Chapter 180: Chapter 178: Substitute Evil Infant 1
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“Hmm? There’s a light ball?”
As the Grass Puppet turned away, Lu Xuan noticed a white light ball the size of a fist hovering behind him.
With 70 percent anticipation and 30 percent doubt, he instructed the Grass Puppet to stop and gently touched the white light ball floating in the air.
An eerie infant-like cry emerged from inside the ball, mournful and plaintive. Immediately after, it turned into countless specks of light that poured into Lu Xuan’s body.
A thought flashed across his mind.
A small straw doll, four inches tall, appeared in Lu Xuan’s hand. The doll was grayish-black, crafted from countless fine straws giving an eerie feeling of real skin touching.
The doll’s grayish-black straw head was messily stuffed, and infant-like facial features could vaguely be seen on its tightly furrowed face.
Lu Xuan’s thoughts gathered on the straw doll, and he immediately understood all the detailed information about it.
[Substitute Evil Infant, a tier-three evil item. Carry it with you, add a drop of essence blood, permeate it with your spiritual sense. When a cultivator encounters a fatal attack, it will trigger automatically and dissipate after being triggered.] 5
A tier-three evil item, capable of taking a fatal hit for a cultivator?”
Lu Xuan looked at the eerie straw doll in his hand and murmured to himself doubtfully.
“A third-rank treasure, only has the function of blocking one attack, then the strength of the attack that this substitute can withstand should be out of the ordinary.”
Lu Xuan did not hesitate, a red drop of essence blood welled up from his fingertip and dropped onto the face of the straw doll. Then, he sent a strand of his spiritual sense into the straw doll’s body.
After absorbing his drop of essence blood, the Substitute Evil Infant’s tightly knitted facial features slowly relaxed, and it began to vaguely resemble Lu Xuan.
Noticing a slightly closer connection than his normal eerie straw people, with a thought, the seven-eight inches long Substitute Evil Infant shrank continuously, becoming only half a finger long, and was hidden in Lu Xuan’s waistband.
“I’ve increased my defensive capabilities a bit. The Three Grade Pure Jade can detect a nearby Demon Envoy, the ‘LiuLi Bone-Tempering Method’ and ‘Transforming Dragon in the Void’ enhance physical strength, the Substitute Evil Infant can withstand a fatal attack, in addition to my regular Tier-Two Red Scale Armor, my defenses are quite high.”
Lu Xuan couldn’t help but exclaim.
“But, why was there a light ball reward when the Grass Puppet broke through?”
He couldn’t help but feel a bit puzzled.
The Grass Puppet is difficult to define – it’s not a spirit beast because it has no flesh and blood, and it’s not a puppet because it does have some autonomous behavior, and it even has the intelligence of a two-three-year-old child after breaking through.
He bought it at the Loose Cultivation Market in Linyang Market when he was still in the Qi Cultivation Second Layer. According to the vendor, the Grass Puppet was of first grade but was on the verge of being discarded. So Lu Xuan bought it, begrudgingly spending a few spirit stones to help guard his Spirit Field.
As the Grass Puppet served dutifully by patrolling the spirit field every day and made a significant contribution by taking a heavy hit for him during the night attack by a spear-wielding cultivator, once he got a First Grade Treasure, the Grass Spirit Elixir, from the perfect quality spirit firefly grass light ball, he put it into its tumor.
To his surprise, after continuously absorbing the Grass Spirit Elixir rich in plant spiritual energy, it managed to break through to the second-grade stage today. 6
“The breakthrough to the second-grade, rewarded with a special third-grade Substitute Evil Infant, was somewhat unexpected.”
“According to past experiences, such as when I raised the Red-bearded Carp and Iron Claw Crab, when they reach their maturity period, there will be such light-ball rewards. I didn’t expect that there would also be a reward during their own breakthrough, which seems to be even more generous.”
Monster beasts’ strength is constrained by their bloodline. For example, the Mystical Sky White Luan, which Lu Xuan has recently been fond of, is known to be a third-grade creature but has the potential of a seventh-grade demonic beast and will easily break through its grade during growth.
But the Iron Claw Crab he raised before could only stay in the first grade stage due to its own bloodline influences and had difficulty breaking through.
Of course, if a large amount of resources are used to assist it in increasing its power, there is a certain chance of breaking through to the second grade, but this would be more loss than gain.
“It seems that rearing high-grade monster beasts would reward light clusters when they are growing and upgrading their rank. Once they reach full maturity they will be rewarded again.”
“Although the Cloud Leopard is only of the first-rank, it is a different species of demon beast, and the Wind Falcon is a second-rank beast. Now in its youth with the strength of the first rank, they both still have potential.”
“Besides, if the bloodline is insufficient, we can make up for it with resources
As an ordinary Spirit Plant Master, I have this ability.”
Lu Xuan thought to himself with confidence, then turned his head to look at the Wind Sparrow fledgling, its pale wings spread out, belly up, that made him gasp in annoyance.
Get up! Absorb and refine the spiritual power quickly!”
“At such a young age, how can you fall asleep?”
The Wind Sparrow Fledgling struggled to turn over, looking at Lu Xuan without understanding why.
Sensing Lu Xuan’s stern expression, it contracts and relaxes its belly, pretending to work hard on its cultivation.
Lu Xuan, seeing this, wore a helpless look and went inside the house.
He took out several types of materials from his storage bag and laid them out on the table.
After inspecting all the Jiaolong Pythons in Thousand Dragon Lake and obtaining the Spiritual Seeds of Enchanted Immortal Peach and Flaming Fruit, he finally has time to formulate the potion to assist in the cultivation of “Transforming Dragon in the Void”.
He followed the summary of the cultivation technique in his mind, accurately put in the various materials, and the essence blood of the Water Dragon.
In the large wooden barrel, filled with more than half a barrel of dark red potion, bubbles continuously emerge and burst from the surface. A strong violent, and bloody aura entered Lu Xuan’s mouth and nose, causing every tiny part of his body to become restless.
Lu Xuan held his breath, and his body slowly sunk into the dark red liquid.
He guided the spiritual power within his body to circulate slowly according to the operating route of the “Transforming Dragon in the Void”.
As time passed, Lu Xuan gradually felt a mysterious power pouring into his body, continuously stimulating and nourishing his muscles, bones and veins.
Unbeknownst to him, in the dark red liquid in the wooden barrel, there appeared a nearly transparent dragon-shaped air current. This air current flew around Lu Xuan’s body, tightly wrapping him in it.
With a swoosh.
Lu Xuan, naked, crawled out of the dark red liquid. His chest, back, and limbs had faint red lines that vaguely resembled a dancing dragon with bared claws and teeth.
“It’s been about two hours since I started cultivation, these lines are just minor after-effects of the potion. Once the power of the potion is fully digested, they will disappear on their own.”
By then, I can start preparing for the second soak in the Water Dragon Essence Blood.”
Lu Xuan put on his robe and muttered to himself.
He couldn’t help but swing an arm, creating a strong gust of wind.
All aspects of my body’s abilities have slightly improved- – strength speed physical fitness…”
Lu Xuan felt the subtle changes in his body. It was his first time using a potion to aid m the cultivation of “Transforming Dragon in the Void “. The results were very obvious; he could feel the increase in his body’s strength.
When he makes an all-out attack, there is even a faint sense of majesty.
When he relaxes, the faint majesty dissipates immediately, and Lu Xuan returns to his identity as an ordinary Spirit Plant Master.