After everyone discussed for a while, they still couldn’t find an effective way, so they had no choice but to leave Lingzhi Garden one after another.
“Cheng Ning, please take me to find a dying water peach. I have some clues about these insects, but I still need to verify them.”
After most people left, Lu Xuan said to the handsome young man who was still following him.
“Ah? Okay, Senior Lu!”
Hearing Lu Xuan’s words, Zhang Chengning, who was already frowning, showed joy and responded in a low voice.
He led Lu Xuan through the swamp, and after a while, he came to a water peach that was in a worrying state.
“There are already a large number of hollow parts inside the trunk of this spiritual plant, which has seriously affected its normal growth. The spiritual plant masters in the family tried their best to save it, and had to let it fend for itself.”
Lu Xuan carefully inspected the water peach plant. Indeed, as Zhang Chengning said, there were many hollow areas in the trunk, branches and leaves.
Without hesitation, he directly pulled out the seriously ill peach plant, pretended to observe it for a while, and then planted it into the swamp.
After completing the [Planting] process, Lu Xuan concentrated on the seriously ill Shui Ze Ling peach, and a piece of information suddenly flashed through his mind.
[Shui Ze Ling Peach, a first-grade spiritual plant, usually lives in swamps and swamps. Ripe spiritual peaches are rich in spiritual power and can be eaten as spiritual fruits or as the main material for refining certain elixirs. 】
[Being invaded and parasitized by Pseudomonas aeruginosa, its vitality is greatly damaged. It can control the fire spell to bake the surface of the branches of Shuizhu Lingpeach. Under the stimulation of fire spiritual power, the Pseudomonas aeruginosa will have an instinctive reaction, which is different from the normal branches of Lingzhi. Come on. 】
[It is required that the ability to control fire spells should not be lower than the Xiaocheng level, otherwise the spiritual plant may be damaged. 】
“Fire magic spells stimulate… The water peach and the pseudo-striped insect are both afraid of fire, but when baked by the spiritual fire, the spiritual plant has no reaction. Although the pseudo-striped insect has the same shape as the branches of the spiritual plant, its appearance is the same. It reacts differently to fire.”
“As a demonic insect in nature, it will naturally make choices to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, so that it can be selected from spiritual plants.”
“Normally, spiritual planters will not use this method because they are worried that the spiritual plant will be burned by the flames during the process, so it requires monks with exquisite control over fire spells.”
Lu Xuan thought secretly in his heart.
Turning around and seeing Zhang Chengning looking at him expectantly, he said gently.
“Don’t worry, I have learned a lot about this pest infestation and will be able to help you solve it soon.”
After that, he took Zhang Chengning back to Zhang’s house.
“Senior Sister Yao, my name is Lu Xuan. I have discovered something about the Peach Infestation in Shuizhe. I came here to discuss it with you, Senior Sister.”
After returning to Zhang’s house, Lu Xuan went directly to the residence where the beautiful woman was resting, knocked on the door and asked.
“Junior Brother Lu, please come in.”
Lu Xuan pushed open the door, and Yao Qing was sitting on a wooden chair, looking at him with a smile.
“Junior brother, have you found the source of those strange insects?”
“Senior sister, you are familiar with me. I have no other hobbies. I just like miscellaneous things about spiritual plants and spiritual beasts.”
“After I came back, I thought about it for a moment, and finally remembered that I seemed to have seen information about the strange insect in a certain book of the sect.”
“The strange insect is called a parasitic insect. Its eggs parasitize on spiritual plants. As they grow, they will gradually imitate the form of the spiritual plant. Therefore, it looks as if it is integrated with the spiritual plant. It is extremely difficult to find traces of it.”
“When it enters the mature stage, after the worms have captured enough vitality from the inside of the spiritual plant, they will break away from the spiritual plant and multiply until a new parasitism begins.”
“Pseudomonas, I have never heard of this name, but I believe in you, junior brother, but do you have a way to deal with it?”
Senior Sister Yao asked curiously.
However, she already believed 70% of what Lu Xuan said. After all, Lu Xuan’s improvement of the quality of monkey-faced orchid left a very deep impression on her.
“The method is not very difficult. It only requires a monk who is good at fire magic to bake it over a slow fire, and according to the changes in the spiritual plants, he can find the pattern insects hidden in the branches.”
Lu Xuan paused and continued.
“But there is one thing I want to tell you, senior sister. This worm is not very common and has low reproductive capacity, so it rarely appears in large numbers in the same area.”
Hearing Lu Xuan’s words, Yao Qing frowned slightly, his expression cold.
“Junior brother, what do you mean, is it possible that the monks of the Zhang family are stealing from you?”
“Of course, it is also possible that other monks sneaked into the spiritual plant garden and placed the worm eggs on the water peaches.”
“It’s just that the Zhang family believes that Yutang should not know the inside story, otherwise he would not seek help from the Tianjian Sect.”
Yao Qing quickly figured out the pros and cons, turned around and left neatly.
“I’m going to discuss this with the head of the Zhang family. Thank you so much, Junior Brother Lu, this time.”
Night falls.
It was very quiet in such a large spiritual plant garden. The moonlight was shining on the branches, leaves and fruits of the water peach, as if there were layers of water shining, with faint ripples appearing and disappearing.
A black shadow nimbly entered the spiritual plant garden through the hazy moonlight.
He looked around and saw that everything was silent. The monks patrolling the spiritual plant garden also went to rest.
The black shadow suddenly felt relieved, and there were bursts of strange insect sounds coming from his mouth. The sound was as thin as a mosquito and was almost imperceptible.
Not long after the sound of insects, the surrounding peach branches and leaves trembled. Branch-like branches of strange insects fell off the tree, crawling slowly in the swamp, heading towards the black shadow.
“This deworming technique is indeed effective. It can automatically gather the worms. Unfortunately, it only affects the adult worms and has little effect on the larvae that are still in a parasitic and simulated state.”
Heiying secretly thought in his heart that the arrival of the three monks from the Tianjian Sect gave him a huge sense of crisis, and he had to take the risk and use the deworming technique he had obtained to gather together the mature worms.
Although he knew that the habits and shapes of the pseudomorphs were quite weird, and the possibility of being discovered in large numbers was very low, but after all, the person facing him was a monk from a large sect, and he might really find a way to deal with the pseudomorphs.
If the parasitism in the spiritual plant garden is lost too much, the reward he will receive will be much reduced.
“After taking this batch of worms, come here two or three more times, and you’ll almost have them all.”
“Hehe, what about the Tianjian Sect? Planting so many water peaches in the Zhang family isn’t just to make my wedding dress.”
Black Shadow felt proud.
Suddenly, a vague spiritual light lit up, and several figures appeared in the spiritual light.
“I didn’t expect that my Zhang family would have a young person like you.”
The indifferent voice of the head of the Zhang family sounded, word by word, as if there was endless anger brewing.
(End of chapter)