Plants vs. Cultivation.

Chapter 152: Entangling Waterweed
Hongshan Islands, Hongyi Island.

The elders of the Hongshan Islands Alliance gathered again at this moment, but this time the elders gathered together not to discuss the matter of sacrifice, which has become history. Everyone is now discussing the distribution of elixirs.

Everyone used spiritual medicines to exchange for a lot of level 1 and level 2 pills from Gu Mo, especially the level 2 pills, which were very attractive to the elders in the foundation-building stage present.

Normally they don't have any elixirs to assist them in their cultivation, but now there are high-quality level 2 elixirs. Everyone is eager to try them out, thinking of finding some tragic excuse to get more.

"The distribution plan of the elixir this time will be determined by the quantity and quality of the sacrifices provided by each family before." Shi Yunjie glanced at everyone.

The tributes paid over the past decade or so had caused considerable losses to each family, so Shi Yunjie gave priority to compensating those forces that had suffered the greatest losses.

No one had any objection to Shi Yunjie's plan. After all, other plans would be difficult to gain everyone's approval.

"Oh, what kind of elixir is that? Can you let me take a look at it?" Just as everyone was discussing the elixir distribution plan, suddenly, a voice sounded.

Hearing this, everyone was shocked, and then a figure appeared on the scene. This person was 8 feet tall, but had a fair face, but there were many scales on his fair face, and it was obvious that he was not a human monk.

But for a demon beast to transform, it must be at least a 4th-level demon king. The aura of this person is obviously not right. Excluding the above possibilities, the only possibility is that this person is a half-demon.

A half-demon in the Jindan realm.

"Meet Master Xuanshui!"

Seeing the person coming, Shi Yunjie quickly stood up and saluted. This person was the Jindan Zhenren who they had hired at a great price to suppress the giant lizard. In the end, the other party reached an agreement with the giant lizard, and in exchange for the Hongshan Islands paying tribute every year, the giant lizard stopped attacking.

"Has the giant lizard ever violated the contract over the years?" Xuanshui Zhenren glanced at the storage bag on Shi Yunjie's body, raised his hand to beckon it, and probed his spiritual sense into it. Soon, he saw a large number of pills.

Seeing this, Xuanshui Zhenren was shocked. Where did so many elixirs come from in the Hongshan Islands? Fortunately, he came. If they waited a little longer, the strength of the cultivators in the Hongshan Islands would be improved to a higher level because of these elixirs.

The Hongshan Islands are his pig farm. Master Xuanshui does not want those pigs to become stronger, otherwise it would cost him a lot of effort.

As a half-demon, Xuanshui Zhenren is well aware of the terrifying power of the human race. Although the strength of each individual is extremely fragile, there will always be one or two monsters among them who will become strong at a terrifying speed.

For this reason, Master Xuanshui came up with a method of paying tribute, in order to cut off the appearance of the monstrous-level genius in the Hongshan Islands. However, he never expected that the genius did not appear, but an alchemist did.

This alchemist is more terrifying than a genius. A genius is only stronger than himself, but an alchemist can drive the improvement of the overall strength of the monks in the entire Hongshan Islands.

At this moment, Xuanshui Zhenren already had murderous intent in his heart, and he must kill that alchemist.

"Reporting to Master Xuanshui, the evil creature has been killed by a Jindan Master who is traveling here, and the elixir is also a reward from that Master." Shi Yunjie suppressed his anger at having his storage bag casually probed and bowed in response.

"What did you say!"

Shi Yunjie's words made Xuanshui Zhenren look surprised. The giant lizard was his most capable subordinate. It appeared here to cooperate with him in acting, but in the process of acting, it actually lost its life.

"So that's how it is. Then I would like to go meet this friend." Master Xuanshui controlled his emotions and spoke in a calm tone. While he was speaking, his figure disappeared.

Black fog space.

Gu Mo looked at the blind box displayed on the vending machine and prayed silently in his heart. Then, Gu Mo put in 300 portions of sun essence and clicked to open it.

Soon the blind box turned into three icons. Gu Mo glanced over and his face immediately brightened. This time, there were three duplicates in the blind box.

Ever since the vending machine was fully revealed and the function of opening blind boxes and obtaining new plants appeared, Gu Mo would come to open it from time to time.

Afterwards, Gu Mo fell into a big trap. This blind box not only produced the plants that Gu Mo already had, but it even produced three identical plants once. Gu Mo almost thought that there would be three upgraded plants in a row.

"I don't believe it. After so many times of not shipping, there should be a minimum guarantee." Gu Mo invested another 300 portions of Sun Essence. Fortunately, these were only Level 1 Sun Essence, and using these Sun Essences would not affect Gu Mo's practice.

