Chapter 133: Getting into Trouble

“Legend has it that every Flower Lord throughout the ages grew up here.”

Bai Xiatian turned and began to walk within the Pure Land.

Indeed, this was a wonderful place. The interwoven aura of immortality permeated the air with a subtle fragrance, and merely inhaling it could greatly enhance one’s cultivation.

Hmm?

Bai Xiatian’s curiosity was piqued.

She noticed the nine-colored immortal soil, moist with spiritual energy. Within it, a seed gleamed with a purple ring pattern, absorbing strands of primordial energy that drifted around, brimming with vitality.

“The immortal blossom is truly extraordinary. So young, yet it already knows how to absorb and expel energy, coexisting with the other shore... I don’t recall ever hearing of other shore flowers in the sea of blossoms. I wonder what color it would bloom.”

After gazing at it for a moment, the girl lost interest and leisurely strolled around, admiring the surroundings.

“The immortal stone that the Divine Flower Sister once sat upon.”

Passing by that immortal stone, Bai Xiatian’s eyes brightened slightly. She reached out delicately, and a warm, gentle energy surged through her, relaxing her limbs and bones.

Lightly hopping onto the stone, she patted it, and a pure white misty glow enveloped her, as comfortable as lying on a soft cloud.

The girl closed her eyes in bliss, her feet unconsciously swaying back and forth.

“Crack…”

A faint sound of splitting emerged.

At first, Bai Xiatian paid no mind, tilting her face up with a look of enjoyment.

Soon, rustling and crackling noises arose again, prompting her to grow suspicious.

What was that sound?

Sensing something, she looked toward the immortal stone.

Where she had just patted, cracks had begun to form. Her breath caught for a moment as the fissures rapidly spread like a spider’s web.

“Ah! It’s cracking!”

Startled, Bai Xiatian hurriedly jumped down.

But it was too late. The fractures quickly blossomed across the stone.

Before long, this towering immortal stone shattered completely, riddled with cracks, its color dulled and lost the original pristine whiteness.

“Oh no, I’ve caused trouble!”

Bai Xiatian stared blankly at the scene before her.

The immortal stone most beloved by the Divine Flower Sister had been broken by her own sitting!

Though tempted to blame the stone’s quality, she felt too guilty to complain. Sneaking a glance at the Wind-listening Grass lying nearby, she saw it was sound asleep, utterly unaware.

Quickly!

Bai Xiatian had no time to wait for the Dance God Sovereign. She dashed through the barrier, returned to the Snow Peak, covered herself with a quilt, and feigned sleep as if nothing had happened.

“Hu... hu…”

The green leaves of the Wind-listening Grass swayed gently, the dewdrop-like bubbles on them expanding and contracting rhythmically.

No one noticed that shortly after Bai Xiatian left, the cracks in the immortal stone ceased spreading, and faint light began to shine from the dim fissures.

This light was not harsh but gentle. The moment it appeared, time within the Pure Land of the sea of blossoms froze instantly. The clouds and winds halted abruptly, as if sunlight on a winter’s day had been cast into a single, eternal moment.

Bang!

A pale hand emerged from within the stone, followed by slender fingers slowly pushing aside the surrounding rubble.

A man stepped out from the broken immortal stone.

His skin was fair, his calm black eyes seemed to peer through past and future lives. Tall and graceful, he stood motionless from the moment of emergence.

No one could have imagined that inside a single immortal stone in the Pure Land sanctuary, a person had been concealed.

He wore robes as white as snow, his hair as black as ink, exuding a radiant, breathtaking aura of beauty and brilliance.

Suddenly, as if sensing something, the man in white turned his head. His palm brushed lightly over the shattered stones on the ground, light and shadow flowing. Time rewound, the scene reversing to before the stone’s fracture.

The snowy girl lay peacefully with closed eyes amid a glowing haze of blooming flowers.

He stared at her as if beholding a deity, his gaze fixed and unyielding for a long while. Only when the light reversed to the correct moment did the image revert to a scattered pile of debris.

“Hu… hu…”

The rhythmic breathing slightly disturbed his thoughts. Looking down, he saw a single blue-green Wind-listening Grass sleeping soundly like a hog.

Nearby, the nine-colored immortal soil gleamed brilliantly, the other shore flower seed slowly inhaling and exhaling energy.

Fixating his calm eyes on the nine-colored seed, the man’s expression stirred ever so slightly.

He raised a finger and wrote the character “Life” in the void. The stroke was simple yet elegant, imbued with subtle grace. Upon completion, the character floated lightly toward the other shore flower seed.

Boom!

The nine-colored immortal soil erupted with boundless light. Divine patterns revived swiftly, surging upward to obliterate any approaching threat.

Clearly, these were measures left by the Flower Sea God Sovereign. The Wind-listening Grass alone was not enough to guard the place; should danger draw near, this power would instantly unleash.

The character “Life” was crystal clear and pure, resembling a feather. Accompanied by a swirling glow, it moved steadily and unhurriedly, maintaining its original pace.

An unexpected event occurred.

Approaching within an inch of the “Life” character, the power of the glowing light suddenly weakened at high speed, vanishing with a thunderous yet silent disappearance, fading into nothingness.

The radiant character gently imprinted upon the other shore flower seed. In an instant, the seed trembled, faintly quivering as if on the verge of shattering.

Yet immediately, the seed emitted a surge of vigorous life force. Clinging to the purple ring pattern, a layer of vibrant green vitality appeared.

The man in white remained silent, as if having done a trivial task, then turned and left the Pure Land, walking toward the outside world.

…

Within the starry river of the Flower Sea, radiant light stretched across the sky, brimming with vitality.

Amid this tranquil scene, a dark, corruptive orb emitting an evil aura cautiously drifted closer along ripples in the void.

“Flower Sea’s spirits, what a delicious feast. Slurp.”

From within the shadowy orb came a detestable voice. The black surface shimmered with the gleam of a monstrous eye.

“I can’t resist—the flourishing aura of the Flower Sea spirits calls to my soul. If I devour them all, ascending to the Ninth Rank won’t be a problem.”

The black corruptive beast salivated.

“Unfortunately, I mustn’t attract the Flower Sea God Sovereign’s attention. I must sneak in quietly. The Flower Sea is so vast; eating just a small portion should go unnoticed.”

This dark orb concealed a corruptive beast, one of two who had recently arrived from a distant starry expanse, intent on seizing the divine blossom Dao fruit.

The elder in their duo had warned it to patiently await Lord Yu’s arrival and monitor the Flower Sea’s movements, forbidding rash actions.

However, the Flower Sea nurtured boundless spirits, whose vigorous life force was irresistibly alluring to a giant beast like the corruptive one. After three months of restraint, it finally slipped in secretly.

It intended to plunder those spirits and indulge in a hearty feast.