Chapter 52: Bathing in Blood
Chapter 52 – Bathing in Blood
After exchanging the Second Grade Flame Leaving Sword from the female cultivator for a Third Grade Jiao Vine, Lu Xuan continued to wander around the black market.
After searching around and not finding any more similar unknown spirit species, he found himself an empty seat and hung up the First Grade Flying Sword he had gotten from Qin Ming.
In the end, it was successfully sold at a price of thirty-five spirit stones.
Not finding any particularly satisfying protective formations in the black market, and the few feats he saw were not of a very high grade, Lu Xuan had no choice but to give up.
After weighing the comparisons, he spent thirty-two Spirit Stones to buy a First Grade Shield, which was called the Iron Scale Shield, with tightly packed ebony scales on the outside, and a protection that was not bad for a First Grade Artifact.
In the black market, the largest quantity of strange materials of demonic beasts and mature spiritual plants, followed by talismans and pills, which Lu Xuan was not very interested in, so he used his spiritual power to activate the Guiding Talisman, following the guidance of the black arrow, and stepped out of the black fog that was so thick that it was as if it were substantial.
As soon as he came out, the cultivator guarding the entrance and exit withdrew the path-guiding talisman.
Lu Xuan stayed alert, looked around, and flew away from the black market’s periphery.
Along the way, there were no accidents, and no one in the black market had set their eyes on him, a small Qi Practicing cultivator whose cultivation and wealth looked extremely ordinary.
More than half an hour later, he returned outside the courtyard.
The formation was still functioning well, without any traces of being touched and intruded upon.
Lu Xuan was slightly relieved, knowing that the spirit field behind the courtyard at the moment had numerous rare spirit plants.
The first-grade Blood Jade Ginseng, Pure Snow Lotus, Red Cloud Pine, second-grade Sword Grass, Dark Pith Ganoderma Lucidum, Clear Miraculous Spirit Tea, and the third-grade Illusory Smoke Fruit …… .
Even if you didn’t count the light cluster rewards they brought when they matured, their value alone was enough to make any Qi Practicing Cultivator risk his or her life.
Opening the courtyard door, the first thing Lu Xuan saw was a black light flashing past his eyes and rushing towards the back of the courtyard.
He was first startled, and in an instant, he could see that the black light figure was none other than the Biyou Treading Clouds Lynx that he had ruthlessly left at home.
“This little fellow, can’t it be that he has been guarding outside the door for my return?”
Lu Xuan circled around to the outside of the courtyard, where the Treading Cloud Lynx cub was lying on the edge of the Spirit Spring Pool, its turquoise eye pupils staring intently at the red-bearded carp swimming slowly inside.
It seemed like it hadn’t noticed that Lu Xuan had returned.
“I’m back!”
Lu Xuan shouted towards the opposite side of the room, and the head of the Grass Puppet Gray Grass that was patrolling rotated one hundred and eighty degrees, its two black, empty eye sockets glancing in the direction from which the sound came, and its footsteps continued patrolling without pause.
The Treading Cloud Lynx ignored it and continued to stare at the red bearded carp in the Spirit Spring Pond.
Lu Xuan’s sharp eyes noticed that the tufts of gray and white hairs on its two ears were gently twitching, exposing the joyful leap in its heart.
Lu Xuan went straight back to the house.
Only then did the Cloud Treading Lynx turn its head and looked at Lu Xuan’s back.
The hairs on the tips of its ears flicked, sensing Lu Xuan’s ever-approaching footsteps, and turned its head again quickly.
There was a snap.
A well-shaped strip of spiny dolphin meat was thrown in front of the lynx.
“Ow~~”
The cloud-treading lynx twisted and clenched and grunted, its white cloud-like paws grabbing the strip of meat and stuffing it into its mouth.
Lu Xuan let out a light laugh and returned to the house.
On this trip to the black market, he disposed of the second-grade Rift Flame Sword that he had just obtained not long ago, as well as the first-grade magic weapon left behind by Qin Ming that had been placed in his storage pouch for a long time, and obtained a third-grade Jiao Vine as well as a first-grade defense magic weapon, the Iron Scale Shield.
