Changsheng Xiuxian: I can see through everything

Chapter 292 Winged Mantis (Subscribe)

After returning to Wolong Island, Chen Xuan sent a message to the Yu family on Mingyang Island, asking him to come and discuss.

"The method of breeding spiritual rice is forbidden by the sect and cannot be used to exchange for sea spirit pearls."

"Perhaps, we can use another trading method. I can provide you with a large amount of Yuan Zu Ling Rice seeds every year to offset the transaction price of the Sea Spirit Pearl."

This is a new plan that Chen Xuan came up with after returning from Jinyang Sect.

Zhu Jinnian told him clearly that it was wishful thinking to use the giant furnace to refine elixirs and exchange them with the sect for the Sea Spirit Pearl.

The Jinyang Sect attaches great importance to the method of breeding spiritual rice. The technical content is much higher than that of refining elixirs in the giant furnace, so it is not suitable to be passed on to others for the time being.

However, in view of Chen Xuan's great contributions in the Dongshan Islands, the sect leader ordered that 100,000 sect contribution points be allocated to him, and the tax exemption period of Wolong Island be extended to ten years.

"Yes. However, the yield of the Yuanzu spiritual rice seeds provided by Wolong Island must be guaranteed, and it must not be less than 100,000 kilograms per year."

Chen Xuan was slightly surprised.

One hundred thousand jin of Yuanzu spiritual rice seeds, the annual planting volume reaches 15,000 mu of low-grade spiritual fields.

It seems that the Yu family has made up their minds to develop the spiritual land on land with all their strength.

The two agreed that Chen Xuan would trade one million kilograms of Yuanzu spiritual rice seeds for the Yu family's Sea Spirit Pearl.

The two signed a spiritual contract, and the Yu family delivered the Sea Spirit Pearl to the Chen family. The Chen family wrote an IOU and agreed to deliver 100,000 kilograms of Yuanzu spiritual rice seeds every year for ten consecutive years.

If the Chen family breaches the contract, the Yu family has the right to ask the Chen family to return the Sea Spirit Pearl.

After trading for the Sea Spirit Pearl, Chen Xuan invited the sect's formation master and spent another 100,000 spirit stones to set up the formation for cultivating the spirit veins on Wolong Island.

It would take three to five hundred years for the two Sea Spirit Pearls to upgrade Wolong Island to a third-level island.

Even if there is no advancement, the quality of the spiritual veins can be continuously enhanced, and the richness of spiritual energy in the core area of Wolong Island can be increased.

Not long after, the heads of the Pan and Yang families, as well as many nearby small cultivation forces, came to pay their respects to the island.

First, they expressed their willingness to coexist peacefully, and then they sought to purchase Yuan Zuling rice seeds.

Chen Xuan accepts everyone who comes.

All signed the intention to sell spiritual rice seeds.

He plans to turn Wolong Island into the best base for cultivating Yuanzuling rice.

With the help of an army of 300,000 poisonous bees, Chen Xuan continued to increase the research and development of Yuanzu Ling Rice and launched Yuanzu Ling Rice varieties with better performance.

The Dongshan Islands finally ushered in a period of peaceful and rapid development.

Soon, three years passed.

Chen Xuan is almost forty years old and has been the master of Wolong Island for nine years.

This day, on the top of Wolong Mountain.

Chen Xuan stood alone in front of the ancient tree, guarding the Iron-backed Mantis that was breaking through.

After the psychic green snake, the jade-faced queen bee, and the phantom butterfly, Chen Xuan was familiar with the process of breaking through the demon insects.

He raised the Emperor Insect Cauldron and continuously fed the insect spirit essence to the Iron-back Mantis.

He opened his third eye and watched the Iron-backed Mantis's breakthrough process. He occasionally pointed out some mantras and input some Jingang Duanyuan Gong mana to help the Iron-backed Mantis break through the barrier.

The most important thing is Emperor Liujiang.

This treasure is a great tonic for demon insects.

Every three days, when a drop is applied, the iron-backed mantis will be like a chicken with its blood injected, chirping with excitement, as if it has gained a huge power.

A month later, the iron-back mantis had completely changed its appearance.

