Chapter 173: Chapter 171: Expanding the Market 1
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One after another, the clusters of light surged into Lu Xuan’s body, ideas flashing through his mind. Charms, elixirs, treasures appeared in his hand, while spiritual power surged in his limbs and bones. In his mind, numerous elixir recipes and technique experience packages were emerging unendingly. Lu Xuan slowly turned this increased spiritual power into a form that he could absorb into his dantian.
Forty-one white light clusters brought him close to nine years of cultivation level, making the spiritual energy within his body more abundant and profound.
“One step closer to attempting the breakthrough to the Foundation Establishment.”
“However, having merely average aptitude, compared to those geniuses, my spiritual power increased by nine years is far less.”
“Who knows when Ill encounter a spirit plant or a Light Cluster reward that can enhance my aptitude…”
Lu Xuan lamented to himself. However, he knew that an elixir capable of enhancing aptitude was indeed a rare treasure. With his current state of perfect Qi cultivation, it was challenging to come across such treasures.
The remaining white light clusters brought rewards primarily comprising of first-grade elixirs and charms. Of these, there were two technique experience packages, one for the Tree Life Spell, and one for the Earth Pulling Technique. Once Lu Xuan absorbed them, his understanding of these two techniques became more profound and thorough.
Of course, he was still far from the grandmaster realm, where the skills flow effortlessly at will.
Besides, the rewards from the six Perfect Grade plants were impressive. Among them were two second-grade Million Swords Qi Talismans, three drops of first-grade rare treasure Grass Spirit Elixir, and a Cultivation Pill Experience Package.
Lu Xuan summoned the Grass Puppet, took out a drop of Grass Spirit Elixir, and stuffed it into the gray grass tumor on its big head.
Upon being washed by a significant amount of plant spiritual power, the gray grass tumor visibly turned a lush green at an observable speed.
“Off you go, look after the Spirit Field.”
After painting the Grass Puppet’s tumor green, Lu Xuan waved at this little buddy, his longest companion.
The Grass Puppet tottered along, moving its chopstick-thin legs, and with the huge head on them, it continued to patrol the furrows of the Spirit Field.
“As my cultivation level gets higher, the rewards the Spirit Firefly Grass offers become more and more insubstantial.”
“But I can’t eliminate it. After all, up to this point, only the white light clusters it produces can offer cultivation rewards. It’s the crux of my existence.”
“Perhaps I could try to improve it, to see if 1 can get a first-grade mutated
Spirit Firefly Grass, and perhaps gain more cultivation rewards.”
Looking at the vast empty Spirit Field, Lu Xuan thought.
He mastered the condensation method for the Spiritual Firefly Grass Seed. He still had three hundred spiritual seeds left after planting two hundred of the five hundred he previously acquired.
With a large quantity of spiritual seeds, he could boldly try various experiments without worrying about their consumption.
He decided to divide the improvement into two stages. The first stage involved the spiritual seeds, trying various methods to induce mutant spiritual seeds. The second stage was during the Sprit Firefly Grass’s early growth. By changing the growth environment or cultivation method for some Spirit Firefly Grass, he could adapt the changes and obtain superior variants.
The remaining Spirit Firefly Grass was nearly mature and was not suitable for further stimulation, so Lu Xuan decided to start experimenting when the next batch of Spirit Firefly Grass germinates.
“Apart from improving the Spirit Firefly Grass variety, I still need to prepare for Foundation Establishment.”
“For Qi Cultivators who attempt to breakthrough to the Foundation Establishment Realm, the sect provides extra benefits like low-cost Foundation Establishment Pills, free access to suitable Secret Lands for breakthrough, protection from Foundation Establishment Uncle Master and so forth.”
“Of course, in case the first time breakthrough fails, I must also make some preparations.”
“Finally, I need to quickly gather complementary materials for practicing ‘Transforming Dragon in the Void’.”
“I can’t just keep the Water Dragon Essence Blood lay idle, wasting its spiritual power…”
Lu Xuan mumbled to himself.
Besides this, his requirement for high-grade rare spiritual seeds remained unchanged, and materials like demon beast skeleton, eyes, and demon insect eggs were also needed.
Having set his goals for the following period, Lu Xuan collected the fully mature Spirit Firefly Grass and continued to patrol the Spirit Field.
He placed a second-hand flying sword under the Sword Nurturing Gourd, allowing the emerald-green vine growing wildly among the discarded metal to absorb the sword intent within the flying sword.
