The First Cultivator - Changing Existence-Chapter 769: Flower Searching -

After thinking it through, Skymender planned to go and visit this area. There was a fairly large chance that there would be nothing there, but he needed to take the chance. Otherwise, he would not live long enough to see these major events occurring to the end.

Skymender did not hesitate at all after making his decision. He first went up to the Ruler of the Scholar Region.

He knocked on the door.

"Come in." The Ruler's voice said.

Skymender entered.

"What is it?" He asked.

"I am being sent on a mission by the Emperor."

"And you feel the need to tell me?" Asked the Ruler.

"Not really. I'm just letting you know."

Skymender left shortly after.

Next, he traveled towards the Empire's city.

It had grown a lot, and was a fully functional city by now.

Skymender met with the Emperor, explaining that the Ruler of the Scholar Region had requested his assistance in something.

After a bit of thinking, the Emperor nodded his head, giving him permission to take this mission.

Skymender left and set out towards the location he had marked.

The journey lasted a month, after which he found himself in the marked location.

The marked area was within the territory of the Temple Region.

Skymender had been unsure whether or not coming here was a good idea, but eventually decided that he had no other option. Even if he had to offend the Temple, he needed to come here.

However, there was almost no chance that even a single person from the Temple Region would learn that he had come here.

The marked area was entirely in a wild, mostly untouched area, save for a bit of farmland.

It was not that most of the location was unexplored, but that it was useless. The dirt here was loose in most places, and the soil made sure that almost nothing could grow here. Only a special species of tree existed, making this place heavily forested.

Even more, there were many unstable mountains nearby. At any time, they seemed as though they could collapse, causing worry among anyone considering settling here.

With everything being as such, it was no wonder that nobody lived here.

Even expeditions into this area were exceedingly rare.

Skymender rode his horse into this area and began to look around.

Although this place had no value to anybody, it fit everything he knew about the flower well.

First, this flower was tyrannical. It most likely sucked up the life force of anything near it while growing. Its mystical qualities were not simply holding a bunch of life force, but being able to devour it as well. Nobody else had noticed this, not even Charles, who had worked just as closely with it as Skymender.

He had simply noticed that a bunch of flies had died near it, and tested it out himself.

As expected, anything near it, plant or insect, had shriveled up and died within an hour to a few days. This effect was not noticeable on most things, however, such as humans and large animals.

Second, the flower most likely grew in mountainous regions.

Skymender had made a guess about this flower that he quite honestly had no ability to prove whatsoever.

He had guessed that it needed to absorb the energy of heaven and earth, something only spoken about in fantasy books, to grow.

The energy from heaven came from the open sky and the shining sun, which this region had a lot of, and the energy of earth came from mountains.

He had come up with this after understanding that the flower could only be described as magical. Since it had magical effects, why couldn't its origins be just as magical?

He could only hope that he had guessed correctly.

Third and finally, the species of trees living in this area are not affected by the life force devouring properties of the flower.

In his experiments with the flower's ability to devour life force, Skymender had come across a certain plant that, for some reason, was not affected. This discovery was actually a large part in how he was able to create the potion in the end.

The trees here and the plant he had experimented with were closely related despite being continents apart.

With all of this, it was hard to believe that a flower wouldn't be here. Even the mountains showing weakness and prone to collapse was a sign that the flower was absorbing the energy of earth from them.

However, there was a possibility that all of this was a coincidence. The particular species of tree here were not just immune to the life force devouring properties of the flower, but also unnaturally resilient in all conditions.

This could explain their presence despite the barren land. As for the barren land itself, there was plenty of it all over both continents.

Everything could be explained with Skymender's limitless knowledge, but he had hope nonetheless.

In reality, Skymender's guesses about the flower were closer than he imagined. In the world of cultivators, this flower was known as the Devourer of Sky and Earth.

It absorbed Earth Qi and Sky Qi to nourish itself, and although its longevity enhancing properties had no effect on cultivators, it had a wondrous effect on mortals if used right.

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In addition, there was a particular sect, whose strongest cultivator was at the Inner World Realm, who mass grew this flower and some higher level variations of it, using millions and billions of these flowers to produce a powerful poison. On a cosmic scale, this sect was relatively close to Skymender's current position.

The most likely explanation for its existence on this world was a few seeds drifting away into space and landing on the planet.

However, Skymender could never know any of this.

Despite that, he himself had considered using it as a poison. Its devouring properties would be especially useful on the mortals of this world.

However, its longevity enhancing properties were far, far more useful to him than a single poison.