Purple Witch Bella took a palm-sized mirror shaped like a little fan from her Astral Ring. It was a Miniature Garden Spirit Mirror, with a Sun-Moon Magic Array inscribed on its back.
This Magic Artifact had come from the Southern Sector.
It was a portable Magic Mirror, successfully miniaturized by stripping away many of its functions.
Purple Witch Bella pointed the mirror at the Magic Plants in the area. Their Spiritual Breaths immediately appeared within it.
She studied them, trying to find the Spiritual Breath of a special Magic Plant.
The problem was that Golden Crown Mountain kept Cloud Rice's Plant Essence sequence secret. It feared Breeders might secretly alter the rice and mix the tampered grains into ordinary Cloud Rice for sale. Access to the complete sequence was restricted, and magic protected it as well, making it difficult to obtain.
If she could not start with Plant Essence, she would have to start with Spiritual Breath.
"Can this thing really pinpoint that special Magic Plant when I'm looking across such a broad area?"
Purple Witch Bella studied the plants in the mirror. Life Magic gathered on her fingertip, and she enlarged one plant to examine its Spiritual Breath.
But examining them one by one would take enormous time and effort. She did not even know whether she could find the plant as Wizard Probus had.
Was this what made Golden Crown Mountain's young genius of sixty years ago so remarkable?
A bead of sweat ran down Purple Witch Bella's forehead.
Even so, if I read the laboratory records while checking Spiritual Breaths with the Portable Garden Spirit Mirror, and keep working backward through Wizard Probus's reasoning, I can do it.
Determination blazed in Purple Witch Bella's eyes.
When she was born, everyone had said she might not survive to