kingnovel Chapter 524 - 290: Bitter Leaf Seeds Snatched Back by Guan Yuexi (Part 2)
Chapter 524 - 290: Bitter Leaf Seeds Snatched Back by Guan Yuexi (Part 2)
"In the selection of disciples for the Array Dao Holy Land of the Ancient Immortal Dynasty, each is chosen from a myriad.
"But now in this dream-like immortal cultivation, there’s no choice for the disciples.
"It’s highly likely that this boy is the kind of fool that the Holy Land stumbled upon after suffering misfortune for generations!"
In the Book Pavilion Holy Land, Stone Book Ancient Immortal held a phone, watching videos and analyzing with Mo Lanyou.
Mo Lanyou nodded, deeply in agreement.
"Master, here in our Book Pavilion Holy Land, we have so many documents. Are there any records on the Earth Element Festival or the Array Kingdom?"
Stone Book Ancient Immortal pondered for a moment, pointing to a bookshelf behind him.
"On this bookshelf, every scroll is related to the Array Kingdom.
"However, if you’re looking for things related to the Earth Element Festival... or the Ghost Gate Festival, then you’ll only find some folk legends, which aren’t reliable and can’t be taken seriously."
Mo Lanyou asked.
"Then the reliable ones? Do we have any?"
Stone Book Ancient Immortal explained.
"Of course we do.
"Our Book Pavilion Holy Land has preserved nearly all the secret histories of the Ancient Immortal Dynasty.
"There are even upper tier immortal artifacts that have operated for millions of years, observantly noting the changes in myths across the world."
Mo Lanyou didn’t quite understand.
Changes in world myths?
What in the world is that?
He wasn’t too concerned; he only wanted information on the Ghost Gate Festival.
"Master, then let’s first find out the secret histories and take a look! Let’s look at the secret histories of the Ghost Gate Festival! Where are the secret histories?"
Stone Book Ancient Immortal smiled bitterly.
"I don’t know either.
"The secret histories of the Immortal Dynasty and the myth observations are indeed in our dream realm.
"But they are all hidden away.
"Without the emergence of the Celestial Palace, the secret histories will not be revealed, nor will the records of myth observations appear.
"Those things belong to the heir of the Celestial Palace, not to us. We have no control over them, no right to read them, and indeed... cannot even find them."
Mo Lanyou furrowed his brows, feeling a nameless rage inside.
"Damn!
"What kind of nonsense is this Celestial Palace heir, where is he exactly?
"Why hasn’t he appeared yet?"
...
Under the dark clouds, amidst the raging wind, the smoke in Fox Mountain’s cafeteria hadn’t completely dissipated.
Around small stone tables sat chubby little red foxes, eating breakfast.
"Ying ying ying?"
Peach Blossom Eyes held up a small spoon, looking at the plate, unsure of where to start with this breakfast.
The breakfast on the plate turned out to include yellow corn kernels, purple fish algae, brown iron apricot leaves, green seaweed, white rice... forming a colorful big round plate of ten colors and flavors.
"Awo awo awo!"
Beside the Snow Exploration Claw, proudly holding a small spoon, demonstrated to Peach Blossom Eyes how to eat.
It used the small spoon to scoop a thin layer of the first color into its mouth, then scooped a thin layer of the second color into its mouth... In this way, no matter how it eats, the plate’s design would remain unchanged!
"Ying ying ying!"
Beside it, the Wind Chasing Claw had a peculiar expression, demonstrating its own eating method to Snow Exploration Claw.
It used the small spoon to blend the ten colors together, mixing them evenly into a big plate of assorted dish, randomly scooping a spoonful into its mouth, lifting its head in bliss, squinting eyes, a face full of happiness!
The surrounding fellow disciples all cast their gaze over.
Looking at the messy mixture in Wind Chasing Claw’s plate, they were somewhat disdainful... even foxes appreciate aesthetics!
But seeing Wind Chasing Claw lift its head, radiantly happy, they silently raised their small spoons and also mixed the ten-colored rice in their own plates evenly... After all, it’s food that will enter the mouth, the design will ultimately be ruined sooner or later, whether sooner or later, what difference does it make?
On the other side, Bai Mo noticed the movements of his disciples, seeing more and more of them mixing their rice evenly. He smiled pursed-lip, mixed the rice on his own plate evenly while eating, carefully observing the seed gifted by Guan Yuexi.
"What kind of thing is this?
"I’ve never seen it before.
"Is it important?
"Shouldn’t it be planted?
"What’s the best way to plant it?"
...
"Two hundred days, has it finally been planted?"
In the Dark World, at a conference table, a white-haired boy dressed in a hoodie accepted a box handed by the King of Darkness.
