Chapter 371 – Empty Cultivation
Chapter 371 – Empty Cultivation
Of course, one couldn’t ignore the several evil spirit plants in the small courtyard of Sword Gate Town.
The Fourth Grade Blood Spirit Palm Ginseng, the Fifth Grade Blood Sinister Flower, the Different Longevity Peach, the Sacred Infant Fruit, and the Fourth Grade Filthy Insect Grass that hadn’t yet had time to be planted, all of the plants were fine.
In addition, there were also the numerous spirit beasts in the cave, due to the fact that the growth cycle was much longer than that of the spirit plants, the difficulty of obtaining the rewards of the light cluster was therefore much higher, however, once their strength and grade were raised, they would be able to obtain good rewards.
“The world knows that cultivation is good, only I am willing to indulge in farming.”
Lu Xuan thought secretly in his heart, and the various magic weapon treasures in his Taotou Insect Sac, the sword techniques he had mastered, and the strong physical body he had cultivated made him even more determined to walk on the path of spiritual plants.
For the next year or so, he basically stayed in his cave, occasionally going to Sword Gate Town to cultivate the several kinds of Netherworld Spiritual Plants in there and buy some daily needs.
Most of his time was spent on cultivating spirit plants and raising spirit beasts, while the rest of his time was spent on cultivation.
Due to the fact that he saved a lot of effort in cultivating techniques and absorbing spiritual qi, as well as having the Sword Grass Light Cluster to provide experience packs for the corresponding sword techniques, when he was cultivating, his energy was mainly focused on the “Delusion Breaking Pupil Technique” and observing the “Pure Yang True Flame Talisman”.
The Void Nightmare Eye obtained from the Fourth Grade Hundred Pupil Guilewood Light Group, as he continued to cultivate it, his control over it became more and more pure and skillful, and he was already able to freely travel through more than ten miles of void centered around Lu Xuan.
Following this progress, Lu Xuan estimated that after a while, he might be able to place it directly in the Sword Gate Town while he sat in the sect, and through the Void Nightmare Eyes, he would be able to detect that fifth grade Holy Infant Fruit Strain in the reverse direction.
“The Waterfly Grass already has fully matured ones.”
Lu Xuan lamented in his heart as he stood in the Spirit Field Rouge, his sight sweeping over a large expanse of azure blue leaves.
Since he was able to open the Third Grade Nascent Soul Grass Bead from the Hidden Yuan Grass, there was no longer a need to be as meticulous as before when using the Cyanwood Source Qi in his dantian.
Coupled with the fact that the Water Glow Grass was only a Second Grade Spirit Plant, and even if it was fully ripened, it wouldn’t consume much Cyanwood Source Qi, Lu Xuan simply set aside one hundred and fifty Water Glow Grasses, disregarding the ones that were fully ripened, and directly ripening those that were still a bit short of being ripened with Cyanwood Source Qi.
The remaining fifty plants were used to condense the Spirit Seed.
“The ground is full of white light clusters ah ……”
After picking all of the mature Water Glow Grass, more than one hundred and fifty white light clusters appeared on the ground, floating on the Spirit Soil and flickering slightly, giving Lu Xuan a dazzling feeling.
His figure was like a floating light as he swept past all the light clusters.
A thought surfaced in his mind.
[Harvested one second-grade Waterfly Grass, gained one year of cultivation.]
[Harvesting a second-grade Water Glow Grass plant, obtaining a second-grade Impregnating Spirit Pill formula.]
[Harvest ……]
……
Various rewards either appeared directly in his hands or turned into experience packets and poured into his sea of consciousness.
There was cultivation, the Spirit-containing Pill, the Spirit-containing Pill formula, the third-grade Water Dragon Talisman, and the third-grade Water Walking Bead ……
Of the more than one hundred and fifty light clusters, there were more than twenty that contained cultivation rewards, giving Lu Xuan nearly thirty years of cultivation rewards.
The surging spiritual energy appeared directly in his dantian and meridians, and after refining it, the aura transformed into spiritual liquid, making the dantian much fuller.
“Another step closer to breaking through to the late stage of Foundation Establishment.”
“It’s a pity that one’s own qualifications are really mediocre, thirty years of cultivation placed on other cultivation geniuses in the sect might only take a few years to cultivate.”
“Well …… said as if it took me a long time ……”
Lu Xuan secretly spat out, gaining so much cultivation at once had taken him less than two and a half years, not to mention, the Water Glow Grass made up an extremely small percentage of the Cave Spiritual Plants.
