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You Cultivate, I Farm - Chapter 331
🕑 Added 2024-02-23 00:18:56 +0000 UTCChapter 331: Medicine Bug
The palace interior was vast, bearing traces of various prohibitions and techniques, indicating the intense battles undergone by the cultivators who first entered.
Lu Xuan moved swiftly through the palace like a wisp of smoke.
Before long, he halted at the entrance of a spacious alchemy chamber.
After scanning with his spiritual awareness and finding nothing amiss, he lightly entered the chamber.
Before he could begin searching the chamber carefully, a gentle female cultivator followed closely behind him, bursting in.
Upon seeing Lu Xuan, she first appeared startled, then relaxed.
"So it's Friend Lu."
"Friend Qi, what a coincidence to meet you here in the palace."
Lu Xuan vaguely remembered this gentle female cultivator; they had a chance encounter at the auction organized by the Aurora Merchant Association, where she, along with another early Foundation Establishment cultivator, lived a secluded life on a small island.
According to Shi Zhongjie's introduction, this gentle female cultivator had remarkable achievements in alchemy.
"The couple has always been inseparable, why is it just you, Friend Qi? What about Friend Zhang?"
Lu Xuan's eyes contained a hint of caution; the two were adept at combined attacks and rarely separated due to their deep affection.
"My husband went to other parts of the palace. If Friend Lu wishes to see him, I can call him over."
The gentle female cultivator smiled and said, as she and her husband lost contact while passing through the strange stone formation, and after entering the palace, various factors separated them.
However, she dared not show any weakness in front of Lu Xuan, fearing he might harbor ill intentions.
"Hahaha, there's no need for that. This isn't exactly the best place for a reunion."
Lu Xuan glanced discreetly at the gray-white pupils in his hand and chuckled.
"Friend Lu, why don't we each search a specific area of this alchemy chamber?"
The gentle female cultivator suggested.
"Let's go with Friend Qi's suggestion."
Lu Xuan was not one to indiscriminately harm others. Seeing the gentle female cultivator's attitude, he naturally went along with it.
Both of them held their respective talismans, wary of each other, as they carefully searched their designated areas.
A faint medicinal fragrance lingered in the alchemy chamber. In the central area, there were over ten pill furnaces, each with its own array formation. Lu Xuan found their quality to be average and intended to dismantle the formations and take away the furnaces.
On each side of the walls, there were large wooden racks with some residual spirit herbs, but they had all become extremely withered, with their medicinal properties completely depleted, turning into various powders at the slightest touch.
"Friend Lu, did you find anything?"
The gentle female cultivator searched her designated area carefully but found nothing valuable. Not giving up, she came over to ask Lu Xuan.
"No, just some dried herbs and some worthless pill furnaces."
Lu Xuan replied indifferently.
"The same goes for my area."
The female cultivator sighed lightly and returned to search her area again.
"Friend Lu, I won't waste any more time here. I bid you farewell."
Soon, she said from a distance to Lu Xuan and left the alchemy chamber directly.
Lu Xuan nodded lightly, furrowing his brows in thought.
He always felt that something was amiss here.
"The pill furnaces are empty, every part of them, including the base and inner walls, has been thoroughly checked, but no pill formulas or anything of value were found. All the spirit herbs on the racks have withered, and the medicinal properties have been completely depleted. Then, where did the faint medicinal fragrance come from that I smelled when I entered?"
Having advanced to the Foundation Establishment stage and repeatedly enhanced his physical body, Lu Xuan's five senses had reached an extremely keen level.
He deeply sniffed again and keenly sensed the faint medicinal fragrance lingering in the alchemy chamber.
The fragrance seemed to come and go; as Lu Xuan stepped out of the alchemy chamber, he couldn't perceive it anymore.
"It seems that there must be something hidden here."
A layer of hazy substance appeared outside Lu Xuan's pupils. With the enhancement of the Illusion Breaking Eye Technique, he discovered several faint spiritual lights floating in the alchemy chamber.
These spiritual lights floated irregularly in the chamber, even with Lu Xuan's current mid-Foundation Establishment stage spiritual awareness, he couldn't normally detect their existence.
"However, merely finding these spiritual lights is not enough. They are elusive and unpredictable. I must find a way to make them manifest."
While contemplating, Lu Xuan suddenly had a flash of insight and took out a second-grade Nourishing Spirit Pill from his storage pouch.
"Since this is an alchemy chamber, then alchemical medicines may solve the current situation."
With his spiritual power, Lu Xuan levitated the Nourishing Spirit Pill in mid-air.
Under the Illusion Breaking Eye Technique, those spiritual lights began to converge towards the Nourishing Spirit Pill.
"It's indeed effective!" Lu Xuan felt delighted.
His mind focused on the Nourishing Spirit Pill, suddenly, a thought flashed through his mind.
[Medicine Bug, a fourth-grade strange insect, in its larval stage, nearly invisible and colorless. It enjoys consuming the pill toxins contained in pill furnaces and pills during the alchemy process, automatically cleansing and maintaining the pill furnaces to ensure their quality, and can slightly enhance the quality of pills.]
[Such delicious food, it's worth a visit to this world!]
"Medicine Bug... So that's the explanation."
Feeling the thoughts transmitted by the spiritual lights, Lu Xuan couldn't help but chuckle.
"Preferring to devour the pill furnaces and the pill toxins within the pills, it's like poison to others but nectar to me."
Although pills possess various miraculous effects such as enhancing and replenishing spiritual power, healing injuries, and so on, they also contain slight pill toxins. The lower the quality of the pill, the more toxins it contains.
These toxins linger in the cultivator's body, accumulating over time, negatively impacting their normal cultivation and breakthroughs in realms.
The pill toxins inside the pill furnaces are even more potent.
However, this Medicine Bug can consume and cleanse the pill toxins inside the pill furnaces and pills, maintaining the pill furnaces and improving the quality of pills. For an alchemist, it is indeed the best assistance.
"It's still in its larval stage, I can catch it and raise it."
Lu Xuan became intensely interested in this Medicine Bug larva.
However, the immediate problem was how to capture this Medicine Bug larva.
Although its location had been roughly determined, the Medicine Bug itself was elusive and invisible. Carelessness might easily startle it.
Therefore, he had to succeed in one go, capturing it in one fell swoop.
Lu Xuan took out a fourth-grade Profound Yin Pill from his storage pouch, increasing its allure.
The Profound Yin Pill originated from the luminous orbs reward from the Dust-Reducing Formation. It was a great tonic for ghosts, yin beasts, and the like, two grades higher than the Nourishing Spirit Pill, naturally more tempting to the Medicine Bug.
Under the Illusion Breaking Eye Technique, Lu Xuan noticed that those spiritual lights surrounding the Profound Yin Pill were slightly brighter.
Silently, he took out the White Bone Demon Puppet and threw it towards the mid-air Profound Yin Pill.
"Go, White Bone ball!"
As the eerie white bone sphere approached the Profound Yin Pill, it suddenly transformed into a giant net, capturing both the pill and the nearby Medicine Bug larva.
Before the Medicine Bug could react, numerous holes in the net swiftly formed a thin bone membrane, making the entire bone net airtight.
Then, under Lu Xuan's control of his spiritual awareness, the giant net continuously contracted, compressing the Medicine Bug's range of movement.
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