Chapter 192 – White Jade Prime Ape
Chapter 192 – White Jade Prime Ape
In the courtyard of the mountain peak.
Lu Xuan took out three jade slips and placed one of them against his forehead as his Spiritual Sense slowly seeped into it.
Soon, a raging stream of information rushed into his mind, filling his sea of consciousness to the brim, almost ready to explode.
Like a sponge, he crazily absorbed the cultivation knowledge that flooded into his sea of consciousness and continuously digested it.
After nearly half an hour, Lu Xuan exhaled a mouthful of turbid breath, looking much more relaxed.
In the Sea of Consciousness, the cultivation methods, know-how, routes, and the execution of intermediate level Five Elemental Techniques of the Great Five Elemental Technique were deeply engraved in it, and with a single movement of the mind, the corresponding knowledge could be summoned out to be experienced and realized in detail.
“Worthy of being the advanced version of the Minor Five Elemental Technique, the difficulty of cultivation is more than several times higher, but of course, the effect is similarly enhanced by many.”
Lu Xuan sighed with emotion, and as he did, he absorbed the Sword Technique and Light Body Technique from the other two jade sketches separately.
After the knowledge inside the jade slips were absorbed, they automatically shattered into pieces and fell to the ground without having to worry about easily passing out.
“After advancing to the Foundation Establishment Realm, farming is still the most important, however, in my spare time, I can still cultivate my gongfu sword skills.”
He secretly sighed.
While other cultivators focused on cultivation, followed by fighting and exploring opportunities, alchemy and weaponry, and spiritual plants and other skills were placed in a more secondary position, Lu Xuan was the opposite, in front of cultivating spiritual plants, everything else was just dirt and fragile.
After he slightly understood the three techniques, he came to the spirit field.
Scrambling over the mountains, he inspected the growth conditions of the many spirit plants in various parts of the mountain peaks.
All the spirit plants were growing happily, there were those that were entering the maturity stage one after another, there were those that were drawing branches and growing leaves and thriving, and there were also those that were taking root and sprouting, or were in the gestation stage, each stage was vibrant, making Lu Xuan, the Spirit Planter, feel immensely satisfied in his heart.
“A batch of Spirit Glow Grass has also matured.”
He inspected the remaining ordinary Spirit Glow Grasses, and after carefully confirming each one, he obtained thirty-two perfectly mature Spirit Glow Grasses.
Due to the effects of being transplanted not long ago, the average quality of the latest matured Spirit Glow Grasses had fallen slightly, and out of the thirty-two plants, only four were of perfect quality, while the others were of good or superior quality.
On the ground, after being picked, there were thirty-two white light clusters faintly flickering, attracting Lu Xuan’s gaze.
The corner of his mouth rose as he gently picked up the nearest one.
The light cluster transformed into countless points of light and surged into his body, and then, a thought flashed by.
[Harvested one Spirit Glow Grass, gained February cultivation].
“Hmm?”
Just as Lu Xuan wanted to continue picking up the second light cluster, suddenly, the thought that appeared in his mind caught his attention.
“February cultivation? How did this happen?”
A hint of panic could not help but flash through his eyes, as he was under the impression that the white light ball just now came from a good quality Spirit Fluorescent Grass, and according to the past, he would be rewarded with a June cultivation, but this time, he actually only gained two months of cultivation.
Lu Xuan adjusted his breathing and continued to pick up the second light ball.
It wasn’t until the fifth cluster that the cultivation reward appeared, from a top quality Spirit Glow Grass, which should have given him nine months of cultivation, but after absorbing the cluster, he only gained three months of cultivation.
“Compared to the past, the cultivation reward brought by the light clusters is two thirds less, what exactly is the reason for this?”
“The timing of the picking, the quality of the spiritual plants are not much different from before, on the contrary, the spiritual qi on the mountain peak, the spiritual soil is better than the previous cave, the only thing that has changed is that I have advanced to the Foundation Establishment Realm.”
“Could it be that the difference in grade is too large, causing the cultivation reward to decrease?”
Lu Xuan had a flash of inspiration and thought of certain games in his previous life, where the character under control would gain less or even no experience when killing small monsters with too large a disparity in rank.
“Spirit Glow Grass is a classless spirit plant, and the Foundation Establishment cultivation level corresponds to a third and fourth class spirit plant, so there is indeed a large disparity.”
