Fire Virtue Immortal Clan

Chapter 243 The Situation of Blood Essence Rice in the Spirit Gu Sect

These five Mineral Spirits were not highly skilled; only one was at the late stage of the first rank, while the remaining four were at the mid-stage and early stages of the first rank, respectively.

Lingxuan knew that Lu Chengan had raised a mineral-eating spirit named Jin Yuan, whose cultivation level had now reached the late stage of the second tier.

Therefore, after Lingxuan compiled the information about these spirit race cultivators, she reported this information to Lu Cheng'an, emphasizing the existence of the five mineral-eating spirit race members.

The Mineral Spirit Clan is extremely useful to human cultivators, and not only to weapon refiners, but also to cultivation forces like the Lu family.

Just like the Lu family now, several Tier 3 mineral deposits have been discovered in the underground magma river of the Burning Flame Mountains, and the minerals mined from these deposits are all raw stones.

These raw stones can be sold directly, but the selling price will be relatively low.

If the ore undergoes simple refining, its price will change significantly.

If the Lu family could raise a large number of mineral-eating spirits, their ability to refine minerals alone would bring them great benefits.

Of course, it is extremely difficult for the Mineral-Eating Spirit Clan to develop. The few Mineral-Eating Spirit Clan that Lingxuan discovered in the underground lava river are not even enough for the Lu family's weapon refiners to share.

The Lu family now has a considerable number of cultivators. Because Lu Cheng'an has chosen the path of weapon refiner, many of the new cultivators in the Lu family choose weapon refinement as one of the various arts of cultivation.

Among the newly recruited cultivators in the Lu family, there are also those with strong talent in weapon crafting, such as Lu Chengmin, Lu Jingyuan, and Lu Jingchen.
and many more.

However, among these people, only Lu Chengmin's cultivation broke through to the Foundation Establishment realm, becoming a second-tier weapon refiner.

Lu Jingyuan, Lu Jingchen, and the others are currently at the Qi Refining stage. They have a decent talent for weapon crafting, and if they break through to the Foundation Establishment stage, they will definitely be able to become second-tier weapon crafters.

These first-tier mineral-eating spirits are just right for them.

After receiving Lingxuan's message, Lu Cheng'an relayed it to Lu Wenxing, instructing him to tell Lu Chengmin to come to the Burning Flame Mountain Range and bring the five Mineral Spirit Clan members back to their clan so that the clan's weapon refiners could exchange them.

Besides these five mineral-eating spirit races, Lu Cheng'an was also quite interested in the cultivators of the Firewood race.

The Firewood Clan are all plants that have transformed into demons and attained enlightenment. They are originally plants, so even if they are not proficient in the art of cultivation, their sensitivity to various spiritual plants is definitely more acute than that of human cultivators.

The Lu family now cultivates many spiritual plants, the most precious of which are the Five Elements Spiritual Fruit Tree and Blood Essence Rice.

The Five Elements Spiritual Fruit Tree has now been successfully transplanted. It is relatively easy to cultivate and does not require much care.

However, those blood essence rice plants could not grow to maturity without the careful care of the spirit plant master.

Lu Cheng'an planned to bring eight cultivators from the Huomu clan back to the Lu family and hand them over to Lu Jingtong, so that they could help Lu Jingtong take care of the Blood Essence Rice on Suixing Peak, as well as many other spiritual plants.

“Jingkun, you should return to your clan now and find the Second Elder. Ask him to take you and Jingtong to the Spirit Gu Sect!” Lu Cheng’an said.

He has already led Lu Jingkun to search the entire underground lava river of the Burning Flame Mountain Range, but he will stay in the Burning Flame Mountain Range for a while longer.

Now that Lingxuan has finished integrating the Spirit Clan cultivators of the Burning Flame Mountains, he is going to take a look and then take Lingxuan to see the locations of those third-tier mines.

At the same time, these spirit race cultivators should be assigned to different spirit mines.

It will take him at least half a month to handle these matters.

Afterwards, he would need to bring the eight cultivators of the Firewood Clan back to the clan and make further arrangements for them, which would also take time.

It has been some time since Liu Miaozhen and the other Golden Core cultivators from the Spirit Gu Sect left the Lu family. Although they have not sent any messages to urge him, he cannot continue to leave Lu Jingtong and the other person unattended at the Spirit Gu Sect.

The Lu family and the Linggu Sect were not far apart. After Lu Jingkun and Lu Cheng'an parted ways, Lu Jingkun quickly returned to the Lu family.

Although the cultivators of the Linggu Sect did not urge Lu Cheng'an, they did send a message to Lu Chengping inquiring about Lu Jingkun's situation.

