Saving the White Moonlight Chapter 55

Yun Mixue thought of the strange aura she had sensed in that mountain ditch and told Yan Zhuguang about it.
“In other words, if the aura Senior Sister sensed was left by the former sect master, then the former sect master very likely entered this hidden realm.”
“And this silk cloth with the marks can be confirmed as something the former sect master left behind?”
Earlier, they had guessed that the concealment spell on the silk cloth was placed by the former sect master, but it had only been a guess. If they could truly find proof that the former sect master had entered the hidden realm, perhaps they could confirm it was him.
Yun Mixue said, “My spiritual sense is restricted, so I cannot be certain whether the aura I sensed was mistaken.”
“I believe Senior Sister.” Yan Zhuguang’s eyes held absolute trust in Yun Mixue. “Let us go to the place Senior Sister discovered and take a look.”
Yun Mixue felt warm because of Yan Zhuguang’s trust. She answered softly, “All right.”
Although Yun Mixue’s cultivation had been restricted to late Core Formation, using the cloud-riding spell to carry two people was still easy. Yun Mixue and Yan Zhuguang rode the same white cloud and flew toward that layered mountain range.
Traveling with Senior Sister, Yan Zhuguang felt much more relaxed. Even though Senior Sister’s cultivation was restricted, her strength was still at the peak of this hidden realm. Before the demon beasts that wanted to attack them could get close, Yun Mixue drove them away from afar.
This time, they had a clear destination. The two did not spend much time before reaching the layered mountains, and they quickly found the mountain ditch where Yun Mixue had sensed that familiar aura.
The moment they landed, they entered a sheet of shadow. The trees growing in this mountain ditch were extremely tall, almost blocking out the sky. Only scattered specks of light came through. When one looked up, the little lights inside the dense canopy were like faint stars in the night sky.
Yun Mixue took out a night pearl to illuminate the forest floor. “After standing on solid ground, I cannot sense that aura anymore.”
Just now, when the two were in the sky, they had vaguely sensed that strange aura again. Since even Yan Zhuguang felt it this time, it naturally was not an illusion. The two roughly confirmed the direction from which the aura came and lowered the cloud. Unexpectedly, after they landed, that aura vanished instead.
Yan Zhuguang asked the system to investigate the area while saying to Yun Mixue, “It should be nearby. Let us look around.”
When the system investigated nearby with a clear target, it was quite efficient. It said to Yan Zhuguang, “Host, that aura is about thirty zhang southeast of you.”
Yan Zhuguang guided their search toward the direction the system had given. Sure enough, before long, the two discovered a cracked fissure not far to the southeast.
Strangely, the forest floor was very dark, but faint light leaked from that fissure. It was only very weak. If one did not get close, even in this dark environment, it would be hard to notice.
The fissure was not large, just enough for one person to go down.
Seeing no danger around them, Yun Mixue said to Yan Zhuguang, “I will go down first to scout. Zhuguang, follow after me.”
There were no red dots on the mini-map. At least on the surface, this small area had no enemies. As for hidden danger, as long as they stayed alert, Senior Sister’s strength should be enough. Yan Zhuguang had no objection. “Senior Sister, be careful.”
Yun Mixue jumped down first, her figure as light as a sheet of paper. After a while, she called from below, “Zhuguang, come down.”
Yan Zhuguang jumped down.
The space below the fissure was not very high, at least not as deep as the pit outside the hidden realm. Before long, Yan Zhuguang landed. Yun Mixue supported her, letting her stand steadily.
In the silent space under the fissure, aside from the two people’s breathing, a drop of water suddenly sounded, clean and crisp.
Yan Zhuguang studied the inside of the fissure.
This place was actually a stone cave.
The stone cave was very large, roughly the size of the palace area where the needle-leaf spiritual plant had been. Around them were clusters and sheets of crystal-clear crystals, as if they had accidentally entered a crystal palace.
