[ Vermilion Forest ]
{ Strange Valley }
It has been several months since she explored this forest. She had also fought countless battles with strange beasts and creatures. Her foundation realm was more solid now, but she couldn't find a way to breakthrough into the Jiedan period. Strangely, she couldn't find a single human being here.
Standing in a strange valley, the small figure sighed. While she was flying on her lotus, the weather was gloomy. The sky turned dark, almost like nighttime. There was a thunderstorm, producing countless purple lights everywhere in the sky.
The scenery looked beautiful but was immensely dangerous. It's going to be a big rain soon, so she wanted to find a place to stay and avoid the rain. Unfortunately, the sh*t luck fell on her.
The thunder and lightning fell straight in front of her; if she wasn't fast enough to dodge away, she might have been seriously injured. The breeze was very powerful and strong, which made her spiritual flying lotus unstable, so she fell down into this valley in a strange way.
Looking at her wrinkled red robe, her smooth white hair was messy like a bird's nest. She coughed embarrassedly because someone in space was laughing at her now. She touched her nose helplessly. Is it funny?
First, Honglian was worried about her, but after he had seen her state, he asked tremblingly, "Master, how are you?"
"Am still alive!" was Lianlian trying to hold his laugh? She twitched her red eyes. She was not heroin. How could she fall down so gorgeously and the beautiful man pop out to carry her in his arm? This was reality, not a movie. She sorted out her red robe and white hair and accepted her passerby's life. Thinking much won't make her become heroine; beside, who want to be heroine? She didn't want to! Being a heroine, she had to bear countless responsibilities.
This valley was very strange. It was vastly covered by the dense white fog; her spiritual sense couldn't sense the situation more than 10 meters around her. But the aura here was very rich and pure.
She summoned her Lotus sword as she was walking carefully in the valley.
"Swoosh!" Lianhua dodged the attack that came behind her. She turned her head and saw many big, dark vines coming out of nowhere. They released their dark magic, so the surrounding area was very dark, almost like a black hole.
Lianhua couldn't see anything now. She only saw darkness, and her six senses couldn't perceive anything, like she was alone in a dark space. She couldn't get into contact with Honglian.
"bang!" Her small figure hit something hard. She felt that her bone was almost broken.
"Bang!" just as she was standing up, another attack came behind her. She coughed up a mouthful of blood. This thing was extremely tough. She couldn't hear or predict any movements.
The small figure calmed down and closed her eyes. Only by staying calm could she solve the problem. She didn't feel scared of the darkness, but being alone in this vast world without anyone to accompany her was much scarier. Honglian was still waiting for her outside.
"Master, be careful!" Honglian tried to communicate with her, but his charming voice couldn't reach her. He could only walk anxiously back and forth in the space. His bewitching face was murderous.
He really wanted to come out and eliminate that thing for her, but he insisted on not interfering with her. He wanted her to be like a phoenix that flies high in the sky. Only by getting through all the hardships could she grow up wisely and courageously.
He knew Lianhua also didn't want him to interfere with her growth. He respects and obeys her decision. This was his love for her. To love her, one must respect her, understand her, support her, and give her freedom. Unless she fell into a death situation, he will never disobey her will.
"bang! bang!" She stood still and let the creature attack her many times without trying to fight back. Her body was bloody; some parts of her fair white skin had torn apart when she sometimes hit the hard rock and sometimes hit the ground.
She was trying to predict its movement and the times when those vines attacked her.
"Bang!" She threw her most powerful water and thunder combination spell.
"growl!!!" The things growled loudly in pain. They felt like their bodies were hit by lightening.
"As a god of thunderstorms, I ask you to bestow me your powerful power to eliminate the enemy!" The slander's hand pointed her lotus sword to the sky and read the formula. Since there was countless lightning bolts in the sky, she may try using this thunder lightning spell.
This was an ancient spell to borrow spiritual power from the nature of heaven and earth. Especially now, it was the best time to let her use this powerful skill.
"Bang!"
"growl!!!! " The powerful thunder hit the black vines fiercely, and the whole valley shook like an earthquake.
Lianhua opened her eyes; she could see the surrounding area around her now. She turned around, trying to find the black vines. Then she stepped on something. She saw countless scorching black vines rotting under her feet. She pointed her sword tip toward the vines.
"Cough!" she coughed, her mouth full of purple blood again. The blood splashed on the dead vines.
"Master, eat this!" A slanderous figure embraced her from behind. Honglian came out of the space as soon as she defeated the vines. Seeing her state, he frowned in heartache.
