Chapter 91: Feeding the Evil Spirit, Hosting a Skin Bag
Chapter 91: Feeding Evil Sneaks, Hosting a Skin Bag
On the following day, Lu Xuan woke up early, refreshed, and began to feel the fish during the day, following the middle of the night when he touched away a Ghost-faced Stone Mushroom.
Although he already had a method of recognizing the normal Dragon’s Beard Grass, he also knew that the silk whiskers in the Dragon’s Beard Grass that were in a state of mutation would change relatively significantly under the stimulation of the Ice- and Fire-type spells in turn.
However, it was not good to reveal all of this, plus Lu Xuan himself did not want to make a spectacle of himself, so he blended in with the crowd, ostensibly walking around, busy and looking like he was hard at work, but in actuality, he searched everywhere for the Ghost-faced Stone Mushroom.
In the end, including the one he took last night, he found a total of five Ghostface Stone Mushrooms.
Such a big surprise made him even happier in the process of groping for fish.
In a pile of dragon beard grass, he squatted down, grasping a dark red long beard in his hand, his eyes gazing, checking various parts of the dragon beard grass from time to time, his actual thoughts already drifting to nowhere.
Suddenly, amongst the dense tentacle-like dragon beard grass, a dark red long beard shot out quickly and attacked Lu Xuan.
Lu Xuan was prepared for this, and a Grade 1 Sword Qi Talisman appeared in his palm.
Spiritual energy was quickly induced, and the patterns on the talisman instantly changed, and a sharp and biting sword qi shot out, cutting the incoming mutant dragon beard grass into two.
“The strength of this mutated dragon’s beard grass attack is about the same as a cultivator at the first or second level of qi cultivation, not enough to be much of a threat, the only thing is that it can’t be defended against, so we can’t be too lax.”
Lu Xuan secretly thought, there were a large number of Dragon Whisker Grasses, and since it was not clear which ones were mutated plants, one had to be on guard at all times, or else they would be at risk of getting injured.
Just as he was about to continue inspecting the dragon beard grasses in front of him, six or seven long dark red whiskers violently drilled out from the pile of grasses, like poisonous snakes, and darted towards Lu Xuan.
Lu Xuan did not panic in the face of danger, three First Grade Sword Qi Talismans appeared between his palms and were invoked at the same time, the three sword qi shot out in a zigzag pattern, slicing the six or seven dark red long whiskers into pieces.
“Fellow Daoist Lu has quite a few Sword Qi Talismans on him!”
The commotion of killing off several Mutant Longbeard Grasses drew the attention of a Spiritual Plant Master nearby, exclaiming.
Lu Xuan smiled.
“It can’t be helped, I’m not good at fighting, and I’ve heard that accidents often happen in the Secret Realm, so before I set off, I purposely prepared quite a few talismans for emergencies.”
As an ordinary Spiritual Planter, it was still reasonable to prepare more talismans for fear of encountering danger, right?……
Lu Xuan’s Spiritual Sense entered his storage bag and sighed inwardly as he looked at the many talismans piled up together.
The hiccups of the Mutant Dragon’s Bearded Grass attack happened from time to time, and Lu Xuan was not affected by it due to his good preparation.
As the day passed, fifteen Spiritual Planters sifted out dozens of Dragon Beard Grasses through various methods.
Inside the camp, Li Jianfeng was sitting on a huge rock with his eyes closed, motionless as a statue.
Suddenly, he opened his eyes as Wang Ruhai’s figure deftly floated in front of him.
“How is the progress today?”
Jianfeng Li pointed to a small pile of Longshu Grass on the ground and said.
“The spiritual planters kept trying with the techniques of cultivating spiritual plants, and eventually picked these dragon beard grasses, just that they don’t dare to guarantee that all of them are normal plants, and they can’t be sure that there are no mutated things mixed inside the dragon beard grasses.”
“A group of people who are vain and selling their names!”
Wang Ruhai couldn’t help but have a hint of annoyance and violence rising within his heart, a hint of impatience flashing through his eyes.
Originally, he thought that by inviting more than a dozen spiritual plant masters with the widest reputation in the workshop market, he would be able to deal with these dragon beard grasses in front of him very well, bringing in a large amount of revenue for the Wang family, and he himself would be able to benefit from it as well.
But he didn’t expect that the state of affairs didn’t happen as he expected, the identification, separation, and picking of the normal Dragon’s Beard Grass was only slightly faster than before, but with a large amount of Spirit Stones spent on it, it was quite uneconomical.
“Might as well go around the secret realm a bit more and hunt some demonic beasts.”
The elegant scribe thought in his mind.
Three days passed in a flash, Lu Xuan did not find any new Ghostface Stone Mushroom, during which he used the invisibility ability of his Hidden Spirit Cloak again to sneak out in the middle of the night and take a Ghostface Stone Mushroom that was in a dormant state.
As for the matter of picking the Dragon’s Beard Grass, he had behaved in a mediocre manner, without any protruding places.
He only provided two or three Dragon Beard Grasses in a daily basis, mostly normal plants, with an occasional Mutant Dragon Beard Grass mixed in.
In the evening of this day, he returned to the camp after a busy day.
As he got closer to the camp, Lu Xuan suddenly felt a coolness coming from his chest.
The coolness became more and more intense, and when he was just three feet away from the camp, the icy coldness almost soaked into the bone marrow.
