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Chapter 514: The Sha Yuan Fruit
Chapter 514: The Sha Yuan Fruit
Lu Chen found an empty corner and with his Void Nightmare Eyes, he scanned the area to ensure no cultivators were nearby. Only then did he don the Thousand Soul Guise, altering his appearance and aura.
Winding his way through the paths, he arrived at the small courtyard in the Underworld.
He deactivated the defensive formation, the Illusionary Extinction Five Elements Array, and as soon as he stepped into the courtyard, a dense aura of yin energy assailed his senses. Before him lay a bizarre and otherworldly sight.
The air was filled with blood energy, and strange spirit plants with palm-like shapes scurried over to suck his blood. Wails of resentful spirits echoed incessantly, like a bone-piercing pain that refused to abate.
Several infant-like shadows, colored a strange green-black, darted about the courtyard. Upon seeing Lu Chen, they scurried back into the Holy Infant Fruit spirit plant, transforming into a mass of dark, chaotic matter.
Lu Chen stood in the center of the courtyard, surveying the bizarre spirit plants that surrounded him, his heart filled with anticipation for the harvest to come.
He carefully inventoried his gains from the Heavenly Abyss Treasure Meeting.
In terms of spirit seeds, he had acquired a sixth-grade Yuan Magnet Spirit Wood seed, only the second sixth-grade seed among all his spirit plants, and its rarity was without question.
He also obtained three fifth-grade spirit seeds, each with some relation to the sinister and bizarre.
They were the Viscera Treasure Stock, the Soul-Burning Flower, and the red and white sinister qi spirit seed he had obtained from the corpse of the Old Devil Xuan Yin.
Additionally, there was the mysterious stone coffin, several sinister and bizarre magical artifacts and pills taken from the Old Devil Xuan Yin, the fresh meat of the Blue Crafty Elephant demon beast purchased at the treasure meeting, and the thousand-year-old Xuan Birth Spirit Milk extorted from the cultivator selling fake seeds.
He also now possessed nearly seven hundred medium-grade spirit stones and several low-grade spirit stones, bringing his wealth to unprecedented heights.
With just the spirit stones alone, he estimated he was now among the wealthiest inner disciples. Perhaps only a few Nascent Soul or Foundation Establishment descendants, along with those greasy-rich pill masters in the Pill Hall, could compare to him.
It was a bountiful harvest!
Lu Chen felt that his trip had been more than worthwhile.
Compared to the treasures gained, the cost was negligible.
Most of his rewards had come from the light spheres, thanks to the previous Underworld spirit plants and the two batches of mature Mystical Peach light spheres. It was a good opportunity to clear out his increasingly bloated storage bag.
The magnitude of his gains put Lu Chen in a wonderful mood.
He took out the unplanted spirit seed he had obtained from the skinny old man and found a patch of blank Profound Mud spirit soil. He carefully planted the seed within it.
Focusing his mind on the spirit seed, detailed information about it immediately appeared in his brain.
"Sha Yuan Fruit, fifth-grade spirit plant. During cultivation, it needs to absorb a large amount of fierce and sinister qi, refining it to condense a pure and rich sinister qi spirit fruit."
"After maturation, the spirit fruit can be used to temper the physical body, greatly enhancing its strength. In battle, the dense sinister qi can influence opponents."
"It can also be used to assist in the cultivation of corresponding divine techniques and magic arts."
"With a frail body, it bears the fruit of sinister qi!"
"As expected, it's a fifth-grade sinister and bizarre spirit plant..." Lu Chen muttered to himself.
"It needs to absorb sinister qi during growth? I can start by using those bloodthirsty weapons soaked in countless bloodshed."
"Perhaps, if the opportunity arises, I can find a sinister cultivator or two and use them as fertilizer, purifying the sinister qi from their bodies."
He contemplated this, marveling at his own kindness.
After all, the accumulation of sinister qi could greatly impact a cultivator if there was no method to eliminate and purify it. It might even lead to a confused soul and eventual transformation.
