Chapter 8 - Breath-Retaining Method
Night fell.
Lu Xuan dragged his slightly tired body back to the house.
Although there are not many spiritual plants in the spiritual field at present, there are eleven spiritual firefly grasses that are about to mature, ten newly planted seedlings, two Eclipse Moon Trees, and one Red Cloud Pine.
However, due to the extremely delicate cultivation methods, the spiritual rain technique and the earth-inducing technique were performed round after round, so after a day, even Lu Xuan, a Qi-training cultivator, would feel tired.
However, he enjoyed it. Compared with watching many spiritual plants grow vigorously, this little fatigue was nothing.
He had a simple dinner, rested for a while, and then sat on the wooden bed, practicing the skills to restore his spiritual power.
The sudden surge in his cultivation caused the spiritual power in his body to stagnate, and he had to adapt and adjust.
Suddenly, he noticed that the array disk beside him suddenly glowed.
A miniature spiritual energy shield appeared on the array disk, and at a certain position of the shield, a faint spiritual light flickered like ripples.
Lu Xuan looked serious, remembering the location of the flashing spiritual light. The sword energy talisman slid to the palm of his left hand, and he suddenly stood up, came to the blue-gray stone wall, and jumped.
Over the stone wall, Lu Xuan's sharp eyes saw a black shadow twisting its small body and quickly fleeing into the distance.
Seeing the small black shadow trying to invade his spiritual field, Lu Xuan was furious. How could he let it escape so easily?
The spiritual energy in his body was running rapidly, and soon, a faint golden sword energy condensed in an instant, like a stream of light, whistling towards the small black shadow.
The black shadow seemed to be solidified by the sword intent, and its speed slowed down a lot, and was cut into two by the golden sword energy.
The light dissipated, and the surroundings were dim.
Lu Xuan held the sword energy talisman tightly, looked around, and after seeing nothing unusual, he slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air.
He came to the severed black shadow, picked up the two broken pieces, and returned to the yard.
As soon as he entered the house, a gray-black straw rope swam to Lu Xuan's feet and tapped his knees, indicating that something foreign had invaded the spiritual field.
"I had already killed it, but your warning just arrived. You have a good reaction speed."
Lu Xuan looked at the straw puppet whose rope retracted after reminding him, and he didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
Under the dim candlelight, he could see the remains of the black shadow in his hand.
It was black all over, with thick fingers and wrinkles of varying depths on its body. It was the black bud worm that Lu Xuan had found in "Common Harmful Demon Insects and Their Solutions".
"One time is not enough, so you come again. You think my spiritual field is your back garden, right?"
Lu Xuan controlled the Gengjin Sword Technique to cut the two halves of the black bud worm into pieces, and then used the Fireball Technique to burn it into black ash. Only then did the anger in his heart completely disappear.
"Fortunately, this protective formation worked and blocked the invasion of the black bud worm in time. Otherwise, the consequences would be disastrous..."
He was still frightened when he thought that the spiritual plants in the spiritual field might be parasitized by the black bud worm eggs, thus affecting his light ball reward.
He felt more and more that spending a lot of money to buy this second-hand formation was an extremely wise decision.
The appearance of the black budworm was just a small disturbance in the peaceful farming life.
In the next few days, nothing happened. Lu Xuan lived a simple but fulfilling life. He used the Spirit Rain Technique and the Earth Attraction Technique to carefully cultivate the spiritual plants every day, and used the Fireball Technique to stimulate the red cloud pine from time to time. He
didn't go out much in the past few days. Only Zhang Hong came once.
He was about to follow the Wang family cultivators and hundreds of thousands of independent cultivators into the wilderness to cultivate the newly appeared secret realm. Before leaving, he came to say goodbye to Lu Xuan and asked him to help take care of his wife and children at home.
Apart from this, Lu Xuan basically had no contact with other people.
Five days later, he harvested two more waves of mature firefly grass, a total of eight plants. Only the last three plants were left in the spiritual field.
Among the eight plants, three were of ordinary quality and five were of good quality.
Among the eight white light balls that appeared, three of them were rewarded with cultivation, which gave Lu Xuan an additional year of cultivation and increased his spiritual power.
Two of the other five plants were earth-drawing techniques and Gengjin sword techniques. With these two experience packs, Lu Xuan had a deeper understanding of these two techniques, and his speed of casting was faster and his power was much higher.
There were three more, and three talismans were opened, all of which were of the first grade, namely the sword energy talisman, the speed-enhancing swiftness talisman, and the defensive earth armor talisman. Lu Xuan collected them all for emergency use.
After picking these eight mature firefly grass, a large area was vacated in the spiritual field. Lu Xuan carefully planted the remaining ten firefly grass seeds. Soon, tender green shoots sprouted and trembled gently in the breeze.
The ten plants planted before have grown a lot. Each plant is about three inches tall. The leaves have become dark green, and the dots of fluorescence on them are becoming more prominent.
Lu Xuan didn't have to wait for long for the last three plants. One day, after each of them performed the Spirit Rain Technique, the faint progress bars below the three plants were pulled to the maximum.
With his mind focused, Lu Xuan found an unexpected surprise.
"Good quality mature Spirit Firefly Grass."*2
"Superior quality mature Spirit Firefly Grass."
"Finally, a superior quality Spirit Firefly Grass has been cultivated."
Lu Xuan grabbed the more fluorescent Spirit Firefly Grass and felt relieved.
A total of 24 plants, under the careful cultivation of the Spirit Rain Technique, finally a superior quality plant appeared.
Although the probability is extremely small, Lu Xuan also understands it.
After all, the spiritual energy in his own spiritual field is thin, and when he learned about the current state of the Spirit Firefly Grass, it was already in its later stage, and the improvement in quality was not great, and it was difficult to have a qualitative improvement.
"If you want to produce a large number of high-quality spiritual plants, or even higher-level perfect quality, at least two conditions must be met."
"The concentration of spiritual power, and the careful cultivation of spiritual seeds from the beginning to the mature stage."
Lu Xuan concluded.
In the spiritual field, three white light balls flickered slightly, attracting Lu Xuan's attention.
"Harvest a spiritual firefly grass, and gain half a year of cultivation."
It's cultivation again, I don't have much motivation to practice hard.
Lu Xuan felt the surging spiritual power that appeared out of thin air in his body, and sighed.
"Harvest a spiritual firefly grass, and gain a first-grade talisman to exorcise evil spirits."
A dark yellow talisman appeared in Lu Xuan's hand. There was an evil ghost pattern in the middle of the talisman, which was suppressed by two chains composed of strange patterns.
"Exorcise evil spirits, a first-grade talisman, can purify and drive away evil spirits within a certain range after use, which is rare."
A thought flashed through Lu Xuan's mind, and he carefully put away the evil spirit talisman with the evil ghost pattern.
The last white ball of light was the one with the best quality. The quality of the spiritual plant was one of the factors that affected the richness of the reward. Lu Xuan had high expectations for it.
The ball of light turned into countless light points and poured into Lu Xuan's mind. A thought flashed through his mind, and a technique appeared in his sea of consciousness.
"The Breath Containment Technique, after practicing it, can restrain one's breath and cultivation, and has a very good concealment ability."
(End of this chapter)