Chapter 137.
Chapter 137 – Invitation
“Senior apprentice-brother Lu, are you there?”
On this day, Lu Xuan was cultivating spiritual plants when a shout came from outside the courtyard door.
“So it’s Senior Sister Yao, I haven’t seen you for a while, Senior Sister’s elegance has increased.”
Lu Xuan opened the courtyard door, and at a glance, he saw a beautiful woman standing at the door, the very same manager of the medicinal garden he was in when he first took on the task of cultivating the Monkey Face Orchid.
“Senior Sister Lu is polite.”
The beautiful woman followed Lu Xuan into the courtyard, and after surveying the surroundings and sensing the vibrant vitality underneath the light mist, she praised under her breath.
“It looks like Senior Brother Lu has planted quite a few rare spirit plants, such vigorous vitality, the array can’t even block it.”
Although she said this, she had a good grasp of proportion and did not make the request to go to the spirit field to inspect it.
“Senior sister is flattering, I wonder if Senior Sister Yao has come over this time, is there something she wants?”
Lu Xuan asked curiously.
“There is indeed something to find you, and it’s something big.”
The beautiful woman smiled and continued.
“It’s like this, wasn’t I managing a medicinal garden for a Foundation Establishment Master Uncle? That senior uncle still has quite a few properties outside the sect, and in recent times, a spiritual plantation under his rule has suffered from pests, and the root cause of the pests has not been resolved for a long time.”
“The senior uncle then left it to me to go ahead and solve it, I’m not capable of doing it alone and would like to invite senior brother Lu to go with me.”
The beautiful woman was deeply impressed with Lu Xuan, during his cultivation of the Monkey-faced Orchid, he was actually able to find out the subtleties based on the changes in the Monkey-faced Orchid’s expression and adjusted it accordingly, allowing the Monkey-faced Orchid’s quality to be improved as a whole, and as a result, she gained quite a lot of face in front of that Foundation Establishment Senior Uncle.
After receiving such a task, she thought of Lu Xuan first, because she knew that Lu Xuan had deep attainments in spiritual plants, and inviting him would make it more likely that she could solve the problem of spiritual plant pests.
Secondly, she wanted to sell a favor, this mission was simple and rewarding, it could be considered a welfare mission.
“Senior Sister Yao, I’m a person who wastes my cultivation on weekdays, my cultivation is average, and I’m not good at fighting, I only have some talent in cultivating spirit plants, so I can only say sorry.”
Lu Xuan smiled and refused.
“But, Senior Brother Lu ……”
The beautiful woman’s tone paused as a strange look surfaced in her eyes.
“The one I invited is the Spirit Plant Master ah ……”
……
“Careless, I directly rejected any cultivator’s invitation as soon as it came, I actually didn’t notice that this Senior Sister Yao’s invitation happened to be a Spirit Plant Master ……”
Lu Xuan thought in his heart as the scene fell into silence for a while.
“Senior Brother Lu mentioned cultivation level and experience in fighting, is he worried about the possibility of encountering danger?”
“This point you can completely rest assured, Spirit Plant Origin is only a few hundred miles away from the sect, the road is not hiding any demonic beasts or evil cultivators, I also begged a third grade magic weapon from my senior uncle, both speed, and protection are top grade.”
“As for the spirit plant origin, most of them are some Qi practicing low level middle level cultivators, and there are very few Qi practicing high level cultivators, this point can be assured by senior brother.”
The beautiful woman seemed to see Lu Xuan’s cautious principle of dealing with things and said softly.
“Hundreds of miles of traveling is indeed nothing, but, Senior Sister Yao, why didn’t that Foundation Establishment Uncle plant it in the sect?”
“The main reason is that the demand for those Spirit Plants is too great, and planting them in the sect would require a large area of Spirit Fields, and the growing environment isn’t necessarily conducive to the growth of the Spirit Plants.”
“Therefore, Senior Uncle outsourced those spirit plants to small family cultivators, those cultivators are the offspring of the clan’s outer disciples or inner disciples, and are trustworthy.”
The beautiful woman explained to Lu Xuan in detail.
Lu Xuan nodded his head, expressing his understanding. The words from Senior Sister Yao’s mouth dispelled his confusion about security, and considering that this was the property of the clan’s Foundation Establishment Senior Uncle, Lu Xuan did not hesitate much and nodded his head in agreement.
