Chapter 169 The Hidden Scale Fish Killed for Thousand Years
The Shuilin Jiao remained calm and motionless. The young monk stared at it. Lu Xuan adjusted his breathing and took out the silver-splitting blade.
The short silver-white sword blade slowly penetrated into the water lin dragon's abdomen.
Although Shuilin Jiao is a second-grade dragon, its abdomen is not protected by scale armor, and it is not known for its defense. Therefore, it is not very laborious for a first-grade silver-splitting blade to pierce it.
Lu Xuan firmly held the hilt of the silver-white cracked silver blade, and slowly but firmly made a cut.
Immediately, his spiritual consciousness penetrated into it and searched every muscle and bone very carefully.
"Got you."
Somewhere in Shuilin Jiao's body, although it looked the same as flesh and blood, his spiritual sense felt a slight abnormality. He made a prompt decision, controlled the small group of abnormal objects, and quickly took it out of Shuilin Jiao's body before it could react. .
A strange fish appears on the ground.
The strange fish is about one foot long, with a slender body and a translucent shape. There is only a black lateral line in the body, and there is a huge, almost transparent suction cup on its head.
"What's this?"
"There are indeed other monsters inside the dragon's body. Junior Brother Lu is really dazzling."
The monks nearby saw the strange fish coming out of the water dragon and started talking about it.
Lu Xuan said nothing, took out a piece of monster meat from the bucket next to him, and placed it in front of the strange fish.
The strange fish seemed to have found a chance to survive, its body swayed, and it penetrated into the flesh of the monster like a stream of water.
"If I find you the first time, I will naturally find you the second time."
Lu Xuan snorted coldly and easily pulled the strange fish out of the monster's flesh.
The reason why he took out the monster meat was to prove to other monks that this fish had the ability to possess and parasitize, and to take this opportunity to learn more about the strange fish.
A thought flashed through his mind.
[Hidden scale fish is a first-class monster with weak attack power. It is good at hiding itself in the water. It is non-toxic and edible. 】
[Usually parasitized among water-type monsters. During its larval period, the hatched Cryptoscale Fish will find an opportunity to get into the back door of the monster, silently integrating with the monster's body, and absorbing the essence of the monster's flesh and blood. 】
"Um???"
When Lu Xuan saw this message for the first time, he couldn't help but be stunned.
"Junior Brother Lu, what is this strange fish? How did such a big fish get inside the dragon's body?"
Although a few people nearby are also raising dragons and pythons in Qianlong Lake, for them, cultivation is still the first priority. Raising dragons is just a way to earn sword seals.
Therefore, on the journey of spiritual beasts, I did not have much in-depth understanding.
Lu Xuan paused, and finally decided to tell the truth.
"This strange fish is called the Hidden Scale Fish. I have read about it in a certain book. It usually lives in the bodies of water monsters and feeds on the essence of the monster's flesh and blood."
"As for the way to enter the body of the monster..."
"As far as I know, it was entered through the back door of the monster."
Everyone had doubts on their faces. Looking at the Hidden Scale Fish still struggling hard on the ground, they all felt a tightness behind them.
"But why aren't we discovering them? We have raised these giant dragon pythons since they were young, and we occasionally check their health, but we have never found any trace of this strange fish."
A monk asked doubtfully.
"It's very simple. The concealment ability of this hidden scale fish is extremely strong. It is almost integrated with the dragon. Only at close range and using spiritual sense to search slowly bit by bit can you detect their traces."
"As for the dragons, although they know in their hearts that essence and blood are slowly flowing out of their bodies, they are unable to detect their existence because of the parasitic ability of the Cryptoscale Fish."
Lu Xuan answered the monk very patiently.
"Junior Brother Lu, I still have one last doubt, and I would like to ask Junior Brother to help me clear it up."
"How much harm will this parasitic crypto-scale fish in the dragon's body cause to the dragon?"
Several people nearby pricked up their ears in unison and focused on Lu Xuan. This was also the issue they were most concerned about deep in their hearts.
After all, every monk present has at least dozens of dragon pythons in his hands. If the dragons under his command are seriously injured because of this hidden scale fish, they will not be able to carry them around.
"The harm is not very great. The most important thing is that it will affect the growth of the dragon, and it will not be life-threatening."
Lu Xuan answered affirmatively.
This answer also reassured everyone a lot.
The young monk removed the golden ring on the body of the Shui Lin Jiao. The pale white dragon was filled with a faint spiritual light, covering the wounds left by Lu Xuan.
After treating himself, Shuilin Jiao looked in the direction of Lu Xuan and growled at him with gratitude.
Lu Xuan watched it disappear into the water, came to his senses, and continued to draw blood and explore the remaining dragon python.
There was simply no trace of the new hidden-scale fish among the dragons behind them, which made the young monk next to them relax a lot.
"Thank you for your hard work this time, Junior Brother Lu."
He handed Lu Xuan a black cloth bag, which was bulging with many spiritual stones.
"Brother, you're welcome."
"Although the Hidden Scale Fish has been discovered by me, there is no guarantee that it won't be hiding something else. Therefore, I have to bring the dragon essence and blood back to the cave for further study."
Lu Xuan gave a few instructions, took the bag with a smile, and weighed it imperceptibly. As an experienced man, he suddenly felt that the weight in his hand was not consistent with the number of spiritual stones that the monk had brought up before. It was obviously heavier.
He put the cloth bag into the storage bag.
"Junior Brother Lu, please help me take a look first!"
"Junior brother, look at me, look at me. The dragon I manage is the closest to here."
"Brothers, don't worry, we will all take a good look at it."
Lu Xuan said gently.
The dual temptations of spiritual stones and dragon essence and blood made it impossible for him not to go!
He randomly selected a monk and, in his ecstatic expression, headed for the water where the monk was.
The first time is fresh, the second time is familiar. With the previous experience, the speed of blood test is a little faster than before.
Among the dozens of dragon and giant pythons, no abnormality was found in any of them.
Lu Xuan rushed to the other house without stopping.
This scene fell into the eyes of everyone, thinking that he was concerned about the safety of the spiritual beasts raised by his fellow disciples, and they were all moved, and any unhappiness they had before completely disappeared.
In the past, Lu Xuan took blood tests from all the dragon pythons with high intensity and frequency. Among them, a total of eight dragon pythons were parasitized by the hidden scale fish.
Whenever an abnormal situation is discovered, the monk behind him will take the initiative to increase Lu Xuan's reward and give him more spiritual stones.
There was more and more dragon essence and blood in Lu Xuan's storage bag, and the bottles and jars were piled up together, almost forming a hill.
"Junior Brother Lu, do you have any opinions about these hidden-scale fish?"
After the last dragon was drained, all the dragons in the water area were drained by Lu Xuan.
"It should be that a certain dragon caught from the outside world has hidden scale fish in its body, and then it is raised behind Qianlong Lake. It grows and reproduces at the bottom of the lake, and slowly selects the dragon to be parasitized."
Lu Xuan guessed.
