Plants vs. Cultivation.

Chapter 25: Damaged Array
The item that Gu Mo had his eyes on was a level 1 array plate, which was a prop for quickly setting up arrays, suitable for cultivators who did not understand array formations. Moreover, the array plate in front of him was engraved with two array formations, the illusion array and the defense array.

Unfortunately, this array plate is damaged, half of the array stones in the array plate are missing, and the array patterns on the array plate are also a bit incomplete, so only one of the illusion array and defense array can be activated.

However, the spirit stones required to activate the array disk have not decreased, which means that this array disk consumes the spirit stones of 2 arrays but can only operate 1 array.

This flaw was too fatal, resulting in the stall owner only offering a price of 1000 spirit stones for this array plate, which originally cost at least 200 spirit stones. If it weren't for the drawback of double consumption of spirit stones, this array plate could at least be worth four or five hundred spirit stones as an ordinary first-level array plate.

"100 Spiritual Stones for sale?"

After thinking for a moment, Gu Mo spoke.

The formation is Gu Mo's most urgent need at the moment besides concealing his secret cultivation technique, especially the illusion formation and defense formation on the formation plate, no matter which one is suitable for being arranged in the spiritual field.

It is the best formation to conceal the existence of sunflowers. In addition, the formation can also prevent spiritual insects and spiritual beasts from invading and eating the spiritual plants in the spiritual fields.

During this spiritual field planting, Gu Mo did not encounter many attacks from spiritual insects and spiritual beasts. The reason was very simple. The spiritual insects hidden in some of the spiritual fields that were not cultivated had long since run away. But after the spiritual fields that had been left uncultivated were resumed, the scent of the spiritual plants would attract spiritual insects and spiritual beasts.

Therefore, the spiritual fields planted by Gu Mo in the second season are likely to be eaten by spiritual insects and spiritual beasts. Although Gu Mo has the Gengjin sword energy to deal with spiritual insects and spiritual beasts, this will happen after the spiritual fields are eaten. The best way to deal with it is naturally to keep the spiritual insects and spiritual beasts out of the spiritual fields.

Formations are the best means of protecting spiritual fields. The large spiritual fields in the valley of Lingzhi Hall are protected by large formations. Once there is a serious insect or rodent plague, the formations in the valley will be activated to keep all the insects and rodents out, thus ensuring the safety of the spiritual plants in the valley.

Gu Mo's spiritual field is outside the valley and obviously cannot be protected by the large formation. If an insect plague or rat infestation really breaks out, there will be no harvest without any protective measures.

Compared with the serious consequence of getting nothing, the formation plate that consumes double the spirit stones is not unacceptable. After all, this should be the only formation plate that Gu Mo can afford at the moment.

In the shop belonging to the sect's formation peak, an ordinary level 1 formation plate requires 500 spirit stones, which is obviously unaffordable for Gu Mo.

"Do not sell!"

When the stall owner heard Gu Mo's bargaining, his fists instantly stiffened, but after seeing the Qinglu Sect's menial disciple robe on Gu Mo, he suppressed his anger and replied with two cold words.

Menial disciples are treated like cattle and horses in all the major sects, but compared to independent cultivators, menial disciples are still disciples. In this market town covered by the Qinglu Sect, independent cultivators will naturally not come into conflict with the sect's disciples.

"What about the 120 spirit stones?"

Gu Mo continued to ask tentatively, he really wanted this formation plate.

Seeing that Gu Mo really wanted it, the stall owner gave him 20 spirit stones as well. In the end, Gu Mo bought the array plate for 180 spirit stones.

The 360 ​​spirit stones he had just received were suddenly reduced by half, which made Gu Moton feel heartbroken, but he knew that this kind of expense must not be saved.

"I wonder if there is any second-hand magic weapon I can buy." After obtaining a second-hand broken array plate, Gu Mo was looking forward to whether he could get another second-hand magic weapon.

But Gu Mo soon gave up this unrealistic idea. There were second-hand magic weapons, but their prices were not much cheaper than new ones. There were also broken magic weapons, but no one would choose a broken one, as they were weapons that monks used to defend themselves against enemies.

Fighting with a defective magic weapon is just seeking death. As for repairing the broken magic weapon, the final price would be worse than just buying a new one.

