A life of clearness

Chapter 480 Golden Lotus
Surrounding the stone tablet, thirty golden lotuses floating quietly on the lake were suddenly carried up by some force. However, the force was interrupted, causing them to fall from mid-air into the lake one by one, and then float to the surface one by one.

"I knew you were going to steal it!" Bai Hui looked at Xi Ran proudly.

Xi Ran, wearing the Taoist robe of Juntian Sect, stood still, but the pressure from him became stronger and stronger.

Whether for the purpose of experimentation or to gain an advantage, Xi Ran's current goal is to obtain as many golden lotuses as possible.

On the other side, Ming Jing also sighed and took a step forward. This step just happened to block Chan Suo's little move.

"Leave some for us too." Ming Jing seemed to be begging for mercy, but in fact his spiritual power was overflowing and he would not give up even a bit.

As for Donglin Jianmen? They looked at the direction where Guanhan disappeared with resentment. They finally gathered Guanhan and others, but he ran away with others without saying a word. Yu Rong, on the other hand, stole a batch of golden lotus and hid in some corner.

……

A small pond surrounded by oleanders reflected the colorful branches. At this moment, a pink and white figure suddenly appeared in the pond. Ning Shuang in pink, Rong Qing and Guan Han in white. Led by Rong Qing, the three of them landed beside the pond.

Golden lotus blossoms fell on the pond.

"Why are you here?" Guan Han asked.

She replied, "Pure."

When Rong Qing asked Ning Shuang to go with her, she also pulled Guan Han along. Unexpectedly, Guan Han actually followed her. Although it was mostly because Ning Shuang followed, Guan Han really had to follow if he wanted to cultivate lotus seeds.

Guanhan was speechless, but saw Rongqing turn his head and call Ningshuang "Senior Brother".

As soon as the words fell, a figure slowly appeared beside Ningshuang, quickly turning from virtual to real.

He is... Guan Han's eyes slightly opened, and then he understood: "Senior Zhizheng."

It turned out that what he sensed was not Ningshuang's mark, but the mark of Zhizheng hidden in Ningshuang.

Zhizheng was not as cold to Guanhan as he was to Ningshuang. His attitude was quite friendly: "Thank you for taking care of my junior sister before."

Not only Rong Qing, but even Ning Shuang felt that there was no need to use the word "care". Isn't it mutually beneficial?

"I don't deserve your care," Guan Han replied calmly, "Since I have received your kindness before, I naturally have to repay you."

"In terms of rewards, I have already paid them back." Zhizheng said with a smile, glancing at Rongqing: "My junior sister will not easily trust others, and likes to enjoy all the benefits to herself. She brought you along on purpose, so I think she trusts you very much. Otherwise... she wouldn't have let me show up openly."

Guan Han's face was calm, and the roots of his ears hidden by his raven hair turned slightly red again.

Did she really... think so? Guan Han glanced at Rong Qing quickly.

But I heard Rong Qing muttering in my ear: "It was obviously you who came up with it yourself, Senior Brother."

Even if Rong Qing didn't bring Guanhan along on purpose because of romantic relationships, her emotional intelligence wouldn't be so low as to strongly refute the argument in front of the parties involved and embarrass Guanhan and Zhizheng.

So she cleverly avoided the subject and brought them back to business.

"I stole these golden lotuses and came here to prevent others from discovering the specialness of this mark on my hand."

Rong Qing opened her palm towards them, revealing the vine mark that looked somewhat like a scar.

"This mark is special because it has no matching mark." Rong Qing blinked: "Because of this... it can cooperate with all other marks to cultivate lotus seeds."

"all?"

"That's right. If Fellow Daoist Ningshuang doesn't believe it, we can try it first."

Rong Qing was the first to tear off the mark on her hand and put it into one of the golden lotuses. Ning Shuang couldn't refuse and had to tear it off as well. Two marks of different appearances fell into the golden lotus and were heavily wrapped by the petals. At the same time, Rong Qing and Ning Shuang steadily and patiently transferred spiritual energy.

Time passed by bit by bit. The golden lotus seemed unusually quiet. Ningshuang was quite nervous, but Rongqing was relieved because she saw the two spiritual powers merged with the mark and began to slowly grow inside the golden lotus.

The thing that came out at the end... I just hope they don't get startled.

"Done?"

"Yeah." Rong Qing looked at Zhizheng: "Senior Brother?"

Zhizheng understood that Rongqing wanted him to try it too.

Without hesitation, he tore off the mark of the white fluffy reed in his palm, and Rong Qing also tore off the mark that was wriggling and growing in the palm of his hand again.

Rong Qing was able to control the input of spiritual energy extremely finely while doing two things at the same time.

Later, Guanhan joined in, and it became possible to do three things at once.

The three golden lotuses were several times larger than those next to them, and different patterns appeared on their petals.

The four of them stood or sat quietly, part of their minds focused on the output of spiritual power, and part of their minds were alert to the surroundings.

In any case, Rong Qing caught people off guard and took away hundreds of golden lotuses at one time. If the remaining people wanted to snatch the golden lotuses, I'm afraid Rong Qing would be the first target.

……

This was indeed the case. The battle around the stone tablet started quickly and ended quickly. The cultivators led by Xi Ran were far more numerous than those from the other four major sects, so they eventually captured more golden lotuses.

There were fifty-two flowers in total, but it was nothing compared to Rong Qing’s harvest.

A hill was slapped by Xi Ran, and then a cave was created with his palm. He worked with a junior sister to quickly cultivate lotus seeds. For a cultivator in the realm of mastery, it is easy to do many things at the same time. At the same time, it is not a problem to supply the stable spiritual power required for the fifty-two golden lotuses.

But for some reason, when they tried to cultivate the fifth one, it could not escape the fate of exploding. Even if they were very careful in controlling their spiritual power, and even changed to other golden lotuses, they could only breed four at a time.

"Maybe our pair of marks only have the quota of four lotus seeds." Xi Ran couldn't help but guess.

In this way, the remaining golden lotus is wasted.

But it's just a waste, so that others won't get the benefit.

She instructed half of the remaining masters to guard the surroundings, and the other half to investigate Rong Qing's whereabouts and collect information from other sects.

Xi Ran needed to know how many lotus seeds others could cultivate. Was four the upper limit for everyone, or just for this couple?

……

Next to the pond surrounded by oleander, there were six golden lotuses growing in front of Rong Qing and others.

Like Xi Ran, they also tried to cultivate more lotus seeds. Rong Qing and the other three people could only cultivate one. But Zhi Zheng and Guan Han were able to cultivate three.

As to why this happened, Rong Qing attributed it to the special nature of her mark.

This was indeed the case. Otherwise, why would she choose this mark? It was because this mark was the best. If Rong Qing got it, she would have secured half of the victory.

Although the communication technique was forbidden in this space, other methods were not restricted. With the help of Zhizheng, who was at the peak of the Void Realm, many cultivators who came to investigate simply ignored the four of them and flew over them directly.

An extremely peaceful day passed, and several heartbeats sounded in the bodies of the four people.

(End of this chapter)