CHAPTER 29: CHAPTER 28: BIG-MOUTH FLOWER

"Snap," a sound interrupted Li Xing’s train of thought.

It turned out that the top-grade Spirit Stone, constantly hugged by the Big-mouth Flower’s roots, had fallen. The originally white and translucent Spirit Stone had turned grey, and upon closer inspection, there were many web-like cracks on its surface, with all the Spiritual Energy within the stone gone.

Does the Big-mouth Flower feed on Spiritual Energy?

Maybe it was her illusion, but the Big-mouth Flower’s color was slightly deeper than before.

Li Xing placed the Big-mouth Flower on the ground and untied the Immortal Binding Rope, knowing Little Fatty was watching intently, she assumed it wouldn’t be able to escape.

"Since you can see the reason for my furnace explosion, can you tell me how to solve it?"

The Big-mouth Flower shook its head and said, "I know the Spirit Plant of the Qianyuan Realm inside out, but I don’t know Alchemy."

Li Xing’s eyes lit up: "What do you mean by knowing it inside out?"

"For example, the medicinal properties and pharmacology of the Spirit Plant in the Qianyuan Realm, its growth environment, habits and preferences, accompanying spirit beasts, its name in the cultivation world..."

"What—!" Li Xing was excited, "You know the names of the Spirit Plants on Qianyuan Continent in the cultivation world?"

The Big-mouth Flower nodded, looking simple-minded: "Of course, because these Spirit Plants were originally varieties from the cultivation world. However, because the Qianyuan Realm shattered, the Spiritual Energy became mixed, and the Spirit Plants mutated, most of them became very different from those in the Hundred Herbs Atlas."

Li Xing felt her heart was about to leap out—forefather, she was worried about not having an atlas for comparison, and now out of the blue comes a live one!

Calm down, before things are clarified, she can’t believe its one-sided words.

"Since the appearances are very different, how do you identify them?"

The Big-mouth Flower tilted its head, although it had nothing but a mouth on its head, Li Xing got a feeling of being watched, and distinctly felt that the opposite party’s gaze was as if looking at a fool.

"I naturally watched them transform bit by bit from familiar forms into what they are now."

Li Xing was angry: "Didn’t you say you had slept for a long time, how could you watch the Spirit Plants transform with your own eyes? Are you teasing me?"

The Big-mouth Flower shook its head, and its voice carried some confusion: "I don’t know how to describe this feeling, I did sleep, but in my dream, I could distinctly sense all the Spirit Plants of Qianyuan Continent, knew where they grew, and how they appeared. When I woke up and opened my eyes, the flowers and plants nearby really were just like how I saw them in my dream."

With a body a thousand miles away, the soul sees everything right before it, is this what’s happening?

Hmph, just talking without practice is empty talk, trying it out will reveal the truth!

Li Xing took out the Spirit Plants used to refine the Small Returning Pill, lined them up for the Big-mouth Flower to identify. The Big-mouth Flower placed two roots on the ground to support its body, one root behind its back, one root extended, pointing at them one by one like an old scholar:

"Seven-color Lotus, sweet taste, neutral nature, the flower calyx can be used medicinally, green is top-grade."

"Daughter Red, mildly mutated, likes humidity, warm nature, the whole plant can be used medicinally, the medicinal properties are twice as strong as the ordinary variety."

"Nine-leaf Spirit Ginseng, hot nature, bitter taste, ten prongs and above are superior."

...

Listening and nodding mentally, Li Xing felt this Big-mouth Flower had some worth.

"Envyless Grass, highly mutated variety..."

"Hold on!" Li Xing was shocked: "Isn’t this Nishang Grass?"

The Big-mouth Flower stretched out a root, fiddled with it, and confidently said: "It’s Envyless Grass. Originally, Envyless Grass is a single stalk with five leaves, but this one mutated excessively into three leaves two buds, looking very similar to the three leaves two buds Nishang Grass."

Li Xing didn’t believe it, reached out to peel open a stem and scrutinize the two small buds at the top, indeed, they were leaf buds, not flower buds.

So that’s it, the wrong material was selected, no wonder the furnace exploded!

Li Xing finally believed the Big-mouth Flower knew Spirit Plants thoroughly, now she looked at the Big-mouth Flower with eyes tender enough to drip water.

How could she find the Big-mouth Flower ugly, it’s simply the most beautiful flower in the world!

"Why did you steal the Spirit Stone? Was it to absorb the Spiritual Energy inside?"

"Yes. I’m hungry..." the Big-mouth Flower nodded, the corners of its mouth drooping down. "I was starving after I woke up, so hungry I faded, only absorbing Spiritual Energy felt relieving."

The Big-mouth Flower was not strong in combat, could only rely on hunting low-level Star Beasts and absorbing the weak Spiritual Energy inside low-level Crystal Stones to stave off hunger, it had been a long time since it tasted such delicious pure Spiritual Energy, it really missed this flavor!

