Saving the White Moonlight Chapter 57

The formation had opened halfway. Only after the oath was completed would it fully open.
Yan Zhuguang walked to the crystal shoot and scooped up a handful of water, soaking her palms in the liquid condensed from Five-Glow Crystal energy. Then, with these hands, she gently pulled up the Heavenly Heart Five-Glow Lotus along with its roots in the liquid and stored the whole thing in the system inventory.
After the Heavenly Heart Five-Glow Lotus entered the inventory, Yan Zhuguang’s main quest to assist in investigating the former sect master also changed from part four to part five.
The system exchanged the reward for quest four into poisonous objects and placed them in the inventory. Yan Zhuguang took out two small jade gourds and divided the Five-Glow Crystal energy liquid in the crystal shoot into two halves, storing them separately. Then she handed one gourd to Yun Mixue.
“Senior Sister, keep this.”
Yun Mixue thought for a moment and did not refuse.
She knew that only if she accepted it would Zhuguang feel at ease. At worst, she would keep it for now and give it back to Zhuguang when Zhuguang needed it in the future.
The two searched the Five-Glow Crystal cave carefully again. After confirming nothing had been missed, they left the fissure.
After the Heavenly Heart Five-Glow Lotus that had been drawing away the Five-Glow Crystal energy was removed, perhaps this stone cave would slowly recover, or perhaps it would decline. But that would be a matter for those who came later.
“Senior Sister, this hidden realm will not close for a year. Should we search the other marked places and see if there are any clues?”
Yun Mixue thought it over and said, “To avoid making the elders and junior sisters worry, I cannot disappear for too long. If we continue investigating, we must hurry. Why don’t Zhuguang stay here and keep exploring? Give me that lotus seed, and I will deliver it to Miss Su.”
There were many good things in the hidden realm, and it was not as dangerous as imagined. Yun Mixue was not too worried about letting Yan Zhuguang stay and continue exploring.
If she made Yan Zhuguang leave the hidden realm with her, Yun Mixue would feel guilty instead.
Yan Zhuguang quickly shook her head. Let Senior Sister contact Su Qian’er alone? How could that be allowed?
She was also planning to carefully observe Su Qian’er when delivering the lotus seed. This hidden realm trip had given Yan Zhuguang a few more guesses, and she still needed to verify them.
“No need. After searching a little more, I will leave with Senior Sister,” Yan Zhuguang said. “I have already obtained two treasures. That is enough. There is no need to be greedy.”
Yun Mixue wanted to persuade her, but Yan Zhuguang’s attitude was very firm. “Then let us move quickly.”
The two first went to places the other had not explored, searching for suspicious traces.
Yan Zhuguang deliberately searched these places and discovered that all the marked places grew some strange spiritual plants. Although they were not as precious as the Heavenly Heart Five-Glow Lotus, most of them, like the earlier needle-leaf spiritual plant, had some unique trait.
This hidden realm could undoubtedly be called a treasury of spiritual plants. Among them, there were also many poisonous spiritual plants.
Yan Zhuguang collected a portion of each spiritual plant.
Cutting off small parts did not take much time. As long as her Sacrificial Blood Spirit Vine acted, harvesting was easy. Yan Zhuguang indulged herself, and Yun Mixue was also very supportive.
While collecting spiritual plants and searching, the two spent several days investigating all the remaining marked places. Unfortunately, they found nothing.
Perhaps the former sect master had not left marks anywhere else.
After investigating, Yun Mixue saw that Yan Zhuguang was interested in these spiritual plants. In the name of searching again, she brought Yan Zhuguang around the places she had gone before, letting her collect the spiritual plants at those marked spots too.
Yan Zhuguang did not act shy. She only hurried to pick things up.
After all the marked places on the map were investigated, the two did not delay and left the hidden realm.
Aside from that silk cloth, they had no other token. They had thought that leaving the hidden realm would take effort to find the exit.
Unexpectedly, the method of leaving this hidden realm was surprisingly simple. The moment the strong thought of leaving rose in their hearts, their bodies became light, and they left the hidden realm.
Inside the small space behind the stone gate, ripples spread over the jade wall that filled an entire side of the room. A figure cut through the ripples and drifted to the ground.
The ice-snow jade woman’s lashes trembled, and she opened her eyes. But a trace of confusion flashed through them.
Here, there was only her. The person who should have come out with her was gone.
Yun Mixue panicked a little. She turned to look at that jade wall, as if trying to see flowers bloom from it. Yet after waiting for a long while, the jade wall did not change at all.
Yan Zhuguang had not come out of the jade wall.
What was going on? She remembered Zhuguang leaving the hidden realm with her. Why had only she come out, while Zhuguang had vanished?
Yun Mixue’s spiritual sense was no longer restricted, but both the jade wall and the stone gate limited spiritual sense investigation. Yun Mixue did not know what had happened inside the jade wall.
She could not help touching the jade wall, wanting to enter the hidden realm again. However, her palm touched a cold, solid surface. This feeling was wrong.
At that moment, a bit of understanding appeared in Yun Mixue’s heart for no reason. This hidden realm could only be entered once by each person. Whether or not they stayed for the full year, once they left, they could never enter again.
In other words, no matter what Yan Zhuguang had encountered while leaving the hidden realm, Yun Mixue could not go in to rescue her. How could Yun Mixue not be anxious?