He cast an Ice System Technique onto the second-grade Ice Luo Fruit, allowing it to moisten nicely in the cold, carefully combed the flowing spiritual patterns on the Flowing Light Wood, brought sufficient cold spring water to the Yin Locust tree inside the cave…
Thus his days went by, busy yet simple.
In Thousand Dragon Lake.
“Junior Brother Lu, have you arrived?”
“There wasn’t any issue detected in those flood dragon’s essence blood was there?”
“I have to thank little brother for helping to clean up those hidden scaled fish last time.”
After dealing with the hidden scaled fish that were parasitic inside the Jiaolong Python, Lu Xuan’s reputation had risen among several cultivators who raised flood dragons.
After he entered the stone house, they all enthusiastically greeted him.
“Fellow seniors, rest assured, the essence blood extracted from the bodies of the flood dragons last time showed no issues after days and nights of testing over this period.”
Lu Xuan said with a straight face.
Upon hearing this, everyone’s bodies which had been tense due to anxiety relaxed a lot.
“Junior Brother Lu, do you have time? If you are free, could you come over, there is something I want to discuss with you.”
During the conversation, Huang Yuan, who had a resilient and mature demeanor, walked in and whispered to Lu Xuan.
Lu Xuan was a bit puzzled, but he followed Huang Yuan into a stone house.
The stone house was empty, only Huang Yuan and Lu Xuan were there.
“After last time we parted, I didn’t delay and reported the matter about hidden scaled fish parasitizing the flood dragons found at the bottom of the Thousand Dragon Lake to an uncle master.”
“The uncle master quickly sent someone to dive to the bottom of the lake, and using a special magical instrument, cleaned up all the young hidden scaled fish in the Thousand Dragon Lake.”
Huang Yuan slowly explained to Lu Xuan.
“Isn’t it enough to just clean up the hidden scaled fish, or is there any other problem?”
Lu Xuan asked with confusion.
“There is a problem. Although the uncle master who came over cleaned up the young hidden scaled fish in the lake, he didn’t help deal with the hidden scaled fish hiding inside the flood dragon.”
“Since these hidden scaled fish have very strong hiding abilities and almost merge with the bodies of the flood dragons, it is many times more difficult to find their traces than it is to find the young fish at the bottom of the lake. Only by getting close to the flood dragons and carefully probing with your spiritual sense can you detect their traces.”
“In Thousand Dragon Lake, there are nearly a thousand first and second grades Jiaolong Python and Strange Serpents. The uncle master considered checking each one to be too troublesome. Therefore, after teaching the techniques to fellow comrades, he left.”
“But due to the inefficiency and potential omissions of outer sect disciples doing the check, there could be huge losses in the end.
So, other cultivators from other waters asked me to see if you could help eliminate the hidden scaled fish parasitizing the bodies of the Jiaolong Python they raised.”
Lu Xuan slowly nodded, indicating his understanding. He pondered for a moment, then lifted his head and asked.
“Brother Huang, we’ve known each other for quite some time and share some camaraderie. I dare to ask, does the uncle master truly consider it too troublesome, or is he holding out for a better price, holding back for progress, and hoping for even greater benefits?”
Lu Xuan asked solemnly, he was willing to agree, but if it was the latter case, his intervention would offend that foundation establishment uncle master. ’ “Don’t worry about this, little brother. I know that uncle master quite well. He truly considers it too troublesome, rather than having other intentions. I can guarantee this with my life.”
Huang Yuan quickly explained what Lu Xuan was worried about.
“Then I can be relieved.”
Lu Xuan said with a laugh. With such a chance to expand the market, why wouldn’t he be happy?
“Then little brother’s reward …”
Huang Yuan looked at Lu Xuan and whispered.
The cultivators the others refer to, belong to other waters of the Thousand Dragon Lake. Unlike the cultivators from the same waters, they had some sort of camaraderie, hence Huang Yuan failed to promise them about Lu Xuan’s compensation for his services.
“As per the earlier agreement will be fine. Apart from this, I can also regularly perform blood tests for the flood dragons they raised.”
“After all, we are all fellow cultivators, and we’re supposed to help each other.”
Lu Xuan had a hint of a smile playing on his lips.
“I only hope that fellow cultivators would be understanding. I am sacrificing my cultivation time to do these checks, and the pressure from facing so many fierce flood dragons during the blood draw is inevitable. Breaking through their own defenses is a bit tough, so I have to charge a little for the spirit stones as a hard working fee.”
He sincerely explained his intentions to Huang Yuan..