Lu Xuan’s expression gradually became grave as he kept a transparent jade talisman hanging on his chest, the very same Third Grade Unsullied Jade that had been opened from the perfect quality Red Cloud Pine Pine Son.
The Immaculate Jade was able to keep the cultivator’s mind clear, resist the intrusion and contamination of evil spirits, and slightly enhance the cultivator’s Spiritual Awareness when worn for a long period of time.
He had never left his body after getting it, and all along, there hadn’t been any abnormal state until this moment, when it had this cold and piercing meaning.
His footsteps slightly paused, pretending to loiter, turned a corner and deviated from the camp location. After getting farther and farther away from the camp, the icy coldness in his chest also became much lighter, with only a slight sense of coolness.
“Nine times out of ten, evil spirits appear inside the camp, and I don’t know in what way they have invaded, and at what stage of strength.”
Inside Lu Xuan’s dantian, the Sundown Thunder Sword Pellet sword aura gulped and stretched.
After being nourished daily with spiritual energy and transformed into sword qi, the black wind inside the sword pellet whistled, electric arcs jumped, and the sword qi became even sharper and more flared.
This made Lu Xuan’s heart feel a lot more at ease, with this Sundown Thunder Sword Pellet that was good at killing and attacking, coupled with the Gengjin Sword Technique of the Grandmaster realm, many second-grade talismans, third-grade Hidden Spirit Cloak, Unsullied Jade, second-grade Red Thread Needle, Red Scale Armor, and the Blood Burning Arrow secret technique, he was confident enough to save his life, even if it was a tricky level of evil spirits.
Staying outside the camp for a long period of time was not an option, Lu Xuan stayed for a moment and slowly followed behind a Spirit Plant Master who had wrapped up his work late, returning to the camp together.
He followed his usual rhythm and had a normal meal, and afterward, he even visited the homes of a few Spiritual Plantsmiths to chat and ask for Spiritual Plants knowledge.
“It’s already basically certain that it’s in the Wang family’s group, I just don’t know if it’s lurking inside the house or has already invaded the cultivator’s body.”
Lu Xuan returned to his house and secretly thought.
He had just walked around intentionally, based on the strength of the coldness coming from the Unsullied Jade, and then constantly adjusting his position and narrowing down the area, he eventually roughly determined that the evil spirit was located in a few people from the Wang Family.
“While everything is behaving as usual, the evil sneak must be discovered as soon as possible.”
Lu Xuan pondered for a moment, and took out the Treading Cloud Lynx from his Sang Sack.
The Treading Cloud Lynx landed on the ground, the two tufts of grayish fur on the tips of its ears twitching as it purred softly.
“Ow~”
“Later I’ll go to a place where an evil spirit is hiding, try to see if you can find it out, if you are able to spot it, call out in a low voice, and when you walk in front of him, shrug down the hairs on your ears, got it?”
The Cloud Treading Lynx gently nodded its head, indicating that it understood.
It made a long leap and jumped onto Lu Xuan’s shoulder, and was led by Lu Xuan into the house where the Wang Clan was located.
“Ow~”
The Treading Cloud Lynx’s turquoise eye pupils continuously scanned and softly called out, and Lu Xuan instantly realized that it had already discovered the traces of the Evil Sneak’s presence.
He then walked over and smiled as he greeted the Wang Family cultivators he saw.
Suddenly, his line of sight glanced to the side of his shoulder, and the grayish fur on the tips of the lynx’s ears shrugged down.
Looking up, Wang Ruhai was looking at himself with a smile on his face, while Li Jianfeng stood behind him in silence.
The cloud-treading lynx whimpered softly, its fur standing up all over its body, arching its body, its turquoise pupils staring at the smiling Wang Ruhai.
“Fellow Daoist Lu, is this just a spirit beast that you keep?”
“That’s right, it’s still in the juvenile stage, I couldn’t rest assured, so I put it into the spirit beast bag and brought it here.”
The Sundown Thunder Sword Pellet in Lu Xuan’s dantian continued to rotate, its sword intent flourishing, but a warm smile appeared on his face.
“This lynx has been kept at home since it was a child, and is rather fearful of life, thus it was a bit overzealous when it saw the two Fellow Daoists, please forgive me, Fellow Daoist Wang and Fellow Daoist Li.”
“Here are some spirit fruits with a refreshingly sweet flavor, the two Fellow Daoists can have a taste.”
Lu Xuan took out more than a dozen thumb-sized green spirit fruits and handed them to the two.
“Good.”
Wang Ruhai smiled as he took the green spirit fruits and handed a few to Li Jianfeng behind him.
I don’t know if it was just an illusion, but Lu Xuan felt that his smile fit the term leathery smile perfectly.
It was as if the skin drove the muscles, rather than the muscles pulling the skin.
He smiled as he watched Wang Ruhai and the two of them eat the Spirit Fruit with a point of anticipation in his heart.
Earlier, after he had planted the Dragon’s Beard Grass that he had picked in the wild, he was able to detect the detailed state of the grass.
So by the same token, would raising demonic beasts be able to do the same? What about raising evil spirits?
After the two of them had swallowed the Spirit Fruit, Lu Xuan’s mind pooled.
There was no abnormality on Li Jianfeng’s body.
And as it converged on Wang Ruhai, a thought surged into his mind.
[Parasitic Skin Sac, foreign level evil spirit, its body is an evil skin sac, after invading and contaminating a cultivator it can occupy the cultivator’s body, retaining most of its habits, and loves to collect the cultivator’s skin sac.]
(End of chapter)