Chapter 392 – A Thousand Gnarled Hands
Chapter 392 – A Thousand Gnarled Hands
Lu Xuan ignored the greenish-black arm branches that danced recklessly, and with a thought, the clouds above the strange spirit plant condensed, and silk spirit rain drifted down.
With his conjecture, these arm-like greenish-black spirit plants including the Arrow Vine, Flowing Firewood and other spirit plants that were extremely aggressive after the mutation in front of them had similarities with the Demon Ghost Vine, becoming a special existence of a half-spirit plant and half-demon beast.
Thus, it was very likely that one would be able to obtain detailed information about them by simply feeding them a little something.
After failing to obtain it, he would then consider using the Ground Leader Technique of the Sovereign Realm to turn out the spirit plants and plant them.
Wisps of spirit rain fell, and after the greenish-black branches sensed that they were not threatening to him, he allowed them to sprinkle on the plants.
Seeing this, Lu Xuan’s mind condensed on the green-black spirit plant and a message emerged from his mind.
[Unknown Spirit Plant, Third Grade Thousand Gnarled Hands Spirit Plant mutated under the influence of powerful flesh and blood spirit power].
[Thousand Gnarled Hands, a swarming spirit plant, shaped like an arm, prefers to grow in a spirit soil environment where a large number of demonic beasts’ limbs, claws and teeth, and cultivators’ arms are piled up, with a certain degree of aggressiveness, and after maturity, it is an excellent material for cultivating certain special evil arts.]
Under the influence of powerful flesh and blood power, many Thousand Gnarled Hands Spirit Plants undergo unknown changes, and share the same mind with each other, and can instantly gather and utilize the power of their surrounding kind to condense into a formation, and combine their efforts against the enemy, and when the number of Spirit Plants is sufficiently large, they have the strength of close to the Fifth Grade.
Under the extremely cold spiritual environment, the branches and joints of the spiritual plants will become sluggish and stagnant, greatly affecting the speed and flexibility of the spiritual plants.
“Thousand Gnarled Hands Spirit Plant …… Looking at this description, it should also belong to the netherworld spirit plant type.”
“I didn’t expect a large number of Mutant Thousand Gnarled Hands to gather together, but they actually have a hidden tendency to form a spirit plant formation.”
Lu Xuan secretly lamented in his heart.
“Senior Brother Lu, have you found anything?”
Although he didn’t know why Lu Xuan had laid down a Spirit Rain Technique that dealt close to no damage, but upholding the idea that there were specialties in the art, Fire Liner asked in a small voice, with a few moments of hope in her tone.
“There’s a sense of déjà vu, as if I’ve seen it in a certain tome, but I’m not too sure, let me think about it.”
Lu Xuan said in a deep voice, he did not directly state the origin of the strange spirit plant group in front of him, the solution.
If in the blessed land, no matter what spiritual plants he encountered, he could tell its origin, usage and so on, then even if he was good at spiritual plants, he would inevitably have a shocking experience.
After pondering for a while, he decided to provide a suggestion to Fire Liner and the others in the form of a guess.
“Senior Fire Brother, I remember seeing information on similar spiritual plants, these types of spiritual plants share certain characteristics with demonic beasts or cultivators, then their physiological characteristics are also likely to be similar to demonic beasts and cultivators.”
“For example, these strange spirit plants below that are shaped like arms, a section of the arm is connected by those raised bone joints, if extreme cold spiritual power is used to act on the bone joints, is it possible to affect the actions of the spirit plants?”
“Master Lu’s method is quite original.”
“It can be tried.”
The eyes of the Fiery Liner’s few people lit up, judging that Lu Xuan’s proposed method was highly feasible.
Without a word, Jian Wuxia took out three white jade talismans from his storage bag.
The talismans exuded a cold, chilling aura, condensing countless tiny frosts on Jian Wuxia’s white palms.
“Fourth grade talisman.”
Lu Xuan’s expression flinched as he sensed the aura fluctuations coming from the white jade talisman.
