Chapter 90.
Chapter 90 – Broken Thing?
“Third Grade Spirit Seed!”
Lu Xuan almost exclaimed in shock, hastily hiding the joy on his face.
He didn’t expect that such a weird stone he picked up in the secret realm, after being bored and planted, would be a Third Grade Spirit Seed that had entered a dormant state.
It should be known that among the spiritual plants he had planted so far, only the Illusory Smoke Luo Fruit and the Jiao Vine were at the third-grade stage, and they had all been obtained through abnormal channels.
“Ghost-faced Stone Mushroom, feeding on grudging souls, whether it’s the name, or the way it’s grown, it sounds quite netherworldly.”
However, in front of the third-grade stage, whether it was netherworldly or not was already completely unimportant.
He was about to put the Ghostface Stone Mushroom into his storage bag when he suddenly froze in his movements.
Retracting his arm, he pretended to look around without thinking.
More than a dozen Spiritual Planters were looking for ways to identify the normal Dragon’s Beard Grass, three of them were near Lu Xuan, the two high level Qi Practicing cultivators from the Wang Clan, and only the one with a centipede scar on his face, Li Jianfeng, stood high above overlooking the crowd.
Lu Xuan was clear in his mind that these two people were nominally escorting the dozen or so Spiritual Planters, but in actuality, they also had the intention of spying on them to prevent the Spiritual Planters from enriching themselves and stealing the second-grade Dragon Beard Grass from the mountainside.
Thinking of this, Lu Xuan ignored the ghost-faced stone mushroom in the crack and walked straight to the side.
Using the excuse of searching for normal Longbeard Grass, he searched around to see if he could still find any new Ghost-faced Stone Mushrooms.
To his some surprise, a few moments later, he found two more Ghost-faced Stone Mushrooms, and after trying to plant them, he realized that they were in the same dormant state as the ones he had found before, and needed to be awakened by the Grieving Soul.
Lu Xuan vaguely felt that something was wrong.
“According to reason, the location of the Ghost-faced Stone Mushroom isn’t considered hidden, and the Wang Clan cultivators, the Spirit Plants Masters have been staying in this area for an unknown period of time, it’s impossible that they haven’t found this Ghost-faced Stone Mushroom, so why are there still them now?”
“There’s only one possibility, the Wang Clan cultivators don’t know what this piece of stone with a weird face is!”
The dozen or so Spirit Plant Masters present estimated the same.
The more Lu Xuan thought about it, the more likely he felt that it was possible, and a plan came to his mind.
“Huh? What is this thing? Why does it look so weird?”
He suddenly exclaimed out in surprise, picking the Ghostface Stone Mushroom out of the crack.
The Spirit Plant Master next to him sniffed and looked over in curiosity, and not far away, Scar-faced Cultivator Li Jianfeng’s eyes also landed on Lu Xuan.
Lu Xuan held the Ghostface Stone Mushroom and with a few jumps, arrived in front of Li Jianfeng.
“Fellow Daoist Li, this is a strange thing I found during the process of identifying the Dragon’s Beard Grass, it seems to have a weird face.”
“The secret realm was discovered and reclaimed by the Wang Clan, and all the Dragon Beard Grass here belongs to the Wang Clan, therefore, I decided to offer it to the Wang Clan.”
Li Jianfeng glanced at the ghost-faced stone mushroom in Lu Xuan’s hand and said indifferently.
“It’s just an odd-looking stone.”
The Wang Clan cultivators had discovered the existence of the weird stone as early as when they entered this place.
At first, he thought it was some rare treasure, and brought a few pieces back to the Wang Family, carefully studied it for a period of time, and even asked a cultivator from the Ten Thousand Treasures Building who specializes in appraising all kinds of treasures to take a look at it, and didn’t find anything mysterious.
In addition, the ghost face stone mushroom is different from the normal spiritual plant species, into the dormant state they do not have any aura fluctuations, and the other stones in the mountainside is no difference.
Therefore, the Wang Clan cultivators slowly lost their curiosity and just treated them as oddly shaped stones.
