Chapter 382 - A Mixed Blessing
Chapter 382 A Mixed Blessing
Chanting for nine days continually, Lin Luoran first gets a response from the light spots of faith flying in the ocean of consciousness.
They are Lin Luoran’s believers from the outside world. The power of faith is versatile but what she wants it to do is just a little thing.
On the fifth day, these light spots of faith set up a bridge in Lin Luoran’s ocean of consciousness.
Blessed by the “Reincarnation Sutra” she has been chanting day and night, those demons hiding under the Sea of Sin are surrounded with warmth for the first time in thousands of years. At first, they only feel grateful about it. Then some demons gradually take the chance of the one hour every day when the Sea of Sin calms down and come to the shore to listen to the unsophisticated “Sutra” quietly.
Besides the semi-literal Sutra, the persistent female voice is actually what penetrates the thick, black and cold seawater.
The peaceful and beautiful female voice is so pure. It sounds cold but it has a power to make people feel at ease.
The demons have lost their “faith” for thousands of years. However, on the morning of the eighth day, a black demon feels extremely peaceful, and then a little white light of faith flies out from its head. It actually disappears in the sight of these demons! All demons are so excited about it now.
The terrible thing about the Sea of Sin is that you cannot escape from this small place even when you are dead.
These demons don’t expect to relive. They just want to get out of bondage and enter reincarnation.
“I want to offer my faith…”
“I would like to offer my faith.”
It is not true that their faith has already been lost. Getting themselves a little less guarded, the demons realize this fact—they have been suffering too long to remember their faith and hope.
Their faith is buried so deep that they need a guide. In fact, no one is more devout than these tortured demons.
On the ninth day, the Sea of Sin is calm.
Only the delicate and beautiful mermaid is still there on the coast. It’s all happening so fast. She feels complex when she looks at Lin Luoran who is sitting there cross-legged. If she had really pulled the female cultivator into the seawater and made her “scapegoat”, maybe these demons would have never been freed.
“What? Do you have other wishes?” Lin Luoran notices she is wandering, unwilling to leave. She opens her eyes and asks.
The mermaid grits her teeth but says nothing. She eventually shakes her head.
What she still wants is to go to Mount Penglai. Maybe it’s better to keep this wish to herself. This green dress female cultivator will probably get to Penglai. As for why she wants to go to Penglai, the truth has been less important after so long, hasn’t it?
The mermaid closes her eyes and smiles.
“I would like to offer my faith to enter reincarnation.”
The mermaid finds herself very relaxed after giving up her obsession. She can feel a line connecting herself with Lin Luoran. Is the warm white light the guide to the road of reincarnation?
Her body slowly becomes transparent and eventually disappears on the shore of the Sea of Sin.
The breeze blows on the fine sand. This is a really soft beach. The seawater of the Sea of Sin is still very dark, but it’s not stinking anymore because all demons are gone.
As the mermaid is freed, Lin Luoran is bathed in soft white light. She lowers her eyes and eyebrows. Her expression at this moment is very similar to the Fly Apsaras painted sculpture in her ocean of consciousness.
After a long time, she stands up.
Lin Luoran’s knees are stiff sitting there still for nine days. From chanting continually without drinking anything, she realizes for the first time that Bearing Essence cultivators are indeed better at overcoming hunger than ordinary people. She is in good spirits now.
“Well, I underestimate you, little girl. You are really good at chanting.”
Fire phoenix has been holding itself back for so long. It can’t help saying it when it sees everything coming to a successful end.
Lin Luoran feels very happy about the light groups of faith which are about to become solid. Therefore, she doesn’t care about fire phoenix’s banter, “Don’t you say that the contents of lection are not important? What can make them feel the guidance of the power of faith is actually my devout wishes?”
But Lin Luoran thinks fire phoenix makes sense in one thing. The thing trapping these demons may not be the Sea of Sin but that they can’t let go of the obsession in their mind—weren’t they drawing a circle on the ground to serve as a prison for themselves?
