CHAPTER 713: 164, DREAMS AND REALITY

Warm sunlight pierced through the clouds, illuminating Langyu City, with shadows quietly wandering and drifting with the wind.

"Um... Nice weather."

Xiahong Qiuhe shielded her eyes with her delicate hand, looking up into the splendid and gentle spring day, and couldn’t help but smile, "Youzhou rarely gets such nice sunshine, and the Divine Pivot Institute managed to do this? Not bad, not bad."

She hovered in the air, surveying Langyu City below, "I’ll just plant fruit trees along the streets of the city, it’s also convenient to pick fruits to eat from the trees, available at any time to cure diseases, and just perfect to beautify the city."

"Hee... The people of Youzhou should thank me a lot in the future."

With a giggly wave of her sleeve robe, several hoes for tilling land appeared in midair, immediately transforming into streaks of light that flew down towards the city, beginning to hoe and loosen the soil.

"Pfft! Pfft!"

Eerie slicing noises continuously arose from various places within the city.

"Eh?" Xiahong Qiuhe blinked in confusion, "Why do I seem to hear someone crying? Strange... Did I hear wrong?"

She listened carefully for a while, found the city to be deathly quiet, without a single noise, and then muttered to herself, "Alright, I must have heard wrong... Maybe it’s the cries of the people from other parts of Youzhou suffering from illness. Just wait, I’ll come to save you right away, don’t be afraid."

She stimulated her mana and continued to control the hoes to loosen and dig the soil.

Soon, countless tree pits appeared beside the streets.

"Um, this soil isn’t very fertile..."

Xiahong Qiuhe crossed her arms, holding her chin as she pondered, then suddenly noticed many bags of fertilizer emitting a rotten smell by the roadside.

"Eh? Lots of natural fertilizer, Youzhou City had a lot of fertilizer before, I wonder if it’s made from plant or animal corpses, could this be a local custom of Youzhou? Not bad... Hehe, I like the people of Youzhou."

She happily waved her sleeve, releasing flames to process the roadside fertilizer, then filled the tree pits with the processed fertilizer.

There was plenty of fertilizer, but with her mountain-moving mana, it was dealt with in the blink of an eye.

"Next is sowing."

Xiahong Qiuhe scattered handfuls of seeds, spreading them across the entire city.

Then, she activated her Divine Skills, fingertips emitting streaks of Vitality Divine Light, starting to quicken the ripening of the seeds of the trees that could grow curative fruits.

"Life and death, flourishing and withering, all of you grow quickly."

The saplings absorbed the nutrients from the fertilizer she concocted, crazily grew, and also drew mysterious divine lights from somewhere between heaven and earth.

She did not know where these divine lights came from, but they were helpful for the growth of the trees, so of course, she happily accepted them.

Just then——

"Um?"

Suddenly, pests hidden who knows where flew out, swarming around the fruit trees being ripened, seemingly trying to disrupt the saplings.

"You pests, so annoying, stay away."

Xiahong Qiuhe huffed and puffed, her lips parting slightly as she forcefully exhaled several breaths, the flow of air swiftly exterminating those pesky insects.

Although she never killed people, she showed no mercy towards pests.

"Buddha Ancestor above, my transgressions..." she muttered quietly, feeling a bit bad about it.

Suddenly——

"Um?" Xiahong Qiuhe turned her head, her face beaming with joy, exclaiming, "Little brother, are you coming to see me?"

...

The sky darkened and gloomy, thick clouds completely obscured the sunlight, and all that was left in the world was a dead silence, with only the mournful and piercing sound of the wind.

"This... this is..."

Lin Yue stood frozen, staring down at Langyu City below; at this moment, he finally understood why Youzhou City had turned out that way.

Twisted, eerie pale trees grew out of the holes by the streets, with the pits showing soil mixed with a great deal of severed limbs and flesh, and the streets were covered in fresh blood.

At the same time, the tree roots of these pale trees, like tentacles, continuously stretched and danced about, absorbing the souls of the deceased from throughout the city.

Moreover, there were many fragments of cultivators’ corpses in the city, with a few remaining heads filled with fear and resentment, seeming to have died trying to prevent the trees from absorbing souls.

Xiahong Qiuhe stood above the city, her body shrouded in a dark aura, her complexion pallid and lifeless, gazing at him with crazed and cold eyes, and spoke airily, "Little brother, have you come?"

"Qiuhe sister..."

Lin Yue took a deep breath and with all his might sent his Divine Thought into the Seventh Princess’s heart, "Quickly wake up, this isn’t what you want to see, right?"

Xiahong Qiuhe looked at him expressionlessly and spoke slowly, "I’m tilling the land, don’t bother me."

She looked down, continuing to operate her Divine Skills, and those twisted, eerie pale trees once again stretched out their roots, continuing to absorb blood for growth.

"Um?" Lin Yue suddenly realized——

There seemed to be a problem with the Seventh Princess’s Divine Soul; two different Divine Soul Auras had appeared and were tearing apart?

"Her Divine Soul has split, half of it has assimilated with the will of the ancient master, and the other half seems to be asleep in a dreamlike state, but... it doesn’t seem to be a bad thing."

The Second Prince’s voice rang in his heart, "Stop the Seventh Sister, her Divine Power isn’t much, it won’t be hard to exhaust it."

Lin Yue didn’t have time to think much of it and immediately transformed into a streak of light, flying towards Xiahong Qiuhe.

"Qiuhe sister, stop!"

...

"Hey, stop messing around."

Xiahong Qiuhe dodged Lin Yue’s advancing hand with a giggle, "The people of Youzhou suffering from the plague are waiting for sister to save them; I’m busy farming, I don’t have time to play with you, go wait to the side for a while."