Chapter 69: Chapter 68: Big Earnings_l
Translator: 549690339
-Here, these are ten diseased spiritual plants I’ve just collected from a nearby medicine garden for you.”
in the great hall of Bai Cao Tang, as Lu Xuan was leisurely enjoying his tea, Manager He approached with two cloth bags.
One of the bags contained a spirit wood as tall as a man, its upper half exposed. The smooth bark of the tree was littered with numerous dark wormholes, from which faint black miasma occasionally drifted.
“Your luck isn’t bad. There are nine first-grade and one second-grade variant. The second-grade is this Baiwen Wood plant. Its spirit plant master tried numerous methods to cure it without success, so he had to sell it to me.” Manager He placed the bag at Lu Xuan’s feet, opening the bag to reveal roots of ten diseased spirit plants, all wrapped in spirit soil to preserve their weakening life force.
“Considering that after you cure them, you will want to quickly exchange them for spirit stones, I chose some spirit plants that are nearing maturity.
“The number isn’t much. I’m worried that you, Kid, might get carried away , with one successful healing, lose your reason, and waste spirit stones. So, I’ve just brought you ten for now to see the results.”
“Once it’s confirmed that you genuinely possess the ability to cure diseased
spirit plants, I’ll find more for you.”
“Thankyou, Old He.”
Lu Xuan knew that the old man was concerned about him wasting spirit stones on a misguided path, so he gratefully thanked him.
He had purchased the ten diseased spirit plants at a very low cost of forty-seven spirit stones. Along with the thirteen spirit stones he paid to Manager He for his trouble, Lu Xuan had spent a total of sixty spirit stones. Normally, after being dug out of spirit soil, the vitality of spirit plants quickly diminishes, and it’s even worse for diseased ones.
Without lingering, Lu Xuan quickly returned to his yard.
After greeting the Grass Puppet and the Cloud Leopard, he went straight to his spirit field without even entering his room.
in a cautious move, he controlled the Hidden Fog Maze Array, filling it with thick fog to isolate an empty area in the spirit field from the other spirit plants in order to prevent any potential contamination.
Next, he planted the ten diseased spirit plants in the spirit field.
By focusing on the spirit plants, he quickly understood their detailed conditions and the corresponding solution methods.
“It’s beyond cure, hopeless. Just wait for it to die.
He uprooted a plant whose roots were covered in grey-black tumours. The Red Thread Needle turned into a red thread, piercing all the small tumours. Drops of yellowish-black pus flowed from the wounds, emitting a disgusting smell.
Lu Xuan casually cast a fireball spell, reducing the spirit plant to ashes.
“Again, it needs Hundred Year Spirit Milk. It’s a lost cause.”
“A first-grade spirit plant actually requires the spiritual power of a Foundation Establishment cultivator?”
“What is this godforsaken thing?”
A vague face of resentment suddenly emerged on the large leaves of a blood spirit leaf plant. Before Lu Xuan could react, the resentful face disappeared silently as if it was just his illusion.
“Fuck your theatrics!”
Lu Xuan took out a Thunder Fire Pearl from his storage bag. Immediately, the power of the thunder fire within the pearl gushed out, emitting intense flames and flashing thunder, pulverising the blood spirit leaf.
After this, he took out an Evil Banishing Talisman and carefully checked the spirit field along with the attentive Cloud Leopard, ensuring no trace of a demon envoy had appeared.
Among the ten diseased spirit plants, four were directly destroyed by Lu Xuan. They either were too far gone to be cured or the conditions to heal them were too high. The loss outweighed the gain, so Lu Xuan discarded them.
Of the remaining six spirit plants, most were infested with metamorphosed demon insects. These creatures, once polluted and mutated by the demon envoys greatly differ in their form and technique of infiltrating spirit plants than before. Ordinary spirit plant masters without the experience and ability to identify these creatures find it incredibly hard to eliminate the problem from its root.
There were also spirit plants which became diseased due to absorbing vast amounts of polluted spiritual energy.
The difficulty in treating these two types was relatively low, and Lu Xuan, based on their immediate states, removed the diseased parts and eliminated the Metamorphosis Demon Insects invading inside the Spirit Plants. Then, he used spells such as Spirit Rain Technique and Tree Life Spell to promote a rapid recovery of the Spirit Plants.
A few days later, the metamorphic factors in the six Spirit Plants were solved, although the Spirit Plants themselves were severely damaged and it would be difficult for them to recover to their normal level.
The Second-Grade Baiwen Wood still needed more time to mature.
Lu Xuan, looking at the six Spirit Plants that had recovered to normal, was satisfied.
Next, he made a round of the Spirit Field.
The planted one hundred twenty Spirit Firefly Grass had grown to about two inches. The slender, tender green leaves were slightly glowing, quite pleasing to the eye.
The Second-Grade Sword Grass and Dark Marrow Mushroom were getting closer to maturity. Lu Xuan, to ensure the best reward from the White Light Group, did not rush to harvest them.
In the Spirit Field Area where the First Grade Blood Jade Ginseng was located, Lu Xuan noticed that as their maturity neared, the Ginseng became more energetic and active, its instinct to grip the spiritual energy of similar species around it getting stronger.
If you weren’t careful, there would be two or three, or even more strands of Blood jade Ginseng roots tangled together, striving to absorb the spiritual energy within each other.
Lu Xuan had to pay more attention to them.
After using the Earth Pulling Technique to separate them, he brought five diseased Spirit Plants, which were about ninety percent ripe, to Bai Cao Tang.
As for the Second-Grade Baiwen Wood, which still had to mature, Lu Xuan planned to continue cultivating it in the Spirit Field.
“Kid Lu, come over here!”
Manager He, in Bai Cao Tang, called out to Lu Xuan from afar.
“How is it going? How many of those ten diseased Spirit Plants have you cured? You didn’t make a loss, did you?”
“I am thorough in my work, trust me, how could I possibly make a loss?”
Lu Xuan laughed and took the five slightly ugly Spirit Plants out of his storage bag.
“That’s true. You, my boy, knows only how to make profits. When have you ever made a loss?”
Manager He, thinking of Lu Xuan’s previous behavior, chuckled.
The five Spirit Plants on the counter made him feel much better.
“Having more than half of them cured, you’ve already surpassed most of the Spirit Plant Masters in the hall with your skills.”
“No, I should say, at least in this regard, you surpassed all the Spirit Plant Masters.”
“After all, many of the diseased Spirit Plants they cured had mild conditions. The ten you purchased last time were ones they had attempted before they reached your hands.”
The skinny old man sighed.
“Able to cultivate Perfect Quality Spirit Firefly Grass and heal diseased Spirit Plants. It seems you were born a Spirit Plant Master.
Although the five Spirit Plants had returned to normal, due to the previous damage and the short cultivation period of Lu Xuan, their quality was only inferior and ordinary grade.
Manager He estimated a price for each Spirit Plant. In the end, the five First-Grade Spirit Plants brought Lu Xuan one hundred twenty Spirit Stones. And his cost in acquiring the ten diseased Spirit Plants was sixty. Excluding the cost of time and spiritual power expended over these days, and the Evil Banishing Talisman, Lu Xuan made a tidy profit of several dozen Spirit Stones. Not to mention that there was a Second-Grade Baiwen Wood in his Spirit Field. Once it matured, it would fetch quite a number of Spirit Stones.
Lu Xuan weighed the Spirit Stones in his hand and contently stashed them back into his storage bag..