Chapter 169: The Hidden Scale Fish Killed for Thousand Years
The Shuilin Jiao remained calm and motionless. The young monk stared at it. Lu Xuan adjusted his breathing and took out the cracking silver blade.
The short silver-white sword blade slowly penetrated into the water lin’s abdomen.
Although Shuilin Jiao is a second-grade dragon, its abdomen is not protected by scale armor, and it is not known for its defense. Therefore, it is not very laborious to penetrate with a first-grade silver-splitting blade.
Lu Xuan firmly held the hilt of the silver-white cracked silver blade, and slowly but firmly made a cut.
Immediately, his spiritual sense penetrated into it and searched every muscle and bone very carefully.
“Found you.”
Somewhere in Shuilin Jiao’s body, although it looked the same as flesh and blood, his spiritual consciousness felt a slight abnormality. He made a prompt decision and controlled the small group of abnormal objects. Before it could react, he quickly jumped out of Shuilin. Take it out from the body of the dragon.
A strange fish appears on the ground.
The strange fish is about one foot long, with a slender body and a translucent shape. There is only a black lateral line in the body, and there is a huge, almost transparent suction cup on its head.
“What is this?”
“There are indeed other monsters in the dragon’s body. Junior Brother Lu is really dazzling.”
The monks nearby saw the strange fish coming out of the water dragon and started talking about it.
Lu Xuan didn’t say anything. He took out a piece of monster meat from the bucket next to him and placed it in front of the strange fish.
The strange fish seemed to have found a chance to survive, its body swayed, and it penetrated into the flesh of the monster like a stream of water.
“If I find you the first time, I will naturally find you the second time.”
Lu Xuan snorted coldly and easily pulled the strange fish out of the monster’s flesh.
The reason why he took out the monster meat was to prove to other monks that the fish had the ability to possess and parasitize, and to take advantage of this opportunity to learn more about the strange fish.
A thought flashed through his mind.
[The Hidden Scale Fish is a first-grade monster with weak attack power. It is good at hiding itself in the water. It is non-toxic and edible. 】
【Usually parasitized among water monsters, during its larval period, the hatched Cryptoscale Fish will find opportunities to get into the back door of the monster, silently integrating with the monster’s body, and absorbing the essence of the monster’s flesh and blood. 】
“Huh???”
When Lu Xuan saw this message for the first time, he couldn’t help but be stunned.
“Junior Brother Lu, what is this strange fish? How did such a big fish get inside the dragon’s body?”
Although a few people nearby are also raising dragons and giant pythons in Qianlong Lake, for them, cultivation is still the first priority. Raising dragons is just a way to earn sword seals.
Therefore, on the journey of spiritual beasts, I did not have much in-depth understanding.
Lu Xuan paused, and finally decided to tell the truth.
“This strange fish is called the Hidden Scale Fish. I have read about it in a certain book. It usually lives in the bodies of water monsters and feeds on the essence of their flesh and blood.”
“As for the way to enter the body of the monster…”
“As far as I know, it was entered through the back door of the monster.”
Everyone had doubts on their faces. Looking at the cryptid fish still struggling **** the ground, they all felt a tightness behind them.
“But why weren’t we discovered? We have raised these dragon pythons since they were young, and we occasionally check their physical condition, but we have never found any trace of this strange fish.”
A monk asked in confusion.
“It’s very simple. The concealment ability of this hidden scale fish is extremely strong. It is almost integrated with the dragon. Only at close range and slowly searching bit by bit with spiritual sense can we detect their traces.”
“As for the dragons, although they know in their hearts that essence and blood are slowly flowing out of their bodies, they cannot detect their existence because of the parasitic ability of the crypto-scale fish.”
Lu Xuan answered the monk very patiently.
“Junior Brother Lu, I still have one last doubt, and I would like to ask Junior Brother to help me clear it up.”
“How much harm will this parasitic crypto-scale fish in the dragon’s body cause to the dragon?”
The people next to him pricked up their ears in unison and focused on Lu Xuan. This was also the issue they were most concerned about deep down.
After all, every monk present has at least dozens of dragon pythons in his hands. If the dragons under his command are seriously injured because of this hidden scale fish, they will not be able to carry them around.
“The harm is not very great. The most important thing is that it will affect the growth of the dragon, and it will not be life-threatening.”
Lu Xuan answered affirmatively.
This answer also made everyone feel relieved.
The young monk removed the golden ring on the body of the water dragon. The pale white dragon was filled with a faint spiritual light, covering the wound left by Lu Xuan.
After treating himself, Shuilin Jiao looked in the direction of Lu Xuan and growled at him with gratitude.
Lu Xuan watched it disappear into the water, came to his senses, and continued to draw blood and explore the remaining dragon python.
There was simply no sign of the new Hidden Scale Fish among the dragons behind, which made the young monk next to him relax a lot.
“Thank you for your hard work this time, Junior Brother Lu.”
He handed Lu Xuan a black cloth bag, which was bulging with many spiritual stones.
“Brother, you’re welcome.”
“Although the Hidden Scale Fish has been discovered by me, there is no guarantee that it won’t be hiding something else, so I have to bring the dragon essence and blood back to the cave to study it carefully.”
Lu Xuan gave a few instructions, took the bag with a smile, and weighed it imperceptibly. With his rich experience, he suddenly felt that the weight in his hand was not consistent with the number of spiritual stones that the monk had brought up before. It was obviously heavier.
He put the cloth bag into the storage bag.
“Junior Brother Lu, help me take a look first!”
“Junior brother, look at me, look at me, the dragon I manage is closest to here.”
“Brothers, don’t worry, we will take a good look at it.”
Lu Xuan said gently.
The double temptation of spiritual stones and dragon essence and blood makes it impossible for him not to go!
He randomly selected a monk and, in his ecstatic expression, headed to the water where the monk was.
The first time is fresh, the second time is familiar. With the previous experience, the speed of blood test is a little faster than before.
Among the dozens of dragon and giant pythons, I found no abnormality in any of them.
Lu Xuan rushed to the other house without stopping.
This scene fell into the eyes of everyone, thinking that he was concerned about the safety of the spirit beasts raised by his fellow disciples, and they were all moved, and any unhappiness they had before completely disappeared.
In the past, Lu Xuan took blood tests from all the dragon pythons with high intensity and frequency. Among them, a total of eight dragon pythons were parasitized by the hidden scale fish.
Whenever an abnormal situation is discovered, the monk behind him will take the initiative to increase Lu Xuan’s reward and give him more spiritual stones.
There was more and more dragon essence and blood in Lu Xuan’s storage bag, and the bottles and jars were piled up together, almost forming a hill.
“Junior Brother Lu, what do you think about these hidden-scale fish?”
When the last dragon was drained, all the dragons in the water area were drained by Lu Xuan.
“It should be that a certain dragon caught from the outside has hidden scale fish in its body, and then it is raised behind Qianlong Lake, grows and reproduces at the bottom of the lake, and slowly selects the dragon to be parasitized.”
Lu Xuan guessed.
(End of this chapter)