"We're here!"
Fang Chen stopped.
Before him lay a small, sunken basin. The sight at its center made even the well-traveled Myna bird suck in a breath.
Almost nothing else occupied the basin. Only a strange flower grew quietly atop a translucent, amber-like crystal at its center.
The flower stood about three feet tall. Its slender stem had a translucent, glassy sheen, and seven-colored liquid seemed to flow slowly within it. Instead of ordinary petals, its bloom was woven from countless impossibly fine threads. They drew invisible Karmic Power from the void, giving the bloom an ever-changing shape: now a lotus pedestal, now a nebula, then a blurred human face.
A faint Seven-Colored Rosy Glow surrounded the flower—the same glow they had seen from afar. Wherever it shone, the tangled karmic threads drifting through the air grew docile and orderly, slowly merging into the bloom.
Inside the amber crystal beneath the flower, a blurred figure appeared to be sealed. Its outline looked human, though its features were impossible to make out. Only a presence deep as the sea, filled with unwillingness and obsession, seeped faintly from it.
"The Karma Soul-Severing Flower! It really is!"
Delight lit Fang Chen's eyes.
The flower matched the description recorded in the Pill Soul Scroll exactly.
The figure sealed in the crystal below must have been the remnant obsession of the mighty being who had fallen here. That obsession, together with the vast karmic forces of the battlefield, had nurtured the flower.
"We're rich!"
The Myna bird's eyes gleamed. "Who would've thought we'd find this thing here!"
Fang Chen did not rush forward to pick it. As he carefully studied the Karma Soul-Severing Flower and considered how to harvest it, a sudden change erupted!
Bzz!
The translucent Karma Soul-Severing Flower blazed with light!
The Seven-Colored