Chapter 108 - Dynamic Expressions
"Since Junior Brother Lu has chosen this mission, you should have mastered the Spirit Rain Technique well, right?"
The beautiful woman said to Lu Xuan with a smile.
"Somewhat accomplished."
Lu Xuan said modestly.
"To cultivate these monkey-faced orchids, you usually need to do two things. Use the Spirit Rain Technique at intervals to nourish them, and the other is to raise spiritual insects on time."
"Spirit insects are specially cultivated by the monks in the sect. Many species of spiritual insects can be used to refine elixirs, exercises, cultivate spiritual plants, raise spiritual beasts, etc."
The beautiful woman took Lu Xuan into the valley, and a young man with ordinary looks was waiting in front of a wooden house.
"This is Junior Brother Yan Ping, Junior Brother Yan, this is Junior Brother Lu Xuan."
Senior Sister Yao introduced Lu Xuan and the other to each other.
"In the future, the two junior brothers will mainly cultivate these monkey-faced orchids. I will stay in the valley all the time. If you have any questions, you can find me."
Lu Xuan nodded.
He talked with Yan Ping for a few words, and then, under his leadership, he chose an empty cabin for his usual practice and rest.
After resting for nearly half an hour, Yan Ping came to call him.
"Junior Brother Lu, it's time to start using the Spiritual Rain Technique on the monkey-faced orchids. How about we each be responsible for an area?"
Lu Xuan nodded in agreement and came to his own area.
Many monkey-faced orchids with various expressions seemed to be frozen.
The spiritual power in Lu Xuan's body surged, and strands of spiritual rain fell down, dripping on the petals and rhizomes of the monkey-faced orchids and seeping into them.
"The spiritual rain is long and thin, and the range of the spell is precisely controlled. I didn't expect that Junior Brother Lu has such a deep attainment in this Spiritual Rain Technique."
Yan Ping, who was not far away, noticed Lu Xuan's extraordinary spiritual rain technique at a glance, and a hint of admiration appeared in his eyes.
"I am a spiritual plant master myself. I don't know how many times I have used the Spiritual Rain Technique. With more times, the level of the technique will naturally improve."
Lu Xuan smiled.
Because of his meticulous cultivation of spiritual plants, he used the Spiritual Rain Technique many times a day. Even if he didn't open the spell experience package, his level of the Spiritual Rain Technique has reached the great success level.
The spell is faster, with less spiritual power consumption. It can precisely control the range of spiritual rain. Even the spiritual rain that is already as thin as a hair can be slightly adjusted to meet the various subtle requirements of spiritual plants. After
performing a round of spiritual rain spells in the spiritual field, the monkey-faced orchid in the spiritual soil still looked around blankly, and the expression in the petals did not change at all.
After a short rest, Yan Ping took a basin of insects of various shapes from the beautiful woman.
"These are used to feed monkey-faced orchids. Just stuff them into the petals. Monkey-faced orchids will actively devour and absorb the alien insects."
"It is enough to feed each monkey-faced orchid with one alien insect. It is not good to feed too much."
Lu Xuan nodded in understanding and took half of the alien insects.
Compared with the wild black bud insects encountered before, these insects are much worse in terms of attack power and the degree of damage to spiritual plants. They are specially raised on a large scale by the monks in the sect for various purposes.
He came to a monkey-faced orchid, and the expression in the petals looked extremely angry.
Lu Xuan picked up a slender white insect and stuffed it into the petals of the monkey-faced orchid.
Dense spikes suddenly emerged from the center of the petals and pierced into the body of the white worm.
The petals then closed, forming a bud shape, trembling slightly, and it was obvious that there was a lot of movement inside.
After a while, the petals opened again, and a piece of insect skin without any blood or flesh fell to the ground, like a piece of white paper.
"This swallowing and absorption ability is quite strong."
Lu Xuan couldn't help but sigh. Although this insect had no attack power, he was still surprised that it was so easily killed and swallowed by a second-grade spiritual plant.
"Huh? You just had a delicious meal, why are you still looking at me so angrily?"
Lu Xuan found that after swallowing the white worm, the monkey-faced orchid still maintained an angry expression in the petals that reopened.
He smiled and shook his head, and continued to feed the other monkey-faced orchids with alien insects.
After finishing his work, Lu Xuan was about to go back to the house to rest when he suddenly stopped.
His sight stopped on a monkey-faced orchid, and the expression in the petals of the monkey-faced orchid revealed a faint smile.
"If I remember correctly, this is the monkey-faced orchid with an angry expression that I fed at the beginning, but why did it change?"
"What caused the monkey-faced orchid petals to form a dynamic expression instead of a static expression?"
Lu Xuan frowned, looking at the monkey-faced orchid in the spiritual field, and fell into deep thought.
"Junior Brother Lu, why are you still standing there after you've finished your work?" Yan Ping, who
was passing by and preparing to go back to the house to practice, asked curiously.
"Brother Yan, I have a question about the Monkey Orchid. Brother Lu has rich experience in cultivating this kind of spiritual plants. I wonder if you can answer it for me."
"Brother Lu, please go ahead."
"Are the expressions generated in the petals of the Monkey Orchid really just formed randomly, and are not following any rules? For example, when certain conditions are met, the expression will change."
"So this is what you considered. Brother Lu, you think too much."
"It is said that the first spiritual plant grower who planted the Monkey Orchid had the same guess as you, but after some experiments, he still didn't find anything."
"By cultivating Monkey Orchid in the conventional way, we can still get mature spiritual plants of normal quality, so we gave up that idea and judged that these expressions are just a sexual characteristic of Monkey Orchid."
"Brother Lu, think about it, even the foundation-building uncle in the sect didn't find any rules after the experiment, which shows that there is nothing abnormal."
"Therefore, we should just cultivate it honestly and don't let our imaginations run wild."
Yan Ping said in a deep voice.
"Brother Yan's words make sense. I'm just curious. It won't affect the cultivation and growth of the monkey orchid."
Lu Xuan glanced at the monkey orchid with a cold expression, and then went back to the wooden house with Yan Ping to take a rest.
"Why did the expression change? Is it related to my use of the Spirit Rain Technique and the breeding of alien insects? If it is related, why does it still show an angry expression after being nourished by the Spirit Rain Technique?"
Lu Xuan sat on the chair, looking through the window at the monkey orchids with different expressions in the spiritual field, and fell into deep thought.
He felt that the change in expression must involve certain factors, but it has not been discovered by the cultivators yet.
All things have spirits. Ordinary plants seen in daily life have various habits, let alone spiritual plants?
Adding a spirit means that the level of life has been improved, and it is reasonable to have various strange expressions.
Through the control of the current state of the many spiritual plants he planted before, Lu Xuan noticed that many of them had a hint of spirituality, especially the higher the grade of the spiritual plants, the stronger the spirituality.
Therefore, he was more certain that this second-grade monkey orchid was the same. The change in expression was not aimless, but there was another mystery.
"It seems I have to find an opportunity to dig up a monkey orchid and try it out."
He couldn't help but have this thought in his mind.
(End of this chapter)