Chapter 227 - Soul-Enriching Pine

  soul seed is slender and light yellow in color. It is covered with a thick layer of pine resin, which well isolates the soul seed from the outside world.

  "Although the vitality is weak, it cannot be faked."

  A black sword light shot out from the dantian, as thin as a cicada's wing. Under the control of Lu Xuan's spiritual consciousness, it scraped off the pine resin on the surface of the soul seed bit by bit.

  He then performed the earth-drawing technique, and a long and thin crack appeared on the ground, which took the slender soul seed into it.

  His mind was focused on the soul seed in the shallow layer of the spiritual soil, and suddenly, a thought flashed through his mind.

  [Soul-Enriching Pine, a fourth-grade spiritual plant, needs the spiritual plant master to input his own spiritual consciousness when growing, communicate and warm the plant. The mature pine cone can enhance the spiritual consciousness of the cultivator. ]

  [Since the soul seed cannot be bred for a long time, it automatically secretes pine resin spirits to isolate it from the outside world and try to slow down the loss of vitality in the soul seed. ]

  "Fourth-grade spiritual seed!"

  "It can enhance the spiritual consciousness of the cultivator. I have picked up a treasure."

  Lu Xuan exclaimed.

  Among the spiritual plants he has planted, only a few are of the fourth grade, such as the Mysterious Insect Vine, the Earth Fire Heart Lotus, and the Hundred Eyes Strange Wood in the courtyard of Jianmen Town. As for the fifth-grade Holy Infant Fruit, it was a trap set by the cultivator behind the scenes, and it is actually just the main plant.

  What's more, after the fourth-grade Soul Pine matures, it can also enhance the spiritual consciousness of the cultivator.

  The spiritual consciousness is improved very slowly. Except for the natural enlightenment when breaking through the realm, other conventional methods of improvement are extremely rare, either some rare natural treasures, or through practicing some kind of sect-protecting method.

  And the Soul Pine Spirit Seed in front of him, even if the spiritual consciousness is not improved much after maturity, is also an extremely rare high-grade spiritual plant.

  Lu Xuan carefully dug out the Soul Pine Spirit Seed, and the pale green giant net continued to go deeper into the spiritual soil.

  After obtaining the dormant fourth-grade Soul Pine Spirit Seed, he was full of energy and tirelessly explored around the medicine garden.

  "I kept digging in the small medicine garden..."

  "Hey, I found another one."

  After a moment, Lu Xuan dug out another amber-like soul seed wrapped in pine resin.

  In the end, a total of four soul seeds were dug out from the medicine garden. Unknowingly, Lu Xuan had been going deeper into the center of the medicine garden.

  "I have consumed a lot of Qingmu Yuan Qi. It seems that I need to go to that ancient forest to meet old acquaintances before leaving the blessed land."

  Perhaps because the soul seeds of soul pine only exist in one area, Lu Xuan searched for a long time but did not find any new soul seeds.

  "Those demon-transformed ghost vines should have all retreated to the center of the medicine garden."

  He looked up at the depths of the medicine garden. On the way here, except for the first batch he encountered, he did not encounter any demon-transformed ghost vines.

  Even the ordinary plants disappeared, as if they were all taken away by their demon-transformed companions.

  "There must be something wrong when things are abnormal. Should I go into the center of the medicine garden to take a look?"

  Lu Xuan fell into deep thought.

  With his always cautious temperament, he would definitely stay away from it at ordinary times, but this time it was a little different.

  After all, this medicine garden was left by ancient monks. It is the most likely place in the blessed land to get spiritual seeds and seedlings of spiritual plants. Just now, four fourth-grade spiritual seeds of pine trees were found at the edge of the medicine garden. There may be greater opportunities in the central area.

  In addition, the biggest reliance of those demon-mutated ghost vines is to disguise themselves as normal spiritual plants and suddenly attack when the monks approach to pick them.

