Capítulo 16: Chapter 15 Dark Marrow Mushroom_1
"Little Brother Lu, it's been a long time. How have you been?"
Zhang Hong greeted Lu Xuan with a hearty laugh.
"Thanks for your concern, Brother Zhang. Everything's fine. Instead, congratulations on your safe return from the wilderness."
Lu Xuan said with a smile.
"Haha, I got lucky, suffered only minor injuries, and luckily found some treasures."
"I came here to thank you, Little Brother Lu."
"My wife told me that you helped eradicate the pests that infested our spirit fields."
"And that little rascal, ever since he came back, he's been bragging about how he can now earn spirit stones and even plans to support the family with them!"
Thinking of Zhang Xiu Yuan's proud face, Zhang Hong laughed heartily.
"There's no need for formalities, Brother Zhang. You've helped me so much before, what I did is nothing in comparison."
"As for Little Yuan, he has saved me a lot of time and unnecessary troubles, so a little reward should be given."
"What can a child like him do!"
"To my surprise, Little Brother Lu, I thought you would just peacefully cultivate your spirit fields, but I didn't expect you to possess such swordsmanship skills."
"With it, you can beat many cultivators of the Third Layer of Qi Cultivation."
Zhang Hong exclaimed.
With the concealment method covering him, Lu Xuan was not worried that Zhang Hong would detect his true cultivation level.
"Our spirit field was among the first affected by the pest infestation, it almost cost me seven spirit stones to hire a Middle-Stage Qi Practitioner to solve it."
"In order to prevent this from happening again, I bit the bullet and purchased a first-grade sword technique. I didn't expect to progress so slowly in my spiritual power cultivation, but I found some talent in mastering the sword technique."
"I progressed quickly with the sword technique, and even reached a point where I could help others get rid of pests, so I thought of making some spirit stones by using it to cover its costs."
Lu Xuan made up a reason to explain how he used the Golden Sword Technique to solve the pest problem.
Zhang Hong believed him without any doubts.
The two chatted for a while, and naturally the conversation turned to Zhang Hong's experience of exploring the wilderness mystery this time.
"The Wang Clan's Array Mage broke two formations, according to the Middle-Stage Qi Practitioners who entered deeper into the secret land, this new secret land is not smaller than Linyang Market, and there are countless spirit plants and spirit medicines inside."
"We Loose Cultivators at the second and third stages of Qi cultivation only operated on the periphery, lacking the ability or qualification to enter the deeper parts of the wilderness."
"I followed a group of Loose Cultivators, collecting spirit plants and clearing out some low-level demon beasts."
"Even though there were senior cultivators from the Wang family defending at the front, it was said that the casualties were still considerable, about one-third."
"Our little squad was relatively lucky. We only encountered two dangerous situations. One time, while collecting spirit plants, we encountered a mutated plant. It was extremely aggressive and good at disguising itself, and two cultivators were unwittingly sacrificed."
"On another occasion, we encountered a peculiar demon beast, a spider with a human face. It was incredibly fast, and we couldn't see it clearly. One of the Loose Cultivators was cut in half by it. Thankfully, a high-tier Qi Cultivator arrived in time to eliminate it."
Thinking of these two encounters, Zhang Hong turned pale, showing a lingering fear. The shadow left by these events was not small.
Lu Xuan on one side listened with interest. After all, he didn't have to experience it personally, hearing the stories was quite entertaining.
"So, Little Brother Lu, are you interested in going? The opening of the new secret land has the biggest rewards and risks. After that, both will lessen."
"Of course, this is only known for the periphery of the wilderness, what's happening inside, I couldn't tell."
Seeing Lu Xuan's interested expression, Zhang Hong laughed and invited.
"No, thank you. With my low cultivation level and my lack of proficiency in combat, and without any magical talismans on hand, I'd better stay and continue being a Spirit Plant Master."
He said with a smile.
The spiritual power cultivation from the white light cluster was poorly accumulated, and the magical talismans and elixir brought by the light cluster were scant, so they were practically 'non-existent'.
Zhang Hong just casually mentioned it and then dropped the subject.
"By the way, Brother Zhang, did you acquire any unknown wild spiritual seeds during your trip to the Wilderness Mystery? If so, I can buy them with spirit stones,"
Lu Xuan deflected the topic and asked.
"Unknown wild spiritual seeds? Wild spiritual seeds are rare to begin with, let alone unknown species."
"I didn't come across any myself, but I heard that a loose cultivator discovered a wild spiritual seed in a desolate part of the Secret Land. I will check it out for you."
"Just keep in mind that the type of this spiritual seed is unknown, as is the cultivation method. If you want to cultivate it, Little Brother Lu, you might be taking on a significant risk. You could just be wasting your time and spirit stones."
Zhang Hong couldn't help but advise after hearing Lu Xuan's inquiry.
"I just want to try it out, not betting on a slim chance of success."
"If I fail, I can still gather some experience growing spiritual plants and widen my horizons."
