Chapter 58: Chapter 57 ‘Fundamentals of Rune Making’ l
Translator: 549690339
Zhou Hai Wen lay in bed, tossing and turning, unable to sleep for a long time.
Thinking of how he was about to obtain a method to cultivate Perfect Quality Spirit Plants, his spirit became excited and couldn’t calm down one bit.
On the day when Lu Xuan refused to pass on his secret method for cultivating Perfect Quality Spirit Plants, Zhou Hai Wen returned home, becoming increasingly angry and experiencing an escalating greed. Finally, he invited a fellow cultivator he knew from the Flower Spirit Stone, planning to forcibly snatch Lu Xuan’s secret.
Although his cultivation of spirit plants improved after meticulous care, he was not satisfied with these small progresses. After seeing Lu Xuan’s result, he coveted nothing less than growing Perfect Quality Spirit Plants.
“It’s been over a time system now, they should be almost back.”
He lay on the bed, estimating the time when his friend might return.
After another while, there was still no movement.
“I wonder if there’s been an accident?”
Zhou Hai Wen’s brow wrinkled slightly with worry.
“There can’t have been any accidents. That kid’s just a Third Layer Qi Cultivation loose cultivitor with no time to cultivate spiritual power and techniques. Even if I were to go, I’d have an absolute certainty. Let alone a more skillful Cultivator with the Fifth Layer of Qi Cultivation.”
“It must have taken him some time after he killed him. After all, collecting spirit plants and handling the aftermath, all require quite some time.”
“I hired him using the Flower Spirit Stone, with the promise of giving him all the spirit plants. If he only wants any cultivation books or jade slips on that kid, since the former isn’t a Spirit Plant Master, he wouldn’t consider ingesting the cultivation methods.”
Zhou Hai Wen, the middle-aged cultivator, optimistically analyzed as if he already saw himself receiving the cultivation method, growing Perfect Quality Spirit Plants, and being valued by Bai Cao Tang and even major Market families…
His future was absolutely bright.
While he was indulging in daydreams, his eyes certainly shone intensely.
Suddenly, a sparking Sword Qi arrived. Just as it was about to pierce the body of the middle-aged cultivator laying down, it swiftly turned and moved towards the cultivator’s forehead at extreme speed, drilling into his mind and giving a violent twist.
The last thing seen by the middle-aged cultivator was the bright golden light brought by the Sword Qi.
Lu Xuan, light as a feather, floated into the room and took away the storage bag from the cultivator’s waist.
After that, two First Grade Explosive Talismans respectively activated and set the cultivator’s remains and the furniture inside the room continuously ablaze, thoroughly eliminating the hole on the “heaven’s spirit cover” left by the sword technique as well as any trace of Lu Xuan’s presence in the room.
By the time the big fire caused a commotion, Lu Xuan had already departed far away.
He safely returned home, meticulously reviewing his actions of the night.
After arriving at the courtyard where the Spirit Plant Master lived, he easily managed to enter.
Outside the yard, there was only a First Rank Protective Formation to block strange beasts and worms from invading the Spirit Field. Lu Xuan forcefully broke the formation effortlessly.
Under the First Grade Golden Sword Technique who was nearly at the Grandmaster Realm and the unexpected Slivered Silver Blade, both the Masked Cultivator and the Spirit Plant Master were eliminated smoothly without any disturbances.
He did not pick any spirit plants from the middle-aged cultivator’s spirit field, firstly because they were still growing and couldn’t be directly exchanged for spirit stones, and secondly because picking them takes a certain amount of time, so to avoid more troubles in the night, he directly took the storage bag and left.
On the wooden table, two storage bags and a glossy black flying sword were laid out.
The flying sword was a First Grade Magical Instrument left by the Masked Cultivator.
Firstly, he used his spiritual power to open the bag of the Masked Cultivator, who had a slightly higher cultivation level.
There weren’t many things inside; over a ten First Grade Talismans, two bottles of elixir, one was a Yuan Cultivating Pill which could quickly supplement spiritual power and the other, Blood Activating Pills, that could treat some simple injuries.
Apart from these, there were about eighty spirit stones, thereby raising Lu Xuan’s property to around three hundred and sixty spirit stones.
