Cultivating Immortality in Two Realms: Sunflower Lord

Ji Ruchang stood at the edge of the halo, feeling the surging true energy within her body, and couldn't hide the smile on her lips.

One hundred and eighteen strands of true essence and magical power.

With the third-tier Holy Sun in charge, the nine sunflowers intertwined their light.

With a whip in hand, a bronze lamp hanging from the ceiling, and an ancient bronze mirror for protection.

With this setup and this level of strength, dealing with ordinary monsters is simply—

Mowing grass.

True essence was poured into the lamp, instantly unleashing the power of this superior magical artifact.

A huge golden fireball, trailing a long flame, traced a graceful arc and fell precisely into the monster horde.

A novice-level vengeful ghost had the misfortune of becoming the first target of this fireball.

Before it could even scream, its soul was instantly ignited by the golden flames.

The flames were like a persistent, insidious infection, burning from the surface of the soul to its core, and from the core to every wisp of soul power.

In just three breaths, the vengeful ghost transformed into a crystal-clear soul crystal, which fell with a tinkling sound into the darkness at the edge of the light circle.

Ji Ruchang made a grasping motion with her left hand, and her true essence transformed into an invisible hand, drawing the soul crystal into the light circle.

The soul crystal landed and quickly disintegrated, turning into pure soul power, which was absorbed by the plant that had just sprouted from the ground... wait, it hadn't even sprouted yet.

He didn't have time to think it through, because more monsters surged up.

Fireballs, one after another.

True essence, inexhaustible.

Those monsters roared, struggled, fell, and turned to ashes outside the circle of light.

Ji Ruchang didn't even need to move his feet; he could simply stand still and throw fireballs one after another to reap wave after wave of supplies.

This style of play is so satisfying.

A thought even crossed his mind—

If only things could stay like this forever.

Then, reality slapped him in the face.

Just as Ji was immersed in the harvest as usual—

"Buzz..."

The star chart composed of thirty-six star apertures suddenly trembled!

An indescribable feeling of unease, like a cold snake, instantly crept up his spine!

That feeling didn't come from the front, nor from the left or right, but from—

Above!

Ji Ruchang did not hesitate at all.

He didn't even have time to look up before his body reacted instinctively!

With a burst of speed from his feet, he shot off to the side like an arrow!

"boom--!!!"

Right where he had just stood, a pale white attack, imbued with intense death energy, crashed down like a sword of divine punishment!

The ground exploded, and debris flew everywhere!

The power of that attack was more terrifying than any fireball he had ever launched!

Ji rolled to the ground as usual, then looked up at the sky—

There was nothing there.

Only thick, churning, ghostly mist remained.

But in his star map perception, a massive outline was slowly moving through the mist.

The outline had three heads.

Six eyes were staring intently at him.

Ji Ruchang's pupils contracted slightly.

As his star map perception was fully activated, the outline gradually became clearer in his mind—

It was a huge white bone bird.

Its entire body is made of white bones, with a wingspan of over three zhang (approximately 10 meters), and its bones are densely covered with strange runes.

It has three heads, each like an enlarged skull bird head, with eerie green flames burning in its eye sockets.

At that moment, the three heads turned towards him simultaneously, their six eerie green eyes fixed on his position.

The second attack is already poised to launch.

Ji Ruchang had no time to think and retreated again!

"boom!"

Another beam of pale light grazed the hem of his clothes and slammed into the spot where he had just landed!

The ground exploded again!

Ji Ruchang looked up at the white bone bird.

It flew very high, at least ten zhang away, far exceeding the effective range of the lamp fireball.

It seemed to understand this as well, and was in no hurry to dive down. Instead, it hovered high in the sky, occasionally swooping down to unleash an attack.

This tactic was exactly the same as the one he used when dealing with those monsters.

A sense of absurdity welled up in Ji Ruchang's heart.

I was just enjoying the feeling of "I can hit you, but you can't hit me". In the blink of an eye, it became "you can hit me, but I can't hit you".

Retribution came too quickly.

But he didn't panic.

With a flick of his right hand, the mountain-driving whip appeared in his grasp.

True energy surged in frantically!

The two-foot-long stone whip instantly grew larger!

One zhang, two zhang, three zhang—

In the end, it transformed into a giant python that was about five zhang long and as thick as a water bucket!

At the tip of the whip, light condensed, and the faint phantom of a roaring behemoth could be seen!

Ji Ruchang gripped the whip with both hands, staring at the white bone bird in the sky.

