Chapter 60 - Alienated Gnawing Insect

  Wanbaolou has a very good reputation in the market. Lu Xuan readily followed the advice of the pretty girl, paid three spirit stones as a deposit, and left his identity information.

  According to the girl, snake monster blood will be transported from other branches of Wanbaolou in about five to ten days, but Lu Xuan can come to pick it up on his own and make up the remaining spirit stones according to the quality of the monster blood transported.

  Then, he returned to the yard with the Mist Hidden Mystery Array Plate.

  When he came back, the grass puppet was still in the corner of the spirit field. The gray grass tumor on the huge head extended several gray and black dry grass, slowly and carefully weaving its limbs. In

  such a short half day, it only wove two arms, and the elbows were not even visible.

  Sensing Lu Xuan's breath, the gray grass weaving action paused slightly, retracted into the tumor on the head, and turned its head slightly, as if to welcome Lu Xuan.

  Lu Xuan returned to the house and took out the Mist Hidden Mystery Array Plate.

  The array plate was grayish white, with many mysterious and obscure runes drawn on it. Faint mist seeped out from both sides of the runes, lingering above the array plate for a long time.

  "The second-grade defensive array also has a little maze function. Even for a high-level cultivator, it is not easy to break the array."

  The array outside the yard was left by the arsenal before. It was considered an invisible benefit of Lu Xuan's huge investment in renting the spiritual field. The grade was first-grade, and the defense was only ordinary.

  Now that it has been replaced with a second-grade mist-hidden maze, Lu Xuan is more at ease, and he doesn't have to worry about the spiritual plants in the spiritual field being coveted by others.

  His spiritual power seeped into the array plate and slowly activated the array plate according to a certain pattern.

  Many runes on the array plate lit up, and the faint mist in the sky seemed to be blown by the breeze and dispersed in all directions.

  Then, a translucent spiritual shield appeared outside the yard. Lu Xuan kept adjusting it so that the shield covered the entire yard just right.

  At the same time, a light mist came out from nowhere and soon enveloped the entire yard. If you look at the spiritual field from above, you can only see a thick white fog. You can't see either the spiritual plants or the house clearly. Even if your spiritual consciousness penetrates, you will only be trapped in the thick fog.

  Lu Xuan's spiritual consciousness constantly adjusts the rune pattern, and the fog outside also moves and gathers, as if an invisible hand is controlling it.

  "Okay, the second-grade formation is arranged. As for the first-grade formation of the tooth shop, I will find time to return it to them one day."

  Lu Xuan stood in the spiritual field and looked outside the yard.

  Under his control, the spiritual field was not affected by the fog at all. After

  arranging the formation, Lu Xuan rested for a while and began to check the status of the spiritual plants in the spiritual field.

  His mind was focused on the spiritual plants, and he quickly learned the current status of the spiritual plants.

  When there was a need, he would use a spiritual rain technique and a wood growth technique to meet every subtle need of the spiritual plants.

  "The rhizome feels a bit heavy, not like the heaviness of adding roots to roots, but like something is sucking the roots hard."

  When passing by the blood jade ginseng area, Lu Xuan suddenly noticed that there was something wrong with a blood jade ginseng.

  It was clearly keeping a safe distance from other blood jade ginsengs, but it was showing an abnormal state.

  Based on the current state of the blood jade ginseng, he slowly extended his spiritual consciousness and penetrated into the spiritual soil.

  Under the perception of spiritual consciousness, Lu Xuan found that there was a light black thing attached to the rhizome of the blood jade ginseng buried deep in the spiritual soil.

  It seemed that there was a tumor on the rhizome of the blood jade ginseng. If you feel it carefully, you can feel that the light black tumor is composed of hundreds of tiny insects.   

  Many insects were buried deep in the soil, motionless, absorbing the vitality of the blood jade ginseng. If they had not discovered something strange in their immediate state, they would probably only be noticed after they had penetrated deep into the roots of the blood jade ginseng.

  "From the looks of it, it should be a gnawing spirit insect. I just don't know when it sneaked into the spiritual field to harm my spiritual plants."

  Lu Xuan's expression relaxed. The book "Common Harmful Demonic Insects and Solutions" at home recorded this kind of strange insect.

  They move in the soil and like to bite and devour the roots of spiritual plants. In the early stages of biting, it is generally difficult to find their traces.

  The way the gnawing spirit insects entered the spiritual field is unknown. After all, the previous formation was only of the first grade, with limited protection, and it was not open all day. The gnawing spirit insects themselves are very small and extremely difficult to completely block. In addition, they move in the soil, making them even more difficult to guard against.

  Of course, it is also possible that there are gnawing spirit insect eggs left deep in the soil. After hatching, they find the roots of the blood jade ginseng.

  Although Lu Xuan cleaned the insect eggs in the spiritual field from time to time before, it was difficult to ensure that they were completely cleaned up.

  He circulated his spiritual power and performed the earth-drawing technique.

  Although the experience packs of the Earth Attraction Technique that burst out from the white light ball were not as many as those of the Gengjin Sword Technique, Lu Xuan's mastery of this technique had also reached the minor success level.

  Under his exquisite control, the spiritual soil moved quietly, without disturbing the gnawing spirit insects attached to the rhizomes of the blood jade ginseng.

  They did not react until the rhizomes were exposed to the light.

  The light black tumor instantly split into hundreds of tiny black insects, like a black fog, making sharp chirping sounds and attacking Lu Xuan from all directions.

  Lu Xuan swung his left hand, and a thin red needle turned into a phantom and pierced the gnawing spirit insects, flying freely in the insect swarm, leaving a series of red line phantoms.

  After a few moments, the red line needle flew back in front of Lu Xuan, piercing hundreds of tiny gnawing spirit insects from the needle tip all the way down.

  "There's something wrong with these gnawing spirit insects. They're very different from what's recorded in the book. I remember it says they're not very aggressive."

  "But these in the spiritual field can turn into a ball of black mist and attack in groups, which is obviously different from normal gnawing spirit insects."

  Lu Xuan looked at the red needle in his hand, and with a move of his spiritual power, a deep red flame appeared on the slender red needle, instantly burning the many tiny gnawing spirit insects that were pierced into black ash.

  "According to their mobility, they shouldn't be the gnawing spirit insect eggs that were left in the spiritual soil before, otherwise, I would have discovered that they wanted to harm the spiritual plants."

  "Then it can only be an invasion from the outside world, but I don't know what influence it has, and it has changed so much."

  Thinking of the alienated monks that have appeared in the market recently, Lu Xuan felt something was wrong.

  "What kind of evil spirit did the Wang family offend in that new secret realm, and what did they get from it, making the whole market unsafe?"

  Lu Xuan immediately thought of the scene when the Wang family cultivators came back with many independent cultivators last time. He heard the cultivators next to him discuss that they seemed to have stolen a treasure in the process of reclaiming the new secret realm, and attracted the evil spirits inside, making the market uneasy for a long time.

  "I hope I'm just overthinking."

  Lu Xuan felt heavy in his heart, and carefully searched every spiritual plant in the spiritual field. Fortunately, he did not find any traces of the alienated gnawing insects.

  Being in such a dangerous cultivation world, Lu Xuan just wanted to plant spiritual plants quietly, but this small request was difficult to achieve.

  He looked at the second-grade sword grass and dark marrow ganoderma that had been planted in the spiritual field for nearly half a year, and his desire to see them mature soon became more urgent.

  (End of this chapter)