Chapter 201: The Azure Mystic Stag
Chapter 201: The Azure Mystic Stag
The newly hatched young Flood Dragon was highly dependent on the Wind Falcon, snuggling close to its round belly and letting out soft, cooing sounds.
The Wind Falcon was at a loss, feeling the little dragon climbing on its stomach, and couldn't help but spread its pale green wings and take to the sky.
The young dragon followed clumsily, but having just hatched, despite its higher rank, its strength was still far inferior to the Wind Falcon chick's, and it was soon left far behind.
"Roar..."
The little dragon, exhausted, struggled a few times before reluctantly landing on the ground, letting out a mournful cry.
High in the sky, the Wind Falcon paused at the sound of this cry, its large pale green wings maintaining its round body as it flapped a few times before finally turning back towards the young dragon.
Overjoyed, the little dragon flew up into the air and circled the Wind Falcon's belly a few times before curling around its neck.
At first glance, it looked like a thick, fiery red chain was hanging from the falcon's neck.
"Little Li Huo Long is looking for its mama."
Lu Chen smiled as he inspected the spiritual fields on the mountain peaks.
The two hundred ordinary Spirit Firefly Grasses he had planted previously no longer yielded as much cultivation rewards when their light orbs matured, so he decided not to harvest them anymore and instead used them all to condense spirit seeds.
From over a hundred and sixty Spirit Firefly Grasses, he obtained more than eight hundred spirit seeds.
Lu Chen carefully gathered the spirit seeds, intending to guide them all to improve the Spirit Firefly Grass variety.
Among the remaining Spirit Firefly Grasses, fifty plants were not stimulated during the spirit seed stage; they were simply cultivated in an environment with cold spiritual energy. With daily observations, all of these grasses matured smoothly, and in the end, he obtained nine variant Spirit Firefly Grasses.
He planned to try condensing spirit seeds from these nine variant grasses to obtain a large number of mutated spirit seeds and accelerate the improvement process.
The other forty-one Spirit Firefly Grasses that had failed the stimulation would be used to continue condensing ordinary spirit seeds.
Lu Chen plucked one of the variant Spirit Firefly Grasses, and as he focused his mind, a thought flashed through his mind.
[Spirit Firefly Grass, a spirit herb with no rank. It underwent a mutation during cultivation, containing a slight ice-elemental spiritual power. It can be used as the main material for the Pei Yuan Dan, slightly improving the quality of the pill when refined.]
"Compared to the previous information, the rank hasn't changed, but there's a slight addition of ice-elemental spiritual power in the plant, which can slightly enhance the quality of the pill," Lu Chen mumbled to himself. He had long understood that rushing the process of improving spiritual herbs would lead to disappointment, so he wasn't too discouraged by this outcome.
"It's already quite remarkable that the first attempt at modification yielded results. The next step is to continue making improvements until the Spirit Firefly Grass's rank increases."
As Lu Chen sighed, he gently picked up the white light orb that the variant Spirit Firefly Grass produced.
Inside the orb, there was still the cultivation reward of two months, with no changes.
He wasn't discouraged and went on to check the other twenty-six Spirit Firefly Grasses that had been cultivated from the mutated spirit seeds, also planning to condense them into seeds to obtain a large number of mutated spirit seeds.
In the Earthfire vein, amidst the scorching magma, the Earthfire Heart Lotus spirit seed quietly grew.
The lotus's roots were only as thick as a little finger, appearing to be composed of countless irregular pale red crystals. Several fiery red lotus leaves stood proudly in the magma, unyielding to the surging currents.
The fiery red, scorching magma flowed down from the palm-sized leaves, slowly absorbed by the dark red leaf veins, and then spread along the veins, nourishing the entire Earthfire Heart Lotus plant.
Days of farming passed like flowing water, uneventful and quiet, leaving only the traces of the growing spiritual herbs.
After nourishing the Sword Grass spirit seed with the Spirit Sword Sheath for a while, Lu Chen felt it was probably enough. He picked up the ancient sword sheath and shook it gently.
A slender, gray-black seed, as long as a sword and marked with pale red patterns, slid out without any hindrance.
"Hmm, there's been some change," Lu Chen said in surprise, looking at the pale red patterns on the Sword Grass spirit seed.
With a few quick leaps, he arrived at the Earthfire vein and planted the spirit seed into the spirit field that had been transformed with the Spirit-Leading Art.
[Crimson Flame Sword Grass, a second-grade spirit herb. Formed after being nourished and stimulated by second-grade Crimson Flame Sword qi for a long time. Can be refined into a fire-attribute flying sword with better results.]
[Can be nurtured and moisturized with Crimson Flame Sword qi during cultivation.]
"The rank hasn't changed; it's still a second-grade herb. However, compared to ordinary Sword Grass, it's more suitable for refining fire-attribute flying swords, making it more specialized and powerful," Lu Chen compared it to the ordinary Sword Grass as he probed with his spiritual sense into the Spirit Sword Sheath.
There wasn't much Crimson Flame Sword qi residue left on the inner walls of the sword sheath; it seemed that most of it had been absorbed by the Sword Grass spirit seed.
With a thought, the Xunyue Sword Pill in his dantian trembled slightly, and dozens of black sword rays surged out, carrying tiny jumping arcs, and entered through the opening of the sheath.
"That's enough, no more," Lu Chen said as the ancient sword sheath, which welcomed the sword rays despite their lack of physical form, could only withstand so much. Soon, the inner walls of the sword sheath were filled with black sword rays.
Lu Chen stuffed the last Sword Grass spirit seed into the sheath, curious to see what changes the third-grade Xunyue Sword Rays would bring about.
"Stimulating the spirit seeds seems to have a higher success rate than stimulating the spiritual herbs, but it also takes a lot longer. Each method has its pros and cons," he mused.
He sealed the opening of the Spirit Sword Sheath, awaiting the unknown changes that the Sword Grass spirit seed would undergo.
One day, as Lu Chen was cultivating spiritual herbs and tending to spiritual beasts, a deep, low stag bellow suddenly rang out from the distant mountain peaks.
The call was ethereal and distant, echoing through the valley.
Lu Chen noticed that at the moment the call sounded, all the spiritual herbs on the mountain peaks trembled, extending their stems and leaves as if welcoming the sound.
Lu Chen randomly selected a spiritual herb to check its current state and found it to be extremely good, as if the call had washed away any negative effects.
Lu Chen flew onto a tall spirit tree and gazed into the distance, spotting a giant stag with a height of twenty feet passing by not far away.
The stag was azure in color, and the two antlers on its head were like white jade, emanating a sense of holiness even from a distance.
No one knew how old the stag was, but its fur was sparse, with tangled tufts here and there.
Where its four hooves touched the ground, azure ripples spread out, and wherever the ripples passed, the spiritual herbs grew wildly, exuding a powerful vitality.
After a few breaths, the stag's figure disappeared from Lu Chen's sight, but the ethereal call still echoed through the air.
"Senior Jiang, what is the origin of that stag that just passed by? It seems to have an extraordinary background," Lu Chen asked curiously as he stepped out of the mountain peak and saw a middle-aged cultivator standing on a tall spirit tree about a hundred feet away.
"Greetings, Fellow Daoist Lu. I've encountered that giant stag a few times and know a bit about it," the man replied.
"The stag is called the Azure Mystic Stag, and it possesses the strength of a fifth-grade demon beast. It is said that it used to be the spiritual beast of a Foundation Establishment elder in a sect."
(End of Chapter)
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