Summoning (2)

"Man-Eating Flower?" Lin Xin felt a slight disappointment. Man-Eating Flowers were merely a very ordinary species, active vines that fed on devouring blood corpses. Their main method of attack was ambushing from underground, piercing prey with enormous roots covered in barbs, then sucking away their flesh and blood.

As one of the hundred foreign-domain creatures most thoroughly documented by cultivators, the Man-Eating Flower had abundant records. Its strengths were ambushes and considerable power, but its flaws were equally obvious: it possessed only purely physical attacks, was extremely weak against fire, could operate only within a fixed range, and could not move. Thus, it was merely a relatively weak foreign-domain creature at the Innate Realm. So long as one was careful, even an ordinary Innate Realm cultivator could easily destroy it.

"Forget it. I'm summoning it through a magic artifact. Even if its range is fixed, I can relocate it with the Red Flower Sword. It won't be much of a problem... Since it can contend with the other two, perhaps this Man-Eating Flower has some formidable aspect."

"Once the Sacrificial Fire Talisman Sword, the Red Flower Sword, summons a creature, it can only be fixed within a certain range due to the nature of the Man-Eating Flower. Each sacrificial-fire summoning consumes a great deal of inner force and requires a substantial offering of bloody flesh. The cost is quite steep, so it cannot be summoned casually." Having confirmed how to use the Red Flower Sword, Lin Xin slowly returned it to its sheath. With a slap, he attached a Sweet Rain Talisman to dispel the lingering bloody aura on it.

The Man-Eating Flower was named Yin Manto. Its intelligence was low, and it could only display simple emotions.

Toward Lin Xin, it conveyed an emotion of great satisfaction. At the