Chapter 143 Linghe Fertility Problem
The "Insect Classic" records hundreds of species of strange insects, including iron fire ants, white jade mantises, six-winged centipedes... The grades are mainly first and second grade, and there are only a few species at the third and foundation building levels.
The light green toad that Lu Xuan met in the spiritual plant garden was also among them. It was called the wood poison toad. It feeds on monster insects and monsters that are rich in wood spiritual power, and it especially likes the pseudomorphic insects.
It will change its shape and body color according to the surrounding environment to hide itself. It is extremely toxic. The complete form of wood poison toad venom can even threaten foundation building monks.
Lu Xuan briefly scanned the "Insect Book" and learned about many ways to raise monster insects, reproduce them, and control them.
"For ordinary monks, this "Insect Book" is relatively unconventional and not as good as normal martial arts, etc. However, it is of great use to me. If I cultivate spiritual insects, I should also be able to obtain light group rewards. "
"The growth cycle of spiritual insects is usually shorter than that of spiritual beasts. Moreover, many varieties of spiritual insects are cultivated on a large scale. The number is extremely large, and naturally more light groups are obtained."
Lu Xuan thought secretly in his heart and decided that if he had the chance, he would find insect eggs or larvae and try to cultivate them.
He roughly took stock of the gains from this pest-clearing trip.
In terms of spiritual stones, the head of the Zhang family gave him five hundred spiritual stones, and with the addition of the monk's storage bag, he got about six hundred spiritual stones.
In addition, after completing the task, Yao Qing gave him forty sword seals as a reward, as well as the "Insect Classic" and several low-level elixir weapons.
"The experience of frying fish in the fish pond is quite good, the task is easy and the rewards are generous."
Lu Xuan thought to himself, 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 would be more suitable for you to stay in the sect and cultivate spiritual plants and raise spiritual beasts."
He put away the "Insect Scripture" and came to the spiritual field.
Many spiritual plants in the spiritual field have not been cultivated for several days, so the impact is not big.
The spiritual soil between the two sword grasses is full of sword marks, which shows how frequently they secretly fencing.
“It’s also a good way to keep things active and promote growth.”
Lu Xuan carefully inspected the status of the sword grass and found that the sword grass plants had not suffered any damage and were growing very well. He felt relieved and finally decided to maintain the status quo and not transplant one of the sword grass plants elsewhere.
Where the sword gourd was raised, the flying sword that was put down became a piece of scrap metal, which 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. They are good food 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 fireflies are growing happily and green.
The sect's aura environment is a dimensionality-reducing blow to the non-grade spiritual plants. Even if Lu Xuan's cultivation method is no longer sophisticated, the growth of Lingying grass is still quite good.
In the Lingtian, the third-grade Huanyan Luoguo and the second-grade Bronze Bone Bamboo that were planted in Linyangfang City have entered the mature stage. Lu Xuan estimates that it will not be long before he can harvest several light groups.
He still has great expectations for the light group reward of the third-grade Huanyan Luoguo.
He came to the second-grade flowing light wood and carefully arranged and guided the spiritual energy lines on the branches and leaves to avoid affecting the quality of the spiritual plant.
Then he went to the dragon vine, took out a bottle of a new variety of dragon blood, and poured it on the black vine.
Looking at the vines swimming slowly like poisonous snakes, Lu Xuan was satisfied.
The growth progress of the dragon vine is slightly slower than that of the Huanyan Luoguo, but it has entered the rapid growth stage, and the vines have increased a lot in both thickness and length.
The newly planted bingluo fruit has sprouted seedlings, which are pale white and swaying gently in the wind.
Lu Xuan's spiritual power circulated, and he cast basic ice spells on the four white jade-like seedlings. The mist of ice mist poured on the seedlings, nourishing and nourishing them.
Under the strange rocks of Lingquan, the remaining two iron claw crabs were fully mature. Lu Xuan picked up the two white light groups that appeared one by one.
As expected, the two light groups brought crab spirit ointment rewards.
Lu Xuan put the crab spirit ointment into his storage bag. As for the two iron claw crabs, he kept them for now.
First, the copper-bone bamboo still needs a large amount of copper and iron scraps. Before it matures, it still needs a sufficient labor force to make full use of their pair of claws that are like broadswords.
The second is to steam and cook iron claw crabs. It is best to use fresh ingredients. If you want to eat them someday, you can just take them directly from Lingquan.
The two iron claw crabs hiding under the boulder didn't know that their fate had been easily decided by Lu Xuan. They were still playing with the pair of blue and black claws in a showy manner, with protruding eyeballs and a rebellious look.
Lu Xuan chuckled lightly, scooped up a large cup of cold spring water from the Lingjing, entered the cold cave, and poured it on the locust trees.
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 out, 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 raising process.
Lu Xuan took a frozen spiritual fish as a thank you and took over the responsibility of raising the dragon and giant python.
A few days passed in the blink of an eye, and Lu Xuan quickly returned to his original rhythm of life.
I come to Qianlong Lake every day and feed dozens of dragons and pythons with a large amount of sorted monster meat.
After returning to the cave, I spent most of my time cultivating spiritual plants. In my spare time, I practiced some exercises, light body techniques, etc., and read the training materials about spiritual plants and beasts.
Occasionally, he got interested, so he took out the alchemy furnace and refined a furnace of Peiyuan Dan. After absorbing many experience packets of elixir recipes, he had a very high success rate in refining the Peiyuan Dan. The delusion of an alchemy master.
On this day, he came to the General Affairs Hall as usual to see if there was any suitable task for him.
He automatically ignored tasks such as exploring secret realms and hunting evil cultivators, and focused on the tasks related to cultivating spiritual plants and spiritual beasts within the sect.
This kind of task is not common. After all, planting spiritual plants and raising spiritual beasts have an average status in the cultivation of skills.
Not to mention compared with alchemy and weapon refining, even making talisman formations is more important than spiritual plants.
Occasionally, similar tasks appeared, and most of them were taken over by other monks.
Lu Xuan searched for a while before he found a suitable mission related to spiritual beasts.
[Task content: Linghe’s fertility problem. The cranes in the Beast Taming Hall are experiencing a crisis of population decline, and the fertility rate has reached the lowest level in the past century. They are looking for monks who can solve the fertility problem of the cranes. 】
[Task rewards depend on the fertility status of the crane. Each time a crane is conceived, a certain number of sword seals will be awarded. The more cranes that enter the gestation stage, the more additional rewards will be given. 】
"The fertility problem of cranes? I have the impression that there are such cranes everywhere in the sect. How come there is a problem of decreasing numbers?"
With doubts, Lu Xuan lightly touched the mission information on the light screen with his spiritual consciousness, and immediately, details about the mission poured into his sea of consciousness.