The Use of Wildflowers

"Senior Sister, are all the shops here stores for soul master supplies?"

Following Hu Liena toward the commercial district, Su Chen quickly noticed that something was off.

Although there were many shops along the way, most of them sold supplies for soul masters.

And in this era, even Soul Tools had yet to be developed. The variety of supplies for soul masters was extremely limited.

The remaining shops were overwhelmingly dominated by clothing and food.

As a result, while there were quite a few shops here, their selection was incredibly monotonous.

The entire commercial district gave off an obviously distorted impression.

"Of course. This is Spirit City. Most of the people living here are soul masters. What else would they sell?"

Hu Liena had no intention of lingering here. She grabbed Su Chen and headed straight for the area centered around clothing and food.

"Senior Sister, could you wait a moment?"

As the two passed an inconspicuous little shop, Su Chen suddenly reached out and grabbed Hu Liena's wrist.

He had caught a familiar scent.

"What is it?"

Feeling the force around her wrist, Hu Liena abruptly halted.

"I found an interesting shop."

Before Hu Liena could react, Su Chen pulled her toward a quiet little store.

"Hello, do you two customers need anything?"

An elderly woman walked forward with a cane. She appeared to be the shop's owner.

"This place seems rather different from most of the other shops."

This little shop was only around thirty square meters and had no decorations to speak of.

"I'm a local resident. Although Your Holiness the Pope offered very generous terms when Spirit City was built, I still didn't want to leave the place where my family had lived for generations."

Faced with customers in her little shop for the first time in a long while, the elderly woman smiled.

"I see. Is this a flower shop? I can smell a fragrance here."

After gently sniffing the purple-blue flowers on the counter, Su Chen turned and asked.

"Yes. But most of them are flowers I grew myself or picked nearby. There aren't any particularly rare varieties."

The elderly woman nodded, then slowly crouched down and pulled out a sheet of paper from beneath the counter.

It was a price list.

"Muli Flower? What is that?"

The price list was extremely simple, with only basic written labels.

There were not even any accompanying illustrations.

"It's this kind of flower. It's quite common around here."

As she spoke, the elderly woman pointed at a pot of little white flowers in the corner.

"So it's Fragrant Soul Grass."

Only after seeing the actual flower did Su Chen finally understand.

This type of flower was indeed quite common. It was just that where they came from, it was usually called Fragrant Soul Grass.

The two great empires stand opposed to one another, while so many duchies and provinces have vastly different cultures. Even such a common little flower can have different names.

Su Chen rolled a small flower between his fingertips, deep in thought.

Although the Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empires had existed for a long time, they truly left much to be desired.

Compared with allowing those two to continue their standoff, unifying the entire continent would indeed be a better choice for most people.

In any case, the so-called order Tang San established has already been proven a failure. Since that's the case, I'll give it a try.

Just as Su Chen was filled with ambition, Hu Liena rapidly tapped the price list with her fingertip.

"These flowers come to 22 Copper Soul Coins in total, right? Here, take this. No need to give me the change."

After searching through all the pockets on her body, Hu Liena finally managed to find a few Silver Soul Coins.

After all, a little shop like this definitely could not make change for a Gold Soul Coin.

"Alright, please wait a moment, you two."

Looking at the four Silver Soul Coins on the table, a brilliant smile spread across the elderly woman's wrinkled face.

As the elderly woman hobbled into the back with her cane to look for the flowers, Su Chen and Hu Liena obediently remained at the counter and waited.

"Come to think of it, Junior Brother."

"Hmm?"

"What are you buying these for? Are you planning to give them to some little girl?"

Hu Liena lay across Su Chen's shoulder and asked.

"You don't know about this, do you?"

Su Chen raised a finger, putting on a mysterious air.

"Although these are all very common things, if used properly, they can produce unexpected effects."

"But speaking of which, Senior Sister, how did you know I was going to buy these things?"

Su Chen asked curiously. He had not said anything; could Hu Liena read minds?

"They're just wildflowers. How much use could they possibly have?"

Watching Su Chen act all mysterious, Hu Liena lifted her chin confidently.

"As for how I knew what you were going to buy—you have to tell me what you bought these things for first. Then I'll tell you."

"If that's the case, I'll let you try it out right now."

Taking the few pots of flowers he had just bought from the old woman, Su Chen left the little shop with satisfaction.

"What are you going to do?"

Because she had grown up in Spirit City, Hu Liena had rarely even seen these wildflowers.

Much less knew what they could be used for.

"Let's go back to the room first. I had the maid prepare some tools for me earlier."

Over the past four years, although he had found it difficult to cultivate due to not having a martial soul, Su Chen had not wasted that time. Instead, he had focused on studying the various plants of this world.

Back when he read novels, he had felt that the technology tree of Douluo Continent was utterly ridiculous.

Despite having thousands upon thousands of years of cultivation history, the vast Douluo Continent had not even developed a single decent cultivation technique.

Those so-called sects merely relied on bloodlines to pass down talent.

They even needed Tang San, a transmigrator, to bring cultivation techniques over from a wuxia world.

For a fantasy world to have reached such a state was ridiculously absurd in a class of its own.

Of course, that was not even the most absurd part.

Other fantasy novels at least had things like alchemy.

But here in Douluo Continent, forget alchemy—even basic items for restoring health and Soul Power did not exist. They had to rely on soul skills to accomplish that.

"Grind all these flowers into powder, then mix them together."

Pouring the flowers into the medicine grinder the maid had found in batches, Su Chen ground them into powder one by one.

Hu Liena crouched beside him with her chin propped on her hand, watching this novel contraption she had never seen before with great interest.

Although she reached out several times to show that she wanted to try, Su Chen immediately stopped her each time.

With the support of Soul Power, it did not take long to grind all the flowers into powder.

"Next, we just need to light them."

Fortunately, incense existed in Douluo Continent, and incense burners could be found everywhere.

After mixing the powders together, he poured them all into the incense burner.

Once it was lit, a wisp of green smoke soon drifted out.

The curling smoke quickly filled Su Chen's room.

A faint, tranquil fragrance spread through the air, calming even their moods.

"How does it feel?"

In the blink of an eye, Hu Liena was already sitting at the head of Su Chen's bed with her eyes closed, meditating on her Soul Power.