“I see, I thought it was some kind of good treasure! It turns out to be a broken thing.”
Lu Xuan sniffed, unable to hide the disappointment on his face as he casually threw the Ghost Face Stone Mushroom in his hand to the ground.
The weird stone block tumbled on the ground, revealing the horrifying face made up of weird patterns from time to time. The surrounding Spirit Plant Masters who were listening with their ears perked up also continued to be busy with the matter of identifying the Dragon Bearded Grass.
The entire afternoon passed, progress was slow, without finding a good method that could differentiate the normal Longbeard Grass from the mutated Longbeard Grass.
During this time, there were also spiritual plant masters who kept stimulating with various cultivation spirit plant techniques to find out some mutated longbeards that were trying to attack.
But this method consumed a lot of spiritual energy, and there was no guarantee if there were still mutant longbeards hiding themselves.
Towards evening, Wang Ruhai, the elegant scribe who had gone out for half a day, returned to the campground, carrying the remains of a Wolf Walking Demon Beast corpse in his hand.
“How is it? Did you find any effective means?”
Li Jianfeng shook his head and looked at the demonic beast corpse in his hand.
“Went out and found a second grade demonic beast, solved it on the way, in addition to finding a few first grade spiritual plants, the harvest is not bad.”
Li Jianfeng nodded.
Lu Xuan and the other Spirit Plants Masters ended their work of identifying and separating them, returned to the camp, had dinner, and each returned to the house they were in.
Due to the short period of time, the camp was constructed in a rather humble manner, and only served as a resting place.
It was not easy to recognize in the darkness, and the sneak attack of the Mutant Dragon’s Bearded Grass was much more dangerous than in the daytime, so no cultivators stayed on the mountainside, with only one Wang Clan Qi Practicing Middle Stage Cultivator guarding the outside area.
Some of the many Spiritual Planters were still exploring how to quickly and effectively identify it, while some directly went back to their houses to cultivate.
Lu Xuan cultivated for a few weeks and took out the Cloud Treading Lynx to let the wind out, then lay down on the wooden bed early to rest.
Late at night, all was silent.
Lu Xuan, who had been sleeping on the wooden bed for a long time, suddenly opened his eyes, his eyes bright.
Listening sideways for a while, his Spiritual Sense did not detect any abnormalities.
He quietly operated his spiritual energy and seeped into the thin, dark golden Hidden Spirit Cloak he wore inside.
At that instant, the translucent silk threads inside the Hidden Spirit Cloak swam noiselessly, and Lu Xuan’s figure rested directly from the wooden bed.
Half a moment later, it unknowingly surfaced inside the house again.
Holding a ghost-faced stone mushroom in his hand, the corners of his mouth rose.
“Consuming most of my spiritual energy and picking up a so-called broken thing~!”
He let out a hefty laugh and took out a Peiyuan Dan from his storage bag, quickly replenishing his spiritual energy.
In the daytime, he had used the Wang Family’s Li Jianfeng’s own experience as an endorsement to label the Ghost-faced Stone Mushroom as worthless, completely dispelling the thoughts of all the cultivators present about the strange stone.
I wanted to directly pick it up and put it in the storage bag, but out of caution, I ended up in the middle of the night, with the stealth ability of the Hidden Spirit Cloak, I took the Ghost Face Stone Mushroom without realizing it.
In order to avoid attracting suspicion after all of them disappeared, he also purposely took only one more hidden Ghostface Stone Mushroom.
The rest of the Ghost Face Stone Mushroom, as well as the undiscovered Ghost Face Stone Mushroom, he planned to gradually take away without realizing it during his stay here.
“It’s not easy to get back a piece, but compared to the value of its third-grade spirit plant, it’s not a waste of this effort and energy.”
“It’s just that I’m just an ordinary, honest Spirit Plant Master, how should I go about finding some resentful souls to awaken this Ghost Face Stone Mushroom?”
Lu Xuan secretly thought, incorporating this into his plan to start cultivating the Ghost-Faced Stone Mushroom once he got out from the Secret Realm.
(End of Chapter)