Chương 55: A beautiful flower from another world
"Dear Yu Lian, please go get me a kilogram of twilight spiritual flowers... oh, and I was almost forgetting, pick the ones that are over a month old preferably." A woman of above-average appearance with purple hair and brown eyes, appearing to be in her thirties, wearing an apron, enters a room and quickly speaks to a young girl who resembles her, but is reading a book.
"Mom, can I just finish reading this page before I go? I'm almost done, plea-" The girl, trying to plead with her mother, stops mid-sentence, seeing her mother's irritated face, not willing to accept Yu Lian's laziness, so she decides not to continue speaking, knowing it will only further irritate her mother.
"None of that, young lady. You know how important reputation is for a business, so i don't want to keep customers waiting,so go get the flowers quickly while I continue to attend the customers." Finishing these words, Yu Lian's mother makes her way to the front part of their house, which is used as a shop selling different types of medicinal herbs and plants.
"Ah... I wish I could spend my whole day reading like before..." The girl of medium height but beautiful appearance murmurs softly with a sad expression on her face that could break the heart of any young man who is in love as she walks to the back part of her house, where the greenhouse containing the garden , where they grow various types of plants.
This young girl has short purple hair, a striking inheritance from her mother, falling delicately just above her shoulders. Her eyes, of a deep emerald green, are a reminder of her father, contrasting beautifully with her skin as pale as jade. With a medium height for her age, she carries with her a charming beauty and a captivating facial expression, capable of stealing the heart of any young person who sees her for the first time.
Quickly, Yu Lian, who arrived at the greenhouse, puts on a pair of gloves, as well as a work apron and a cloth to cover her hair before going to where the twilight spiritual flowers her mother asked for should be. She quickly starts gathering the flowers, determined to complete the task given by her mother quickly so she could go back to reading the book, which was at a very interesting part.
"If I'm not mistaken, this is one of the best plants to feed Moon Path gu..." She speaks, looking at the plants she is harvesting, which are in a part of the greenhouse specially made so that very little sunlight enters, and the temperature remains quite low at all times so that the plants can grow healthy.
"It's a pity it will only be used as cultivation material because it's a beautiful flower..." She speaks to herself calmly and delicately as she cuts the flowers with dedication and a smile on her face that comes from herbalism being the greatest love of her life even before coming to this world.
And all care is necessary because this is an extremely fragile flower, this is why it was not directly on the store counters to be sold because if it is not kept in good conditions, it can die and rot within ten minutes after being cut, and even in good conditions, it lasts at most an hour after being cut.
She continues to collect the flowers with a complicated look on her face as she thinks about how in this world, plants can be so fragile and at the same time be used on the battlefield to dominate the world for an era. Of course, she did not witness this domination, just reading about it in the book "The Tales of the Heavenly Lotus," which is one of the most famous biographies of the life of Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable, which she was reading before her mother sent her to collect the twilight spiritual flowers.
"Ah... finally finished," Yu Lian speaks happily after finishing packing the twilight spiritual flowers in a special way so that they don't rot quickly.
She quickly makes her way to the shop that occupies the front part of her house, where she sees her mother serving a customer, as well as other customers who are looking for specific herbs on the store shelves. But among all these, she knows who asked for the twilight spiritual flowers since he is a regular customer of the store and is now looking at her with eyes shining with happiness.
"Lian'er, it's good to see you look bea-...tod-d... w-well, anyway, I advanced to rank 1 upper stage recently, isn't that amazing?" The young Gu Master wanted to compliment Yu Lian's appearance, but he became afraid and embarrassed to do so in the end, especially with her mother being close enough to overhear the conversation.
"Ah, rank 1 upper stage at just 18 years old is truly impressive!" Yu Lian speaks excitedly and cute with a gentle smile on her face, although she is not really impressed by this result. She has always been a kind person, so she wouldn't want to make the young man who mentioned his new advancement in cultivation feel discouraged.
Well, it's not like the result of the young man is irrelevant, as even her mother was only a rank 2 initial stage Gu Master, and her father was a rank 1 peak stage. So, for the young man, who only has a C-grade talent and no wealthy sponsor, this result is already above average when looked at logically.
