Fox Fairy Nannan opened her mouth to ask, her eyes showing a hint of expectation: "Such a Creation, you must take me with you next time you go to the First Heaven of the Spiritual World."
Zhang Chen nonchalantly wiped his mouth, always feeling a bit strange inside, as he had taken another step towards the Sun Skill.
"I didn’t encounter a Creation, instead I almost died there." Zhang Chen looked at the Southern Qilin Zhong Xiang, who was trapped in the Illusion Realm, and spoke with lingering fear.
As he spoke, Zhang Chen’s gaze swept over the frost in the cave, which at this moment transformed into strands of white brilliance, evaporating and dissipating within the stone cave.
Fox Fairy Nannan looked surprised: "What did you encounter in the Spiritual World?"
When Zhang Chen heard this, he was silent for a moment, then recounted what he encountered in the Spiritual World, especially emphasizing his encounter with living beings and the countless mysteries.
"Living beings in the Spiritual World? And countless mysteries?" Fox Fairy Nannan was dumbfounded when she heard this. This Dog Head Military Advisor’s little head was spinning rapidly, and after a moment she seemed to have an idea: "I know!"
"You know? Quickly tell me." Zhang Chen hurriedly asked.
"You must have accidentally triggered a mechanism in the palace, which houses an incredibly powerful Creation, and that mysterious power created an Illusion Realm that you fell into. When you suffered a fatal attack in the Illusion Realm, you woke up as if from a dream." Fox Fairy Nannan, this Dog Head Military Advisor, analyzed meticulously.
"Impossible, don’t you know my skills? What Illusion Realm in this world could fool me?" Zhang Chen refuted Fox Fairy Nannan, the Dog Head Military Advisor’s words.
"Perhaps everything in the Spiritual World is real, not an Illusion Realm. Maybe the records of the predecessors were wrong?" Zhang Chen said.
He believed he entered the First Heaven of the Spiritual World, only that the predecessors’ recordings were wrong.
"Could it be that the Great Medicine Transformation in the Spiritual World? Everything you saw was Great Medicine?" Fox Fairy Nannan did not agree with Zhang Chen’s view and instead attempted to propose another possibility: "You were deceived by the Great Medicine."
"Impossible! If it were Great Medicine Transformation, it couldn’t hide from my eyes either." Zhang Chen shook his head, refuting it.
As they were speaking, the frost in the cave dissipated, and a beam of light caught Zhang Chen’s eye: "Is that... a skill dropped by the Golden Finger?"
[Mysterious object discovered, do you want to collect it?]
"Collect it!"
Zhang Chen hurriedly said.
[Congratulations, you have obtained one Osmanthus flower.]
[Note 1: An ancient Osmanthus flower that has existed since the dawn of time, its fragrance can cleanse the spirit, its coolness can nurture the spirit.]
The next moment, within Zhang Chen’s Magical Power Cyan Lotus, appeared an Osmanthus flower.
But unlike the golden Osmanthus outside, the Osmanthus flower Zhang Chen obtained was crystal clear, like a piece of crystal shimmering with a cold light.
Within that Osmanthus flower, a bright moon seemed to flicker, constantly transforming into runes, radiating endless mystery.
As that Osmanthus flower entered Zhang Chen’s magical power, Zhang Chen suddenly felt his magical power become inexplicably heavy, substantial, and solid.
An indescribable fragrance emitted from his soul, intoxicating him, that fragrance seeped through his soul into his body, flowing out through his pores, causing countless specks of dust to fall off of Zhang Chen’s body, countless impurities washed out by that fragrance, dissipating in the stone cave.
"What a fragrance, so fragrant!" Fox Fairy Nannan immediately noticed the change, inhaling hard through her nose in the air, finally leaning towards Zhang Chen, about to burrow into his arms, at this moment Fox Fairy Nannan was filled with intoxication: "Zhang Chen, you smell so good."
Zhang Chen grabbed Fox Fairy Nannan’s face with one hand, pushing her head away: "Why always clinging and pulling, what does it look like."
"The scent on you is so pleasant, it even makes the soul intoxicated, and this scent even benefits the soul, making my soul feel a coolness, as if it’s been cleansed. What kind of treasure do you have on you? It’s so incredible."
