Escaping the Evil Dragon Domain, he felt completely at ease. In the Evil Dragon Domain, he sensed an eye watching him at all times.
Those were the eyes of the demon-eyed water lily. No one knew how it had used to look at him from afar, making him feel extremely uncomfortable.
Long Chen tried to escape, but it just watched without attacking. Just as Long Chen had expected, Bai Shishi's strike dealt it a heavy blow, leaving it unable to recover its strength in a short time, and could only watch helplessly as he left.
After leaving the Evil Dragon Domain, that unease disappeared. The spiritual power of the Demon-Eyed Water Lily could cover the entire domain. This thing was terrifying; thinking about it now, Long Chen felt a lingering fear.
But once he left the Evil Dragon Domain, Long Chen immediately felt relaxed and cheerful. He decided to find a secluded spot for Bai Shishi to rest a bit more.
Because in the Evil Dragon Domain, the aura is violent and unsuitable for Bai Shishi to heal. The strike Bai Shishi gave to save Long Chen was completely unreserved, as it damaged the very origin and cannot be repaired in the Evil Dragon Domain.
While Bai Shishi was cultivating, Bai Xiaole and the others were responsible for protecting the Dharma, while Long Chen immersed his mind in the chaotic space. Only now did he have time to deal with the lotus pod.
On the lotus pod, five seeds shimmered with multicolored divine light, each containing boundless power.
"Metal, wood, water, fire, earth—five ultimate powers. Wow, it's like magical beasts possessing five crystal cores, and human warriors having five dantians."
Long Chen felt the terrifying power within the lotus seed and couldn't help but marvel. This demon-eyed water lily was incredibly strong. Surviving this time was truly a stroke of luck.
"The seeds of the Demon-Eyed Water Lily are the main ingredient in the Purple Que Pill. I have the Eye of the Demon Dragon as well, but I'm still missing quite a few auxiliary herbs. Besides, I'm still some distance from the Divine Lord Realm, so I can't use these seeds for now."
This time, Bai Shishi saved my life, so I'll give her this golden lotus seed, and the fire lotus seed ... Huh? "Long Chen suddenly noticed that a lotus seed on the lotus pod had disappeared, leaving only a ball of flame flowing inside, no seed inside.
Long Chen's heart stirred. Not only did he chuckle silently, but in the distance, the fire dragon curled up together, terrifying flames blazing from its body. It had already picked out the fire lotus seeds and began devouring them.
The scales on the fire dragon's body flickered with light, radiating a terrifying pressure. On her, Long Chen vaguely sensed the unique demonic aura of the Demon-Eyed Water Lily.
The fire lotus seeds of the Demon-Eyed Water Lily released flames of a kind of demonic flame, not on the Immortal Realm's Heavenly Fire Ranking, but its energy was astonishing. Even Huo Ling'er now had to absorb it bit by bit, not daring to swallow it directly.
"Thanks to cutting his lotus seed, otherwise, any force of metal, wood, water, fire, or earth, if it overflowed, would have cost me countless times over." Long Chen felt a wave of lingering fear.
This lotus pod is the source of power for the Demon-Eyed Water Lily, and the Nine-Colored Lotus is used to release its power. Without the pod, just the lotus alone would have nearly cost Long Chen his life. If there were a lotus seed, the combat power of the Demon-Eyed Water Lily would be beyond Long Chen's imagination.
Long Chen peeled out a lotus seed, buried it in the soil, and threw a black demon dragon with its skin peeled and its magic crystals and demon eyes removed into the black earth.
When the demon dragon was devoured by the black earth and released a vast amount of life energy, Long Chen noticed the lotus seeds began to swell. Gradually, after the time it takes to burn an incense stick, they started to sprout. Seeing this, Long Chen finally felt relieved.
Being able to grow lotus seeds meant he would have endless Demon-Eyed Water Lilies to use in the future. Otherwise, relying solely on killing Demon-Eyed Water Lilies to obtain lotus seeds for pill refining would have driven him to collapse.
An hour later, the giant dragon was devoured, but the lotus seed only sprouted a little over an inch long.
After the lotus seeds sprouted tender shoots, they seemed to come alive, twisting and crawling in one direction, just like an earthworm dragging a house.
Long Chen looked in the direction it crawled, and with a thought, he dug it out of the soil and placed it near the core of the chaotic space.
Sure enough, it kept crawling toward the black soil, and only stopped when it reached the boundary with the black soil.
Its body began to glow. Many Yin-Yang immortal herbs were planted here. These herbs were treasures Long Chen had acquired when he was in the lower realm, but in the Immortal Realm, they were no longer considered rare.
The lotus seed glowed, and the surrounding Yin-Yang Immortal Grass began to slowly wither and then gradually die. Water vapor appeared around the seed, quickly forming a small puddle.
"It actually creates its own environment for growth." Long Chen was startled; this Demon-Eyed Water Lily was terrifying.
It was said that the Demon-Eyed Water Lily survived in the gap between the Undying Realm and the Demon Realm. Upon arriving here, he actually chose this place to grow and even changed the environment himself.
Without hesitation, Long Chen placed both the water and earth lotus seeds in the pod together. Soon, they began to sprout, their whole bodies glowing. All the Yin-Yang Immortal Herbs at the edge of the black soil withered, as if it wouldn't allow other life to compete for nutrients—extremely domineering.
Soon, at the junction of black and yellow earth, a water pool several feet in diameter formed, with three lotus seeds sleeping inside and slowly growing.
In the puddle, water of both clear and turbid colors appeared, forming a Taiji pattern that slowly swirled. Long Chen himself was stunned by the sight.
He never expected that when the Demon-Eyed Water Lily was planted in the chaotic space, such a phenomenon would occur, creating an environment suitable for its own survival.
Long Chen threw one processed dragon corpse after another into the black earth, releasing endless vitality. The Jianmu Divine Tree was growing wildly, thickening rapidly, but the Demon-Eyed Water Lily was growing extremely slowly.
An hour later, the Demon-Eyed Water Lily finally spat out its first green leaf. The leaf floated on the water's surface, lustrous and dripping with mysterious patterns, followed by a second, a third...
Each water lily sprouted nine tender leaves, and the puddle had swelled into a pond dozens of zhang wide. The three water lilies had grown to a height of one person.
Finally, Long Chen saw two small flower buds slowly extending from beneath each water lily from underwater. He knew that one would later evolve into a nine-colored lotus, and the other into a pod.
Long Chen continued throwing corpses away, only to find that before he knew it, all the dragon corpses he had collected had been lost, and the Demon-Eyed Water Lilies had only grown so little.
Long Chen was speechless. To make the Demon-Eyed Water Lily ripen, who knows how many corpses would be needed; the growth of the Demon-Eyed Water Lily was just too slow.
But then he thought, the Demon-Eyed Water Lily he encountered must have grown for millions of years, or even longer, to reach this level, and now he has balanced out.
With the corpse gone, he could only remain there for now. Just as Long Chen was about to exit the chaotic space, he suddenly saw the Jianmu Divine Tree and exclaimed in surprise. At some point, the Jianmu Divine Tree had skyrocketed to a height of ten thousand li, and flower buds had even appeared on it.
"Has it bloomed?" Long Chen couldn't help but feel ecstatic. The Jianmu Divine Tree was blooming, which meant it had matured and was about to bear fruit.