He opened the box, seeing dozens of leaves inside, reaching in to gently rub them.
The King of Darkness sat behind the table.
"Planting this thing was truly no easy feat.
"We secretly built a two-thousand-square-meter base, used thirty-seven types of Sequence Nine Herbal Materials, forty-two types of Sequence Eight Herbal Materials, five types of Sequence Seven Herbal Materials, an Immortal Artifact Pill Furnace, an Immortal Treasure Bottle, and engaged seven immortals to guide us from behind the scenes.
"The immortals even said we needed soil from the funeral home, mud from the mass graves; we even had people dig for it!"
Speaking of this, the King of Darkness was somewhat scared.
"We were so close to having the funeral home’s incident exposed.
"We had three Sequence Eight experts turned into puppets by an Ancient Immortal to intercept the information."
"But luckily... it finally grew!"
"Take it and use it well, don’t disappoint us."
The white-haired youth’s face was pale, his eye sockets sunken, as if he had been overworked, losing his vitality. Even his white hair was all graying prematurely.
He sat at the conference table, but his figure was blurry and unreal... As it turned out, he didn’t actually come to the Dark World conference room, at this time, only a projection had arrived.
He reached out to pull the box back, crossing the boundary between reality and projection, pulling it back into his arms.
"A total of forty-two leaves?
"Didn’t I give you twenty-two seeds before, that should have been able to produce forty-four leaves."
The King of Darkness pursed his lips.
"One seed... got snatched away, most likely fell into the hands of the West State Boss.
"But you don’t need to worry.
"He won’t be able to grow Bitter Leaf.
"I roughly understood, even putting it in the Ancient Immortal Dynasty, it’s not easy to grow.
"Requires the strictest steps to grow.
"If slightly careless, the seed will rot."
The King of Darkness grinned, smug with himself.
"Actually... the reason we managed to grow this thing was due to luck.
"There is an absolute heavyweight among the Ancient Immortals who helped us plant.
"He specializes in this in the Ancient Immortal Dynasty, providing Bitter Leaf for the Array Kingdom.
"His name is even Nuonuo Immortal!"
The white-haired youth Li Rulong, felt a piece of Bitter Leaf from the box.
The leaf was the size of the palm of a hand, with a green base, streaked with slender yellow stripes.
He looked left, looked right, pinched its thickness, revealing a smile.
"Indeed!
"Top-grade Bitter Leaf!
"The highest level of Bitter Leaf recorded in literature is just like this.
"Thank you."
With that, his figure blurred, carrying the box and the Bitter Leaf, he vanished.
The King of Darkness squinted his eyes, looked at the spot where Li Rulong disappeared, sniffed the scent, even got up to feel the chair’s temperature.
"The chair is still cold.
"Those progeny of the Array Path, they really are quite the shamans!"
...
Fox Mountain, in the cafeteria.
More and more foxes started mixing this ten-color rice together, each eating with squinted eyes, faces full of happiness.
Snow Exploration Claw and Wind Chasing Claw suddenly started talking about the seed their master just got.
"Squeak squeak, howl howl howl!"
That was a seed they had never seen before!
"Squeak squeak squeak?"
Wind Chasing Claw turned around, pointing towards the stove area.
Beside the stove, there were heaps of dead branches and fallen leaves used as firewood.
Master was by the stove, picking up various dead branches and fallen leaves into an abandoned broken pot, pressing them layer by layer.
Snow Exploration Claw frowned.
"Howl?"
What was master doing?
It exchanged a glance with Wind Chasing Claw, they both sped up eating, preparing to help their master later!
Talking a few words about that seed while eating.
"Squeak squeak howl howl howl!"
Fox Mountain had never seen such a thing!
The nearby White Earrings also poked its head over, listened to a few words, and then hurried up to eat.
As the Fox Mountain’s Master Xiaotongwen, it would also go later to help master plant that seed!
A group of foxes shoved the food into their mouths, hadn’t even finished eating when they heard a rustling sound behind them.
Turning their heads, they saw master sitting cross-legged on the ground, watching over the broken pot filled with dead branches and leaves, eyes focused.
In the pot, a plant they had never seen before was growing at a speed visible to the naked eye amidst the "rustling" sound!
First a bud sprouted, then two leaves popped out!
Its leaves didn’t increase in number, only size.
In a short time, those two leaves grew to palm-sized, then head-sized, then wheel-sized...
Master kept adding different dead branches and leaves to the pot, those two leaves continued to grow, getting larger and softer until they spread on the ground, still enlarging, like two enormous soft blankets, extending outward, one piling up in the corner of the wall.
The foxes were all stunned.
"Howl?"
This seed... can grow just by using dead branches and leaves?
Can it grow this big?
Is it still growing?
This is too economical!