I Practice Farming While the Rest Cultivates

Chapter 580: Chapter 578: Ancient Herb Garden_1

With a soft pop.

A whole chunk of demon beast meat dissolves into a mist of blood in mid-air, flying into the mouth of the Spirit of Flesh.

Lu Xuan soothes this disaster-level evil spirit, still in its infancy, his mind concentrated on its body. Upon not finding any abnormalities, he finally relaxes and checks on the other spirit plants.

Upon reaching the depths of the Spirit Field, suddenly, there’s a disturbance by his foot. Looking down, he sees a blood-colored “palm” rubbing incessantly against his trouser leg.

His spiritual power surges, and the somewhat tumultuous blood energy within his body immediately calms down.

This extremely blood-thirsty fourth grade Blood Spirit Ginseng, initially restrained by Spirit of Flesh’s rank and didn’t dare to approach Lu Xuan. Now, as soon as the Spirit of Flesh leaves, it immediately detects Lu Xuan’s blood energy and approaches him.

Lu Xuan takes out a bottle of Water Dragon Essence Blood from his storage bag, pouring it onto the blood-red palm. Watching the cracks on the palm wriggle and instantly absorb the essence blood.

“When I was doing inspections on those juvenile Jiao Dragons in the Thousand Dragon Lake, I took more than a thousand bottles of their essence blood. I can’t use it all, I can’t use it up at all.”

Without the Blood Scourge Flower, a big blood sucker, Lu Xuan absurdly feels like he’s using more and more demon beast essence blood.

His mind concentrates on the blood-red palm, noticing the semi-transparent progress bar below it is almost full.

He isn’t eager for the light cluster rewards right now, so he allows the spirit plants to mature naturally, saving a bit of Qingmu Origin Energy.

In the Underworld Area, the third grade Thousand Worm Hands have also reached maturity.

The planting of the fourth grade Blood Spirit Ginseng befell earlier, and, provided with plenty of Water Dragon Essence Blood, it had better growing conditions. Thus, even though it’s one rank higher than Thousand Worm Hands, their maturing stages might not differ much.

All eighteen of the Thousand Worm Hands are unified, vaguely giving a sense of formation. Lu Xuan unexpectedly notices that the progress bars below each one of the Thousand Worm Hands are precisely the same, presumably due to the characteristics of the spirit plants.

He takes out a large amount of Demon Beast’s Flesh and Blood and Yin Soul Resentment from his Gluttonous Insect Pouch, properly nurturing the many weird spiritual plants.

“Of the high-grade spirit plants, the yet unmet cultivating conditions are the Rank Five Sha Yuan Fruit, Rank Six, Primordial Magnetic Spiritual Wood, and Logusedemon Bone Demon Seed.”

“I need to think of ways to collect the strange items needed for their cultivation, nourish them as early as possible, and reap the light clusters quickly.”

He unconsciously thinks to himself.

After getting back to the courtyard and readying himself to continue brewing the spiritual juice and nectar, Lu Xuan senses a charm flying in from outside his cave dwelling.

His Spiritual Sense shifts, drawing in the communication talisman.

After channeling a thread of spiritual power into it, a familiar voice is transmitted. It is Luo Ming, the one-eyed middle-aged man.

“Friend Lu, we haven’t been in contact in a while, is everything alright?”

“I am intending to go to Thunder Sea Depths with several loose cultivator friends soon. We are planning to explore a hidden secret realm. It is said that it used to be an ancient cultivator’s herb garden. An adventurous loose cultivator once obtained a high-grade spirit seed from there. I’m wondering if Friend Lu might be interested in joining this exploration?”

“Other than me, there is also Thunder Fellow Daoist who you’ve met before. There are two more people, both are trustworthy to a certain extent. If you’re interested, you can let me know anytime.”

“Thunder Sea Depths, an ancient cultivator’s herb garden?”

Upon hearing this, Lu Xuan feels a bit intrigued in his heart.

If Luo Ming’s words are true, these kind of secret realms do have a significant chance of containing high-grade exotic spiritual seeds.

For Lu Xuan, a Spirit Plant Master, this presents a great attraction.

He has been in Thunder Fire Asterism Cave for less than a year and only has a slight acquaintance with the one-eyed middle-aged man. He doesn’t trust him much, yet he is slightly cordial towards him.

