Chapter 180 - Spirit Seed Mutation

  For Lu Xuan, body training is just a snack after a meal, and farming is the main course.

  In the following period of time, in addition to raising the dragon and python every day and taking care of the burning wood, he stayed in the yard for the rest of the time, carefully cultivating spiritual plants and raising spiritual beasts.

  After the last batch of firefly grass was picked, he planted 150 of the remaining 200 spirit seeds in the empty spiritual field area to improve his cultivation and condense the spirit seeds.

  He planted the remaining 50 in the cave to keep company with the Yin Huai.

  Then, he dug a channel between the ancient well and the cave to introduce the Yin Han spring water into the cave to further improve the spiritual environment in the cave.

  After planting the Yin Huai, the cave had limited space, and planting 50 spirit fireflies seemed a bit crowded.

  Lu Xuan planned to change the growth environment of these spirit fireflies to see if he could slowly affect the characteristics of the spirit fireflies after they matured.

  In the cave, after the Yin Han spring water from the ancient well was introduced, the only place that could be called a special environment was this cave.

  In order to influence the characteristics of spiritual plants through the environment, long-term effects are required, which is difficult to achieve artificially.

  Lu Xuan can only look forward to having more choices after breaking through to the foundation-building stage. At that time, he must choose a mountain with a complex spiritual environment to cultivate various spiritual plants and facilitate the mutation of spiritual plants. The

  two hundred spiritual firefly grass seeds planted soon took root and sprouted, and a small section of tender green and slender leaves grew out, which was very pleasing.

  The fairy peach and flame fruit seeds planted before also sprouted.

  Three small pink and white peach branches trembled gently in the breeze, and the little pink tender leaves that grew out swayed with them. At a glance, there was a sense of amorous feelings.

  "Xuezi, I want milky white Xuezi..."

  Lu Xuan stared for a while, and strange thoughts emerged in his mind.

  He took a deep breath, cast a purification spell on himself, and instantly entered the sage mode, without desire or demand.

  At the Xuanchong vine, the black beetles that had been in the egg state finally hatched one after another. More than a dozen black insect chambers were densely packed on the Xuanchong vine, and they were clearly separated from the insect chambers established by the other two kinds of demon insects. The three

  kinds of demon insects, the cloaked cicada, the black beetle, and the silver-lined mantis, had all been tamed by Lu Xuan, so they got along relatively peacefully and grew together with the Xuanchong vine.

  "There are more than twenty of the three kinds of demon insects, which is enough for the early growth of the Xuanchong vine. If there are more, the balance established between them will be lost.

  When they grow to a certain stage, we will find a few good demon insects to coexist with the Xuanchong vine."

  Lu Xuan sighed as he looked at the strange-shaped Xuanchong vine.

  In the spiritual field, the other spiritual plants were growing very well. Under Lu Xuan's careful cultivation, they all worked hard to grow so as to bring him the light ball reward as soon as possible.

  After inspecting the spiritual field, Lu Xuan came to the ancient well with obscure patterns drawn on it and took out fifty spirit firefly grass spirit seeds placed in the cold spring water. The

  spirit seeds have been induced under cold conditions for a period of time, and it is time to test the results.

  The dry and slender spirit seed in his hand did not change much in form. After being nourished by the spring water for quite a long time, it just looked a little fuller than before. Holding it in his hand, he felt a faint coldness.

  Lu Xuan took the spirit seed and came to an empty spiritual field area.

  He performed the earth-drawing technique, and the structure of the spiritual soil in front of him changed slightly. A narrow crack appeared, and the spirit firefly grass spirit seed was included in it.

  Lu Xuan's mind was focused on the spirit seed in the spiritual soil, and suddenly, a thought emerged from his mind.

  [Spirit firefly grass, a spirit plant with no grade, can be used as a material for refining several healing pills after maturity. ]

  [Because the spirit seed is in a damaged state, the cultivated spirit firefly grass may not enter the mature period normally, and the quality will be greatly affected. ]

  "It's a bad start, but it's expected."

  Lu Xuan had already prepared for the spirit seed to be damaged after being stimulated, and continued to plant another spirit firefly grass spirit seed expressionlessly.   

  [Spirit Firefly Grass, no grade...]

  "No changes, normal spiritual seed."

  He continued to plant the third spiritual seed.

  One thought after another emerged in Lu Xuan's mind.

  [Spirit Firefly Grass, no grade...]

  [Alien spiritual plant, stimulated by icy spiritual power during the spiritual seed period, after maturity, the plant contains a slight ice spiritual power.]

  "Finally, a spiritual seed was successfully induced! The alien spirit firefly grass containing ice spiritual power, although it did not improve the grade, it is also a good start."

  Lu Xuan was very pleased to see a mutant spirit firefly grass spirit seed.

  He had long known from Uncle He that improving spiritual plant varieties requires long-term experiments and cannot be achieved overnight. Therefore, he had already prepared for a long battle.

  One by one, Lu Xuan planted spirit seeds, and through his grasp of their status, he judged the changes of each spirit seed after induction.

  In the end, fourteen spirit firefly grass spirit seeds failed to be induced, and the quality of the planted spirit firefly grass was much worse than before after maturity. What's more, it could not take root and sprout, and became a waste seed.

  Five spiritual seeds were successfully induced and became mutated spiritual plants. The spiritual firefly grass cultivated had a slight ice spiritual power.

  The remaining thirty-one did not change at all.

  Lu Xuan sorted these spiritual seeds and put them away. He went into the house and took out the remaining fifty spiritual seeds that were placed in the alchemy furnace and baked carefully with a slow fire.

  After planting them in the spiritual field, the fifty spiritual seeds were screened into three categories.

  The environment in the alchemy furnace seemed to have a stronger induction. Among the fifty spiritual seeds, only twenty remained the same without any change.

  Among the remaining spiritual seeds, twenty-three spiritual seeds showed negative conditions and failed to be induced.

  Fortunately, seven spiritual seeds successfully mutated and had a slight fire spiritual power after maturity.

  "Although the alchemy fire has been controlled to the lowest level, its destructiveness and irritation are still stronger than the spring water in the ancient well, so more damaged or even useless spiritual seeds are obtained."

  Lu Xuan analyzed in his heart.

  In terms of improving spiritual plant varieties, he found a big advantage of his own.

  When other spiritual plant masters improve spiritual plant varieties, they need to plant all the induced spiritual seeds and wait until they grow to a certain stage before they can select the spiritual plants that have successfully mutated.

  As for him, as long as he buries the spiritual seeds in the spiritual soil, he can judge the changes in the spiritual seeds after induction and directly select the mutated spiritual plants.

  Failed spiritual seeds can be directly discarded and eliminated, and the remaining spiritual seeds that remain in their original state can be repeatedly induced until success or failure.

  In this way, although the cost in the early stage is higher, a large number of mutated spiritual plants can be collected in a short period of time, which is convenient for later experiments and greatly shortens the time for spiritual plant variety improvement.

  "In the next period of time, what I have to do is to induce the remaining ordinary spiritual seeds again, and then cultivate mutated spiritual plants, and obtain a large number of mutated spiritual seeds through the method of spiritual seed condensation."

  "Induce again, condense seeds again, and continue this virtuous cycle, and I will definitely be able to improve the firefly grass spiritual seeds."

  Lu Xuan thought confidently.

  (End of this chapter)