65: Unexpected changes in the flower market

The two came to the entrance of the ruin, and Jiang Yuan took out the Heart of the Flower Ruins item, opened the entrance, and entered it.

What came into view was a sea of flowers full of lavender.

[Ding! Party has entered the Secret Realm - Flower Ruins]

Just stepping one step into this area,

Jiang Yuan smelled an extremely pleasant floral fragrance, which was fascinating and intoxicating, and even his Mental Energy calmed down.

"Hmm?"

Jiang Yuan immediately sensed something was wrong.

Closing his eyes, he carefully circulated the Great Sun Starry Sky Visualization Technique,

and saw that around his spiritual Domain, countless spore-like things had appeared, silently trying to break through the barrier and enter his spiritual Domain.

"Hehe."

He sneered.

Jiang Yuan slightly released the might of his spiritual world, and his Mental Energy, containing terrifying scorching flames, turned into ripples, burning those spore-like spiritual entities into ashes.

Looking over at Luo Xi beside him,

she had already fallen into a daze, with her eyes closed and her expression full of struggle.

"Hey!"

Jiang Yuan shouted sternly, carrying a mental shock,

which brought Luo Xi back to her senses from the illusion.

"What was that?"

She was still a bit shaken and carefully inspected her spiritual sea.

"Be careful."

Jiang Yuan said, dragging out the System panel, adding some free attributes after leveling up, and then putting on his equipment one by one.

After taking that blow from Wu Ping head-on,

his dark gold bone spear and some normal-grade equipment were completely shattered, leaving only rare-attribute equipment behind.

crimson bracers, equipped.

silver white fang, equipped.

mithril boots, equipped.

crimson ring, equipped.

crimson necklace, equipped.

After equipping everything,

Jiang Yuan's appearance was completely different from when he first came in.

The young man had black hair and golden pupils, a handsome face, black pants, and long boots. Over his Advanced customized white shirt was a black trench coat printed with the Scarlet Rose logo, making his figure look even taller and straighter. Coupled with the silver-white narrow saber hanging at Jiang Yuan's waist, it exuded a trace of nobility mixed with mystery, making him quite pleasing to the eyes.

Even Luo Xi couldn't help but take a few extra glances.

"Let's go," Jiang Yuan said.

"Ah… Mn."

The two walked one after the other.

It was surprisingly quiet here. Aside from having to watch out for the unpredictable spiritual entities that would occasionally invade his spiritual Domain, Vicious Beasts were pitifully few.

"This place is so strange," Luo Xi stopped and said.

"It's too quiet. Time doesn't even seem to be flowing. Even though it's full of flowers and plants, there isn't even a single withered flower."

Jiang Yuan also sensed a bit of abnormality.

The aura of life here was dozens of times richer than outside.

It was simply like the cradle of life.

Yet it exuded a dead silence.

Abnormal, far too abnormal!

Moving forward,

Jiang Yuan heard a burst of singing.

"Did you hear that?" Jiang Yuan spoke.

Luo Xi was stunned, "What?"

"A very sorrowful song."

"I didn't hear anything. Don't scare me."

Her face turned a bit pale, and she couldn't help grabbing the corner of Jiang Yuan's clothes.

"The singing carries a faint mental fluctuation; maybe my Mental Energy is stronger so I can hear it,"

Jiang Yuan said, looking in a certain direction, which was the direction the singing came from.

Walking a distance further in that direction,

the two saw a flower mound. In front of the flower mound was an illusory, hazy figure of a young girl who looked quite young, sitting on a swing and humming softly.

As Jiang Yuan and the other approached, it showed no reaction at all.

"What is this? A ghost?!"

Luo Xi cowered behind Jiang Yuan, cautiously sticking her head out.

"Stop being foolish, alright? It's all written in the textbooks: so-called ghosts are nothing more than a type of spiritual entity."

"Of course I know that. But it doesn't look like a spiritual entity at all; it doesn't have the slightest mental fluctuation, just like inorganic matter."

Jiang Yuan reached out to touch it, his hand passing straight through its body, still without any reaction.

"It's simply like a phantom of history," Luo Xi sighed.

Still, there was no abnormality.

Luo Xi looked around, put her hands on her hips, and said, "This seems to be the deepest part of the ruin. Aside from this phantom, there is nothing here at all."

"Could it be that there are no secrets here at all?"

As if thinking of something, Jiang Yuan took out the Heart of the Flower Ruins.

In an instant,

the Heart of the Flower Ruins shone brilliantly, flying towards the illusory figure and merging into its body. The girl's phantom gradually solidified, her eyes regained color, wind began to blow around, flowers and plants fluttered, petals danced, and time in the entire Secret Realm began to flow.

"My name is Xuannv. Big Brother, did you wake me up?"

the girl spoke.

Jiang Yuan nodded.

The girl stared at him for two seconds, a gentle smile blooming on her face,

"Thank you."

Before Jiang Yuan and Luo Xi could react,

the spiritual telekinesis around them became chaotic, and countless turbulent, spore-like spiritual entities rapidly converged toward her.

In the blink of an eye,

the pure young girl disappeared from the previously empty lavender flower sea, replaced by a two-meter-tall Black Dress Woman, wearing a brightly colored floral crown and surrounded by all kinds of colorful flowers. Her face kept changing, indescribably bizarre.

"Hee hee hee hee…"

It let out a piercing, shrill laugh, and the materialized mental shock spread like a purple wave for hundreds of meters!

Looking at the long health bar appearing above its head, as well as the brightly red-labeled name [Fallen Higanbana],

Jiang Yuan and Luo Xi were dumbfounded.

"Damn it, it's a trap!!"