The Journey of Immortal Cultivation-Chapter 914 - 501: Cannibal Flower (Part 2)

"Is your self-proclaiming any good?" Huangfuming said with a dark face, "I never agreed." If this little girl brings this up again to pressure him, this young master will definitely turn hostile.

Jin Manyan’s pretty face turned pale. Even a girl with thick skin couldn’t withstand this; she instantly shouted: "Huangfuming, just you wait. You will definitely regret what you said today!" Covering her face with her hands, she stomped hard and ran out of the forest!

So boring, don’t women have any new tricks besides blushing, crying, making a fuss, and threatening suicide? Huangfuming crossed his arms and watched coldly. Based on his understanding of this persistent girl, it wouldn’t be long before she would come back on her own.

Just as Jin Manyan was about to dash into the darkness outside the forest, a dark shadow suddenly flashed overhead, so fast that he couldn’t even react. It wrapped around the sprinting Jin Manyan like a snake! She, being a cultivator too, surprisingly had no room for resistance at this moment, tightly bound by this thin and long object, which abruptly halted her forward momentum.

Huangfuming immediately stepped forward two steps, gripped the longsword at his waist, and shouted sternly, "Who is it! Do not harm her!" Although he had a baby face, when he put on a stern expression, he truly exuded an imposing aura without needing to be angry.

Only then did he see clearly, the one entangling Jin Manyan was a long vine. This vine seemed to be made of gold or jade, yet even with his treasure-accustomed gaze, he couldn’t identify its variety. It appeared quite beautiful, but the vine, thicker than a bowl mouth, was covered with densely packed small thorns, ruining its beauty, and the tips of the thorns glowed a ghostly blue under the moonlight, clearly harboring malicious intent.

After the vine bound Jin Manyan, it made no other movements, merely gently tossing her back beside Huangfuming, then retracting back into a big tree.

Huangfuming shielded Jin Manyan behind him, looked up at the treetop with a sullen face, and said, "Who’s sneaking around up there?!"

This unexpected turn of events left Jin Manyan yet to regain her composure, already standing behind Huangfuming. She was still frightened, yet felt a hint of sweetness, thinking, "So he does care about me after all."

Huangfuming broke into a cold sweat. From Master to junior brothers, they all saw the two of them go out together. If anything were to happen to Jin Manyan, he couldn’t escape responsibility; this clingy girl might really blame him for the rest of his life, oh, forever! Just imagining it made his future life seem dark and gloomy. Fortunately, the demon on the tree didn’t claim her life or harm her, otherwise, this wouldn’t have fallen squarely on him?

But what uncaring entity on the tree dare frame him like this? He looked furiously, spotting a figure in goose yellow, this color somewhat familiar to him.

It was the woman he met earlier today upon entering Bashe Forest. The strange vine obediently slipped into her sleeve and was never seen again. Hmph, no wonder he always found this woman a bit strange; someone who could use such a malicious magic artifact couldn’t be a good person?

"Are you Ning..." He recalled the guide who received guests in the afternoon, calling her "Lord Ning," but what should he call her? To address her as "Lord" was absolutely not going to happen for him. In his own Sect, he hadn’t called many people "Lord."

This woman was naturally Ning Xiaoxian. She sat on a branch, leaning her head on the trunk, lazily saying, "You can’t go ahead, little girl." 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

"Why?" Jin Manyan peeked out from behind Huangfuming, seeing that it was a person on the tree and not some grotesque demon, her courage grew, "Is this land ahead yours? Just because you say we can’t go, does it make it so?!"

Huangfuming really wanted to pinch her mouth shut! It’s said that big-chested women are mindless, yet she hasn’t even grown a chest, and her brain is already gone?

Being retorted like this, Ning Xiaoxian didn’t get angry. After cultivating deeply, one’s composure rises along with it, so naturally, she wouldn’t fuss with a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl. She didn’t explain, merely stretched out her slender hand and made a gesture into the void.

Her fingers, as if carved from scallion roots, looked inexplicably pleasing when she made this gesture, however, the two kids on the ground found that a fist-sized stone at their feet floated into the air, suspended, and with a slightest gesture from the woman on the tree, the stone swiftly flew into the direction Jin Manyan had run earlier, instantly plunging into the darkness.

With a "thud," the stone seemed to hit some hard object. Before they could react, from the darkness suddenly emerged a gigantic... flower?

Both kids shuddered in unison, for this flower appeared not only large but fierce, the entire flower was dark red, with a diameter of at least three meters, more terrifyingly, the central stigma was lined with densely packed needle-like fangs, each enveloped in a substance. Walking in the dark and suddenly being embraced by this monstrous flower, what fate would await? Even someone lacking imagination would shudder. Moreover, when the petals spread, a peculiar, overly sweet fragrance wafted over, and after just two sniffs, Huangfuming held his breath and said, "There’s something strange about that scent!"

"This is a cannibal flower," Ning Xiaoxian said leisurely, "It usually lurks underground, emerging only at night to hunt, not just humans, it even eats weak demons." Passing by here, she had taken a glance, and upon seeing this twilight romantic drama unfolding, she thought to leave, as the actors were too young. If it weren’t for Jin Manyan running toward the cannibal flower’s trap, she wouldn’t have revealed herself.

The cannibal flower, startled, crawled out and brandished its teeth and claws for a while, finding no prey to appear, it lost interest and retracted. Jin Manyan looked at that patch of darkness, where would she dare to go now? She just felt that the seemingly unremarkable jungle suddenly became full of hurdles. (To be continued. If you like this work, feel free to vote for recommendation tickets and monthly tickets on qidian.com, your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please read on m.qidian.com.)