Lu Jingkun naturally didn't tell the truth. He only said that his cultivation had successfully broken through to the Foundation Establishment Perfection realm, but he hadn't yet emerged from the barrier.

Therefore, before Lu Jingkun could even go to Lu Chengping's cave after returning to his family, he was summoned to Lu Chengping's residence.

Lu Chengping first inquired about the situation of Lu Jingkun and Lu Chengan in the Burning Flame Mountains, and then asked Lu Jingkun if he could go to the Spirit Gu Sect now.

Lu Jingkun truthfully told Lu Chengping about their gains in the Burning Flame Mountains and relayed Lu Chengan's message.

After understanding Chengping's meaning, Lu Chengping did not waste any more time and immediately led Lu Jingkun and Lu Jingtong to rush towards the Linggu Sect.

The reason Lu Chengping was in such a hurry to go to the Linggu Sect was not only because he was urged by Liu Miaozhen, but also because of another very important reason.

This is because of his two Daoist partners!

Lu Chengping's two Daoist partners did not come with him to the Lu family this time, but stayed in the Linggu Sect to cultivate in seclusion and try to break through to the Golden Core realm.

He stayed at the Lu family's residence for a relatively long time this time. During this extended period, the He Huan and He Ying sisters were also prepared, and they began attempting to break through to the Golden Core realm at almost the same time.

It has been almost a month since He Huan and her sister broke through in seclusion, and Lu Chengping is very worried about the situation of his two Daoist partners.

Lu Chengping and the He Huan sisters may not have had a very good start, but now he has been a Daoist couple with them for many years.

Although he was not controlled by the Love Gu, he was still affected by it, and now he has a deep marital relationship with the He sisters.

The Lu family and the Linggu Sect are quite far apart, and since Lu Chengping also had to take Lu Jingkun with him, the journey took even longer.

After Lu Chengping arrived at the Linggu Sect with Lu Jingkun and the other two, Liu Miaozhen and other Linggu Sect cultivators were already waiting for Lu Chengping and his companions outside the sect.

The cultivators from the Spirit Gu Sect, including Liu Miaozhen, seemed very anxious. After exchanging a few pleasantries with Lu Jingtong and the other person, they led them to the spiritual fields where the Spirit Gu Sect cultivated blood essence rice.

As a Golden Core sect with a history of thousands of years, the Linggu Sect also has a lineage of spiritual plants and cultivates second-tier spiritual plant masters.

However, the spiritual plant inheritance of the Linggu Sect is definitely not as good as that of the Fenyan Sect.

"Jingkun, Jingtong, look at these Blood Essence Rice plants. Over the past few months, their condition has worsened. Do you have any way to save them?" Liu Miaozhen asked with great concern. "Don't worry, senior, we will definitely do our best!" Lu Jingkun and Jingtong replied loudly. After exchanging a glance, they both turned their attention to the Blood Essence Rice plants.

The leaves of normally growing blood rice are as green as jade, and contain abundant spiritual energy.

However, the Blood Essence Rice cultivated by the Spirit Gu Sect was completely different. The leaves of the Blood Essence Rice in the spirit fields were green with a hint of yellow, and the spiritual energy within them was very thin, as if they were about to die at any moment.

Upon seeing this situation, Lu Jingkun and Lu Jingtong's expressions also became serious.

The situation with the Blood Essence Rice of the Spirit Gu Sect was worse than they had imagined, which explained why Liu Miaozhen and other cultivators from the Spirit Gu Sect were so anxious to send them to the sect.

Judging from the current condition of these blood-seed rice plants, they may all die within a few years.

After suppressing their astonishment, Lu Jingkun and his companion activated their divine senses to examine the roots of the blood essence rice.

The roots of Blood Essence Rice are the key to its survival. The Blood Essence Rice planted by the Spirit Gu Sect is in such a state now, which must be because there is a problem with its roots.

Lu Jingkun and Lu Jingtong quickly examined the roots of the blood essence rice and found that many of the roots were already close to rotting.

Even the normal roots struggle to absorb spiritual energy and other energies that promote the growth of the blood essence rice.

The main reason for the condition of the Blood Essence Rice roots lies in the spiritual fields cultivated by the Spirit Gu Sect.

The spiritual energy in the spiritual fields where the Linggu Sect cultivates Blood Essence Rice is extremely rich, and the earth energy is also extremely abundant, even far exceeding that of the spiritual fields cultivated by the Lu family.

But both the earth's energy and the spiritual energy are extremely chaotic.

Blood rice has extremely demanding requirements for its growing environment.