But Yu Lian's response, like that of any girl at this moment, is not logical but emotional because she knows the young man is one of her suitors, of which she has several, especially since she is a beautiful girl who has not yet been officially engaged since her parents are waiting for her aperture awakening to officially betroth her to someone.
This is for a simple reason: imagine how horrible it would be if they had already engaged her to some common rank 1 Gu Master with a C-grade talent, but then Yu Lian awakened as an A or B-grade talent that would allow her to marry into one of the great families of the clan, but she couldn't because she was with a common rank 1 Gu Master. So her mother decided to wait as a precaution.
"Ah, Gu Liu, I'm sorry, but I'm busy taking care of the garden so I won't be able to continue the conversation." Yu Lian speaks apologetically, lying so she can return to reading her book, which she is much more interested in than in this conversation.
"Ah... n-no problem, sorry for disturbing you, Lian'er." The young man apologizes before greeting Yu Lian one last time before leaving the shop since his time is also limited.
Yu Lian, seeing the young man leave, happily exits the shop and returns to the living room of her house where she was reading the book in an armchair by the window while drinking some tea made from herbs grown by herself.
"Ah, it seems no matter the world, I will always be a bookworm..." She speaks jokingly to herself as she returns to reading the biography of Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable, whom she admires most of all the seven that have ever existed.
"Using wood to overcome fire... ah, if only someone had achieved the same in my world." In this chapter she reads now, it talks about the battle in which Genesis Lotus put an end to the disdain people had for the early Wood Path, which before Genesis Lotus was considered a flawed path since it could easily be suppressed and destroyed by the Fire Path, one of the oldest paths in the Gu world, just as there were no high-level attack methods for Wood path.
"If only some Wood Mage from my world had achieved the same." Yu Lian murmurs as she remembers her original world, which unlike this one, was governed by magic and wizards.
Of which Wood Mages were one of the most underestimated types of mages since wood magic was extremely weak and easily countered by fire magic, so it was never used in combat or was the main magic of a renowned mage or nation since the primary use for wood magic was for agriculture or support in potion creation.
The fact that Wood magic was always used by countries for agriculture and other types of basic needs, only ended up attracting mages of low talent or status, which prevented this type of magic from ever developing greatly, since the great geniuses always chose types of magic that would allow them to reach the pinnacle of the mage world, not just become prestigious farmers.
And she still remembers how after she managed to be approved at one of the best magic academies in her nation, all the teachers at the magic academy vehemently recommended that she not waste her talent and time to become a wood mage. But she decided to follow this path anyway because of her love for herbalism, so she made it her life goal to make wood magic a prestigious form of magic.
"Unfortunately, I was never able to fulfill that dream," she says, thinking about how she, like several third-grade acolytes like her, died because of a failed experiment that killed everyone in an explosion of flames that got out of control.
"Well, and in this world, someone has already fulfilled my dream for me... but I still have the path to become greater than this Venerable ancestor." She still remembers the shock that hit her after waking up in another world and even more so the happiness for this new chance, especially when she saw the people of this world who used Gu instead of magic but through this method of Gu, they used its version of Wood magic, which they called Wood path, as one of the most prestigious paths in the world.
And all of this is thanks to the one she admires most in this world, Genesis Lotus, as he was the creator of the Wood path, and not only that, but he used the Wood path to become one of the seven people at the top of the human race and are denominated by all as Venerables.
"Hey brother, let's celebrate my luck in getting this Wood Sword Gu! And you even said that rock gambling was a waste of time and money!" A young man with an excited expression speaks to another who has a similar expression, probably because they are brothers.
Yu Lian, who reads her book in an armchair near the window, easily hears the commotion outside her house, which she is already accustomed to because her house is on one of the busiest streets of the clan, which is great for business but terrible for reading in peace.
"Hump! Don't let this moment of luck blind you! Besides, real luck would be to obtain a Blood Sword!" The young man retorts against his brother, who has been teasing him all morning because he finally won a rank 1 Gu after losing without winning anything for months.
