HLnovel Chapter 371 Night Trip to Lianmu Sea
Chapter 371 Night Trip to Lianmu Sea
The cold moonlight shines brightly, and the night is as frosty as ice.
The bustling city of Yandu fell silent after midnight. A dark figure leaped repeatedly across the city's buildings, looking like an extremely nimble black cat.
Xue Lan lightly touched the branch of a kapok tree with her toes. The slender branch swayed slightly, and a flurry of petals fell from the blooming kapok flowers.
"Where are we going now?"
Xue Tong's voice echoed in her mind, and Xue Lan responded softly:
"Lianmuhai".
That's right, the meeting place that He Yaocai mentioned when she spoke to her yesterday was Lianmuhai.
Although few of the secrets of Yandu have been circulated outside the capital, the legend of the Lianmu Sea happens to be among them.
Xue Tong asked curiously:
What kind of place is Lianmuhai?
Xue Lan used her Void-Stepping technique to fly towards the base of the Sky-Reaching Green Willow, telling Xue Tong as she flew:
"It is the graveyard of the plant family."
“Every plant spirit that originates and cultivates in Yandu will return to the Lianmu Sea when it is about to die. There, it will connect its essence with the roots of the Tongtian Green Willow…”
Xue Lan's voice stopped abruptly. Xue Tong seemed to sense something and softly asked:
"Did something happen?"
Xue Lan said calmly, "There are people following us."
"Huh? Should we shake them off?" Xue Tong asked.
Xue Lan slowly shook her head: "No need. The one behind is also a great demon, and may be one of the envoys of the flower tree. I, a mere mid-stage Golden Core cultivator, should go forward on my own."
The woman moved swiftly on the void, like a wisp of mountain mist so light it was almost invisible, and in just a few breaths she flew several miles away.
Just as Xue Lan's figure was about to disappear into the night, a golden light slowly appeared in the air.
The girl in yellow who had appeared at the city gate earlier stood in mid-air, holding a bunch of slender forsythia branches in her hands.
The little yellow flowers on the branches were blooming vibrantly and joyfully.
"Sister Tao, Sister Yuan..."
The girl murmured softly, then transformed into a beam of light once more and chased after Xue Lan.
When Xue Lan arrived at the foot of the towering green willow tree, a pink figure was already standing under the clear moonlight.
He Yaocai saw Xue Lan arrive on time and gave her a gentle smile.
However, the smile on the woman's face vanished abruptly after she noticed the aura emanating from Xue Lan.
The woman gracefully raised her hand, and two crimson demonic energies flew out from the peach branch in her hand, enveloping Xue Lan as if she were wearing a thin red gauze dress.
Xue Lan knew that He Yaocai had noticed the person following her, but she still feigned a puzzled expression:
"Sister, what's going on?"
He Yaocai's gentle smile reappeared, and the woman gently shook her head at Xue Lan, subtly letting the matter drop.
"It's just a little preparation before going in, Lanlan, there's no need to be afraid."
Xue Lan: Sister, believe it or not, I'm really not scared at all, I'm even a little excited.
While thinking this in her heart, Xue Lan still maintained her act on the surface:
"Sister He, I don't know why I was feeling uneasy before I came here, but now that you have given me this method, the panic in my heart has been suppressed."
He Yaocai didn't speak, but gently touched Xue Lan's body. Xue Lan felt herself turn into paint stirred in water, slowly spinning through a small chaotic space.
Finally, her feet touched solid ground. Xue Lan looked up, and her powerful divine sense spread out in an instant, taking in the entire scene before her.
This is a vast, golden wasteland, the gold on it consisting of layers of fallen leaves, giving it a warm and calming yellow hue.
"Gentlemen, I have brought the child with me."
The woman beside him slowly stepped forward and spoke, and only then did Xue Lan focus his divine sense on her.
Five women stood less than ten steps away from Xue Lan.
They were all large plant demons, and Xue Lan even spotted a familiar figure among them.
It was the little girl who gave someone a flower wreath at the city gate of Yandu.
Xue Lan's face showed a hint of fear, and she shrank back.
The woman looked at He Yaocai beside her, her voice trembling slightly:
"Sister He, seniors, Xue Lan is just a junior who wants to live."
He Yaocai couldn't help but laugh out loud upon hearing this:
"You are indeed a junior, but you don't need to put on such a show."
The woman's light pink nails slowly caressed Xue Lan's cheek. He Yaocai looked at Xue Lan's lifeless eyes, her voice filled with deep sarcasm.
“We’ve heard about what you’ve been doing outside Yunchuang County.”
Xue Lan's expression changed slightly. The woman withdrew her serious demeanor, and the gentle smile on her face became like an unchanging mask.
"So you seniors knew all along. It's been hard for Xue Lan to keep acting all this time."
"What happened outside Yunchuan County was merely something Xue Lan was forced to do. It was an accidental act."
The little girl in the purple dress spoke:
"What a desperate situation! We just happened to be in the desolate region and ended up in Siyaochuan, right under the feet of our lord."
"Young friend, do you think I'm a fool?"
Xue Lan's tone was slightly cold:
"This senior is really something. He wasn't like this when he gave me the willow ring at the city gate."
The young girl spoke slowly, her tone clearly threatening:
"Siyaochuan is tens of thousands of miles away from Xuanhuang Sect. Aren't you afraid?"
Xue Lan's voice was calm and composed, as if he could see right through the several powerful demons before him:
"If you all wanted to kill me, why did you bring me here?"
"Furthermore, I am, after all, Ling Yuanzi's eldest disciple and Qingyin Daojun's grand-disciple. You all care about Senior Qingliu and surely don't want her to have any more worries while she's already entangled in this foul energy..."
Before Xue Lan could finish speaking, a woman in white was pressed against her.
The woman was aloof and beautiful, looking like a snowflake in the twelfth lunar month.
"What do you know? Did your elders tell you this?"
Xue Lan grinned: "I guessed!"
……
Not long after Xue Lan disappeared with He Yaocai, the girl in the yellow dress who had been following behind Xue Lan appeared at the place where the two had disappeared.
The aura of that junior human completely vanished upon arriving here, as if Conglan had never appeared.
A hint of anxiety appeared in the eyes of the girl in the yellow dress.
A magic seal appeared in the girl's hand: "My lord, Sister Tao has concealed the child's presence, I can't find him!"
At the center of that enormous, towering green willow, on a huge, narrow willow leaf, the woman in green, who had been resting with her eyes closed, slowly opened them.
What kind of eyes were those? The emerald green pupils looked like the endless sea of trees in Siyaochuan.
Gentle and boundless, profound and expansive.
"nothing……"
The woman's voice was gentle and deep:
"That's no ordinary little white wolf."
The woman slowly rose from the giant leaf:
"I'll go see her companions first!"