Chapter 190 Ancient Ashes and the Flower Beast!
Just as Gu Jin was looking at the strange monster below, the monster also noticed Gu Jin's presence and looked up.
The eyes of the two met in the air, but the strange monster showed a hint of doubt in its eyes. It tilted its head and looked at Gu Jin who was flying above. In its pair of dark blue eyes, there was a very human look of thought.
After the two stared at each other for a while, the monster slowly turned around and looked directly at Gu Jin above.
"Hmm? This guy... doesn't seem to be that fierce!" Gu Jin was confused, but he didn't dare to let his guard down, for fear that he would fall if he wasn't paying attention.
"Human? How did you come to this secret place?" A curious and puzzled voice came from the mouth of the strange monster below.
"Um... I..." Gu Jin thought that the monster would attack him directly, but he didn't expect that the other party would just ask him out loud. For a moment, Gu Jin hesitated and didn't know how to answer.
"Hmm~~!" Gu Jin cleared his throat to hide his embarrassment and asked, "Senior! Are you the Flower Beast?"
"Yes! I am the 'Flower Beast'! No one has been here for tens of millions of years. I guess something must have happened to my master, and how did you get in?" The demon beast, also known as the "Flower Beast", narrowed his eyes slightly and stared at the ancient cinders in the air.
"Your master is Lord Pan Tian, but he is now in a deep sleep, and the 'Awakening Flower' is needed to wake him up." Gu Jin paused for a moment, then continued, "The Demon Lord Pan Xie is about to break the seal, so we must awaken Lord Pan Tian as soon as possible to prevent all living beings in the universe from suffering. I hope that you can give up and give me the 'Awakening Flower' so that I can take it back to awaken Lord Pan Tian and save all living beings in the universe." As he said that, Gu Jin bowed to the "flower beast".
"You mean, my master Pan Tian Zhuzai has been sealed? But who can seal him? You are not lying to me, are you? You want to steal the 'Awakening Flower' from me?" The "flower beast" stared at Gu Jin, its two beast eyes flickering, flashing with wisdom.
"Senior! My Gu family also followed your master Pan Tianzhu in the past. How could I lie to you? What benefit will it bring to me?" As he spoke, Gu Jin slowly fell into the flowers.
"Gu family? Never heard of it! I've been in this secret place and haven't gone out many times. My mission is to guard the 'Awakening Flower' in this secret place. So, no one can take the 'Awakening Flower' away without the owner's personal order! As he said that, the "Flower Beast" moved and squatted there.
"Senior! The Demon Lord Pan Xie is about to break the seal. Please give me the 'Awakening Flower' to awaken the Lord Pan Tian to resolve the current crisis!" Gu Jin bowed to the "Flower Beast" again.
"My master has been sealed, so how did you get in?" The "flower beast" raised its paw and licked it with its tongue. Its look and expression seemed as if it would kill Gu Jin directly if he said something wrong.
"Don't you know, senior? Lord Pan Tian and the Demon Lord Pan Xie are one and the same. Pan Xie is the 'evil' that Lord Pan Tian killed! Therefore, we must seal the Demon Lord Pan Xie again to prevent him from causing trouble again!" Gu Jin said seriously. Then, his eyes turned and he thought of something. He continued, "I believe that senior must know the magic weapon 'Haotian'. It was it that opened the passage and sent me into this secret place."
"Oh!? The magic weapon 'Haotian'?" The "Flower Beast" stared at Gu Jin closely for a long time before saying, "Since it is the magic weapon 'Haotian', and my brother 'Haotian' sent you here, then there is no problem."
"The 'Awakening Flower' is right here. However, if you want to take the 'Awakening Flower' away from here, you must use 'Golden Grass' to make a flower basket and put it in it. Otherwise, once the 'Awakening Flower' is picked, without the flower basket made of 'Golden Grass' to hold it, it will wither in an instant and lose its due effectiveness!" said the "Flower Beast" with his eyes slightly narrowed.
"'Golden Silk Grass'? Senior! What is that?" Gu Jin asked in confusion. He had only heard of the legend of the "Awakening Flower", but he didn't know that the "Awakening Flower" needed a flower basket woven with "Golden Silk Grass" to bloom.
The "flower beast" tilted its head to look Gu Jin up and down, then turned and walked to the side. At the same time, a voice floated into Gu Jin's ears.
"Let's go! I'll take you to find the 'golden grass'!"
"Hmm?" Gu Jin was stunned for a moment, and then he was happy again. He said, "Thank you, senior!" and chased after him.
Not long after, the "flower beast" brought Gu Jin to a small hill covered with golden silk leaves.
"These are the 'golden silk grass', you can weave them yourself!" The "flower beast" said to Gu Jin behind him, then lay down in a bush of "golden silk grass" and closed his eyes to rest.
So, Gu Jin squatted down, grabbed a handful of golden silk leaves, and began to weave patiently.
Fortunately, Gu Jin had learned how to weave before, so although he was not very skilled, he was not at a loss when faced with a handful of "golden grass".
