Using his Five-Element Magnetic Gold Armor to take the bear puppet's blow head-on, the Lotus Avatar struck back with a sword. Dozens upon dozens of crisscrossing, drifting sword flashes left the bear puppet scrambling to defend itself.
The Lotus Avatar's speed increased yet again. He swept over the several Golden-Leaf Buddhist Orchids, reached out, and used a ball of spiritual light to seize the mature spirit plant that had already blossomed. Slowly, he pulled it out of the magma pool.
As for the other two, the Lotus Avatar felt somewhat hesitant. The immature Golden-Leaf Buddhist Orchids would be of little use to him. Harvesting them would be a waste of nature's bounty. It would be better to leave them for later. Regardless of whether they eventually fell into someone else's hands, that would still be better than wasting them outright.
At that thought, the Lotus Avatar pressed down with his palm. A strand of magical power wrapped around the two immature Golden-Leaf Buddhist Orchids and forced them back into the magma. The magma pool was bottomless. Wrapped in that magical power, the two immature Golden-Leaf Buddhist Orchids swam about inside for a while until they vanished completely. Where they would reappear, and when they would emerge, was something even Lu Xiaotian could not predict. Still, it was better than letting the Demon Race obtain them—or letting someone take them away too soon.
"The Golden-Leaf Buddhist Orchid is in hand. The final weak link in my cultivation of the Maha Buddha-Dharani Scripture, the Ancestor Buddha Ancient Seal, will finally be filled. I wonder just how formidable this Buddhist art will become once cultivated to its later stages." The Lotus Avatar reached out and placed the mature Golden-Leaf Buddhist Orchid into a jade box. Spiritual light flashed across the jade box in