Chapter 436: The Sword Grass of the Blue Lotus
Chapter 436: The Sword Grass of the Blue Lotus
"It's not easy for you, Brother Lu, to have such determination." Shen Ye expressed his strong admiration for Lu Xuan.
It was indeed rare to find a sect disciple with such a strong sense of dedication and belonging.
"It's my duty," Lu Xuan replied sincerely.
"It is our duty to restore the glory of the Sword Hall!"
"You have made an immense contribution by offering the method to condense the sword grass of a third-grade sword. From now on, if the Sword Hall condenses a new spiritual herb, you will be the first to have the qualification to cultivate it."
"For the sword grass cultivated by the Sword Hall, Brother Lu, you can either apply to use it yourself or hand it over to the Sword Hall. Depending on the grade and number of sword grasses, the Hall will reward you handsomely."
"However, it is quite rare for a large number of fourth-grade sword grasses to appear. Once the condensation of their spirit herbs is successful, they will be snatched up by countless sword cultivators within the Hall."
"But rest assured, Brother Lu, as soon as a fourth-grade sword grass spirit herb appears, I will contact you immediately, and you can decide whether or not to cultivate it first."
"As for the fifth grade, this already falls under the category of pill condensation. Only the Sword Pool and other strange places within the Sword Hall will occasionally produce one or two of them. During bad luck, it may take decades to come across one. I will also keep a close eye out for you."
"Thank you, Brother Shen!" Lu Xuan bowed his hands in gratitude and sincerity.
As it would take some time to verify the method of condensing the Wind and Thunder Sword Grass, Lu Xuan bid Shen Ye farewell and returned to his cave abode.
Paying no heed to the stir that the thin piece of paper caused within the Sword Hall, Lu Xuan devoted himself entirely to his spiritual fields, quietly cultivating spirit herbs and tending to his spiritual beasts.
Of the seventy remaining Water Glow Grasses, the condensation of their spirit herbs had been successful, yielding over three hundred long, deep blue spirit herbs.
Following the usual practice, Lu Xuan took out two hundred of them and scattered them across the prepared spiritual fields.
The gentle spiritual rain fell, permeating the spirit-rich soil and nourishing the long, slender spirit herbs.
He planned to use the remaining hundred spirit herbs to induce and improve them, hoping to obtain a third-grade mutated spirit herb so that when his cultivation broke through in the future, the cultivation reward brought by the light group would not be negligible.
He took out several hundred-year-old ice piths and placed the hundred spirit herbs among them, allowing the icy-cold aura emanating from the ice piths to nourish the spirit herbs.
As the Water Glow Grass leaned towards the water attribute, using the ice pith to stimulate their improvement was more appropriate.
Using the Pure Yang True Fire to stimulate the spirit herbs might cause them all to turn into waste.
"The next time I go to the Imperfect Secret Realm, I can also place them in that spring eye and use the Spirit Dew to stimulate and improve the spirit herbs." Lu Xuan thought to himself.
After carefully tending to the spiritual plants in the spirit fields around the peak, he returned to his house.
High in the sky above the peak, a pair of gray-white eyes quietly emerged from the void, appearing and disappearing mysteriously.
Seeing no abnormalities around, Lu Xuan's thoughts stirred, and a golden jade book appeared in his hand.
As he gently opened the jade book, a dignified cry rang in his ears, and a red-footed golden crow came into view.
The golden crow was engulfed in flames of white and platinum, dancing with the intensity to incinerate all things in the world.
Lu Xuan's eyes fixed intently on the lifelike red-footed golden crow depicted in the jade book.
In a daze, a giant fireball that blotted out the sky and sun appeared in his mind, with a golden crow soaring freely within. As its wings fluttered, pure white flames continuously fell.
He extended his palm, and a wisp of pure white flame appeared at his fingertip, burning silently, quietly brewing an incredibly terrifying power.
"After years of contemplating the Pure Yang True Fire Manual, my understanding of the Pure Yang True Fire has probably reached the fourth-grade level. It can be considered a powerful means."
