Ah Yin froze for a moment.
Then the whole plant went wild.
Her leaves quivered frantically, and her roots trembled in the cracks between the rocks, as if someone were jumping around in place.
A heaven-sent opportunity! This was an incredible stroke of luck!
She took a deep breath and forced herself to calm down.
First, she had to see if it was real.
Spirit Beast Sensing, activate.
Her consciousness spread outward from her body like ripples on water.
The moss inside the cave, the vines at the entrance, the shrubs on the hillside...
The locations, ages, and species of all the nearby plant-type Soul Beasts appeared clearly in her mind.
Ah Yin withdrew her senses, her leaves trembling slightly.
All right, now to try the Ripening Spirit Liquid!
A drop of emerald-green liquid appeared out of nowhere above her. It was crystal clear, like a dewdrop frozen in place, and gave off an overwhelming aura of life.
Before Ah Yin could get a good look at it, the droplet fell onto the leaf at the very top of her plant.
"Boom—"
It was as if someone had lit a fire inside her.
But it wasn't a burning fire. It was a warm current surging from deep within the earth as spring thawed the land.
The force flowed in through her leaf, raced down her stalk, and poured into her roots and every cell.
Her roots began to grow wildly, burrowing deeper into the cracks between the rocks and drilling into the soil.
New roots spread like a spiderweb, greedily sucking up moisture from the rocks and earth.
Her stalk visibly thickened, growing from the size of a toothpick to a chopstick, then to the thickness of a finger.
Leaves sprouted one after another. Four, five, six... A dozen, then