Chapter 244 - The Rotten Water Lotus

  Qi Lu Xuan answered every question from each outer sect disciple in detail.

  He has been cultivating spiritual plants with great care for many years. After entering the sect, he also made up for all kinds of knowledge about spiritual plants. Therefore, he knows many types of spiritual plants like the back of his hand.

  When faced with various problems, he either goes to the key point or unravels the problem from the root.

  This made everyone present admire him and have a clearer understanding of Lu Xuan's attainments in spiritual plants.

  Half a day later, Lu Xuan said goodbye to everyone and returned to the side hall to rest for more than half an hour.

  When he returned to the main hall again, Lu Xuan found that there were actually half more monks off the stage than in the morning, and there were three monks in the early stage of foundation building, mixed in with a group of outer sect disciples, looking at Lu Xuan on the stage with expectation.

  "In the afternoon, we will mainly talk about various cases of spiritual plants with difficult and complicated diseases. If you have any problems that are difficult to solve, you can bring them to the stage and we will study and discuss them together."

  Lu Xuan said in a deep voice.

  "My fellow disciples, I won't be polite then."

  A young monk stood up, clasped his fists, and walked onto the stage.

  "Uncle Master, please help me check it out."

  His spiritual power surged, and a talisman shot out. Then, a wide water curtain appeared in front of everyone, with a clear image on the water curtain.

  The talisman was a second-grade water mirror talisman, which could be selected and copied on a target. After being activated, it could maintain a water curtain with a clear image for a period of time.

  In some brothels in the cultivation world, this water mirror talisman was very popular.

  At this moment, a clear image on the water curtain appeared in front of everyone.

  In a pool of water with black mud, a flawless white lotus grew, and a faint black gas lingered on the lotus.

  "This lotus is called the Rotten Water Lotus, a second-grade spiritual plant. Since it is at a critical stage of growth, I am afraid that transplanting it here will have a greater impact, so I used this water mirror talisman to copy it."

  "Recently, for some reason, a faint black gas appeared on the branches and leaves of the Rotten Water Lotus. I couldn't find the source. I finally dispersed it, and it appeared on the plant again after a day or two."

  "This Rotten Water Lotus is of great use to me. I am really anxious to encounter this situation suddenly. I would like to ask Uncle Lu and fellow disciples to help me take a look. Thank you!"

  The young monk said solemnly.

  "Could it be a spiritual plant mutation?"

  "It doesn't look like it. The black gas is only on the outer layer of the Rotten Water Lotus. It shouldn't be a mutation inside the plant."

  "Is it possible that it was attacked by some kind of alien insect?"

  ...

  Everyone was talking about it.

  Lu Xuan thought for a while and asked the young man.

  "Did my nephew carry the black mud in the pool with him?"

  "Yes, yes."

  The young man quickly took out a small bottle from the storage bag, opened the bottle mouth, and revealed most of the black mud inside.

  Black bubbles occasionally appeared and burst on the surface of the black mud. The moment the bottle stopper was opened, a strong smell of decay could be smelled.

  "Master, do you suspect that there might be something wrong with this black mud?"

  Lu Xuan nodded gently and took out a spirit firefly grass spirit seed from the storage bag.

  He put the spirit seed into the black mud, and a hazy green light fell on it.

  The spirit firefly grass was just a non-grade spirit plant with a short growth cycle and a simple cultivation method. Under the influence of Lu Xuan's wood-growing technique at the Dacheng realm and a trace of green wood source energy, in less than a moment, a slender green spirit firefly grass grew out of the black mud.

  Upon careful observation, you can see that there is a very faint black gas lingering on the delicate leaves.   

  "What...what's going on?"

  The young monk exclaimed, and everyone in the audience also concentrated and paid attention to Lu Xuan's actions.

  "Nephew, this black mud should be taken from somewhere else, right?"

  Lu Xuan continued to stimulate the growth of the firefly grass, and asked.

  "Indeed, this rotten water lotus needs to grow in rotten spiritual soil, so I took a lot of rotten mud from a secret realm, but I didn't expect that it would harm the rotten water lotus."

  The young monk muttered to himself, with some disbelief in his expression.

  "If I'm not mistaken, there is a trace of foul breath hidden in this black mud, which can be dispelled with corresponding talismans or magic tools."

  As the firefly grass grew taller and taller, the black air on the leaves also increased.

  Everyone who saw this scene believed Lu Xuan's judgment by 80%.

  "There are often various kinds of auras in the growth environment of spiritual plants, among which spiritual energy is the most common one.

  In addition, there are special spiritual energies such as evil energy, yin energy, and evil energy. These auras are not easy to evaluate simply.

  The same aura can promote the growth of some spiritual plants, but it can also be extremely harmful to most other spiritual plants."

  "Therefore, in the process of cultivating spiritual plants, it is necessary to identify the surrounding spiritual energy very well and provide the spiritual plants with the best growth environment."

  Lu Xuan concluded.

  The young cultivator stepped down with full gratitude.

  After that, several outer disciples came on stage, either with spiritual plants or asking questions directly, and Lu Xuan patiently answered them one by one.

  "Uncle Lu, I have obtained this hydrangea spiritual seed for two and a half years, but I haven't bred a spiritual plant for such a long time. I don't know what's wrong."

  "If it can't be cultivated again, the vitality in the spiritual seed will probably disappear and become a waste seed."

  A young man with a handsome face came on stage, holding a dark purple spiritual seed in his hand, with a somewhat anxious expression.

  Lu Xuan took the spiritual seed and put it into the spiritual soil, and soon found out the problem with the abnormal spiritual seed.

  "My nephew, this hydrangea spirit seed should come from deep underground, right?"

  "Indeed, I got this spirit seed in a secret place thousands of feet deep underground. Is it related to this that it cannot be nurtured?"

  The handsome young man thought.

  "Hydrangea spirit plants usually grow in a normal light environment. The spirit seed you got has been living deep underground for a long time and has undergone changes from generation to generation. It has completely adapted to the underground environment. If you put it back in a normal environment, it will not be able to nurture a spirit plant."

  "So, you only need to plant this hydrangea spirit seed in a cool and dark cave, and bury it in the spirit soil about twice as deep as usual."

  Lu Xuan proposed a detailed solution. After the handsome young man left with gratitude, he turned around and looked at the people off the field.

  "This hydrangea spiritual seed should be able to bring some inspiration to you."

  "To cultivate spiritual plants, we also need to teach students in accordance with their aptitude, and we cannot use fixed methods and processes."

  "You can establish a closer relationship with the spiritual plants, understand their needs, and adjust the planting methods according to their needs, so that they can always maintain a good growth state."

  He used this hydrangea spiritual seed that could not breed plants as an example and said to the outer disciples who were listening to the class.

  "Uncle Lu, I have a third-grade green jade branch in my hand. It has suddenly become extremely abnormal in the past two days. Can you help me take a look?"

  Suddenly, an indifferent voice came. Lu Xuan looked in the direction of the voice and saw a Qi training perfect cultivator with a gloomy look looking over here.

  (End of this chapter)