https://novelcool.info/chapter/Chapter-260-Invitation-to-the-True-Lineage/12544224/
Chapter 259: The Soul-Luring Lamp
Chapter 259: The Soul-Luring Lamp
Arcs of electricity danced across the bluish-gray body of the concentric demon, causing it to convulse and spasm.
Mu Ying opened her eyes, her ash-gray irises filled with malevolence as she glared at Lu Chen.
Her body trembled as a cyan light surged, causing the binding rune chains to shine with a deep blue light as they tightened, suppressing Mu Ying.
"It seems you still don't understand your current situation..." Lu Chen chuckled, and a flash of purple light ran along the deep violet blade of his sword before it struck Mu Ying's body once more, even faster than before.
"Let me reiterate: spit out some infant souls, or the next lightning strike will be twice as strong."
Agony contorted the wooden concentric demon's face, its features scrunching together as it let out a silent, anguished roar.
When Mu Ying still didn't respond, Lu Chen immediately urged his Purple Electric Sword, and a thick bolt of deep violet lightning instantly struck its bluish-gray body.
The air was tinged with the faint scent of burning.
Just as Lu Chen was about to intensify the lightning, the navel of Mu Ying's diminutive body began to stir, and a pitch-black orifice revealed itself.
From this dark portal emerged an infant soul, its size akin to a clenched fist.
The soul's form was grayish-white, solid yet insubstantial, and its empty eye sockets gazed around in confusion.
"There really is something in its belly. No wonder that Nascent Soul demon needed the souls of countless infants to refine the Five-Heart Concentric Demon," Lu Chen mused with delight as he beheld the soulless infant.
He repeated the process, continuing to coerce Mu Ying to expel several more infant souls, their minds blank and unaware. He guided them to the place where the Holy Infant Fruit tree was planted.
With his spiritual sense, he perceived that within the seed, which resembled an embryo, there seemed to be a withered and shrunken ashen infant, curled up and motionless.
Upon closer inspection, the ashen infant vanished, leaving only a clump of ashen matter hidden within the seed.
Compared to when he had last left the courtyard, the Holy Infant Fruit seed appeared almost unchanged.
The courtyard was permeated with yin energy, but it could only barely sustain the Holy Infant Fruit's vitality; it couldn't promote its growth and development.
Lu Chen guided one of the infantile souls, its mind akin to that of an imbecile, above the Holy Infant Fruit seed.
The instant the infantile soul appeared, Lu Chen distinctly sensed a slight change in the embryonic seed below.
It was as if a malicious and resentful gaze had shot out from within the seed, coldly fixating on the infantile soul.
"It's better to be absorbed by the Holy Infant Fruit and enter the cycle of reincarnation than to remain inside Mu Ying," Lu Chen remarked with a sigh to the infantile soul, which had long lost its consciousness. Afterward, he controlled the soul, guiding it through the spirit soil and into the Holy Infant Fruit seed.
With his spiritual sense, he perceived the violent writhing of the ashen matter within the embryonic seed, as malevolent black qi billowed and then gradually dissipated.
Within the dense black qi, Lu Chen noticed that the withered and shrunken ashen infant seemed to be slurping up the infantile soul like a strand of noodles, absorbing it into its shriveled belly.
As the black qi faded, the fleeting glimpse of the withered and shrunken ashen infant now seemed to possess a hint of vitality.
Seeing this, Lu Chen gently nodded and proceeded to send the remaining infantile souls, each as clueless as the last, into the Holy Infant Fruit seed.
After inspecting the deep blue rune chains binding Mu Ying's body and confirming that there were no issues, he carefully stored it away in his storage bag.
"These infantile souls should be enough for the Holy Infant Fruit to absorb for quite some time," Lu Chen thought to himself. "As for this Wood-attribute Concentric Demon, I'll have to continue raising it for now so that I can periodically harvest some souls."
Lost in thought, Lu Chen made his way to the spiritual field where the Blood Sin Flower seed was buried.
Cultivating the Blood Sin Flower required feeding it with the essence blood of various demons and beasts, as well as cultivators—a task that posed no problem for Lu Chen in his current state.
