Chapter 38 – Spirit Seeds Like Smoke and Mist
Chapter 38 – Spirit Seed Like Smoke and Mist
The guards in the marketplace reacted quickly, and as the blood-red tentacles raged around, a handful of green seeds shot out like sharp arrows and landed around the tentacles.
Instantly, a thick vine emerged from the ground, growing and extending at a rapid pace, constantly splitting and tightly wrapping around the blood red tentacle.
The blood red tentacle struggled hard, wrestling with the thick vines.
High in the air, a clear chirp sounded.
Lu Xuan sniffed and looked, only to see a huge fire bird floating in the air, its wings spreading out to four or five feet, forming all sorts of heat waves as it gently flapped.
Immediately, it transformed into a red light that surged and shot towards the alienated cultivator who had split his many tentacles.
Wherever it passed through, the ground was scorched with black charcoal.
“Ah ……”
The alienated cultivator whose body was occupied by the tentacles let out a wail of pain and turned into black ash in the sea of roaring fire.
The flames leapt all the way up along the roots of the tentacles, fiercely scorching the blood-red tentacles that spread everywhere.
On the ground, there were broken tentacles writhing everywhere, seemingly wanting to invade inside the bodies of other cultivators again.
Unfortunately, the flames killed too much, and all the tentacles were burned to the ground.
Immediately after, another pure white aura centered on the alienated cultivator’s remains and stirred in all directions.
Lu Xuan as well as the other cultivators in the distance were swept by the aura and could not help but feel a sense of peace and tranquility.
“I can only say that this cultivator’s alienation wasn’t at the right time, and it just so happens that there are a few cultivators of the middle level of Qi Practitioner patrolling and guarding the area, or else, with so many loose cultivators in the bazaar, it’s highly likely that he’ll cause a great deal of commotion.”
Lu Xuan looked at the several Qi Practicing Middle Stage cultivators who had appeared around the alienated cultivator’s wreckage, a few of them had just been checking if there was any evil spirit power remaining, and in the blink of an eye, they were combining their efforts to personally resolve a cultivator contaminated by an evil spirit.
The solution is simple and effective, the vines confine the action of the tentacles for a short period of time to avoid causing more casualties and at the same time, they also leave their companions a short period of time to perform powerful spells, the firebird burns the alienated cultivator cleanly, and then uses purification spells to detect the remains of the cultivator as well as the surrounding scattered cultivators.
“Worthy of being the guards in the workshop, they cooperate with each other very smoothly and naturally.”
Lu Xuan thought to himself, if he were to run into this alienated cultivator alone, with the Gengjin Sword Technique at the Grand Completion Realm, the First Grade Special Spell Weapon Splitting Silver Blade, and the Second Grade Talisman Sword Qi Ten Thousand Talismans equivalent to the full force of a high-level cultivator practicing qi, as well as the newly acquired Thunder Flame Bead, he shouldn’t have any problem in taking care of the alienated cultivator.
It just couldn’t be done as cleanly as this.
“It seems like I still need to work hard on growing spiritual plants and add as many means as possible to myself.”
He secretly decided in his heart.
From the cultivator’s alienation to its successful resolution, the entire process was extremely short, and after a short period of chaos in the scattered cultivator bazaar, order was restored, as if the alienated cultivator had never appeared.
However, the large area of scorched blackness left in place, as well as the three cultivators who had been attacked and killed by the tentacles reminded the people present of everything that had just happened.
Among the three, there was naturally the cultivator who had used the Earth Wall Technique to block Lu Xuan, who had been unable to move after Lu Xuan had pierced through his calf with the Gengjin Sword Technique, and died from the blood-red tentacles.
Lu Xuan had no pity for this, he was to blame for everything, if he had not tried to block the tentacles with himself, he would not have struck out at will.
After this small fiasco in the bazaar, Lu Xuan had no more thoughts of loitering, choosing a path at random and rushing to the Hundred Herb Hall.
The Hundred Herb Hall was not far from the Scattered Cultivator Bazaar, turning a few intersections one could see the store.
“Eh?”
