You Cultivate, I Farm

“Since you’ve made up your mind, from now on follow me closely.”

Lu Xuan nodded at the sight.

“Your current task is to cultivate diligently, while also learning about spirit plants.”

“As a Spirit Plant Master of decent level, my attendants naturally cannot avoid dealing with spirit plants.”

Lu Xuan gave Hong Qinghai a heads-up and instructed him.

He didn’t have any detailed arrangements for Hong Qinghai at the moment.

The scope of the grocery store was so small that Wen Qian could easily manage it alone.

Thus, he could only temporarily keep him in the cave abode to deal with some daily trivialities.

“I will heed Senior’s instructions.”

“Having one more trusted attendant is always a good thing.”

Lu Xuan thought to himself. Although he mainly stayed within the cave abode, leading a reclusive life that appeared to others as simple and quiet,@@novelbin@@

It didn’t mean he was completely isolated from the outside world. Hong Qinghai and Wen Qian were one of the ways he communicated with the outside world.

They could also help him sort out various small problems encountered in farming, allowing him to focus all his efforts on cultivating spiritual plants.

After acquiring the Nine Confucian Treasure Tree, ten days quickly passed.

Lu Xuan once again met his appointment and came to the residence of a Golden Core Cultivator hundreds of miles away from the cave abode.

“Friend Lu, you’re finally here!”

A thin old woman in hemp clothing greeted Lu Xuan with a smile.

“I happen to be free today, so I came to have a small gathering with a few fellow cultivators and sample some Spirit Fruit Spirit Paste.”

Lu Xuan smiled and replied.

He looked around and noticed that some familiar faces from the past were not present this time.

“By the way, where are Fellow Ye and the others?”

He asked curiously.

“Friend Lu isn’t aware?”

“Lu Mou has always been in the cave abode, seldom contacting other fellow cultivators.”

Lu Xuan shook his head.

“That’s true, being a reclusive cultivator, Lu Friend, you might be slightly out of touch with the latest news.”

The thin old woman nodded slightly.

“Fellow Ye and several others were drawn by an evil demon that snuck into the Heavenly Star Cave and went with the Sky Star Cave Cultivators to jointly exterminate the demon.” ṘáΝＯꞖÊ𝙎

She explained to Lu Xuan.

“How come everyone went to hunt the evil demon? Could it be that there are great fortunes to be gained from this?”

Lu Xuan showed a curious expression.

“Not a great fortune, but for Golden Core Cultivators, it’s quite decent.”

A scholarly looking middle-aged man walked out and said gently.

“Fellow Guo.”

Lu Xuan greeted with clasped hands.

The scholarly middle-aged man, named Guo Bingqiu, was at the Golden Core Late Stage Realm and was the organizer of this small gathering of cultivators.

“Friend Lu, you might not know, but some time ago the Star Master of the Heavenly Star Cave and others went to hunt an evil demon. Some Golden Core Cultivators saw an opportunity and followed behind, participating in the extermination of the evil demon’s minions.”

“After the defeat, they obtained many odd and rare materials.”

“Among them, one or two materials were incredibly rare and uncommon, reaching the level of a Six-product treasure, hardly inferior to same-level artifacts or elixirs.”

The Scholarly Cultivator explained to Lu Xuan.

“So that’s how it is. Truly enviable.”

Lu Xuan showed a suitably envious demeanor.

“Grade Six Materials… The piece of Jade Calabash Dragon Claw that I obtained years ago is still gathering dust in my storage bag!”

He lamented inwardly.

Ordinary Grade Six Materials were no longer of interest to him.

The Golden Core Real People by his side had a faint hint of jealousy on their faces.

“Why not take advantage of the fact that the Evil Demons have not been completely wiped out? Shall we join forces and explore together?”

“Of course, Friend Lu is not included.”

A fierce-looking young man suggested aloud.

“…”

My cautious nature is already known to everyone, isn’t it?

Lu Xuan stretched out his hand and touched the non-existent sweat beads on top of his head, laughing at himself with self-mockery.

He didn’t mind what others thought of him.

