In an instant, radiance surged through Jiang Che's mind, and a vast, boundless panorama of life seemed to unfold before his eyes.
Through their mental link, he glimpsed the origin of this Echoing Illusion Flower.
Deep in a dense forest where sunlight mingled with thick mist, a bee-type Soul Beast flitted among countless blossoms.
Suddenly, as it flew over a thick patch of Blue Silver Grass, it stopped atop a towering plant whose leaves cascaded like a waterfall.
It was a stalk of Blue Silver Grass several dozen feet tall, its color an intermingling of blue and gold. Its blades swayed gently in the breeze, and a blurry human face was distinctly visible on its central stem.
Though that face was faint, it closely matched a face that surfaced in Jiang Che's memory.
Human-faced Blue Silver Grass... could it be-the Blue Silver King?!
Jiang Che's heart shook violently, thunder seeming to explode in his mind.
The royal Blue Silver Grass from the original story, with eighty thousand years of cultivation-the Blue Silver King!
The bee-type Soul Beast landed at the top of that human-faced Blue Silver Grass and paused briefly.
In the blink of an eye, a faint blue-gold glow actually shimmered over the bee beast's body, and a thin layer of pale blue-gold pollen quietly clung to it.
Then the bee beast beat its wings and flew west.
After flying an unknown number of miles, it finally landed on a seemingly ordinary Echoing Illusion Flower, carrying out an utterly unremarkable act of pollination.
From that moment on, however, the Echoing Illusion Flower began an irreversible transformation at a speed barely discernible to the naked eye. Its roots and stem grew thicker by the day, its color gradually shifted toward blue-gold, and a faint spiritual radiance shone from deep within