Fire phoenix snorts. Lin Luoran decides to bury the secret deep in her heart—She will never tell it that the lection is from a web novel called “Humanitarian Paradise” she read accidentally in college!
Lin Luoran puts away the futon and takes out the blue jade which mermaid gave her as an exchange.
She really doesn’t know why it is so special that it can distract the Rank Nine monster. Out of caution, Lin Luoran decides to rest on the beach for one day and then set off after building up energy.
After waiting for half a year, waiting for one more day is nothing.
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The bloody moon just sinks and Lin Luoran steps into the jungle again in the dense fog.
Lin Luoran opens the jade box. She smears the black thing like a mushroom all over her body disgustedly. Fire phoenix speaks in strange tongues in spare, “Doesn’t this stuff fail you? You still choose to use it?”
Lin Luoran doesn’t respond. She walked to the foot of the mountain with the jade box until she was chased by a flying snake ten days ago. Lin Luoran thinks it might be a Rank Eight monster. Although this big killer can’t help her pass through the mountain smoothly, it is undeniable that it really deserves its name as “big killer” in the previous long journey.
This black thing like a mushroom looks mysterious but it is simply very smelly. It grows under the Kalahari Desert. Animals go around it even when they escape the lava outbreak. She occasionally remembers it and realizes this may also be quite effective when used in monsters.
Lin Luoran thinks this mushroom is stinky but acceptable. She doesn’t know what is so special about this thing that a monster would avoid it like a ghost.
Souls of departed like fire phoenix also feel extremely fearful. Maybe this thing has impressed the three big monsters in space a lot?
Unfortunately, it can’t work on the Rank Eight monster. Lin Luoran’s trip this time is still very dangerous.
The jungle is covered by white mist in the morning. Smelly Lin Luoran walks among ferns and towering ancient trees. Low-rank monsters smelling it all escape away from her in a flash. Lin Luoran proceeds quickly for hundreds of miles in the forest. Her journey this time goes well.
But this ancient forest breeding monsters is obviously more dangerous than it is now.
Low-rank monsters hate the smell of Lin Luoran but plants here feel nothing. She steps on a thick brown vine and it triggers something in the towering tree. Lin Luoran moves on but thick vines hanging down from branches come alive, coming for her like snakes.
Lin Luoran dodges them swiftly. However, those vines hiding under the ground of thick dead branches and rotten leaves have been intertwined into a large net long ago. It closes up and hangs Lin Luoran on the tree successfully the moment she lands.
Thick brown vines form into a large cocoon. It is certainly no joke. They are monster vines which feed on monsters’ flesh in this monster forest. If monsters entangled here can’t escape in a quarter of an hour, the liquid from the surface of the thick brown vines will make them a pool of blood and then nourish the thick vines.
Thick vines think they can have a good meal today. However, they soon shrink back loathly after tens of seconds.
Lin Luoran lands on the ground but she doesn’t look good.
She is likely to be very unlucky today, deep in trouble after walking for only a hundred miles.
These monster vines are not afraid of cutting or burning. They look the same as numerous ordinary vines in the jungle. Lin Luoran is a Bearing Essence cultivator but she may easily fall for them if she is not careful enough.
In fact, they are not difficult to deal with. Lin Luoran just crushes a few purple berries and then the monster vines will withdraw automatically.
She looks bad because while these unique purple berries are the natural enemy of monster vines, they are the favorite food of a sort of low-rank monsters at the same time.
Those monsters can smell purple berries ten miles away and chase after them.
Lin Luoran decides to leave here quickly.
Flying will attract the attention of monsters so she can only run among the forest at full speed. After less than twenty miles, Lin Luoran hears the rustling sound from the front.
Can she be more lucky? Lin Luoran clearly remembers it is the territory of a Rank Seven monster not far ahead. If she makes a noise there, maybe the effect of the stinky mushroom will vanish.
The low-rank monsters are not terrible. However, Lin Luoran’s scalp tingles just thinking of this group of things which she once met from a distance.
Rank Two social monsters, ants of the gold, enjoy these purple berries—they eat everything and have a special annoying hobby: always attacking in a group.