Chapter 28: New Neighbors
Chapter 28 New Neighbors
Inside the house.
Lu Xuan sat cross-legged on the wooden bed, running his gong method as his spiritual energy flowed through his body.
After a week, he slowly exhaled a mouthful of turbid breath.
Even though he had been practicing hard for many days and could not match the cultivation reward brought by a single Spirit Glow Grass, Lu Xuan still practiced diligently.
It was just that his energies were mainly focused on caring for and nurturing Spirit Plants and Spirit Beasts, with cultivation techniques and arts coming second.
It had been half a month since he had moved to the new courtyard, and during this time, he had rarely gone out, focusing on cultivating the spirit plants.
Everything in the spirit field appeared to change quite a bit.
The three-tailed red-bearded carp in the spiritual spring had grown about two inches, and the long thin red whiskers were even more than half a foot long, and could instantly stretch to more than half a zhang when they shot fishing worms out of the water.
One hundred Spirit Glow Grass branches and leaves grew much taller, emerald green slender leaves, gradually began to appear a little fluorescence, to late at night, countless fluorescence as if the sky fine stars, faintly flickering.
The Blood Jade Ginseng emerged from the spiritual soil, like freshly extracted jade, crystal clear.
After the Spirit Ginseng grew out, their movement speed instantly accelerated a lot, a little bit of inattention, either mingling together or running to the area where the Spirit Fluorescent Grass was located, causing Lu Xuan to have to keep a watchful eye on it at all times.
Red Cloud Pine quietly grew five tiny pine nuts, hidden in the fine red pine leaves, revealing a sharp corner.
The Swordgrass had grown to the size of a Split Silver Blade and had a greater need for Sword Qi, Lu Xuan had to release a Gengjin Sword Technique to it every hour.
Occasionally, tiny cracks would be seen in the spiritual soil beside him, the result of the sword intent that had escaped from the sword grass.
As for the Dark Marrow Chi, countless dark red mycelium had wrapped the decaying spirit wood tightly, leaving almost no gaps.
“The decayed wood has been almost absorbed by the dark red mycelium, it seems that we have to go and find a few more over here, otherwise, the growth of the Dark Medulla Chi will be affected.”
Lu Xuan muttered to himself.
“Just in time, take this time to go out and stroll around the bazaar to see if I can find any interesting Spirit Beasts, or unknown Spirit Species.”
He stepped out of the courtyard door and squinted somewhat uncomfortably under the bright light.
“Fellow Daoist Lu Xuan, it’s a rare sight to see you finally come out of the courtyard today.”
A voice came from the opposite courtyard.
Lu Xuan heard the voice and looked over, only to see a middle-aged cultivator lying on a wooden chair, seeing Lu Xuan come out, he got up and walked over.
“Friendship of Daoist Wang.”
Lu Xuan greeted.
The middle-aged cultivator named Wang Shan lived next door to Lu Xuan, and he even came to visit the courtyard once after moving over.
Wang Shan had a cultivation level of the fifth level of qi cultivation, and was a small head of the guards in the marketplace, who liked to go to the hookah to relax and unwind in his spare time.
“Fellow Daoist Lu Xuan, staying cooped up at home like this, that’s no good, one day accompany your Uncle Wang to go out and have some fun together, I’ll take you to see the world.”
Wang Shan said flirtatiously towards Lu Xuan.
Lu Xuan duly showed a hint of embarrassment and waved his hand to refuse.
“Thank you, Taoist Wang for your kindness, with my cultivation of practicing qi at a low price, if I enter the hookah, then I won’t be flayed alive and swallowed without any bones left?”
Lu Xuan hadn’t long moved over, controlling the Breath Convergence Method, his cultivation showed the third level of Practicing Qi.
After all, there were quite a few Qi Practicing Middle Stage Cultivators living in this neighborhood, and if he still retained his Qi Practicing Second Stage, he would instead stand out.
