Chapter 238: A Pillow for the Sleepyhead
Chapter 238 – A Doze Sends a Pillow
Lu Xuan was keenly aware of the subtle change in the bearded cultivator’s demeanor, and his heart was on alert.
As the saying goes, nothing is as it seems, this fellow disciple came over, perhaps he had really heard of Lu Xuan’s needs and thus came over in good faith to invite him, but there was also the possibility that those three in the blessed land had set up a trap and layout.
After all, he has a phoenix wood on his body, they know everything, and thus understand his urgent need for the third-grade foreign fire, the layout to lure himself into, so as to retrieve the ancient phoenix wood.
Thinking of this, he is even more determined inner thoughts, let the bearded cultivator clever tongue, has been shaking his head to refuse.
“Since Senior Brother Lu is adamant about not going, then I won’t force myself.”
In the end, seeing that Lu Xuan would not advance, the bearded cultivator said helplessly.
“Thank you for your kind words, but it’s just that Senior Brother I did spend too much effort on Spirit Plants and deserted my cultivation, so I don’t want to drag Senior Brother behind.”
Lu Xuan’s words changed.
“However, if Senior Brother Fan obtains that Third Grade Exotic Fire from the Secret Realm, he can transfer it to me, and I will pay a slightly higher price than usual.”
He said with a smile, not forgetting to make an advertisement as he parted.
“…… Good, I will definitely pay more attention for you, Senior Brother Lu.”
The bearded cultivator was momentarily speechless and did not stay longer, bidding farewell and leaving.
Lu Xuan also just casually mentioned it, not placing all his hopes of obtaining the Third Grade Exotic Flame on this inexplicably over inviting Senior Brother Fan.
He opened the formation and came to the foot of the mountain, his spiritual energy stimulated a small magic weapon sent by the Beast Control Hall, and soon, a tall spirit crane flew in from the distance.
When the spirit crane saw Lu Xuan from afar, it immediately let out a joyful chirp and instantly sped up a few points, landing in front of Lu Xuan in two or three breaths.
Lu Xuan’s silhouette had always been in the hearts of the entire spirit crane community, and even after a long time, he still had the qualification of a free ride on a spirit crane.
Lu Xuan touched the white plume on the crane’s head, took out a red spirit fruit and stuffed it into the crane’s mouth.
Then, he jumped onto the back of the Spiritual Crane.
“Concubine Hall.”
The wide hall of the Hall of Concubine Affairs, no matter what time of the day it was, there were many outer sect disciples gathering here to issue and receive various types of tasks.
“This fellow Daoist, I would like to set up a task.”
Lu Xuan turned into the inner hall of the Concourse Hall and said towards a middle-aged steward.
“Good day, Senior Uncle.”
The steward, who was at the ninth level of Qi Practicing cultivation, looked up at Lu Xuan, and seeing the special inner disciple vestments he was wearing, a hint of panic flashed in his eyes, and he bowed his head and said respectfully.
In his heart, he was surprised at the youthfulness of Lu Xuan’s face.
“I don’t know what kind of task Senior Uncle wants to set up?”
He quickly adjusted and with a warm smile on his face, he asked Lu Xuan.
“The task is to collect foreign flames of third grade and above, and for the reward, at least a hundred sword seals, depending on the flame grade as well as the number.”
“Third grade and above foreign flames …… Forgive my senior nephew for speaking frankly, senior uncle this task condition is a bit high, it may be difficult for an outer disciple to complete it.”
“Oh? How?”
“First of all, third grade foreign flames are not common like third grade demonic beasts, these types of heavenly materials have complex breeding conditions and are extremely difficult to find.”
“Secondly, the ones who receive the quests are mainly outer disciples, and the possibility of them at the Qi Practicing Stage obtaining a Third Grade Exotic Flame is slim to none.
As for inner disciples, they usually don’t worry about spirit stones and sword seals, so there are very few inner disciples who come over to the Concourse Hall to receive quests.”
