Chapter 226 – Amber Spirit Seed
Chapter 226 – Amber Spirit Seed
As he traveled, Lu Xuan slowly deviated from the direction the three fellow disciples were advancing.
He waited until he was far away before stopping.
His Spiritual Sense carefully swept through the surroundings and did not find any traces of the cultivators.
On the contrary, the growth density of that weird vine was a bit greater than before, and looking around, they could be easily spotted.
This weird ghost vine consisted of many green and black vines of varying thickness, the vines were curved and twisted, with teeth and claws, at first glance, one would think that they were mountain ghosts in the mountain forests, with a look of choosing people to devour.
The top of the vines also have miserable green flowers, from a distance, like fluorescent ghost fire flickering, but also to the plant added a few points of evil horror.
Lu Xuan kept his distance from the surrounding foreign ghost vines, in case they suddenly attacked.
Immediately afterward, his body’s spiritual qi revolved, and a large-scale Spiritual Rain Technique covering a radius of a hundred feet was executed.
Wisps of Spiritual Rain dripped down, seeping into all the Fey Ghost Vines within range.
Anyone who cultivates and feeds, will surely be able to obtain detailed information on the spiritual beasts and plants, and timely status.
Even if those Fae Ghost Vines mutated into demonic beast-like existences, as long as they absorbed the Spirit Rain that Lu Xuan drew in, they would still be able to learn everything about it in detail.
Lu Xuan’s mind condensed on the nearest Fae Ghost Vine, and then, a thought flashed through his mind.
[Fey Ghost Vine, Third Grade Spiritual Plant, Demonic Transformation Plant, extremely aggressive, will disguise itself as a normal spiritual plant and actively sneak attack demonic beasts or cultivators that approach them.]
[Feeds on the flesh and blood of spirit plants and demonic beasts other than their own kind.]
Cannot be planted.
“A demonic transformation spirit plant that will actively sneak attack cultivators or demonic beasts.”
The information about the Alien Ghost Vine made Lu Xuan feel somewhat novel.
It was the first time he had encountered a spirit plant that actively attacked cultivators; previously, in the Lin Yang Marketplace, under the influence of the Evil Sneak, many spirit plants had produced mutations, but had not revealed any intention to actively attack.
After entering the Heavenly Sword Sect, the cultivated spiritual plants had become richer and richer in variety and higher and higher in grade, and among them, there were also the Mystic Immortal Peach, Hundred Pupil Guile Wood, and the Holy Infant Fruit, which could affect the desires and minds of cultivators.
However, they either said that their nature made them so, or they were controlled by cultivators hidden in the shadows, and wouldn’t have active attacking behaviors like this Demon Mutant Ghost Vine.
Lu Xuan continued to inspect the other spirit plants.
In the huge area where the Spirit Rain Technique was cast, there were nearly twenty Altered Ghost Vines, of which, most of them were Demon Mutated Plants, and it wasn’t until the sixth plant that Lu Xuan found a normal Altered Ghost Vine.
[The Alien Ghost Vine …… can be used to refine certain special high grade pills after maturity, and can also assist in the cultivation of Yin Evil type techniques.]
[It can grow normally by absorbing aura.]
Of the twenty or so plants of the Alien Ghost Vine, a total of four were normal spirit plants, while the rest were demonic transformation plants.
“There’s still a small difference between demonic transformation plants and normal plants.”
“There is a slight difference between the two in the way they grow, the Demon Mutation Plants are no longer satisfied with simply absorbing spiritual energy, and they have a strong desire for spiritual plants other than their own kind, and the blood and flesh of demonic beasts.”
“However, it is possible that the process of demonic transformation produces some sort of unknown change, causing the Demonic Transformation Alien Ghost Vine to be unable to condense its seeds and continue its life on.”
Lu Xuan sighed as he memorized those four normal spirit plants.
“What do you mean by specialized?”
“Without having to carefully exclude or risk fighting, a single Spirit Rain Technique can quickly recognize a Normal Alien Ghost Vine.”
“This is called professionalism.”
The way the three of them had picked the Fey Ghost Vines before was by violently stepping on mines, stepping over them one by one and combining their efforts to solve them when they hit them, Lu Xuan’s kind was by sweeping the mines, using a means to mark which ones were mines and which ones were not, and then bypassing the demonic transformation plants directly to pick normal Fey Ghost Vine Spirit Plants.
