Chapter 89 – Ghostface Stone Mushroom
Chapter 89 – Ghostface Stone Mushroom
Lu Xuan didn’t want to rush to the forefront, instead he planned to follow the masses and wait for the Spiritual Planters who were the first to touch the Dragon’s Beard Grass to test and understand it before he would join in.
During the discussion, Lu Xuan listened to several Spiritual Planters with their tongues blossoming and various ideas at their fingertips, and he also gained something from touching it, which was an unexpected blessing.
Suddenly, he glimpsed that in the distance, a long, dark red, thin, snake-like whisker suddenly drilled out of a pile of Dragon’s Beard Grass and attacked a nearby Spiritual Plant Master.
With a clang, the long thin snake-like whisker was blocked by a shield artifact, and an ebony flying sword circled around and split it in two.
With the Spirit Plant Master having prepared for it, the Mutant Longbeard Grass’s attack did not cause much damage, and was only a false alarm.
The Spirit Plant Master took this blow and looked at the small pile of dragon beard grasses at his feet with a change, as if each one of them might suddenly attack.
Half an hour passed, from time to time, there were cultivators who were suddenly attacked by the mutated dragon-bearded grass, but fortunately, they were all careful to be on guard, and the mutated dragon-bearded grass’s ability to attack was weakened, so for the time being, there were no casualties.
However, many spiritual planters are still at their wits’ end on how to recognize normal and mutant Long Bearded Grass, without any progress.
“I also don’t know if we can find a way to recognize and separate normal Longbeard Grass.”
On a protruding boulder, Wang Ruhai and Li Jianfeng both had their hands wrapped around their chests, taking in more than a dozen Spiritual Plant Master figures.
“Perhaps.” Jianfeng Li said indifferently.
“The hope is still relatively high, after all, these are already the top batch of Spirit Plant Masters in the Lin Yang Square Market, if they can’t even find them, then there is really no other way.”
“With so many second grade spirit plants, it would be a bit of a shame if they were to go to waste.”
Li Jianfeng gently nodded his head in agreement.
After waiting for a few more moments, seeing that there was no movement, the elegant scribe Wang Ruhai stretched his waist and said with a smile.
“Jianfeng, you guard here, I’ll take a look around and see if I can find a few spirit medicines, and if there are demonic beasts and evil spirits, I’ll clean them up by hand.”
“These Spirit Plant Masters are all at the middle level of Qi Practicing cultivation, and haven’t experienced any life and death trials, so I don’t think they’ll be able to make any waves, it’ll be enough for you to guard here alone.”
Saying that, he harnessed a golden flying sword and flew away.
After listening to the discussion and secretly observing, Lu Xuan finally started practicing and came to the three Dragon Beard Grasses.
Dragon’s Beard Grass picking wasn’t difficult, as long as the Earth Drawing Technique was at the Proficient level it could be picked with relative ease, and the Spiritual Planters present were basically all able to do so.
What was difficult was how to recognize the difference between normal and mutated Long Bearded Grass, as well as separating out the unknowns within the normal Long Bearded Grass.
Without being able to recognize it, picking the mutant Longbeard Grass and placing it together with the normal one would damage the normal spirit plant when a riot attack occurred.
Unable to separate it, that would affect the quality of the dragon beard grass, making it less valuable.
He kept his spiritual energy running, his spiritual sense put to the maximum, carefully observing the three Dragon Beard Grasses in front of him.
From the outside, there was not much difference between the three Dragon Beard Grasses, at most there was a slight difference in length and width.
His Spiritual Sense probed into the interior of the Longbeard Grass and found that there were many long, thin silk whiskers growing inside, gray in color, running through the entire Longbeard Grass.
“Which of these gray and white silk whiskers are normal, and which are mutations?”
Lu Xuan was careful and vigilant as he examined the three Dragon Beard Grasses and did not find any abnormalities.