The light illuminating the whole underground stone cave came from these colorful transparent crystals. Although the light was very weak, it was enough to let people see the cave’s shape.
Yun Mixue took out that pearl again, and the fissure space instantly brightened. Reflected by countless crystals, the entire stone cave became as bright as daylight.
Clusters of crystal shoots grew from the bottom of the cave, extending upward at uneven heights. Corresponding to these crystal shoots, clusters of crystal cones hung upside down from the cave ceiling.
At the tip of the largest crystal cone in the center of the cave, a shining crystal drop of water hung faintly, suspended and not yet fallen. At a glance, one could tell it was no ordinary thing.
Below the crystal cone, at the top of the stone shoot, was a small pool of clear liquid that seemed to glow with five-colored light.
The sound Yan Zhuguang had heard had come from there.
However, the most eye-catching thing was not the crystal cone or the crystal shoot, but the beautiful flower growing in that clear spring, glowing with five-colored light.
The flower was only the size of a palm. Its petals were crystal clear, and every vein could be seen clearly. In the flower heart were three full seeds, warm and smooth like jade. The whole flower seemed carved by heaven itself, beautiful beyond belief.
Yan Zhuguang murmured, “Heavenly Heart Five-Glow Lotus…”
“Zhuguang recognizes this flower too?”
Yun Mixue looked at that strange flower with appreciation in her eyes and no other thought. She was only moved that this legendary rare treasure was truly as exquisite as the rumors said.
Yan Zhuguang said, “It is one of the famous Ten Great Rare Treasures. I have heard of it too.”
The Heavenly Heart Five-Glow Lotus was not a treasure from Yan Zhuguang’s original world. She had learned of its existence from a strange-records book in Fenghua Immortal Sect’s Library Pavilion. That book discussed the Ten Great Rare Treasures she had mentioned.
These Ten Great Rare Treasures should have been settings created by the original book’s author. The Heavenly Heart Five-Glow Lotus was one of those rare flowers and plants. Like Frostflight Snow, in Yan Zhuguang’s view, they were all extremely unbelievable things.
The Heavenly Heart Five-Glow Lotus’s effect was too heaven-defying, so heaven-defying that it did not seem like something the cultivation world could possess.
If it were divided by rank, in Yan Zhuguang’s original world, such a rare treasure should at least be classed as immortal grade and grow in the immortal world.
Five-Glow referred to Five-Glow Crystal. Heavenly Heart was the true name of this strange flower.
The Heavenly Heart Five-Glow Lotus absorbed the essence of Five-Glow Crystal and needed at least ten thousand years to form one flower. The flower produced three lotus seeds, which were the essence of the whole flower.
The faintly glowing spirit stones in this stone cave were the Five-Glow Crystals after their essence had been absorbed.
Heavenly Heart, the heart of heaven, referred to those three lotus seeds. It also represented the unique effect of those three lotus seeds: Heavenly Heart Lotus Seeds could make up for any inborn defect of a cultivator. Any defect at all.
Three lotus seeds meant three chances.
Its heaven-defying nature lay in the fact that the defect it repaired depended entirely on the thoughts and wishes of the person who swallowed the seed.
For example, if the person who swallowed the seed hoped to make up for the defect of being born with low strength, the Heavenly Heart Lotus Seed could instantly push that person’s strength to the human world’s peak, which was the Great Ascension realm.
Was that not heaven-defying?
If Yan Zhuguang swallowed a Heavenly Heart Lotus Seed, she could even make her wood spiritual root, which was still transforming after birth, become a true and complete poison spiritual root, just like a natural poison spiritual root, with no side effects at all.
And mortals without spiritual roots could also rely on a Heavenly Heart Lotus Seed to become cultivation talents with extremely strong spiritual roots.
Speaking of this point, one had to mention the original book’s heroine, Shen Wanqing.
She had swallowed the Heavenly Heart Lotus Seed Gu Chen gave her and, in one move, changed from a mortal with no spiritual root into a cultivation genius with outstanding talent. She made a beautiful comeback and trampled everyone who had bullied her before underfoot.
