Half a cup of spring water was poured in, and the dark color deepened a bit. The first petal trembled and unfolded, while the other petals still bashfully surrounded each other, refusing to reveal their true colors.

  Lin Luoran took a deep breath, this flower is really fragrant, and it has only bloomed its first petal!

  She saw that nothing was happening and the scene of poisonous fog overflowing in her fantasy didnt appear either, so she ran back and forth a few more times and poured several cups of water for Hei Tang.

  After finishing what he could do, Lin Luo Ran squatted down beside Hei Tian with great patience. Its said that the blooming of the heavenly flower only lasts for an instant, so how could they afford to miss it? Otherwise, wouldnt the spring water have been poured in vain?

  In one minute, the second petal trembled slightly. In five minutes, it unfolded like a mischievous sprite, slipping quietly past the first petal and opening in an oblique direction.

  In the eighth minute, the third petal moved...

  Lin Luo Ran didnt know how long he had been squatting, it seemed like only a short ten or so minutes, yet it also felt like an eternity, his legs were numb, and the dark flower finally slowly and elegantly bloomed its last petal!

  What appeared before Lin Luos eyes was a plant with dark green leaf veins, its stem as warm and smooth as jade, but all of this was nothing compared to its flower - with only five petals, it bloomed to the size of a bowl, overlapping and supporting each other, the jet-black petals seemed to be shining with a subtle light!

  Very fragrant, very beautiful... Lin Luoran unknowingly stood up, her nose filled with the enticing aroma, and in her eyes, only this dark, intoxicating black flower remained.

  She felt the petals seemed to be constantly expanding, thinking it was her own illusion. After a while, she discovered that she had unknowingly leaned forward to sniff this dark flower.

  One inch, two inches... Lin Luorans eyes were dazed, as if she had been enchanted by the mysterious fragrance of the black flower. Her nose was getting closer and closer, until it finally touched the black, jade-like petals - a glimmer of clarity flashed in her eyes, and she tried to struggle to get up, but the originally lifeless black flower suddenly burst out a cluster of essence from its stamen, "Whoosh~" and drilled into Lin Luorans nose!

  Lin Luoran only felt a "buzz" in her head, and then she lost all consciousness.

  Her consciousness was wandering in a pitch-black tunnel, and for a moment, she seemed to have forgotten who she was. After an unknown period of time, her consciousness seemed tired, feeling that this place was extremely dark and cold, making it somewhat unpleasant.

  Why is there no light? This thought had just risen when the mind thought again, what is "light"?

  What is "light"...... Why do I know the word "light", its really strange! My consciousness is exhausted, cant think of what "light" is, feeling annoyed and frustrated, hitting my non-corporeal body against the corridor - but the corridor is also non-corporeal, so my consciousness can only wander back and forth between the walls.

  "Whats wall?" Its really a strange word. The divine consciousness thought dully, it must be the wall blocking the light!

  Blocking... what cannot be blocked, completely different from the pitch black, is "light"! The divine consciousness suddenly became excited, because after it defined the meaning of "light", the dark tunnel was dotted with bright, colorful halos.

  What a true beauty! The divine consciousness gazed at the dazzling halo of light and was somewhat bewildered, so it didnt bother to pursue what "beauty" meant.

  The colorful corridor is dazzling, very beautiful, the divine consciousness is excited to roll and play, feeling much better than the previous dark and cold corridor.

  Again after a long time, perhaps in an instant, or perhaps billions of years, the divine consciousness felt boredom once more.

  Its beautiful here, but theres no one to accompany me, its too lonely!

  A thought flashed through the depths of his mind - "Human"? What is human? Am I one? The loneliness was too much, and his mind began to think again.

  Its boring without someone to accompany me, which means I used to have someone accompanying me... Ah, so Im a person! The divine consciousness gave itself a definition, and the colorful corridor deep within had a muffled thunder.

  As for why the thunder is muffled, the mind has no interest in thinking about it, perhaps the lightning is accumulating strength! It thought so, but its main energy was still focused on what "human" means.