Previously, when he had been tending to the giant flood dragons and anacondas in Thousand Dragon Lake, he had drawn a substantial amount of flood dragon essence blood under the pretext of performing health inspections! "It's been a while since I last drew their blood. I should find an opportunity to check on those young flood dragons and variant anacondas again, all for the sake of their healthy growth.
The Blood Sin Flower, being a fifth-grade spirit plant, naturally required a greater amount of blood than the Flood Dragon Vines. Additionally, his cultivation of the Tai Xu Hua Long Pian required the refinement of Flood Dragon essence blood. With such a substantial amount, he estimated that it would be used up quickly.
As his thoughts wandered, he took out a bottle of Flood Dragon essence blood from his storage bag and poured it onto the spiritual soil above the Blood Sin Flower's spirit seed.
The crimson essence blood seeped through the spiritual soil, making its way downward.
When it reached the Blood Sin Flower's spirit seed, countless tiny vessels, like delicate capillaries, came to life, greedily absorbing every drop of essence blood from the spiritual soil.
After absorbing all the essence blood, the colors of the countless tiny vessels on the surface of the blood globule fluctuated, with the crimson blood flowing smoothly and merging into the boundless sea of blood within.
The sea of blood churned, causing the blood-colored flowers to bloom even more dazzlingly.
Lu Chen wasn't sure if it was his imagination, but he felt that the blooming time of the blood-colored flowers was slightly longer than before.
Lu Chen poured three bottles of Flood Dragon essence blood onto the fifth-grade Blood Sin Flower spirit seed before moving on to the Ghost-Faced Stone Mushroom.
The Ghost-Faced Stone Mushroom, having gone hungry for a long time, finally had a feast when Lu Chen arrived, causing the patterns on the grayish-white stone head to become even more dazzling.
Lu Chen paused in front of it, focusing his attention on one of the mushrooms.
The progress bar below had already filled up more than half, and he estimated that it wouldn't take long to reach completion.
However, Lu Chen was unsure when he would next visit the courtyard in Jianmen Town, and he was also intensely curious about the white globules of light that yin-evil spirit plants produced.
He decided to ripen one of the Ghost-Faced Stone Mushrooms to see what rewards he could obtain.
Although the Ghost-Faced Stone Mushroom had a sinister nature, it was still within the category of spirit plants. The Emerald Wood Source Qi, derived from the life essence of the fifth-grade Qing Xuan Lu, would also have an effect on it.
A faint green light emanated from Lu Chen's fingertips and flowed into one of the Ghost-Faced Stone Mushrooms in front of him.
Instantly, the bizarre runes on the grayish-white mushroom's cap began to change constantly, resembling a face with ever-shifting expressions.
A powerful suction force emanated from the face, sucking in the few remaining plump and solid vengeful spirits nearby.
The progress bar below seemed to flicker in response.
With the continuous infusion of Green Wood Source Qi and the accelerated absorption of yin spirits' resentment, the Ghost-Faced Stone Mushroom in front of Lu Chen finally matured completely.
Lu Chen carefully pulled it out, and a thought flashed through his mind.
Ghost-Faced Stone Mushroom, a third-grade spirit plant of good quality, can be used to assist in the cultivation of certain evil arts, speeding up their practice.
"Good quality is already quite impressive," Lu Chen mused. "After all, the purity of spiritual energy in the spiritual field in the Jianmen Town courtyard is far inferior to that within the sect. Plus, I only come here occasionally to check on the cultivation, unable to provide the same level of meticulous care as I do in my cave abode day and night."
"To obtain a good quality spirit plant, I suspect the influence of the Verdant Wood Source Qi also played a part."
Lu Chen sighed, his attention shifting to a faintly flickering white globule of light in front of him.
With a gentle touch, the countless light points within the globule condensed into a blurred face that instantly drilled into Lu Chen's body.
Harvested one third-grade Ghost-Faced Stone Mushroom and obtained a fourth-grade magic artifact, the Soul-Luring Lamp.
(End of Chapter)
Chapter end
Report