The main reason he was willing to gather with other Cultivators was to hear the latest news and secrets of the Cultivation World.

Secondly, it was to make more acquaintances with Golden Core Real People, to leave a good impression, which might one day allow him to buy Rare Spirit Seeds from an acquaintance.

As for treasures that appeared, he was completely unmoved.

How could one accustomed to fine food comfortably settle for coarse grains?

Could any treasure be better than the rewards of light clusters brought by fifth or even sixth-grade Spiritual Plants?

After learning some of the Cultivation World’s latest secrets in his Cave Abode, Lu Xuan left with satisfaction.

“Opportunities are available to everyone.”

“It’s just that your fortune and mine are each different, that’s all.”

He sighed softly, went to the Spirit Field, and continued planting.

By the edge of the little lake, the newly planted Ice Firefly Grass had already taken root and sprouted, growing a few inch-long vibrant green seedlings.

The delicate seedlings swayed, striving to absorb the strands of Spirit Rain provided by Lu Xuan.

After the Spirit Rain, the slender leaves seemed to have been washed repeatedly, brimming with vitality, clear and clean.

As Lu Xuan inspected the state of the Spiritual Plants, he found himself incidentally approaching the Sword Grass Spirit Field Area.

From a distance, he could feel a powerful Sword Intent.

The Sword Intent was constantly changing, seemingly pointing directly at the various flaws that Lu Xuan had exposed.

As his Spiritual Sense swept over, he immediately noticed that streams of Sword Intent were overflowing from the Green Marbled Gourd, mingling together to form a chaotic yet powerful mixed Sword Intent.

“Another three Xiao Dongxuan Sword Gourds have matured.”

Lu Xuan noted silently to himself.

He had previously planted a total of eighteen Sword Gourds, amounting to over fifty Xiao Dongxuan Sword Gourds. Apart from keeping some to experiment with the Condense Seed Technique, the rest could be harvested.

He carefully picked the three Green Marbled Gourds.

Three light clusters quietly emerged.

He touched them almost at the same time, and the light clusters shattered together, myriad tiny specks of light rapidly converging into three ethereal shadows that entered Lu Xuan’s body.

Three thoughts flashed through his mind.

[Harvested a Fourth Grade Xiao Dongxuan Sword Gourd, obtained the treasure item Dongxuan Sword Intent.]️2

[Harvested a Fourth Grade Xiao Dongxuan Sword Gourd, obtained the Fifth Rank Treasure True Evil Sword Charm.]

Among the three light clusters, two familiar streams of Dongxuan Sword Intent appeared, along with a fifth-grade Sword Talisman.

The Sword Talisman resembled a sword tip, grayish-white in color, looking somewhat shriveled and very inconspicuous at first glance.

Tuning into it with his consciousness, he could sense the overwhelming evil intent coming from the Sword Talisman, as if every minute thread of Sword Qi was assaulting his mind and soul.

He focused his attention and instantly understood the detailed information about this fifth-grade Sword Talisman.

[True Evil Sword Charm, a Fifth Rank Sword Talisman, made by a Nascent Soul True Monarch who was proficient in Sword Dao and had experienced countless killings, integrating the aura of slaughter into the Sword Talisman to create the True Evil Sword Charm.]

[The Sword Talisman contains endless fine strands of Sword Qi infused with evil intent. Once activated, besides possessing tremendous power of annihilation, the dense evil intent can also invade and impact the opponent’s mind and soul, causing the enemy’s consciousness to become momentarily unbalanced. Those with insufficiently firm wills may even become completely lost and reduced to idiocy.]

“Yet another new variety of Sword Talisman, and it’s of Fifth Rank!”

Lu Xuan was delighted in his heart.

“There are still over forty Xiao Dongxuan Sword Gourds left. If the condensing succeeds, I wonder how many Fifth Rank Sword Talismans I can harvest.”

“You take the trouble to eradicate Evil Demons and gain fortuitous treasures.”

“I take the trouble of Cultivating Spiritual Plants, so why can’t I obtain fortuitous treasures as well?”

Lu Xuan thought with a smile.