Chapter 131: Yin Fire
Chapter 131 – Yin Flame
After tasting quite a few spirit fruits, Lu Xuan was led by the round-faced female cultivator into her spirit field.
The spiritual field was covered by a formation, so the growing spiritual plants were not very visible.
The round-faced female cultivator led Lu Xuan to a fiery red spirit plant.
The plant was one person high, with many palm-sized red leaves, and there were tens of hundreds of red fruits between the branches and leaves.
The bottom of the fruit is thick, the top is thin, and the surface of the fruit has a flame-like pattern from the bottom to the top, at first glance, it looks like a group of flames hanging between the branches and leaves.
Just whether it is the fire red branches and leaves, or the flame general spirit fruit, the current state is not very good, the branches and leaves reveal a Yan energy, the flame spirit fruit looks a little shriveled, nutritional insufficiency look.
“This is the second-grade Flame Fruit, somehow, the growth condition is particularly bad, and I can’t find out what the problem is. Thus, a quest was released in the Concourse Hall to find a fellow disciple who can solve the problem with the spirit fruit.”
The round-faced female cultivator pointed at the sickly Flame Fruit and said towards Lu Xuan.
“Then, Senior Sister Chen, I’ll start inspecting, if there’s any offense to the Blazing Fruit’s impropriety, please forgive me, Senior Sister Chen.”
Lu Xuan said towards the round-faced female cultivator.
“Junior Brother Lu, despite letting go of treating this Flame Fruit, some small problems need not be taken to heart, as long as you can treat this Flame Fruit well, there is no harm in having some damage or anything.”
“As long as it is successfully treated, when the Flame Fruit matures, I will bring some Spirit Fruits to Senior Brother.”
The round-faced female cultivator smiled and said easily.
Seeing this, the tension in Lu Xuan’s heart instantly disappeared, and he walked over to the Blazing Flame Fruit, pinching a palm-sized fiery red leaf and scrutinizing it carefully.
He had recently supplemented a lot of knowledge about the various aspects of spirit plants and spirit beasts, and among them were the various problems that could occur during the growth of spirit plants.
Now, he was no longer the same casual cultivator who was only familiar with growing his own spiritual plants, and he had a certain degree of understanding about all kinds of common spiritual plants and beasts.
“It doesn’t look like it has suffered from a pest infestation.”
Everything on the front and back of the fiery red blade was as normal, without any sign of invasion by foreign insects.
Lu Xuan’s Spiritual Sense slowly seeped into the Flame Fruit Spiritual Plant, wandering carefully between its branches and leaves, and similarly did not find any abnormalities.
“Did Senior Brother Lu find anything?”
The round-faced female cultivator hurriedly asked when she saw Lu Xuan open his eyes.
“No, all the branches and leaves of the Flame Fruit are normal.”
“It hasn’t suffered from insect pests, and the growing environment is full of spiritual qi, strange, why is there a growth problem?”
Lu Xuan muttered to himself.
“Indeed, I did my best in cultivating it, casting fire magic spells on the Flame Fruit on time every day so that it could absorb enough fire spiritual energy, but for some reason, the growth state is getting worse and worse.”
Senior Sister Chen added from the side.
“In that case, then it should be a problem with the spirit plant itself.”
“Senior Sister Chen, did you cultivate this Flame Fruit inside the spirit field from a young age, or did you transplant it halfway from somewhere else?”
Lu Xuan asked curiously.
“I found it in a secret realm not long ago, and because of my love for all kinds of spirit fruits, I transplanted this Blazing Flame Fruit into my own spirit field.”
“Was there something wrong in between? During the transplantation process, I had paid good attention to it and brought it back to the sect with a special magic weapon, which can guarantee that the Flame Fruit’s spiritual power wasn’t lost much.”
The delicate female cultivator explained to Lu Xuan.
“Senior Sister Chen, I wonder if I can pull out the Flame Fruit rhizome to inspect if there is any problem with the rhizome.”
