Chapter 2 Pests

Chapter 2 Insect Pests
As the thought flashed by, Lu Xuan felt a strange sensation coming from within his body.

The originally calm and tranquil Spiritual Energy suddenly surged, scurrying between Lu Xuan’s tendons and veins.

Only after half a moment did the uncontrollable spiritual energy gradually calm down.

Lu Xuan felt the changes within his body in detail and couldn’t help but show a hint of joy on his face.

His cultivation had risen so much that it was worth three months of hard cultivation, and he was just a stone’s throw away from breaking through to the third level of Qi cultivation.

“After traveling over for so long, the golden finger has finally arrived.”

Lu Xuan was overjoyed, in his previous life, whether it is the mind or body are just average, occupy this body qualifications background are also ordinary, if there is no hang-ups, do not know how to mix in the world of cultivation.

A message emerged in his mind, and he understood everything about the white light mass.

Any spiritual plants and herbs planted and cultivated by his own hands will be rewarded with white light clusters when they mature and are collected, and from the white light clusters, various things such as cultivation, artifacts, techniques, and pills can be opened.

The richness of the rewards is related to many factors, the degree of one’s participation in the growth process of the spiritual plant, the type and grade of the spiritual plant, the quality of the plant when it matures, and so on, all of which affect the size of the white light cluster rewards.

The light ball is only visible and touchable by yourself, outsiders can’t see it, and you can’t get the rewards of the light ball when you pick the spiritual plants not planted by your own hands.

“That is to say, as long as I successfully plant a spirit plant, in addition to the spirit plant itself, I can also obtain additional light cluster rewards?”

“Wouldn’t that be double the harvest, double the joy?”

Lu Xuan looked at the Spirit Glow Grass as well as the Eclipse Tree that were thriving in the soil, as if he saw a white light cluster flashing towards him.

“I, Lu Xuan, have been able to achieve what I have today, relying on the fact that I have been practicing hard and diligently tending to the Spirit Plants.”

Lu Xuan couldn’t help but think.

He sensed that ever since the white ball of light appeared, the numerous Spirit Plants inside the Spirit Field had also experienced inexplicable changes along with it.

Lu Xuan blessed his heart and gathered his mind on a Spirit Glow Grass at his feet.

An invisible progress bar appeared in the sky above the Spirit Glow Grass, and the almost full progress bar indicated that the Spirit Glow Grass in front of him was about to enter the full maturity stage.

A message flashed through Lu Xuan’s mind.

“It has just been nourished by the Spirit Rain and is contented, it’s just that the neighboring rhizome next to it is too big and too long, it’s a bit squeezed.”

What was this, the immediate state of a spiritual plant?
With doubt, Lu Xuan’s mind gathered on a nearby Spirit Glow Grass.

The progress bar similarly pulled up a large portion, and an identical message flashed through his mind.

The Spirit Glow Grass next to it was growing in a fairly good state, only that it similarly felt that its neighbor’s rhizome was too long and too big, taking up its growing space.

“This can’t be helped then, the spirit field is this big, so I can only force you guys, to add roots to roots.”

Lu Xuan sighed.

Both the growth progress bar and the instant status were of no small help to him, allowing him to grasp the growth needs of the spirit plant and adjust the details to make it mature faster and better.

Looking at the progress bar that was about to reach the top, he couldn’t wait to cast the Spiritual Rain Technique to ripen the Spirit Glow Grass.

However, he was also aware of the truth that too much was not enough, proper moisturizing was extremely beneficial to the spirit plant, but if it was moisturized frequently, it would be equivalent to pulling out the seedling to help it grow.

Even if it matured and was of poor quality, it would affect the rewards of the white light cluster.

Thinking of this, Lu Xuan’s thoughts of ripening the Spirit Glow Grass and obtaining the rewards of the light cluster immediately dissipated.

As he was about to go back to the house, he thought of something and turned his head to the west side of the courtyard.

Since he was able to be informed of the Spirit Plant’s immediate state, would the Spirit Glow Grass that had been eroded by the thin black threads also reveal the truth.

He held his breath and his mind focused on the Spirit Glow Grass that was tightly entangled by the thin black threads.

The progress bar was not much different from the previous two plants, and it was also about to be drawn full.

A piece of information surged into Lu Xuan’s mind.

“The Spirit Glow Grass that has been infested by the Black Sprout Bug larvae is in a worrying state, and if it is not dealt with in time, the vitality within will be completely sucked out by the Black Sprout Bugs, and it will be reduced to a withered grass.”

“Black Sprout Bug Larva ……”

Lu Xuan muttered, his hanging heart dropping a small half.

Knowing the origin of the black thin line that would be much better, at least there was no need to be like a headless fly without a direction to solve the problem.