Fox Fairy Nannan couldn’t help but move her face closer again, trying to burrow into Zhang Chen’s arms to smell, but Zhang Chen caught her by the ear: "Step back, step back! I’m about to get to work, don’t create trouble."
"Let me take another whiff... Let me take another whiff... Just one more whiff..."
Fox Fairy Nannan seemed like she had inhaled some addictive substance, moving her head over, trying to take a strong whiff in Zhang Chen’s arms, but she was turned into a rune by Zhang Chen and put away.
"This fragrance is really troublesome. With this fragrance, how can I become invisible? I don’t know if the Invisibility Rune can cover up the fragrance on me." Zhang Chen smiled wryly.
This was Osmanthus from the dawn of time, equivalent to Great Medicine, how enticing was its fragrance?
Moreover, Zhang Chen felt that this Osmanthus flower wasn’t as simple as the Golden Finger described.
From Zhang Chen’s meditation practice to picking the Osmanthus flower, in reality, it had only been a little over thirty breaths of time.
Yes, in that Mysterious World it seemed like half a month had passed, but in reality, almost no time had flowed. Those thirty breaths were just the time that Fox Fairy Nannan delayed by licking the moonlight essence.
"Now that I’m suddenly back, I wonder what happened to the Great Freedom Celestial Demon." Zhang Chen suddenly remembered the Great Freedom Celestial Demon, and his heart skipped a beat: "Could the Great Freedom Celestial Demon have stayed in that Spiritual World?"
This would certainly lead to a catastrophe.
As Zhang Chen fretted anxiously, a black light flashed in the void, and the petals of the Great Freedom Celestial Demon floated up from Zhang Chen’s body, with a broken voice like a badly received recording coming continuously from the petals: "Do...n’t... wor...ry... not... re. sc...ue..."
The voice was intermittent and then suddenly stopped, Zhang Chen looked at the lotus flower in front of him, his eyebrows raised: "What nonsense?"
At this moment, the time of the Soul Hook skill had ended, with a cooldown period of seven days, Zhang Chen couldn’t probe the location of the Great Freedom Celestial Demon, he could only wait seven days and then think about pulling this guy back to question.
He felt that the old fellow Great Freedom Celestial Demon must know something.
"Difficult! There’s a big secret in that Spiritual World! The human predecessors might not have been able to reach the Spiritual World, how could they know what’s in the Spiritual World? You can’t wholly believe it, nor can you totally disbelieve it." Zhang Chen secretly muttered to himself.
At this time, Zhang Chen’s magical power was fully replenished, and his eyes fell on Southern Qilin, showing a faint quirky smile, and the next moment an ice blade in his hand slowly took shape.
Just during the process of condensing the ice blade, the Osmanthus in Zhang Chen’s magical power emitted a cold stream, infusing into the ice blade in Zhang Chen’s hand, causing the ice blade to undergo a strange change.
"What are you going to do!!?" Zhong Xiang, seeing the ice blade condensed by Zhang Chen, immediately panicked, yelling in a frenzy, his eyes full of panic and helplessness.
"What do you think?" Zhang Chen emitted a strange laugh, playing with and tossing the ice blade in his hand up and down.
"I’ll cooperate with you to melt the ice, isn’t that enough? Please stop this, I’ll willingly cooperate with you." Zhong Xiang, looking at the up and down flipping ice blade, his little heart was trembling nonstop.
"I can’t trust you! If I have to break the Sealing Rune to make you cast the skill voluntarily, and if you turn against me then, who would I seek for justice? Wouldn’t I just die?" Zhang Chen said grumpily.
"Then come up with a solution, and I’ll go along with it, just don’t do this!" Zhong Xiang’s voice was tearful.
Unfortunately, Zhang Chen didn’t heed Zhong Xiang’s words, instead melting the ice and directly manipulating the water flow to turn Zhong Xiang over.
"No! No!"
"Zhang Chen, you dog thief, I’ll never forgive you, I’ll definitely cut you into pieces!"
"I’ll annihilate your entire clan, slaughter all your kin."
...
Seeing Zhang Chen about to get rough again, Zhong Xiang cursed loudly.
Zhang Chen smiled, squatted down, and looked at the knife-cut holes on Zhong Xiang’s pants, simply reaching out and tearing the garment apart, revealing two white, tender ’big radishes’.