You Cultivate, I Farm

Chapter 259: Soul-Inducing Lamp

On the bluish-grey body, arcs of electricity danced, causing the Bound Devil to convulse in agony.

Mu Ying opened his eyes, resentment filling his grey irises as he stared fixedly at Lu Xuan.

A surge of green light flowed over his body, causing the runes binding him to emit a dazzling blue light, pulling taut with all its might to suppress Mu Ying.

"It seems you haven't grasped the current situation yet..."

Lu Xuan chuckled lightly, a deep purple sword flashing with a purple glow in his hand as he struck Mu Ying's body even faster.

"Let me reiterate, spit out some infant souls, or else, the intensity of the lightning next time will double."

Agonizing pain contorted the face of the Wood-Element Bound Devil, his features twisted in silent, guttural roars.

Seeing Mu Ying's lack of response, Lu Xuan directly urged the Purple Lightning Sword, a thick bolt of deep purple lightning instantly striking his bluish-grey body.

A faint smell of burnt air lingered in the atmosphere.

Just as Lu Xuan was about to increase the intensity on Mu Ying, there was finally movement in the small body of Mu Ying, the navel-like abyss on his infant form showing signs of activity.

A fist-sized infant soul struggled to emerge from the abyss.

Its form was grey-white, solid yet ethereal, hollow eye sockets staring blankly at its surroundings.

"So there's indeed something inside the belly. No wonder that Nascent Soul demon wanted to use thousands of infant souls to refine the Five Sons Bound Devil."

Lu Xuan remarked, surprised, as he looked at the infant soul that had lost its sentience.

Following the same procedure, he continued to force Mu Ying to spit out several bewildered infant souls, leading them to the location where the Sacred Infant Fruits were planted.

Under his spiritual perception, within the seedlings resembling embryos, there seemed to be a withered, tiny grey-black infant curled up motionless.

Upon closer inspection, the grey-black infant vanished in an instant, leaving behind only a lump of grey-black matter inside the seedling.

Compared to the last time he left the courtyard, there was hardly any change in the Sacred Infant Fruit seedlings.

Though the courtyard was shrouded in Yin energy, it could only barely sustain the vitality of the Sacred Infant Fruits, unable to promote their growth and development.

Lu Xuan controlled one of the infant souls, akin to a dumb child, to float above the Sacred Infant Fruit seedlings.

The moment the infant soul appeared, Lu Xuan distinctly sensed a slight change in the embryo seedling below.

As if a gaze filled with malicious resentment shot out from the seedling, coldly staring at the infant soul.

"Rather than staying in Mu Ying, it's better to be absorbed by this Sacred Infant Fruit and enter reincarnation early."

Lu Xuan sighed at the infant soul that had long lost its consciousness, then controlled it to pass through the spiritual soil and into the Sacred Infant Fruit seedling.

Under his spiritual perception, the lump of grey-black matter in the embryo seedling surged violently, black mist enveloping it before finally subsiding.

Within the thick black mist, Lu Xuan perceived the grey-black infant seemingly consuming the infant soul into its shriveled abdomen like slurping noodles.

As the black mist dissipated, the shriveled and withered grey-black infant seemed to gain a bit more vitality in a fleeting moment.

Seeing this, Lu Xuan nodded gently, then sent several other befuddled infant souls into the Sacred Infant Fruit seedlings.

After confirming that there were no issues with the deep blue runic chains on Mu Ying's body, he cautiously stowed them away in his storage pouch.

"These infant souls should be enough for the Sacred Infant Fruits to absorb for quite some time. As for this Wood-Element Bound Devil, it needs to be carefully nurtured for now, convenient for long-term soul-harvesting."

Lu Xuan pondered as he arrived at the area where he had planted the Bloodthorn Flower seedlings.

Nurturing Bloodthorn Flowers required feeding them with various demonic beasts' and even cultivators' essence and blood, which posed no major problem for the current Lu Xuan.

When he had raised those dragon serpents and giant pythons in the Thousand Dragon Lake before, under the guise of inspection, he had drawn a considerable amount of dragon serpent essence blood!