Lu Xuan found an excuse to dodge the subject.
"All right! I will ask around for you!"
Zhang Hong nodded and said.
He was very efficient, and brought some good news two days later.
In the Zhang Family Courtyard.
He introduced Lu Xuan to a bald monk who was at the Third Layer of Qi Cultivation.
"This is Friend Long, very strong."
"This is Little Brother Lu. He has some talent in cultivating spirit plants. He would like to know more about the unknown spiritual seed in your possession."
Zhang Hong introduced Lu Xuan and the bald monk to each other, and quickly got to the point.
"This spiritual seed, I found it in a desolate area on the periphery of the Secret Land. At the time, I found more than ten wild spiritual seeds, and a deacon from the Wang Family rewarded me with one."
"I still haven't figured out exactly what species it is, but judging by the location where it was found, it should at least be First Grade."
"If Brother Lu wants it, you can take it for five spirit stones."
The bald monk spoke directly.
Lu Xuan took the spiritual seed from him and examined it closely.
The spiritual seed was shaped like a small fungus, dark red in color, with something resembling blood vessels visible on the surface. A viscous substance was slowly flowing through those vessels.
"Five spirit stones, that is not expensive. The price was the same when I obtained the Red Cloud Pine."
"However, by looking at the strange and peculiar spiritual seed, its rank and rarity definitely do not fall short of the Red Cloud Pine. If the exact species was known, the price would definitely have been much higher than the Red Cloud Pine."
Lu Xuan thought to himself and quickly made a decision.
"Friend Long, I'll take this spiritual seed."
"Brother Lu is very straightforward."
One handed over the spirit stones and the other gave the spiritual seed. Both showed faint smiles.
The bald monk was delighted that the unknown wild spiritual seed could bring him five spirit stones. Lu Xuan was glad to have another rare spirit plant in his spirit field.
And the white light clusters that come when the spiritual plant matures were even more important.
Back at home, he activated the Earth Pulling Technique, clearing a small spot in the spirit field and planting this dark red fungus.
Focusing his mind, detailed information about the spirit plant flashed through his brain.
"Dark Marrow Mushroom, a Second-Level spiritual plant. After maturing, it can be used to refine some body refinement elixirs or can be directly consumed to strengthen a cultivator's physique."
"It's a plant that grows in dark places. It doesn't need light or spirit rain, it only wants to stay in the dark, accompanied by rotting spirit wood."
Capítulo 17: Chapter 16: Elixir Recipe_1
"It seems that the Dark Marrow Mushroom dislikes light, and its growing environment requires decayed spiritual wood," Lu Xuan surmised from the hints that appeared in his mind.
"It being light-averse is fairly simple. Although due to the nature of the Spiritual Field and Spiritual Soil, it's not convenient to move it inside, I can build it a simple shed to block the light."
"Finding decayed spiritual wood, however, is rather difficult. Spiritual wood is common enough, but who would have decayed spiritual wood in their home?"
While pondering this, Lu Xuan fetched some tools from his house and built a simple wooden shed for the Dark Marrow Mushroom.
After all, the earlier a Second Grade Spirit Plant is planted, the earlier it can be harvested. He would not delay further, deciding to go out and look for the item immediately.
He headed towards the center of the market. Half a moment later, he arrived in front of a huge courtyard.
His gaze traveled over the stone wall, making out the densely planted tall spirit trees inside.
The owner of the courtyard was a cultivator surnamed Zhou, with a cultivation level of Third Layer of Qi Cultivation. Lu Xuan had only heard rumors about him and rarely had the chance to interact with him.
It was said that this Zhou cultivator had a close relationship with a high-tier Qi cultivator in the market center, which was why he could occupy such a large courtyard and plant so many spirit trees.
Decayed spiritual wood usually results from pest damage during growth, being kept too long, or from poor storage conditions, causing the nature of the spiritual wood to change and consequently decay.
With the Zhou cultivator planting such a large quantity of spiritual trees, it was possible that his family would have some decayed wood.
Lu Xuan walked up and a young cultivator greeted him.
Lu Xuan explained his purpose, and the young cultivator brought him to the Zhou cultivator.
The young man quietly spoke a few words to his father, the Zhou cultivator.
"I am Zhou Yuan. May I know how to address little brother?"
"Lu Xuan."
"Greetings, Friend Lu. I heard from my son that you are curious if we have any decayed spiritual wood. May I ask what you need it for?"
"I don't mean to hide anything from Brother Zhou, I recently have some insights on nurturing spiritual plants and want to verify a hypothesis with the decayed wood. I've heard that Brother Zhou has a very high level of skill in planting spiritual trees, so I thought I'd try my luck here."
Lu Xuan responded, half true and half false.
"I see."
Zhou Yuan nodded, his expression unchanged; it was unclear if he believed him or not.
"Due to various reasons, we do indeed have several pieces of decayed spiritual wood at home."
Zhou Yuan instructed his son, who then fetched several pieces of spiritual wood from the storehouse in the backyard.
