Chapter 84 - A Hard Clamp

  The thin young man used a sturdy small wooden barrel to take out four young iron claw crabs from the pool, and sealed the mouth of the barrel, leaving only a few small holes for ventilation.

  Lu Xuan handed him eighty spirit stones, took the wooden barrel, and walked home.

  On the way, clanging sounds came from the wooden barrel from time to time, and the several iron claw crabs inside were struggling.

  Half a minute later, they returned home, and the Cloud-stepping Lynx jumped off Lu Xuan's shoulder and entered the spiritual field gracefully.

  Lu Xuan brought the wooden barrel to the edge of the spiritual spring pool and opened the closed wooden board. The most arrogant one jumped out with a pair of claws like a big knife, showing off to Lu Xuan, as if resisting being locked in a closed wooden barrel.

  The other three followed closely behind, lined up in a row, each arrogant and domineering.

  There were traces of varying depths on the inside of the wooden barrel, which showed how powerful the claws of this first-grade iron claw crab were.

  "I leave it to you. First, tame them well and let them know the rules of the Lu residence."

  Lu Xuan said to the stepping cloud lynx beside him.

  The stepping cloud lynx walked slowly and elegantly to the four iron claw crabs.

  The iron claw crabs were not afraid at all. They raised a pair of blue-black claws that were longer than their bodies and rushed directly to the white cloud paws of the stepping cloud lynx and clamped them fiercely. The

  stepping cloud lynx slapped its paws and knocked the most arrogant iron claw crab cub to the ground. The other three iron claw crabs surrounded and clamped the paws of the stepping cloud lynx with short tails.

  The lynx jumped lightly and got out of the siege of the four iron claw crab cubs. Its paws took turns to slap the crab shells and subdued them one by one. The

  four iron claw crab cubs finally realized their situation and lay on the ground obediently. Only the rolling eyeballs on their heads showed that they were actually dishonest.

  Lu Xuan picked up the motionless young iron claw crab and threw it into the spiritual spring pool.

  After being nourished by the pure spiritual spring, the young iron claw crab instantly became active and crawled around in the spiritual spring pool.

  Lu Xuan focused his mind on them, and a thought flashed through his mind.

  [Iron claw crab, a first-class demon beast, is highly aggressive, with hard and sharp claws. After being raised and grown up, the crab shell can be used to refine defensive magic tools. ]

  [Omnivorous demon beast, can be raised with demon beast meat, spiritual rice, water plants, etc. ]

  [Rampant and domineering, nothing is left untouched! ]

  Information about the iron claw crab flooded into Lu Xuan's mind.

  "Nothing is left untouched? If you dare to pinch my Pure Snow Lotus, I will kill you."

  Lu Xuan snorted coldly, and performed the Earth Attraction Technique to control the soil at the bottom of the spiritual spring pool and surround the Pure Snow Lotus high.

  After getting familiar with the environment of the spiritual spring pool, the most active young iron claw crab began to become restless, with a pair of claws clinging to the stone wall of the spiritual spring pool and slowly climbing up.

  "If you are so dishonest, you will escape from prison sooner or later."

  Lu Xuan called the grass puppet over and ordered.

  "When you patrol the spiritual field in the future, come to the spiritual spring pool more often. If you see any iron claw crabs crawling out, throw them back into the spiritual spring pool."

  The grass puppet's head had returned to its original state at this time, and the huge gray grass head nodded, indicating that it was waiting for instructions.

  As night fell, at the edge of the spiritual spring pool, a young iron claw crab struggled to climb up from the stone wall of the spiritual spring pool, crossed the edge, and came to the shore.

  A pair of bulging eyeballs rolled around, observing the surrounding situation in the dim night.

  Nothing unusual happened. The strange beast that tortured itself to death during the day had disappeared without a trace.

  After finding that the situation was good, the young iron claw crab's eyes moved faster and became obviously excited.

  It crawled on the ground quickly, trying to find an exit.

  Suddenly, a gray-black grass rope came silently behind the young animal and penetrated from under its abdomen.

  The young iron-clawed crab sensed something was wrong and kept adjusting its pace, holding its pair of claws high in the air, trying to cut the attacker in half.   

  Although the gray-black grass rope was slow, it was always hidden behind the young animal, and it would occasionally circle around the crab's legs.

  Soon, the young iron-claw crab was tied up with gray-black grass ropes.

  The grass puppet, with its huge head on top, slowly retracted the gray-black grass rope and came to the young animal.

  A short section of the grass rope was left, just enough to be held in its hand.

  It came to the edge of the spiritual spring pool, stretched out its arms, and the gray-black grass rope continued to spread. After reaching the center of the spiritual spring pool, the gray-black grass rope that bound the young iron-claw crab was instantly loosened.

  With a snap, the young animal fell into the spiritual spring pool, and the splashing water fell on the white lotus surrounded by the earth wall, and then rolled down from the lotus leaves.

  The next morning, Lu Xuan got up early and started a new day as a spiritual plant master.

  He first checked the spiritual field and performed the spiritual rain technique and wood growth technique according to the growth status of the spiritual plants.

  After finishing all this, he went to the house to grab a handful of spiritual rice and sprinkled it into the spiritual spring pool.

  The spiritual rice fell to the bottom of the pond, attracting the attention of four young iron-claw crabs. After a night of tossing and turning, they raised their claws and skillfully picked up the full grains of spiritual rice and stuffed them into their mouths.

  "If you are so good at picking up, I'll find something for you to do."

  After the young iron-claw crabs had eaten and drunk enough, Lu Xuan looked at the pair of hard claws that were like big knives, and his heart moved.

  He took out the most arrogant young iron-claw crab from the spiritual spring pond, and took out a fist-sized piece of fine iron ore from the storage bag and put it under its claws.

  Seeing something coming forward, the young iron-claw crab immediately opened its claws, clamped the fine iron ore up and down, and exerted force hard, and the hard ore was immediately split into two.

  "Continue."

  Lu Xuan took one of the pieces and put it under the claws of the iron-claw crab again.

  The young iron-claw crab clamped the ore hard again.

  "Come again."

  Lu Xuan took another piece.

  This cycle repeats itself, and a fist-sized piece of fine iron ore turns into hundreds of pieces of gravel. The edges of the pair of claws of the iron crab are constantly exerting force, and it has begun to turn white.

  However, when Lu Xuan put the ore under the claws, it couldn't help but want to pinch it off.

  "Haha, come again!"

  Lu Xuan laughed, and with a move of spiritual power, a small pile of fine iron ore appeared in front of the young beast, piled high.

  The claws of the young

  iron crab couldn't help but tremble. Lu Xuan took out another three young iron crabs from the spiritual spring pool and let them start to work.

  "The broken copper and iron ore needed by the copper-bone bamboo has finally been solved well. With these young iron crabs, I basically don't have to do it myself."

  Lu Xuan thought happily. The copper-bone bamboo needs copper and iron ore for rapid growth. The smaller the ore, the easier it is to absorb. Lu Xuan used to use the silver-breaking blade and red thread needle to cut the ore, which was time-consuming and laborious.

  Now, it's much easier.

  He looked at the young iron crab that was still insisting on pinching off the ore, and sighed.

  "Don't relax, clamp hard, clamp a hundred times, a thousand times, ten thousand times, only in this way can you break through your limits, and your claws will be fully trained. When you become strong, you can also swing them at me!"

  Whenever a young beast relaxed, Lu Xuan would urge them on.

  The sound of claws clamping fine iron ore continued to come, which was pleasant to the ears.

  (End of this chapter)