Of course, this applies not only to Blood Essence Rice, but also to other spiritual plants like Blood Essence Rice. In addition, the special effects of Blood Essence Rice make it increasingly precious.

After a thorough inspection, Lu Jingkun and Lu Jingtong said directly, "The earth energy and spiritual energy in the spirit field are extremely disordered, which should be the main reason for the rotting of the blood essence rice roots. Next, we will try to regulate the earth energy and spiritual energy to see if we can change the condition of these blood essence rice plants!"

Neither of them made any guarantees, after all, the Blood Essence Rice was such a fragile spiritual plant, and the Blood Essence Rice planted by the Spirit Gu Sect was in such poor condition that they were not sure if they could save it.

"Then I'll leave it to you two. Just do your best. If you really can't save it, then we'll just have to let it go!" Liu Miaozhen said with a smile.

Liu Miaozhen did not put pressure on Lu Jingtong and his companion. If all the blood essence rice planted by their Linggu Sect died, at least the blood essence rice planted by the Lu family would still be alive.

Given their current relationship with the Lu family, they will definitely be able to get some rice seedlings from the Lu family once the Lu family cultivates new blood essence rice.

The Golden Core cultivators from the Spirit Gu Sect, including Liu Miaozhen, did not stay there indefinitely. After learning about the Blood Essence Rice from Lu Jingtong and the other person, they left.

However, they summoned the spirit plant masters from the Spirit Gu Sect who were in charge of taking care of the Blood Essence Rice, and asked them to entertain Lu Jingkun and his companion, while also learning from them how to cultivate Blood Essence Rice.

Lu Cheng'an also didn't stay; in fact, he left even earlier.

Because he was eager to find out about his two Daoist partners.

However, the He sisters are currently in seclusion, so he can only check on them from outside the cave and cannot see them.

After Lu Jingkun and Lu Chengping went to the Linggu Sect, Lu Chengan also met the Ling Clan cultivators integrated by Ling Xuan in the underground lava river of the Burning Flame Mountains.

Lu Cheng'an did not go to see the spirit race cultivators, but secretly observed them for a while. Then he discussed with Ling Xuan how to arrange for these spirit race cultivators to go mining.

"The cultivation levels of these Spirit Race cultivators are a bit too low; they're mostly at the early to mid-stages of the first rank!"

Lu Cheng'an frowned slightly. The minerals they were going to mine in the lava river were all Tier 3 deposits, and the environment made the mining even more difficult.

If these first- or mid-stage first-tier Spirit Clan cultivators were to enter the mines to mine, it would likely be extremely difficult.

“These Spirit Race cultivators are all new additions. Many of the Spirit Race cultivators who lived in the underground lava river before died at the hands of demonic beasts,” Lingxuan explained.

"Later I will transfer a batch of low-grade pills from the Lu family. Go and tell those spirit race cultivators who are mining that as long as they work hard at mining, the Lu family will definitely not mistreat them."

"Don't be too harsh on these Spirit Race cultivators who are mining. They are not mine slaves. Just treat them as normal cultivators."

Although these Spirit Clan cultivators came under duress from the Lu family and Ling Xuan, Lu Cheng'an did not intend to treat them as mining slaves.

After all, there aren't many of these Spirit Clan cultivators. If a large number of them die, it will be extremely difficult for the Lu family to mine these mineral deposits in the future, and they may not even be able to mine them anymore.

Given the current situation, it's highly unlikely that the Lu family would allow human cultivators to enter those mines to mine.

"Don't worry, Fellow Daoist Lu, I certainly won't mistreat those Spirit Clan members!" Ling Xuan immediately said with a smile.

She was initially worried that Lu Cheng'an would be very harsh on the spirit race cultivators who were mining, but she didn't expect him to give her such instructions.

She stayed at the Lu family for quite some time and gained a better understanding of the human cultivation world.

Based on what she knew, many cultivation forces would brutally capture low-level cultivators or ordinary young men when mining resources, and then throw them directly into the mines as slaves.

If a large number of these mining slaves die, the cultivation forces won't care, because they can continue to capture new mining slaves.

Lu Cheng'an was unaware of Ling Xuan's thoughts. After making arrangements for the mining Spirit Clan cultivators, he spoke again, "Bring a few Firewood Clan cultivators to me now. I want to inquire about their situation."

"I've already told Mu Yun and the others to wait outside. Should I have them all come over, or just Mu Yun?" Ling Xuan asked.

Mu Yuan is Huo Yunmu, the patriarch of the Huomu clan. His cultivation level is at the second stage of perfection, and he is an old monster who has lived for more than a thousand years.

"Let's call Mu Yun over separately!" Lu Cheng'an said after thinking for a moment.

(End of this chapter)