The spiritual wood's surface was rotting and emitted a foul and decaying odor.
"Little brother Lu, if you want it, you can take it."
"However, planting spiritual trees requires more resources and manpower than ordinary spiritual plants. Even if these pieces of spiritual wood are decayed, they still have some value."
"Two spirit stones, and you can take these three pieces of spiritual wood."
Lu Xuan frowned.
"Since the spiritual wood is decayed, it means it has lost its original use. Asking two spirit stones for three useless pieces of wood seems a bit unreasonable, don't you think?"
He clearly understood the other party did not know his true intentions for wanting the decayed spiritual wood, so with this information asymmetry, Lu Xuan was very confident.
"One spirit stone, consider it as me helping you, Friend Zhou, to dispose of your waste."
Zhou Yuan originally just wanted to test Lu Xuan's bottom line. Seeing his attitude, he didn't insist any further and agreed with a nod.
These discarded spirit woods are usually gathered in large quantities and then buried in an uninhabited area outside the market. To be able to exchange them for a single spirit stone is already quite a good deal.
Upon reaching an agreement, Lu Xuan paid with spirit stones and took the three discarded spirit woods back home.
In the courtyard, under the shelter of a simple wooden shed, the dark red fungi seemed to be merging into the shadows.
Lu Xuan hurriedly took out the three decayed woods and carefully placed them around the Dark Marrow Mushroom spiritual seed.
By the time he returned from casting a round of the Spirit Rain Technique, he already noticed clear changes in the Dark Marrow Mushroom spiritual seed.
At the root of the fungus, whether it was drawn to the special smell of the decayed spirit wood or not, numerous tiny dark-red mycelia had quietly grown.
The red mycelia spread into the decayed wood, and Lu Xuan felt the Dark Marrow Mushroom take on a deeper color. The flow of viscous liquid in the blood vessel-like channels inside had accelerated.
Successfully planting the Dark Marrow Mushroom, Lu Xuan finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Over the following period of time, he stayed mostly at home, spending most of his time meticulously cultivating spiritual plants, and using the rest of his time in practicing cultivation techniques and formula methods, getting familiar with the still remnant Silver Edge.
He also visited the Loose Cultivation Market twice, hoping to come across unknown spiritual seeds from Loose Cultivators who have just returned from opening up secret lands.
Unfortunately, the seeds sold at the stands that occasionally had a spiritual seed were all common ones Lu Xuan was familiar with.
The spirit field in the courtyard was already packed full and has no space to accommodate other spiritual plants.
The twenty stalks of Spirit Firefly Grass were entering a rapid growth phase, while half of the two Moon Erosion Trees' Moon Erosion Fruits had already matured.
A Red Cloud Pine at first grade didn't require a high spiritual energy environment, and needed only occasional stimulation from the Fireball Technique.
A Second-Level Sword Grass required the Golden Sword Technique and Spirit Rain Technique, and a second-level Dark Marrow Mushroom drew its nutrients primarily from decayed spiritual wood, not needing Lu Xuan to nourish it with the Spirit Rain Technique.
All that was required was to keep the decayed wood in its decayed state using the Spirit Rain Technique and Earth Pulling Technique.
Looking at this, Lu Xuan realized that he had the least amount of first-grade spiritual plants in his spirit field, just a single Red Cloud Pine, and found two unexpected surprises from the spiritual seeds he had obtained, as they were both second-grade spiritual plants.
In the meantime, he harvested another five Moon Erosion Fruits.
Four were of good quality, and one was of superior quality.
The five white light clusters they brought with them included two Silver Edge fragments. With that, the Magic Artifact Silver Edge was almost complete, with just a few minor gaps left.
Lu Xuan estimated there would be no trouble with the remaining fourteen Moon Erosion Fruits.
There were also two first-grade talismans, a Sword Qi Talisman and an Evil Banishing Talisman, both of which were quite impressive for first-grade talismans.
As for that superior quality Moon Erosion Fruit, after Lu Xuan absorbed it, a stream of information appeared in his mind.
"Cultivating Pill Prescription, records the materials and methods related to refining the first-grade Qi Cultivation Pill."
"It's actually an elixir recipe. As expected of a superior quality Moon Erosion Fruit."
Lu Xuan was surprised. The white light clusters had previously emerged as Yuan Cultivating Pills, but they directly exploded into an elixir recipe this time.
It was a good thing, teaching a man to fish is better than giving him a fish. It seemed like he would need to spend some time learning how to refine elixirs.
Lu Xuan thought to himself.
"It's just that I don't have any foundation before, so the probability of failure in refining elixirs from scratch is quite high."
"I don't know if the Moon Erosion Fruits will explode into Cultivating Pill Prescriptions again. If there are more elixir recipes, will it be like the previous Earth Pulling Techniques and Golden Sword Techniques, and multiply my alchemy experience after repeated absorption?"
Lu Xuan looked at the more than ten plump Moon Erosion Fruits hanging among the lush leaves and optimistically thought to himself.
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