Chapter 25 - Red Bearded Carp

  When he left Baicaotang, Manager He had told him to keep the blood jade ginseng as far apart as possible when cultivating it, and not to let them get tangled together, so as not to affect each other's growth.

  After planting the blood jade ginseng spirit seeds, he learned the specific reason.

  Spirit seeds or spirit ginseng can move slowly in the spirit field. If they are close to each other, they will be attracted to each other and stay together for a long time, plundering each other's vitality until the winner is determined and the loser withers.

  Of course, spirit plant masters generally do not allow such extreme situations to occur. After noticing that the roots of the spirit ginseng are entangled, they use methods to separate them.

  "They are attracted to each other, then you love me, entangled together, and then absorb each other's vitality until I separate them."

  "Why do they feel like a pair of lovers, and I am the parent who ruthlessly separates them."

  Lu Xuan couldn't help but sigh.

  Fortunately, he doesn't have much else, but he has a lot of time to ensure that the two blood jade ginsengs will not touch each other.

  "There shouldn't be a difference between male and female blood jade ginseng, right?"

  He shook his head, throwing away the image of blood jade ginseng entangled in his mind.

  After planting twenty blood jade ginseng spiritual seeds, Lu Xuan used the spiritual rain technique to nourish them. The spiritual rain seeped into the soil and was greedily absorbed by the jade-like blood-red spiritual seeds.

  Next, he planted one hundred spiritual firefly grass seeds that looked like dried tea leaves, and also used the spiritual rain technique to provide them with nutrients. The

  new spiritual field is about ten times larger than the previous one. After planting one hundred spiritual firefly grass seeds and twenty blood jade ginseng seeds, there is still a small half area left.

  Lu Xuan plans to use it to plant red cloud pine, dark marrow ganoderma and sword grass. If he finds other good spiritual seeds, he will try to buy them and plant them.

  "How can this spiritual spring be used to the greatest extent?"

  He looked at the spiritual spring with shallow spring water in the spiritual field and fell into deep thought.

  Spiritual spring water is usually used to assist in alchemy, wine making, and tea making. Some monks also take it directly to slightly increase the spiritual power in the body.

  However, this was a bit useless to Lu Xuan. With the cultivation bonus brought by the Firefly Grass, he looked down on that little bit of spiritual power.

  "Although aquatic spiritual plants are relatively rare, they are not unavailable. You can try to find them in the market or shops."

  "This spiritual spring is not small in area. It is estimated that there will not be so many aquatic spiritual plants. It would be a pity to waste them like this."

  "Maybe I can raise one or two spiritual fish?"

  An idea suddenly popped up in Lu Xuan's mind, and it became stronger and stronger.

  "Growing spiritual medicine in the spiritual field will bring light ball rewards. If I cultivate spiritual beasts, will there be rewards?"

  Thinking of this, he couldn't help but get excited.

  "If there is no, it's not a loss. The spiritual fish raised by the spiritual spring water can also be sold at a good price. If there is, then I will make a lot of money."

  "I must give it a try."

  The idea in his heart became more and more firm.

  He opened the formation and left the courtyard.

  First go back to the old courtyard. There are still ten spiritual fireflies in the spiritual field in the yard that are about to mature.

  He harvested a batch and waited for two days. He also helped Xu Wan transplant two Eclipse Moon trees to her home. After he was done, all the firefly grasses were mature.

  Among the ten firefly grasses, six were of good quality and four were of superior quality. It was probably because the spiritual power of the spiritual field was insufficient that he had not yet planted a higher quality spiritual plant.

  Among the ten white light balls that appeared, four brought him several months of cultivation, a total of more than two years, making his spiritual energy more stable.

  There were three light balls that brought three first-grade talismans, and the other three were magic experience packages, two earth-drawing spells, and one Gengjin sword technique. Lu Xuan had a deeper understanding of the two magics.

  He felt that if the earth-drawing spell was fully activated, it could cause the ground to shake, which would have a significant attack effect.

  As for the Gengjin sword technique, it goes without saying. If he fought with Qin Ming again, even if he had a protective magic weapon like the jade card, Lu Xuan would have a great chance of killing him with one blow.

  After absorbing all ten white light balls, Lu Xuan looked at the courtyard that seemed a little empty and turned away.   

  Arriving at the casual cultivators' market, he searched around and found that there were very few stalls selling spirit beast cubs or spirit beast eggs, so he came to a spirit pet shop.

  In the shop, there were all kinds of spirit beast cubs, flying in the sky, running on the ground, swimming in the water, everything was available.

  Most of them were spirit pets, with a well-behaved and docile appearance and not very aggressive. It was said that the owner was the family of an inner disciple of the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect and was very proficient in taming beasts.

  "Excuse me, fellow Taoist, how can I help you?"

  Seeing Lu Xuan come in and look around, a pretty girl came over and greeted him with a smile.

  "I want to buy one or two fish spirit beasts. Do you have any recommendations?"

  Lu Xuan got straight to the point.

  "If you want fish spirit beasts, you can come over here and take a look."

  "This is a red-bearded carp, a non-grade demon beast with high ornamental value. It can be cooked after being raised to maturity. The meat is delicious. The two red whiskers next to the fish head can also be used as materials for refining equipment."

" Red-bearded carp does not require a high growth environment. It can be raised with ordinary spiritual springs. Of course, if it can be fed with some spiritual rice, it will be easier to mature."

"This is a black arrow fish, also a non-grade demon beast. It is shaped like an arrow and is extremely fast. It needs to devour a certain amount of blood and flesh essence when it is fed.

  " "This is a black water python, a first-grade demon beast, amphibious, extremely aggressive, and with a large range of changes in size. The longest can reach about six feet."

  "As for other aquatic demon beasts, due to their wildness and difficulty in taming, they may hurt their owners. They are not suitable for you to raise them."

The beautiful female cultivator Lu Xuan introduced several common aquatic spirit beasts in the spirit pet shop, and euphemistically said that with Lu Xuan's second-level Qi training cultivation, he could only raise demon beasts such as black water pythons at most.

  Lu Xuan thought about it for a while and ruled out the black arrow fish and black water python.

  Raising the black arrowfish requires the essence of blood and flesh. He himself seldom eats a good meal, so how could he have extra blood and flesh of demon beasts to feed it.

  As for the black water python, Lu Xuan gave up immediately after hearing that it might be six feet long.

  His own spiritual spring couldn't even hold half of its volume, so what could he use to raise it?

  And

  now it's in the experimental stage, and it's not clear whether the white light ball will appear.

  Therefore, Lu Xuan is more inclined to choose spiritual fish with a short maturation period and cheap price. "How much is this red beard carp?"

  He pointed to a carp fry in the pond and asked.

  The red beard carp is as its name suggests, with two thin red whiskers growing near its gills, which are longer than its body. When swimming, they are like two ribbons, floating around.

  "For red beard carp fry, one spiritual stone per piece."   The pretty girl replied.

  "It's also of no rank, so it's more expensive than the spiritual firefly grass spiritual seeds and the Eclipse Moon Tree seedlings."

  Lu Xuan habitually compared the prices.

  "I'll buy three, which is cheaper. How about eighty broken spirits per piece?"

  He naturally cut the price.

  "If you want to buy three, I can make the decision and sell them to you at the price of two spirit stones and eighty broken spirits. This is the lowest price."

  "Two spirit stones and sixty broken spirits, I will buy them immediately."

  "Seventy, it can't be lower."

  "Okay, deal!"

  Lu Xuan replied with satisfaction.

  (End of this chapter)