Even among people of the same sect, there can be cases of killing for treasure. Thus, this minuscule trust is nothing to speak about.

However, possessing numerous fifth-rank and even sixth-rank treasures, having a robust body, he’s completely unfazed by soul attacks. Whether it be offense, defense, or escape, he is far stronger than average Foundation Establishment Cultivators. Therefore, Lu Xuan has complete confidence in himself.

“According to Luo Ming, the location of that ancient herb garden is hidden. I can definitely use their experience to find it.”

Lu Xuan has made up his mind already.

“When was the last time I explored a secret land with a fellow cultivator who I didn’t know beforehand?”

A hint of reminiscence was reflected in his expression.

“It seems to have been during the Qi Practicing Stage, when I was half invited, half coerced by the Market Royal Family of Linyang market to venture into a nearby secret land.”

“Strictly speaking, this should be the first time I take the initiative to explore a secret land with unfamiliar cultivators.”

“It’s my first time entering a secret land – I have no idea what precautions I should be taking.”

With a smirk, Lu Xuan sent a message into the Communication Talisman expressing gratitude to Luo Ming, as well as his willingness to jointly explore the Thunder Sea Secret Realm.

Three days passed in a blink, and Lu Xuan specifically brought along the Cloud Leopard and the Demonic Vine – one can detect evil spirits, the other can sense spiritual seeds.

As for the hole mansion, there was a fifth-rank Illusion and Disappearance Five Elements Array, a Grass Puppet controlling the Arrow Vine, and other spirit beasts. The security could be assured, and he could confidently leave for a period of time.

After a while, he arrived at where Luo Ming’s hole mansion was located.

“Haha, Friend Lu has arrived as promised, our chances of obtaining the opportunity have increased once again!”

Luo Ming came out from the hole mansion flying straight and laughed heartily as he greeted Lu Xuan.

Behind him were three people, one of whom was Lei Zheng, a Foundation Establishment Perfectionist whom he had met once before. The other two, a buff and calm youth with cultivation at the late term of Foundation Establishment, and a white-haired granny, with cultivation at Foundation Establishment perfection.

“I’ll introduce you all to each other, as you know this is Lei Zheng, Friend Lei.”

Lei Zheng nodded his head towards Lu Xuan.

“This is Wang Yanzhong, who cultivates the Thunder Body Refinement Technique, his flesh body is formidable and isn’t afraid of fourth-grade magical tools.”

The Cyclops middle-aged man pointed to the robust youth. The youth’s robust body burst out with sporadic sparks, the light in his eyes was piercing, and with vertical pupils. It gave people a slight tingling sensation when swept over by his gaze.

“This is Yuan Shuang Ling, has the highest cultivation among all of us, a Foundation Establishment Perfectionist, just a step away from the Nascent Soul Stage, and she possesses numerous treasures.”

He continued introducing the white-haired granny to Lu Xuan.

The old woman, leaning on her dragon head cane, smiled slightly and nodded at Lu Xuan.

“This is Lu Xuan, very powerful, has an extraordinary skill in the path of spiritual plants.”

The Cyclops middle-aged man introduced Lu Xuan to the white-haired old woman and the robust youth.

“A Spirit Plant Master?”

The youth, Wang Yanzhong, questioned.

“Yes, on ordinary days I like planting flowers and other plants.”

Lu Xuan replied with a smile.

“Luo fellow daoist, the ancient herb garden is extremely dangerous, why would you invite a Spirit Plant Master at the late term of Foundation Establishment?”

“I want to make it clear- if there is any dragging feet, he should have one-tenth less of the obtained treasures.”

The youth frowned, expressing a bit of displeasure.

“What kind of words are these, Wang fellow daoist, negating a person simply based on being a Spirit Plant Master is too practical.”

Upon hearing this, Luo Ming coldly replied. Lu Xuan was invited to join by his suggestion. He did not expect that after meeting, the cultivator from the same group would directly deny him, which was equivalent to slapping him implicitly.

“Reality is that there are few exceptional Spirit Plant Masters. Cultivating spiritual plants requires a long cycle. If you plant many, how could there be time to cultivate and refine formulae methods?”

The youth said emotionlessly.

“Whether it works or not will still depend on one’s capability.”