"..." Lianhua was coughing, so she couldn't reply now. Her face was very pale. She took the wound-healing elixir from Honglian. She leaned on his hard chest. Because her realm was still low now, she used that ancient spell, which only people in the Jiedan period or higher realms could use a small percentage of its real power. It caused her to suffer a heavy internal injury.
Honglian found a rock to sit on and let the small figure sit on his lab.
"Master, don't use this next time." he said helplessly. His pair of charming silver-blue and dark red pupils contained worry and distress. He wished he could feel her pain.
"I'm good now." Several hours later, Lianhua's injury almost healed. Thanks to the effect of the priceless spring water and elixir from her lotus space
"What is this?" She sensed something in her contracted channel, and she summoned it out.
The thing was black, covered with many gorgeous small black flowers and leaves on its body. The vine looked extremely gorgeous.
"This was the Darkness Vine plant, which could control the people to have the illusion that they were in the darkness domain and their six senses were closed. This plant was extremely dangerous and powerful," Honglian explained softly while spraying the hot breath into Lianhua's white neck.
"To get out of its dark domain, people have to burn its flower bud on its real body. It had countless bodies, so it's not an easy task to find the real one." Honglian continued and looked at the figure in his arm tenderly.
The pale blue hair fell down, entangled with the girl with white hair who was sitting on his lap. The girl's pale face was beautiful and soft. The man's face was devilishly bewitching and seductive. The picture was extremely beautiful, like a couple coming out of a painting.
"Since when did I contract it?" She looked at the gorgeous vine that was gently surrounding her slander wrist. She didn't seem to notice her current ambiguous situation.
"Maybe when the master coughed the blood, the blood accidentally fell on its real body," he thought for a moment.
"Isn't it dead?" She was sure; when she checked the vine at that time, it was already burned to death.
"His real body had not yet died but only been seriously injured; fortunately, before he recovered, master blood dropped on it." Honglian kissed her white hair intoxicatedly.
"For some reason, when it sensed the master's purple blood, it took the initiative to be the master's contracted plant willingly, and he seemed to be very happy." he continued.
"So you are my family now; I'll call you AnYu." She touched the vine gently. She didn't understand, but since he came with her, she will treat him as part of her family. Even if this thing almost killed her, she didn't have any resentments toward it. If she didn't invade its domain, it might not attack her. It was just his subconscious defending the valley as a guardian spirit.
The vine seemed to have life and understood her words. The vine coquettishly swayed around her wrist. It circled her finger gently as if to respond to her delight in his mood. The flowers and leaves on the vine shone strangely but gorgeously.
Just when she contracted this guy, she learned some information, such as that if her realm got higher, she could control many people's minds at the same time. Now that she was at the peak of the foundation building period, she could only control 50 people at most.
The Darkness Vine realm will advance as her realm advances. The higher she gets, the stronger the vine is.
Unfortunately, AnYu's realm was very high, but he was suppressed to the same realm as its master. When he was fighting with her, his realm was a high-level spiritual beast. Unfortunately, Lianhua used an ancient spell, and coupled with her unusual practice, she could defeat AnYu. So AnYu's real strength was suppressed and sealed.
" ..... " Lianhua felt a little bad for AnYu.
"Xiao AnYu, can your real body be divided into two parts?" she asked the Darkness Vine.
AnYu leaves swayed as if to answer her question. He immediately divided his real body into two parts.
She put one of AnYu's real bodies into her purple mansion, and another one she planted under the fairy tree so AnYu could absorb pure aura and cultivate. AnYu seemed to be extremely satisfied with his new home.
Purple Mansion was a place in the contract channel for keeping her contracted partner's essence of life. Just like when she contracted Honglian, Honglian's essence of life was staying in her purple mansion, so even if his body was seriously injured, she could summon him back into her purple mansion, although it might take some time to repair his body. She planted AnYu in her purple mansion.
To put it simply, AnYu could turn into countless vines, but those are fake since his real body was in her purple mansion and Lotus space. Unless people destroy her purple mansion or Lotus space, they cannot eliminate AnYu roots, or else AnYu vines will grow back endlessly.
AnYu was very powerful. She must not use AnYu's power carelessly, or people might think she is a monster and a freak child. Well, it doesn't matter much; she will just use AnYu's power when no one is around.
The purple mansion's aura was full of white fog. It was big or small according to its owner's strength. But Lianhua's purple mansion's size was very mysterious, as she couldn't tell its size. She couldn't get into her purple mansion, but her spiritual sense could.
The stronger the person's strength, the stronger the aura that person could provide and nourish his or her contracted partner's essence of life. The stronger the essence of life, the higher the potential for their contracted partners.
But the purple mansion was limited. The size of the purple mansion was determined according to its owner's potential, spiritual root, and level of cultivation.
Author: Littlecarrot