  But this is completely ineffective in front of Lu Xuan. He can tell whether the strange ghost vines are demon-mutated with just an ordinary spiritual rain technique. The

  third-grade demon-mutated ghost vines are weaker than ordinary third-grade monsters. After losing that killer weapon, they are far inferior and can be easily dealt with.   

  "Go over and take a look secretly. If you find anything unusual, run away immediately."

  Lu Xuan made up his mind. Countless nearly transparent silk threads emerged from the thin dark golden hidden spirit cloak inside, covering Lu Xuan's figure.

  After a few breaths, Lu Xuan's figure seemed to be wiped away by something and disappeared directly.

  In his vision, the whole world was covered with a layer of special substances, hazy and unclear. After

  entering the invisible state, his movements became much slower, and he slowly approached the center of the medicine garden.

  As he went deeper, Lu Xuan noticed that there were more and more monster bones in the medicine garden, and some of them were even unknown how many years old. If you stepped on them lightly, they would turn into powder.

  "It's a pity that they are all useless bones. The spiritual power in them is lost, otherwise I can take them back to nourish the thorn bones."

  Lu Xuan hid in the dark golden clothes and sighed secretly.

  "What is that?"

  After entering the center of the medicine garden, the scene in front of him surprised Lu Xuan.

  Hundreds of strange ghost vines gathered together, and the blue-black vines danced wantonly, like a hundred ghosts parading at night under the dim sky.

  In the center of the many ghost vines, there is an extremely huge and evil plant.

  The height of ordinary demon mutated ghost vines is comparable to that of ordinary humans, but this one is five meters tall, and the blue-black vines are as thick as an adult's arm, constantly entangled upwards.

  At the top of it, there is a pale green flower bud the size of a wooden basin, which keeps shrinking and expanding, as if breathing.

  As if sensing Lu Xuan's gaze, the blue-black vines on the huge ghost vine quietly turned.

  "Not good."

  Lu Xuan's spiritual consciousness sensed the movement underground, and instantly removed the hidden spirit cloak silk thread that covered his whole body, and then jumped high. Just

  as he left the ground, countless tentacle-like vines broke out of the ground, stabbing the ground where Lu Xuan had just stood with holes. After

  the attack missed, hundreds of demon mutated ghost vines continued to attack Lu Xuan in mid-air.

  Looking down, there were blue-black vines rising and falling, and there was no place to stand.

  Lu Xuan urged the cloud soaring technique, turned in mid-air, and landed in an area with relatively few ghost vines.

  As soon as he landed, countless tentacle-like vines rushed towards Lu Xuan frantically.

  Purple lightning sword energy flashed, and the surface of the nearest vines jumped with arcs and crackled.

  But there were too many ghost vines, and soon they found an opportunity. The tentacle-like vines tightly wrapped around Lu Xuan, and the dark barbs pierced Lu Xuan's skin fiercely.

  Fortunately, he had taken a few drops of golden marrow jade liquid and jade scale fruit before, and practiced the two major body-refining methods of "Liuli Bone Forging Method" and "Taixu Hualong Pian". The strength of his physical body had long surpassed that of other early foundation-building cultivators, and all the barbs did not even penetrate the skin.

  Lu Xuan snorted coldly, and the Xunlei Sword Pill in his dantian rotated at a high speed. The black sword light in the sky was like a hurricane, whistling out from his body.

  The wind swept, the sword intent was filled, and the surrounding vines were cut into pieces by countless Xunlei Sword Lights, falling to the ground, forming a hollow area.

  But the remaining demon mutant ghost vines were still fearless, like a mantis trying to stop a chariot, and the blue-black vines attacked Lu Xuan from all directions.

  Lu Xuan held the Purple Lightning Sword in his hand, his skin emitting the brilliance of glazed white jade, and he was surrounded by black sword light. Wherever he went, vine fragments fell like rain.

  (End of this chapter)