The white bone bird seemed to sense the danger, and its three heads simultaneously emitted a piercing screech as it suddenly rose into the air!

But that wasn't Ji Ruchang's goal.

But -

"drink!"

He turned around abruptly and lashed his whip fiercely at the dense horde of monsters behind him!

"boom--!!!"

That five-zhang-long giant whip swept across the land like divine punishment descending from the heavens!

More than a dozen monsters were hit head-on!

Some shattered on the spot, some were flung away, and some turned to ashes in mid-air!

Where the whip swept, it left a blank space!

With a flick of his wrist, Ji Ruchang whipped the monster's remains together with the corpses left behind from the previous kills, and hurled them fiercely into the circle of light!

Then, without looking back, he ran wildly toward the courtyard gate!

Behind him, the white bone bird finally reacted, and the third attack crashed down!

But Ji Ruchang had already rushed into the doorway.

"boom!"

The attack landed outside the doorway, blasting up a pile of rubble.

Ji Ruchang stood inside the doorway, panting heavily, and looked back at the sky.

The white bone bird hovered above the courtyard, its three heads looking down at him, emitting angry screech.

But it didn't follow.

It seems... it can't get in.

To be precise, it seems that there is a kind of power in the courtyard, and the monster cannot sense anything in the courtyard.

Because after Ji Ruchang entered the courtyard gate, the white bone bird landed in front of the courtyard gate, its main body already inside the light curtain, and it was eager to try its luck in front of the gate!

Ji Ruchang did not stop and continued running towards the stone hall.

He ran while looking back.

The white-boned bird hasn't chased after us yet.

But it's unclear what it will do next.

However, Ji Ruchang dared not go up to the sky, lest she attract more of these sky monsters. But if it entered the courtyard, Ji Ruchang would not be afraid!

Soon, something new caught Ji Ruchang's attention.

The sunflower seed that had absorbed all the loot from killing monsters... sprouted.

Ji Ruchang strode into the main hall and came to the basin of water that he had temporarily placed there.

At this moment, the basin has been transformed into a giant flowerpot.

In the pot, the sunflower seed, as white as jade, had already cracked open with a thin fissure.

A tender green bud peeks out from the crevice.

The bud tip is greedily absorbing all the energy around it.

That energy came from the monsters he had just killed, from the afterglow of the third-tier Holy Sunflower, and from the starlight true essence within his body that had not yet completely subsided.

The bud tip is growing at a rate visible to the naked eye.

One inch, two inches, three inches...

A moment later, a sunflower, about a foot tall and pure white like jade, stood quietly in the pot.

Its stems are slender, its leaves are tender green, and its flower heads are small, emitting a soft, milky white glow.

[Tier 1 Sunflower: Sunflower (Growth: 3/100)]

[Daily Semen Reserves: 0.3 units]

Ji Ruchang looked at it, a smile appearing on her lips.

Suddenly, a dazzling light burst forth from the flower head of that sunflower!

That light was different from that of the Golden Sunflower, and also different from that of the Holy Sunflower.

It is gentler, more...inclusive.

Like the first ray of sunlight in the morning, like the last rays of sunset at dusk.

A beam of light shot into the sky, piercing straight into the hazy heavens!

Then--

Its daybreak.

Above the entire courtyard, a spherical area with a radius of 500 meters centered on the illuminating sunflower was illuminated by a faint light.

That was sunlight, real sunlight!

The light that comes from the area around Heishanqian Village, the light of the rising sun.

The Sunflower Lighting is anchored to the surrounding environment of the blessed land where Ji Ruchang often enters and exits, and can synchronize with the rotation of the sun and moon there!

Golden, warm, and vibrant sunlight spilled into the courtyard, onto the small sunflower, and onto Ji Ruchang as she walked out of the main hall.

Ji Ruchang basked in the sunlight, every pore on her body seemed to rejoice.

The other nine sunflowers were also bathed in this light, and their strength suddenly increased!

Who says sunflowers can only provide illumination and have limited effects?

When paired with other sunflowers, the effect is amazing!

Within the entire blessed land, the highest mountaintop courtyard seemed to be a celestial palace.

From a distance, it looks as if it's enveloped in a huge sphere of light!

This sudden change deeply disturbed the monsters.

These were all filthy monsters that hadn't seen the sun for years. When the morning sun shone down, they felt uncomfortable all over.

The white-boned bird flew out of the light circle in a flash.

The combination of these two factors caused a dramatic change that startled the already wary creature.

It flew straight for more than 500 meters before heading back towards the mountain peak and unleashing dozens of attacks condensed from the power of the netherworld!