The middle-aged steward explained to Lu Xuan in detail.
Lu Xuan nodded and hesitated for a moment, saying. “It’s better to hang on to this quest for now, maybe we’ll come across a fellow disciple who can complete it.”
Since he only needed to spend three spirit stones to hang on the light screen for a while anyway, Lu Xuan finally chose to release this quest.
He came out of the inner hall and glanced at the hall’s light screen as he passed by.
The types of quests on the light screen remained unchanged, mainly focusing on exploring secret realms, tracking down and killing evil spirits, with occasional content on weapon refining and alchemy, while those related to spiritual plants and beasts were quite rare.
Occasionally, there was one that popped up, and only a few outer disciples had some interest in it.
When he saw this familiar scene, the corner of his mouth couldn’t help but rise, recalling his previous experience of sweeping through the various Spiritual Plants and Spiritual Beasts type quests on the light screen.
It was also from this that he had acquired a large number of spirit seeds, cultivation resources, and met many powerful cultivators, laying the foundation for breaking through to the Foundation Establishment realm.
“It’s a pity that now that I’ve become an inner disciple, it’s not good to go and grab quests from those outer disciple nephews, or else I’ll have to make them recall the fear of being dominated on the Spirit Plants and Spirit Beasts.”
Between his feelings, he left the Concubine Hall without a sound.
High above the sky, the blazing wind rattled, Lu Xuan sat peacefully on the back of the Spirit Crane, pondering in his mind how to obtain the Third Grade Exotic Fire.
“The way through issuing quests is indeed a bit slim, perhaps we can get the foreign fire by exchanging treasures.”
“As for personally going out and exploring the secret realm to obtain it?”
“This life will not explore the secret realm, with people fighting and will not fight, can only plant all kinds of spiritual plants, maintain the appearance of cultivation.”
After making his choice, Lu Xuan returned to his cave, keeping an eye on the recent treasure exchange mini-meetings amongst the inner disciples.
Time flew by, and half a month passed in the blink of an eye.
As usual, he toured the spirit field, inspecting the growth status of each and every spirit plant.
Under the fine cultivation, all the spirit plants grew extremely well.
Coming to the outside of the Earth Fire Tributary, he walked to the Second Grade Flame Fruit Tree.
Between the light red leaves, there were more than a dozen Flame Fruits looming, half hidden.
Looking from below, they looked like clusters of burning flames, emitting an amazing fire spirit aura.
“Hey, hey, it’s finally matured.”
Lu Xuan inspected them one by one and realized that the progress bar underneath one of the Flame Fruits had been completely drawn out.
A thin layer of flame surged out from his palm as his body floated up and carefully plucked that Flame Fruit.
“Superior quality, not bad, the inner sect’s spirit plant growing environment is far superior to the outer sect, planting second grade spirit plants can easily result in high quality spirit fruits and plants.”
The Flame Fruit was soft to the touch, and with a gentle pinch, the shape of the fruit flesh then changed, and when held in the hand, it seemed like a flowing flame.
Lu Xuan quickly learned the details of the Spirit Fruit under the condensation of his mind.
[Flame Fruit, second grade spirit fruit, contains rich fire spirit power, excellent taste, after eating can enhance the spirit power of the cultivator’s body, can also be used as a material for refining some spirit wine spirit brew].
He digested the information that appeared in his mind and reached out to gently touch the white ball of light that appeared at the location of the Flame Fruit.
The light mass transformed into countless tiny points of light that instantly surged into Lu Xuan’s body.
[Harvested Second Grade Flame Fruit, obtained Third Grade Exotic Flame Red Lotus Flame].
“Just dozed off and a pillow was sent over?”
Lu Xuan’s heart was filled with surprise as he scrutinized a strange flame that appeared in his hand.
Flame level distinct, like a quietly burning lotus, the outermost lotus petal flame was bright yellow, gradually deeper, it changed into a fiery red, occupying most of the area of the lotus flame, layer by layer wrapped around the center of a pure white flame.
(End of chapter)