Chapter 297 – Phaseless Algae
Chapter 297 – Phaseless Algae
The outskirts of Empty Underworld Island.
Lu Xuan stood straight on a huge rock, looking down at the waters below.
Song Yu, as well as two Song Clan cultivators who looked like they had been through the elements, stood behind him, their expressions tense.
As far as his eyes could see, a nearly half a zhang long Empyrean Spirit Fish suddenly shot out of the water and crashed into a huge reef in front of him.
Lu Xuan frowned slightly as a humongous Spiritual Pressure was generated, directly stopping the Empty Underworld Spirit Fish that wanted to harm itself.
With a movement of his mind, the Empty Underworld Spirit Fish slowly floated in front of him, fluttering its tail uneasily in mid-air.
The Spirit Fish was covered in crystalline light and looked extremely beautiful.
Lu Xuan did not say a word, a Evil Expelling Talisman quietly appeared in his hand, holy and pure white light shot out from the talisman and landed on the Spirit Fish under his control.
Until the white light disappeared, there was still no abnormal reaction on the spirit fish.
The Unsullied Jade he hung around his neck likewise indicated that no trace of any evil spirits had been found.
“First of all, we can rule out an evil spirit scourge.”
Lu Xuan secretly thought in his heart.
Immediately afterward, his Spiritual Sense slowly seeped into the Spirit Fish’s body, exploring every piece of flesh, blood, and organs in detail.
There was still nothing to be found.
“Fetch some of the seaweed that feeds the spirit fish.”
Lu Xuan said to the two Song Clan cultivators behind him, who specialized in raising the Empyrean Spirit Fish.
Feeding things without deciding when in trouble was his time-honored skill.
He went over a handful of light blue seaweed from the dark cultivator’s hand and semi-obligatorily stuffed it into the Spirit Fish’s mouth.
His mind coalesced on the surface of the Empyrean Spirit Fish’s body, and a message instantly flashed through his mind.
[Empty Underworld Spirit Fish, second-grade demonic beast, extremely fast, extremely tasty meat, which contains a wealth of spiritual energy, popular with cultivators].
[Due to the phaseless algae parasitized in its body, the spirit fish is in a berserk state.]
“Sure enough, it’s hiding something! But what is the Phaseless Algae?”
Lu Xuan’s expression perked up and turned doubtful.
He had searched the Empyrean Spirit Fish in detail earlier, but he hadn’t seen anything that might be related to the Phase-less Algae.
“Then there’s only one possibility, this so-called Phaseless Algae has an extremely strong concealment ability, and can even hide from the probing of Pre Foundation Establishment cultivators.”
Lu Xuan had no doubts about the information that appeared in his mind, and was even more convinced that it was only because he was unable to find the Phase-less Algae.
“How should I find out?”
He thought darkly, and was about to place the Empyrean Spirit Fish back into the waters when his movements suddenly stopped.
“It can’t be found out on the shore in a short period of time, so back in the waters, back in the familiar surroundings of that Phase-less Algae, it will only be more difficult to find it out.”
A flash of realization flashed through Lu Xuan’s mind.
“At the present moment, we should place that Phase-less Algae in an environment it is unfamiliar with, and see if we can use it as a breakthrough to discover it by changing its living environment.”
Thinking of this, Lu Xuan’s originally outstretched spiritual energy retracted back, fixing the Empyrean Spirit Fish in the air.
With the blazing sun in the sky, the Empty Underworld Spirit Fish felt extremely uncomfortable under the scorching daylight.
“I’m going to experiment with this Spirit Fish.”
Lu Xuan directly ordered, his tone brooking no opposition.
As soon as the words fell, a crimson longsword appeared in his hand, the longsword shook slightly, the crimson patterns on the sword changed quietly, and a scorching flame flew out from both sides of the Crimson Flame Sword. Under Lu Xuan’s spiritual power control, the crimson flames drifted below the Empyrean Spirit Fish, arranging themselves into combinations and continuously baking the belly of the Spirit Fish.
