Great Red Immortal Sect

Chapter 17 Pest Pest
Changming Mountain, medicinal garden.

Zhang Gaoxia has been a little worried recently because his elixir has been infected with an unknown insect disease.

The Mingguang flowers hung low and seemed a little withered, while the Qingyuan peonies fell to the ground and could not stand up straight.

At first she thought there was something wrong with the soil and water, but when she looked closely, she saw fine specks like black sand flowing in the leaf veins, almost sucking the elixir dry.

Master Si'an has invited the head of the sect, but there is still no good solution. She has read the sect's books on spiritual plants, but has gained little and still cannot figure out the origin of this strange disease.

Seeing that the spiritual herbs were about to die, she stayed by the field all day, constantly sending rain. Occasionally, when her magic power was exhausted, she would ask the outer disciples to take over, just hoping to delay some time.

Xu Xuan was also frightened when she came to Changming. There were very few magical herbs in the field that could escape this disease. Wen Si'an called her over, and the two of them used some of the sect's spiritual cultivation techniques together, but it was still useless.

His first reaction was to send Xiao Wen to see the Di Yan Wu Yuan Tree. Fortunately, the tree was covered in flames, and only one branch had black spots on it, so it was not a big deal.

"Right now, I'm afraid we can only go find someone from Huichun Mountain."

If you ask Qingwei which sect knows about spiritual plants, it is this sect. At this moment, Xu Xuan did not dare to delay, and with the thunder cloud, he went straight to Huichun.

Huichun Mountain is low and mostly green, and there is some chaos inside the gate.

Xu Xuan stopped outside the formation and announced his name. An old man in green robe came to greet him from the mountain gate. It was Shi Mingsong, the master of Huichun Mountain.

"It turns out to be Master Xu. Please come into the mountain gate and have a chat." The old man seemed to have expected the visitor and was not surprised.

Xu Xuan followed him in, but saw that in the spiritual fields all over the mountains, there were disciples busy with rejuvenation, and most of the spiritual medicines had common strange diseases.

"I'm afraid the master came here this time because of this disease. Apart from my family, your temple has the most spiritual medicines cultivated in Qingwei."

Shi Mingsong has a youthful face and white hair, and has a somewhat immortal-like demeanor. His cultivation has reached the seventh level of Qi training. In terms of seniority, he is probably the generation above Wen Fufeng and the same generation as Chen Weiyuan.

"Senior, this thing looks like a bug but isn't. It lives between the veins of the leaves. If you use magic to provoke it, it will burrow deeper. How can you cure it?"

Xu Xuan said frankly that he was extremely anxious and just hoped to get the solution as soon as possible.

Shi Mingsong sighed and said:
"This matter is both difficult and simple. Even if Master Xu doesn't come, I will still go looking for you."

These words were so vague that Xu Xuan was confused.

"Master, please follow me."

Shi Mingsong led Xu Xuan to a core area and opened the restriction, whereupon he saw a magical bamboo that was shaped like white jade and had leaves like colored glaze. It was the magical root of Huichun Mountain, Miaoyu Bamboo.

Although this spiritual creature was far inferior to the Earth Flame Noon Yuan Tree, Huichunshan's careful cultivation had actually resulted in a slightly smaller new bamboo growing beside it, with signs of another one emerging.

However, there are some black spots on this spiritual object, which are erratic and make the jade bamboo look a little withered.

"Ordinary insect pests don't penetrate the leaf veins and roots directly like this. Moreover, this thing is extremely tiny, and seems to be a spirit. It actively avoids people and eats away the spiritual medicine bit by bit."

"I've encountered this kind of situation before, and I always used the [Xiao Geng Jin Formation], where Qi-refining disciples used their spiritual sense to control the gold energy into the leaf veins to eliminate the harm."

Shi Mingsong explained in detail that a disciple at the first level of Qi Refining should be sent to Dachi with the formation disk to teach the method of eliminating evil. Xu Xuan handed over the token and felt relieved when he saw the disciple leave on the wind. However, Shi Mingsong had another matter to trouble him with: the issue of Miao Yuzhu.

This spiritual root is extremely delicate and has a deep spiritual power, which hinders the exploration of spiritual consciousness. Shi Mingsong tried to use the golden energy to eliminate the disease, but the control was unstable and damaged the roots of the bamboo.

