Zhao Fu chuckled. "Mm! You've rendered no small service this time. Once we leave, I'll reward you."
Ye Lanxi beamed happily. "There's no need, my lord! It is only right that I serve you."
"You don't need to stand on ceremony with me," Zhao Fu said with a smile as he walked into the formation.
Upon entering that dark formation, Zhao Fu immediately felt an invisible force of darkness blocking the incessantly surging golden power.
Then, Zhao Fu led Ye Lanxi along the dark path, continuing onward.
The dark path stretched on and on, as though it had no end.
Zhao Fu and Ye Lanxi walked along it with relative ease, encountering nothing at all. The powerful golden force was also held back by the power of this dark path.
After walking for more than two hours, the two of them finally arrived beneath the Otherworld Golden Flower. Seeing it up close was even more shocking.
The ground around its roots had begun to crystallize into golden crystals, while its trunk was over a thousand meters wide. Looking up from below, they could not see its end at a glance, as though the flower reached all the way to the heavens.
The three tomoe rings within Ye Lanxi's pale vertical brow eye slowly turned as she looked at the enormous Otherworld Golden Flower. Her expression turned solemn, and she immediately said, "My lord! This flower has its own consciousness. It is observing you right now."
Zhao Fu was somewhat surprised. Among the several strange flowers he had encountered before, aside from the Evil Demon Flower Ancestor, the others had been like ordinary plants, utterly incapable of communication and possessing no consciousness of their own.
If, as Ye Lanxi said, this Otherworld Golden Flower had consciousness, then it had its own