Suddenly, Lu Xuan stopped in his tracks, his eyes drawn to a wooden board on a nearby stall.
There were eight black characters written on the wooden board.
“Special Spirit Seed, sold at a low price.”
Lu Xuan swept through the goods on the stall and didn’t find anything involving Spirit Seeds.
“May I ask you, fellow Daoist, what is the special spirit seed you are talking about on this wooden board? Could you give me a look?”
“Here, that’s it.” The stall owner, an ordinary middle-aged cultivator at the fourth level of Qi Practicing, heard Lu Xuan’s inquiry and pointed to an item on the stall.
The object was oval in shape, pale white in color, and would be overlooked if one was not paying attention to it, there were wisps of smoke inside, the form constantly changing and diffusing into all sorts of strange and bizarre things.
“This is a spirit seed? Fellow Daoist won’t lie to me, right?”
Lu Xuan asked curiously, such a thing that was like smoke constantly changing made it hard for him to associate it with a Spirit Seed.
“I won’t lie to you, Fellow Daoist, I can’t say whether it’s a Spirit Seed or not.”
“After I came back, I went to a few of my Spiritual Planter buddies and showed them this thing, and they couldn’t recognize whether it was a Spirit Seed or not.”
“However, when I got it at that time, I found it in a withered Spirit Plant, it is possible that the Spirit Plant had entered the maturity stage, and no one had picked it, and the essence of the whole body had condensed out such a Spirit Seed.”
“This is true, if you, Fellow Daoist, are sincere in wanting to buy it, I can make an oath for what I just said.”
Lu Xuan rubbed his chin and fell into deep thought.
After the stall owner said that he could make an oath, he believed it three times in his heart, there were many kinds of oaths between cultivators, of which if any were broken, there would even be a risk of death and destruction of the Dao.
Spirit seed condensation of that kind of way, but not unexpected, after the maturity of the wild spirit plant, some will continue to grow, the year increases, some will naturally wither, some will coincidentally condense into the spirit seed, in another way to continue.
Although I don’t know what this thing in front of me is, but look at it this kind of magical form, it is likely to be a scarce and rare spiritual seed.
“If you can really make a Heart Demon Vow, I would be a little interested, I wonder how much you are asking for?”
Lu Xuan asked the stall owner.
“This Spirit Seed is something that I have spent a lot of effort to get from a new secret realm, if Your Excellency wants it, fifteen Spirit Stones will be fine to take it.”
When the stall owner saw that Lu Xuan was really interested, a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes.
It was true that this thing on the stall could be a Spirit Seed, however, he had only had a few inquiries after a few days in the bazaar and had been scared away by the price one after another.
After all, fifteen Spirit Stones to buy a Spirit Seed of unknown category and unknown cultivation method was a bit too expensive.
Lu Xuan’s delicate mind captured the change in the stall owner’s expression and let out a soft sigh.
“Fellow Daoist, your price is too harsh, isn’t it? A thing that is still not sure if it is a Spirit Seed, to offer a price that is far higher than that of a First Grade Spirit Seed, fifteen Spirit Stones, I could have gone and bought three or four First Grade Spirit Seeds.”
He kept shaking his head as if he was dissatisfied with the price several times.
“Then you name a number, fellow Daoist.”
“Seven spirit stones, I’ll take it right away, this price is already much higher than an ordinary first grade spirit seed.”
Lu Xuan slashed a large portion of the price at once.
“No, at least ten spirit stones, you look at it in this form, it’s likely to be a second grade or even higher spirit seed.”
The stall owner argued with a reddened face.
“Even if it’s a second grade spirit seed, what’s the use of not being able to plant it? Could it be kept and stowed away in a storage bag, allowing its vitality to continuously pass away?”
Lu Xuan retorted.
“Let’s do it this way, I’ll take a loss, eight spirit stones, that’s all I have on me in total, any more than that is out of the question.”
“Add another fifty shattered Spirits, and it will go to you, Fellow Daoist.”
The stall owner gritted his teeth and said.
“Deal!”
Lu Xuan agreed with alacrity.
(End of Chapter)