Stellar Transformation-Chapter 527: Episode 15 - 36 Mutation

After performing Instantaneous Movement for a stretch of distance, Qin Yu suddenly stopped.

At this moment, Qin Yu was not too far from Liu Yuxi. He dared not get any closer, otherwise Liu Yuxi might detect his presence. Using the power of space, he carefully sensed the fluctuations of the pond water to determine the location of Liu Yuxi.

Repeatedly pinpointing Liu Yuxi’s position, a trajectory of Liu Yuxi’s movements naturally formed in Qin Yu’s mind.

"Heading straight for the center of the pond bottom?" Qin Yu was slightly puzzled, "Could it be that Tan Jiu, who has been hidden in Black Dragon Pond, is also at the center of the pond bottom?" Without further thought, Qin Yu began to fly towards the center of the pond bottom.

While flying at the bottom of the pond for a while—

Qin Yu felt another current stirring, originating from the center of the Black Dragon Pond, and that current was very regular.

Two current fluctuations, one from Liu Yuxi and the other naturally from Tan Jiu!

"I had searched all over Black Dragon Pond last time and found nothing; I have no idea where he could be hiding!" Qin Yu silently approached, weaving through the lush underwater vegetation, shuttling between some stones and plants.

In a moment, Qin Yu was already behind a boulder.

The power of space spread out, and in Qin Yu’s mind, he clearly observed the center of the pond bottom a hundred meters away, where a passage had appeared, leading deep into the ground.

In another direction, Liu Yuxi had also reached the center of the pond bottom.

Tan Jiu emerged from the passage and said coldly to Liu Yuxi, "You really came, just two years earlier than I expected."

"Although the Seven-colored Lotus still needs a few more years to fully mature, I was worried about miscalculations in my estimations, so I came a bit early," Liu Yuxi said, his face always bearing a smile.

Tan Jiu, with his red hair and eyebrows, snorted and said, "If you’re coming in, come in quickly." With that, Tan Jiu re-entered the underground passage.

Liu Yuxi, with his silver hair and eyebrows, also smiled slightly and stepped into the underground passage. Just as the two of them had stepped into the underground passage, Qin Yu began to stealthily follow, extending his space power down through the passage.

This underground passage was quite deep, tens of meters down, and there was an underground mansion about eighty meters below the pond bottom.

By then, Liu Yuxi had also arrived below the mansion, whereas Tan Jiu had triggered a mechanism within the mansion, causing the passage to slowly close—not just the door of the passage, but the entire passage itself.

"No wonder I didn’t find it last time." Qin Yu thought to himself.

When Qin Yu used the power of space to search, it covered an area of a hundred meters, penetrating only one or two meters into the ground. There was simply no spare power of space to seep down eighty to ninety meters. If he were to search like that, even after years of effort, it probably wouldn’t be enough.

"Eighty meters, enough for me to use Instantaneous Movement to get there," Qin Yu thought to himself.

In the face of the Qiankun World’s ’Space Power,’ the solid rocks of the underground couldn’t block his way. Perhaps even the Upper Heavenly Gods wouldn’t be able to get down there without making a sound, but Qin Yu could!

"There’s no water in the underground mansion. Hmm, it’s quite spacious, that room." Qin Yu chose one of the rooms in the underground mansion and instantly disappeared from the bottom of the pond.

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Eighty meters below the pond, inside the underground mansion.

Qin Yu was inside one of the side rooms, which was only dozens of meters away from the central courtyard. In this room, Qin Yu could clearly hear the conversation between Tan Jiu and Liu Yuxi in the courtyard.

Liu Yuxi and Tan Jiu, believing themselves to be in the underground mansion, considered it impossible for even Upper Heavenly Gods to sneak in unnoticed. Therefore, they were unguarded in their conversation.

Qin Yu’s power of space spread out, covering almost the entire courtyard. Liu Yuxi and Tan Jiu were both within the range, completely unaware of anything.

"Liu Yuxi, the Seven-colored Lotus was a discovery we made together," Tan Jiu said coldly. "We should divide it according to the arrangement we decided upon back then. Two Seven-colored Lotuses, one for you and one for me!"

Qin Yu was slightly surprised to hear that.

"Seven-colored Lotus?" The memory of the information he had read about the Seven-colored Lotus in the Mishen Palace alchemy book sprang to Qin Yu’s mind, "The Seven-colored Lotus, with each of its seven leaves usable in alchemy, and its Lotus Heart can bring someone back to life who has only their True Spirit remaining just by consumption; if used in alchemy, its effects are even more significant!"

Qin Yu was taken aback, as in the Divine World, spirit pills that could revive someone who had only their True Spirit remaining were extremely valuable.

In terms of value, they surpassed Middle Grade Heavenly Divine Artifacts and were close to Upper Grade Heavenly Divine Artifacts.

The ’Lotus Heart’ of the Seven-colored Lotus was even more precious, because consuming it directly only absorbed part of the medicinal properties. If used to make pills, the effect would be much better. This Lotus Heart was definitely worth as much as an Upper Grade Heavenly Divine Artifact, or even more.

"No wonder Tan Jiu and Liu Yuxi value it so highly," Qin Yu thought to himself.

Although the Seven-colored Lotus was precious, to Qin Yu, it was at most a curiosity; it could not excite him. After all, Qin Yu had the Mishen Palace, which contained no shortage of treasures.

In the room storing various alchemy ingredients, though materials of the caliber of the Seven-colored Lotus were few, there were still several of them.

