Chapter 307

Chapter 307: Willing to Follow Senior’s Orders
From the moment the Vine King first awakened Spirit Creature intelligence, a thousand years had passed. Every few years, it would split off several vines and let them grow on their own.

By now, the Vine Clan had long become a huge race, so nourishment had turned into their scarcest resource.

Whether or not Hua Tu had teased that little vine, the Vine King would have attacked them in the end.

Yu Zhao did not yet know the full story, but seeing the Vine King charging at them so fiercely, she understood this disaster could not be avoided.

She quickly evaluated the trump cards in her hand and soon came to a bad conclusion.

Even if she ignored whether Hua Tu still had any strength left, the two of them tied together would still not be the Vine King’s match.

If force could not solve it, then she could only turn to wits.

What could possibly convince the Vine King to give up killing them?

Benefits.

Only enough benefit could change the Vine King’s mind.

What did she have in her hands that could move the Vine King?

Just as Yu Zhao was racking her brains, the flower branches around her suddenly started trembling hard.

Leaves and petals rubbed against each other with a soft rustling sound.

The floral scent filling her nose also grew strong all at once.

“Vine King, you have crossed the line.”

Yu Zhao snapped her head toward the source of the voice.

It came from a wall of flowers.

When her gaze swept across the flowery wall, a small, plain light-yellow blossom caught her eye.

Her instincts told her this little flower was no simple thing.

At least Yu Zhao’s divine sense could not see anything strange about it. If it had not suddenly spoken, she would not have noticed it at all.

Sure enough, once that plain little flower spoke, the Vine King actually slowed down, and in the end even came to a full stop.

“He Huan, hand them over to me and I will leave at once,” the Vine King said.

He Huan and the Vine King were worlds apart in size, yet the Vine King had stopped moving because of a single sentence from her. From this, it was clear that the Hua Yao were the true rulers of Myriad Flowers Island.

Yu Zhao wanted to ask He Huan for help. But since He Huan had already spoken up on their behalf and forced the enemy back, she pressed down her anxiety and stayed silent.

Hua Tu, on the other hand, wanted to say something. After Yu Zhao stepped on him, he sensibly lay still on the ground and pretended to be a corpse.

There was clear anger in the Vine King’s voice: “He Huan, they are just intruders of unknown origin. You would make an enemy of me for their sake?”

“I have no wish to interfere in your grudges, but there is one thing: you must not cross the boundary,” He Huan said calmly.

“I can stay within my boundary. Just throw them over to me.”

The Vine King compromised.

Yu Zhao and Hua Tu’s hearts jumped into their throats.

He Huan said softly: “I told you, I do not intend to interfere with you, and naturally I will not help you either.”

“You clearly want to help them escape!” The Vine King did not believe a word of He Huan’s.

He and He Huan had been neighbors for hundreds of years. They had always kept to their own sides, and though similar things had happened before, He Huan had usually turned a blind eye. Only this time was she firmly standing up to protect these two, which obviously meant she had her own reasons.

The Vine King was furious. The ground started shaking again with a rumble.

He Huan’s voice still did not show much emotion: “Vine King, if you have not forgotten my temper, then you know what you should do.”

A threat.

A naked, direct threat.

The Vine King was both angry and panicked, but his huge body still could not take a single step forward.

His fear of He Huan had long sunk into his bones.

Five hundred years ago, he had thought himself the supreme existence on Myriad Flowers Island. He led his countless descendants in a rapid expansion, trying to spread vines into every corner of Myriad Flowers Island.

Then, right here, he was stopped.

That day, half of his offspring died here, and the rest were covered in wounds.

He had dragged his half-broken body, gathered his children and grandchildren, and fled in a hurry. From then on, he had never crossed a single step beyond the Thunder Pool.

Later, however, he slowly realized that He Huan had a gentle nature. She liked peace and did not enjoy killing. As long as no one disturbed her, she hardly ever appeared.

So the Vine King grew bold again and would often slip into He Huan’s territory.

As long as He Huan did not speak, he became more and more reckless.

This time, He Huan was acting strong in a way she never had before. Under the rebound of fear, the Vine King’s arrogant fire vanished without a trace.

“Hmph! He Huan, I will give you face this time. If there is a next time, they will definitely not be this lucky again!”

Rumble!

The Vine King left even faster than he had come.

The little vine only spaced out for a moment. When it turned around, the Vine King was already gone.

It let out a sharp cry and rushed after him in a panic, even tripping and almost tying itself into a dead knot.

“Hahaha… cough, cough, cough!”

Hua Tu had only laughed twice before he pulled at his wounds and burst into a fit of earth-shaking coughs.

Yu Zhao shot him a disgusted look, then stepped forward respectfully and bowed to He Huan: “Many thanks for Senior’s great kindness.”

“Many thanks for Senior’s great kindness!”

The simple light-yellow flower turned slightly and said softly: “You saved yourselves.”

If Yu Zhao had not stalled for time, and if Hua Tu had not run with everything he had, they would never have reached He Huan’s territory.

If He Huan had not seen them, she would not have gone out of her way to help.

In the end, they had still saved themselves.

Even though He Huan said this, neither Yu Zhao nor Hua Tu believed it for real.

They both knew very well what would have happened if He Huan had not appeared, so they still felt deep gratitude toward her.

He Huan seemed not to enjoy polite words. She suddenly asked: “Why did you come onto the island?”

Yu Zhao said: “This junior came to look for flowers.”

So Yu Zhao truthfully told her about her cultivation technique and how she needed spirit flowers to help cultivate it.

She had barely finished speaking when a sudden gale rose before her. The howling wind pulled at the petals, stripping them from their stems. Countless petals and leaves were drawn together, forming a strange whirlpool of flowers.

But the gale lasted for less than five breaths before it abruptly died. The petals and broken leaves scattered in the air all fell down, burying Hua Tu underneath.

A mound of flowers had also appeared in front of Yu Zhao.

In the pile were torn petals and many complete spirit flowers. A faint glow shimmered around them, making it hard to look away.

Yu Zhao was both shocked and delighted: “Senior He Huan, this is…”

He Huan answered: “These are the flowers you seek. Everything that grows on Myriad Flowers Island is in there.”

“This…”

Instead of being happy, Yu Zhao felt alarmed.

From the Vine King’s attitude toward He Huan alone, she could see that He Huan was not as harmless as she looked.

She was an existence even more terrifying than the Vine King.

Yu Zhao guessed that her strength was at least equal to a cultivator at the mid divine transformation stage.

For such a great demon, standing at the very top of the Cultivation World, to treat her so kindly and even take the initiative to fulfill her request was strange no matter how she looked at it.

“Senior He Huan, is there something you need this junior to do?” Yu Zhao asked carefully.

Rather than believing in unearned favor, Yu Zhao preferred to think that He Huan had taken notice of her because she wanted something.

She asked the question carefully, and heard He Huan let out a soft laugh: “You are quite sharp. I do indeed have something I want you to do for me.”

Yu Zhao let out a quiet breath: “I am willing to follow Senior’s orders.”