He slowly walked up to a Demon Mutated Fey Ghost Vine, stepping in a fine pace, reaching out and slowly grasping at the miserable green flowers on the vine. “Third grade spirit plant, immediately in hand.”
Just as his fingers were about to touch the flower, Lu Xuan turned around violently and walked straight towards another plant.
Behind him, the Alien Ghost Vine that had been trembling slightly with the greenish-black vines as Lu Xuan approached calmed down, and beneath the ground, hundreds of tentacle-like roots slowly retracted back into the depths of the earth.
Lu Xuan did as he was told, whenever he was about to approach a Demon Transformation Spirit Plant, his expression was excited, as if he had discovered some great opportunity.
But when he was about to touch it, he quickly retracted his hand again, provoking the Demon Transformation Alien Ghost Vine to move stupidly, but with nowhere to vent.
Until he walked to a normal xenoghost vine before, he was careful to pick it down.
However, due to the lack of cultivation to take care of the spiritual plant, no white light clusters appeared after picking it.
In this way, he traveled through the many spirit plants, feigning to get close to the demonic change plant, and then darting back away, and when he came across a real normal foreign ghost vine, he picked it off without any hesitation.
Lu Xuan’s actions seemed to have angered those Demonic Change Spirit Plants.
While picking the last normal Altered Ghost Vine within the range of the Spirit Rain Technique, suddenly, hundreds of greenish-black vines with barbed thorns burrowed out from the ground and attacked Lu Xuan like lightning.
“Good timing!”
Lu Xuan was prepared for this, and his right hand slapped the pale green mottled gourd on the side of his waist.
Immediately, a sword sound clanked out, and countless to subtle sword qi shot out instantly from the mouth of the gourd like swimming fish, meeting those greenish-black vines.
Sword qi extremely sharp, the vines appeared on a subtle sword marks, the number is more and more, the traces are getting deeper and deeper, after a split second, a green and black tentacles directly shattered, fell all over the ground.
Lu Xuan, after sacrificing the sword qi in the Sword Nurturing Gourd, the Purple Electricity Sword brought up tints of electricity, running the Autumn Wind Sword Technique in the Four Seasons Sword Technique, like the winds rolling by, with infinite killing intent in its depression and coldness.
A section of green and black vines fell to the ground, like chopped earthworms, hopping around in the gray and black soil, dying.
After losing the camouflage ability that he relied on to survive as well as the sudden attacks, the attacks of the alien ghost vines were reduced by a few notches at once, and Lu Xuan easily disposed of the several demonic ghost vines that surrounded him.
“Eh? How did it suddenly retreat?”
He noticed that the Demonic Change Plants that he recognized as well as those in the distance flew into the Spirit Soil, and along with the vines on the ground as well as the normal Fey Ghost Vines, they instantly disappeared.
Lu Xuan smelled a hint of something wrong.
“Could it be that they’ve discovered my restraint against them? Or is it a premeditated act?”
He was puzzled in his mind as the pale green colored light cluster in his dantian rotated slightly.
A trace of green wood source qi drilled out from his body, and under the control of Lu Xuan’s Spiritual Sense, it quickly wove itself into a giant pale cyan-colored net, with extremely small meshes that ensured that he didn’t miss any of the subtle Spirit Seeds.
He intended to use this giant net to plow through the empty medicinal garden and find out any spirit seeds that might be hidden inside.
The green wood source qi had a natural affinity for spiritual plants, and was able to keenly sense the vitality within the spiritual seeds, making it too much easier than Lu Xuan searching with his spiritual sense.
The light green colored giant net kept going deeper and deeper into the ground, until it reached the limit of Lu Xuan’s Spiritual Sense, and only then did it retract.
Lu Xuan was not discouraged, and found a new piece of ground to continue sifting through the Amoy Seeds.
“There.”
After continuous attempts, Lu Xuan perceived an extremely faint fluctuation of vitality from the light green colored giant net.
He operated the Grand Completion Realm’s Earth Drawing Art, and the structure of the soil kept changing, turning things inside up.
A Spirit Seed that was like amber.
(End of chapter)