Chapter 82: Mountain Flowers in Full Bloom
Chapter 82: Mountain Flowers in Full Bloom
She seems to have... forgotten something very important.
Her master used to treat her so well, but she could never seem to remember what he looked like. Whenever she tried to recall his face, it was always very blurry.
She remembered that the Hall of Masters had portraits of the past sect leaders and founders, and portraits of people who were significant to the Xuanshan Sect would also be there. Her master should be among them.
It seems she has another task to complete. I'll go check on her again tomorrow.
Having searched half the valley without catching anything, Liu Xingxing looked at the increasingly dark sky and decided to give up and return to her Qiwu Peak.
Just then, a faint floral fragrance drifted through the air. Liu Xingxing looked closely and saw large patches of white flowers below.
Unbeknownst to her, her leaves drifted above the flowerbed. The white oleanders covering the hillside seemed to have been hidden by something. By chance, she broke through the mechanism, and the flowerbed suddenly appeared in front of her.
Liu Xingxing was so startled by the sudden scene that she forgot to breathe. The vast expanse of white snow was even more breathtaking when viewed from above. However, the increasingly strong floral fragrance in the air brought her back to her senses, and she suddenly realized that this place must have been hidden by some kind of formation. She had only entered by accident.
"No wonder I couldn't find it after searching for so long..."
Liu Xingxing murmured to herself, lightly leaped to the ground and put away her magic weapon. She then took out a light-emitting bead, poured some spiritual energy into it, and threw it into the air. Only then could she clearly see the whole scene.
This place is indeed still in the river valley, but due to the presence of an unknown formation, it appears completely normal from the outside, like an independent place.
Over thousands of years, oleander has grown from a small plant to a plant that now covers the mountains and fields, making it difficult to find other plants.
Moreover, no one has taken care of them over the years, and each tree has grown several times taller than the ordinary ones, with very messy branches, yet they look strangely harmonious.
The fragrance of flowers in the air grew stronger and stronger, mixed with the smell of decaying fallen petals and leaves. If an ordinary person were to take a whiff of this, they would probably be poisoned and die instantly.
The scenery, though beautiful, is like a poisonous swamp after thousands of years of sedimentation. Moreover, the spiritual energy here is quite rich; even ordinary plants planted here for so long should have grown into spiritual plants by now.
This ordinary poison has evolved into a deadly poison. Even people with cultivation levels who enter this place might be poisoned if their cultivation level is too low. No wonder an array has been set up to isolate them.
Even someone like Liu Xingxing, who had stayed here for a long time, could feel her skin being eroded, though it was practically nothing, but she still sensed it.
Liu Xingxing wandered aimlessly for a while, and memories of this place slowly surfaced.
As if guided by something, we followed the path that had long since disappeared to the left and made our way there.
She remembered that there was indeed a road here, but now it was overgrown with bushes.
With a wave of her hand, Liu Xingxing cleared away all the weeds on the road, revealing a wide avenue. As Liu Xingxing looked into the distance, she saw a slightly dilapidated wooden house at the end of the road, and memories began to flood her mind.
"Little Willow, isn't this house your master built beautiful? We can move in once it's finished. We're still missing a few pieces of wood; could you find some more for your master?"
"Why not use magic? It's definitely more fun to build it yourself!"
Touching the wood on the wooden house, the memories become clearer.
Oleanders grow everywhere, but they don't grow in this particular spot around the house. This gives the surrounding wildflowers and weeds a chance to breathe; otherwise, only oleanders would be growing.
Liu Xingxing slowly walked into the house, which was very simple and sparsely furnished. There was a low table, a tea-making tool, a few hanging pots and pans, and two bedrooms with only wooden beds remaining. It looked just like an old, dilapidated house that had been abandoned for many years.
There wasn't much dust; you could run your fingertip through it and it wouldn't stick. It just had a musty, dusty smell. The items were still very sturdy, and the tea set and chairs showed no signs of decay.
