Chapter 547: Chapter 545: The Black Market_1

Outside the courtyard, Lu Xuan went around the formation that enveloped the entire courtyard. After confirming that there was no abnormality, he entered the courtyard.

The protective array he had laid down was just an ordinary third-grade array. The fifth-grade Illusion and Disappearance Five Elements Array he had previously stationed was left in Sword Gate Town to protect the Underworld Court.

There wasn’t anything valuable in this courtyard in Black Star City, it only served a simple defensive function.

After entering the courtyard and closing the array, Lu Xuan finally relaxed completely.

“Hunting demon beasts or something like that, it’s not as good as farming in the sect.”

He somewhat missed the simple and fulfilling farming life he had previously in the sect.

“Though the gains from demon beast flesh and blood were quite considerable, and I earned over two hundred middle-grade spirit stones, farming still yields a higher return.”

He rested for a small part of the day, and when he couldn’t resist the itch, he came to the courtyard, took out a pile of Wu Spirit Soil from the Gluttonous Insect Pouch, and evenly spread it over the surface of the Spirit Field in the courtyard.

Then he took out the over two hundred water glow grass spirit seeds he had brought along.

Performing the Earth Pulling Technique, subtle changes occurred in the structure of the spirit soil and fine, long cracks appeared.

Lu Xuan placed a small, slender, sapphire-blue spirit seed into a crack and the spirit soil slightly flowed, covering the spirit seed.

He did the same for all the water glow grass spirit seeds, one by one. His internal spiritual power circulated and the clouds above the spirit field churned. Soon, strands of spirit rain began to fall, soaking into the water glow grass spirit seeds in the spirit field.

His spiritual consciousness focused on the spirit seeds in the shallow layer of the spirit soil, one thought after another emerged from his mind.

[Water Glow Grass, second-level spirit plant…]

“Finally, there is something to do.”

“There’s no way around it, my talent is too poor, and I can’t cultivate, so I can only plant spirit plants to maintain the appearance of cultivation.”

A smile appeared at the corner of Lu Xuan’s mouth, he felt incredibly satisfied, feeling the more than two hundred water glow grass spirit seeds in the spirit field slowly absorbing the faint spiritual energy in the spirit rain.

After he had initially cultivated all the water glow grass spirit seeds, he took four Arrow vines out of the Gluttonous Insect Pouch.

“Fortunately, I have this spatial treasure, the Gluttonous Insect Pouch. It can maintain the vitality of the spirit plants very well. Otherwise, if left for a period of time, it would certainly have a significant impact on the spirit plants. If it affected the light cluster reward, I would be too late even if I wanted to cry.”

Lu Xuan laughed and muttered to himself.

The Arrow Vine does not have high growth environment requirements, and its cultivation conditions are relatively simple. They are all in a rapid growth stage, so he brought them out from the sect.

Of the four Arrow Vines, one had grown the fastest, already mature, while the other three that were planted later were a bit slower due to not being cultivated from seedlings.

Lu Xuan performed the “Instant Arrow Technique”, and spiritual power arrows shot into the Arrow Vines. Immediately, the small arrows that were weakly hanging from the vines suddenly stood up, exuding a vigorous upward force.

Lu Xuan performed all kinds of basic techniques of spiritual plants one by one, before returning to the house to cultivate the “God Derivation Sutra”, “Breaking Illusion Eye Technique” and other cultivation techniques.

Soon, ten days passed. Since he had just returned to the city, Black Star City didn’t arrange new tasks for him immediately, allowing him a brief respite.

Lu Xuan couldn’t be more grateful for this; he spent each day in the small courtyard cultivating spiritual plants, occasionally going out to meet with acquaintances like Sun Yun Ming.

One day, he was giving the newly sprouted water glow grass shoots the Spirit Rain Technique, when a talisman flew to the outside of the courtyard.

“Brother Lu, come over and join us. A few senior brothers have returned from outside the city. It’s a rare opportunity.”

A somewhat familiar voice came from the talisman, and Lu Xuan recognized the voice belonged to a Foundation Establishment Mid-term disciple from the Sect. The two had some friendship on the way here.

He couldn’t refuse and, according to the location provided on the talisman, he arrived at a spacious courtyard.

There were more than ten Sky Sword Sect disciples already gathered in the courtyard, exchanging conversations with each other.

“Look, the most awesome Spirit Plant Master of our sect is here!”

“Greetings, Brother Lu.”

“Junior Brother Lu is here?”

Seeing Lu Xuan, everyone greeted him warmly.

Lu Xuan’s expertise as a Spirit Plant Master was well known among his fellow cultivators. Almost everyone wanted to befriend him, after all, everyone wanted to own a piece of high-grade Sword Grass, and perhaps Lu Xuan could help them cultivate one someday.

“You all flatter me. It is an honor,”

Lu Xuan made a fist salute, and laughed shyly.

After exchanging pleasantries with everyone, he quietly stood in a corner.

“Brother Lu, where have you been recently?”

A simple-minded young cultivator leaned in and asked him.

“Junior Brother Guo, I accepted a task to clear demon beasts outside the city, and spent some time at the city’s periphery,”

Lu Xuan remembered the name of this young man and explained.

“No wonder I didn’t see you in Black Star City. Also, a fellow disciple asked me about you!”

“Oh? Which Brother has been thinking of me?”

Lu Xuan was curious and asked.

“It’s Brother Zhou Qi, he was probably worried about your safety as a Spirit Plant Master and feared you might encounter some danger.”

The young man replied without hesitation.

“I appreciate his concern,”

Lu Xuan nodded in acknowledgment upon hearing this.

“That’s good to hear, Brother Lu, considering the current troubling times. There have been news about the fall of disciples from the Great Sect.”

The young man’s face showed worry.

“Indeed, but as you all know, I am cautious by nature. Although I have little experience in battles and lack powerful treasures, I would never put myself in danger,”

Lu Xuan laughed, mockingly of himself.

He returned to his courtyard after spending half a day with his fellow cultivators.

“Now that I have more free time, I could go to the black market which Sun Yun Ming mentioned. Perhaps I could find some unknown Spiritual Seed.”

He was suddenly inspired and started considering visiting the black market of Black Star City.

“Black Star City is near the Black Demon Abyss with many demon beasts and envoys. Naturally, there would be various unusual items there. And, they might have some mysterious unknown Spiritual Seeds.”

Lu Xuan thought it was highly plausible, so he sent a Communication Talisman to Sun Yun Ming to gain the entry qualification and the market schedule.

When the time arrived, he first found an unpopulated corner. After confirming with Void Nightmare Eye that there were no peeping eyes around, he wore the Thousand Masks and transformed into an ordinary Foundation Establishment Mid-term cultivator and went to the location of the black market.

The black market was situated within the ruins of Black Star City, where damaged walls and ruins were everywhere but seemed to have a powerful Formation hidden.

Occasionally, some cultivators came and went. They were mostly at the Foundation Establishment Realm level, with a few being high-grade Qi practitioners. When they entered the broken walls they activated a jade seal in their hands and instantly entered well-hidden Formation.

Almost all cultivators were hiding their Cultivation Level and appearance with Cultivation Technique and Magic Artifact, but under Lu Xuan’s Breaking Illusion Eye Technique, he could make out their Spiritual Power Cultivation.

“They’re all very cautious. It seems like I’ve come to the right place.”

Lu Xuan thought to himself.