#1250 - Wanli Instant Shadow Talisman
Outside the battlefield, a gentle breeze stirred, courtesy of the Listening Wind Beast, diligently tending to the Supreme Saint Demon Fruits.
A tentacle-like vine emerged from the ground, cautiously observing the scene.
Lu Xuan scanned with his divine sense, noting that the main body of the Demon Ghost Vine remained in the peach forest hundreds of miles away, merely sending a vine to join the excitement.
The White Ape and the others were evenly matched, making it difficult to determine a victor in the short term. After watching for a while, Lu Xuan turned to leave.
As he was about to head towards the Anomalous Spiritual Ground, his gaze caught a familiar figure in the spiritual field, and he immediately decided to descend.
A scarecrow with a massive tumor was rapidly approaching on its spindly legs.
"Master."
A faint spiritual thought entered Lu Xuan's sea of consciousness.
The scarecrow's empty eye sockets stared intently at Lu Xuan, its spiritual thought filled with obvious joy.
"Why aren't you joining the fun?"
Lu Xuan smiled and nodded, casually asking.
"Guarding the spiritual field."
The scarecrow's weak but firm thought entered Lu Xuan's sea of consciousness.
"Good, good."
Lu Xuan nodded in praise.
He examined it closely this time, noticing significant changes in the scarecrow.
Its intelligence was noticeably higher than before. Moreover, the two arrow vines that had always hung on its shoulders seemed to have merged with the scarecrow, inseparable from each other.
"It seems that the drop of Eighth-Grade Azure Spirit Liquid of Grand Unity had a remarkable effect, forcibly transforming the scarecrow with its weak foundation into its current state."
"It might even break through to the Seventh-Grade."
Lu Xuan mused to himself.
"Since you are so devoted to your duty, I'll get you a new treasure after you break through."
He promised, looking at the scarecrow, which regarded the Fourth-Grade Arrow Vines as priceless treasures.
"Thank you... Master..."
The grass tumor on the scarecrow's huge head swayed, as if it were overwhelmed with favor.
Lu Xuan encouraged it with a few words and entered the Anomalous Spiritual Field.
"Under the combined influence of these methods, they died one after another, becoming nutrients for the spiritual field."
Ling Gu replied in a hoarse voice.
"Good."
Lu Xuan nodded expressionlessly.
From the moment the four fell into his hands, their fate was sealed, the only question was how long it would take.
He walked around the spiritual field, carefully nurturing the few remaining Anomalous Spiritual Plants such as the Yellow Spring Undying Tree and the Buddha Mother Demon Seed, before leaving to cultivate the other high-grade spiritual plants in various parts of his portable space.
The Xuan Huang Tree, the Void-Containing Immortal Vine, and the Nine True Spirit Leaves grew extremely slowly. A hundred years was but a fleeting moment for these Ninth-Grade and even Primordial Spiritual Roots.
The Supreme Saint Demon Fruit and the Blood Nether Lightning Gourd were growing well due to the fully satisfied cultivation conditions, but their maturity was still far off.
In addition, the Evergreen Divine Wood, the Flying Lightning Ganoderma King, and the Myriad-Forged Spiritual Wood were all growing quite well, with some even entering the mature stage.
"The maturation cycle of Seventh-Grade spiritual plants is often over a hundred years. Normal cultivation would take too long. Once I fill the two Divine Wood Azure Gourds and collect more Wood Sprite Juice, I can use the Ripening Great Art again."
Lu Xuan thought to himself.
He didn't have the patience to wait for all these high-grade spiritual plants to mature normally. He would wait until he had enough ripening materials in hand to use the ever-effective Ripening Great Art.
Cultivating passed without notice of time, and soon three years had passed.
During this time, the Sword Sect was calm and uneventful.
The cultivation world was often filled with various big and small news, but they had little to do with Lu Xuan. He stayed in the sect, cultivating spiritual plants, practicing various techniques and divine abilities, refining rare treasures harvested from the light spheres, brewing spiritual wine, drawing sword talismans, and refining pills in his spare time, living a simple and fulfilling life.
When True Sword Peak held a celebration banquet for him, the outside world learned of his breakthrough to the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul Realm. This initially caused quite a stir, but as Lu Xuan continued to act in a low-key manner, the commotion slowly subsided.
Lu Xuan was happy to see this and devoted himself to cultivating numerous high-grade spiritual plants.
Inside the portable space.
"The Pure Yang Golden Lotus and the Five Elements Illusion Fruit have successively produced mutated spiritual seeds, but because the environment for stimulating and guiding the spiritual seeds is not extreme enough, and there are no corresponding high-grade spiritual grounds or treasures, the degree of mutation is not very high."
"If I want to improve them into new Sixth-Grade spiritual plants, there is still a long way to go."
Lu Xuan inspected the two Fifth-Grade spiritual seeds that were being improved in different places, and sighed in his heart.
As he was about to cultivate the Yin Yang Lightning Extreme Wood, he suddenly sensed a slight anomaly in his portable space.
Scanning with his divine sense, he instantly locked onto the Flowing Light Spirit Crane he had captured from the Heavenly Demon Realm.
The aura of this Fifth-Grade spirit crane was extremely unstable at the moment, and a spiritual vortex was faintly appearing around it.
"After being placed in the portable space and fully nurtured for so many years, the Flowing Light Spirit Crane is finally about to break through to the Sixth-Grade."
Lu Xuan immediately understood. With a flash of his figure, he came directly to the vicinity of the spirit crane.
This spirit crane itself had extremely high aptitude, with great potential to grow into a Seventh-Grade demon beast. After being raised in his portable space, and fed an unknown amount of Myriad Aspect Grass, which was beneficial to the growth of demon beasts, it had finally been forcibly pushed to the peak of the Fifth-Grade.
"Break through with confidence, I'm here."
He instructed. The Flowing Light Spirit Crane in the spiritual vortex cried out, and seven-colored spiritual light appeared on its gorgeous wings, frantically absorbing the surrounding spiritual energy.
Nearly an hour later, with a cry that resounded through the clouds, the aura of the Flowing Light Spirit Crane rose sharply, successfully breaking through to the Sixth-Grade.
"Good, keep up the good work."
Lu Xuan encouraged it with a few words. After the spirit crane left excitedly, his gaze fell on the quietly emerging white light sphere.
The light sphere flickered slightly, as if attracting him to touch it.
As soon as he touched the edge, the light sphere shattered silently, turning into a sky full of tiny light spots that soared into the sky, and instantly condensed into a thin light river, submerging into Lu Xuan's body.
At the same time, a thought flashed through his sea of consciousness.
[The Flowing Light Spirit Crane has successfully broken through to the Sixth-Grade, and has obtained the Seventh-Grade treasure, the Myriad Mile Instant Shadow Talisman.]
As soon as the thought disappeared, a strange talisman quietly appeared in front of Lu Xuan.
The talisman was translucent, as if fused with the void, and faint, barely visible shadows flickered across its surface.
Lu Xuan's mind focused on the translucent talisman, and he immediately learned detailed information about it.
[Myriad Mile Instant Shadow Talisman, a Seventh-Grade talisman, can conjure hundreds of phantoms after activation, making it difficult to distinguish between true and false. The main body is hidden among them, and can escape to tens of thousands of miles away in a few breaths.]
[Can be used multiple times. Each time the talisman is activated, it needs to be replenished with magic power using high-grade spirit stones or other treasures. After the core talisman array inside the talisman loses its effect, the talisman gradually becomes a mortal item.]