"It's been quite a while since the last bloodletting. I should find an opportunity to help those little dragon serpents and unusual pythons with another check-up, all for their healthy growth."

"Now that I'm an Inner Sect disciple, I wonder if there's a chance to conduct check-ups for the third or fourth-grade adult dragon serpents in the sect."

Despite having a substantial amount of dragon serpent essence blood on hand, Lu Xuan couldn't help but think ahead with caution.

The Bloodthorn Flower is a fifth-grade spiritual plant, and its blood-sucking capacity naturally surpasses that of the Dragonvine. Moreover, with my cultivation of the "Primordial Dragon Transformation Technique," I also need Dragonvine essence blood for tempering. Looking at so much, I reckon it'll be used up quickly.

As his thoughts drifted, he took out a bottle of dragon serpent essence blood from his storage pouch and poured it over the spiritual soil above the Bloodthorn Flower seedlings.

The crimson essence blood seeped down through the spiritual soil.

When he reached the Bloodthorn Flower seedlings, countless vein-like structures on the surface of the blood ball instantly came to life, greedily absorbing every drop of dragon serpent essence blood in the spiritual soil.

After absorbing the dragon serpent essence blood, numerous veins on the surface of the blood ball varied in color, and the crimson blood flowed smoothly, merging into the boundless sea of blood within.

The surging waves in the blood sea caused the blood-colored flowers inside to bloom even more beautifully.

Whether it was Lu Xuan's illusion or not, he sensed that the blooming time of the blood-colored flowers seemed to be slightly longer than before.

Lu Xuan poured three bottles of dragon serpent essence blood into the fifth-grade Bloodthorn Flower seedlings and then came to the Ghost-Faced Stone Mushroom.

After starving for a long time, the Ghost-Faced Stone Mushroom finally had a hearty meal when Lu Xuan approached, and the patterns on its grey-white stone surface became even more dazzling.

Lu Xuan stopped in front of one of the Ghost-Faced Stone Mushrooms, his mind focusing on it.

The progress bar below was already more than halfway filled, and it wouldn't take long to fill it completely.

However, Lu Xuan wasn't sure when he would come back to the Sword Gate Town courtyard next time, and coupled with his strong curiosity about the white light clusters brought by Yin and Evil plants, he decided to ripen one of the Ghost-Faced Stone Mushrooms to see what rewards he could harvest.

Although the Ghost-Faced Stone Mushroom was somewhat evil, it still fell within the category of spiritual plants, and the Qingmu Source Qi originating from the fifth-grade Azure Profound Deer also had an effect.

A faint cyan light shot out from his fingertips and into one of the Ghost-Faced Stone Mushrooms in front of him.

Immediately, the bizarre runes on the top of the grey-white mushroom continuously changed, resembling a face with ever-changing expressions.

A tremendous suction force emanated from the face, sucking in the few remaining plump and condensed grudge souls nearby in one gulp.

The progress bar below seemed to fluctuate slightly.

With the continuous infusion of Qingmu Source Qi and the accelerated absorption of Yin and Evil resentments, the Ghost-Faced Stone Mushroom in front of him was finally fully ripened.

Lu Xuan carefully plucked it out, and a thought flashed through his mind.

"[Ghost-Faced Stone Mushroom, third-grade spiritual plant, good quality, can be used to assist in cultivating certain forbidden techniques and accelerate their cultivation speed.]"

"Good quality, which is already quite good."

"After all, the purity of spiritual energy in the Sword Gate Town courtyard's spiritual field is far inferior to that inside the sect. Moreover, I only occasionally come here to check on cultivation, unable to devote as much attention as I do in my cave where I nurture them day and night."

"To obtain spiritual plants of good quality, I reckon the effect of Qingmu Source Qi must also be taken into account."

Lu Xuan sighed, his attention now on a faintly flickering white light cluster in front of him.

With a gentle touch, the countless light spots in the light cluster condensed into a blurry face, instantly drilling into Lu Xuan's body.

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