Spirit stones were not lost or gained, three spirit stones rented a guide talisman, just offsetting the three spirit stones earned from reselling the flying sword and shield. He took out the piece of auger vine from his storage bag.
The deep black vine was about half a foot long, and it was indeed a bit too short if he wanted to refine a whip-type or rope-type magic weapon.
However, this had little effect on Lu Xuan, who had spent a huge amount of money to buy it mainly to plant and cultivate it.
He took this cut off shaped like a snake python and went to an open space in the spiritual field.
Each spirit plant required a certain amount of space, which made the spirit field, which was more than an acre in size, somewhat inadequate.
Therefore, he currently intends to take the route of precious essence rather than precious quantity, a large number of spiritual plants such as Spirit Glow Grass, Blood Jade Ginseng, etc. have Hundred Herb Hall to provide, and other higher grade, rarer varieties to see if there is a chance to obtain from other channels.
Lu Xuan performed the Earth Drawing Technique, the spiritual soil quietly changed, a small crack appeared.
He inserted the half-foot long Jiao Vine into the crack, leaving about two-thirds of its length outside, and wisps of Spirit Rain drifted down, landing on the deep black dry vine and seeping into the Spirit Soil around it.
The spiritual soil gradually became moist, and the water spirit qi slowly seeped into the vine’s interior through its epidermis.
Lu Xuan’s mind focused on the deep black sinuous vine.
A thought flashed through his mind.
“Jiao Vine, Third Grade Spiritual Plant, when mature, it can be used to breed and raise Jiao Dragon Demonic Beasts, and after special treatment, it can also be used to refine magic weapons such as whips and ropes, or it can act as the main ingredient for certain rare pills.”
“When cultivating the Jiao Vine, nourishing it with the blood of snake-type demonic beasts, and Jiao Long-type demonic beasts can promote its rapid growth, and the higher the grade of the blood in question, the faster the vine grows.”
“I desire blood that contains great power ……”
Lu Xuan instantly understood the cultivation method of the just-planted Jiao Vine through its immediate state.
“It requires the nourishment of a snake-type demonic beast, or a jiao dragon type demonic beast, and generally speaking, after a cultivator hunts a snake-type demonic beast in the outside world, he places more importance on its skin, fangs, venom, etc., and generally pays less attention to the blood.”
“It looks like, but also have to go to the bazaar to find a good, can find the best, can not find words ……”
“Then use spirit stones to commission a cultivator to help himself to obtain the fresh blood of the demon snake.”
Lu Xuan secretly thought.
Let him personally go to the wilderness, inside the secret realm to hunt demonic snakes and obtain fresh snake blood?
That was impossible, he would rather spend a little more spirit stones and hire a cultivator than put down the many rare spirit plants in his spiritual fields and go outside to take risks.
As for the Jiao Long demonic beasts, he didn’t even dare to think about it, even the weakest Jiao Long demonic beasts were at least as strong as a Foundation Establishment Cultivator, Lu Xuan didn’t have any hope of getting Jiao Long blood.
“Plant it in the spirit field for now, and wait until we find snake demonic beast blood to properly cultivate it.”
“For now, using the Spirit Rain Technique as well as the Wood Born Technique and the like will still be able to maintain its vitality, it’s just that if it stays like this, the growth will be extremely slow and it’s not a long term solution.”
After Lu Xuan planted the Jiao Vine in the spirit field, he inspected the many spirit plants in the spirit field.
“The third grade spirit plants are really more troublesome ah, the first and second grades only have requirements for the growing environment and special spiritual energy, the third grade ones seem to have their own personalities.”
“The two third-grade spiritual plants in the spiritual field, the Phantom Smoke Luo Fruit seems to be a mischievous ghost, arranging the site by itself, and then letting people go to look for it, and if they can’t find it, it’s not good to cultivate it.”
“This auger vine is even more demanding, a vine also needs to be bathed in snake blood or even auger dragon blood, really have auger dragon blood I might as well use it on myself!”
Lu Xuan couldn’t help but sigh as he looked at the growing misty mass generated by the Illusory Smoke Luo Fruit in front of him.
(End of chapter)