Chapter 88 - Dragon Beard Grass

  In the sky, mountains and rivers passed by Lu Xuan's feet rapidly.

  At this time, he was sitting on a huge black eagle.

  The eagle's body was three or four feet long, and its wings were more than ten feet wide. There were dark black feathers on its wings like sword blades, and it was very fast.

  The second-grade demon beast Iron Feather Eagle was raised by the Wang family. Lu Xuan had seen a third-grade Iron Feather Eagle in the market, which was more than twice as large as this one. The

  Iron Feather Eagle was surrounded by an aura shield to block the bayonet-like strong wind in the sky.

  The giant eagle flew very steadily, and there was no bump on its back.

  Including the two high-level Qi training monks of the Wang family, there were nearly twenty people sitting on the eagle's back.

  "Daoyou Lu, I didn't expect to meet you here."

  A monk with a simple face slowly moved to Lu Xuan's side.

  "Friend He." Lu Xuan said with a smile.

  The cultivator's name is He Ping, a spiritual plant master. Lu Xuan had met him once in Baicaotang. It is said that he is related to the foundation-building alchemist and manages a medicine garden for Baicaotang.

  Among the cultivators who went to the secret realm to help the Wang family deal with spiritual plants, there are a total of fifteen spiritual plant masters, including Lu Xuan, three of whom are closely related to Baicaotang.

  Lu Xuan observed a little bit and found that most of the fifteen spiritual plant masters were in the middle stage of Qi training, and only one old man had a high-level Qi training.

  At least on the surface.

  "I just saw you observing others. I guess Brother Lu may not be familiar with the spiritual plant masters present. Do you want me to introduce them to you?"

  He Ping said with a smile.

  "Then I'll trouble you, Brother He." Lu Xuan just wanted it.

  "These more than ten people have outstanding skills in planting spiritual plants, so they were invited by the Wang family."

  "The old man with a high level of Qi training, who is in the lead, belongs to the Wang family."

  He Ping introduced them one by one. It was indeed as Wang Ruhai said before. Most of the more than ten spiritual plant masters had extraordinary origins, and Lu Xuan felt a little relieved.

  "Fellow Daoist He, can you tell me about the secret realm?" Lu Xuan asked.

  "Fellow Daoist, have you not entered the secret realm yet?" He Ping asked with a strange look in his eyes.

  "To be honest, I have not."

  Lu Xuan said frankly.

  "Because of my ordinary cultivation, I am not good at fighting, and I am afraid of death, so I gave up the idea of ​​entering the secret realm to explore opportunities and devoted myself to cultivating spiritual plants."

  "Fellow Daoist Lu must have given up these things, so that he can have cultivation skills that surpass others at such a young age."

  He Ping straightened his face.

  "The secret realm mainly comes from two parts. One is the ancient relics. This kind may bring great opportunities, but it also hides huge risks."

  "There is also a kind of ingenuity, which is formed by chance and creates a world of its own. If it is not long since it was born, it usually has a lot of cultivation resources, but there are also many monsters and evil spirits. Opportunities and risks coexist."

  "The second kind we are going to enter this time."

  He Ping said incessantly.

  Half a day later, the iron-feathered eagle slowly landed in a valley.

  There was already a Wang family cultivator waiting nearby. When he saw the Iron Feather Eagle fold its wings and walk over with a large piece of monster meat,

  "This is the edge of the secret realm. Next, fellow Daoist Li Jianfeng and I will lead you to your destination."

  The elegant scholar Wang Ruhai said with a smile.   

  Lu Xuan looked around curiously. There were towering mountains and towering trees. His spiritual consciousness could sense that it was obscured by some unknown spiritual power.

  This valley was the stronghold of the Wang family. If other cultivators wanted to enter the secret realm, they had to find another way to enter.

  At Wang Ruhai's signal, a cultivator of the middle stage of Qi training came out and used a magic mirror to open the restriction outside the secret realm. The spiritual energy surged, and a small door that could accommodate two people appeared in front of everyone.

  Lu Xuan and other spiritual plant masters followed the two people from the Wang family and entered one after another.

  In a trance, Lu Xuan came to a strange space. It was a barren land. There were a few strange plants growing on the black and red soil. The sky was dark and gloomy.

  "This is the outer periphery of the secret realm. Let's speed up and go directly to the destination."

  Li Jianfeng, who had been silent all the time, said in a deep voice, and his figure shot into the distance like an arrow from a string.

  More than a dozen spiritual plant masters either performed body skills or activated magic tools and followed closely behind.

  Lu Xuan also pasted two swift talismans on his legs and was in the middle of the crowd.

  Along the way, the barren land gradually came to life. As he went deeper into the secret realm, Lu Xuan began to find traces of cultivators.

  However, seeing that there were so many people on their side and that there were high-level cultivators leading the team, the casual cultivators encountered outside the secret realm were like frightened birds and left in a hurry.

  After more than half an hour, Lu Xuan and his party came to a mountain with strange rocks.

  After constantly circling around among the strange rocks, they finally arrived at their destination.

  "This is it."

  Wang Ruhai pointed to the mountainside and said.

  On the mountainside, many black and red strange stones had inconspicuous dark red strange grass growing on their surfaces. They

  were about two feet long, towering on the surface of the rock wall, with a curved shape and extremely thin tops. They grew densely together, like a bunch of strange tentacles.

  "Dragon beard grass is a second-grade spiritual plant. However, under the influence of the special environment of the secret realm, the dragon beard grass here has undergone some kind of mutation. Many dark red long whiskers are somewhat aggressive. It is no different from normal dragon beard grass at ordinary times, but it will suddenly attack cultivators when or after picking."

  "The attack intensity is not great, probably equivalent to a cultivator of the second or third level of Qi training, but because it is mixed in the dragon beard grass after picking, it often damages normal spiritual plants, which is very annoying."

  "Moreover, there are some weird components in the normal dragon beard grass, which are integrated into the plant and difficult to detect and separate, making it difficult for second-grade spiritual plants to have corresponding value."

  "Therefore, we need to rely on all the spiritual plant masters, with the help of your experience and knowledge in cultivating spiritual plants, to identify the mutated dragon beard grass, and separate the things inside the normal dragon beard grass, pick it carefully and hand it over to us."

  "Here are one hundred spirit stones as part of the advance payment. After leaving the secret realm, there will be a large number of spirit stones and spiritual medicines to thank you."

  "The spiritual plant master who processes the most dragon beard grass will receive a generous additional reward."

  Wang Ruhai took out a large amount of spiritual stones from his storage bag, divided them into fifteen small piles, and floated them in front of Lu Xuan and others.

  "One hundred spiritual stones are worth between the first-grade and second-grade magic tools, which is not bad."

  Lu Xuan accepted the one hundred spiritual stones with a smile and put them into his storage bag.

  "But it's not worth it for me to risk my life. I can just follow other spiritual plant masters and fish."

  Lu Xuan thought secretly.

  Several mid-level Qi training cultivators from the Wang family began to build a camp. Among the spiritual plant masters, some have already walked to the front of the dragon beard grass, holding up a shield magic tool and carefully observing the dragon beard grass.

  There are also a few people who gathered together and whispered about how to identify normal dragon beard grass.

  Lu Xuan followed behind these people, nodding and agreeing from time to time, looking at the several spiritual plant masters who had already gone deep into the dragon beard grass territory, and curled his lips.

  "One hundred spiritual stones, what are you risking your life for!"

  (End of this chapter)