Chapter 480 Golden Lotuses
Surrounding the stone tablet, the golden lotuses floating quietly on the lake were suddenly carried by some force, thirty in a row, and flew up. However, that force was interrupted, causing them to fall one by one from mid-air. Falling into the lake, and then resurfacing one by one.
"I knew you were going to rob him!" Bai Hui looked at Xi Ran proudly.
Xiran, who was wearing Juntian Sect's Taoist uniform, stood still, but the pressure on him became stronger and stronger.
Whether it's for experimentation or to gain an advantage, Xi Ran's current goal is to capture as many golden lotuses as possible.
On the other side, Ming Jing also sighed and took a step forward. This step happened to block Chan Ying's small movement.
"Leave some for us." Ming Jing seemed to be begging for mercy, but in fact he was full of spiritual power and refused to give in.
As for Donglin Jianmen? They looked resentfully in the direction where Guan Han disappeared, and finally managed to gather Guan Han and the others, but they ran off after the others without saying a word. Yu Rong, on the other hand, snatched a batch of golden lotuses and hid them in some corner.
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A small pond surrounded by oleander trees reflects the shadows of the colorful branches. At this moment, a pink and white figure suddenly shines into the light. Ningshuang in pink, and Rong Qing and Guanhan in white. The three of them, led by Rong Qing, landed next to the pond.
Blossoming golden lotuses fell on the pond.
"Why are you here?" Guanhan asked.
She replied: "Pure."
When Rong Qing asked Ningshuang to go with her, she also pulled Guanhan. Unexpectedly, Guanhan actually followed her. Although most of the reason is because Ningshuang followed him, Guanhan really had to follow him if he wanted to cultivate lotus seeds.
Guanhan was speechless, but he saw Rong Qing turning her head and calling Ningshuang, "Senior Brother."
As the words fell, a figure slowly appeared beside Ningshuang, quickly turning from virtual to real.
He is... Guanhan opened his eyes slightly, and then he realized: "Senior Zhizheng."
It turned out that what he sensed was not the mark of Ningshuang, but the mark of Zhizheng hidden in Ningshuang.
Zhizheng was not as indifferent to Guanhan as he was to Ningshuang, and his attitude was quite kind: "Thank you for taking care of my junior sister before."
Not only Rong Qing but also Ningshuang felt that she should use the word "care". Isn’t it mutually beneficial?
"I can't take care of you properly," Guan Han replied neither humble nor arrogantly: "Since I have received kindness from Yu Dao before, I naturally want to repay you."
"In terms of repayment, it has been paid off long ago." Chizheng said with a smile, and glanced at Rong Qing: "My junior sister does not trust others easily, and she likes to enjoy all the benefits to herself. She specially brought you with her, thinking that it would be right You are very trusting. Otherwise... you wouldn't have let me appear openly."
Guanhan's face was calm, and the roots of his ears covered by raven hair turned slightly red again.
Does she really... think so? Guan Han glanced quickly at Rong Qing.
But in her ears, she heard Rong Qing's muttering: "Obviously, senior brother, you figured it out on your own."
Even if Rong Qing did not specifically bring Guan Han along because of the relationship between a man and a woman, her emotional intelligence is not so low that she would refute vigorously in front of the person involved, making Guan Han and Zhi Zheng unable to step down.
So she wisely skirted the subject and brought them back to business.
"I snatched these golden lotuses and came here to prevent others from discovering the specialness of the mark on my hand."
Rong Qing opened her palms towards them, revealing the vine marks that looked like scars.
"This mark is special because it has no mark that matches it." Rong Qing blinked: "Because of this...it can cultivate lotus seeds in conjunction with all other marks."
"all?"
"Yes, everything. If fellow Taoist Ningshuang doesn't believe it, we can try it first."
Rong Qing was the first to tear off the mark on her hand and put it into one of the golden lotuses. And Ningshuang couldn't refuse, so she had to tear it off. Two different-looking marks fell into the golden lotus and were heavily wrapped by the folded petals. At the same time, Rong Qing and Ning Shuang steadily and patiently delivered spiritual power.
Time passed bit by bit. This golden lotus seemed unusually quiet, and Ningshuang had been quite nervous, but Rong Qing felt relieved because she saw the two spiritual powers merging and imprinting began to slowly gestate inside the golden lotus.
The thing that came out at the end... I just hope they don't get shocked.
"Done?"
"Yes." Rong Qing looked at Chi Zheng: "Senior brother?"
Chi Zheng understood that Rong Qing wanted him to try it too.
Without hesitation, he directly tore off the white velvet reed mark in his palm, and Rong Qing also tore off the mark that squirmed and grew again in his palm.
Dual-purpose. Rong Qing can still control the spiritual power input extremely finely.
Later, Guanhan joined in, and it became a three-purpose thing.
The three golden lotuses were several times larger than the ones next to them, and their petals showed different patterns.
The four of them stood or sat quietly, with part of their minds focused on the output of their spiritual power, and part of their minds alert to their surroundings.
In any case, Rong Qing was caught off guard and took away hundreds of golden lotuses at once. If the remaining people want to snatch the golden lotus, I am afraid that the first target will be Rong Qing.
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This is also true. The melee around the stone monument ended just as quickly as it started. The execution monks led by Xi Ran were far superior to the other four major sects, so they eventually won more golden lotuses.
There were fifty-two flowers, but they were incomparable to Rong Qing’s harvest.
A hill was created by Xi Ran, and then a cave was created with one palm, and he worked with a junior sister to quickly cultivate lotus seeds. Multitasking couldn't be easier for a cultivator. It is not a problem to supply the stable spiritual power required by fifty-two golden lotuses at the same time.
But for some reason, when they tried to breed the fifth one, they couldn't escape the fate of the furnace exploding. No matter how careful they were in controlling their spiritual power, or even using other golden lotuses, they could only give birth to four at the same time.
"Perhaps our pair of imprints only has the limit of four lotus seeds." Xi Ran couldn't help but guess.
In this way, the remaining golden lotus was wasted.
But let's just waste it, so as not to make it easier for others.
She designated half of the remaining executioners to guard the surrounding areas, while the other half was to investigate Rong Qing's whereabouts and collect information on other sects.
Xi Ran needs to know how many lotus seeds others can cultivate. Is four the upper limit for everyone, or just for them?
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Beside the pond surrounded by oleanders, there were six golden lotuses gestating in front of Rong Qing and others.
Like Xiran, they also tried to cultivate more lotus seeds. The combination of Rong Qing and the other three can only cultivate one. However, the combination of Zhizheng and Guanhan can cultivate three.
Why is this happening? Rong Qing blames the specialness of her mark.
And that's exactly what happened. Otherwise, why would she choose this mark? It is because this mark can be said to take advantage of everything. Rong Qing got it, which was equivalent to locking in half of the victory.
Although communication techniques are prohibited in this space, other methods are not restricted. With Zhi Zheng, the pinnacle of the Void Realm, taking action, many of the Zhi Zheng Realm monks who came to investigate simply turned a blind eye to the four of them and flew directly over from above.
An extremely peaceful day passed. Several heartbeats sounded within the bodies of the four people.
(End of chapter)