Don't farm, cultivate immortality!

In fact, flowers and plants also have emotions.

If they get too much sun and their leaves dry out, they will feel uncomfortable. If they are watered just the right amount, they will grow happily. If the soil is not loosened, the seeds will try very hard to burrow downwards when they germinate.

Yunling can sense these subtle emotions; it's a talent she was born with.

She often has that feeling that she can talk to plants and trees, and when she takes care of the flowers and plants, she treats them as her friends.

Now, it's not just a feeling anymore; she's truly conversing with the plants.

During the day, she had a vague feeling that the girl in the green dress in front of her, named Huai Xia, was a spirit made of plants and trees, just like the Valley Master.

Yunling could sense the aura emanating from Huaixia, which was as comforting as a spring breeze.

"Hello, I'm Yunling," she greeted Huaixia.

"Can't you sleep? How about I take you out for a walk?" Huaixia reached out her hand.

The girl stood in the cool moonlight, as if she had known Yunling for a long time, and extended an invitation.

...

"I am a spirit cultivated from Huaishan. The name Huaixia was given to me by the Valley Master."

"I've been in this valley for many years and haven't gone out to see it. What's it like outside? Is it the same as in this valley? Yunling, which do you think is better, the outside or the inside?"

"This place is better, isn't it?"

"Let me take you up into the tree. I live in the tree. I've only ever played with monkeys before. This is my first time playing with people. Let me tell you, the scenery up in the tree is amazing, especially tonight. There are no clouds, so you can see so many stars. The moon is also very big. The tree branch of the Valley Master is truly a perfect place for cultivation."

"Is it inappropriate for an outsider like me to go up there?"

"Don't worry, even the monkeys are climbing up and down the trees. The Valley Master never minds these little things. Come with me, Yunling!"

Huai Xia waved from the front, and vines from the tree hung down along the branches of the spruce tree. With a wave of her hand, a swing-like vine fell down.

Huai Xia sat on the hanging vine, and Yun Ling sat beside her.

"I'll hold your hand so you won't fall," Huai Xia smiled.

Then the swing carried the two of them slowly upwards.

Once they reached the treetop, Huaixia leaped lightly and landed on a thick spruce branch. Yunling used her hand to stand on the high ground.

Looking down, the flowers and plants below all appeared very small.

"This is where I live." Huai Xia led Yun Ling to a treehouse in the tree.

They weren't inside the house, but on the roof. Huaixia and Yunling lay down on the roof.

The treehouse is located at the highest point of the spruce tree.

Above, there was the vast expanse of stars and the sea, just as Huai Xia had said. Looking up, there was the Milky Way hanging down, with spruce trees on both sides, their leaves as vast as a sea of ​​clouds. Yunling felt as if she were lying on a large bed made of leaves.

This place should be the most spiritually concentrated area in the entire valley, where the essence of the sun and moon, and the valley master's majestic aura all gather.

"Isn't it beautiful?" Huai Xia held Yun Ling's hand and moved closer to her.

“It looks great,” Yunling said.

"I like you. I feel so comfortable being next to you," Huai Xia said, leaning closer. "I want to be your friend. Do you want to be my friend?"

"Okay."

Huai Xia smiled, and Yun Ling lay quietly in this undisturbed place, enjoying the refreshing breeze.

She thought that Zhuang Xing would definitely like the scenery of this place.

Chapter 194 I Like Him

"There are many delicious and fun things to do in the valley. The fruits picked by the monkeys are delicious, but you only tried one or two kinds today. Oh, right, I also know a place where there is a huge waterfall every summer, and you can see rainbows on sunny days."

"There's also an old monkey with white fur on the mountain. It can speak human language and even fight. It told me that it used to be a demon king who ruled over the area, but now that it's old, it has to find a place to recuperate. It also said that if that mere Tiger Great Sage dares to come into the mountain, it will definitely make that tiger suffer a terrible fate."

"But it never used to say things like that; it's only started saying them frequently in recent years."

“And, and…” Huaixia kept sharing all sorts of things with Yunling.

She is a spirit cultivated from Chinese yam. Unlike spruce trees, which must be rooted in the soil, Chinese yam does not grow taller and taller indefinitely. It is not a tree, but a medicinal herb.

In traditional Chinese medicine, that thing is called Huai Shan, but the common name is simply Shan Yao. When you dig it up, it looks like a stick.

Unlike the Valley Master, Huai Xia doesn't need to stay in one place. She's like a ginseng spirit who has cultivated herself, able to run around anywhere.

Her rarity is comparable to that of a ginseng baby. If people knew about her, they would definitely try to refine her and use her as a medicinal ingredient. The resulting medicine would surely be a highly nourishing substance.

