Family Cultivation: I Farm and Raise Fish under the Sea-Chapter 63 - Hunting the Spirit Beast

Chapter 63: Chapter 63 Hunting the Spirit Beast

At the very instant the Sky Blue Snake met its demise.

Somewhere in the unnamed seas of the outer ocean.

A middle-aged man stood at the bow of a ship, a mouthful of blood suddenly gushed out, followed by a face filled with fury.

Beside him, another man in white robes asked with some confusion, “Fellow Daoist, what happened?”

“My spirit beast, the Sky Blue Snake, has fallen to the bottom of the sea!”

The middle-aged man’s face was stricken with grief, as if knives were slicing through his heart.

It had cost him a great deal of Spirit Stones to raise that spirit beast to the peak of the Qi Refinement Realm, and now it was all gone.

“It was perfectly safe the last few times, and each time some Spiritual Objects were even found.”

The other man in white was also somewhat bemused.

He knew that this spirit beast had even consumed the Primordial Soul Flower, which greatly increased its spiritual intelligence and brought him a good number of underwater spiritual materials; he couldn’t believe that it had actually perished.

“Could it be the work of a Foundation Establishment Demon Beast?”

Upon hearing this, the middle-aged man fell silent, and both men lapsed into silence.

……

Deep beneath the sea, Lu Li temporarily gave up looking for Spirit Grass.

Over the next year, he rode Iron Pillar on tours all over the place, appearing within a radius of thousands of miles around Mystic Moon Island.

With Iron Pillar’s strength, there were very few threats to it at the Qi Refinement Realm.

The two scoured the sea far and wide for the Cultivators’ spirit beasts, with concerted effort; that year, they slaughtered hundreds.

Spirit beasts were often found not far from islands; Lu Li even managed to accumulate some experience in finding them.

Until recently, the underwater spirit beasts had gradually become scarce, clearly due to some rumors spreading.

As Lu Li wielded his blade without restraint, some Cultivators on the islands dared not send their own spirit beasts to the sea floor anymore.

A group of Cultivators had paid a bitter price.

This caused many chain reactions, and underwater Spirit Fruits and Spiritual Objects began to surge in price.

At Taiping Island, within Jiayuan Square.

“What! You’re selling ten years’ worth of Ice Spirit Fruits for eighty Spirit Stones? Are you out of your mind?”

“Take it or leave it, the price will go up even more in a few days.”

The young man sneered uninterestedly.

During this period, the output of Spirit Fruits was diminishing, and no Cultivators dared to send their spirit beasts to the sea anymore.

Scenes like this unfolded in some marketplaces.

They ignited numerous discussions among Cultivators, suspecting that some Foundation Establishment Demon Beasts had acted and were waiting for the commotion to subside before dispatching them to the sea again.

Some time later, they were disappointed again as another group of Cultivators suffered heavy losses and began to curse bitterly.

Lu Li, however, had already surmised this and in the following period, he and Iron Pillar went out to sea every few days to hunt, specifically targeting spirit beasts.

After half a year of frenzied slaughter, no one dared send their spirit beasts into the sea carelessly anymore, and Lu Li’s demon-refining pot filled with Spiritual Liquid once again.

The Cultivators on the island were increasingly filled with complaints; some crucial Spirit Fruits had long lost their sources, and no one knew when these days would end.

As for the one who started it all, he was now riding Iron Pillar and heading south towards the ruins.

Lu Li had already planned that in the next decade, every few days he would venture out to search for spirit beasts.

He could not control other places, but Mystic Moon Island was his domain, and the underwater Spiritual Objects were his future advancement sustenance; naturally, he would not allow outsiders to lay their hands on it.

……

More than ten days later.

At the edge of Deep Sea Rift Valley in the Southern Ruins.

Lu Li stood atop Iron Pillar’s head, looking at the vast crevasse ahead, his face expressing contemplation.

An odd scent wafted through the sea water, mixed with hints of sulfur from underwater volcanoes.

For more than ten days, the two had been scouring the edge of the Rift Valley and had finally detected something unusual here.

Just as he was about to enter the crevasse with Iron Pillar in search of Void Spirit Grass, a huge black snake suddenly swam out.

This Demon Beast had pitch-black skin like ink, decorated with red patterns, its cultivation at the tenth level of Qi Refinement, a member of the Black Water Mystic Snake family, a first-order sea monster.

“Iron Pillar, go kill it.”

Lu Li ordered Iron Pillar to attack.