The more Lu Xuan thought about it, the more he felt that this was the most likely scenario, and he also recalled another scenario. “Harvesting a low-grade Spirit Plant would lower the reward, so would harvesting a high-grade Spirit Plant across the steps result in a more generous reward?”
When he was in the Qi Practicing Realm, he had once harvested two third-grade spirit plants, the Jiao Vine and the Illusory Smoke Luo Fruit, and obtained the extremely high-grade body refining technique, the Taixu Huanlong Chapters, and the fourth-grade formation, the Thousand Illusory Cloud Smoke Formation, respectively.
“In the past, I would also occasionally receive higher grade rewards, but they were mainly talismans or materials, which were less important than the feats and formations, so cultivating spirit plants across the grades does come with additional rewards.”
Lu Xuan analyzed.
“It’s a good thing that I was prepared for a rainy day and experimented ahead of time to improve the Spirit Glow Grass varieties.”
Lu Xuan’s mind calmed down as he looked at the remaining Spirit Glow Grass and decided to make some adjustments.
With the remaining one hundred and thirty-four ordinary Spirit Glow Grasses, he had no thoughts of picking them again, instead, he planned to condense all of them into Spirit Seeds, and then use a large number of Spirit Seeds to induce Mutant Spirit Plants.
Together with the twenty-six ice-type as well as fire-type Spirit Fluorescent Grasses that had already been successfully induced, and the fifty plants that were in the stimulation stage, with a large amount of resources poured down, he was confident that he would soon succeed in his improvement.
“During the improvement process, one’s biggest advantage is that one can induce spirit seeds in a circular manner, one doesn’t need to cultivate them for a period of time before realizing the abnormality, and one can know the information by directly planting the spirit seeds, greatly shortening the induction process.”
“In addition, for the mutated spirit plant, one can make the most accurate adjustments and choices through its immediate state, again saving a lot of time.”
Lu Xuan thought with confidence.
“After being frightened for a while, let’s have a grilled fish to suppress the fear.”
He came to the edge of the lake, a red light noiselessly penetrated the surface of the lake, and two or three breaths later, a fat spirit fish jumped out of the water with a red thread pinned to it.
The spirit fish landed on the ground, its tail flapping fiercely, wanting to get back into the lake.
Lu Xuan casually pulled out a gray grass rope from the grass puppet next to him, tied the spirit fish and carried it back to the courtyard.
Under the slow fire roasting, the spirit fish emitted a zipping sound, and the fragrance spread out, attracting the Wind Falcon hatchling incubating the Off-Fire Jiao Dragon’s egg, as well as the Treading Cloud Lynx in the mountain forest.
Lu Xuan flipped over and sprinkled boiled demonic beast oil, spices, and seasonings, the fragrance became even more intense, the wind falcon young bird’s belly contracted and swelled nervously, and the Treading Cloud lynx pretended to be unconcerned as it walked around on the side, but its turquoise pupil sight never left the baked fish.
“Come, come, freshly baked baked fish.”
Several pieces of silver-white debris flew out, cutting the roasted fish into more than ten portions, Lu Xuan threw one portion to each of the two little ones, grabbed a large portion for himself, and feasted on it.
“Niko!”
A familiar chirping sound came from the courtyard as a clean white luan bird appeared in the courtyard.
Lu Xuan looked at the divine and elegant Xuan Tian White Luan, and a hint of a smile could not help but flash across his eyes.
“I haven’t even told you yet after moving home, and you came to the door on your own, glutton.”
“Yo, you even brought a little companion?”
Lu Xuan was pleasantly surprised in his heart when a delicate and small ape slowly walked out, following closely behind the luan bird, glancing at Lu Xuan from time to time, as well as the fragrant roasted fish in front of him.
“Come, try the new dish.”
Lu Xuan tore off two pieces of fish and threw them to the luan bird and the small ape respectively.
As his mind coalesced around the ape, a thought flashed through his mind.
[White Jade Prime Ape, Third Grade Demonic Beast, Heavenly Sword Sect Protector Spirit Beast. Containing the bloodline of the ancient beast Prime Ape Voice within its body, it has the potential to grow into a seventh grade demonic beast.]
[Ferocious and aggressive by nature, berserk and easily angered, its strength greatly increases when it enters the berserk state.]
“I want the sky to be a place where I can no longer hide my eyes.
(End of chapter)