After plundering all the things in the Masked Cultivator’s bag, he then shifted his focus to the bag of the middle-aged Spirit Plant Master.
One bottle of elixir, uncapped, contains only five Yuan Cultivating Pills, slyly rolling around at the bottom.
Six spiritual seeds, their rank and species unknown.
“How destitute. Disgracing us, the Spirit Plant Masters.”
Lu Xuan complains.
After becoming a Spirit Plant Master, he never systematically studied the cultivation of spirit plants.
He started crudely with the cultivation of Spirit Firefly Grass, and after receiving peculiar light clusters within his spirit field, he gained deep understanding of the spirit plants he himself cultivated, but remained ignorant about the rest.
For the moment, he didn’t plan on hastily planting these six spiritual seeds. After all, his Spirit Field, a little over an acre, already had plenty of spirit plants.
The numerous Spirit Firefly Grass and Blood Jade Ginseng-there’s still twenty-six stalks of Spirit Firefly Grass about to mature, while there are twenty stalks of Blood Jade Ginseng.
The lesser in quantity but stable in value First Grade Red Cloud Pine and Second Grade Qingmiao Spirit Tea are present too, with the former having four pine nuts left and the latter having three seedlings growing vigorously.
As for the rare and mysterious types-there are the First Grade Pure Snow Lotus, Second Grade Dark Marrow Mushroom, Second Grade Sword Grass, Third-grade Fantasy Smoke Fruit, and Third-grade Flood Dragon Vine, most of which he successfully cultivated by relying on his grasp of the current state of spirit plants.
In order to maximize the rewards of the light clusters, he adopted refined cultivation methods, necessitating the daily casting of techniques such as Spirit Rain Technique, Tree Life Spell, etc. Furthermore, plants like Sword Grass and Fantasy Smoke Fruit had additional requirements.
Restrictions of the Spirit Field’s area, limited time and energy, coupled with the frequent consumption of spiritual power, made it impossible for him to plant large quantities of spirit plants. He could only roughly manage the number and variety of spirit plants.
After checking this harvest, Lu Xuan shifted his attention to the formation outside the courtyard.
The invasion of the Masked Cultivator made his intent to change formation more urgent.
With his cultivation level improving more and more quickly, the number and quality of spirit plants in the Spirit Field growing higher, the First Grade Protective Array left behind from Tooth Row was gradually falling short.
First and second rank formations correspond to Qi-Cultivators, and a first-rank protective array had limited protection against a Middle-Stage Qi Practitioner. If a Second Rank Spirit Breaking Talisman was added, it could easily penetrate the formation.
He had over three hundred Spirit Stones on hand, more than enough to install a Second-rank Protective Array.
Without him realizing, dawn had broken. Lu Xuan didn’t continue resting, and ran towards the Spirit Field to check on the state of the spirit plants.
He was quite lucky. The fight with the Masked Cultivator last night didn’t affect the spirit plants in the Spirit Field.
After his patrol, the condition of the spirit plants was all pretty satisfactory, especially the Dark Marrow Mushroom. Perhaps due to the special fertilizer in the spirit soil, it seemed like more dark red mycelium had spread.
On the Red Cloud Pine, among the fine red pine needles, two Red Cloud Pine Nuts had fully matured.
Lu Xuan picked the first one. The pine nut was of superior quality, slightly better than the first pine nut he had harvested before.
A white light cluster appeared where the Red Cloud Pine Nut was harvested.
Lu Xuan absorbed it, and the light cluster turned into countless light spots flowing into his body.
A thought flashed through his mind.
“Harvesting one Red Cloud Pine Nut gives a copy of the ‘Fundamentals of Rune Making.’”
Countless knowledge about runes poured into Lu Xuan’s consciousness, almost making his head burst.
The book recorded the methods of making dozens of commonly seen first-grade runes, the types of materials required, the way to process them, the drawing of the rune diagrams, etc.
“The reward brought about by the maturing of a first-grade spirit plant is really different. I remember the fully grown, perfect quality Spirit Firefly Grass would yield a First Grade Qi Cultivating Pill Recipe, while the Red Cloud Pine Nut directly gave a book of rune making methods, teaching dozens of first-grade runes all at once.”
Lu Xuan made a comparison and stared at the other mature Red Cloud Pine Nut in expectancy..