"Now, I would like to ask Master Xu to use his sword energy to infiltrate the area, like marking troops on a battlefield, and eliminate these insect pests one by one."

"The sword energy can change, it can be as vast as a river or as small as a speck of dust. Chong Yangzi also came here to help me eliminate the insect disease on this spiritual bamboo. Now I will trouble Master Xu."

Shi Mingsong looked sincere and continued:

"If it succeeds, I will send a few disciples to your sect to help cultivate the spiritual medicine. I hope the temple master will give me some advice."

After hearing this, Xu Xuan was somewhat tempted and said that he would give it a try first. He then summoned [Dan Ting], separated a wisp of sword energy, and controlled it with his mind, allowing it to enter from the roots of the spiritual bamboo.

The leaf veins were narrow, and Xu Xuan concentrated his attention. He saw black spots attached to the inside of the bamboo wall, wriggling constantly. He cut them with sword energy, only to find that the thing was empty inside, invisible and intangible. The core was an octagonal black crystal-like thing, which was shattered by the sword energy and turned into black gas and disappeared.

The process was like embroidery. Xu Xuan controlled the sword energy bit by bit to cut off the black spots, but at the same time he had to restrain the power for fear of hurting the spiritual bamboo.

As the black spots decreased, the spiritual bamboo gradually regained its vitality, but the black spots underwent a strange change.

A cold aura emerged, and many black spots gathered together. A bloody light appeared, forming a gorgeous and tragic blood-like flower. As soon as this thing appeared, Xu Xuan felt his consciousness become stagnant, and the sword energy stopped. He wanted to break away from his mind, but he couldn't move, and couldn't even utter a word or send out a glance.

The flower floated straight out from the spiritual bamboo, following the sword energy and Xu Xuan's mind, going upstream little by little, as if invisible.

Shi Mingsong, who was standing by, didn't notice anything unusual at all. He just watched Lingzhu's condition getting better and better, and sighed that Xu Xuan's swordsmanship was indeed amazing.

The blood-red flower was gradually trying to stick to Xu Xuanmingtang and enter his sea of consciousness, but the ancient seal characters above his sea of consciousness took shape, the sword energy turned into clouds, and the black dragon roared. This thing could not enter, so it had to float downwards and fell straight into Xu Xuan's sea of qi, taking root on the small thunder lake and slowly absorbing the plasma.

Xu Xuan finally came to his senses, and a sense of boundless fear surged in his heart. He could only pretend to be calm. Shi Mingsong, who was standing by, saw that Miao Yuzhu had returned to normal, and thanked her repeatedly, and wanted to keep Xu Xuan here to celebrate.

Xu Xuan did not dare to delay at this moment, saying that he was worried about the situation in the sect and went back first. Shi Mingsong thanked him and promised to send Ling Zhifu over soon.

'What exactly is this flower?'

Xu Xuan originally wanted to ask Shi Mingsong, but thinking of the strangeness in his sea of consciousness, he only dared to ask about the origin of the black spot, but did not dare to mention the red flower, for fear of being noticed to be unusual. However, Shi Mingsong had no idea about this.

Running towards Luo Qing, he felt that there was nothing unusual in his Qi sea, except that there was an extra flower. The flower absorbed some spiritual energy, then its brilliance was restrained and there was no more movement.

When they arrived in Luoqing, the disciples sent by Huichun Mountain had almost cured Changming's illness. Wen Sian and others who had practiced Qi cultivation helped to control the formation. Changming's spiritual field was not big, so it would not take much time.

Xu Xuan first hid his body, thinking of using his sword energy to remove the black spots on the Earth Fire Wuyuan Tree, but as soon as he made contact, the red flower in his Qi sea shook slightly, and the black spots dissipated on their own.

After returning to Tianqing Peak, he temporarily ordered everyone not to disturb him. He checked the records of the sect to see what this thing was.

Just as he was flipping through the sect's classics, the sky suddenly changed. The sunlight dimmed and became as inert as a dying person. Suddenly, bright stars appeared around him, shining in broad daylight.

The red flower in his body became more and more beautiful, as if it was about to bleed.

(End of this chapter)