“Then, please take care of Senior Sister Yao on the way.”
“That’s as it should be.”
“With Senior Brother’s cultivation, he can naturally move around unhindered amongst a group of Qi Practicing low-stage and middle-stage cultivators, and with that ability to cultivate spiritual plants, the one who should be said to take care of me should be Senior Sister!”
A trace of joy appeared on the beautiful woman’s face, with Lu Xuan, who was good at cultivating spiritual plants, joining the team, the certainty of solving the root cause of the pests had increased by a few more points.
She informed Lu Xuan of the departure time, as well as some preparations, and then left.
Two days later, a shuttle-shaped flying boat landed on the verdant square of Jianmen Town.
Lu Xuan, the beautiful woman, and an ordinary youth at the ninth level of Qi Practicing leapt down from the flying boat.
“Two senior brothers, the three of us will stay in Sword Gate Town for a while, each making our own supplies, and after half a day, we’ll meet up under the stone sword.”
Lu Xuan couldn’t wait for this and nodded his head in agreement, strolling around Sword Gate Town alone.
After half an hour, he brought the materials he had bought and entered the small courtyard.
Opening the formation, before he even entered the Spirit Field, Lu Xuan felt the gusts of gloomy winds, and the remaining tens of grievous souls drifted around in the courtyard, emitting mournful low roars.
When he left last time, he had released fifty Yin Soul Grievances from the Grievance Soul Bell, and this time when he came over, there were already only upper ten left.
“These five ghost-faced stone mushrooms have quite a large appetite.”
Lu Xuan sighed and walked over to the Ghost-faced Stone Mushrooms.
After absorbing seven or eight Yin Soul Grievances each, although the volume of the Ghost-faced Stone Mushroom didn’t look like it had changed much, the bizarre patterns on its exterior brightened up by a few points, making it appear vivid and lively.
He took out the Grievous Soul Bell artifact from his storage pouch and released another fifty Yin Soul Grievances from the inner wall.
Instantly, the tiny courtyard was filled with Yin Qi and the temperature instantly dropped quite a bit.
Lu Xuan came in front of the Thorn Bone, the slender white bone had become even whiter and colder after absorbing the demonic beast’s skeleton, and some tiny bone spikes had grown on both sides of the white bone.
With a loud boom, the huge skeleton of the Barbarian Armored Bull fell around the Thorn Bone, Lu Xuan purposely controlled it, using the blank area in the middle of the skeleton to encircle the Thorn Bone, so that it could get enough nourishment to warm it up.
After slightly cultivating the Ghostface Stone Mushroom and the Thorn Bone, Lu Xuan took out the fourth grade Hundred Pupil Guile Wood Spirit Plant from his Sheng Sheng Bag and planted it into the Spirit Field.
Afterwards, he took out another demonic beast carcass that hadn’t lost its blood cleanly yet, which he had purposely bought from the stalls in town in order to fulfill the Hundred Pupil Guilewood’s growth needs.
Lu Xuan used the remnants of the Split Silver Blade to dig out the demonic beast’s eye pupils and gently placed them on the pale bark of the Hundred Pupil Guile Wood.
Not long after, the nearest half-closed pupil of the demonic beast’s eye pupil quietly opened a sliver, and a nearly transparent tiny tentacle drilled out of the pupil’s gap, like a gecko’s tongue, and pulled the demonic beast’s eye pupil over quickly.
Demonic beast eye pupil as if nailed in general, stopped in the half-closed pupil motionless.
Lu Xuan’s mind condensed down, sensing the feeling of satisfaction coming from the Hundred Pupil Guile Wood, he was quite relieved.
“Coming over for a trip, the spirit field is obviously much more cloudy ah.”
In the small courtyard, dozens of Yin Soul Grudges kept wandering aimlessly, but were completely unable to escape from the shrouded formation.
The huge demonic beast skeletons seemed like small mountains, with thorn bones looming in the midst.
Together with the newly arrived Hundred Pupil Guile Wood that was full of strange pupils, the pale bark still had the pupils of the demonic beast’s eyes that hadn’t dried up from the blood stains.
All of this made the small courtyard even more eerie and evil.
(End of chapter)