Lush grass swayed in the wind.
In a deserted clearing, the sky suddenly split open. A bedraggled young girl fell out and slammed into the ground.
"Ow!"
The girl climbed to her feet and looked around. Before long, tears streamed uncontrollably from her eyes.
"Sister Qingyun, you've gotten me killed! Where are we?"
There was no response.
"Sister Qingyun?"
The girl called out tentatively.
Then she called again.
Still no response.
"Waaah... Sister Qingyun, where did you go...? Don't scare me..."
This time, the girl truly could not hold back her tears.
"Rong... Rong..."
As if it had heard the girl crying, an incomparably weak voice sounded.
Inside her mind.
"Sister Qingyun!"
Finding nothing strange about this, the girl perked up and was instantly overjoyed.
"Immortal... Herb... Eat..."
The voice in her mind continued.
"Immortal Herb? You're still thinking about that? It's the thing that got us into this mess!"
The girl said resentfully.
The voice in her mind fell silent again, as though it had reached the brink of dormancy.
The girl sighed and felt around inside the lining of her clothes, but found nothing. Just as she was growing despondent, she turned her head and spotted a colorless lotus seedpod that seemed both real and unreal.
"Huh! I really got it! It must have fallen down with us just now!"
She picked up the seedpod from the ground in delight, dusted it off, and clicked her tongue.
"The Mustard Seed Divine Flower. Sister Qingyun said it usually grows at the edge of the world barriers in the ethereal Void. Some kind of miraculous Immortal Herb... Sigh, we really went through a lot to get you."
Thinking of how she had accidentally entered a secret realm, passed through countless trials, and finally plucked this treasure of the realm—only for