Hearing the command, Iron Pillar immediately sprang forward as fast as lightning.

In just a moment, it was beside the giant snake, its massive tail raised and slammed directly onto the creature’s head.

“Thump”

Before it could react, Iron Pillar’s tail brutally smashed onto its head, instantly causing the skull to burst open, the blood staining the surrounding water red.

A moment later, the giant snake lay dead in the deep sea.

Lu Li collected the corpse and continued his search forward.

Not long after, they encountered a few more Black Water Mystic Snakes, each of which Iron Pillar killed one by one.

“It seems this is indeed the old nest of a group of Black Water Mystic Snakes. If nothing goes wrong, the Spirit Grass should be here.”

Lu Li gradually went deeper, the peculiar smell lingering constantly, and he already had some judgments in his heart.

He rode Iron Pillar and killed his way toward the opposition’s nest.

Before long, they arrived near a huge sea trench.

By this time, the ancestor of the Black Water Mystic Snakes had already received the news and swam over furiously with a group of subordinates.

Lu Li didn’t hesitate for a moment and directly ordered Iron Pillar to kill their way through.

“Roar…”

The Mystic Snake ancestor was furious, its eyes filled with murderous intent.

Two intruders rampaging within its clan’s territory had completely enraged it.

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It charged forward, with a group of its people rushing towards the front.

“Boom…”

With a loud collision, the Mystic Snake ancestor and Iron Pillar instantly clashed.

Just as they collided, the body of the Mystic Snake ancestor was forcefully pushed back, and fear filled its heart.

It had sensed a trace of Dragon Power coming from the other’s body.

Iron Pillar saw the opponent show a weakness and once again brought down its tail to smash at the adversary.

“Bang!”

Another loud noise, the Black Water Mystic Snake screamed in agony, as it was fiercely smashed onto the seabed riverbed.

All this happened in the blink of an eye.

The group of Black Water Mystic Snakes saw what happened and scattered in all directions.

Even their king had been defeated in an instant, which left them utterly terrified.

Strike the iron while it’s hot, Iron Pillar saw the other party was severely injured, and immediately pounced down fiercely, smashing it against a huge rock at the edge with its tail.

The rock was shattered into pieces, and the Black Water Mystic Snake ancestor lay motionless at the side.

It was clear it wouldn’t survive.

Lu Li stepped forward, killed it with a sword, and then took it into the demon refining pot.

After doing all this, he rode Iron Pillar and swam toward the Deep Sea Rift Valley.

It didn’t take long before they arrived near a giant fissure.

The more they swam inside, the more intense the odd scent became.

“It seems the Void Spirit Grass must be near here.”

And indeed, just as he had anticipated.

The two continued to wander forward, and before long, they saw a blue Spirit Grass growing within a fissure not far away.

The Spirit Grass was several inches tall with nine leaves, each leaf like a sharp sword, glowing with a bright luster.

Lu Li swam forward and quietly observed, noticing that the leaves were covered in twisted patterns.

A strong, pungent odor emerged in the sea.

This was indeed the Void Spirit Grass that the elder had spoken of.

It seemed that this scent was what could stimulate the hatching of the insect eggs; truly, the Great Thousand World was full of wonders.

Lu Li put it into his spirit plant bag and continued to swim forward.

Soon, he found another Void Spirit Grass.

In the following days, Lu Li, together with Iron Pillar, kept searching this rift for traces of Void Spirit Grass.

They gathered seven or eight Spirit Grasses in total and then prepared to return to the Spirit Turtle Cave Mansion.

This kind of Spirit Grass was rare to use and somewhat plentiful in quantity.

He mounted Iron Pillar and swam towards the Spirit Turtle basin.

………

Several days later, by the spirit field in the seabed cave mansion.

Lu Li looked at the several Spirit Grasses planted in the spirit field and nodded in satisfaction.

After watering them with some Spiritual Liquid, he went to the center of the clearing and began to sit in meditation for cultivation.

All he needed was to wait for these Spirit Grasses to mature before using them to incubate the insect eggs.

Time slowly passed, and it soon came to night.

Threads of moonlight shone around the cave, turning the entire cave mansion into a place that seemed like a fairyland.

Lu Li began to practice the Sacrificial Technique, surrounded by wisps of Moonlight, forming a huge Spirit Cocoon.

He felt a chilly sensation coming from inside his body, as his flesh began to slowly transform, with impurities also being expelled from his body.

After this period of cultivation, he felt he had made quite a lot of progress. It seemed that it wouldn’t take long before he could break through again.