Chapter 276: Chapter 274: It Doesn’t Count……………….. What?!_l
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Initially, Brother Shen left Lu Xuan with ten Spirit Sword Grass seeds. He cultivated two with each of the Four Seasons Sword Qi types to make a total of eight. The remaining two were cultivated differently. One with the merged Red Flame Sword Qi of the Red Flame Sword and Yangxuan Sword Sheath. The other was a successfully improved third-grade Wind Thunder Sword Grass, cultivated with Edge Sword of Wind and Thunder.
The Wind Thunder Sword Grass is still a long way from maturity while Red Flame Sword Grass matured fully after a short while. Lu Xuan harvested Red Flame Sword Intent from the White Light Group.
He arranged the nine sword grasses in order and decided to take them to visit Sword Hall to report to Brother Shen.
Two hours later, Lu Xuan reached the Sword Hall location.
Standing before an enormous Sword Array that stretched on for countless miles, he waited patiently.
His spiritual sense couldn’t sense the extent of the Sword Array yet. It held countless Sword Qi swimming freely like fish.
Though seemingly calm, the moment he hastily attempted to enter the Sword
Array, countless Sword Qi would instantly envelop him.
After contacting Brother Shen via a Communication Talisman, a young man of average looks emerged from the Sword Array not long after. The young man, at the Foundation Establishment First-term cultivation stage, emanated a bold confidence, straight as a newly sharpened sword.
“You must be Junior Brother Lu?”
The young man’s eyes were locked on Lu Xuan, as if an invisible Sword Qi was focusing on him.
“Correct. May I ask your name, Brother?”
“Just call me Brother Li. Brother Shen asked me to greetyou. Please follow behind me, not overtaking, otherwise you might be accidentally injured by the Sword Array.”
Lu Xuan nodded and followed the young man into the Sword Array.
A huge Sword Qi Mountain appeared before him, surrounded by various Sword
Qi wildly dance.
They arrived in front of a simple courtyard.
A cultivator named Shen Ye stood quietly at the entrance of the courtyard, a deep black sword case over his back, like a long sword filled with restrained Sword Intent.
Shen Ye has had several encounters with Lu Xuan and holds him in high regard. He is the hall master of the Sishen Hall and a high-ranking official in the Sword
Hall.
“Brother Shen.”
Lu Xuan quickly greeted him.
“Junior Brother Lu, long time no see.”
Shen Ye smiled warmly, and the young cultivator quietly retreated.
“Junior Brother Lu, did you succeed in cultivating the sword grass I gave you last time?”
After a few pleasantries, Shen Ye inquired.
“Fortunately, yes. The Sword Grass Spirit Seeds Brother Shen gave me have
matured.”
“Oh? Is that so? Let me have a look, junior brother.
Upon getting Lu Xuan’s affirmative response, curiosity sparked in Shen Ye’s eyes.
Lu Xuan gave a quick sweep of his hand, and nine sword-shaped sword grasses flew out of his storage bag, one after the other, in front of the two of them.
“Good Quality Sword Grass, if I’m not mistaken, they should have been , „ nurtured by the Summer Day Sword Qi from the ‘Four Seasons Sword Art’.”
Shen Ye picked up the first sword grass, flicked it, and a flash of Invisible Sword Qi hit the grass, causing a competitive Sword Qi reaction in the grass.
“Good.”
Shen Ye nodded and complimented.
“Nine healthy sword grasses. Junior Brother Lu, you’ve really exceeded my expectations.”
After carefully examining all nine sword grasses, he turned to Lu Xuan and spoke.
“I’ve put a lot of time and energy into cultivating these plants on a daily basis.
With a bit of luck, I managed to obtain good quality Sword Grass.”
Lu Xuan responded with a smile.
“However, Junior Brother Lu, I remember giving you ten Sword Grass Spirit Seeds. There are only nine Sword Grass present. Did one fail to mature?” Shen Ye confirmed the number of Sword Grass a second time and asked in curiosity.