Liu Xingxing gently opened the wooden door. She didn't know whose bedroom it was, but the lighting was quite good. There was a wooden spherical ornament on the bedside table, which was covered with a light layer of dust.
Liu Xingxing brushed the dust off the ornament and examined it by the dim light of the beads on the outside.
The sphere is only the size of a palm, but it is exquisitely carved. It has three layers from the outside to the inside, and it is also carved with flowers. The details of the flowers are also carved very realistically, which must have taken a lot of effort.
After staring at it for a while, Liu Xingxing felt that it looked somewhat familiar. Suddenly, she took out the incense ball she had been playing with earlier and compared the two together.
"No wonder it looked familiar."
The two items are about the same size, and the incense ball is also carved with three layers, and the pattern...
Holy crap, it looks exactly the same!
Liu Xingxing twitched the corner of her mouth, took it closer and looked at it carefully. It was indeed the same kind of flower, except that the flower on the ornament was half open, while the flower on the incense ball was fully open, and even the direction of the carved patterns was exactly the same.
I don't know what kind of flowers are carved, and I've never seen such a color before.
"What a coincidence?"
She just grabbed something to play with, and it turns out there's a matching one! ∑(°Д°)!
This thing is obviously not made by her. Liu Jun never carves anything. It must have been made by her cheap master.
But why does she have the exact same thing here? Could it also be a gift from her master?
But she has absolutely no memory of this thing.
Moreover, this incense ball has no use whatsoever; it just always emits a faint fragrance, but there's nothing inside. It must be the fragrance emanating from its own material, which is why Liu Xingxing calls it an incense ball.
Why would her master give her this piece of junk? And why was it thrown into a corner and left unattended? She only found it by accident.
After thinking for a while but not finding a reason, he became too lazy to bother with it anymore. Just as he was about to put the things down, he paused again, thinking that he should put them back into his space along with the incense ball.
After looking around and seeing nothing particularly special, I walked out of the room.
She didn't have many memories of this place; her master and she would only stay here for a day or two occasionally.
Liu Xingxing wandered around the house for a while longer, but didn't find anything else that caught her eye, so she left the house.
The strong fragrance of flowers outside immediately wafted in again, which meant that there must have been an isolation array set up inside the house, otherwise how could one not smell the outside smell at all after entering?
However, she couldn't sense the existence of the formation at all. Just like the large formation outside, it was probably set up by her master.
As expected, her master was her master; even she couldn't sense the slightest trace of the array.
Gazing at the boundless expanse of pure white and emerald green outside, Liu Xingxing pondered for a moment, then channeled her spiritual power into the air. The vast sky was instantly filled with dazzling light, filling the entire space. The pervasive odor in the air was quickly burned away, while the trees below remained completely unharmed.
The light faded, and the sky darkened again, leaving only the faint glow of the illuminating bead in mid-air.
The heavy, lingering aroma of a thousand years has been burned away, leaving only the fragrance of the freshest sweet apricot blossoms, which is much more pleasant.
Liu Xingxing stayed there for nearly an hour before leaving. Before leaving, she repaired the wooden house again, but only with magic. She also cleared away some oleanders to leave room for other creatures to breed. Then she flew away on her magic artifact.
It was nearly 9 PM when we returned to Qiwu Peak. The moon was high in the sky, and the early summer night sky was very clear, with many stars visible. The younger ones must have gone to rest, as the courtyard was very quiet.
Liu Xingxing was in high spirits at the moment, so she wandered around aimlessly and unknowingly walked to the open space at the edge of the cliff.
The big tree on the cliff is lush and green, and the stream flows year-round. Standing on the cliff, you can enjoy a panoramic view of the scenery below.
All was quiet, the moonlit night was lonely, and the evening breeze brushed past my ears, making me unable to resist being immersed in it.
"A beauty under the moon, what a sight! Absolutely wonderful!"
"Who?!"
Liu Xingxing sharply looked in the direction from which the sound came, and in a flash, she appeared in front of the person, floating in mid-air and looking down at him.
"Who dares to trespass on my territory!"
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