If this medicine could be made into a life-saving remedy, it could bring a person back to life as long as they have a breath left, extending their lifespan by five or ten years.

If she were refined into a cultivation elixir, it would allow one to travel a thousand miles a day. One golden elixir, once swallowed, could be equivalent to ten or even several decades of cultivation. It could also open up the meridians, improve one's aptitude, and make one immune to all poisons.

No wonder she was so afraid of people; she must know her own special abilities, which is why she dared not show herself in front of people outside the valley.

Even so, the one who appeared beside Yunling was Huaixia in his true form.

Huai Xia wasn't wary of Yun Ling at all. She said that the man she was hiding from during the day was the one next to Yun Ling. She found it incredible that she wasn't afraid at all, even though it was the first time she had met Yun Ling.

Yunling rarely felt this way. She felt very relaxed when she was with Huaixia. There were very few people in the world who could make her feel relaxed.

She and Huai Xia hit it off immediately, as if this wasn't their first meeting.

Perhaps this is fate. In this world, there are always some people who are destined to be with you. When you meet them, you will find that in this lonely world, there are people who can make you not feel lonely.

“Yunling, why don’t you stay in Hundred Flowers Valley with me? I’ll ask the Valley Master to build you a treehouse on a tree branch so we can play together every day.”

Huai Xia sat up and looked over with shining eyes.

She told me many interesting things. There were quite a few novel things in this valley, and Yunling actually wanted to go and see them too.

However, knowing she wouldn't stay in the valley, she shook her head directly and declined Huaixia's invitation.

"I'm sorry, I can't stay."

"Why can't we stay? Aren't we friends?" Huai Xia asked, somewhat puzzled. "Don't you like me? If you don't like me, why are you friends with me?"

“No, I don’t dislike you.” Yunling held Huaixia’s hand. “I feel good being with Huaixia. If I had come to Hundred Flowers Valley alone, I would have stayed with Huaixia. But I didn’t come alone. The person who came with me won’t stay in this valley forever, so when he leaves, I have to leave too.”

Huai Xia asked, puzzled, "You are you, and he is him. Why do you have to leave just because he left?"

"Because I want to be by his side," Yunling said.

"You like him."

"I like him."

"But why do you like him?"

"why?"

Yunling looked up at the sky, then grasped the old hair tie in her hair. The little cat woven from the hair tie was smiling adorably.

“Huai Xia, do you know? This hair tie was a gift from him.”

“At that time, I was with him in the village. My original hair tie broke because of something, so he braided this hair tie and gave it to me.”

"He knows a lot. He is smarter, more capable, and more capable than me. I can't keep up with him in anything. I'm so stupid, but he doesn't look down on me at all. He always guides me patiently and teaches me a lot."

"But I also know that he's different from me..."

Yunling recalled that time she wandered through the wall, stepping on Zhuang Xing's sword.

At that time, she could only look up at Zhuang Xing's back, and she felt that if she fell, that back would fly far away.

So she kept trying to catch up, afraid of falling behind.

Huai Xia sat beside Yun Ling, listening silently.

I listened for a long time.

"When you talk about him, it's like you have so much to say."

Huai Xia suddenly interrupted Yun Ling.

"I understand. You can go now, Yunling. I won't say anything like 'I want you to stay in Hundred Flowers Valley' again."

"He must be very important to you. You should spend more time with him and never lose him."

"Also, Yunling, even if you leave, we'll still be friends. When you come back, we'll play together again."

Yunling was stunned for a moment. She herself hadn't realized it until Huaixia reminded her that she could actually talk a lot.

Unbeknownst to her, her memories were almost completely filled with someone.

"Thank you, Huaixia." Yunling chuckled. "I'm very happy today. I'm so happy to have met you and to have become your friend."

“I’m happy too, although I’m a little unhappy that you can’t stay.”

"Can I bring him here to see this place too?"

"Well..."

"Please."

“Alright, you can bring him here, but you must promise me that you won’t tell him I am a spirit cultivated by Huai Shan. You must say that this place was not told to you by Huai Xia, and then I will agree to let you bring him here.”

“But I said that Huai Xia didn’t tell me about this place. Didn’t he only know about a Huai Mountain spirit named Huai Xia?”

"That's right!"

"I understand. I won't let him know about you, so I can bring him here, right?"

"Okay, but I won't come to see you tomorrow."

"Thank you, Huaixia."

"You really like him."

"Yes, I like him, I like him the most, the most, the most."

"Will he marry you in the future? I've noticed that the men in the valley, when they meet a woman they like, will marry her. Does he like you?"

"I don't know either. He's a great guy, and I bet a lot of people like him, but I'll work towards that goal. I want to always be by his side..."

Chapter 195 Nowhere to Escape

The next day, Zhuang Xing finally got to taste the monkey wine.