The mountains stood jade-green, and the mist was dreamlike.
Within the eternally tranquil Canggu Forest, towering verdant trees requiring ten people to encircle them stood like Ambrosial Arbors holding up heaven and earth. Their enormous umbrella-like green canopies refracted the sunlight into a glassy sheen beneath the pure morning radiance, adding streaks of golden light to the tender branches.
Beneath the giant trees lay fields of pale blue Blue Silver Grass with deep azure stems and leaves. Scattered among them were huge dark-purple shrubs. At the center of their purple leaves, whose stems glowed blue, rested purple-gold flower buds cradled by tender violet cores. Faint colorless Soul Power was stirred by the swaying buds in the wind, activating the glowing organs throughout the plants. In the dim forest, they emitted faint, hazy blue, purple, and gold fluorescence like breathing.
Rustle, rustle, rustle, rustle.
Tender purple-pink leaf buds were brushed aside, while huge purple leaves wrapped around purple flower buds marked with golden patterns. The glow around them sank into stillness, and the forest, which moments ago had been illuminated by dreamlike dim blue-violet light, was suddenly plunged into hazy yellowish chaos beneath probing chains of pale golden sunlight.
"Watch it, kids. We're about to enter Teacher Mo Ling's experimental flower field. Follow closely and don't run around. If we damage anything, we'll be in deep trouble."
Within the faint white glassy light filtering through the dense canopy, dark shadows darted and shifted through the pale golden rain of light.
"Big Brother Bai, why aren't we taking the main road? Why are we going this way?"
Behind the older youth leading the group, the eldest among the children aged six to twelve could not help asking their captain, who was leading them through the hazy yellow gloom.
"You just got here,