“I wonder what will happen if I pick it out and plant it?”
An idea popped up in Lu Xuan’s mind as he executed the Earth Drawing Technique, carefully separating the Dragon Beard Grass rhizomes from the soil and picking them.
It was then placed into the crack once again.
“Fellow Daoist Lu, what is your intention here?”
Next to him, He Ping couldn’t help but ask when he saw Lu Xuan’s strange behavior.
“Just want to experiment and confirm a guess in my mind.”
Lu Xuan replied, his mind pooling on the replanted Dragon Beard Grass. Sure enough, a thought surfaced in his mind.
[Dragon’s Beard Grass, Second Grade Spiritual Plant, grows in strange rocky environments, and can be used to concoct healing-type elixirs when mature.]
[During the process of mutation, the silk whiskers within the spirit plant are quietly undergoing some sort of change, when stimulated with fire and ice based spells in turn, the mutated silk whiskers will react slightly.]]
“It takes ice and fire to react ah …… normal normal ……”
As the thought flashed by, Lu Xuan sighed darkly as he was enlightened.
He picked out the remaining piece of Dragon’s Whisker Grass and replanted it into the crack immediately afterward.
A thought surfaced.
[Mutant Longbeard Grass, Second Grade Spiritual Plant, has a certain degree of aggressiveness, specializes in camouflage, and is almost indistinguishable from normal Longbeard Grass.]
“Find a mutated one.”
Lu Xuan held his silver-white short blade in his hand, wary of possible attacks from the newly planted Mutant Longbeard Grass.
“The camouflage is quite good.”
After waiting for a while, the Mutant Dragonbeard Grass was unresponsive and motionless, as if Lu Xuan had misjudged it.
“Then you’ll continue to pretend, and won’t accompany you.”
Lu Xuan walked to the side and squatted in front of a few dragonsbeard grasses, pretending to concentrate on his research.
“So it turns out that as long as you plant a spiritual plant with your own hands, you will be able to perceive its immediate status and detailed information.”
“That’s right, I only rented the two successive spirit fields in the workshop market and didn’t own them, so it’s understandable that I was able to discover the state of the planted dragon’s beard grasses.”
“It’s just that this kind of halfway planted spirit plant shouldn’t have a light cluster reward, just like the Diseased Mutation Spirit Plant that I got before, and the four Blood Jade Ginsengs that were left to be planted in general.”
“One must personally plant the spirit seed or seedling, and carefully cultivate it, and pick it in time after it matures, in order for there to be a light cluster reward.”
“However, to be able to use this to discover the mystery in this Dragon’s Beard Grass, that’s quite good.”
Lu Xuan lamented, he did not indicate his discovery to the Wang Clan cultivator, but instead, he pretended to cast Spirit Rain Technique, Wood Born Technique, and so on, in general with the other Spirit Plantsmiths around him.
During that time, if he found any other plants, he would dig them up and then plant them again without thinking to learn the details of the plants, but unfortunately, he didn’t find any rare spirit plants.
“What is this?”
Suddenly, he found a mushroom-shaped stone underneath a strange rock.
The stone was grayish-white in color, hard in texture, with many strange patterns on its broad surface at the top, and when combined together, it seemed to form a bizarre face with a choice look.
“Plant it and see?”
Lu Xuan saw that it was similar in shape to a mushroom and had an odd appearance, so he had the idea of planting it a bit.
He cast the Earth Drawing Technique, and the stone buried in the soil quietly cracked open, leaving a crack that just happened to accommodate the mushroom’s stone.
With his mind focused on it, a thought surfaced from his mind.
Lu Xuan suppressed his inner surprise and digested and absorbed the thought.
[Ghost-faced Stone Mushroom, Third Grade Spiritual Plant, when matured, it can enhance the cultivation speed of certain evil arts, feeds on grudging souls and is in a state of slumber, it needs to be awakened with a grudging soul rubbing and refined elixir].
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