Chapter 451 - Monkey Fruit

  "Then it's settled. Young friend Lu, you cultivate the spiritual fruit for brewing monkey wine for me. When it matures, I will give you some monkey wine and other things."

  The old ape was more and more excited when he heard Lu Xuan's suggestion.

  The secret recipe is passed down in the blood of the White Jade Sky-supporting Ape clan. When it grows to a certain stage and the blood is stimulated, it will automatically obtain the secret recipe. Therefore, it is not worried that human cultivators will know the details of the secret recipe.

  With such an inner sect disciple who is proficient in spiritual plants right in front of it, it will naturally not miss this opportunity.

  "It just so happens that I have a spiritual seed in my abdomen. I will take it out and give it to you, young friend Lu."

  The old ape opened his mouth, and an egg-sized spiritual seed slowly floated out of its abdomen.

  "The spiritual fruit is the Monkey Fruit. The way it condenses is closely related to my White Jade Sky-supporting Ape clan. It must be nurtured with essence, qi and blood before it can be cultivated normally."

  Lu Xuan reached out and carefully took the spiritual seed.

  The spirit seed was light golden in color, and there seemed to be a miniature monkey embryo inside the thin seed coat, curled up into a ball. Upon closer inspection, it turned into a golden shadow.

  "This is the first time I've seen the way this spirit seed condenses. No wonder it has such a deep connection with the white ape clan."

  Lu Xuan sighed secretly.

  "Senior White Ape, is there anything I need to pay attention to when cultivating this Heart Ape Fruit spirit seed?"

  Although he had the ability to understand the information of the spirit plant after planting, he still had to do a good job on the surface, so he asked the old ape.

  "The Heart Ape Fruit is a fifth-grade spirit plant, and it has relatively high requirements for the spirit soil and spiritual energy. There is nothing special about it."

  "By the way, there is one more thing. When cultivating this Heart Ape Fruit, the mind is easily affected by it, and it may invisibly breed emotions such as mania and restlessness. Please pay more attention to this, little friend Lu."

  "Yes, thank you for your reminder, senior."

  Lu Xuan bowed and put the light golden spirit seed into the storage bag.

  He continued to drink tea and chat with the old ape.

  "By the way, senior, is there a forbidden area in the blessed land? Can you tell me in detail? I want to know."

  He thought of the thunderstorm bear that was affected by the atmosphere around the forbidden land during pregnancy and had a difficult birth.

  Now he replaced Cangwu Zhenren and took charge of the blessed land, so he must understand all the unstable factors in the blessed land to avoid accidents during his management.

  "Forbidden land? There is such a place, but it has little to do with you and me."

  The old ape took a sip of hot tea and said slowly.

  "As for the forbidden land, it mainly holds some unfortunate or ominous spirit beasts and demon beasts."

  "Although the spirit beasts in the blessed land have been tamed since childhood, they are all born from demon beasts after all. The demons are difficult to tame, and it is inevitable that they will attack or even kill the monks of the Tianjian Sect."

  "Some have special bloodlines and need to be suppressed in the forbidden land to prevent them from being harmful to other spirit beasts or monks."

  Lu Xuan heard this and nodded gently.

  It is difficult for fellow disciples to live in peace. There are countless fights and even deaths, and it is even more difficult to guarantee the safety of demon beasts.

  "There are also some demon beasts or half-alienated evil beasts captured by the sects, which are locked up in the forbidden area to provide food for some spirit beasts in the blessed land, or for the sects to use for research, drug testing, or crossbreeding to breed new demon beasts, etc."

  "It's not as peaceful and tranquil as outside the blessed land. Most of them are fierce and bloodthirsty."

  "Unlike me, I am elegant and easy-going, and I value harmony."

  The old ape squinted his eyes and shook his head.

  "..."

  Lu Xuan remained silent. If he hadn't known the old ape's background after feeding him, he would have believed what the old ape said based on his words and deeds.

  "There are so many fierce beasts and evil beasts locked up in the forbidden area, so there shouldn't be any problems with safety, right?"

  Lu Xuan asked worriedly. He was afraid that during his time in charge of the blessed land, some fierce beasts would riot and break the ban.   

  "Don't worry about this. There are many powerful restrictions outside the forbidden area. Even if there are several fifth- and sixth-grade demon beasts attacking together, they cannot break out."

  "Unless there is a seventh-grade demon, the restrictions will be broken in a short time before the sect reacts."

  "...Old man, don't set up a flag here..."

  Lu Xuan roared in his heart.

  On the surface, he was calm:

  "Then I'm relieved."

  "The old fox in the blessed land likes to go to the forbidden area to stroll around, but nothing has happened."

  "The demon-controlling order in your hand can also easily pass the restrictions and enter the forbidden area. If you are curious, you can go and have a look."

  Lu Xuan shook his head quickly.

  "The junior doesn't have this idea."

  Although he has some interest in the so-called hybrid demon beasts in his heart, his strength is limited. For the sake of safety, it is better not to take the initiative to approach there.

  He sat with the old ape for a while and returned to the cloud house.

  There is a kind of spiritual soil composed of white fine sand on the cloud. The spiritual energy is slightly stronger than ordinary spiritual soil, but no spiritual plants are planted.

  When Lu Xuan first saw it, he thought it was a waste and wanted to plant all the spiritual plants in the fine sand spiritual soil.

  At this moment, the fine sand spiritual soil can be said to have a place to use.

  He took the Heart Monkey Fruit spiritual seed out of the storage bag.

  The spiritual power surged, and the earth-drawing technique was performed. The structure of the spiritual soil accumulated on the surface of the cloud changed slightly, and a crack appeared silently.

  Lu Xuan put the light golden spiritual seed into the crack, and strands of spiritual rain fell down, nourishing the spiritual seed. The

  golden monkey embryo inside the spiritual seed seemed to sense something, and its body quietly stretched a little.

  Lu Xuan's mind was focused on the spiritual seed, and suddenly, a thought flashed through his mind.

  [The Heart Monkey Fruit, a fifth-grade spiritual plant, is a unique spiritual fruit of the White Jade Sky-supporting Ape clan. The condensation of the spiritual seed is extremely complex and needs to be nourished by essence, qi and blood. During the growth stage, it has extremely high requirements for spiritual energy and spiritual soil. ]

  [After maturity, the spiritual fruit can be taken directly to cleanse the marrow and veins, temper the mind and body, and make them round and integrated. It can also be used to refine some special high-grade elixirs and brew the monkey wine unique to the White Jade Sky-clearing Ape clan. ]

  [It has great appeal to ape monsters. ]

  [During the growth period of the spiritual plant, if you stay nearby for a long time, it will disturb the mind of the planter, making it difficult to concentrate, which is not conducive to cultivation. ]

  [Lock the heart of the ape, tie the mind of the horse! ]

  "Fifth-grade spiritual fruit..."

  Lu Xuan was happy.

  "I didn't expect to come to the blessed land and accidentally get a fifth-grade spiritual fruit."

  "Looking at its information, it is still an extremely rare variety. You can look forward to the light ball reward after it matures."

  The corners of his mouth rose slightly.

  "As for disturbing the mind and being detrimental to cultivation."

  "As long as I don't practice, there is no benefit or disadvantage."

  Lu Xuan thought secretly in his heart.

  For him, cultivation is still after farming. Anyway, his qualifications are limited, so it is better to plant more crops, open more light balls, and use the infinite unknown light ball rewards to make up for the limited qualifications.

  (End of this chapter)