"So it is just for the Seven-colored Lotus. But there being two Seven-colored Lotuses--that is strange," Qin Yu furrowed his brows, as he vividly remembered the scroll’s record that each Seven-colored Lotus, a treasure that absorbs the divine spirit of heaven and earth, would use up the divine spirit around it. How could it coexist with another one?

It was like the tigers in the mountains, where each territory has only one tiger.

The Seven-colored Lotus was the same; the coexistence of two Seven-colored Lotuses in one place was, in Qin Yu’s logic, an impossibility.

...

"One Seven-colored Lotus each?" Liu Yuxi looked at Tan Jiu with suspicion, "Tan Jiu, when have you ever been so generous? With your character, wouldn’t you want to be even greedier?"

Liu Yuxi knew Tan Jiu very well; Tan Jiu was a person with immense greed. During their time in the Demon Kill World, he always tried to snatch more treasures whenever possible.

Although they initially agreed to share the loot equally, with Tan Jiu having stayed here for countless years, Liu Yuxi believed Tan Jiu definitely wanted to take a larger share for himself.

"I do want to be greedier, would you allow it?" Tan Jiu snorted coldly.

"I would not," Liu Yuxi replied.

"Then that settles it," Tan Jiu’s face remained indifferent, "I am very clear about your strength. If we were to fight, it would only result in a loss for both of us. So, each taking a Seven-colored Lotus works out perfectly."

Liu Yuxi smiled and nodded, but when he looked at Tan Jiu, it was as if he were seeing a person he just met.

"You’ve changed quite a bit," Liu Yuxi said with a light smile.

Tan Jiu snorted again, "Based on my estimation, the exact time that the Seven-colored Lotus will mature should be in three and a half years. On that day, you take one Seven-colored Lotus, and I’ll take the other."

"Just as you say," the smile never left Liu Yuxi’s face.

After speaking, Liu Yuxi got up and hurried to a corner of the courtyard, while Qin Yu’s space power immediately shifted direction and probed another corner. At this glance, Qin Yu discovered something strange!

Wherever his space power reached, it was as if Qin Yu himself were there. After all, Qin Yu was the creator of the Qiankun World.

"Hmm? Such a cold presence, even the surface of the pool is so chilling. The water seems to be... One-element Heavy Water! A small pool of One-element Heavy Water, hardly any different from the Golden Orb I obtained on the Trial Dark Star in the Dark Star Realm," Qin Yu’s focus sharpened immediately.

One-element Heavy Water was extremely rare. To have a small pool of it, there must be treasures within this pool.

"The Seven-colored Lotus is inherently cold, growing atop the One-element Heavy Water. The volume of the One-element Heavy Water is quite small, barely enough to fill half an ordinary wooden barrel," Qin Yu still remembered the wealth of information about the Seven-colored Lotus in the Golden Scroll.

An ordinary wooden barrel, about half a person’s height, and only half full at that.

Yet this pool, nearly circular in shape with a diameter of about two meters, contained enough One-element Heavy Water to fill about ten wooden barrels.

At the two ends of the One-element Heavy Water pool, there were precisely two Seven-colored Lotuses. They looked exactly as described in the scroll. The leaves were multicolored, the lotus pods extremely tiny, and on top was the lotus heart.

"Eh?" Qin Yu suddenly exclaimed in surprise.

"There’s a small hidden Illusion Array set up in the center of the pool." Qin Yu’s space power sensed it immediately. What exactly was hidden in the center, shielded by the Illusion Array?

...

Time flew by, and more than three years passed in the blink of an eye. In these three years, Liu Yuxi and Tan Jiu both sat cross-legged without uttering a word. Qin Yu also sat cross-legged in a room in silence.

During his meditative state, Qin Yu suddenly felt a blinding light and immediately opened his eyes.

He saw that the whole underground was covered in dazzling, multicolored light. Qin Yu’s space power immediately enveloped the One-element Heavy Water pool, where at this moment, the two Seven-colored Lotuses at each end of the pool shone brilliantly like two suns, emitting a dazzling multicolored light.

Liu Yuxi and Tan Jiu both rushed to the poolside in an instant.

"Haha, it has finally matured completely," Liu Yuxi’s eyes brimmed with joy, the multicolored radiance indicating that the Seven-colored Lotus had reached full maturity.

Tan Jiu also smiled and said, "Liu Yuxi, you take that one while I take this one." Tan Jiu was much calmer than Liu Yuxi.

Liu Yuxi was constantly on guard against Tan Jiu, fearing that Tan Jiu might suddenly attack and seize both Seven-colored Lotuses for himself.

"Alright, I’ll take this one," Liu Yuxi said as he prepared to pick it. But at this moment—

The radiance from the two Seven-colored Lotuses suddenly intensified, and two blinding streams of light burst forth from them, converging toward the center of the pool, while the two Seven-colored Lotuses withered away at a visible rate.

The two blinding multicolored streams of light gathered in the center of the pool.

The hidden Illusion Array naturally broke, and Tan Jiu’s expression dramatically changed, his voice tinged with disbelief as he muttered, "How can this be? Isn’t it not yet the day of maturation?"

"What is that?" Liu Yuxi immediately fixed his gaze at the center of the pool.

With the Illusion Array gone, the object inside became visible; it was a lotus smaller than the Seven-colored Lotus, but this one possessed nine leaves and emitted a faint black glow all over.

Qin Yu’s eyes suddenly widened: "A Nine-leaf Lotus? Does this thing really exist?"

And at this moment, a clear light returned to Tan Jiu’s eyes. As he observed the Nine-leaf Lotus in the center of the pool, a hint of brutal madness flickered through his gaze.

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