Moreover, Gu Mo has already increased the number of level 1 sunflowers to 300. Basically, Gu Mo can open a blind box every day. Of course, the actual situation is not that frequent. After all, Gu Mo still has to use the essence of the sun to buy new plants.

Now Gu Mo has not yet filled up the lake formed by the third-level water vein, and he needs to buy more plants.

"Hmm? It's shipped!"

While Gu Mo's thoughts were wandering, the blind box opened and three icons appeared. Two of them looked very familiar, belonging to plants that Gu Mo already owned, but the other one was a little strange. Immediately, Gu Mo was cheered up.

Name: Tangled waterweed.

Grade: 1th grade, lower grade.

Effect: Entangles nearby enemies.

Planting conditions: water area.

"Not bad!"

Gu Mo looked at the new plant, an aquatic plant. If it was before, it might not be of any use to Gu Mo, but now that Gu Mo was on the island, this aquatic plant was obviously of great use.

And this should be Gu Mo's first plant that can trap enemies, and its price is the same as the potato mine, which is 25 pieces of solar essence.

As for the specific effects, it is obviously impossible to understand the true power of the entangled water plants just by looking at the introduction that cannot be simpler. The only way is to try it out yourself.

Spending 100 portions of solar essence, Gu Mo bought four seeds of entangled water grass, then left the black fog space and went directly to the outside of the island.

As for why the experiment was not conducted in a lake with a level 3 water vein, it was naturally to make it easier to find monsters to test the power of the entangled water plants.

There were no monsters in the water vein lake. The giant lizard that occupied the water vein before would naturally not allow other monsters to approach and compete for the water vein's spiritual energy. Now that the water vein was occupied by Gu Mo, without the aura of the 3rd-level sea monster, some low-level sea monsters approached, but without exception, they were killed by Shi Yuwei.

This is an opportunity for the little girl to gain practical experience. If she encounters a monster she cannot defeat, Shi Yuwei only needs to run to the cottage by the lake and enter the warning range of the plant front. Then her pea shooter will launch an attack and kill the approaching siren.

Standing on the beach of the island, Gu Mo threw out a seed entangled with waterweed. The seed quickly took root and sprouted in the water, and eventually turned into a mess of waterweed. Gu Mo carefully explored the waterweed with his spiritual sense. If it was not thrown by him, Gu Mo would not even notice it. Its concealment is comparable to that of the potato mine, and both are at a level that cannot be detected by spiritual sense.

If the entangled water plants are placed among rocks or other seaweed, the concealment will be further improved.

After verifying the camouflage performance of the entangled water plants, the next step is to test the ability of the entangled water plants to trap enemies. Gu Mo's spiritual sense swept to the farther sea area and soon locked onto a level 1 fish mermaid.

Use bait to lure the level 1 siren to the vicinity of the entangled water plants. In an instant, the clump of water plants instantly spread out, and the vines turned into a big net, trapping the siren.

Faced with the sudden attack, the mermaid struggled frantically, but unfortunately she was unable to break free from the restraints.

Seeing that it was so easy to entangle the water plants, Gu Mo prepared to test the limit of the entangled water plants. Following Gu Mo's instructions, the water plants that bound the fish and mermaids quickly shrank and turned into a mess again.

“Oh, it can be reused.”

Seeing this, Gu Mo nodded secretly. Compared with the potato mines, the entangled water plants could only trap the enemy but not kill it. However, being able to reuse it made Gu Mo very satisfied.

If you just want the entangled water plants to work again, you need to let them absorb enough spiritual energy, which means that there is an interval between the uses of the entangled water plants.

However, in a water vein with abundant spiritual energy, this interval should be very short, otherwise it will be longer.

Thinking of this, Gu Mo threw another seed of the entangled water grass, preparing to conduct a new experiment. He let the previous one slowly absorb the spiritual power of the sea to recover.

"It's you!"

Gu Mo explored the sea with his spiritual sense and soon found a peak level 1 sea monster. He prepared to use it to test the limits of the entangled water plants.

"Bang bang bang!"

Gu Mo looked at the vines of water plants that were constantly breaking apart, and made a rough judgment on the limit of this entangled water plant in his mind. The lower-grade entangled water plants of level 1 could entangle a peak level 1 siren for a short period of time, which was already considered extremely powerful.

If the entangled water plants were upgraded, trapping a peak level 1 Siren would be no problem.

At this time, Gu Mo felt that the first entwined water grass was full of spiritual power and could attack again. With a thought, he issued an attack order to it. Immediately, the first entwined water grass vine spread out and quickly approached the first-level peak sea monster that was about to break free, and entangled it.

