Chapter 143 - Linghe Fertility Problem
The Insect Classic records hundreds of strange insects, such as iron fire ants, white jade mantises, six-winged centipedes... The grades are mainly first and second grades, and there are only a few third-grade foundation-building species.
The light green toad that Lu Xuan encountered in the spiritual plant garden is also among them. It is called the Wood Poison Toad. It feeds on monster insects and monster beasts that contain rich wood spiritual power, and especially likes the pattern insect.
It will change its own shape and body color according to the surrounding environment to hide itself. It is extremely toxic. The venom of the complete Wood Poison Toad can even threaten the foundation-building monks.
Lu Xuan roughly scanned this Insect Classic and learned about the breeding methods, reproduction methods, and control methods of many monster insects.
"For ordinary cultivators, this book "Insects Sutra" is a bit niche and cannot match the normal skills and spells. However, it is very useful to me. If I cultivate spirit insects, I should be able to get light balls as rewards."
"Compared with spirit beasts, the growth cycle of spirit insects is usually shorter, and many species of spirit insects are cultivated on a large scale, with a large number, so naturally more light balls are obtained."
Lu Xuan thought secretly in his heart, and decided to find insect eggs or larvae and try to cultivate them if he had the chance.
He roughly counted the gains from this pest control trip.
In terms of spirit stones, the head of the Zhang family gave 500 spirit stones, plus the monks' storage bags, about 600 spirit stones were obtained. In addition
, after completing the task, Yao Qing gave forty sword seals as rewards, as well as the "Insects Sutra" and several low-level elixirs and magic tools.
"The experience of frying fish in the fish pond is not bad. The task is easy and the rewards are generous."
Lu Xuan thought secretly, and then noticed the change in his mentality and adjusted it instantly.
"Don't be careless. There might be a dragon hidden in the fish pond. It's better for me to stay in the sect and cultivate spiritual plants and raise spiritual beasts."
He put away the "Insect Sutra" and came to the spiritual field.
The many spiritual plants in the spiritual field have not been cultivated for a few days, so the impact is not great.
The spiritual soil between the two sword grasses is full of sword marks, which shows how often they fight in secret.
"It's not bad to keep it active and promote growth in this way."
Lu Xuan carefully checked the status of the sword grass and found that the sword grass plant was not damaged at all. On the contrary, it grew very well. He felt relieved and finally decided to maintain the status quo and not transplant one of the sword grasses to another place.
At the sword gourd, the flying sword that was put down became a piece of scrap iron and could only serve as a support for the gourd vines.
"It just so happens that the monk has two flying swords in his storage bag. It's good as a nutrient for the sword gourd."
Lu Xuan took out a flying sword from the storage bag and placed it under the green vines of the gourd.
The two hundred newly planted firefly grasses are growing well and green.
The spiritual environment of the sect is a dimensionality reduction attack for the non-grade spiritual plants. Even if Lu Xuan's cultivation method is no longer sophisticated, the growth of the firefly grass is still quite good. In
the spiritual field, the third-grade Fantasy Smoke Luo Fruit and the second-grade Copper Bone Bamboo that were planted in Linyang Market have entered the mature stage. Lu Xuan estimates that it will not be long before he can harvest several more light balls.
He still has great expectations for the light ball reward of the third-grade Fantasy Smoke Luo Fruit. He
came to the second-grade Flowing Light Wood and carefully arranged and guided the spiritual lines on the branches and leaves to avoid affecting the quality of the spiritual plants.
Then he went to the Jiao vine, took out a bottle of a new variety of Jiaolong blood, and poured it on the black vine.
Looking at the vine that was swimming slowly like a venomous snake, Lu Xuan was satisfied.
The growth progress of the Jiao vine is slightly slower than that of the Fantasy Smoke Luo Fruit, but it has entered a rapid growth stage, and the thickness and length of the vine have increased a lot.
The newly planted ice radish fruit has sprouted seedlings, which are pale white and swaying gently in the wind.
Lu Xuan's spiritual power is running, and he casts basic ice magic on the four white jade seedlings. The misty ice mist pours on the seedlings, nourishing and nourishing them.
Under the spiritual spring and strange rocks, the remaining two iron claw crabs have fully matured. Lu Xuan picked up the two white light balls that appeared one by one.
As expected, the two light balls brought crab spirit paste rewards.
Lu Xuan put the crab spirit paste into the storage bag. As for the two iron claw crabs, he kept them for the time being.
First, the copper bone bamboo still needs a lot of copper and iron fragments. Before it matures, there must be sufficient labor to make full use of their pair of big knife-like claws.
Second, steam the iron claw crabs, preferably fresh ingredients, and when you want to eat them one day, you can take them directly from the spiritual spring.
The two iron claw crabs hiding under the boulder did not know that their fate had been easily decided by Lu Xuan. They still showed off their blue-black claws, with bulging eyes, looking unruly.
Lu Xuan chuckled, scooped a large cup of cold spring water from the spiritual well, entered the cold cave, and poured it on the Yinhuai.
After ensuring that all the spiritual plants were well cultivated, Lu Xuan came to the Qianlong Lake Stone House.
During the few days he was away, he asked a fellow disciple to help raise the dragon pythons. Fortunately, all the dragon pythons had been trained and tamed by Lu Xuan, and there were no abnormalities during the breeding process.
Lu Xuan took a frozen spiritual fish as a thank you and took over the responsibility of raising the dragon pythons.
A few days passed in a blink of an eye, and Lu Xuan quickly returned to his original pace of life.
Every day, he came to Qianlong Lake and fed dozens of dragon pythons with a large amount of classified monster meat.
After returning to the cave, most of the time was spent on cultivating spiritual plants. In his spare time, he practiced some exercises, light body techniques, etc., and read some materials on the cultivation of spiritual plants and spiritual beasts.
Occasionally, when he was in the mood, he would take out the alchemy furnace and refine a furnace of Peiyuan Dan. After absorbing a lot of experience packages of alchemy recipes, his success rate in refining Peiyuan Dan was extremely high. He was relaxed and free, and he had the illusion of being an alchemy master.
One day, he came to the General Affairs Hall as usual to see if there were any tasks suitable for him.
Those tasks such as exploring secret realms and hunting evil spirits and evil cultivators were automatically ignored by him, and the focus was on the tasks related to cultivating spiritual plants and spiritual beasts in the sect.
This kind of task is not common. After all, planting spiritual plants and raising spiritual beasts have a general status in the cultivation skills.
Not to mention compared with refining alchemy and refining tools, even making talismans and setting up formations are more important than spiritual plants.
Occasionally, similar tasks appear, and most of them are accepted by other cultivators.
Lu Xuan searched for a while before he found a suitable task related to spiritual beasts.
[Task content: Linghe fertility problem. The spiritual cranes in the Beast Taming Hall are experiencing a crisis of decreasing numbers. The fertility rate has reached the lowest level in nearly a hundred years. Seeking cultivators who can solve the problem of spiritual crane fertility. ]
[The mission reward depends on the birth of the cranes. Each time a crane is conceived, a certain number of sword seals will be awarded. The more cranes enter the gestation stage, the more extra rewards will be given. ]
"Crane fertility problem? I have the impression that there are cranes everywhere in the sect. How come there is a problem of a decrease in number?"
Lu Xuan was puzzled. His spiritual consciousness gently touched the mission information on the light screen. Then, the detailed content of the mission poured into his sea of consciousness.
(End of this chapter)