find anything.”
“Cultivating the Monkey Face Orchid in the conventional way still managed to get a mature spirit plant of normal quality, so he broke off that thought and judged that these appearing expressions were just a sexual trait of the Monkey Face Orchid.”
“Senior Lu, you think about it, even the Foundation Establishment Master Uncle inside the sect didn’t find any pattern after testing it, so that would indicate that there isn’t any abnormality in it.”
“Therefore, let’s just cultivate it honestly, don’t think wildly.”
Yan Ping said in a deep voice.
“Elder brother Yan has a point, I am just curious, there will be no delay in affecting the cultivation and growth of the Monkey Face Orchid.”
Lu Xuan glanced at the Monkey-faced Orchid with a cold expression, then returned to the wooden hut with Yan Ping for a nap.
“Why exactly is there a change in expression? Is it related to me casting the Spiritual Rain Technique with the rearing of the foreign insects? If it’s related, why did it still show an angry expression after nourishing it with the Spiritual Rain Technique?”
Lu Xuan sat on a chair, looking through the window at the Monkey-faced Orchids with different expressions inside the Spirit Field, and fell into deep thought.
In his heart, he was feeling that the change in expression definitely involved certain factors, just that it had yet to be discovered out by the cultivator.
Everything has a spirit, the ordinary plants you see everyday will have various habits, let alone spiritual plants.
Adding the word spirit, it means that the level of life has been elevated, and it’s only reasonable that it would have all kinds of strange manifestations.
He had planted many spiritual plants before, and through his control of their immediate state, Lu Xuan realized that many of them had a hint of spirituality, especially the higher the grade of the spiritual plants, the stronger the spirituality.
He was thus even more certain that this second-grade Monkey-face Orchid was similarly so, and that the change in expression was not unintentional, but something else.
“It looks like we have to find an opportunity to dig up a Monkey Face Orchid and try it out.”
This thought could not help but arise in his mind.
(End of chapter)