As Lu Chen reflected on this, he took out the odd-shaped spirit seed resembling internal organs and the pitch-black spirit seed, planting them into the spirit soil.
"I'm accumulating more and more Underworld spirit plants. At this rate, I'll run out of space in the small courtyard."
Of course, in front of the light spheres, this sentimental lament seemed a bit melodramatic.
Lu Chen eagerly wished for more high-grade sinister and bizarre spirit plants.
After planting the three newly acquired fifth-grade sinister spirit plants, Lu Chen took out the remains of the Blue Crafty Elephant demon beast.
The Gluttonous Worm Pouch truly deserved its reputation as a fifth-grade treasure. Even after storing the demon beast's remains for some time, the flesh remained fresh and showed no signs of decay.
However, the size of the remains was simply too large, leaving Lu Chen with no choice but to levitate them in the air and cut them into pieces of meat.
He utilized every part of the Blue Crafty Elephant to the utmost.
Its essence blood was used to nourish the Bloodthirsty Flower and Blood Spirit Palm Ginseng, while the large chunks of demon beast meat were primarily fed to the hungry Meat Spirit God.
Little Xie Sui was in a critical stage of gestation and required a large amount of high-grade demon beast flesh and blood, so Lu Chen could only temporarily give the Immortal Peach and Thousand Coiling Hands some of the leftover bits.
As for the filthy substances within the demon beast's remains, Lu Chen used them to cultivate the Filth Worm Grass growing in a corner of the courtyard.
Lu Chen carefully separated the demon beast's organs and arranged them in a special formation around the Viscera Treasure Stock spirit seed.
"You'll never go hungry again now that I've planted you," he said to the spirit seed. "So, grow well and don't disappoint me."
A smile curved Lu Chen's lips as he silently addressed the strange spirit seeds in the Profound Mud spirit soil.
He had plenty of resentful souls in his possession, but they were all tainted by yin energy and demonic qi, making them impure. Thus, he temporarily refrained from using them to cultivate the Flame Soulflower spirit seed.
"I'll wait until I find a spirit artifact or cultivation technique for refining resentful souls before using them for the Flame Soulflower," he thought to himself as he took out the mottled stone coffin.
He remained cautious, ready to activate the fourth-grade sword talisman at any moment. His spiritual power extended slowly toward the edges of the stone coffin, which was engraved with terrifying evil ghost patterns.
He carefully lifted the coffin lid, and the greenish-black resentful infant sealed within by long bronze nails seemed to sense a glimmer of hope for escape. Its body exuded a dense black aura, and infant-like resentful souls drilled out from its empty eye sockets, rushing toward Lu Chen.
"Behave yourself!" Lu Chen reprimanded lightly. A golden arc of electricity shot out from his Wind and Thunder Sword, piercing the resentful infant and instantly electrocuting it into submission as it struggled against the bronze nails.
He caught the numerous infant-like resentful souls that flew out and, under the pressure of his powerful spiritual power, they huddled together, not daring to move.
"Now, be a good boy and nurture those resentful souls for me. If you do well, I might even grant you more freedom in the future, considering your contributions," Lu Chen said. "But if you get any funny ideas about escaping from the stone coffin, don't blame me for being ruthless."
Fine threads of lightning rained down on the greenish-black resentful infant, causing it to tremble constantly, its black aura nearly shaken into nothingness.
The resentful infant, possessing a certain level of sentience, made a wise choice and retracted its black aura, remaining still.
"Good. From now on, provide me with as many infant-like resentful souls as you can. The more you provide, the more valuable you'll become, and the longer you'll be able to survive," Lu Chen praised, then closed the stone coffin.
He approached the Holy Infant Fruit and its two offshoots, releasing the infant-like resentful souls from his palm, which then merged into the plants.
At the top of the spirit plant, which resembled an embryo, the clump of grayish-black matter became more substantial, and one could vaguely make out the form of a skinny, grayish-black infant curled up within.
(End of Chapter)
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