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Chapter 616: Chapter 614: Undercurrents

After confirming that Zhang Zhizong was beyond the point of death, Lu Xuan approached his corpse expressionlessly.

The moment he encountered Zhang Zhizong, the Cloud Leopard had detected a dense evil spite qi on him, and the naturally cautious Lu Xuan had instantly raised his guard to the highest level.

Upon noticing the anomaly on Zhang Zhizong, he took preemptive action and extinguished him completely with a thunderous strike.

“Go look around nearby, see if he has any accomplices.”,

High above, under the control of Lu Xuan’s spiritual sense, the Void Nightmare Eye swiftly traversed, centering around Lu Xuan, scanning the area. No traces of the other three cultivators or any other cultivators were found.

“Why are there so many cultivators who only think about plundering others, wanting gains without effort?”,

“Do Spirit Plant Masters look that easy to bully?”,

After confirming there were no abnormalities, Lu Xuan mused to himself for a moment before approaching the headless corpse.

“Hm? Where did the storage bag go?”,

A hint of surprise appeared on his face as he searched thoroughly, yet he could not find Zhang Zhizong’s storage bag on him.

“Something’s not right.”,

Lu Xuan murmured thoughtfully.

A normal cultivator might not carry precious treasures on their person, but they would definitely have at least one storage bag for exploring the Secret Land and other conveniences.

If there’s no storage bag on the corpse, then there are only two possibilities: one is that Zhang Zhizong possessed a spatial treasure item of extremely high rank that even Lu Xuan’s spiritual sense could not detect.

The second is that the storage bag was already taken by someone else, and considering Zhang Zhizong was just a common loose cultivator, this possibility was more likely.

Lu Xuan thought, recalling the young cultivator with the evil spite qi he had encountered at the entrance of the tunnel.

Thinking about the unusual behavior of Zhang Zhizong before he attacked, it was highly likely related to that young cultivator.

“Fortunately, the corpse is still in good condition.”,

he optimistically thought.

The flesh and bones of a Foundation Establishment Late-term Cultivator were considered top-quality fertilizer for those weird spiritual plants in the Underworld Spirit Field.

He sealed the two parts of the body with charms and placed them in the Gluttonous Insect Pouch, rushing towards the entrance of the tunnel at the fastest speed.

Having safely returned to the cave abode, Lu Xuan checked the formations outside the cave, confirming there were no traces of abnormalities, and then entered with peace of mind.

“This trip to the Thunder Sea, thanks to that nurtured strange species, the Thunder Beast, I unexpectedly obtained quite a few good items.”,

Back in his house, Lu Xuan inventoried the gains from his trip.

Some ordinary spirit thunder, dozens of special thunder beads condensed from black-green spirit thunder, over ten drops of black-green thunder liquid, and several hundred pounds of thunder death crystal scraped from the body of a Seventh-Grade Green Horn Thunder Son.

More importantly, he had gained the trust of that Seventh-Grade Green Horn Thunder Son, which was the greatest intangible wealth of all.

Thinking to himself, he went to the cave mansion spirit field and took out a black-green thunder bead from the storage bag.

Spiritual power seeped into it, gradually breaking down the thunder bead into a clump of black-green thunder qi, which Lu Xuan controlled and infused into the E-Mu Green Thunder Vine Spirit Seed.

Focusing his mind on the spiritual seed, he could sense how the clump of green light, nourished by strands of black-green thunder qi, became much more vibrant and exuded a strong vitality.

“The effect is quite good, much stronger than the ordinary wood attribute spirit thunder.”,

Seeing this, Lu Xuan was delighted. With these black-green spirit thunders, the Seventh-Grade E-Mu Green Thunder Vine rooting and sprouting was just a matter of time.

“Plus, with those even more potent black-green thunder liquids, there’s no need to worry about problems in the early and middle stages of the spiritual plant’s growth.”,

he thought, taking out a large amount of thunder death crystal plucked from the body of the Green Horn Thunder Son.