I didn't find any cheap second-hand magic weapon, but I did get a formation plate this time, which is a small gain. I won't be at a loss when encountering insect plagues in the future.

"what?"

Just as Gu Mo was about to leave, he caught a glimpse of a stall selling spirit beasts. Of course, the stall only sold pseudo-spiritual beasts that had a chance to become spirit beasts. Among ordinary beasts, there was a small chance that some reversions or special mutations would appear. These were called pseudo-spiritual beasts by the monks, and they had the potential to become real spirit beasts.

Therefore, some independent cultivators would collect these pseudo-spiritual beasts in the mortal world and sell them in the market to earn spirit stones.

However, the pseudo-spiritual beasts that appeared on such stalls had basically been eliminated once, and those pseudo-spiritual beasts with excellent bloodlines had already been bought by others.

For example, the sect's Beast Taming Peak is the largest buyer of high-quality pseudo-spiritual beasts in the area. They buy these pseudo-spiritual beasts and cultivate them into real spirit beasts through some special secret methods, which makes a lot of money.

You should know that the combat power of a real first-level spirit beast is definitely not worse than that of a cultivator in the Qi Refining period. If a cultivator has a spirit beast, his combat power will be doubled.

The price of doubling the combat power is doubling the resources consumed. The cost of training a spirit beast is no less than that of a cultivator of the same level. Only the extremely wealthy dare not touch such a luxury as a spirit beast.

Gu Mo can barely support himself now, so he naturally has no plans to raise a spirit beast. However, the price of the fake spirit beasts at the stall is indeed very cheap.

The possibility of these screened pseudo-spiritual beasts becoming real spiritual beasts is extremely low, so the selling price is very cheap, and you can buy one for three or five spirit stones.

This price brought up a hidden thought in Gu Mo's heart again. After obtaining the essence of the sun, Gu Mo had always had an idea in his mind that the essence of the sun could improve his own cultivation speed, so whether it could also work for other people.

It is absolutely impossible to find a monk to experiment with. The essence of the sun is Gu Mo's biggest secret. If it is a spiritual beast that he can fully control, it is definitely worth a try.

If it works, training a spiritual beast will definitely be a great boost to Gu Mo's combat power.

"My dear brother, look at this spirit beast. It contains a trace of the bloodline of the Howling Moon Wolf." Seeing that Gu Mo was interested in the fake spirit beast on his stall, the stall owner began to introduce it enthusiastically.

"It's okay if you don't like this. Look, this red sparrow is said to be a descendant of the mythical beast Vermillion Bird." Seeing that Gu Mo was not interested in the big dog he introduced, the stall owner quickly pointed to a red sparrow in the cage.

Gu Mo ignored the stall owner's nagging. This kind of rhetoric couldn't even fool a child. But you really couldn't refute the other party. Howling Moon Wolf was the ancestor of wolves, and Vermillion Bird was the king of birds. You were not wrong to say that this big dog and the red sparrow contained their blood.

Anyway, it's just an experiment, so you can choose any pseudo-spiritual beast.

After taking a quick look at the pseudo-spiritual beasts on the stall, Gu Mo's eyes were fixed on a red koi the size of his forearm in a basin. It wasn't that this red koi was special, it was just a pseudo-spiritual beast of the water system.

Most of the water-based spirit beasts can master the Little Cloud Rain Technique, which is the spirit beast version of the Little Cloud Rain Technique. If this experiment is successful and Gu Mo cultivates a water-based spirit beast, then Gu Mo will not have to use the Little Cloud Rain Technique to water the spirit field every day, and can completely leave this job to the spirit beast.

In this way, even if Gu Mo leaves for a few days, he doesn't have to worry about the spiritual field being left unattended.

“Brother, you have good vision. This koi contains the blood of a real dragon. Once it jumps over the dragon gate…” Seeing Gu Mo’s eyes sweeping towards the red koi in the basin, the stall owner hurriedly introduced it to Gu Mo.

"How much?"

Gu Mo interrupted the stall owner.

"3 spirit stones!"

Seeing that Gu Mo really wanted to buy, the stall owner naturally shut his mouth and made a very concise offer. The reason he was talking so much was just to sell these fake spirit beasts that no one wanted.

(End of this chapter)