Cherry Leech Lake

Xu Yuan let out a long breath.

Cherry Leech Lake is the central hub of the Dome Palace, and within this map, besides the Soul-Bewildering Corridor, there are only two bosses.

The Water Leech King and the Charm God Cherry Tree.

The customs clearance process maintains Cangyuan's consistent multi-route style.

Players can ignore any dialogue boxes and force their way through, killing the Hiruzen King and then the Cherry Tree.

Alternatively, you can bypass this map first, reach the innermost part, kill a crazed witch, and obtain a dropped token. Equip this token and then return to this map. When the dialog box pops up, you can directly use the token to control the Water Leech King on this map.

Besides the first two methods, you can also use talk therapy.

This mode of clearing the game is both the most complex and the simplest, because you can find guides and Evil Dao to speed things up.

Like a certain Souls-like game, much of the information in Cangyuan is fragmented and hidden in each map. By piecing it all together, players can roughly guess what to enter in the pop-up dialog box.

Three keywords and one item/prop.

Sorry for the long wait, Yuchu

as well as,

A bottle of Ten Thousand Year Appointment Huadiao Wine, a promise to last a thousand years.

Xu Yuan placed the Huadiao Wine wine in front of the mound, then stood up, supporting himself on his knees, and looked back again.

The once magnificent cherry blossoms, which had bloomed for millennia, had withered away, leaving only a few pink petals lying quietly at the foot of the withered tree.

The Charm God Flower is the sole main ingredient in the heretical treasure, the Evil Dao Acacia Powder.

The Saint's Remnant Soul clicked its tongue in amazement:

"Kid, this stuff is good. With these Charm God Flower, we can at least refine three batches of Acacia Powder, tsk tsk."

One furnace equals one bottle, and one bottle is approximately equal to three doses.

Xu Yuan smiled slightly upon hearing this and asked in a low voice:

"The Acacia Powder, combined with the Great Yin-Yang Acacia Technique..."

"Hehe. Kid, I know where that Hehuan Gong is. Speaking of which, that girl surnamed Su seems to have the Charm Soul Demon Body, right?"

"Hehe." Xu Yuan chuckled but didn't say anything.

Upon seeing this, the Saint's Remnant Soul shook his head and whispered:

"With your current Cultivation Method, there's no need to change it. However, such an amazing Cultivation Method shouldn't go Nameless."

"I picked it up at the door," Xu Yuan said casually.

"If you don't want to talk about it, then forget it. But why don't you go and pick that Charm God Flower?"

"Don't rush, it's not time yet."

Xu Yuan stared at the lake and whispered, "Oh, and don't attack anything you see later."

There's another boss here.

The Saint's Remnant Soul felt a chill run down its spine. It glanced at the withered cherry tree, then at the calm lake, and said nothing more.

Time passed second by second.

Five minutes

A quarter of an hour

Two quarters of an hour,

suddenly,

A sudden change occurred!

"Splash--!!"

The once calm lake suddenly surged with waves, and a giant, eyeless, one-mouthed beast emerged from the water—a leech the same size as the Charm God Cherry Tree!

The sudden appearance of the enormous figure

Suffocating pressure

Xu Yuan was almost forced to kneel down!

At the same time, a tremendous surge of soul power erupted from the Soul Ring.

Don't panic!

Xu Yuan stared at the pressure and whispered a warning.

The Saint's Remnant Soul was puzzled, but before he could act Will Soul wavered and he subconsciously stopped.

Xu Yuan let out a long breath and said softly:

"It won't do anything."

Just as Xu Yuan had said, the giant leech made no further moves after emerging from the lake, and the pressure covering Xu Yuan gradually dissipated.

It stared at Xu Yuan for a long time with its hideous and terrifying mouth, and finally turned its attention to the small bottle of Shaoxing Huadiao Wine placed in front of the mound.

He stood there blankly for a long time.

The giant leech slowly retreated from the bottom of the lake.

The Saint's Remnant Soul was slightly astonished:

"Such a strange beast is hidden at the bottom of this lake. Its aura just now was at least comparable to that of an ordinary Origin Beginning. I just don't know why."

"Shh."

Xu Yuan raised his index finger to his lips to interrupt, staring intently at the spot where the leech had disappeared.

"."

The Saint's Remnant Soul twitched at the corner of its eye, and its gaze toward Xu Yuan became even more solemn.

Fifteen minutes later,

The waves surged again, and the giant leech resurfaced. Although it had no eyes, one could almost feel its almost tangible gaze.

They looked at each other.

The leech opened its enormous mouth, which was made up of layers of sharp teeth, and extended a long tongue from it, with a blue bead curled at the tip.

"... Meteor Ice Bead?"

The sage's soul voice was somewhat puzzled.

He couldn't understand why such a seemingly unintelligent beast would come out to offer treasure.

Xu Yuan ignored him, raised his hand, and placed it flat with his palm facing upwards.

Seeing this, the giant leech carefully placed the blue bead in Xu Yuan's palm.

After doing this,

The giant leech glanced at the withered, massive tree, and a violent surge of Source Qi emanated from its body!

Subsequently,

Its massive body fell backward powerlessly, crashing onto the lake and creating a huge wave!

"."

The Saint's Remnant Soul slowly drifted out, watching as the enormous, crimson blood from the giant leech stained the lake red:

"Did it commit suicide?"

"Hmm." Xu Yuan stared at the giant leech.

After a long silence, the Saint's Remnant Soul murmured to himself:

"Since this Charm God Cherry Tree has withered, the beast that guarded it has no reason to live on. But the question is, why would it offer you treasure?"

As he spoke,

The sage stared at Xu Yuan and asked in a solemn tone:

"Xu Yuan, are you Jing He?"

Xu Yuan glanced back at the Saint's Remnant Soul, his eyes filled with a deep, unsettling light:

What do you think?

"..." The Saint's Remnant Soul stared at Xu Yuan.

During the eye contact,

Xu Yuan suddenly raised his hand in a French military salute and grinned:

"Just kidding, don't take it seriously. Of course I'm not Jing He."

He paused for a moment,

Xu Yuan pointed at the giant, monstrous leech, his voice slightly lowered:

"Because it is."

Ten thousand years ago, the Qionghua Sect planted this Charm God Cherry Tree through a blood sacrifice.

A beautiful woman and a handsome man, one becomes a cherry blossom, the other a leech.

Cherry blossoms fall to nourish leeches, and the leech king protects the cherry blossoms.

So close, yet so far.

The sect was destroyed, the people left and the building was deserted, and ten thousand years passed as before.

This can be considered one of the hidden Easter eggs in the complex plot of Cangyuan.

"I fulfilled their wishes, and they gave me their thanks; that's all."

After storing the Meteor Ice Bead, Xu Yuan picked up the few Charm God Flower placed at the foot of the cherry tree, put them into a jade box, and threw them into his Sumeru Ring.

Just as he was about to enter the dead cherry tree through the hollow, the Saint's Remnant Soul suddenly coughed lightly:

"Ahem, how did you come to know this information, young friend?"

Even ancient texts wouldn't record those things; this kid couldn't possibly have read them from those texts.

Xu Yuan raised an eyebrow, glancing sideways at the saint's soul with a hint of amusement:

"Old Man Luo, you're calling me 'young friend'?"

"."

The sage's soul frowned, slightly hesitant:

"Old friend?"

"Pfft, old friend?"

Xu Yuan chuckled and shook his head, saying:

"Old Man Luo, why don't you just call me Senior Xu?"