Chapter 169 - The Hidden Scale Fish of the Thousand Year Killing
Shuilin Jiao remained calm and motionless. The young monk stared at it intently. Lu Xuan adjusted his breathing and took out the Silver Crack Blade.
The short silver-white sword blade slowly pierced into the belly of Shuilin Jiao.
Although Shuilin Jiao was a second-grade dragon, it had no scales to protect its abdomen. In addition, it was not known for its defense. Therefore, it was not very difficult for the first-grade Silver Crack Blade to pierce it.
Lu Xuan held the hilt of the silver-white Silver Crack Blade tightly and slowly and firmly cut a hole.
Then, he probed into it with his spiritual consciousness and searched very carefully between every muscle and bone.
"I found you."
Although it looked like flesh and blood somewhere in the body of Shuilin Jiao, his spiritual consciousness felt a slight abnormality. He acted decisively and controlled the small group of abnormal things. Before it could react, he quickly took it out of the body of Shuilin Jiao.
A strange fish appeared on the ground.
The strange fish was about one foot long, slender, and translucent. There was only a black lateral line structure in its body, and there was a huge, almost transparent suction cup on its head.
"What is this?"
"There are indeed other monsters in the dragon's body. Junior Brother Lu really has a sharp eye."
The monks next to him talked about it when they saw the strange fish coming out of the water dragon.
Lu Xuan did not say anything. He took out a piece of monster meat from the bucket next to him and put it in front of the strange fish.
The strange fish seemed to have found a chance to survive. Its body swayed and it drilled into the monster meat like a stream of water.
"I found you the first time, so I can find you the second time."
Lu Xuan snorted coldly and easily pulled the strange fish out of the monster meat.
The reason why he took out the monster meat was to prove to other monks that this fish had the ability to possess and parasitize, and to take this opportunity to learn more about the strange fish.
A thought flashed through his mind.
[Hidden scale fish, a first-grade monster, weak attack power, good at hiding itself in the water, non-toxic and edible. ]
[Usually parasitizes water monsters. During the larval period, the hatched hidden scale fish will find an opportunity to drill into the back door of the monster, silently merge with the monster's body, and absorb the essence of the monster's flesh and blood. ]
"Huh???"
When Lu Xuan saw this information for the first time, he couldn't help but be stunned.
"Junior Brother Lu, what is this strange fish? How did such a big fish get into the body of a dragon?"
Although the people next to him also raised dragons and pythons in Qianlong Lake, for them, cultivation was still the first priority, and raising dragons was just a way to earn sword seals.
Therefore, they didn't have a deep understanding of the spiritual beast.
Lu Xuan paused, and finally decided to tell the truth.
"This strange fish is called the Hidden Scale Fish. I have seen it in a certain book. It usually parasitizes in the body of a water monster and feeds on the essence of the monster's flesh and blood."
"As for the way it enters the body of a monster..."
"As far as I know, it enters from the back door of the monster."
Everyone's face showed a puzzled expression. Looking at the Hidden Scale Fish that was still struggling hard on the ground, they all felt a tightness behind them.
"But why didn't we find it? These dragons and pythons have been raised by us since they were young, and we occasionally check their physical conditions, but we have never found the trace of this strange fish."
A cultivator asked in confusion.
"It's very simple. The hidden scale fish has a strong ability to hide. It is almost integrated with the dragon. Only by searching slowly and bit by bit with spiritual sense at a close distance can we find their traces."
"As for the dragon, although it knows that its essence and blood are slowly draining away, it cannot find its existence because of the parasitic ability of the hidden scale fish."
Lu Xuan patiently answered the cultivator.
"Junior Brother Lu, I have one last doubt. Please help me solve it."
"How much harm will this hidden scale fish parasitic in the dragon's body cause to the dragon?"
Several people nearby pricked up their ears at the same time, focusing their attention on Lu Xuan. This was also the issue that they were most concerned about in their hearts.
After all, each cultivator present had at least dozens of dragons and pythons in their hands. If the dragons under their command were seriously injured because of this hidden scale fish, they would be in big trouble.
"The harm is not very big. The most important thing is that it will affect the growth of the dragon, and it will not endanger its life."
Lu Xuan answered affirmatively.
This answer also made everyone feel relieved.
The young cultivator removed the golden ring on the body of the Shuilin Jiao. The pale white dragon was filled with a faint spiritual light, covering the wound left by Lu Xuan.
After treating himself, the Shuilin Jiao looked in the direction of Lu Xuan and growled at him with gratitude.
Lu Xuan watched it disappear in the water, came back to his senses, and continued to draw blood and explore the remaining dragons and pythons.
Fortunately, there was no trace of new hidden scale fish in the dragon behind, which made the young cultivator next to him relax a lot.
"Thank you for your hard work, Junior Brother Lu."
He handed Lu Xuan a black cloth bag, which was bulging with a lot of spiritual stones.
"You're welcome, Senior Brother."
"Although I have discovered the hidden scale fish, there is no guarantee that there will be other things hidden, so I have to bring the dragon's blood back to the cave and study it carefully."
Lu Xuan gave a few instructions, smiled and took the cloth bag, weighed it slightly, and with his experience, he immediately felt that the weight in his hand was somewhat inconsistent with the number of spiritual stones mentioned by the cultivator before, and it was obviously heavier.
He put the cloth bag into the storage bag.
"Junior Brother Lu, help me take a look first!"
"Junior Brother, look at me, look at me, the dragon I manage is the closest to here."
"Don't worry, senior brothers, we will take a good look."
Lu Xuan said gently.
The double temptation of spiritual stones and dragon's blood, he can't help but go!
He randomly selected a cultivator, and in his ecstatic expression, he went to the waters where the cultivator was.
The first time is new, the second time is familiar. With the previous experience, the speed of blood test is a few points faster than before.
Among the dozens of dragons and pythons, no abnormal condition was found.
Lu Xuan rushed to another one without stopping.
Everyone thought that he was concerned about the safety of his fellow disciples' spiritual beasts, and they were all moved. The little unhappiness that had arisen before also completely disappeared.
In this way, Lu Xuan drew blood from all the dragons and pythons with high intensity and frequency. Among them, a total of eight dragons and pythons were parasitized by hidden scale fish.
Every time an abnormal situation was found, the monks behind him would take the initiative to increase Lu Xuan's reward and give him more spiritual stones. The
dragon blood in Lu Xuan's storage bag was also increasing, and the bottles and jars were piled up together, almost forming a small mountain.
"Brother Lu, what do you think about these hidden scale fish?"
After the last dragon was drawn blood, all the dragons in this area were drawn by Lu Xuan.
"It should be that a dragon caught from the outside world has hidden scale fish hidden in its body, and then raised in Qianlong Lake, it grows and reproduces at the bottom of the lake, and slowly chooses the dragon to parasitize."
Lu Xuan guessed.
(End of this chapter)