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Chapter 206: He Who Fishes for Men Will Be Fished for in Turn
Chapter 206: He Who Fishes for Men Will Be Fished for in Turn
Lu Chen's spiritual energy surged within him as he manipulated the spirit soil with his Earth Drawing Technique, making subtle changes to it.
A small pit appeared, and Lu gently placed the embryo-like spirit seed of the Holy Infant Fruit into it, then concentrated his mental energy on the seed.
A thought flashed through his mind.
Holy Infant Fruit, a fifth-grade spirit plant. The mature spirit fruit can be directly consumed to enhance a cultivator's spiritual sense and improve their constitution. It is also the main ingredient for refining the Fifth Grade Holy Infant Pill, increasing the success rate of a cultivator's breakthrough. Higher quality Holy Infant Fruits can even be used to refine external incarnations.
During cultivation, it must be planted in an environment with yin energy and yin soil. Adding infant essence blood, soul fragments, and resentment can accelerate its growth.
Prolonged exposure may result in the influence of the dense resentment within the plant, leading to the infection of yin and resentful energy.
Offspring plants: After maturing, the offspring can merge with the mother plant and integrate with it. Within a certain range, the mother plant can sense the presence of the offspring and, as it nears maturity, can even possess the offspring's plant to observe and perceive its surroundings.
"No wonder it's equivalent to a fifth-grade spirit plant, matching the power of the Golden Core realm. Its effects are incredibly potent," Lu Chen couldn't help but exclaim.
"However, what does it mean by 'offspring' in the information? Is this Holy Infant Fruit spirit seed not independent, but merely an offspring of the mother plant?"
As Lu Chen recalled the information that appeared in his mind, his expression gradually turned gloomy.
"The mother plant can locate the offspring and even use it to observe its surroundings. In other words, as the Holy Infant Fruit nears maturity, my every move in my spirit field might be known to the mother plant?"
As this thought occurred to Lu Chen, a look of shock and fear appeared on his face.
"In other words, after I spend countless amounts of essence blood to cultivate this fifth-grade Holy Infant Fruit offspring, the owner of the mother plant and the cultivator behind it will be attracted here. They will confirm my location, assess my strength, retrieve the mature offspring, and then take the opportunity to ambush me, taking both my treasures and my life?"
His expression fluctuated between worry and relief, and he was incredibly grateful to have learned the detailed information about the spirit plant he had planted. Otherwise, he might have lost both his life and his treasures.
"No wonder the elder from the Myriad Treasures Pavilion said that the Holy Infant Fruit is extremely sinister. Most cultivators who plant it meet tragic ends or simply disappear."
"I initially thought those were just rumors, but I never expected that it was all orchestrated by someone."
He gradually calmed his emotions and began contemplating how to handle this fifth-grade Holy Infant Fruit spirit seed.
Currently, he had two choices.
One was to dig up the spirit seed immediately, before it had taken root and sprouted, and toss it far away into desolate mountains and wilderness, leaving it to its fate.
Or, he could sell it off quickly at a low price to obtain some spirit stones and resources, minimizing his losses.
The second choice was to plant it in his spirit field and cultivate it normally.
After all, this was the first fifth-grade spirit seed he had obtained, and one could only imagine the abundance of spirit light it would produce upon maturity. Moreover, he had already spent a considerable price to obtain it. To discard it now would be like cutting off a large piece of flesh for Lu Chen, who had always been frugal and thrifty.
More importantly, the situation between him and the enemy had now reversed.
Without detecting any abnormalities with the Holy Infant Fruit spirit seed, the enemy cultivator could use Lu Chen's resources to cultivate the offspring to maturity, learn about his strength and location, retrieve the offspring, and secretly ambush him, taking both his treasures and his life.
But now, Lu Chen was fully aware of the characteristics of the Holy Infant Fruit offspring and could use this knowledge to set a trap, turning the tables on the enemy cultivator and seizing the mother plant from them.
The more he thought about it, the more feasible this plan seemed, and he secretly calculated the chances of success.
"Additionally, there's Yang Qingfeng, who keeps the Ink-scaled Flood Dragon, Shen Ye, the head of the Sinong Palace, and Ge Pu, a true disciple who cultivates the Yin-Yang Kun Fish. The lowest cultivation base among them is at the mid-Qi Refining stage. They either value me greatly or owe me a favor, and I can invite them over to help as well."
"Hmm... This backup team should be powerful enough."
"If all else fails, when the Holy Infant Fruit is about to mature, I'll transplant it into the sect. Let's see if that backing cultivator dares to come looking for the spirit fruit within the sect's grounds."
Lu Chen thought to himself.
"The one who spread the spiritual seeds of the Holy Infant Fruit is most likely that skinny old man at the mid-foundation establishment stage. The possibility of him having a backer at the Core Formation stage is minuscule."
"After all, if a Core Formation cultivator wanted to harm a Foundation Establishment cultivator, they could simply crush them directly. There's no need for such intricate schemes. Only if one's strength is insufficient would they resort to such tricks."
"In that case, I'm in the open while he lurks in the shadows. My own strength is passable, and I can also invite the sect's protective spiritual beasts and powerful peers to assist me."
"With this premise, the risk of luring out and killing the backing cultivator is negligible compared to obtaining a fifth-grade spirit plant."
After careful consideration, Lu Chen concluded that he had accounted for all possibilities, and decided to continue cultivating this spiritual seed of the Holy Infant Fruit.
A fifth-grade spirit plant was still far from maturity, giving him ample time to make meticulous arrangements and gradually work towards his goal.
"You wanted to use the spiritual seed as bait, but you never expected to be the one getting hooked, did you?"
"He who fishes for men will be fished for in turn."
Lu Chen harbored strong killing intent towards the backing cultivator who not only intended to freeload off him but also sought his life.
Usually, it was he who sheared others' wool and freeloaded off them. He never expected that today, he would be the one pecked in the eye, becoming the target of a freeloader.
Having made up his mind, he refocused his attention on the spiritual seed.
"The cultivation environment is suitable. This small courtyard is filled with countless vengeful spirits and white bones, unseen by mortal eyes, and there are also several underworld spirit plants, making the spiritual field in the courtyard rich in yin energy, which can guarantee the normal growth of the Holy Infant Fruit."
"However, if I want to accelerate its growth, that will be a bit difficult. Nourishing it with infant essence blood, souls, and resentment sounds like it would deplete my virtue and contradict my identity as a disciple of an upright sect."
"I'll have to think of another way. In the early stages, I can set up tasks in the Office of Miscellaneous Affairs, letting those outer disciples who enjoy life-and-death battles go hunt demonic cultivators and obtain the yin-infused items from their bodies."
With a preliminary plan in mind for cultivating the Holy Infant Fruit, Lu Chen's spiritual power surged, controlling the yin energy in the courtyard to condense into a cloud that transformed into fine strands of spiritual rain, permeating the spiritual seed of the Holy Infant Fruit.
Within the embryo-like spiritual seed, the withered and diminutive gray-black infant seemed to stretch out a little. But upon a second glance, one could only see a clump of gray-black matter, with the gray-black aura expanding and contracting as if something were gestating within.
After nourishing the Holy Infant Fruit spiritual seed, Lu Chen took out the giant scorpion's corpse from his storage bag. The fiery red spiritual patterns on the Crimson Flame Sword emerged, and he carefully sliced the corpse of the Six-Eyed Red Iron Scorpion into portions.
(End of Chapter)
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