So the author’s purpose in creating such a strange, heaven-defying spiritual plant was obvious.
The only strange thing was that since this rare treasure was so heaven-defying, even if it was a golden finger specially created for the heroine, one seed would have been enough. Why did there have to be three? Did three look better?
Of course, in a book created by the author, the author could create whatever they wanted. If it was unbelievable, then it was unbelievable.
Yan Zhuguang looked at the Heavenly Heart Five-Glow Lotus calmly. Her eyes were without waves. She showed none of the excitement or joy of finding a heaven-defying rare treasure.
She knew very well that a real world was not as simple as one stroke of a pen.
Something like the Heavenly Heart Five-Glow Lotus had such heaven-defying effects. Perhaps after taking it, one could obtain heaven-defying benefits, but no one could say whether those benefits would have other hidden aftereffects.
If one wanted to gain something, one had to pay a matching price. Perhaps the more one gained from the Heavenly Heart Lotus Seed, the heavier the price. The book did not mention a price, but that did not mean that after the book became a real world, it would still be so unreliable.
Yan Zhuguang was rational and mature enough. So she was not overwhelmed by the Heavenly Heart Five-Glow Lotus.
Seeing her remain calm from beginning to end, Yun Mixue admired her greatly. Even Yun Mixue herself could not help being drawn into the Heavenly Heart Five-Glow Lotus’s strange beauty. Yet Yan Zhuguang looked as unmoved as if she were seeing an ordinary stone.
Having such steadiness at this age, Zhuguang’s state of mind truly far surpassed others. No wonder she cultivated so quickly.
In truth, Yan Zhuguang was weighing in her heart the gains and losses of using such a treasure as the Heavenly Heart Five-Glow Lotus. She had not paid attention to the lotus’s appearance at all.
“Is one of the three lotus seeds from this Heavenly Heart Five-Glow Lotus the one the heroine swallowed?”
The system said, “The Heavenly Heart Five-Glow Lotus is not roadside cabbage. Having even one is already heaven-defying. The Heavenly Heart Lotus Seeds also have a limited storage time, so there should not be other Heavenly Heart Lotus Seeds, right? Judging by the timeline, it is very possible.”
In the book, the male lead had not gone through much trouble to obtain that Heavenly Heart Lotus Seed, because it had originally been in his hands. Or rather, it had been in the sect’s secret treasury controlled by the sect master. As for how the lotus seed had ended up in the male lead’s hands, no one knew.
Yan Zhuguang thought about it. The former sect master’s death had been mentioned in the book and was an established fact. Senior Sister coming to investigate the former sect master’s cause of death should also have truly happened.
Then perhaps, in the world where she did not exist, Senior Sister had also discovered this hidden realm, found this fissure, brought the Heavenly Heart Lotus Seeds back to Fenghua Immortal Sect, and handed them to Sect Master Gu Chen.
If so, it made sense. With Senior Sister’s character, handing a rare treasure over to the sect was absolutely something she would do.
She only did not know whether this hidden realm trip was an established fact mentioned in the book, or something this world had filled in by itself.
“Senior Sister, there does not seem to be any sign of artificial modification here. Did you sense that familiar aura?” Yan Zhuguang pressed down the rolling guesses in her heart.
Yun Mixue said, “Here.”
She gently tossed the pearl in her hand toward the Heavenly Heart Five-Glow Lotus. Before it could get close, a dazzling dark light rose. The pearl was fiercely bounced away. Before it landed, Yun Mixue lightly beckoned, and the pearl returned to her hand.
But that crystal-clear pearl was now covered in dense cracks. If she loosened her hand, it would probably crumble into powder.
“This is Fenghua Immortal Sect’s secret formation, the Wall-Wind Formation.”
“Host, Host, this is the Wall-Wind Formation!”
Yun Mixue and the system’s voices sounded at the same time.