As he listened to the name, he felt that it was somewhat familiar and hurried back inside, flipping out a thick book.

Common Hazardous Demon Insects and Their Solutions.

On it were records of hundreds of common demonic insects that could harm spiritual plants during the process of planting spiritual medicines, as well as treatment suggestions left behind by the author of the book.

Lu Xuan flipped through the pages and quickly found detailed information about the Black Sprout Insect.

“Black Sprout Bug, adult bugs are as thick as a pinky finger, come and go like the wind, and love to devour the branches and leaves of spiritual plants.”

“When laying eggs, it will stay on top of the spiritual plant, after the eggs hatch, the larvae rely on absorbing the vitality of the spiritual plant to grow, and when the vitality of the spiritual plant is exhausted, it will automatically leave and look for the next target.”

“Solution. Adult worms require cultivators who are at the third level of qi cultivation and specialize in offensive spells to dispose of them peacefully.”

“Eggs as well as larvae are extremely difficult for cultivators at the lower levels of Qi Practicing to detect unless they have a keen spiritual sense.”

“Since the larvae are too small of a target and are linked to the spirit plants, it is easy to harm the spirit plants when handling them, so one needs to have deep attainments in certain specific spells and subtle manipulation to be able to resolve them.”

Lu Xuan closed the book and closed his eyes in contemplation.

“To avoid harming the spirit plants infested by the larvae, then the spells used must fulfill two conditions.”

“One, it must have enough killing power, and two, the damage range can be controlled.”

Due to his lowly origin and cultivation level of only the second level of Qi Practicing, he currently only mastered two low-rank spells.

One was the Spirit Rain Technique, which was mainly used to cultivate spiritual plants, and the other was the Fireball Technique, which was also used for self-defense.

But both of these spells he knew but was not proficient in, completely unable to achieve fine control.

Moreover, the two spells didn’t look like they were specific spells that would satisfy the need to clear out the Black Sprout Insect larvae.

The Spiritual Rain Spell, in its early stages, could only serve to moisturize the spiritual plants, and Lu Xuan estimated that if he went down with one spell, not only would the Black Sprout Larvae not be harmed at all, but they would be even more excited …….

As for the Fireball Spell, although it was enough to kill, if a fireball went down, it would be the end of the Spirit Glow Grass and the Black Sprout Larva together.

“It looks like it’s still necessary to go to the workshop to seek help and break the bank.”

“The good thing is that we can treat the symptoms, and being able to save a little is a little.”

Lu Xuan touched the slightly shriveled cloth bag around his waist and sighed quietly. ……

“Little brother Lu, are you at home?”

A loud voice came from outside the courtyard amidst the knocking on the door.

Immediately after, a gray-black grass rope swam over from the corner of the courtyard and gently nudged Lu Xuan’s knee.

It was the Grass Puppet that stayed in the courtyard that sensed someone about to invade the range of the Spirit Field and alerted Lu Xuan.

“People are stopping outside the door for a while and voicing their greetings before you signal the alarm, if there is really any mischief, you might not even react when your home is stolen.”

Lu Xuan looked at the gray and black grass rope that retracted and couldn’t help but hold his forehead.

That voice sounded familiar, one of the few cultivators that Lu Xuan had crossed over to recognize.

“Coming, Big Brother Zhang!”

He responded, coming to the courtyard gate and opening it.

A tall, simple-looking cultivator walked in.

The visitor’s name was Zhang Hong, Qi Practicing Third Layer Cultivation, living next door to Lu Xuan, with a Qi Practicing Second Layer Dao Couple, raising a six or seven year old child, who had given him a lot of pointers when Lu Xuan first came over, allowing him to go down many less crooked paths.

“Brother Zhang, please come inside for a cup of hot tea.”

Lu Xuan led Zhang Hong towards the house.

Zhang Hong turned his head to look at the well-grown Spirit Glow Grass as well as the Eclipse Tree on both sides of the verdant path and nodded.

“Little brother Lu, you’ve taken care of these two types of spirit plants quite well ah, it looks like there will be a good harvest in a while.”

“It’s just like that, it’s not comparable to those spirit plants in your family’s spirit fields at home, big brother Zhang.”

After Zhang Hong took his seat, Lu Xuan made him a cup of hot tea.

Two or three tender green tea leaves floated and swirled in the tea bowl.

Zhang Hong did not take it personally, he understood Lu Xuan’s cultivation as well as his family’s wealth, to be able to have a cup of tea with Spirit Tea in it was already quite polite.

“Worthy of being called Clear Rain Tea, drinking it is as if there is a misty rain moisturizing your heart, only here in your place, Little Brother Lu, do you have the chance to drink such a good cup of tea.”

