Chapter 531 - Fellow Disciples Turn Against Each Other
The Azure Domain on the Divine Tree Continent was the core region where the Stellar Moon humans of the Plant Era resided. The Tree Monarch’s ruin was located here. However, in the timeline Lu Ran had entered, the Tree Monarch’s ruin had long been cleared. The one who cleared it was none other than the Tree Monarch’s reincarnation, Peanut.
After landing in the Azure Domain, Lu Ran, clad in a black robe with its hood up, walked down the street as passersby avoided him because of his striking handsomeness. Some even covered their children’s eyes to prevent them from looking, as the robed man didn’t seem like someone to provoke.
Lu Ran muttered to himself as he walked. “Azure Domain, Tree Monarch City. This is a familiar place. Is Limitless City hinting at something?”
This ascension mission involved taking in a disciple and nurturing them, but Lu Ran had no intention of wasting too much time on that. In fact, failing the mission didn’t matter as he could retry it infinitely. Finding the Divine Tree to help Six-Path Flower break through was far more worthwhile.
“Finding the Divine Tree is troublesome. I don’t know where it is. Generally, powerful gods have their own divine secret realms, and their entrances are nearly impossible to locate under normal circumstances...
“I should take a step back and find the Divine Tree’s daughter, the Flower God, and have it lead the way. I don’t know where the Flower God is either, so I should take another step back and find the Flower God’s messenger, Peanut. As long as I find Peanut, I can find the Flower God.”
As the Flower God’s messenger, Peanut didn’t actually know the location of the Divine Tree’s headquarters. However, she possessed a tool given to her by the Flower God that allowed her to contact it, who was also traveling the continent. What Lu Ran needed was precisely this tool.
“I can also take the Mythical plantmaster, Peanut, as my disciple, easily completing the ascension mission. But taking Peanut as a disciple only ensures mission completion and not a high score. To get a high score, the disciple must show growth...”
This was also simple. Despite Peanut being three levels higher than Lu Ran, he could still teach her plenty. After all, in this timeline, Peanut had only recently advanced to Mythical, whereas the Peanut heroic spirit summoned by #18 possessed the combat experience of Peanut at her peak Mythical stage. Only her level was lower.
Lu Ran could just have Peanut teach herself, cutting a decade of detours instantly. He quickly devised a plan for the ascension mission. The key now was to find the Mythical plantmaster, Peanut. According to the heroic spirit Peanut’s account, before the Ten Thousand Year Agreement began, she had been traveling across the continent, making her difficult to locate.
But coincidentally, Lu Ran had a ruin branch on him, which could serve as a medium for Dark Crow to use its foresight to locate Peanut somewhere on the continent.
Although Dark Crow’s current strength might not suffice to foresee the location of a Mythical Time-attribute powerhouse, all Lu Ran needed was for Peanut to realize someone was looking for her.