"Ah, come on. You know that's impossible! This blood path that you admire so much isn't even more than ten years old!How can it be one in the rocks?" The young man said before receiving an irritated look from his brother, which made him realize that going around saying that his brother admired an enemy's creations was not the wisest thing to do.
"Blood path..." Hearing about this greatly interested her since the creator of these Gu is greatly known on Mount Longhua Shan, besides being admired by the vast majority of girls from the three clans who see him as a powerful and heroic Gu Master who at just 18 years old is a rank 3 acolyte, being the greatest genius to appear among the clans in the last hundred years.
But Yu Lian's interest is only partially because she has a small crush on Chen Wei, as her main reason is another "I wonder if he is also from my world..."
This thought comes to her mind because this Blood path created by Chen Wei is extremely similar to the abilities of blood Warlocks, which were greatly infamous in her world for their cruel and evil methods, as well as being the greatest combat force among all forms of magic.
"I wonder if even the legendary Genesis Lotus could be the same..." The girl returns to her reveries, which range from suppositions about whether other people could be from another world like her, as well as thinking about which Gu she can choose for the awakening ceremony at the beginning of the year because after seeing the capabilities of the Wood path, she resolutely decided to follow the path of a Gu Master instead of the magic of her ancient world.
This comes because the Gu system already presents infinitely greater development for Wood-type powers, but also for the power system of her world, which was divided into Acolyte, Mage, Grand Mage, Archmage, Supreme Mage, each of these levels being divided from weakest third grade, to the middle of them the second grade, to the strongest first grade.
The power system of mages, from what she can see, is equivalent to that of Gu Masters, with an acolyte being equivalent to a rank 1 and a Supreme Mage being equivalent to a rank 5, she imagines, but this world has something more, which is the immortals, a concept that didn't even exist in her world, besides in this world, the cultivation of Gu is much simpler and faster than learning magic, which usually takes at least centuries and more centuries to reach the level of a Supreme Mage.
"Well, I have already determined that after awakening my aperture, I will cultivate diligently until I bring the Wood path to the top of the world just like in the time of Genesis Lotus!" The girl speaks animatedly as if nothing could go wrong since she doesn't fully understand the cruelty of this world or know about the deplorable state of almost destruction that her clan is going through because in the eyes of normal Gu Masters, the armistice organized between the clans will last for a few years.
"Yu Lian dear, I need you to get Burning Bamboo Shoots." Snapped out of her reverie, Yu Lian hears her mother's voice coming from the shop, then sighs weakly before going to the greenhouse to get what her mother asked for as quickly as possible as she did last time.
But as soon as she opens the door of the greenhouse, her vision is dominated by endless darkness that seems to take away all her senses like sight, hearing, and touch for a few moments before they return, but now Yu Lian is in a completely different place from her house.
She is in a spacious cave, with reddish walls and a large hole in the ceiling, allowing the entry of light. The appearance suggests that it was a laboratory a long time ago, now almost in ruins, covered by vegetation. Books and materials are scattered haphazardly on the floor.
"Please!! Wake up please! My God, what happened to you my love, where are we?!" Yu Lian hears a cry of despair, and her eyes follow where the voice is coming from to see a girl she doesn't recognize embracing a young man she quickly recognized as the Blood Prince who is lying on the floor with his clothes torn to shreds but with his body intact, without the slightest scratch.
Yu Lian quickly connects the dots to imagine that the girl embracing the Blood Prince is Wang Mei, one of the great beauties of Longhua Shan Mountain and his wife, and seems desperate with this unexpected turn of events.
But before Yu Lian could say anything, she feels a strong wind advancing with full force as if it could destroy the world towards the unconscious Blood Prince on the ground, so she quickly turns her head to see where this attack is coming from to see Feng Hua, also one of the beauties of Longhua Shan Mountain, with her hand extended and a cold face.
Quickly, Yu Lian closes her eyes in despair while thinking about how to escape since she fears being the next one to be attacked, but without letting her think too much, the thunderous sound of the attack hitting a nearby wall makes her fall to the ground, trembling with fear of dying again.
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