Xiang Beifei surveyed the ground covered with Ghost King Flowers. Each Ghost King Flower looked pure and innocent; although they were large, they seemed harmless to humans and animals. The tender petals appeared delicate, with tiny blue bees gathering nectar from them.
If one hadn't seen it with their own eyes, no one would believe that these could actually be the formidable Man-eating Flowers.
Li Qianluo carefully walked to a leaf as large as a bedsheet and lifted it, revealing a bloody severed hand beneath!
This hand belonged to the Yi Tribe member who had just been enveloped by the giant flower—his arm had still been sticking out of the petals when the soft petals cleanly sliced it off at the elbow.
"It's from the Six-toed Race."
Li Qianluo examined the severed hand.
During the scuffle with the four Yi Tribe members, they all had their arms extended, brandishing a black blade on their forearms. Judging by this severed hand, which closely resembled a human's, there was a strange horn growing in its palm, looking like a sixth finger, which was the black blade they used in combat.
Xiang Beifei didn't know what the Six-toed Race was. Li Qianluo thought Xiang Beifei knew and didn't explain further. Soon, some earthworm-like roots crawled over the ground, wrapping around the severed hand and dragging it underground.
"Ao wu!" Erha called out softly.
"Can't you control the plants here?"
"Ao wu ao wu!" Erha indicated that the plants here seemed to possess some very strange ability that severed his connection to them.
Li Qianluo took a few steps around the edge of the Flower Sea and said, "That spiritual power crystal is a decoy by these flowers, its real Beast Pill should be—in—"
"On the withered flower bud twenty-seven meters to the left." Xiang Beifei had already noticed it.
This flower was adept at camouflage; all the flowers were growing vigorously, except a few withered buds that appeared malnourished, which most people would overlook.
Li Qianluo took another careful look at the giant flower, then said, "This flower is not a real living being; it must be something powerful in disguise. I'll go and take care of it."
Without waiting for Xiang Beifei to speak, she darted out, transforming into a streak of light, rushing to the flower bud. At that moment, the other giant flowers also sensed danger and moved to defend themselves as Li Qianluo charged.
All the flowers rapidly opened and closed, lunging toward Li Qianluo, and countless tendrils also lashed out at her. They no longer attempted to disguise or lure the enemy because the threat from Li Qianluo was too great.
The entire Flower Sea came to life; the previously frail flowers filled with a murderous intent, with many petals rapidly spinning, resembling darts in flight, zipping through the air, slicing through the void, and swooping at Li Qianluo.
Confronting the murderous petals and flying leaves, Li Qianluo seemed entirely unconcerned, even relaxed. Her figure was light as she danced among the flowers like a sprite, effortlessly sweeping her hand, powerful spiritual energy coalescing around her.
A strange aura seemed to swell around her, and when the killer petals and leaves touched the whirlwind by her body, all their ferocity dissipated, becoming as soft as butter, and they fluttered up like ordinary petals caught in the wind, sent spinning through the air by her manipulation.
More and more petals converged on her, but each one was repurposed by her touch, as she moved unobstructed, like a sprite who controlled the petals, and reached the withered bud, then leaned over to pluck—
All the spinning petals and flying leaves of the Flower Sea suddenly froze midair, then gradually began to crumble and fall, turning to ash.
What was once a vast sea of flowers vanished in an instant.
"It's taken care of."
Li Qianluo was very pleased with her performance.
Xiang Beifei couldn't help but be astonished.
This girl was truly impressive; she took down the Flower Sea effortlessly and seemed to barely exert herself. She indeed had skill.
Li Qianluo eyed the object in her hand—a milky-white crystal shaped like the bud of a flower, only the size of a fist, emitting the rich, energetic fluctuations characteristic of the early stages of the Heavenly Connection realm.
Li Qianluo pursed her lips in slight disappointment, then tossed the crystal to Xiang Beifei, saying, "Here, it's yours."
"For me?" Xiang Beifei caught the crystal, "You don't want it?"
"I'm not interested in this; consider it payment for that Ladi Rat we roasted earlier." Li Qianluo said generously.
Xiang Beifei didn't quite know what to say.
In the outside world, these spiritual power crystals were coveted by all, with people vying fiercely over them, yet to Li Qianluo, they were like random wildflowers by the roadside, given away as easily as that.
"Alright then, if you don't want it, I'll accept it—thank you."
Xiang Beifei didn't stand on ceremony; he truly needed it.
Now that he had stepped into the Heavenly Connection realm, he could continue to unlock constellations in the Spirit Gathering Book, but unlocking the fifteenth constellation required an enormous amount of spiritual power crystals—Kui Constellation needed a total of fifteen crystals to be unlocked, the largest constellation to date.
Back when he was in Jiuzhou, although he had put Zhu Yiji, He Caiwei, and Lady Qiu in their places and acquired quite a few Heavenly Connection realm spiritual power crystals from them, he had counted only seven and was still short of eight early-stage spiritual power crystals to complete his collection.