Chapter 178 – Ice and Fire Duality, Grass Puppet Breaks Through
Chapter 178 – Ice and Fire Dual Heavens, Grass Puppet Breakthrough
In the spirit field, Lu Xuan found an empty area and took out the white jade box containing the Mystic Peach Spirit Seed.
He carefully scrutinized the three Spirit Seeds in the box, and without realizing it, the pink smoke in the furrows of the Spirit Seeds grew more and more intense, and in Lu Xuan’s line of sight, the Spirit Seeds instantly became extremely seductive.
At one point, it turned into a peach shaped **, and soon became a peach shaped ** again, making the bloodthirsty Lu Xuan’s imagination float.
“Bold! I can tell at a glance that you’re not a proper Spirit Seed!”
Lu Xuan’s spiritual energy surged and cast a purification spell on himself, instantly clearing his mind and tranquilizing his thoughts.
The Peach Core Spirit Seed returned to its original appearance.
“Sure enough, it’s the Immoderate Spirit Peach, luckily I have a way to deal with it.”
“Under the Purity Mantra, I have no desires, women, they will only affect my planting speed!”
Lu Xuan performed the Earth Drawing Technique, and a quiet change occurred within the Spirit Soil as three circular holes appeared, just in time to incorporate the three Misty Immortal Peach Spirit Seeds into it.
His mind condensed on one of the Mystic Immortal Peach Spirit Seeds, and then, a thought flashed through his mind.
[Mystic Immortal Peach, Third Grade Spiritual Plant, can bear fruit for the first time in about three years, and then every two years thereafter, until the end of its life. The spirit fruit after maturity contains rich spiritual energy and is extremely delicious, popular with cultivators and spirit beasts alike].
The fruit can be eaten directly, and has a natural effect on the face, and when taken over a long period of time, it can also increase the charisma of the person who consumes it, and can also be used to refine certain special pills or brew spiritual wine.
During the growth period of spiritual plants, it will release miasma that can induce lust in cultivators and demonic beasts, and the miasma can be collected in large quantities through special means to refine certain strange magic weapons.
[Cultivation is a long way off, so enjoy yourself in time.]
“Pleasure in time? To me, growing spiritual plants is the greatest pleasure.”
Lu Xuan sighed as he recalled the thoughts in his mind.
After entering the sect, he had come into contact with more and more types of spirit plants, and in the Lin Yang Marketplace, due to the low grade of the spirit plants, they were basically disposable spirit plants that were difficult to harvest a second time after maturity.
Now, the spirit field had a yearly type of Yin acacia, the longer it survived, the better, but of course, it would be limited by its own vitality.
In addition, together with the newly planted cycle-type miniature peaches, new spirit fruits could be harvested every once in a while, until the life limit of the spirit plant.
“A third-grade spirit plant, equivalent to the Foundation Establishment realm, naturally won’t have an infinite life, only within its life cycle, it can repeatedly harvest spirit fruits.”
“But this is already quite good, after all, every spirit fruit can be harvested for a light cluster reward.”
Lu Xuan secretly sighed.
He came to the other end of the Spirit Field and continued to perform the Earth Drawing Technique, placing ten Flame Fruit Spirit Seeds into the Spirit Loam.
As his mind condensed on one of the spirit seeds, a thought flashed through his mind.
[Blazing Flame Fruit, Second Grade Spiritual Plant, the matured spiritual fruit contains rich fire spiritual energy, when consumed, it will produce a slight explosive sensation within the mouth, the spiritual energy can warm the limbs and bones, and it can also be used as a refining material for certain Spiritual Wines and Spiritual Brews].
[When cultivating, depending on the progress of growth, it is necessary to cast a fire-based spell of second grade or lower to stimulate the spirit plant and accelerate its growth.]
“The fire-type spirit fruit Flame Fruit, together with the ice-type spirit fruit Ice Luo Fruit from before, the two types of spirit fruits, ice and fire, are given to the high-grade spirit beasts in the sect at the same time, so that they can have a small taste of the shock that comes from the ice and fire dichotomy.”
Lu Xuan looked at the Fiery Flame Fruit in its Spirit Seed state, as well as the pale-white Ice Luo Fruit that had drawn out its branches and leaves not too far away, and thought smugly.
In this way, the spiritual plants in the cave now consisted of the no-grade Spirit Glow Grass, the second-grade Flowing Light Wood, Yin Acacia, Blazing Flame Fruit, Ice Luo Fruit, Sword Grass, the third-grade Jiao Vine, Jade Scale Fruit, Sword Nurturing Gourd, Misty Immortal Peach, and lastly the only fourth-grade Xuan Worm Vine.