The two entangled water plants worked together to entangle the peak level 1 sea monster that was about to escape. Seeing this, Gu Mo's eyes lit up. This means that the entangled water plants can make up for the lack of strength through quantity.

If he could get a few level 3 entangled water plants, could he trap a cultivator who had reached the Great Perfection of the Golden Core? Although entangled water plants could only trap the enemy but not kill him, as long as he trapped the enemy, he could always slowly find a way to kill him.

That is, the entanglement water plants can only be placed in water. If the enemy does not enter the water or is close to the water surface, it is difficult for the entanglement water plants to be effective.

However, it should be very effective against sirens living in the sea.

After grabbing the trapped Level 1 Peak Siren, Gu Mo was about to take it back and cook it into seafood. Suddenly, Gu Mo paused and looked into the distance.

Just now, Gu Mo felt a special third-level demonic power flash by.

"Is there a level 3 sirens eyeing the water veins here?" Gu Mo raised his eyebrows. The level 3 water veins here would attract some level 3 sirens who had no territory. Gu Mo was mentally prepared for this.

Human cultivators need spiritual veins and training grounds, and demon beasts naturally need them as well. Therefore, every treasure land containing spiritual energy will attract many eyes. Unless the cultivator or demon beast occupying this spiritual land is powerful enough to intimidate all parties, it will be possible to prevent prying eyes.

Gu Mo, who had just arrived here, obviously did not have such deterrent power.

But Gu Mo really hopes that a level 3 sea monster will come over so that he can practice. Now Gu Mo has top-grade attack magic weapons, top-grade defense magic weapons, the wind escape technique, and two powerful sword techniques, the Sky-Slashing and Sword Returning. Combined with his golden elixir-level physique, soul and the golden elixir power hidden in his body, his combat power is not weak even in the early golden elixir realm.

It is no exaggeration to say that except for the fact that his real realm is foundation building, everything else about Gu Mo is the configuration of a Jindan cultivator, and a high-level one at that.

With such combat power, if a Level 3 early stage siren comes, Gu Mo can kill it with his own combat power without using any plants.

If combined with the plant front in the lake, Gu Mo would not be afraid of a mid-level 3rd-stage siren. Unless it was a late-level 3rd-stage siren, Gu Mo could escape into the plant front if he couldn't defeat it. Facing the ironclad plant front, a late-level 3rd-stage siren couldn't do anything to Gu Mo.

Especially now that Gu Mo has the entangled water plants, he can completely trap the peak level 3 siren. Even if he can't kill the peak level 3 siren, it is enough for Gu Mo to escape.

Having mastered the art of wind escape, Gu Mo is absolutely confident in his running speed.

Unfortunately, the breath of the 3rd level siren disappeared very quickly and it did not come over to kill us directly. However, the 3rd level siren discovered this place and would probably not give up.

Just wait quietly, the opponent will definitely show up again. Gu Mo is not in a hurry anyway. The longer the time drags on, the stronger Gu Mo's fighting power will become.

If the third-level sea monster had dragged on for a few more years, Gu Mo might have become a true Jindan cultivator.

On a deserted island far away from the island where Gu Mo was, Master Xuanshui frowned. He had just explored the place with level 3 water veins from afar.

He could no longer sense the breath of the giant lizard, and then he saw a human cultivator, but Master Xuanshui could not see through the human cultivator's true realm.

This made him quickly change his original plan of killing his men directly to avenge them. Xuanshui Zhenren always claimed that he was not a brainless guy like the monsters. It was a manifestation of wisdom to plan carefully and then kill the enemy at the lowest cost.

He is a half-demon, but he can live to this day and become a Jindan Zhenren, relying not only on his ruthlessness and decisiveness, but also on his wisdom. Therefore, Zhenren Xuanshui will not rashly attack an enemy that he cannot see through, as this will easily lead to failure.

And since the other party dares to travel around alone, he is obviously not a weak person, because being weak is not called traveling, that is called delivering food.

But he had to get rid of this human cultivator, as he had already hindered his grand plan. The humans on the Hongshan Islands were all raised by him as gifts for Lord Chisha's millennium birthday. They were the key to whether he could make further progress.

"Got it. It seems that General Jinzhao in the south has a son who is looking for a spiritual land to break through to the third level. We can spread this news." Master Xuanshui had an idea.

Although Master Xuanshui himself attaches great importance to the tier-3 water veins created by the changes in the earth veins, he knows the priorities of things, and Lord Chisha's millennium birthday is the most important thing at the moment.

(End of this chapter)