Chapter 159 – Jade Scale Fruit
Chapter 159 – Jade Scale Fruit
The three of them looked at the loving Ink Scale Jiao family that was reunited together, and coincidentally felt a sense of incongruity.
“Alright, two senior nephews, this time, I’ll trouble you to solve the anorexia problem of this Ink Scale Jiao.”
“Especially master nephew Lu, his attainments in the path of spirit plants and spirit beasts are truly extraordinary, it’s an eye-opening experience for me, Mister Yang.”
The middle-aged Confucian said mildly towards Lu Xuan, his eyes filled with appreciation.
“Senior uncle is overpraised.”
Lu Xuan bowed his head slightly and modestly returned.
“Senior nephew Lu, you have solved a major problem for me, and after thinking about it, I have decided to give you, senior nephew, a Spirit Seed.”
“This Spirit Seed was obtained by chance during one of my explorations, it’s just that I usually rarely grow Spirit Plants, so I can’t tell what kind of Spirit Seed it is, I just roughly judged based on the vitality inside the seed that it’s most likely a Third Grade Spirit Plant.”
“It would be a waste to keep it in your hands, so I will give it to Master Nephew Lu you, so that it can be put to good use.”
The middle-aged Confucian took out a Spirit Seed from his storage bag and handed it to Lu Xuan.
“Thank you, Senior Uncle, I will definitely cultivate it properly.”
Lu Xuan received the Spirit Seed with both hands, his eyes pooling on the surface of the Spirit Seed.
The Spirit Seed was the size of a fist, as if it was surrounded by layers and layers of jade flakes, it looked like it had a sense of crystal clarity, and when held in the palm of his hand, he could still feel a slight warmth.
He thought back to the third-grade spirit plants recorded inside the jade album of the Sinnon Hall, and did not find a category with a form similar to this spirit seed.
However, this was instead a good thing, after all, the third grade spirit plants recorded inside the jade album were either relatively ordinary and common types or could only be exchanged with sword seals.
This meant that the spirit seed in his hand was not one of those most common third-grade spirit plants and did not need to be additionally exchanged with sword seals.
He once again expressed his gratitude to the middle-aged Confucian scholar, and then arrived to join Huang Yuan, leaving the island.
“Senior Martial Brother Lu, this time you’ve harvested quite a lot, the Essence Blood of a Third Grade Ink Scale Jiao, and a Rare Third Grade Spirit Seed.”
On the way, Huang Yuan said smilingly, but there was little jealousy in his tone.
After all, this time, the smooth resolution of the Ink Scale Jiao’s anorexia problem was all Lu Xuan’s work alone, and it was only right to have such a reward.
He, on the other hand, was also considered to have gotten credit for pushing, and had a good face lift in front of Yang Qingfeng, the Foundation Establishment Cultivator.
“By the way, Senior Brother Lu, regarding the fact that the Ink Scale Jiao contains the Clear Myriad Chi-Dragon bloodline within its body, please don’t circulate it.”
Lu Xuan nodded his head, the fact that the jiao dragon bred by a Foundation Establishment cultivator had been infected by an alien chi dragon and gave birth to a hybrid jiao dragon was more or less disgraceful when it was spread out.
Although the potential of the ink scale scaly auger after the hybridization was even greater, it was still difficult for people to talk about it in the end.
The two parted ways, and Lu Xuan called a Spirit Crane to send him back to his cave.
As soon as he opened the door to the courtyard, the Wind Falcon hatchling continued its familiar opening to welcome Lu Xuan.
The rounded belly landed on top of his head and was instantly deeply sunken.
“Chirp!”
The Wind Falcon hatchling chirped cheerfully, and when its head turned around, it happened to bump into the white and tall spirit crane that was stationed outside the door to see Lu Xuan off from afar.
The chirping sound came to an abrupt end.
The young kestrel rolled down along Lu Xuan’s back, looking at Lu Xuan blearily.
“Do you have another bird outside on my back?”
Lu Xuan hurriedly explained as he sensed the deepest thoughts of the Wind Falcon Young Bird under the cohesion of his mind.
“I’m not, this Spirit Crane is just a Spirit Beast friend of mine, seeing that it’s a long way back, he sent me back to my cave.” “You make me feel sick.”