The demon's body grew to two feet tall, and the golden swords on its arms became increasingly dazzling, with a metallic texture and faint sounds of wind and thunder.

The wings on its back changed from gray to a strange rainbow color, and as the environment continued to change, it blended in with the surroundings.

Among the magical powers, there are two more, namely invisibility and swift sword.

It should correspond to the camouflage of the Winged Mantis and the biological characteristics of the Sharp Sword.

After the successful breakthrough, the flying-winged mantis was extremely happy. It waved the golden swords on its arms that were as long as its body, and chopped the woods with rapid movements. The towering ancient trees fell down one after another.

"Knife Boy!"

Chen Xuan shouted angrily and released the Phantom Butterfly.

"Xiaodie, catch Daozi!"

The phantom butterfly nodded and smiled at Chen Xuan in an anthropomorphic manner, flapped its wings, and disappeared from the spot.

When it appeared again, it was in front of the flying-winged demon mantis, its butterfly wings dancing lightly, like a dream, and transparent pieces of demon butterfly breath rolled towards the flying-winged demon mantis.

This is one of its innate magical powers. It uses the breath of a demonic butterfly to make its opponents addicted to the illusion it creates.

The flying-winged mantis's two swords flashed rapidly, shattering all the breath of the demon butterfly that was coming over. It stared with its large triangular eyes, and after seeing clearly the opponent in front of it, the phantom butterfly, it flapped its wings, turned around and ran away.

Since childhood, it has been bullied by the poisonous golden silkworm.

Now, after breaking through the second level, I still feel scared when I see the Phantom Butterfly.

The phantom butterfly followed closely, flapping its wings continuously to drive the winged mantis back to Chen Xuan.

"You're not stupid, you even knew to run back!"

Chen Xuan did not tolerate the flying-winged mantis. He moved his mind slightly, and a series of thunder beads flew out, hitting its little head one after another.

The winged mantis protected its little head with its golden swords in its arms, allowing the flying thunder beads to hit it with a crackling sound, sending sparks flying.

"Oh, you've become smarter now. You know how to hide your head!"

The body of the flying-winged mantis is harder than metal and stone, but its weak point is its small head.

Chen Xuan gave the man a light punishment and then took away the Thunder Flying Pearl.

A green light flashed, and it stood on the back of the flying-winged mantis, letting it spread its wings and fly down the mountain.

Phantom butterflies danced beside them with great interest.

Sure enough, the flying ability of the winged mantis is excellent.

The instantaneous explosive power is extremely strong, but if it flies long distances, it will obviously be a bit strenuous carrying Chen Xuan.

It is even inferior to the Phantom Butterfly next to it.

……

In the experimental factory of Longxing Villa.

Among them was Wei Zhongchang from Baihe Island. He was currently a teacher at the Xiuzhen Academy and was in charge of the pilot plant at Longxing Villa.

The steam engine inside has been developed to a decent level and has become the main power source for ordinary mortal ships.

Since the promotion of high-yield hybrid rice, the quality of life of ordinary people has improved rapidly.

Poor in literature and rich in martial arts.

In the secular world where people have enough to eat, there are more and more mortal warriors.

They are not content with the farming-style pastoral life and have a stronger spirit of adventure.

However, in the mortal counties of Wolong Island, high-ranking officials are all cultivators at the first level of Qi training, and they have the behemoth Chen family behind them. The city is guarded by cultivators in the middle stage of Qi training, and warriors dare not violate the law.

All the cultivation families in the secular world have inferior spiritual roots.

Whenever a descendant is found to have a low-grade spiritual root, he will be happily sent to Longxing Villa, where a seven-day banquet will be held to inform the people of the whole city.

The descendants of monks do not necessarily have spiritual roots.

Even if the descendants of cultivators without spiritual roots mate with ordinary mortals, the chances of the children having spiritual roots are much greater than those of ordinary mortals.

Therefore, many warriors go out to sea to fish, in order to obtain spiritual fish and demon shrimps and exchange them for cultivation resources.

Before, there was no chance.

A capable water mage would not go fishing with secular warriors.

Now, with the improvement of steam engines, larger ships can be built that are strong enough to withstand offshore storms.

In the secular world, demand far exceeds supply.