“At home, your sister-in-law doesn’t allow anything, it’s no fun.”

Zhang Hong savored the effect brought by the spirit tea, closed his eyes and shook his head, thinking of how suffocating it was at home, he couldn’t help but pat his thigh.

“It can’t be helped, sister-in-law has to prepare for Xiao Yuan’s future, so naturally, she can only be a bit more meticulous.”

“That’s true.”

Zhang Hong sighed.
“Sometimes, I’m quite envious of Little Brother Lu like you, being alone and not having the pressure of raising a family.”

“You can live your life however you want, without having to fight over trivial matters like chicken hair, tea, rice, oil and salt, and you don’t have to worry about whether or not your child can grow up healthily and smoothly, and you don’t have to think about what Kung Fu he cultivates, and what sect he will be able to enter in the future.”

“How comfortable!”

“If Big Brother Zhang really became like me, I guess he would again think about how happy it would be to have a mother-in-law and children hot on the bed.”

Lu Xuan said with a smile.

“You brat, you know so much at such a young age.”

Zhang Hong also just casually exclaimed and let out a laugh, digressing from the topic.

“I came over to find you this time because there is something I want to tell you.”

“I have learned from other sources that the Wang family, a large family in the marketplace, has accidentally obtained information about a secret realm, only that the secret realm is in the far reaches of the wilderness, and thus after a period of time, hundreds and thousands of cultivators above the second level of qi cultivation will be recruited to go and reclaim the secret realm.”

“Let’s see if you have any ideas, if so, you can make preparations early.”

“Reclaiming the secret realm?” Lu Xuan murmured a sentence and fell into deep thought.

“I will go over to take a look this time, new secret realms appear, although the risk is not small, but the return will also be proportional to the risk, staying in the marketplace all the time and planting spirit plants, the family’s normal expenses will be difficult to maintain.”

“As for you, little brother Lu, I personally suggest that you go and take a look, after all, there are Wang Family Foundation Establishment Cultivators at the forefront, those powerful demonic beasts and elves are hard to come across with our strength.”

“Most of all, little brother Lu, you are still young, although being a Spirit Planter is peaceful, the resources you can obtain are limited, your strength is slow to increase, and after planting Spirit Plants for a long time, your heart will be slowly worn down, and it will be rare to have a closer sharpness.”

Zhang Hong looked at Lu Xuan, who had his head bowed in thought, and spoke out to suggest.

Lu Xuan gently nodded, indeed, what Zhang Hong said made sense, reclaiming the secret realm, although there was a certain amount of risk, but it was still within the controllable range, moreover, the emergence of a new secret realm often meant a huge gain, even if he got a bite of the leftovers, it would take him a long time to fully digest it.

If it was before, he might still have a slight possibility of agreeing.

But now, with the appearance of the white light mass, this slight possibility that would be gone.

Venture out, nothing more than to get cultivation resources, come back and then exchange for pills, techniques, magic weapons, etc., but all of this, he stayed at home and planted all kinds of spiritual plants can be obtained!

Higher security, greater returns, planting incense to le!

He pretended to think for a while, look entangled, and finally raised his head, eyes containing apologies to Zhang Hong said.

“Zhang big brother some good intentions, I Lu Xuan heart to understand, just I this person has always been cautious and afraid of things, coupled with low cultivation, and do not specialize in magic means, go out for fear that it is easy to have to go without return.”

“So, I just want to stay at home, guarding this small piece of spirit field, quietly planting spirit plants.”

“As for the future, then we’ll just wait and see.”

Zhang Hong couldn’t help but sigh when he saw that Lu Xuan’s mind was made up.

“There’s nothing wrong with your idea, reclaiming the secret realm, although the risk is not great, it doesn’t mean that it’s completely absent, if just a little bit is missed out, and it falls on our Qi Practicing Minor Cultivator, it could be a few lives.”

“It’s just that, I had to go and make a break for it, Little Yuan can’t be like me, practicing a wild way technique.”

The two of them were silent for a while, and after sitting for a while, Zhang Hong got up to take his leave, and instructed Lu Xuan to take more care of his family’s little cub.

Lu Xuan nodded in agreement and watched Zhang Hong leave, closing the courtyard gate.

“With the appearance of the white light mass, in the future, we should try to avoid putting ourselves in danger.”

“If you don’t have ninety percent certainty ……, no, ninety percent certainty that’s the equivalent of zero certainty, and if you don’t have a hundred percent certainty, then don’t go out and take risks at will.”

Lu Xuan looked at the Spirit Glow Grass as well as the Eclipse Fruit beside the verdant pathway, feeling bottomless.

(End of chapter)