Hearing Lu Xuan’s words, a hint of hesitation appeared on the round-faced female cultivator’s face. Plucking the spiritual plant out of the spiritual soil would have a certain impact on the growth of the spiritual plant and it would take some time before it could return to normal, so she had difficulty accepting Lu Xuan’s request for a while.
“If the rhizome is pulled out, how certain is Senior Brother Lu that he will be able to cure this Flame Fruit?”
The round-faced female cultivator asked Lu Xuan with a serious expression, this Flame Fruit in front of her, if it continued to grow in this state, it would most likely wither and die after some time, if she thought about it like this, pulling out the rhizome wasn’t something that was unacceptable.
“At least seventy percent.”
Lu Xuan replied back with confidence.
His inspection of the Flame Fruit’s rhizome was just a front, the main purpose was to complete the action of [Planting], thus controlling the detailed state of the Flame Fruit.
“Good, then, Senior Brother Lu, feel free to show your means.”
Seeing how confident Lu Xuan was, the round-faced female cultivator’s heart was greatly settled, signaling Lu Xuan to dispose of the Blazing Flame Fruit as he pleased.
Lu Xuan nodded and performed the Earth Drawing Technique, and the Spirit Soil that wrapped around the Flame Fruit’s rhizome instantly loosened up quite a bit.
He easily pulled out the entire root of the Flame Fruit and gently shook off the spirit soil on the rootstock.
The dark red rhizome appeared in front of the two of them.
Lu Xuan reached out and touched the surface of the rhizome, and a slight sense of warmth and coolness emanated from the fiery red rhizome, slightly different from the information he had read from the jade album.
“Senior sister, come over and try touching the Flame Fruit rhizome.”
He called the round-faced female cultivator over and whispered.
“Huh? How can it be this warm and cool? I remember the canonical record that there is a slight burning sensation on the surface of the Flame Fruit’s rhizome.”
The round-faced female cultivator let out a light eep, the Flame Fruit would have a slight burning sensation on the surface of the rhizome under the long-term nourishment of the Fire Arts, whereas this Flame Fruit in front of her, the rhizome had a very different feeling when touched.
“Guess that’s where the problem lies.”
Lu Xuan pretended to be oblivious as he buried the Blazing Flame Fruit in the Spiritual Soil, his mind condensed on the spiritual plant, and instantly, a thought flashed through his mind.
[Blazing Flame Fruit, Second Grade Spiritual Plant, the spiritual fruit contains rich spiritual qi, after consuming it, it can slightly enhance the spiritual energy in the cultivator’s body, and it can also be used as a refining material for certain Spiritual Wines and Spiritual Brews].
[When cultivating it, one needs to perform fire techniques to stimulate the spirit plant and accelerate its growth rate.]]
Due to growing in a special environment and devouring a large amount of yin fire, the Flame Fruit has undergone a mutation in its body, and ordinary fire techniques cannot play a warming and nourishing effect, so it needs to be stimulated by yin fire-type foreign fire.
“So it is.”
Lu Xuan secretly sighed in his heart, although this Flame Fruit in front of him didn’t look too different from the ordinary Flame Fruit, due to growing in a Yin Flame type environment, it had been affected by it for years and years, mutating into a plant that only absorbed and devoured special flames, ordinary flames didn’t have much of a positive effect on its growth.
“Master Lu, how come you planted the Flame Fruit rhizome inside the spiritual soil here? Don’t you inspect it more?”
The round-faced female cultivator couldn’t help but ask out loud when she saw Lu Xuan’s movements.
“Senior Sister Chen, there’s no need, I already know roughly what the problem is.”
Lu Xuan cast the Earth Drawing Technique and wrapped the Flame Fruit’s rhizome with Spiritual Loam as he smiled and said towards the round-faced female cultivator.
“If I’m not mistaken, when Senior Sister Chen found this Flame Fruit at that time, it was growing in a Yin Fire environment, right?”
“Indeed.”
A trace of surprise surfaced on the round-faced female cultivator’s face, she didn’t expect that Lu Xuan would actually be able to directly discern the growing environment of the Blazing Flame Fruit before it was transplanted.
(End of Chapter)