Chapter 305

Chapter 305: A Debt Repaid With a Leopard
A thousand miles away from Star Reaching Mountain, there was a lonely island.

Because it was covered all year round by Spirit Flowers so thick that you could not see the paths, it was named Myriad Flowers Island. It was also called the Myriad Flowers Labyrinth.

After Yu Zhao and Hua Tu sped along for a full day, they finally saw, far off in the sea, a huge cluster of blooming flowers.

Though it looked sudden, it did not feel out of place at all. Instead, it had a strange, harmonious beauty.

“Yu Zhao, that place ahead is Myriad Flowers Island. Can you tell me now why you came here?” Hua Tu asked curiously.

He had been asking Yu Zhao the whole way, but Yu Zhao refused to tell him their true goal for this trip. Now that they had already reached their destination, surely she would tell him honestly, right?

Yu Zhao shot him a calm glance and said, “I’ve already said it three times. I came to pick flowers.”

Hua Tu looked completely unconvinced: “You came all the way to Myriad Flowers Island just to pick flowers?”

[Does Yu Zhao take me for an idiot?]

The cultivation world was so big. Where couldn’t you pick flowers? Why did she have to come all the way to Myriad Flowers Island?

Besides, Yu Zhao was not someone who cherished flowers at all.

So how could she have come all this way just to pick flowers?

Clearly, Yu Zhao did not trust him.

Hua Tu instantly put himself into the role of a delicate little husband who was helpless and could not win his Lord’s love. The more he thought about it, the more wronged he felt. He even wanted to drag the writer out and have them argue his case and pour out his heart for him.

Yu Zhao had no idea what Hua Tu was thinking, and she did not care to guess.

She had already said she was here to pick flowers. If Hua Tu did not believe her, she was not going to force him to nod along.

Besides, whether Hua Tu believed her or not did not affect her grand plan of picking flowers.

So Hua Tu waited. He waited until the two of them landed on Myriad Flowers Island, waited until they followed Yu Zhao deep into Myriad Flowers Island, and still did not hear the answer he wanted.

Hua Tu felt even more wronged.

His eyes even started to sting, his nose burned, and his throat felt tight.

In short, his whole body felt uncomfortable.

He held it in for a while, then finally could not help making a whiny, strange sound.

Hearing the noise, Yu Zhao turned her head and took one look, then could not help blurting out, “Huh.”

If the person in front of her had not been wearing Hua Tu’s clothes, she would have had a hard time connecting the two.

“Hua Tu, you’re having an allergic reaction.”

“Huh?”

Hua Tu tried to open his swollen, slit-like eyes as wide as he could. With his tongue feeling thick, he spoke in a muffled, blurry voice: “I-I god allergy? I don’ feel anythin’.”

Yu Zhao: “…”

She had agreed to let Hua Tu come along because she planned to use his keen nose to help her search Myriad Flowers Island for rare flower species, best if they were Spirit Flowers with natural hallucinogenic effects.

Who would have thought that a flower leopard who grew up in the jungle would be allergic to some kind of flower pollen?

Her plan was ruined.

“First, block off your sense of smell, then take this pill.”

“O-okay…”

Hua Tu finally realized that something was wrong with his body and obediently followed Yu Zhao’s words, sealing off his senses and swallowing the pill.

Sure enough, once the pill sank into his stomach, the uncomfortable feeling faded by half, and he felt alive again.

“Th-thanks…”

He shyly thanked Yu Zhao, his eyes darting left and right, not daring to look at her straight on.

When he thought about how ugly he must have looked just now, he wanted to dig a hole and bury himself.

Yu Zhao nodded to show she had accepted his thanks, then turned back and continued searching the towering flower walls for the flower species she wanted.

Myriad Flowers Island was also called the Myriad Flowers Labyrinth because the countless blossoms on the island formed walls of flowers of different heights.

These flower walls crossed and tangled with each other, forming natural Formation Array Arts that were like a maze.