The Wind Falcon hatchling blankly glanced at Lu Xuan, its two pale green-colored thin legs carrying its rolling body, shaking and swaying as it arrived in front of the Treading Cloud Lynx.
The Treading Cloud Lynx’s turquoise eye pupils gently looked this way, as if it was already accustomed to it.
A few moments later, the wind falcon young bird and the cloud-treading lynx simultaneously swallowed the last piece of air-dried demonic beast meat, lifted their heads together and burped.
Under the temptation of food, the Wind Falcon Young Bird followed behind Lu Xuan again, while the Treading Cloud Lynx, seemingly unconcerned about walking around, was also centered on Lu Xuan.
Lu Xuan came to the spirit field and took out the spirit seed wrapped in layers of jade.
As the Earth Drawing Technique was executed, the spiritual soil quietly changed, and a small circular hole appeared, just enough to contain the spiritual seed.
Under the concentration of his mind, information about the Spirit Seed surged into Lu Xuan’s mind.
[Jade Scale Fruit, Third Grade Spiritual Plant, the spiritual fruit contains rich spiritual energy within it, it can be consumed directly to improve the physique of cultivators or demonic beasts, and it is also suitable for refining Body Refining-type elixirs of Third Grade and above].
[Usually grown in jade spirit mine areas, the jade scent can promote the growth of the Jade Scale Fruit.]
[Jade is in the mountains while grass and trees are moist.]
“Third grade spirit plant, Jade Scale Fruit, capable of improving the physique, not bad.”
“The way it grows is somewhat similar to the Copper Bone Bamboo, while the Copper Bone Bamboo needs the warmth of copper and iron type ores, the Jade Scale Fruit needs the stimulation and nourishment of jade breath.”
Lu Xuan sighed and drummed in his storage bag for a while, eventually taking out two white jade boxes.
The boxes were made of spirit jade, just nothing of grade, with a meager amount of spiritual qi inside, he had prepared quite a few of these white jade boxes due to the fact that he often stocked up on a large amount of mature spiritual plants.
“Although there is no grade, it is essentially a jade spirit ore, it should be enough for the initial growth of the Jade Scale Fruit.”
The bones of the hand that were no weaker than a second-grade magic weapon easily broke open the white jade box, and the white jade fragments were evenly sprinkled around the Jade Scale Fruit Spirit Seed.
Under the spiritual sense perception, it was as if one could perceive that the layers of scales in the spirit soil were gently opening up with a subtle amplitude that was hard to detect with the naked eye.
After Lu Xuan planted the Third Grade Jade Scale Fruit, he patrolled inside the spiritual field.
He came near the Jiao Vine.
The Third Grade Jiao Vine had already entered the maturity stage, the deep black vines were curved and coiled, about half a zhang long, wrist thick and thin, with a hideous form, like a vicious viper hibernating in the spirit field.
Lu Xuan took out the two bottles of Third Grade Jiao Dragon Essence Blood that he had gleaned from this outing.
One bottle was the blood that popped out of the two-headed Jiao Dragon when it was promoted to grow a new head, and the other bottle was the Ink Scale Jiao Essence Blood that was extracted in order to verify the existence of the Qing Miao Chi-Dragon’s bloodline ability.
“Happily troubled ah, suddenly I don’t know which third grade auger dragon essence blood to use to water the auger vines.”
He hesitated for a moment and finally chose the Ink Scale Jiao, after all, it contained the bloodline of the Clear Myriad Chi-Dragon, which was worth more than the two-headed Jiao Dragon Essence Blood.
The dark green blood droplets dripped onto the deep black vines in a thread-like pattern and were absorbed by the vines.
Soon, the vine slowly swam, with clear light occasionally emerging from its surface, causing the demonic vine to unexpectedly have a sense of purity and nature.
“First, a large amount of second grade Aqua Python blood was poured and cultivated, and after coming to the Heavenly Sword Sect, you used your power for personal gain and got you no less than twenty types of rare Jiao Long Python Essence Blood.”
“Now, it’s even brought you Third Grade Ink Scale Jiao Essence Blood as well as Third Grade Two-Headed Jiao Dragon Essence Blood.”
“After you mature, if you don’t reach a superior quality, you won’t be able to live up to my hard cultivation.”
Lu Xuan sighed as he looked at the Jiao Vine that gradually fell silent.
(End of Chapter)