Chapter 89 - Ghost Face Mushroom
Lu Xuan did not want to rush to the front, but planned to follow the crowd. He would join the group after the first spiritual plant master who had contact with the dragon beard grass had tested and understood it.
During the discussion, Lu Xuan listened to the spiritual plant masters talking and coming up with various ideas. He also gained some insights by analogy. This was a pleasant surprise.
Suddenly, he glanced at the distance and saw a dark red snake-like beard suddenly emerged from a pile of dragon beard grass and attacked a nearby spiritual plant master.
With a ding-dong sound, the snake-like beard was blocked by a shield magic weapon, and a black flying sword bypassed it and split it in two.
As the spiritual plant master was well prepared, the attack of the mutated dragon beard grass did not cause any damage, but was just a false alarm.
After being hit by this, the spiritual plant master looked at the small pile of dragon beard grass at his feet and saw that it had also changed, as if every dragon beard grass could suddenly attack.
Half an hour passed, and from time to time, some cultivators were suddenly attacked by the mutated dragon beard grass. Fortunately, they were all careful and the attack ability of the mutated dragon beard grass was weakened, so there were no casualties for the time being.
However, many spiritual plant masters were still helpless about how to distinguish normal from mutated dragon beard grass, and there was no progress.
"I don't know if we can find a way to distinguish and separate normal dragon beard grass."
On a protruding boulder, Wang Ruhai and Li Jianfeng hugged their arms in front of their chests, and saw more than a dozen spiritual plant masters in full view.
"Maybe." Li Jianfeng said lightly.
"The hope is still relatively large. After all, these are already the top spiritual plant masters in Linyang Market. If they can't find it, there is really no other way."
"It would be a pity if so many second-grade spiritual plants were wasted."
Li Jianfeng nodded gently to express his agreement.
After waiting for a while, seeing no movement, the elegant scholar Wang Ruhai stretched and said with a smile.
"Jianfeng, you stay here, I'll look around to see if I can find a few spiritual medicines. If there are any evil beasts, I'll clean them up."
"These spiritual plant masters are all mid-level Qi training masters, and they haven't experienced any life and death trials. I don't think they can make any waves. It's enough for you to stay here alone."
After saying that, he rode a golden flying sword and flew away quickly.
After listening to the discussion and observing secretly, Lu Xuan finally started to practice and came to the three dragon beard grasses.
It is not difficult to pick dragon beard grasses. As long as the earth-drawing technique reaches the mastery level, it can be picked relatively easily. Basically, all the spiritual plant masters present can do it.
The difficulty lies in how to identify the difference between normal and mutated dragon beard grasses, and to separate the unknown objects inside normal dragon beard grasses.
If you can't identify them, picking mutated dragon beard grasses and putting them together with normal ones will damage normal spiritual plants when a riot occurs.
If they can't separate them, it will affect the quality of dragon beard grasses and make their value lower.
He kept his spiritual power running, put his spiritual consciousness to the maximum, and carefully observed the three dragon beard grasses in front of him.
From the outside, the three dragon beard grasses were not much different, at most they were slightly different in length and width.
He probed into the dragon beard grass with his spiritual consciousness and found that there were many thin and long hairs growing inside, which were grayish white in color and ran through the entire dragon beard grass.
"Which of these grayish white hairs are normal and which are abnormal?"
Lu Xuan was cautious and checked the three dragon beard grasses, but did not find anything abnormal.
"I wonder what will happen if I pick it and plant it?"
Lu Xuan suddenly had an idea in his mind. He used the earth-drawing technique to carefully separate the roots of the dragon beard grass from the soil, and then picked it.
Then put it back into the crack.
"Fellow Daoist Lu, what is your intention?"
He Ping, who was next to him, saw Lu Xuan's strange behavior and couldn't help asking.
"I just want to do an experiment to confirm a guess in my mind."
Lu Xuan replied, his mind focused on the replanted dragon beard grass.
Sure enough, a thought came to his mind.
[Dragon Beard Grass, a second-grade spiritual plant, grows in a strange rock environment. When mature, it can be used to refine healing pills. ]
[During the mutation process, the silk whiskers inside the spiritual plant are quietly undergoing some changes. When stimulated by fire and ice magic in turn, the mutant silk whiskers will react slightly. ]
"It takes ice and fire to react... normal..."
The thought flashed through Lu Xuan's mind, and he sighed secretly.
He picked up the remaining dragon beard grass and then replanted it in the crack.
A thought came to his mind.
[Mutated dragon beard grass, a second-grade spiritual plant, has a certain degree of aggressiveness and is good at camouflage. It is almost the same as the normal dragon beard grass. ]
"Find a mutant one."
Lu Xuan held the silver-white short blade, guarding against the possible attack of the newly planted mutant dragon beard grass.
"The camouflage is pretty good."
After waiting for a while, the mutant dragon beard grass did not react at all and did not move, as if Lu Xuan had made a wrong judgment.
"Then you just keep pretending. I won't accompany you anymore."
Lu Xuan walked aside and squatted in front of a few dragon beard grasses, pretending to concentrate on studying.
"It turns out that as long as you plant the spiritual plant yourself, you can sense its immediate status and detailed information."
"That's right. I just rented the two spiritual fields in the market and didn't have the ownership. It's understandable that I can find out the status of the planted dragon beard grass."
"But this kind of spiritual plant planted halfway should not have a light ball reward, just like the diseased spiritual plant I got before, and the four blood jade ginsengs that were left for seeds."
"You must plant the spiritual seeds or seedlings yourself, cultivate them carefully, and pick them in time after they mature, only
then will you get a light ball reward." "However, it's pretty good to be able to discover the mystery of this dragon beard grass."
Lu Xuan sighed. He did not tell the Wang family cultivator about his discovery, but pretended to perform the spiritual rain technique, wood growth technique, etc., just like other spiritual plant masters around him.
During this period, if he found other plants, he would dig them out, and then plant them inadvertently, and learn the detailed information of the plants. Unfortunately, he did not find any rare spiritual plants.
"What is this?"
Suddenly, he found a mushroom-shaped stone under a strange rock.
The stone is grayish white, hard in texture, with a wide top and many strange patterns on the surface. When combined together, it seems to form a weird face, with a look of choosing people to eat.
"Grow it and see?"
Lu Xuan saw that it was similar in shape to a mushroom and had a strange appearance, so he had the idea of planting it.
He performed the earth-inducing technique, and the stone buried in the soil quietly cracked, leaving a crack that just accommodated the mushroom stone.
His mind was focused on it, and an idea emerged from his mind.
Lu Xuan suppressed his inner surprise and digested and absorbed the idea.
[Ghost Face Stone Mushroom, a third-grade spiritual plant, can increase the speed of practicing certain evil arts when mature. It feeds on resentful souls and is in a dormant state. It needs to be awakened by the pills made by crushing and refining resentful souls. ]
(End of this chapter)