Chapter 256

Chapter 256: Very Strong Good Luck

Sensing her joy, the snails under Shen Sang Ruo grew excited and sprinted even faster.

For a moment she forgot to watch the road. As they ran, a small puddle suddenly appeared ahead.

To snails it was basically a lake, so they slammed to a stop.

They stopped, but the Shen Sang Ruo on their backs shot forward from inertia and flew into the air.

Several snails stretched out their eyestalks; seeing Shen Sang Ruo midair, they all yanked the eyestalks back, faces full of guilt. [Oh no, we messed up again.]

As weightlessness hit, Shen Sang Ruo reacted at once and adjusted her posture in midair.

Her palm flipped and a Luan Feather Fan appeared in her hand.

Borrowing the wind, she landed steady and unhurt.

Her bright mood turned into awkwardness. Pressing her forehead, she muttered with some gloom: “Am I really unable to escape this unlucky fate?”

Even hopping on a snail ride on a whim could lead to an accident.

She lowered her hand and noticed the ground around her landing spot covered in blooming flowers, their sweet, heavy scent spreading through the air.

Thrown right into a sea of flowers, she was soon drawn to the silver white blossoms.

She plucked one, brushed a petal, and silver white powder stuck to her fingertip, shining like a layer of moonlight.

Lifting it to her nose, she breathed in the fragrance and wondered: “Moonlight Flower?”

Moonlight Flower is an incense ingredient. Joyous Union Sect cultivators often use its petals to make various fragrances that help with cultivation and give strong results.

It is one of the sect’s special training materials.

In the Cultivation World it is rare, though not as rare as Beast Ganoderma, and is seen more often by comparison.

She glanced around. Everywhere her eyes landed, silver white flowers were in full bloom.

So maybe it was not the rarest, but the quantity was more than enough.

And even if it is less rare than Beast Ganoderma, in the Cultivation World it still counts as a top treasure.

She seemed to have turned misfortune into a blessing again.

“It is just a pity there is no Soul Infant Herb, Profound Sky Lotus, or Spirit’s Tears.”

Soul Infant Herb and Profound Sky Lotus are incense materials of the same type as Moonlight Flower, while Spirit’s Tears is a rumored liquid with a strange fragrance.

Since it is only rumored, there is no need to say how rare it is.

Grind Moonlight Flower, Soul Infant Herb, and Profound Sky Lotus into powder, mix them, then add Spirit’s Tears, and you can make the Joyous Union Sect’s top incense: Hundred Boons Incense.

It works not only for training, but also as a battle incense to confuse and shake an enemy’s mind.

After she finished harvesting this patch of Moonlight Flower, she could try to find Soul Infant Herb and Profound Sky Lotus, though finding Spirit’s Tears might be difficult.

She soothed the snails that came over to apologize and told them gently: “It is fine. Without you, I would never have found this whole field of Moonlight Flower.”

She smiled bright as sun: “If every accident brings a surprise like this, I do not mind being unlucky a few more times. Maybe this is what people call dumb luck?”

The Dodder Flower Sprite in her hair thought it over and said, sounding sure: “I think this is not bad luck at all, but real, solid good luck.”

“It is not that your misfortune led to these surprises. These joys were yours from the start.”

“It is just that the journey to them was a little twisty.”

In short, no matter what happened to her, good luck would guide her to these “joys.”

Shen Sang Ruo considered the Dodder Flower Sprite’s words, rubbed her chin, and said: “You do sound a bit convincing.”

“Right?” The Dodder Flower Sprite lifted her vine proudly. Still, luck is mysterious, and Shen Sang Ruo was not fully convinced.

“Let us test it, see if this is good luck or bad luck.”

Leaving the Moonlight Flower sea alone, she found a branch, set it on a rock, and spun it. When it stopped, it pointed a direction.

“Let us try this way,” she said, walking where the branch pointed.

This time there would be no accidents and no other interference. If she could still find new treasure by just wandering, then the Dodder Flower Sprite would be right.

She had already walked out of the Moonlight Flower sea with that thought.

After a few hundred meters, she stared at half transparent lotus blossoms ahead and fell silent.

The Dodder Flower Sprite was so excited her vines whirled over Shen Sang Ruo’s head: “See? See? It showed up again! Is that not Profound Sky Lotus?”

“You really are the chosen girl!”

The Giant Beetle in the pouch poked out its head, and the snails at her feet looked amazed.

Feeling their stunned stares, Shen Sang Ruo drew a deep breath. Even she was surprised: “Could this weird luck stuff be real?”

“Try going farther?” she said, not giving in.

A few minutes later, standing before a field of grass glowing faint blue green, Shen Sang Ruo fell into thought again.

“Soul Infant Herb?”

It was only a few hundred meters from the Profound Sky Lotus.

The Kui Ox in her sea of consciousness jumped out and circled the Soul Infant Herb, tail wagging with joy.

It mooed as if saying they had really found another one.

By now her expression had turned strange. The way things were going felt beyond normal.

In less than a quarter hour, she had discovered three of the ingredients for Hundred Boons Incense in a row, and each one was a whole field.

She even had a faint hunch:

“I feel if I keep walking, I can find the last one, Spirit’s Tears.”

That Spirit’s Tears from rumor.

She did not even know what, exactly, Spirit’s Tears looked like, yet she still felt sure she would find it.

Saying so, she quickened her pace.

She did nothing else, just walked straight in that direction.

This time she went several thousand meters. She did not rush. She kept going with patience.

At last she reached the end of the level grass. A small forest appeared ahead, and the breeze brought a clean, resinous scent of trees.

“Isn’t Spirit’s Tears a liquid? Shouldn’t there be a pool or something? Why a forest?” The Dodder Flower Sprite scratched Shen Sang Ruo’s head in doubt.

Shen Sang Ruo did not answer. She stepped into the trees and studied the trunks, as if searching for something.

Her gaze settled. She raised her hand, took down a droplet shaped lump of resin, and said with certainty: “This is Spirit’s Tears.”

“These are Spirit Trees. The resin they give is what people call Spirit’s Tears.”

Right then Shen Sang Ruo finally believed her luck was outrageous.

“The materials for Hundred Boons Incense are complete.”

All her attention was on the Spirit’s Tears, so she did not notice a bubble suddenly rise in her sea of consciousness.