101 Saint plan

Although Rudra was curious, he wasn't impulsive. He wanted to charge out of the wall and make it to the side of the chasm to take a good look. But reason told him that unless he had the strength of Nascent Soul. And was able to subdue all the spirit creatures. He'd be torn to pieces by all the spirit creatures if he walked out like that.

Although it was quite dreary, he could only wait patiently. After all, these hundreds of spirit creatures obviously hadn't waited only a day or two.

Although some spirit beasts would occasionally interact, most of them remained solitary. This, of course, did not include the social group of creatures like the birds from before. That had injured his eagle totem.

It was apparent that the world of spirit creatures was different from the world of humans. They rarely formed groups and cliques.

"A lotus?"

Rudra wasn't familiar with this plant. That had such opposing attributes morphed into one. But feeling its shape using the Omniscient Eye. He could infer easily that it was some kind of lotus plant.

This Lotus of Fire and Ice was surely an item of incredible existence. This point could be proved by the congregation of beasts.

"I wonder if Rishi could recognize it?"

Rudra had even occasionally heard of plants evolving to the saint rank from the spirit rank.

"Can this lotus be a plant in the saint stage?" Rudra began to speculate.

"The most precious thing about the Lotus isn't the plant body. The most precious thing about it is the spirit of its essence." Rudra tried to use his mental strength to probe the lotus plant. Feeling the pure ice and fire essence accumulated within it.

As long as its essence wasn't destroyed, it wouldn't be harmed even if the body of the Lotus was destroyed. It'd reborn again after a while from its remaining parts.

The Lotus was formed by the powers of ice and fire.

"I wonder to what level has this Lotus evolved to? If it's only a spirit rank, it won't be able to handle all the spirit creatures looking at it covetously. Even with its strong attack power. If it's at the saint rank, then even though there are a lot of spirit creatures, they may still fall in the end… "

Rudra mused. He seemed to remember that when a spirit plant ranked to saint status. It gained some sentience and could even use spells to defend itself.

"It seems this isn't going to as easy as I thought" Rudra rubbed his chin with his fingers.

Therefore, as good as this item was, it wasn't worth for Rudra to take such a risk. And attempt to steal the seed in front of all the spirit creatures. Regardless of whether or not he'd be able to avoid the attacks from the Lotus. The spirit creatures wouldn't be able to stomach a human stealing food that was near their mouths.

"Although this Lotus is nice, it's not worth putting my life on the line." Rudra's appetite and ambitions were much greater than these spirit beasts.

"With all these spirit creatures hovering. If that Lotus gets distracted and spends all its energies on fending these beasts. There may be an opportunity for me!"

Rudra had his advantages. His understanding of the Lotus was much greater than the spirit creatures. While he continuously probed the lotus. He became more and more sure of his conjecture. That this was no spirit plant but it was rather a more advanced saint plant.

The spirit beasts were gunning for the seeds, yet Rudra's goal was the spiritual essence of the Lotus.

If he could refine the Saint lotus with dual attributes and meld it into his spirit ocean. Rudra would receive the kind of benefit. That countless numbers of Lotus seeds would be unable to match up to. The value of the seed of the Lotus was much inferior when compared to its essence.

All he had to do now was wait patiently like a fisherman out to fish his catch.

....

Rudra's face had suddenly changed and turned extremely grave.

His Omniscient Eye was deployed to the maximum when he suddenly felt an extreme tremor through the surface of the depths of the chasm.

These tremors weren't typical. It felt like countless numbers of large hands were reaching out of the depths of the chasm.

"It's the Lotus, it's starting to emerge from the ground below!"

This notion flashed through Rudra's heart.

Indeed, great changes occurred in the perimeter of the chasm after a while. It was occasionally bone piercingly cold, and at times incredibly hot.

"It's the two elemental powers of the Lotus converging and exerting themselves!"

Rudra also knew that Lotus was born with two elemental attributes, one was cold and the other was extreme heat. These two usually conflicting powers coexisted in perfect harmony in the Lotus. It was specifically because of the combination of these two powers that the Lotus' attacking abilities were going to be much deadlier.

The growls and shrieks of the excited beasts sounded in the surrounding.

At this moment — bam!

An enormous bang rocked the chasm, making the earth tremble and walls shake.

Hundreds of vines erupted out of the chasm in the next second. Each vine was as thick as the thighs of the spirit creatures.

The leafy vines changed at a speed noticeable to the human eye. All sorts of embryonic lotuses began to form on the vines.

The embryonic forms of the lotuses went through their life cycles and grew into fully bloomed lotuses.

Enormous lotuses had formed on all of the vines after a few breaths. Each of these lotuses was as large as a bull.

These lotuses were either a brilliant, flaming red or an icy, frosty blue.

Each lotus was uncannily beautiful and they exuded a tempting presence.

The lotuses slowly flowered and produced seeds above them.

All of the spirit creatures were filled with greed at this point.

All the spirit creatures made their move in that instant. Rushing to each of the flowering lotuses with the speed of a bullet. Their goal was only one, and that was the Lotus' seed.

More than a hundred Lotuses had suddenly appeared. These spirit creatures almost didn't need to fight amongst each other. Almost everyone could obtain one seed.

Rudra using the Omniscient Eye to observe the scene through the wall. He was secretly astonished. This scene was too bizarre.

The Lotus had abruptly blossomed so many flowers. It was obvious to see how strong its essence was.

Only a strong spiritual essence could give rise to such a strong life. Although this Lotus didn't display power to the point of making one despair. Rudra still felt that something was wrong here. Following common sense, it shouldn't allow its seeds to be so easily taken by the spirit creatures.

"What's going on here? There are around a hundred spirit creatures here and they can all obtain a seed? This scene is a bit too harmonious, isn't it?"

Rudra suddenly felt that this scene wasn't as simple as it appeared.

Indeed. A spirit creature abruptly cried out in pain as it was strangled to death.

Another spirit creature had landed on top of the lotus as it was enveloped by the enormous lotus. The petals acted like lips, first opening and then closing, swallowing the spirit creature into it.

Rudra was startled, "That's it! This must be the case. The Lotus is tempting the spirit creatures to it. And then trapping them, absorbing their spirit power to catalyze its evolution!"

When he understood this. Rudra suddenly felt waves of fear about the Lotus' intelligence. This was no ordinary saint plant

He was also quite glad that he hadn't rushed out like these spirit creatures to fight over the seeds. His fate at this moment would most likely be like these spirit creatures. Already having become the plant's fertilizer?