"Ugh, my butt is freezing. Wait, where are my clothes?"
Yue Ling stood up naked, sweeping his gaze around. At a glance, he spotted the Hundred Flowers Record lying on the ground, along with two seeds floating in midair.
"So everything just now wasn't a dream."
He slowly spread open his palm. The two tiny, translucent seeds drifted into it, after which he bent down and picked up the Hundred Flowers Record. After brushing the dust from its pages, he placed both items into his storage ring.
Only when he looked at the now-empty spots where the Moon Parasol Tree and Silvermoon Roland had once grown did he finally piece together what had happened.
If nothing unexpected had occurred, his fifth Spirit Ring had been formed from the Silvermoon Roland and Moon Parasol Tree. Their original bodies had vanished, leaving behind only these two seeds.
He could plant them in the courtyard. They would surely look beautiful once they grew.
Yue Ling froze slightly as he looked at the surrounding stillness.
He had assumed that after the Moon Parasol Tree and Silvermoon Roland perished, the nearby plant soul beasts would become restless. Yet the sight before him was highly unusual. Not only had the surrounding plant soul beasts shown no signs of disturbance, they were all quietly dormant in place.
That familiar, cloyingly sweet floral fragrance still hung in the air.
These changes were most likely connected to the mutation within his body, but he would have to return before he could investigate it further.
Yue Ling stood there without the slightest embarrassment, deep in thought, when he felt someone watching him.
He instinctively looked up and met Zhang Lexuan's stunned gaze. Their eyes met, and the air around them seemed to freeze for an instant. His expression remained calm,