Together with the third grade Ghostface Stone Mushroom, Thorn Bone, Poison Stud Wood, and the fourth grade Hundred Pupil Guile Wood in the small courtyard of Sword Gate Town.
Without realizing it, Lu Xuan had already planted a variety of high-grade rare and uncommon spirit plants, and had grown phenomenally in the path of spirit plants.
Lu Xuan sighed a bit and calmed his mind as he toured the spiritual fields, checking the growth status of each and every spiritual plant. In the Spirit Fluorescent Grass area, the remaining seventy-seven Spirit Fluorescent Grasses entered the fully mature state one after another.
Lu Xuan picked all of them, obtaining ten perfect quality Spirit Glow Grasses, with most of the rest being of superior quality, and a few being of good quality.
Seventy-seven white light clusters, he picked them up from one end to the other, the rewards in the clusters were not rich, but the harvesting was a pleasure in itself for him, and he took pleasure in it.
The light clusters that he absorbed gave Lu Xuan over ten years of cultivation rewards.
After absorbing them one by one, he felt his body’s spiritual energy filling up like never before, and his dantian vaguely had a swelling feeling that it was about to fill up.
“Soon, after planting another batch of Spirit Glow Grass and harvesting a wave of cultivation, we can go for a shock at the Foundation Establishment Realm.”
Feeling the spiritual energy in his body, Lu Xuan had a sense of unreality.
More than three years ago, he was just a small cultivator at the second level of Qi Practicing, with ordinary qualifications and a mediocre background, and all he thought about every day was how to survive and earn a little bit of broken spirit.
And now, the old high and untouchable Foundation Establishment realm didn’t seem so far away.
As a result, he was even more determined to cultivate spiritual plants.
In the remaining light clusters, the rewards opened out were mainly first-grade pills and talismans, accompanied by a few experience packs of Earth Drawing Technique and Wood Born Technique, which were better than nothing.
The ten perfect quality Spirit Glow Grasses brought in the light clusters, the rewards were not bad, three second-grade Sword Qi Ten Thousand Talismans, four drops of first-grade Treasure Grass Spirit Yuan Liquid, and three Peiyuan Dan Dan Formulas experience packs.
Lu Xuan packed the seventy or so mature Spirit Fluorescent Grasses into the long white jade box, collected the various rewards, and summoned the Grass Puppet to his body.
“Come, I’ll give you something tasty.”
He took out a drop of Grass Spirit Yuan Liquid and stuffed it into the tumor made of twisted gray grass on the Grass Puppet’s gigantic head.
A crack appeared in the gray grass tumor, sucking in the Grass Spirit Yuan Liquid that contained rich grass aura.
Instantly, the gray grass tumor dyed green rapidly and spread from the top of the head all the way down to the two long, thin legs like chopsticks.
“Hm? Is this a breakthrough or something?”
Lu Xuan suddenly sensed that there was something wrong with the grass puppet in front of him, the gray grasses that made up his body suddenly scattered in all directions and flew around in a haphazard manner, and the huge tumors made up of twisted gray grasses expanded and contracted, with some kind of unknown change happening inside.
Immediately after, the green color of its body instantly dispersed, and a strip of brand new gray grass stretched out from within its body, drilling into the gray grass tumor like a worm.
In Lu Xuan’s perception, countless gray grasses passed through the tumor and reorganized into the grass puppet body.
The new torso still had a large head and a small body, with the limbs being especially noticeable, only that the overall appearance had become quite a bit more strict and tight, and the huge tumor on the head seemed to have grown a few points larger.
Lu Xuan’s mind converged on it, and found that the grass puppet’s spiritual intelligence had also improved, whereas before it only had some simple behavioral patterns, it now had a low-grade spiritual intelligence, comparable to that of a two or three year old infant.
Deep down, it seemed to have absolute trust and reliance on Lu Xuan, the four words ‘Guard the Spiritual Field’ surfacing from time to time in its only spiritual intelligence.
Lu Xuan experimented and found that it could release and control several times more gray grass than before, and the gray grass was much more resilient, and when coalesced together, it was comparable to some first-grade magic weapons.
It was just that the speed at which it was cast out remained unhurried, always in its own rhythm.
“The second-hand grass puppet that was found in the scattered cultivator’s bazaar early on, accompanied himself for the longest time, and the first-grade top-grade treasures of Grass Spirit Yuan Liquid that he obtained were all bred to it, and now he was finally able to make a breakthrough.”
Lu Xuan looked at the dull-headed Grass Puppet in front of him and couldn’t help but sigh in his heart.
“It still looks better with a bit of green.”
With a faint smile, he took out a drop of Grass Spirit Yuan Liquid and stuffed it into the huge grass tumor that was a few points larger in size.
(End of chapter)