After several hours, Gu Jin finally managed to weave a flower basket. Although it didn't look very good, it was still in the shape of a flower basket after all.
"Huh! It's finally done!" Gu Jin breathed a sigh of relief, then stood up and looked at the "flower beast" who was resting with his eyes closed, and said, "Senior! The flower basket is done!"
After a while, the "flower beast" opened its eyes, raised its head, and looked at the ugly flower basket in Gu Jin's hand with a look of disdain.
Then, the "flower beast" stood up, swayed its body slightly, walked to Gu Jin, grabbed the flower basket in Gu Jin's hand with its mouth, and walked forward again.
Gu Jin followed the "flower beast" and came to the flower patch where the "awakening flower" grew.
The "Flower Beast" put the flower basket aside, raised its front paw, pointed forward and said, "There is a black tree five hundred miles ahead! Go and get a branch!"
"Hmm? What is it used for?" Gu Jin asked.
"Of course, it's to get the 'Awakening Flower'!" The "Flower Beast" glanced at Gu Jin unhappily and ignored him.
"Uh..." Gu Jin patted his forehead, smiled helplessly, and went in the direction indicated by the "flower beast" to look for Heimu.
Not long after, Gu Jin found a leafless, pitch-black tree that was over ten meters tall about five hundred miles away.
"Black wood? Is this the black wood?" Gu Jin looked at the extremely black tree without a single leaf in front of him in amazement. He was truly amazed at the magic of the universe and how such strange things could grow there.
So Gu Jin walked under the black tree, stretched out his hand to grab a branch, and was about to pull it off with force.
However, as Gu Jin continued to increase his strength, the branch only slowly bent down and showed no signs of being broken off.
"Hmm? Not hard nor soft! How strange!" Gu Jin exclaimed, gathering his vital energy on his palm, and then pulled it down with force.
When Gu Jin's strength increased to 50%, the branch was finally pulled down by Gu Jin.
Then, Gu Jin quickly returned to the "Awakening Flower" with the black wood branch.
"Senior! The black wood branch has been brought back!" Gu Jin placed the black wood branch in front of the "flower beast".
The "flower beast" glanced at the black wooden branch, then looked at Gu Jin, but its beast eyes were gradually covered with a cold smile.
"Hahaha!" The "flower beast" suddenly laughed wildly, and then its entire aura changed dramatically. A black mist suddenly appeared beside the "flower beast", surrounding it. Moreover, its pair of dark blue eyes suddenly turned red, and it looked very scary in the black mist.
Looking at the "flower beast" in front of him that had suddenly changed, Gu Jin was confused. While he was wondering, he suddenly felt weak all over, and even his vision became a little blurred.
"Hmm? I...what's wrong with me?" Gu Jin rubbed his dizzy head and looked up at the "flower beast" again.
Looking at the "flower beast" that suddenly became ferocious, Gu Jin thought of a possibility, that is, everything before was just an act by this "flower beast", and its current appearance was the true face of the "flower beast".
"You!..." Gu Jin staggered and pointed at the blurry "flower beast" in front of him, "You are not a 'flower beast'! What kind of monster are you?"
“Hehehehe!” A strange laugh was heard, and the “flower beast” wrapped in black mist slowly circled around Gu Jin before it spoke: “I am the ‘flower beast’, the ‘flower beast’ created by the master! Hehe!”
“Then why are you...?” Gu Jin’s body was unsteady and swaying slightly.
"Why is it like this now? Hehe!" The eyes of the "flower beast" suddenly became extremely deep.
"After all these years, I finally have someone to chat with! Besides, you won't live long, so I'll talk to you!"
The "flower beast" slowly moved in front of Gu Jin. Suddenly, it stopped, looked up at the sky and said, "Actually, this story starts from the day I was created."
"My master Pan Tianzhu separated a strand of his own soul and erased his own consciousness from the soul, and injected it into my current body. After a long period of gestation, this soul gave birth to its own consciousness, which is the original 'flower beast'."
"And the reason why it has become like this is entirely because the master cut out his own 'evil'. After all, this strand of soul belongs to the master. Even if the consciousness on it is wiped out and a new consciousness is born, it is still the master's soul! It has extraordinary power!"
The "flower beast" turned its back to Gu Jin and told him a story vividly. But when the "flower beast" was not paying attention to him, Gu Jin quietly raised his hand and stuffed something into his mouth, and immediately swallowed it into his stomach.
"As the master cut out his own 'evil', this strand of soul became like the soul in the master's body, automatically separating the 'evil' within the soul. As time goes by, it gradually becomes stronger!"
"And when 'evil' becomes extremely powerful, it will seize control of this body!"
"That's me now! Hehehehehe!"
"At first, I was worried that the master would find me and kill me, but tens of millions of years have passed, and no one, let alone the master, has ever entered this secret realm!"
"How is it? Isn't this story interesting?"
The "flower beast" turned around and looked at Gu Jin proudly, but the Gu Jin that appeared in his eyes had become extremely normal, completely devoid of his previous weakness. At this moment, he was looking at it with a sneer.
