Chapter 788 - 237: Beautiful Glow
This sacred sect’s inherited sect, even the Outer Sect, is a saint’s legacy! It carries great dignity, and there’s even a mountain-protecting array, making it unimaginable for anyone to sneak in.
Chen Yan swaggered all the way towards the scripture library, but as he passed a corridor, he suddenly smelled a strong medicinal fragrance from an adjacent courtyard.
He looked up and realized that place should be the location of the Outer Sect’s Alchemy Hall.
He did not intend to go to the Alchemy Hall, but noticed a pond in that direction, with dozens of vibrant flowers blooming on its surface.
The flower discs were rather large, resembling lotus flowers like those his senior sister cultivated in reality, except they weren’t the typical pink of lotuses but displayed multi-colored hues. From afar, there was a mysterious aura floating above them, mixed with a faint fragrance that made one feel refreshed.
This feeling was not an illusion but genuine—Chen Yan recognized that the dozens of vibrant flower discs on the pond were a rare and special flora found only in the Domain Realm.
They were called "Beautiful Glow," colorful like the light of the sunset.
Chen Yan had read about this plant in records before, and it was an extraordinary species.
Dried and specially processed flower discs can be used in medicine and alchemy, serving as ingredients for several medicines that replenish scattered Primordial Qi and heal Primordial Spirit damage.
More extraordinary is that where this Beautiful Glow is planted, it naturally attracts and gathers Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi, remaining concentrated and undispersed!
Due to this feature, this thing barely counts as a Heavenly and Earthly Treasure. Not to mention it’s unavailable in the real world, it’s not even commonly seen in the Domain Realm!
If it can attract and gather Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi, it can increase the Qi concentration, which affects the cultivation efficiency and speed of cultivators. In the Domain Realm, ordinary small sects and families long for it but can’t obtain it. If they can plant a piece, they can slowly transform their Qi gatherings—also strengthening the effect of the Spirit Gathering Array!
Over time, it could even turn a place with ordinary Qi into a dense Grotto Heaven Blessed Land!
—In the shops at Snow Cliff Pass, Chen Yan remembered seeing it listed in the merchandise list, where even a wilted flower disc cost hundreds of coins!
And the seeds of this thing were stated in the shop to cost ten thousand coins each!
Such an effective thing is not easy to obtain!
Simply because once planted, it cannot be transplanted, as moving it will cause it to immediately wither.
If you want to get seeds to plant, however, the seeds are hard to find because there’s a huge challenge in harvesting them.
This flower only produces a few lotus-seed-like seeds in its flower disc during certain periods of its flowering season.
The flower discs have five colors during the flowering period, pink is the bud stage, red is when it’s blooming, and when it turns purple, the seeds are mature—thereafter it turns white, which is when the seeds drop, and eventually turns black, signaling the end of the flowering period with the disc withering and dying.
Only when the flower disc turns purple can the seeds be harvested.
However, harvesting seeds is no easy task—during the purple flowering period, only three to five seeds are produced each time, and the flower disc itself acts as if it has spirituality; once someone tries to harvest them, touching the disc with the hand can only garner one seed!
Once you pick one seed, the flower disc releases a special toxin, causing itself to wither immediately and the other seeds to wilt and die under the toxin!
If this happens, you have to wait for the next flowering season, for its roots and stems to regrow and bloom again...
This thing, rather than being an immortal plant, it’s more like an incompletely wise Flower Demon.
Its spirituality is quite peculiar.
You can only pick one seed each time, and even if you do harvest one, there’s no guarantee it will germinate!
Because although each flowering season it may drop three to five seeds, only one is the true fruit, while the others are fakes.
If you accidentally pick the first fake one, it would all be in vain!
The problem is, no matter how high a Tao Practice a cultivator possesses, or how experienced a pharmacist may be, they simply cannot determine the real from the fake seeds!
Spell use is also ineffective, as once a spell is used on it, it will die instantly—secreting toxins to poison itself.
Thus, it is named "Beautiful Glow," carrying an implication that it’s like an elusive beauty, hard to please, and with a mind that’s difficult to fathom.
Chen Yan, seeing this patch of Beautiful Glow planted casually in the pond from afar, couldn’t help but feel a flutter in his heart.
Indeed, a saint’s sect, with such rare treasures outside, somehow just planted casually for viewing in the pond?
He took a deep breath, noticing there were no disciples guarding the area, and seeing a large flower disc among the Beautiful Glow, it happened to have turned purple, blooming, right in the seed-releasing phase!
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Chen Yan glanced around, quickly striding towards the pond, where jade fences surrounded it, and the Beautiful Glow’s surrounding mysterious aura created a fairyland-like ambiance.
The dense Qi around made breathing increasingly pleasant!
Chen Yan reached the fence, eyeing the patch of Beautiful Glow right in the center of the pond just over ten meters away.
Especially that already purple flower disc, as big as a washbasin, full and blooming, with petals spread open, and inside the sunflower-like disc, prominently there were several green-blue fruit-like seeds fist-sized!