He specifically selected some smaller ones, his palm turned into a translucent jade color, directly rubbing the thunder death crystals into grains of light blue sand.

He then evenly sprinkled them over the spirit fields planting the thunder attribute spirit plants and performed the Earth Pulling Technique, merging the light blue sandstone with the spirit soil.

After integrating the thunder death crystal sandstone, Lu Xuan could sense a feeling of satisfaction transmitted from the thunder attribute spirit plants like Thunderstorm Lotus and Zewei Oblivion Thunderfruit.

Feeling the vigorous vitality of the spirit plants, his lips curved into a smile, and his heart felt equally satisfied.

After returning from Thunder Sea, Lu Xuan immediately resumed his usual rhythm of tending the fields.

Every day, he would walk around the spirit fields, repeatedly perform the Spirit Rain Technique, the Tree Life Spell, and other basic cultivation formula methods, inspecting the growth state of all spirit plants. Whenever he noticed any slight needs, he would try to satisfy them to ensure the spirit plants could grow in the best possible condition.

In addition, he would feed and play with the numerous spirit beasts in his cave mansion, cultivate the “Divine Proliferation Scripture” and the “Breaking Illusion Eye Technique,” perfect his two sets of fifth-rank sword techniques, and concoct elixirs to earn spirit stones.

A little over a month passed quickly.

One day, while he was inspecting the spirit fields, a familiar voice suddenly came from outside the cave mansion.

“Friend Lu, are you in the cave mansion?”

The tone was solemn, indeed belonging to Lei Zheng with whom he had already had several transactions.

Lu Xuan hurriedly went out to greet him.

“Thunder Fellow Daoist, it has been a long time. How have you been recently?”

He opened the formation, warmly greeting Lei Zheng.

“Not bad.”

A slight smile squeezed itself onto Lei Zheng’s serious face.

“I was passing by your cave mansion and thought I’d drop by for a visit.”

The two entered the courtyard.

Lu Xuan brought over some spiritual fruit spiritual tea and sat down to chat leisurely with Lei Zheng.

“The spirit plants in Friend Lu’s cave mansion seem to be growing increasingly numerous.”

Lei Zheng glanced over the spirit plants hidden in the thick mists and remarked.

“As a Spirit Plant Master, when I see the spirit plants I adore, I cannot help myself. After stabilizing the Thunderfire Asterism Cave, I went around searching for various spiritual seeds.”

Lu Xuan replied with a smile.

“How about the protective array outside your cave mansion?” Lei Zheng suddenly asked.

“It’s quite good. After all, these spirit plants are almost my entire fortune, so I pay extra attention to that. The formation should block small troublemakers, and I’m not afraid of any demon beasts or demon insects intruding into the spirit fields to harm my plants.”

Lu Xuan spoke ambiguously, deliberately omitting that both protective arrays were of the fifth rank. Even several early core formation stage cultivators wouldn’t be able to break through the arrays swiftly.

His previous trip to the Thunder Sea Medicine Garden had indeed built a good amount of trust in Lei Zheng, but it was nowhere near enough to reveal about the two fifth-rank formations to him.

“Why do you ask such?”

Lu Xuan curiously asked.

“You, Friend Lu, have been secluded in your cave mansion, cultivating spirit plants deeply, you might not be aware of recent abnormal incidents in the Thunderfire Asterism Cave.”

“There has been invasion by evil cultivators or demon envoys into the cave mansions of some loose cultivators, killing the cultivators inside in extremely cruel ways. It is said the deaths were gruesome; their divine souls were taken away with no known whereabouts, leaving just fragments of their flesh and blood.”

“Indeed quite gruesome.”

Lu Xuan heard the news and his face showed a deeply worried expression, his tone carrying a bit of concern.

“Therefore, it might be best for you, Friend Lu, to be extra cautious during this time to prevent any harm from evil cultivators or demon envoys.”

“Thank you for the reminder, Thunder Fellow Daoist.”

Lu Xuan spoke with sincere gratitude.

Lei Zheng’s special trip to caution him also justified his trust in him.