  Man, having a physical body, the spirit thought so, was very dissatisfied with its existence as a mass of fog! It struggled to jump up and down in the corridor, bumping into things, and gradually the fog-like body underwent changes.

  First was the body, then came the head, then the hands, and finally the feet... but as for the face, no matter how hard I tried, I just couldnt remember what it looked like. A face has a nose, eyes, and a mouth, or else it wouldnt be called a face, would it?

  The fog seemed to have lifted a bit, and the muffled thunder in the depths of the corridor grew louder. Many faces with noses and eyes flashed before its consciousness - those of adults, children, old people, beautiful ones, ugly ones... it clearly didnt remember what it looked like itself, yet felt that none of these faces were its own!

  What about his own face? He racked his brains, determined to get to the bottom of things.

  The thunder in the cave grew louder, and his divine sense was awakened. Looking deep into the cave, he felt a bit frightened, as if a monster was about to emerge from inside, making him feel terrified.

  "Hmph, whats a monster afraid of? I have a magical treasure! The divine sense is both fearful and disdainful, but then turns to think about its own treasure. The treasure seems to be a bangle, the divine sense flashes with insight... no, no, its a pearl!"

  Pearls——As soon as this idea emerged, the rolling thunder in the corridor was overwhelming, one wave higher than the other, like the tide on the coast, eager to rush up the beach.

  Pearl, the divine consciousness is very anxious, this seems to be something very important to it. In the corridor, the thunder rumbles and the colorful light flashes, the scene in front of the divine consciousness changes, a white and tender baby lies in a cradle, with a woman holding a silver bangle teasing her.

  A silver pendant hung down in front of the baby, tied with a red thread at one end, and a warm pearl spinning around and around. The baby opened his big eyes and didnt dare to blink.

  In the blink of an eye, its been several years. The baby has grown into a little girl who can run around everywhere. Her honest and simple-minded father puffs on his cigarette, stuttering as he says they should sell the bangles to pay for her tuition fees.

  The mother rubbed the silver bangles passed down from her ancestors, tears dripping onto the silver bangles, and finally shook her head.

  The baby grew even bigger, went to a bigger school, knew more people, until one day she brought back a boy, and the mother personally put the silver bangle on the boys hand.

  The mother was delighted, the father secretly pleased, and the girl smiled shyly.

  Years later, she grew up even more, and except for her big eyes, there was no longer any shadow of the little baby she used to be. She stood beside a bright red sports car, looking at her and him inside the car.

  The silver bangle was ruthlessly thrown out, shattered on the ground... Then, the bangle sucked her fresh blood, coldly watching her from birth, to childhood, to adolescence, to adulthood, this road of pearls, finally released.

  One by one, the fleeting images, like fragments of a movie, flashed through his minds eye, until they finally froze on a beautiful woman bending down to lightly sniff a jet-black and gorgeous flower.

  The dark thunder of the Yongdao suddenly accelerated, like a swift lightning bolt at the moment of awakening from hibernation, and in an instant it struck towards her divine consciousness - In this flash of electric light, she had already understood who she was!

  The Nether Path, the Seven-Colored Light Ring, the Muffled Thunder, and the Flashing Shadow have all disappeared.

  Lin Luoran still maintained the motion of sniffing the fragrance, but when she opened her eyes again, they sparkled with a sharp light, and her gaze flowed like colorful ripples, making it impossible for others to look directly at her.

  The fragrance of the dark flowers had long since disappeared, and even the petals were withering at a visible rate.

  Lin Luoran lightly touched it, and the petals shattered into countless pieces like glass, yet as light as feathers, disappearing in the entire space!

  Only a solitary plant remained in its original place, serving as a reminder to Lin Luo Ran of all that she had experienced, and that it was not just her own imagination.

  Lin Luoran closed his eyes again, concentrated and calmed down. This time, what appeared in front of him was not the swirling tunnel and light circles, but five different colors representing the Five Elements.

  The liver belongs to wood, so the green one is the liver? The heart belongs to fire, that red mass... Those strips of red meridians, stagnant and motionless inside, are they the spiritual energy within my own body?

  No one told her, but Lin Luo Ran somehow knew that this strange state was called "introspection".