Yun Mixue closed her eyes and soon calmed down. She chose to keep waiting in the small space.
Zhuguang’s strength was not weak, and she was clever. No matter what she encountered, Yun Mixue believed she could turn danger into safety.
At this time, what was Yan Zhuguang doing?
She was now inside a narrow space filled with green light.
Yan Zhuguang had originally been leaving the hidden realm with Yun Mixue. Unexpectedly, during the process of leaving, the direction of her teleportation suddenly changed. Then she was sent into this green space.
After that, a voice buzzed and spoke to her.
The rough meaning was that being able to come here proved she had both a wood heavenly spiritual root and a Wood Spirit Body, making her a good seedling for learning plant cultivation methods. Also, she had gathered all the spiritual plants the voice’s owner had left in the space, which meant she had fate with him and could inherit his estate.
The owner of the voice muttered a long list of good things. In summary, this included the entire hidden realm, which Yan Zhuguang had now inherited.
If such a pie-in-the-sky good thing happened to someone else, they would probably cheer and be unable to hold back their excitement. Yan Zhuguang, however, felt no waves at all. She was even thinking of other things.
Would Senior Sister worry after leaving the hidden realm and seeing that she had not come out with her? She had to go find Senior Sister quickly.
Also, inheriting this hidden realm was truly troublesome. If she had inherited it earlier, would she not have had to agree to the former sect master’s condition? Would she not have had to give the Heavenly Heart Lotus Seed to Su Qian’er?
As the hidden realm’s owner, cracking a formation left here by an outsider would be easy. No matter how difficult the formation was, as long as it did not exceed the space’s authority, she would have a way.
Unfortunately, the oath had already been made. The hidden realm was inherited afterward. Also, if she had not obtained that Heavenly Heart Five-Glow Lotus, she might not have been able to inherit this hidden realm. Thinking about it was truly… painful.
This kind of sudden inheritance experience was already familiar and ordinary to Yan Zhuguang. It could not stir even a ripple in her heart.
Because in her last life, she had inherited estates far richer than this.
Unlike her calmness, the short-sighted system found it truly amazing.
Host’s ability to pick up missed treasures had once again refreshed its understanding.
The hidden realm owner’s voice sounded inside this small green space, and the system could hear it too. When it heard that one had to collect all the plants, it knew Host’s mysterious talent for finding missed treasures was shining again.
Think about it. If an ordinary person entered this hidden realm, even if they remembered the map drawn on the jade wall, how long would it take to investigate the specific locations of these spiritual plants while their spiritual sense was sealed and their strength was suppressed?
This was absolutely not something an ordinary person could do. In any case, the hidden realm’s one-year limit would never be enough.
Who knew what method the former sect master had used to draw that marked map, but in the end, Host had benefited from it.
However, this hidden realm was indeed tailor-made for Host. Even if others obtained that drawing, they might not have the ability to collect a piece of every spiritual plant, right?
Also, if other people did not have both a wood heavenly spiritual root and a Wood Spirit Body like Host, even if they met all the conditions above, it would still be useless. In the end, the hidden realm belonged to Host and would not run away.
Thinking about it, was this not the hidden realm owner’s luck too?
Who told you to set such harsh conditions? If my Host had not happened to meet all of them, your hidden realm could stay open until the end of time and still not find a qualified heir.
While Yan Zhuguang and the system each criticized the hidden realm’s owner in their hearts, the inheritance ceremony finally ended. Yan Zhuguang’s mind gained some cultivation records, which were the hidden realm owner’s cultivation inheritance.
Yan Zhuguang shook her head. She was not likely to walk the path of plant cultivation. For the sake of the hidden realm owner’s generosity, she would choose a suitable person in the future to pass down his inheritance.
Yan Zhuguang tidied herself and directly left the hidden realm’s core space.
When Yun Mixue saw Yan Zhuguang’s figure appear inside the jade wall, the string that had been tight in her heart finally loosened. Good. Zhuguang was fine.
The first thing Yan Zhuguang did after opening her eyes was comfort Yun Mixue. She smiled at Yun Mixue to show she was perfectly unharmed. “Senior Sister, I made you worry.”
Yun Mixue looked her up and down several times. “As long as you are fine.”
Yan Zhuguang held Yun Mixue’s hand for a while. After Yun Mixue truly calmed, Yan Zhuguang said, “Senior Sister, look.”
She raised her other hand, formed several hand seals, and cut her fingertip. A drop of blood essence flew toward the jade wall and was easily absorbed by it, like a drop falling into water.
Under Yun Mixue’s surprised gaze, the huge jade wall slowly shrank again and again. In the end, it became a small jade pendant and flew into Yan Zhuguang’s hand.
“This?”
“It is like this…”
After hearing what Yan Zhuguang had experienced, Yun Mixue was very happy. Her earlier worry was quickly cast aside. “With these inheritances in hand, Zhuguang’s cultivation path will be smoother in the future. Very good, very good.”
Yun Mixue had always worried that without a master and with Yan Zhuguang relying only on herself to explore cultivation, her path would be difficult. Now that she had an inheritance, there was no need to worry anymore.
Yan Zhuguang pressed her lips together and pulled out a smile. “Let us go out, Senior Sister.”