Many cultivators were drawn in by the beautiful appearance of Myriad Flowers Island. They dove straight into it, and in the end could not find their way out. Trapped inside, they turned into fertilizer for the island full of flowers.

Yu Zhao and Hua Tu were both Nascent Soul cultivators, so they would not be confused by the Formation Array Arts on Myriad Flowers Island.

So the biggest problem Yu Zhao now faced was how to quickly find the flower species she wanted in this sea of colorful blossoms.

Hua Tu watched Yu Zhao pick flowers for two days. At first he was bored out of his mind, then slowly got serious, and then he felt awkward, annoyed, and guilty.

So when Yu Zhao said she was coming to pick flowers, she really meant picking flowers. It was he who had misunderstood her.

Knowing his mistake, he tried to fix it at once. He rushed over to Yu Zhao to apologize, but she did not even lift her head and directly chased him away.

She was in a hurry to find flowers and was very busy. She did not want him bothering her.

Hua Tu could only keep squatting to the side and stand guard.

Just then, a vine as thick as a wrist quietly wrapped around his ankle.

The tip of the vine suddenly sprouted a sharp spike.

The vine raised the spike high, ready to stab into Hua Tu’s ankle, but Hua Tu suddenly laughed twice, grabbed the vine, and yanked it up.

“You’re not qualified to drink my blood. Go get your mother if you want to try that!”

As he mocked the vine, he reached out with two fingers and snapped off the spike on its head.

The vine let out a sharp screech and twisted and struggled in Hua Tu’s hand.

Deep down, Hua Tu was a flower leopard who loved to stir up trouble and pick fights.

Seeing the vine struggling only made him more interested. He grabbed the vine again and pulled it farther out from the flower wall, muttering, “Let me see if you’ve got any more spikes on you. If you do, I’ll pull them all out for you.”

The moment he finished speaking, the vine in his hand suddenly changed its tone and started to whimper and cry. Its body trembled in small shakes, and it actually looked a little pitiful.

Hua Tu had not planned to wipe it out completely. Seeing it act weak, he was just about to let it go when a huge shadow fell over his head.

He stared blankly and slowly looked up, only to see a giant vine rise up from behind the flower wall he was leaning against. It was twenty zhang tall and three zhang wide.

On top of the vine’s head was an enormous spike, big enough to smash him into powder from head to toe in one blow.

[My leopard grandpa!]

The vine’s mother had really come!

“What are you spacing out for? Run!”

Yu Zhao’s voice suddenly sounded in Hua Tu’s mind.

Only then did Hua Tu snap back to his senses. He gave an awkward laugh, gently set the soft little vine in his hand back on the flower wall, and rubbed his fingers together: “I was just joking with it. I’ll be on my way now, no need to trouble you.”

With that, he turned and ran.

Pa!

The furious Vine King lashed its vine hard. A terrifying sonic boom sounded above his head like thunder.

Right after that came a sharp tearing sound as the vine cut through the air.

Hua Tu’s scalp went numb. He could not afford to worry about his newly made clothes anymore. As he ran, he changed back into his original form. His muscles bulged on all four limbs, leaving afterimages all over the ground.

He was fast, but the Vine King behind him was not slow either.

On top of that, the Vine King had several branches.

Hua Tu had not gone far before new vines kept bursting out of the ground along the way, blocking his path over and over, and his speed was inevitably affected.

Before long, a huge shadow once again loomed over the front of his path.

Hua Tu secretly cried out in his heart.

[Serves you right for having such itchy hands!]

Now he had really dragged out an amazing old monster.

Not only had he put himself in danger, he had also dragged Yu…

Huh?

[Wait, where’s Yu Zhao?]

He swept the area with his divine sense, but Yu Zhao was nowhere to be found.

Hua Tu remembered that Yu Zhao had been the one to warn him just now, so she had probably already reached a safe area ahead of time.

He felt a bit relieved.

It was better if Yu Zhao had gone. At least she would not be dragged down by him.

It was just that he might have to leave his little life here on Myriad Flowers Island.

Sigh.

[Could this be that so-called “a debt repaid with a leopard”?]