Chapter 292 - Sand-Gathering Snails

  Kongming Island.

  In the early morning, the red sun rose, casting a thousand-foot-high glow, the sea surface was heaving, and the salty sea breeze blew.

  Lu Xuan got up early and checked the growth of the various spiritual plants in the spiritual field.

  The water firefly grass has grown slender buds, and the young leaves are light blue, with fluorescent dots on the leaves, which echo the deep blue sea in the distance.

  More than a hundred water fireflies occupy most of the area of ​​the spiritual field. Growing in the water-rich environment of Kongming Island, although the growth is not as good as in the Tianjian Sect, each water firefly grass is plump and moist. The

  spiritual power in Lu Xuan's body surged, and thin clouds and rain appeared above the water fireflies. Threads of spiritual rain dripped down and landed on the light blue leaves.

  The fluorescence on the leaves was even stronger, as if it was greedily absorbing the spiritual rain. It flickered slightly, like the sparkling sea surface in the sun.

  After cultivating more than a hundred water fireflies, Lu Xuan continued to check the rest of the spiritual plants in the spiritual field.

  Ten ordinary second-grade sword grasses have already broken through the soil, like ten slender swords inserted into the soil, standing upright, and one can feel the sharpness coming from the plants. Next to

  it, although the third-grade starlight sword grass was planted earlier, due to its higher grade, Lu Xuan's control over the starlight sword art can barely be considered as entry-level, so its growth progress is not much different from that of ordinary sword grass.

  As for the fourth-grade Jian Qianxiao, it is still buried in the shallow layer of the spiritual soil, absorbing spiritual power to maintain its vitality.

  Although it is still a seedling, the starlight sword grass is already obviously different from ordinary sword grass. There are a few stars on the surface of the gray-black plant, which runs in an extremely obscure trajectory, revealing a mysterious meaning.

  The more Lu Xuan looked at it, the more he liked it. The corners of his mouth rose, and he flicked his finger on the top of the three-inch starlight sword grass.

  A slight clanging sound of swords rang out.

  The starlight sword grass seemed fragile, but it refused to bend. It stood upright, swinging back and forth under Lu Xuan's force, and it took a long time to calm down.

  Seeing this, Lu Xuan couldn't help but get playful, flicking the top of the Starlight Sword Grass from time to time.

  "Tick, tick~"

  A crisp chirping sounded, and the Wind Falcon flapped its broad light blue wings and flew over from a distance, holding a first-grade demon bird in its claws.

  "You are the happiest person to come to this Kongming Island."

  Lu Xuan looked at the Wind Falcon that flew in front of him with the demon bird and showed his courtesy, stretched out his hand and rubbed its soft belly, and said with a smile.

  In the Tianjian Sect, the inner sect has formations and prohibitions everywhere, so Lu Xuan was afraid that the Wind Falcon would accidentally touch it, so he kept it on the mountain to raise it.

  For the Wind Falcon, which is famous for its speed, this way of raising it makes its nature restricted, and it occasionally feels uncomfortable.

  After arriving at this island, Lu Xuan let it fly freely in the nearby sea.

  Although it has not grown to the second grade, it has an air advantage after all, and is famous for its speed, so Lu Xuan is not worried about its safety.

  "Senior Lu!"

  A clear young man's voice came from outside the yard.

  Soon, Song Yun appeared in front of Lu Xuan, holding a food box in his hand, which contained spiritual fruits, spiritual wine, and often spiritual fish cooked in various ways.

  After spending some time with Lu Xuan and feeling that Lu Xuan was not difficult to get along with, Song Yun also regained some of his youthful nature, not as restrained as at the beginning.

  Lu Xuan tested him as usual and gave him some pointers on swordsmanship.

  "Not bad, your swordsmanship is getting more and more sophisticated. If you keep up this growth rate, you will have a good chance of successfully joining the Tianjian Sect."

  He praised casually.

  "Thanks to your careful guidance, senior."

  Song Yun said respectfully, and his eyes turned slightly when he saw the spiritual plants growing well not far away.

  "Senior, I have a younger sister who also loves spiritual plants and spiritual beasts like you. In addition to practicing every day, she spends her time cultivating spiritual plants and raising spiritual beasts."   

  "Oh? Really? Take me over to have a look."

  Hearing this, Lu Xuan became more curious.

  After arriving at this Kongming Island, he had been staying indoors. Only when he first arrived, he wandered around for a while and learned a little about some of the spiritual plants and animals with island characteristics. After hearing Song Yun's words, he had the idea of ​​going to have a look.

  "Yes, senior, please follow me."

  Song Yun took Lu Xuan around and came to a courtyard.

  After calling twice, a young girl came out to greet him. She had delicate features on her round face and was cute and lovely at this age.

  "Lu... Senior Lu!"

  The girl was angry when she saw Song Yun, but when she saw Lu Xuan coming from behind, her face changed and she greeted him respectfully.

  "Senior Lu, this is my little sister, Song Si Ning."

  Lu Xuan nodded gently.

  After Song Yun explained his purpose, Song Si Ning took the two into the courtyard.

  What surprised Lu Xuan a little was that there was a large pool in the courtyard, which was more than ten feet long and wide, with many spiritual trees planted on the edge.

  There were many silver algae growing in the pool, like clumps of dense hair. They were the silver algae that Lu Xuan had seen at the stall of the casual cultivators before.

  "Senior Lu, this is silver algae. It can be used to feed many sea fish and sea beasts. After collecting it, drying it and crushing it, it can also be used as a material for refining elixirs."

  Seeing Lu Xuan's eyes on the silver algae in the pool, Song Si Ning hurriedly introduced it.

  "That is a first-grade spiritual plant, blood coral. When it matures, it can be used to refine low-grade magic tools."

  "That is..."

  There were several kinds of spiritual plants planted in the pool, and their growth conditions were closely related to water, which opened Lu Xuan's eyes.

  Among the spiritual plants he cultivated before, only the Pure Snow Lotus, which was first cultivated in the market, needed to grow in the spiritual spring. In addition, the Earth Fire Heart Lotus grew in hot magma, and there was also the Dragon Skeleton Grass that could not be bred for the time being.

  In addition, the rest of the spiritual plants grew in spiritual soil.

  Seeing that Lu Xuan was very interested in the spiritual plants she cultivated, Song Si Ning took out a handful of golden sand from the storage bag. There was a very weak spiritual fluctuation on the sand.

  She sprinkled the golden sand on the edge of the pool, and soon a huge conch emerged from the bottom of the water.

  The conch stretched out its gray tentacles and swallowed all the golden sand left on the edge of the shore.

  "What is this? It actually feeds on sand?"

  Lu Xuan asked curiously.

  "Reporting to Senior Lu, this conch is called the Sand Gathering Snail. It likes to eat all kinds of strange sand and stones. If you encounter one in the sea, it is very likely that it contains rare and precious sand and stones."

  "After swallowing the sand and stones, the Sand Gathering Snail will keep the sand and stones in its body and slowly refine and transform them with its special organs, so as to obtain strange sand and stones with richer spiritual energy and less impurities."

  "Many monks raise Sand Gathering Snails to forge various sands and stones for forging magic tools."

  Song Sining introduced in detail.

  "In a sense, it is a natural working beast."

  "Thinking that you have earned rare sand and stones, it is actually just the leeks raised by the monks behind the scenes. When they are ripe, they are directly cut off, and finally end up losing both money and life."

  Lu Xuan looked at the Sand Gathering Snail under his feet, which was trying to swallow the golden sand, and thought secretly.

  (End of this chapter)