novelThe Reiki-Devouring Worm
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The winter holiday is over, and Lin Luodong returns to school. Her vacation life in the Lin's villa comes to an end.
Back to the Rong City urban district, Li Xi'er finally finds someone to exchange flower growing experience with her. Well, sometimes Lin Luoran thinks Li Xi'er with the nature of Gold has picked a wrong lifetime hobby. Even in the Lin's villa, a place full of Reiki, only two or three out of every ten of Li Xi'er's flowers can survive, no matter which variety.
After Li Xi'er "kills" some famous flowers again, Lin Luoran thinks it's time to check how she raises her flowers.
Li Xi'er does love flowers. The problem is, she loves them too much. Raising flowers is like raising a child. Huang Weijian is a free-range kid, like the orchid beside the mountain stream，strong and wild. Lin Luodong is the "business before pleasure" type. Weather-beaten, then she is transplanted to the greenhouse. Everything about her is good in its place. As for fatty Ma Ming, he is definitely overweight and far beyond the standard of beauty... Li Xier's way of growing flowers is just like how Ma Ming is raised. The soil is always wet because she worries that the flowers would be thirsty to death. As a result, her flowers are overwatered. Obviously, the flower is "obese" and loses its beauty, but she is still over-fertilizing it.
"What's the matter with your peony?"
Lin Luoran comes out and sees Li Xi'er holding a pot of peony in her hand. The name of this dignified flower is" Nature's Masterpiece", a very famous ancient variety.
However, its dignity only lasts a few days. Now its branches and leaves are all down and no one can know it's a kind of noble flower. Without the same flowerpot, Lin Luoran can hardly recognize it.
She puts some Wood Reiki in it, and the peony recovers a little bit. Li Xi'er is relieved and decides to raise it for another few days to see how it is going.
The Wood Reiki is quite useful. On the second day, the peony rejuvenates. On the third day, its leaves stretch again and it looks like a totally new one. Its branches are strong and the leaves are thin and green. With all sizes of leaves surrounding the little red bud, it looks much more dignified than ever. Jubilantly, Li Xi'er shows fanatical worship to Lin Luoran.
It suddenly takes a turn on the fifth day. The peony withers again. It catches Lin Luoran's attention because now other vegetables and fruit trees in the Lin's villa also turns yellow, just like Li Xi'er's Nature's Masterpiece.
This is so unnatural. With the magic circle and Lin Luoran's work, Lin's villa has been like a small magic world where every vegetable and fruit tree can live and thrive.
They are sick... or something hurts them?
"Where did you get these flowers?" Li Xi'er's Nature's Masterpiece shows the symptom first. Lin Luoran checks it but finds nothing, which makes her even more puzzled.
Li Xi'er thinks about it and then counts them one by one, "I dug the chypre from the mountain. It can live a long life so I want it here. As for the rest, they are all from the flower market. Oh... right! Nature's Masterpiece is from Fatty Cui."
Fatty Cui, how pathetic! Giving Li Xi'er such a pot of expensive peony, but she can hardly remember it.
Besides vegetables and fruit trees, there are also some flowers and plants raised by Li Xi'er and a medicinal garden of a cyan little fox in the backyard. Lin Luoran slowly walks toward the Huan island, thinking about checking it all at once.
As soon as she steps on the Huan island, the fox jumps to her feet and pulls her trouser leg, wanting to tell her something.
Those spirit herbs are also withering. With confusion, Lin Luoran looks at the cyan little fox jumping up and down, "You mean, Goldie does all of it?"
Goldie likes to eat spirit herbs, but it won't like Li Xi'er's normal flowers. In Goldie's eyes, those flowers are not different from weeds. Cyan little fox says that Goldie walks around the medicine garden and is the most probable suspect. But Lin Luoran doesn't think so.
If it isn't Goldie but it stayed around the medicine garden, does it mean that Goldie noticed something abnormal?
Goldie comes back late at night. Seeing Lin Luoran in the bamboo forests, it jumps down immediately. It shows no coldness as it is to others, only intimacy.
It holds a ganoderma in its mouth and then puts it in Lin Luoran's hands. The Ganoderma looks like an old one. Lin Luoran wonders, "Why don't you eat it if you find it?"
Goldie lets out a bark, making the ganoderma in Lin Luoran's hands fall to the ground. It pulls her sleeve and takes her to the room. Goldie and Lin Luoran are connected. From Goldie's reaction, Lin Luoran knows that it must find something. Lin Luoran hides in the bamboo house and holds the cyan little fox which is going to argue with Goldie in her arms. Goldie also flies to the roof. The small Huan island is quiet again.
The chirpings gradually weakens and the sun is going to come up. It is the time when people feel the most sleepy. Even cyan little fox is dozing off. Lin Luoran is still staring at the Ganoderma on the ground. This is the bait that Goldie particularly finds for the trap. However, who does Goldie set this trap for?
The moment that the night turns into the day, Lin Luoran blinks. Goldie seizes the Ganoderma in a flash with his claws.