The three talismans were inspired by Sword Flawless and flew out in a zigzag pattern at an extremely fast speed, dragging out three trails of frost along the way.
Transparent snowflakes fell from the sky, and a large area below was instantly transformed into a snow-white heaven and earth, and Lu Xuan and the others who were far away in the passageway all subconsciously shivered. “To make three Fourth Grade Ice Talismans in one go, what a masterstroke.”
Lu Xuan secretly tsked, lamenting the abundance of the true disciple’s fortune, blissfully forgetting his lack of concern when he had utilized his sword talisman.
“All the Mutant Spirit Plants are in an icy cold environment, try attacking again.”
A crimson flying sword flew out from Fire Liner’s vestment, transforming into a fiery red auger shadow in the air, instantly arriving in front of a green and black arm spirit plant.
The surrounding green-black branches sensed the dangerous situation of their kind and fought their way over at top speed.
A “click” sound came out.
It was a spirit plant that had exerted too much force, forgetting the effect of the extremely cold spiritual power on itself, twisting its branches and nodes in the process of moving, causing the speed of condensing into one to slow down a little.
“Senior Brother Lu’s method is really effective!”
A hint of joy appeared on Fire Liner’s face, and she immediately transmitted her voice to her fellow disciples who remained in the passageway.
Soon, there were tens of Heavenly Sword Sect cultivators who specialized in ice-based spells or possessed high-grade ice-based spells and talismans who came to the entrance of the passageway, and various extremely cold ice spells were used in turn.
“Eat my Great Wind Dampness Technique!”
In Lu Xuan’s eyes, the area below where the green and black spirit plants were growing had become a world of silver.
The speed of all the Spirit Plant branches and knots became slow with the naked eye, and when they wanted to go and help their nearby counterparts, they were all too intentional to take care of themselves.
In terms of individual strength, the Heavenly Sword Sect cultivators were far stronger than a single Mutant Thousand Gnarled Hands, and after the spirit plants lost that killer weapon of concentricity and unity, they were naturally easily resolved by dozens of Heavenly Sword Sect cultivators.
“This time, thanks to Senior Brother Lu, you came up with a brilliant method that had such a surprising effect.”
After arriving at the other side of the dark red passageway, Fiery Liner said mildly to Lu Xuan at the side.
“I’m just providing a thought, it’s mainly the fellow disciples who cast various powerful ice spells and utilized high-grade magic weapon talismans, as well as the senior brothers and sisters who ended up clearing these mutated spirit plants.”
Lu Xuan said humbly, considering his status as a Spirit Plant Master, when he cleared these Mutant Thousand Gnarled Hands, Flame Liner and the others protected him behind them without letting him consume a single ounce of spiritual energy.
“Senior Brother Lu doesn’t have to be self-effacing, without your profound attainments in Spiritual Plants, it would have been very difficult to think of this method with our experienced eyesight.”
The cold looking Wujie on the side said with a smile, a hint of appreciation and recognition in the vertical pupil of his brow.
“Alright, let’s cut the small talk short, go in and see what’s inside.”
Numerous Heavenly Sword Sect cultivators entered the dark red passage one after another.
Lu Xuan fell behind without making a sound, a finger-thin gray vine drilled out from his pant leg and silently entered the dark red spirit soil.
After entering the depths of the spiritual soil, the Demon Ghost Vine increased in size extremely quickly, dividing into a tentacle-like vine that rushed towards the area where the Thousand Gnarled Hands were growing at a flying speed, leaving behind a trail of gray mucus where the vine had crawled through.
After realizing the special features of the Variant Thousand Gnarled Hand spiritual plant, how could he let go of such a rare and precious spiritual plant species.
Taking advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention, he released the Demon Ghost Vine and went to the area he passed through to see if he could turn up some Variant Thousand Gnarled Hands Spiritual Plants.
“The Arrow Vine is strong in offense, and the Thousand Gnarled Hand is good at defense, both offense and defense is the right way.”
(End of chapter)