While traveling, Lu Xuan slowly deviated from the direction of the three fellow disciples.
He waited until he was far away before he stopped.
His spiritual consciousness carefully scanned the surroundings and found no trace of any monks.
However, the growth density of the weird vines is higher than before. Looking around, you can easily spot them.
This ghost vine is composed of many green and black vines of different thicknesses. The vines are twisted and splayed with teeth and claws. At first glance, one might have thought it was a mountain ghost in the forest, looking like it was choosing people to devour.
There are also pale green flowers growing on the top of the vines. From a distance, they look like twinkling orbs, adding a bit of evil and terror to the plants.
Lu Xuan kept a distance from the surrounding ghost vines to prevent them from making a sudden attack.
Immediately afterwards, the spiritual energy in the body circulated, and a large-scale spiritual rain technique covering a hundred feet in radius was launched.
Threads of spiritual rain fell down, seeping into all the ghost vines in the area.
Whenever you cultivate or feed them, you will be able to get detailed information and real-time status of the spiritual animals and plants.
Even if those strange ghosts and vines turn into monster-like beings, as long as they absorb the spiritual rain caused by Lu Xuan, they can learn everything about them in detail.
Lu Xuan’s mind was focused on the nearest ghost vine, and then a thought flashed through his mind.
[The strange ghost vine is a third-grade spiritual plant and a demonic plant. It is extremely aggressive. It will disguise itself as a normal spiritual plant and actively attack monsters or monks approaching them. 】
[Feeds other spiritual plants other than the same kind, as well as the flesh and blood of monsters. 】
【Cannot be planted. 】
“The demon transforms into a spiritual plant and will take the initiative to sneak attack monks or demonic beasts.”
The information about the strange ghost vine made Lu Xuan feel a little novel.
This was the first time he encountered a spiritual plant that actively attacked a monk. In Linyangfang City, many spiritual plants had mutated due to the influence of evil spirits, but they did not show any intention to actively attack.
After entering the Tianjian Sect, the varieties of spiritual plants cultivated became more and more abundant, and the grades became higher and higher. Among them, there were also spiritual plants such as the Mystical Peach, the Hundred-Eyed Tree, and the Holy Infant Fruit that could affect the monks’ desires and minds.
But they are either born out of nature, or they are controlled by monks hiding in the dark. They will not actively attack like this demonic mutated ghost vine.
Lu Xuan continued to inspect other spiritual plants.
There were nearly twenty ghost vines in the huge area where the Spiritual Rain technique was cast, and most of them were demonic plants. It wasn’t until the sixth plant that Lu Xuan discovered a normal ghost vine.
[Strange ghost vine…, when mature, can be used to refine certain special high-grade elixirs, and can also assist in the practice of Yin and evil techniques. 】
[Absorb spiritual energy to grow normally. 】
Among the more than twenty ghost vines, a total of four are normal spiritual plants, and the rest are demonic plants.
“There is still a big difference between demonic plants and normal plants.”
“The growth methods of the two are slightly different. The demonic plant is no longer satisfied with simply absorbing spiritual power. It has a strong desire for other spiritual plants other than the same kind, and the flesh and blood of demonic beasts.”
“However, some unknown changes may have occurred during the demon transformation process, causing the demon to transform and the ghost vines to be unable to coagulate seeds and continue their lives.”
While Lu Xuan sighed, he firmly remembered the four normal spiritual plants.
“What is professionalism?”
“No need to carefully eliminate, no need to risk fighting, a normal ghost vine can be quickly identified with a spiritual rain spell.”
“That’s called professionalism.”
The previous method used by the three of them to pick White Walker vines was to step on the mines one by one. If they stepped on them, they would work together to deal with them. Lu Xuan used minesweeper, using means to mark out which ones were mines and which ones were not, and then directly bypassed them. The demon transformed into a plant and picked a normal ghost vine spiritual plant.
He slowly walked to a demonic mutated ghost vine, and with tiny steps, he stretched out his hand to slowly grab the pale green flowers on the vine.
Just when his fingers were about to touch the flower, Lu Xuan turned around suddenly and walked straight to another one.
Behind him, the green and black vines that had been trembling slightly as Lu Xuan approached calmed down. Under the ground, hundreds of tentacle-like roots slowly retracted into the depths of the ground.
Lu Xuan followed suit. Whenever he approached a demonic plant, he looked excited, as if he had discovered some great opportunity.
But just as he was about to make contact, he quickly withdrew his hand, teasing the demonic mutated ghost vines that were ready to move, but had nowhere to vent.
He walked to a normal white ghost vine and then carefully picked it.
However, because the spiritual plants were not cultivated and cared for, no white light cluster appeared after picking.
In this way, he shuttled among many spiritual plants, pretending to be close to the demonic plant, and then quickly retreated. When he encountered a real normal white ghost vine, he picked it without ceremony.
Lu Xuan’s actions seemed to anger those demonic spirit plants.
While picking the last normal White Walker vine within the coverage area of the Spiritual Rain technique, suddenly, hundreds of green and black vines with barbs emerged from the ground and struck at Lu Xuan like lightning.
“Well done!”
Lu Xuan was already prepared and patted the green mottled gourd on his waist with his right hand.
Suddenly, a sword cry resounded, and countless and subtle sword energies shot out from the gourd mouth like swimming fish, facing the green and black vines.
The sword energy was extremely sharp, and tiny sword marks appeared on the vines. The number was increasing, and the marks were getting deeper and deeper. After an instant, the green and black tentacles shattered and fell all over the ground.
After Lu Xuan used the sword energy in the sword-raising gourd, the purple electric sword brought out a trace of electric light, and he used the autumn wind sword technique in the “Four Seasons Sword Technique”, like the wind blowing, and it was bleak and solemn with infinite. Killing intent.
Sections of green and black vines fell to the ground, like severed earthworms, jumping around in the gray and black soil, struggling to death.
After losing the camouflage ability and sudden attack that he relied on for survival, the attack of the strange ghost vines was reduced by several levels. Lu Xuan easily eliminated several of the strange ghost vines that surrounded him.
“Huh? Why did you suddenly retreat?”
He noticed that the demonic plant he recognized in the distance quickly penetrated into the spiritual soil, and together with the vines on the ground and the normal white ghost vines, they disappeared in an instant.
Lu Xuan smelled something wrong.
“Is it because they discovered my restraint against them? Or is it a premeditated act?”
He was confused in his heart, and the light cyan light group in his dantian rotated slightly.
A trace of green wood origin energy emerged from the body, and under the control of Lu Xuan’s spiritual consciousness, it was quickly woven into a giant light blue net. The mesh was extremely small, which could ensure that no subtle spiritual seed was missed.
He planned to use this giant net to plow the empty medicine garden to find any spiritual seeds that might be hidden inside.
Aoki’s source energy has a natural affinity for spiritual plants, and can keenly sense the vitality in spiritual plants, which is much easier than Lu Xuan’s search with spiritual sense.
The light cyan giant net continued to penetrate deep into the ground, until it reached the limit of Lu Xuan’s spiritual consciousness, and then it was withdrawn.
Lu Xuan was not discouraged. He found a new piece of land and continued to screen for seeds.
“Yes.”
After repeated attempts, Lu Xuan sensed an extremely weak wave of vitality from the giant light blue web.
He was operating the earth-inflection technique of the Dacheng realm, and the soil structure was constantly changing, turning things inside up.
A spiritual seed like amber.
(End of chapter)