“Uh, the other Sword Grass…”
Lu Xuan paused for a moment, considering how to answer.
“Failure is not a problem, after all, even the experienced sword cultivators in the Sword Hall cannot guarantee your level of success rate.’
Shen Ye gently comforted Lu Xuan.
“No, Brother Shen, the sword grass was accidentally improved and became a grade three spiritual plant,” Lu Xuan said softly.
“We merely lost a sword grass,” Shen Ye said subconsciously.
“No, it’s not…”
“What?!”
His voice suddenly rose, his eyes filled with disbelief.
“Junior Brother Lu, you improved a sword grass into a grade three spiritual plant? Are you speaking the truth?”
He instantly flashed over to Lu Xuan and asked again.
“Yes based on my many years of experience cultivating spiritual plants, it is indeed a new grade three sword grass,” said Lu Xuan with firm conviction.
“Let’s go back to the mountain.”
Before Shen Ye could finish his sentence, a rainbow light shot out from his deep black sword case on his back, wrapping the two of them and disappearing from the courtyard in an instant.
Lu Xuan found himself at the foot of his own mountain in a daze.
“Junior Brother Lu, please open the mountain guarding formation and take me to see the grade three sword grass,” Shen Ye said, using the last bit of rationality in his heart to suppress his urge to storm into Lu Xuan’s cave mansion.
In front of the Wind-Thunder Sword Grass.
Shen Ye closed his eyes and carefully examined each detail of the sword grass with his spiritual sense.
He sent a thin sword Qi from his fingertip, striking it on the grass body of the Wind-Thunder Sword Grass.
Where the sword grass was hit, hundreds of small deep-black sword Qi flew out, like a miniature hurricane, and through the hurricane, one could vaguely see flashes of lightning.
“It contains the power of wind and thunder…”
“Though I’m unclear how Junior Brother Lu cultivated it, it is indeed a grade three sword grass,” said Shen Ye seriously. A smile then appeared on his face, growing wider by the moment.
“Junior Brother Lu, you truly are a genius!”
“I remember when you were still a Qi Cultivating Scatter Repair, you accidentally obtained a Spirit Sword Grass Seed that had been left outside. Without any experience, you managed to successfully cultivate it using your grandmaster level Golden Sword Technique.
“After learning about this, I believed you were not only a sword cultivator with exceptional talent, you were also a natural for cultivating sword grass.” “You brought back nine sword grasses with good quality from the ten Spirit Sword Grass Seeds I previously handed to you. This was beyond my expectations.”
“I didn’t expect that you would actually give me such a huge surprise!’
“On your first large-scale cultivation of sword grass, you managed to improve it into a rare grade three sword grass!’
“This can be described as earth-shattering.
Despite being in the Foundation Establishment Late-term Realm, Shen Ye couldn’t calm down for a long time.
It wasn’t that he was overly impulsive, but what Lu Xuan had done had completely surpassed his imagination.
Carrying ten Spirit Sword Grass Seeds, and cultivating nine mature sword grasses of good quality, that was already an outstanding result. Many sword cultivators in the Sword Hall who specialized in cultivating sword grass couldn’t even achieve that…
Yet, Lu Xuan not only effortlessly achieved all these, but he even improved and cultivated a grade three sword grass!
You must know, as the name suggests, Sky Sword Sect is known throughout the Cultivation World for its swords, the sword grass is central to the entire Sword
Hall.
Many third-grade, fourth-grade, and even fifth-grade sword weapons are cultivated and refined from sword grass.
Over the longyears of the Sword Hall’s existence, in order to receive new highgrade sword grass, it required one generation after another of experimentation and exploration, countless failures, to be able to successfully improve and create new sword grass.
But Lu Xuan, all by himself, accomplished this journey in a short period of time!
How could Shen Ye not be shocked and amazed by this!