Flower Fairies with Shallow Foundations
A biting wind swept across the earth, covering everything with a thick blanket of snow.
However, in the Flower Valley below the Sacred Tree, hundreds of flowers were in full bloom. This was not caused by Wu Chu deliberately adjusting the formation, but by the Flower Fairies using their magic.
Decades ago... In fact, Wu Chu himself didn't know how much time had passed. In his state of enlightenment, he couldn't feel the flow of time at all, and there was no 'year' in his phone.
However, before this enlightenment, Wu Chu could occasionally hear a human-like laugh coming from the Flower Valley.
As the years have passed, these laughs have become more frequent. Occasionally, one can even hear a whisper or two carried on the wind, as if these Flower Fairies are talking in hushed tones.
Several creatures that were originally crawling on the lake listening to and comprehending the Dao have now turned into ice sculptures, especially the giant turtle that is shaped like a small island.
This was the first time Wu Chu had ever seen the most powerful creature in this great lake.
However, with that Azure Dragon before him, Wu Chu's heart was actually quite unmoved when he saw this giant tortoise with a shell diameter of over a hundred meters.
On the Tower Ship, icicles hung everywhere, gleaming brightly in the sunlight. The bald eagle perched atop one of them suddenly stirred.
As Wu Chu spread his arms and leaped from the treetop, the bald eagle also flapped its broad iron wings, let out a cry, and the ice covering its body instantly turned into countless fragments. Then a gust of wind rose, and the bald eagle soared into the sky.
Wu Chu glanced at the giant bird with a wingspan of at least thirty or forty meters and was somewhat surprised by its sensibility; it didn't come over to ask for food and lodging, showing much more backbone than the Howling Moon Wolf.
He spun 3,600 degrees in the air and finally landed in a starfish shape on the snow that was more than ten meters deep, startling Zhen Yuanzi and Hong Yun.
But soon, the corners of their lips twitched involuntarily.
"What are you doing, fellow Daoist?" Hong Yun turned around in confusion and asked Wu Chu, who had just crawled out of the snow. "With your cultivation level, you shouldn't have made such a mistake!"
"This is called free fall," Wu Chu said without batting an eye. "Feeling the wind on your face as you fall through the air is a unique experience."
Wu Chu's actions also brought the two giant wolves and two Dang Kang beasts who were comprehending the Dao in the snow back to their senses. After getting up and shaking off the snow and icicles, they lay down again, nodded their big heads at them as a form of greeting, and then turned and walked away through the snow.
Faced with such a gesture of goodwill from these beings, the group naturally didn't bother to return the greeting. A nod was enough to show them respect; this was the difference between their cultivation levels.
As for Wu Chu, he was an exception.
Those who don't know him dare not underestimate him; those who do know him, however, will not belittle him.
However, Zhen Yuanzi and Hong Yun were completely unable to understand Wu Chu's simple joy, so they looked at him with puzzled expressions.
Wu Chu laughed and didn't explain. He couldn't very well tell them that he wanted to experience freedom on a whim because he had finally removed the mountain that had been weighing on his heart.
After all, this kind of thing isn't exactly something to be proud of.
This time, their discussion and enlightenment coincided with the arrival of the Dragon Clan's Vengeance Dragon, which was indeed a good thing for Wu Chu.
The affairs of the Dragon Clan have always been his top priority, far more urgent than the unpredictable appearance of the Old Ran Deng.
He considered many contingency plans, but ultimately all of them led to the implementation of the Wandering Plan.
This outcome was something he had never imagined. After all, Zhen Yuanzi and Hong Yun had clearly intended to leave after returning from Qingqiu.
As for Fuxi and Nuwa, after Wu Chu and Chu told them about the Dragon Clan, they probably wouldn't deliberately stay and risk it, especially Fuxi, that treacherous sister; how could he possibly let his sister get into a situation where she offended the Dragon Clan?
At most, we can help Wu Chu a place to leave this area and go into hiding.
Therefore, the unexpected situation caused him to face the Dragon Clan without any preparation. But it was also because they were all there that he had the confidence to say some tough words and temporarily resolve the matter 'satisfactorily'.
This gave Wu Chu a feeling of complete relaxation, and an urge to let loose and indulge himself.
As for the old Daoist priest Ran Deng, Wu Chu didn't feel any urgency.
In his view, an old monster like Master Ran Deng, having suffered a loss once, would certainly not act lightly again without absolute certainty.
He has plenty of time to figure out how to deal with this old man.
Hong Yun and Zhen Yuanzi naturally couldn't empathize with this feeling. So he coughed lightly and asked, "Gentlemen, are these Flower Fairies about to take Transformation Form? I feel they already seem to possess a high level of spirituality."
Hong Yun crossed her arms, her brows furrowed, her long hair and hem fluttering in the cold wind.
Zhen Yuanzi shook his head, somewhat puzzled. "Perhaps their roots are too shallow, which is why they seem to be about to Transformation Form in such a short time."
Hong Yun, still frowning, said, "But this is clearly not right. To take Transformation Form in less than a hundred years of cultivation shows that one's foundation is far too shallow. With such a weak foundation, how far can one go in the future?"
Hearing Hong Yun's words, Wu Chu didn't know what to say. After all, if it really came down to comparing backgrounds, who could be more shallow than him?
Even these flowers and plants have a foundation at the Innate level! But my Qidian is the weakest Houtian Realm.
Wu Chu, looking thoughtful, approached them and gently touched a flower the size of a washbasin with his finger. The petals he touched were beginning to shrink slightly, like a mimosa plant, timidly retracting.
At the stamen of the flower, you can see a bulge that looks like a fruit growing out. Strangely, this fruit does not grow below the flower, but inside the flower.
Within these bulging little lumps, one can indeed feel a strong sense of life.
After thinking for a moment, Wu Chu said, "Actually, it's not surprising that they have shallow foundations. After all, not everyone can have the profound fortune of several fellow Daoists. In the Primordial Land, there are countless living beings, most of whom are very ordinary. Originally, they were just some ordinary flowers and plants."
Upon hearing this, Hong Yun and Zhen Yuanzi were taken aback for a moment, and then burst into laughter one after the other.
Hong Yun patted his forehead and laughed, "Fellow Daoist is quite right. I misunderstood. They were originally quite ordinary, but I had extremely high expectations for them, which was really wrong of me!"
After laughing for a while, Wu Chu said again, "However, speaking of which, their Transformation Form process seems a bit too fast! Could it be that the cultivation methods you two researched back then helped living beings accelerate their Transformation Form?"
Zhen Yuanzi shook his head and said, "We should thank that Primordial One-Qi Pure Spirit Spring! As you can see, this Clear Spirit Spring is inherently very helpful to water and wood-type creatures. These flowers grow in this valley, and with their current cultivation levels, it would be extremely easy for them to obtain some Clear Spirit Spring water to nourish themselves."
Wu Chu nodded in understanding. Hong Yun suddenly said to Zhen Yuanzi, "Brother, would you be interested in helping them and giving them a chance?"
Upon hearing this, Wu Chu looked at Zhen Yuanzi, who was speechless, with some confusion.