Chapter 161 - Silver Mantis

  "The fourth-grade array formation, the Thousand Illusions Cloud Smoke Array, and the third-grade spiritual plant are extraordinary. It's worth my careful cultivation of you for so long."

  Lu Xuan looked at the upside-down array plate of the cloud in his hand, and a look of surprise appeared on his face.

  He was worried about the protection problem of the courtyard in Jianmen Town, but he didn't expect that it would be solved so quickly by the light ball reward brought by the Illusion Smoke Luo Fruit.

  In the courtyard, there are currently three kinds of spiritual plants planted, namely the third-grade ghost face stone mushroom, the third-grade thorn bone, and the fourth-grade hundred pupils strange wood. Each plant is extremely precious and cannot be missed.

  And his focus has to be placed on the sect, and he can only go there occasionally. In this case, worry is inevitable.

  Although Jianmen Town is not far from Tianjian Sect, there is no need to worry about any monsters and evil spirits invading, and most of the cultivators in the town have close relations with the disciples of Tianjian Sect, but people's hearts are unpredictable. If the owner of the courtyard has not been seen for a long time, it is difficult to guarantee that someone will not have bad intentions.

  Now, with this Thousand Illusion Cloud Smoke Array that combines illusion, maze, and killing arrays, Lu Xuan doesn't have to worry about this.

  He put the array plate and the Illusion Smoke Luo Fruit into the storage bag. He originally planned to let the Cloud-Stepping Lynx swallow the spiritual fruit, but considering that its pupils are only good at identifying evil spirits, taking the Illusion Smoke Luo Fruit that improves illusion ability will not have much effect, so he gave up.

  In the next few days, he stayed in the cave most of the time, cultivating spiritual plants and raising spiritual beasts. From time to time, he went to Qianlong Lake to feed the remaining dragons and pythons.

  Every time he went there, the spiritual cranes would not accept his spiritual stones. After frequent visits, Lu Xuan had to give up this idea and bring some ordinary spiritual fruits for daily entertaining guests to show his gratitude.

  The remaining time was used to practice skills and spells. Although practicing for several months may not be as good as a spiritual firefly grass, it can at least improve the cultivation.

  The days were extremely leisurely, especially after picking the third-grade Illusion Smoke Luo Fruit and getting the fourth-grade Thousand Illusion Cloud Smoke Array, he was even more contented and satisfied.

  "Junior Brother Lu, are you home? I received a monster eye task you posted earlier, and I came to hand it over to you."

  A cold female voice came from outside the yard.

  "I'm here."

  Lu Xuan responded, and hurried over to open the gate.

  A female cultivator with a refined temperament stopped in front of the door.

  The female cultivator entered the yard, found a wooden block to sit down, and took out three slender transparent bottles from the storage bag.

  The bottles contained light green liquid, which was soaked with various monster eyes. Each eye was full of vitality, as if it had just been cut out of the monster's head.

  "This time I went out and got fourteen complete monster eyes, ten of which came from first-grade monsters and four from second-grade monsters. Each one was taken not long ago and preserved with special spiritual liquid. It should be able to meet Junior Brother Lu's requirements." The

  elegant female cultivator said slowly.

  Lu Xuan took the bottle, probed his spiritual consciousness into it, felt the freshness of the eyes, and confirmed that what the female cultivator said was true.

  "This pupil is quite special. It comes from a second-grade demon beast, the one-eyed barbarian rhinoceros, which has amazing brute force and certain illusion abilities."

  The female cultivator explained when she saw Lu Xuan looking at a huge dark pupil in the bottle.

  Lu Xuan nodded slightly.

  "Sister, according to the requirements of the task, each pupil of a first-grade demon beast is ten spirit stones. The three second-grade demon beast pupils are quite ordinary. I am willing to buy them at a price of thirty spirit stones each. The pupil of

  this one-eyed barbarian rhinoceros is a little special, so I will buy it at fifty spirit stones. What do you think, sister?"

  The elegant female cultivator hesitated for a moment and nodded in agreement.

  "Thank you, Junior Brother Lu."

  These demon beasts were originally hunted for another task of hers, and taking out the pupils was just a matter of convenience. Although Lu Xuan's price was a little low, it was already very good to be able to earn such a large sum of extra money.   

  Lu Xuan handed 240 spiritual stones to the elegant female cultivator and took the dozen demon beast eyes from her.

  "It's a bit expensive to grow high-grade spiritual plants. The fourth-grade Hundred Eyes Weird Wood cost me more than 200 spiritual stones."

  "The Firefly Grass is more practical. It can grow in an aura environment."

  "But high-grade plants have their own advantages. These initial investments are nothing compared to the value of the spiritual plants themselves. What's more, I have a light ball reward!"

  After the female cultivator left, Lu Xuan returned to the house and looked at the dozen eyes floating in the light green liquid, and couldn't help but sigh.

  He put all the eyes into the life bag to ensure their freshness to the greatest extent.

  "Junior Brother Lu, are you at home? I found a kind of insect egg and a kind of larvae for you."

  Half a day later, when Lu Xuan was inspecting the spiritual field, another deep voice came from outside.

  Lu Xuan opened the courtyard door and a tall cultivator who had completed Qi training was standing at the door.

  "I wonder what kind of eggs and larvae did you find?"

  After welcoming the tall monk into the house, Lu Xuan brewed a pot of spiritual tea and asked the monk.

  "Brother Lu, I spent a lot of effort this time. You know that the demon insects protect their eggs and larvae very well. It is more than ten times more difficult to find them than to find adults."

  "I stayed in the Red Miasma Valley for a few days and only found two kinds. One is a first-grade black beetle, and the other is a second-grade demon insect larva, the silver-line mantis."

  The tall monk took a sip of spiritual tea and said to Lu Xuan, taking out two things from the storage bag.

  One bottle contained several insect eggs, which were oblate, shiny black, and looked like small stones.

  The other bottle contained two mantis larvae, about half a finger long, as white as jade, with forelimbs like a pair of knives, and a faint silver line could be seen on the back.

  "The eggs are black beetles, first-grade demon insects, seven in number, usually living near strange stones, and have good defensive capabilities when mature, and can be used as materials for refining certain elixirs."

  "The two larvae are silver-lined mantises, second-grade demon insects, extremely fast and with strong attack capabilities."

  The tall monk introduced Lu Xuan in detail. Lu

  Xuan nodded. He didn't know if the black beetle was a molting insect, but as long as it was raised, it would have a symbiotic effect with the black insect vine.

  As for the silver-lined mantis, it perfectly met the needs of the black insect vine, and the two could grow together.

  Of course, one thing that must be said is that the silver-lined mantis looks pretty good, and its appearance is the best among the insects he has seen and understood.

  "Brother, I plan to buy this black beetle at the price of six spirit stones per beetle, and the silver-lined mantis larvae at thirty-five spirit stones each. What do you think?"

  Lu Xuan's offer was already quite reasonable, and the tall monk didn't care much about the gains and losses of spirit stones, and nodded in agreement.

  Lu Xuan took out 112 spirit stones and handed them to the tall monk.

  "Junior Brother Lu is very straightforward. Next time if you find any insect eggs or larvae, I will come and bother you again."

  The tall monk took the spirit stone and stood up to say goodbye.

  (End of this chapter)