You Cultivate, I Farm

Chapter 201: Azure Profound Deer

The newly hatched young Dragon showed great dependence on the Wind Falcon, sticking closely to its round belly and occasionally making cute cooing sounds.

The Wind Falcon felt somewhat helpless, sensing the young Dragon climbing on its belly. Unable to resist, it spread its light blue wings and flew into the sky.

The young Dragon shook its head and followed behind, but being freshly hatched, despite having a higher grade, its strength was much weaker than the Wind Falcon's fledgling. Soon, it was left far behind by the Wind Falcon.

"Ah..."

The young Dragon, exhausted, struggled for a moment and reluctantly landed on the ground, emitting a mournful cry.

High in the sky, upon hearing this lament, the Wind Falcon, with its broad light blue wings maintaining its round body, flapped a few times, eventually turning around and flying towards the young Dragon.

Seeing this, the young Dragon was delighted, flying with all its might into the air, circling around the Wind Falcon's belly, and finally wrapping around its neck.

At first glance, it looked like a thick, fiery red chain hanging.

"Little Flame Dragon seeks its mother."

The two hundred ordinary Firefly Grass plants planted earlier had reduced their cultivation rewards significantly after maturing, so he chose not to continue harvesting and instead used them all to condense Spirit Seeds.

More than a hundred and sixty Firefly Grass plants condensed into over eight hundred Spirit Seeds.

Lu Xuan gathered the Spirit Seeds carefully, intending to induce all of them to improve the variety of Firefly Grass.

Among the remaining Firefly Grass, fifty plants did not receive stimulation during the Spirit Seed stage, just cultivated in a cold and gloomy spiritual aura environment. After daily observation, these Firefly Grass plants all matured smoothly, resulting in nine mutated Firefly Grass plants.

He planned to try condensing Spirit Seeds from these nine mutated Firefly Grass plants to obtain a large quantity of mutated Spirit Seeds and accelerate the improvement process.

The remaining forty-one Firefly Grass plants that failed to stimulate were used to continue condensing ordinary Spirit Seeds.

Lu Xuan plucked one of the mutated Firefly Grass plants, concentrated his mind, and a thought flashed through his mind.

【Firefly Grass, a non-graded spiritual plant. During cultivation, it undergoes a mutation, containing a slight ice-element spiritual power. It can be used as the main material for refining Foundation Establishment Pills, slightly enhancing the quality of the pill during refinement.】

"Compared to the information obtained earlier, the grade hasn't changed, but it now contains some slight ice-element spiritual power, capable of slightly enhancing the quality of the pill."

Lu Xuan murmured to himself. He had long understood that improving spiritual plant varieties was not a quick process, so there was no disappointment in this result.

"The first change appeared during the first improvement; it's already quite good. The next step is to continue improving until the Firefly Grass reaches a higher grade."

While sighing, Lu Xuan gently picked up the white light cluster brought by the mutated Firefly Grass.

Inside the light cluster, there was still two months' worth of cultivation, and no changes were observed.

Unperturbed, he checked the twenty-six other Firefly Grass plants bred from mutated Spirit Seeds, planning to use them to condense seeds and obtain numerous mutated Spirit Seeds.

On the Fire Earth Branch, within the scorching magma, the spiritual seed of the Fire Earth Heart Lotus quietly grew.

The lotus's roots and stems were only as thick as a pinky finger, composed of countless irregular light red crystals. Several fiery red lotus leaves stood proudly in the magma, allowing the surging lava to wash over them.

The scorching lava flowed down from the palm-sized leaves, slowly absorbed by the dark red veins within the leaves, extending along the veins, nourishing the entire Fire Earth Heart Lotus plant.

Days of farming passed like flowing water, without much disturbance. Only the numerous growing spiritual plants left traces of that time.

After nourishing the Sword Grass Spirit Seeds with the Sword Sheath for some time, Lu Xuan felt it was sufficient. He grabbed the ancient sword sheath and shook it forcefully.

A slender, sword-like, grey-black seed with faint red patterns on the surface slid out without any hindrance.

"Oh, there's been some change."

He looked at the faint red patterns on the surface of the Sword Grass Spirit Seed and exclaimed in surprise.

With a few leaps, he arrived at the Fire Earth Branch and implanted the spiritual seed into the spiritual field transformed by the Earth Attraction Art.

【Crimson Flame Sword Grass, second-grade spiritual plant, formed under the long-term nourishment of the second-grade Crimson Flame Sword Qi. After maturing, it can be used to refine fire-attributed flying swords, with better effects.】

【During cultivation, it can be nourished with Crimson Flame Sword Qi.】

"The grade hasn't changed; it's still second-grade. However, compared to ordinary Sword Grass, it is more suitable for refining fire-attributed flying swords, with a more focused and powerful function."

Lu Xuan compared it with ordinary Sword Grass, and his spiritual sense penetrated into the Sword Sheath.

There wasn't much Crimson Flame Sword Qi remaining on the inner wall of the sheath, probably all absorbed by the Sword Grass Spirit Seed.

He thought, and the Thunder Sword Bead in his dantian trembled slightly. Dozens of black sword lights gushed out, carrying tiny jumping electric arcs, and entered through the cracks.

"It's full, it's not working anymore."

Although the sword sheath welcomed the non-substantial sword lights, its own endurance was limited. Soon, the inner walls of the sheath were filled with black sword lights.

Lu Xuan inserted the last Sword Grass Spirit Seed, expecting the third-grade Thunder Sword Qi to bring some changes to the spiritual seed.

"Stimulating spiritual seeds seems to have a higher success rate than stimulating spiritual plants, but it also takes much longer, each with its pros and cons."

He sealed the cracks in the Sword Sheath and quietly awaited the unknown changes in the Sword Grass Spirit Seed.

One day, while cultivating spiritual plants and raising spirit beasts, a low deer cry suddenly came from a distant mountain peak.

The cry was ethereal and distant, echoing in the valley for a long time.

Lu Xuan noticed that at the moment of this cry, all the spiritual plants on the mountain peak trembled, stretching their stems and leaves, letting the sound pass over them.

Lu Xuan randomly selected a spiritual plant to check its immediate condition and found that its state was excellent, as if the cry had washed away any slight negative state of the spiritual plant.

Lu Xuan flew to a tall spiritual tree and looked around. He saw a giant deer, two zhang tall, passing not far away.

The giant deer's entire body was green, and its two antlers on the head resembled white jade, exuding a sense of purity even from a distance.

With unknown lifespan, the fur on the giant deer's body was sparse, entangled strand by strand.

Where its hooves touched the ground, a green ripple echoed, and wherever the ripple passed, spiritual plants grew wildly, revealing strong vitality.

After a few breaths, the figure

of the giant deer disappeared from Lu Xuan's sight, leaving only the lingering ethereal cry.

"Fellow Daoist Jiang, what's the background of the giant deer that just passed by? Its origin seems quite extraordinary."

Lu Xuan walked out of the mountain peak and saw a middle-aged cultivator standing on another tall spiritual tree about a hundred zhang away, so he curiously asked.

"Hello, Fellow Daoist Lu. I've had several encounters with that giant deer; I have some understanding of it."

"The giant deer is called the Azure Profound Deer, possessing the strength of a fifth-grade demonic beast. It is rumored to have been the spiritual beast of a Nascent Soul elder in the sect."