Get it? What is it? Lin Luoran can't even see it clearly.
She rushes out of the house and carefully takes the broken ganoderma from Goldie's claws. In the section, a living creature with the same color of ganoderma is wriggling. It is surrounded by Lin Luoran's Wakan but it does not even try to fight back. Instead, it abandons the ganoderma and lays on Lin Luoran's hands.
Lin Luoran is shocked. Then she realizes that this little worm slowly becomes transparent. To her surprise, it is "eating" her Wakan.
Lin Luoran takes out a green spirit herb and plays with the worm. The small worm is about five centimeters in length and is as thick as Lin Luoran's fingers. After it discovers the spirit herb, it desperately rushes to it. On the spirit herb, it slowly turns green.
How does the worm, which can change its color and feeds on Reiki, appear in her home?
Luoran thinks about it. She takes out the bamboo tube that Yuan Ye gave her when sending Butterflybush Flower. She seals the little worm inside, and decides to go to the space to ask fire phoenix.
The ancient bird which has lived for so many years has no clue. However, the silver fish thinks about it for a while, "It shouldn't be here."
Shouldn't be here? So silver fish knows what it is?
"I remember I have seen it before... in the transmission circle. It doesn't have an official name, and people just call it reiki-devouring worm. It's useless... You can kill it just with a slight pinch." The silver fish is sitting on the swing. Fire phoenix breathes on the swing and then it sways.
Reiki-devouring worm? This little thing can find a reiki mine? Lin Luoran's eyes light up, but she just asks casually, "Which transmission circle? Are these worms easy to catch?" They should catch lots of them and then using them as labors around the world. If so, the Lin family has nothing to worry about cultivation.
"The Interstellar Transmission Circle. Your personal ability is so bad. You can't even get there. There is no need to try to catch them."
Lin Luoran takes its advice and nods. It is the Interstellar Transmission Circle... She gets the news and then is about to leave. But she suddenly realizes something... What has silver fish told her? The Interstellar Transmission Circle?
She almost loses the watermelon and picks up the sesame... This news is much more important than Reiki-devouring worm!
Looking at her turning back, fire phoenix is alert, "What do you want, woman?" They have been familiar with Lin Luoran for a long time. Fire phoenix doesn't call himself "The emperor" any more. Their attitudes toward Lin Luoran are totally different. Silver fish is gentle and soft but fire phoenix always dampens her enthusiasm.
Lin Luoran ignores it, "My dear little fish, do you know anything about the interstellar transmission circle? Is it the kind of circle that can bring people to other planets?"
Silver fish is asking fire phoenix to make it swing even higher. Apparently, this question does not catch its attention, "I have been there before but now totally forget the way. Since I wake up, I forget so many things. It is so strange."
Without further information, Lin Luoran still holds her temper. An important reason why fire phoenix is so bad to her is that she almost killed silver fish when it was about to advance to the Wisdom Chaos. So, silver fish's memory, including its inheritance, has all lost. Its mind becomes as simple as a little girl.
This memory makes Lin Luoran really want to cry. It was the silver fish who swallowed the bead first. Well, she was also wrong because she picked the ice spirit herb that the little silver fish had kept for so long. But if she had confronted the silver fish which enters the Wisdom Chaos, she would definitely be a dead man! Speaking the truth, in the first place, she was just curious about the fast silver so she followed it. If she had known that it was an alien, she would definitely escape.
Hearing silver fish saying about losing memory, fire phoenix stares at her angrily. Lin Luoran knows that it's time for her to leave.
She remembers that everything began with the peony sent by Fatty Cui. If she can know where the flower is from, she will get some clues, knowing where the Reiki-devouring worm came from... Following all these things, she may know the location of the Interstellar transmission circle.
Lin Luoran steps on jade stairs. The star atlas she once saw is so gorgeous. How about the real starry sky?
Seniors Gathering Vitality, do they go to other planets through the transmission circle? Is it really a perfect place for cultivation?
These questions puzzle Lin Luoran. She feels ups and downs, just like she knows there are other practitioners on earth. She looks at the starry sky above her head, and her mind ripples.
In space, silver fish has done with swinging and suddenly cries out.
Fire phoenix asks it what happens. Silver fish just pats its back with its tail."Did she just ask me something about the interstellar transmission circle? I don't remember the way, but I can remember the direction... Well, forget it. Her personal ability is so bad. If she goes there, she will never come back anymore. Then no one can talk with us."
Fire phoenix sneers, "Just such a short distance, and you juniors need the transmission circle thing. Can't you just fly?"
Silver fish is not angry, "Without the transmission circle, we will be injured."
"Why din't you leave when you knew the transmission circle? I heard the woman saying that the earth is now an abandoned planet. There are no monsters there."
Silver fish thinks for a long time but can't remember it. It just giggles, "I forget."
It forgets who it was and why it stays. Now the carefree silver fish is kind of worried because of Fire phoenix's words.
Fire phoenix is so regretful. Hitting a nerve is what it usually does to Lin Luoran, but now it just crosses the line.
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