After contemplating the golden jade book for a while, he took out a withered and aged tree branch from the Gluttonous Bug Pouch.
There were more than thirty eerie eyes on the branch, some tightly closed and others observing their surroundings. Sensing Lu Xuan's gaze, all the eyes scurried about spiritedly.
Lu Xuan's body glowed with a faint spiritual light, and he plucked one of the eerie eyes from the Hundred-Eyed Bizarre Tree.
Behind the eye were numerous fine, semi-transparent tentacles wriggling about.
Lu Xuan directly implanted the eye into his glabella, and in an instant, his eyes bulged rapidly as if something was crawling around inside them, causing chaos in his sea of consciousness.
He struggled to maintain his sanity and activated the Breaking Illusion Pupil Technique, striving to absorb the power of the eerie eye.
After a moment, his eyes returned to normal, and a faint spiritual power flowed into them, causing the world around him to transform. The spiritual energy flowing within the peaks was now clearly visible to him, and his eyesight had improved significantly.
"Ever since plucking the Hundred-Eyed Bizarre Tree, I've been refining one eerie eye at intervals to enhance my eye technique, occasionally feeding one to the Cloud-Stepping Lynx, and I've already used up almost half of the eyes on the tree trunk," Lu Xuan said with emotion as he carefully stored away the tree branch, which was as wrinkled as human skin.
For the following period, he maintained a simple, monotonous yet fulfilling and stable routine.
Most of his time was spent cultivating spirit plants, tending to his spirit beasts, and playing with them. The rest of his time was dedicated to pill refining and cultivation.
His pill-refining materials included spirit plants he had cultivated himself and some purchased at low prices from the Pill Hall. The pills he refined were temporarily stored away.
Since his refinement of the Nurturing Origin Pill and the Infusing Spirit Pill had both reached the Grandmaster level, with a success rate close to 100%, pill refining didn't take up too much of Lu Xuan's time.
As for cultivation, he mainly contemplated the Pure Yang True Fire Manual, practiced eye techniques, cultivated the fifth-grade Divine Derivative Scripture to strengthen his spiritual sense, and occasionally soaked in a Dragon Marrow Bath to reinforce his physical body.
During this period, the remaining ten stalks of second-grade Yellow Cloud Herbs matured, all of them of ordinary quality.
Among the ten white light groups that appeared after their maturation, there were six second-grade Beast Spirit Pills, three Beast Spirit Pill formula experience packs, and two Chenxiang Pills.
After absorbing three experience packs, Lu Xuan's understanding of refining Beast Spirit Pills improved significantly once again, reaching the Proficient level. His success rate for refining them was now about 30%.
One day, a small Sword Talisman swiftly flew over and stopped outside the Flowlight Talisman Array, emitting sharp whistling sounds.
Lu Xuan activated the array to draw in the talisman, and his spiritual power stimulated it.
A familiar voice, belonging to Shen Ye, rang out, filled with obvious joy.
"Brother Lu, recently one of the Pill Condensing Masters in the sect has condensed five fourth-grade Sword Grass spirit herbs!"
"The variety is the Blue Lotus Sword Grass. If you're interested, Brother Lu, you can come over to the Sword Hall to take a look. There's no time to lose, as I can only hold on to one of the spirit herbs for half a month at most."
"If you don't come to claim the spirit herb within half a month, then I can only give it to another fellow Sword Hall disciple."
"Fourth-grade Blue Lotus Sword Grass?"
Lu Xuan's voice was filled with delight.
With the opportunity to obtain a fourth-grade Sword Grass spirit herb, how could he possibly miss it?
"Don't even mention half a month, I can't even wait half a hour!"
Lu Xuan's thoughts stirred, and he summoned the plump bird he had intended to meet Little Fresh Falcon with. In an instant, he was on its spacious back.
"Quickly, to the Sword Hall at top speed!"
(End of Chapter)
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