Turi have been growing steadily for a while. Now she can be called a sapling rather than sprout. She has a small and slender trunk. Her roots also have grown much stronger and it is spreading around 20 cm around her at the bottom of the pool.
She choosed to spread her roots in the bottom of the pool rather than borrowing it in beep underground because she discovered that the liquids in the pool has more nutrition gains then the soil. And like this she can also absorb more nutrition grains at a time.
She has also grown six new leaves. She now has a total of ten leaves. All of them are quite big and lush.
Her stem has grown very long compared to their other body parts parts. The space between her leafs have grown much larger. And most noticeable thing is a small flower bud at the top of the stalk.
When her stalk has grown like half a metre long it has stopped growing. Instead the flower bud at the top stared growing. After a while the buds have grown very big. It might bloom at any moment.
Finally the moment the flower bloomed Turi felt a huge change in her perceptions. It felt like her vision is back. She could see again.
But her vision is different from what you would expect. It's like she can sense everything around her in 360 degrees. She can sense colours too.
The feeling is like when MC uses his divine sense in novels. The feeling is quite good. It's like seeing everything in new light. You won't understand it until you watch and feel yourself.
Turi started to observe herself and her surroundings with her new found divine sense. The first thing she noticed is that the pool of liquid she was in wasn't some random liquid. It was blood. She was in a pool of crimson blood.
Turi was very shocked after discovering this. Her thoughts started to spin like crazy. Was she some kind of divine plant that some demon cultivatior is growing to raise to immortality? Was she is in some demons cave? Was there some monster guarding nearby? And wouldn't she will be eaten soon ?
Because in novels divine plants usually matures and become ready to consume when they bloom. Many martial artists and beasts gets into bloody fight to get them.
Feeling panicked Turi starts to scan around her quickly. But she suddenly stops her tracks. She remembers that her behaviour will likely give her away if there are some beasts or people nearby.
So after sometime sensing no movements around her she starts to explore cautiously. Actually she can't observe far even if she wants to. Her perception range is likely 1 meters around her a most. With in this range she can only sense the shallow blood pool around her.
There isn't even any other animals let alone any living organisms in 1 meter redius around her. Turi kinda gets disappointed at this. But it is also a matter of relief that she isn't any danger right now.
Turi then starts to observe her own body.
She was a little panicked before so she didn't notice but her flower colour was crimson red like the bloods in the pool. There is some golden blush in the petals. The shape of the flower is like a big blossom of peony.
The leaves are also very similar but not entirely. What is more interesting is the stem and leaves are golden. You can say the whole plant except the flower petals is made of gold.
The whole plant is giving some kind of gold hue. It really does looks divine.
That's all the information she could collect from her surroundings using her current range hope divine sense. She hopes that her divine sense can also develop like she read in novels.
With nothings else to do Turi starts her previous work of absorbing nutrition grains. She diligently absorbs the nutrition grains.
Like that Turi have been absorbing the nutrition grains from the blood pool for almost a week. But she doesn't see any noticeable changes in her body. She starts to get a little disheartened.
After three or four days she finally gets some results. Thought it's not any physical growth but her perception range has increased by half a metre. She can now use scan one and half meter redius around using her divine sense.
To her disappointment, all she can see is the pool of blood. There is nothing new around her. So she keeps absorbing those nutrition grains.
One year has passed in blink of a eye. Turi still absorbs the nutrition grains from the blood pool. But a lot of things have changed. Her golden stem and leaves are starting to have some deep crimson intricate designs all over. Her flower petals colour has also depend. It's now a deeper shade of red.
And most important improvement is that her perception range is now nearly one kilometre. That means now she can observe the area of one kilometre redius around her.
Its leads to her a very shocking discovery that she isn't inside some demons cultivation cave or so rather she is in an ancient battle field. The blood pool she is in now is inside a battle field. The blood pool isn't very big but still around one hundred and sixty square metres in size.
At first Turi used to ponder how could so much blood is collected here that it formed a blood pool. She soon got her answer. Around and above the pool is countless corpses are scattered. The sheer number of them is astonishing.
The pool is actually located underground.
It's not much deep under ground. The cave where the blood pool is in a crack of the ground. Blood from those countless corpses siped into the ground and flowed through the cracks. And had somehow got collected inside this cave to from a swallow blood pool.
From what she can observe, the battle field wasn't any normal one as the clothes the peoples are wearing are from ancient era. And the fight scenes also aren't any normal. There are countless deep pits and cracks in the ground. Ancient weapons like sword, bow, blades and spears was scattered throughout the battle field
The corpses are in dire state. Turi was frightened and nauseous even though she couldn't puke in her current state. It took a long time to her get used to the brutal sight of the battlefield.
And most importantly if the battle was among normal peoples their body would have been decayed by now. Even if she sprouted here right after the battle, no human body would remain fresh after one whole year, human blood will not stay liquid in open environment.
But to her astonishment the corpses are fresh like they were killed today and there blood is also like fresh blood that has just taken from a human body.
There was no sign of any maggots or decay anywhere. The air is full of metallic smell of blood that makes one nauseous just by smelling.
Turi this time also didn't find any sign life in her one kilometre redius. She discovered that there was tiny sparks of nutrition gains in the surrounding environment too. But they were particularly in high concentration in blood and corpse scattered in the battleground.
Turi tried to absorb those grains into her body from the environment and she succeeded.
From this she comes to conclusion that those people who died on the battlefield were cultivators who absorbed the nutrition grains from the environment into their body and made them stronger.
That's why the concentration of nutrition grains in their body and blood was high.
Those nutrition grains are similar to qi found in cultivation novels and mana from those fantasy novels.
Turi wanted to give the nutrition grains a name but she was confused between qi or mana. So decided to simply find out the name later when she meets the peoples from this world. For now just say them qi grains as they looks like grains of sand.
Turi is a little excited about meeting the peoples who live in this world. Her imagination starts running willd. The possibility of meeting fantasy races like demons, elfs or beastmans makes her grin happily.
But she needs to get out of this desolate place first. For this she needs go get stronger and get control of her new body. She needs way to move her roots so that she can get out of the blood pool.
Turi have a feeling that absorbing these qi gains from this battleground will be very beneficial to her. And her way out of the battleground depends on it.
In the flow of time ten years has already passed by. Turi has absorbed all the qi grains from the blood pool. The blood in the pool is still in liquid state but it has lost it's luster. At first she thought the blood will clot or decay after absorbing the qi grains but it didn't. So she isn't sure about what is keeping them from decaying.
Turi can move her roots now, using it she slowly gets out of the blood pool, she climbs the wall of the cave and gets into the cracks of the ground. After some time her flower bud picks out from the crack and she finally gets a full view of the battleground.
It's truly gruesome. The sky is full of dark clouds, it looks like sun didn't shine here for decades. Everything looks desolated. Cold wind sends shivers to one soul.
Turi's divine sense has grown a lot compared to before. She can now perceive more than 100 kilometers redius area around her. But she still can't see the ending of the battleground.
Whatever Turi decides to explore the battlefield slowly and absorb all the qi grains.