Many warriors used the fishing equipment on the ship to catch valuable spiritual fish and shrimp, and became rich overnight.

Of course, there is still a lot of room for improvement in the steam engine.

The ship, which was several meters long, looked very large, but it was far from what Chen Xuan had imagined.

Today, the weapon-making apprentices in the experimental factory are full of motivation.

The Chen family will fully pay for all material, labor and other expenses.

The steamship developed can be sold for a dozen spirit stones.

The Chen family did not take a penny of these, and gave them all as rewards to the weapon-refining apprentices.

To this end, they also recruited a number of mortal craftsmen who worked day and night, overtime, and were full of enthusiasm.

Three to five steamships were launched every month, and the supply could not keep up with the demand.

While continuing to develop and improve the steam engine, Chen Xuan asked Wei Zhongchang to take the school's refining apprentices to develop and manufacture puppet beasts.

Puppetry is a branch of weapon refinement.

For Wei Zhongchang, a second-level weapon refiner, it was not complicated.

Now, he is assembling a flying eagle puppet.

Place a mid-grade spirit stone behind the heart-protecting mirror, and control it with your mind, then you can spread your wings and fly, exploring and detecting the way.

The advantage is that it is not afraid of life and death, can help monks explore and fight, and increase their means of attack.

The disadvantages are also obvious: it is expensive, requires strong spiritual awareness, and has a limited range of movement.

Although it can also be used in combat, it requires the cultivator to distract himself to control it, the attack method is single, and both offense and defense are somewhat unsatisfactory.

Most monks purchase puppet beasts to use for reconnaissance and as cannon fodder on the front line.

"Too complicated."

Chen Xuan said to Wei Zhongchang, "Friend Wei, I need a flying puppet beast. It should be made of cheap materials, capable of long-range attacks, and self-destruct with strong explosive power. It should preferably require little or no spiritual control."

Wei Zhongchang looked helpless.

"Island Master Chen, your request is far too high. If there really were such a flying puppet beast as you described, would our Wei family have to stay on White Crane Island?"

"Take your time. First, solve the material cost issue, then improve the attack range, explosion power, mind control, and so on."

"We can always find a way. All material and labor costs will be borne solely by my Chen family."

"let me try."

Wei Zhongchang had no objection as there was a sponsor who contributed money and effort.

After the Linghai Gold Sand Mine on Baihe Island was taken over by trusteeship, he had nothing to do and was just sitting around doing nothing.

In the Wolong Island Cultivation Academy, doing this kind of equipment refining and research and development work is quite interesting.

Chen Xuan also offered him a teaching subsidy of 10,000 spirit stones per year.

After staying in the cultivation school for a few months, Wei Zhongchang couldn't help but feel a bit of respect for it.

I have to say that Chen Xuan is a very magnanimous person.

He did not exploit the monks and mortals on the island, but instead sought some benefits for them, which was very popular.

In fact, Chen Xuan also has his own little plan.

The art of weapon refining is profound and extensive.

If used properly, it can shine brightly in the war between Taoism and demons.

But he had too many skills to practice and too little free time, so he had no energy to practice as well.

After all, every monk has limited energy.

Even with Wolong Island, it continuously provides him with various cultivation resources.

He is also very busy.

Except for Qingmu Yunling Gong, the other four kinds of skills are still at the mastery level.

Every day, one must practice the four techniques of gold, water, fire and earth at the same time, integrating the original Qingmu Yunling Gong and improving the Xuantian Chunyang Gong.

There is also the Xuantian Sword Technique, which adds a Thunder Sword to the original Five Elements Flying Sword Magic Weapon, and it is also quite difficult to control.

The Divine Thunder Method also needs to be practiced from time to time to cleanse the body of thunder and improve the proficiency of the Thunder Flying Pearl.

There is also the Thousand Saints Insect Taming Technique, which cannot be stopped for even a day to comprehend the innate magical powers of the strange insects.

At present, he has mastered the two magical powers of water control and ancient bee venom, and has also mastered the five magical powers of scorpion tail poison hook, yin and yang walking, soul-stealing golden light, ancient bee venom, and butterfly transformation and nirvana.

(End of this chapter)