At the third level of Qi Practicing, although it was still low, it at least looked normal.
As for the hookah, he wasn’t wrong about that, the female cultivators in there all practiced various charming techniques and knew how to please their customers, but it was very likely that they would be sucked of their spiritual energy and essence blood without even realizing it. What’s more, it’s fine to enter just to listen to the music, if you want to have an in-depth exchange, the spirit stone spent is not a small amount.
“You’re so meaningless, don’t we cultivate to get more power just to enjoy ourselves?”
Wang Shan smacked his lips, his interest was lost.
“It’s naturally good that you, Taoist friend, have a deep cultivation and are able to cope with those demonesses.”
“And I this person, do not like the wind and moon, prefer to be accompanied by spiritual plants and beasts, people have their own aspirations!”
“Also, do not force you. When one day you change your mind, tell me, I’ll take you to see it again, I’ll pay for the spirit stones.”
The two parted ways on this, Wang Shan staggered back to his own yard.
Lu Xuan continued onward, and as he passed by a separate courtyard, a strong aroma of wine came from within.
The owner of the courtyard, Lu Xuan, had also met him before, a fourth level Qi cultivator, who could not live without wine for three meals a day, and had himself developed a knack for brewing spirit wine.
After knowing Lu Xuan’s identity as a spiritual planter, he chased after Lu Xuan and asked if he had planted any spiritual plants that could brew spiritual wine, and Lu Xuan denied it before calling it quits.
When Lu Xuan had just moved into the courtyard, he had attracted the curiosity and prying eyes of some of the surrounding cultivators, but after seeing Lu Xuan’s cultivation at the lower level of Qi cultivation and realizing that he was just an ordinary Spirit Planter, these prying eyes gradually faded away.
The scattered cultivator bazaar was not far from the new courtyard, and in less than a moment, Lu Xuan arrived at the bazaar.
Inside the bazaar, people were coming and going, and from time to time, the shouts of various stall owners could be heard.
“Don’t miss it, all kinds of extremely high quality magic weapons are available, only what you can’t think of, not what you can’t find.”
“Fresh demonic beast meat, just hunted from the wilderness, the blood is not even dry yet, buy a catty or two, worth half a month of cultivation!”
“High-priced recycling of second-hand magic weapons, second-hand formations, remnants of talismans, in addition to the acquisition of a variety of strange treasures, unknown materials.”
Lu Xuan walked slowly through the bazaar, constantly shaking his head from side to side, paying attention to the goods on the stalls.
Most of the stalls were displaying those major cultivation resources of the cultivation world, such as magic weapons, demonic beast materials, spiritual medicines and herbs, talismans and pills, and so on.
Unknown spirit species, spirit beast eggs or hatchlings that Lu Xuan needed were extremely rare, and were occasionally seen only being sold incidentally, almost never being set up exclusively for sale.
Suddenly, he stopped and came to a stall.
The stall owner was a young girl at the second level of Qi cultivation, with an ordinary appearance and healthy oatmeal-colored skin, and when he saw Lu Xuan scanning the goods at his stall, he hurriedly welcomed him.
“This Taoist friend, I have all kinds of demonic bird feathers here, as well as special demonic bird eggs, which contain rich spiritual energy and taste excellent, would you like to have some, Taoist friend?”
Lu Xuan shook his head and pointed at a black cage in the corner of the stall and said.
“How do you sell the young demonic birds in here?”
Inside the cage, there were several colorful young birds with bright, plentiful and dense feathers, revealing only a pair of black and white patterned claws.
“Oh, these several brocade colored chickens ah? This is I pulled out a bird’s nest in a big mountain to get, you can tame and raise them, after maturity, perhaps they can give birth to spirit eggs, if you can’t, you can directly eat them, the meat is delicious.”
The young girl introduced Lu Xuan.
“How long will it take to go into the maturity stage if we keep the Jin Cai Chicken?”
“Two and a half years.”
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(End of chapter)