If it could eat Spirit Stone of this grade every day, it wouldn’t take long to restore its former beauty, perhaps even regain lost memories.

"Still hungry, can I eat another?" Stretching out a root pointing at the broken Shielding Array, the Big-mouth Flower looked at Li Xing eagerly. It’s a Wisdom Flower, after all, knows that array setting requires many Spirit Stones, it only ate one, surely Li Xing still has more.

Li Xing chuckled, flipped her wrist, magically revealed a fist-sized top-grade Spirit Stone, her arrogant display, wealthy and diverse, almost made the Big-mouth Flower drop its jaw.

"Ahhhh——! So big——! So fragrant——!"

The Big-mouth Flower flailed, spewed quite a bit of liquid from its mouth, looked for all the world like it was excited to the point of drooling.

"Can I eat it? Can I? I’m begging you, let me eat, and I’ll do anything you ask!"

With a cunning smile indicating she had succeeded in her trick, Li Xing tossed the top-grade Spirit Stone up and down, the Big-mouth Flower’s head bobbed along with it, until the Big-mouth Flower’s drool was dripping to the ground before Li Xing finally stopped the tease and spoke:

"Do you want Spirit Stone to eat every day from now on?"

"I want! I want——!" The Big-mouth Flower nodded eagerly, not wanting to spend another day hungry.

"Follow me, acknowledge me as your master, I’ll give you three stones like this every day, how’s that?"

"Five stones! No, ten stones! Ten stones every day, then I’ll form a master-servant contract with you, whatever you ask me to do, I’ll do!"

"Deal!"

Afraid Li Xing would regret, the Big-mouth Flower proactively formed a contract with Li Xing, instantly in Li Xing’s Divine Sense, a comfortably close feeling purple dot appeared alongside the red dot representing Little Fatty.

Throwing the top-grade Spirit Stone to the Big-mouth Flower, the Big-mouth Flower immediately used its roots all over, seemingly wanting to curl its whole body around the Spirit Stone, the white glowing Spirit Stone visibly dimmed, while the Big-mouth Flower emitted sounds of satisfaction.

Fulfilling her promise, Li Xing gave the day’s quota to the Big-mouth Flower, which promptly swallowed it. It had a Space Bag inside its mouth, keeping the Spirit Stone inside allowed it to retrieve it whenever convenient.

Li Xing spared no effort in establishing her image before her new spirit pet:

"I don’t need you to help fight enemies, your primary task is to teach me to identify Spirit Plants. In this world, Spirit Stones are very expensive, I have to work many jobs to afford to keep you. But don’t worry, since you have acknowledged me as your master, I will definitely shoulder a master’s responsibility, no matter how hard or tiring, I won’t let you go hungry."

The Big-mouth Flower was moved to tears: "Master—I love you so much! I will definitely obediently help Master with tasks!"

Little Fatty couldn’t stand listening anymore, transmitted: "Hey, the new fool doesn’t know, but I know, you have dozens of boxes of top-grade Spirit Stones, even giving it a hundred stones a day wouldn’t be a pressure!"

Makes it sound like you’re selling a kidney!

Li Xing: "What do you understand, I’m nurturing its gratitude from a young age! Eating doesn’t make you poor, wearing doesn’t make you poor, planning poorly is what makes you poor. Look how fast the Big-mouth Flower absorbs Spirit Stones, if I let it eat open-stomach, how many would it eat a day? These aren’t sheep dung balls, they’re top-grade Spirit Stones, each one is money. Besides, the Spirit Stones aren’t just mine, they belong to the whole family, I’m only temporarily taking care of them, and I’ll have to return them in the future. You’re an Abnormal Fire that’s never worried about food and drink, what do you know about the hardships of life? The matter of Spirit Stones must not be revealed to the Big-mouth Flower, otherwise, I won’t let you stealthily eat Spiritual Energy Balls!"

This greedy Abnormal Fire covets benefits during her cultivation, don’t think she’s unaware!

Little Fatty turned its face: "Hmph!"

This human, just like those fierce cultivators, full of cunning! How could it have signed a contract with her in a moment of confusion.

Seeing the Big-mouth Flower so satisfied with Spirit Stones to eat, Li Xing silently rejoiced in having picked up a gem.

"Hey, do you have a name?"

"Yes, I’m called Wisdom."

"This name isn’t familiar, let me give you a good sounding and catchy name then?"

"Okay, you’re the master, you have the final say."

"You’re so capable and sensible, let’s call you—Big-mouth!"

The Big-mouth Flower’s petals drooped: "...sounds unintelligent, can we change it?"

"Big-mouth is a nickname, let’s call you that for now and change it when we think of something better."

"Okay then..."

Little Fatty was teary-eyed: Familiar tricks, familiar outcomes, seeing that fool Big-mouth just reminds it of itself back then, what bad luck!