“More than ten years have passed since I was just promoted to Inner Sect Disciple.”
“It’s quite difficult to properly reveal one’s cultivation in the middle stage of Foundation Establishment, and it’s not easy to keep converging my aura all the time, if it wasn’t for the fact that I’ve always been a deep dweller and haven’t encountered any JieDan elders, it would have been difficult to keep concealing it all the time.” “More than a decade of breaking through from the pre Foundation Establishment stage to the mid Foundation Establishment stage, the reason for the previous preparation barely makes sense.”
Lu Xuan thought in his heart as his body’s aura continued to pull up, just like he had become a mid Foundation Establishment cultivator.
After obtaining a large wave of cultivation rewards, he was invited by Yang Qingfeng, whom he had befriended many years ago, to go to the island to give a medical checkup to the Ink Scale Jiao and other Jiao Dragons that he had bred.
After giving a few checkups to the outer disciples, Lu Xuan’s reputation in the area of Thousand Dragon Lake was thoroughly established, and one after another, the inner disciples came over to invite him to have their blood drawn for a checkup.
The scaly dragons bred by these inner disciples were predominantly of the third and fourth grade, and to be able to thus whittle down the essence blood of higher grade scaly dragons, Lu Xuan naturally gladly accepted.
When he arrived at the island, Yang Qingfeng greeted him from afar.
“Senior Brother Lu, long time no see, how are you coming in?”
As soon as Lu Xuan landed on the island, the middle-aged Confucian scholar flew over and greeted him warmly.
“Thanks to Senior Brother Yang’s thoughts, everything is fine.”
Lu Xuan said with a smile, when he was still just an outer disciple, he had helped Yang Qingfeng solve the problem of his hybrid Ink Scale Jiao’s lack of appetite.
Yang Qingfeng returned the favor and later introduced him to Ge Park after solving the Yin Yang Kun Fish’s reproduction problem, thus allowing Lu Xuan the opportunity to enter the Lang Yue Blessed Land.
The two of them had a pretty good friendship.
“This time, I still have to work hard for Senior Brother to help me draw blood from those Jiao Long pups for a checkup to see if there are any weird things lurking in their bodies.”
Although Yang Qingfeng already had decades of experience in raising Jiao dragons, he was also aware that he was not like Lu Xuan, who had the skill of being able to find out all sorts of hidden existences in the Jiao dragons’ bodies, and thus he purposely invited Lu Xuan to come over and give the Jiao dragon chiropterans a physical examination.
“No hard work no hard work.”
Lu Xuan smiled and shook his head as his words changed.
“I don’t know what’s the current situation of that special Ink Scale Jiao in Senior Brother’s hands?”
“After Senior Brother Lu helped solve its dietary problems, it’s growing at quite a good rate and already has the strength of a fourth grade demonic beast.”
Yang Qingfeng said haughtily, a hint of hidden complacency in his eyes.
“I’ve recently realized something in my heart, and I’m preparing to impact the late stage of Foundation Establishment.”
“Congratulations, Senior Brother Yang, breaking through to the late stage of Foundation Establishment, coupled with that Ink Scale Jiao as a great help on the cultivation journey, the JieDan is expected.”
Lu Xuan sincerely congratulated the middle-aged Confucian.
“Hahaha! It’s still a long way off! Breaking through to the JieDan realm is just too remote.”
Yang Qingfeng laughed out loud as his spiritual sense inadvertently swept over Lu Xuan, his movements lurching.
“Huh? Senior Brother Lu, you’ve broken through to the middle stage of Foundation Establishment?”
He was a little unconvinced of his perception, and unable to care about any etiquette, he probed Lu Xuan’s internal spiritual energy in detail, and then asked in disbelief.
He remembered that when he first met Lu Xuan more than ten years ago, the other party was still just an outer disciple at the Qi Practicing realm, and he himself was already at the middle stage of Foundation Establishment cultivation back then.
But now, his own cultivation hadn’t changed, but Lu Xuan had broken through to the middle stage of Foundation Establishment without a word!
“I had an occasional feeling a while ago, and I was lucky enough to break through to the middle stage of Foundation Establishment.”
“However, my cultivation was all obtained by trickery, empty of cultivation and nothing else.”
Lu Xuan said with a bitter smile.
(End of Chapter)