There were plenty of people in the world who dared to look directly at Princess Tianxin's true face. Yun Qingyang was clearly not one of them, so he failed to notice the change in Bao Bao's expression as she gazed at the Nine-Colored Rose.
Had he seen it, his experience would surely have allowed him to pick up on something. Then he would have realized that a major disaster was likely about to unfold...
"This Nine-Colored Rose is wonderful. I like it very much," Bao Bao said softly, a genuine smile appearing at the corner of her mouth.
As she spoke, she took out a small green jade box suffused with divine light. She removed the lid and tossed it aside, placed a handful of five-colored soil inside, then carefully transplanted the rose into it. She held it in both hands with the utmost care, as if it were the most precious thing in the world.
The Nine-Colored Rose had incredibly demanding growing conditions. Yet after Bao Bao transplanted it, not only did it show no signs of wilting, its vitality grew even stronger, and it looked more beautiful than before.
Yun Qingyang caught Bao Bao's movements out of the corner of his eye and was deeply shaken. It seemed Princess Tianxin really did love the rose. Otherwise, she would never have brought out such precious things to grow it.
The green jade box was made from top-grade eighth-rank jade marrow, which could keep ninety-nine percent of the plants in the world from losing their vitality. The five-colored soil was ninth-rank Five Elements Spirit Soil; it could nurture any plant below the ninth rank, so long as it still had even a trace of life. The value of these two items exceeded that of the Nine-Colored Rose itself by a