“Hidden inside this spirit fish, I wonder if you’re ready to die with it.”
Under the continuous barbecuing of the hot flames on the spirit fish’s abdomen, a charred odor had already drifted out, and its crystalline body became charred and black.
Right at this moment, Lu Xuan saw a layer of transparent liquid suddenly seeping out from around the Empyrean Spirit Fish’s body, the liquid continuously flowing and finally fusing together, transforming into a mass of water droplets.
The water droplet was transparent in color, and if it wasn’t on the shore, it would have been almost impossible to be detected.
“Finally figured you out.”
Lu Xuan was as relieved as he could be, and a hair-thin green wood source Qi surged out from his fingertips.
Since the Phase-less Algae belonged to the Spiritual Plants, the Greenwood Source Qi, which was condensed from the life essence of the Green Xuan Deer and contained the purest grass and wood aura in the heavens and the earth, could be raised to cultivate it.
As expected, the fine green wood source qi was absorbed by the transparent water bead.
As his mind condensed on the water droplet, a thought surfaced from his mind.
[Phaseless Algae, second grade spiritual plant, originating from the ten thousand fathoms deep sea, invisible and colorless, extremely strong concealment ability, parasitic on sea fish and sea beasts, gradually fused with them, after maturity can be used to refine spells and talismans with concealment properties].
It is extremely difficult to survive in the scorching environment.]
When I entered your body and became one with you, you didn’t even feel it.
“So it’s such a strange spirit plant.”
The crimson flame in Lu Xuan’s hand increased in strength, all of a sudden erupting with scorching heat, a large group of transparent water beads kept changing, getting smaller and smaller in size.
In the end, only a transparent thin skin remained, held in his hands and constantly swimming.
“Uncle Lu, is this the thing that’s acting up, causing the Empyrean Spirit Fish to react abnormally, even going so far as to mutilate itself?”
Song Yu, who was on the side, asked out loud, and the other two cultivators who kept the Spirit Fish also had curious expressions on their faces.
“That’s right, this thing is called Phase-less Algae, a special spirit plant, formless and colorless, with an extremely strong concealment ability, and it is extremely difficult to detect when parasitized in the body of a spirit fish.”
Lu Xuan nodded and explained.
“I see, no wonder I couldn’t find it after thinking of so many methods, when placed in water it’s just a mass of water droplets, and when fused with the spirit fish, it’s difficult to distinguish it.”
“Even if the spirit fish notices the physical abnormality and wants to avoid the risk in various ways, it can’t find a solution.”
“This time, thanks to Uncle Arigato, we found the root cause of the spirit fish’s abnormality.”
Song Yu exhaled deeply, his heart palpitating.
If anything went wrong with these Empyrean Spirit Fish, resulting in a huge loss, then he would have no value to speak of within the Heavenly Sword Sect.
“However, why did this peculiar spirit plant appear in the waters where the Empyrean Spirit Fish are kept? No traces of it have been found for many years before.”
A dark cultivator behind him asked suspiciously.
Lu Xuan grasped the transparent thin skin that kept flowing in his hand, and a hint of unknown meaning flashed in his eyes.
“This Phaseless Algae usually grows in ten thousand fathoms deep sea, and this body of water where the Spirit Fish are kept is in the offshore zone, so what attracted these Spirit Plants to travel a long distance, not far, all the way to this place?”
Lu Xuan secretly thought in his heart.
“Even if it appeared that there were sea beasts that came over here with Phase-less Algae Spirit Seeds, it would not be possible to cause a large number of Spirit Fish to appear abnormal in a short period of time.”
“Then, there’s only one possibility, someone purposely scattered a large number of Phaseless Algae Spirit Seeds or plant seedlings in these waters.”
“It looks like the main goal is to remove a large number of Empyrean Spirit Fish, and at the same time occupy these waters with Phaseless Algae to change the living environment of the Empyrean Spirit Fish and disperse them.”
“Of course, one can’t rule out the possibility of this ploy in order to individually cause the Song Family to suffer great losses.”
(End of chapter)