Lady Lin's First-ever Journey to Immortality (VOLUME I)

Chapter 22

Chapter22 Thaumaturgic Flower on the Cliff

Lin Luoran looks around on the hilltop with fixed attention and tries to find out the source of the overflowed aroma spread by the wind, but she fails.

She has never smelt such kind of aroma that is like the fragrance of a flower mixed with that of fruit and herb-medicine, which is so attractive that it enhances people's sense of smell layer upon layer. Lin makes a choice within a few minutes between going downhill and seeking the source of the fragrance.

"Lingering here for a while may not delay my arriving at the spot if I hurry up when I descend later", thinks Lin. Then she begins to hunt for the aroma around the hilltop.

The fragrance of flowers is vague and indistinct due to the blowing of wind so that it is difficult to fix its position. Therefore Lin fails to find out the source within such a small place on the top.

Lin just gives up her visual sense to feel it with her heart by closing her eyes.

The sweet fragrance circles around her nose and then flies away. Lin tries her best to hunt for the route of aroma by vibrating her wings of nose.

Finally, the speed of the wind lowered so the sweet aroma is not that messy, but she can still smell it. Then she closes her eyes and focuses attention. Consequently, Lin finds the direction of the smell!

She suddenly opens eyes and goes straight confidently to the cliff edge with confusion disappearing from her face.

Looking downward to the valley, as expected she sees a platform of bluestone of three feet long on the steep precipice three meters lower than the top, which is very eye-catching alone hanging on the wall.

The small plant clings the only dirt on the bluestone; the stem takes on dark green with small and stretched branches and leaves.

The flower is black that includes four or five petals, which looks like night-blooming cereus. Now the petals compact together and not yet bloom; only a bud among the dark green leaves swings her body in the wind emanating burst of special fragrance.

Lin Luoran manages to find out the source very hard, but she feels awkward now.

For one thing, it must take a lot of effort to pick since the bluestone hangs on the cliff. For another, she doesn't know the flower at all and hasn't even heard of it, so Lin doubts whether it is poisonous for the creepy color's being.

However, there's one thing Lin is sure of that the special dark flower is not usual.

She can identify the Reiki of this plant. At the beginning of her hunting, there was nothing special, but now she pays attention to the cliff and finds that the flower is still there while there is no frog.

The black flower is either a dead thing so it has lost vigor long ago or a stunner that knows how to rein in its breath. No matter it is a dead thing with such special fragrance or a curious flower who grasps the hint of restraining its Reiki, it attracts Lin.

Does black represent poison?

This is a serious question! An idea occurs to Lin Luoran when she observes the surroundings carefully: it is said in the novel that strange flowers and exotic grass are usually guarded by eerie beasts; while there is even no hair or feces of birds and beasts but a bare bluestone hanging over there.

Lin Luoran is not reconciled so she picks up a boulder and throws it to the bluestone, but there is no so-called "flower guarding beast" after waiting for a long time. At this moment, she ridicules herself for taking descriptions in the novel for granted.