A month later, Zhang Ning was already in a swamp thousands of miles away from Qingyue Prefecture.

The swamp is called "White Lotus and Bi Pond", which is a stinking mud pool located in the northwest of Zezhou and covers an area of ​​more than 800 miles.

Not only does the smell here make people feel sick, but it also produces a large number of yellow poisonous miasma when the temperature is high, so mortals are almost extinct. It is said that several third-rate monks who practice poison skills live in seclusion here.

The mud pool is dark brown, with bubbles gurgling, occasionally rippling, revealing traces of fish and beast activities inside it. This just shows that although there is no one here, there are extremely rich animal and plant resources, including aquatic, amphibious, crawling, insects and other mortal beasts and monsters.

A white and fragrant lotus is produced in this black and smelly swamp. It is called "Love Lotus".

Lotus is divided into two types: female and male. The male plant evolved from the roots of female plants. It has only one green stem, thick and flowerless, and its bare top is covered with white pollen. Dozens of them densely cluster the only female plant together.

The female plant has slender stems and leaves, with white lotus as big as a bowl at the top. The lotus petals are eight petals that are not too much or too little, dazzlingly white and almost transparent. When the lotus grows to the size of a human face, three crystal touches as thick as chopsticks are stretched out in the center of the lotus, swaying in the wind, constantly teasing the surrounding male plants. The male plants immediately swayed at the top and scrambled to pollinate, while spared no effort to exclude other male plants.

After all the various stars supporting the moon and jealousy, the female plants somehow matured and began to breed lotus seeds, while the male plants dried up and fell into the mud.

Love lotus's kindness to lotus seeds has reached its peak. When lotus seeds are very small, they will use their touch threads to tightly wrap all lotus seeds, for fear that they will fall into the black and smelly sludge underground.

Even if the lotus seeds are fully mature, the touch of love lotus will not relax at all. They will take great care of the lotus seeds and are extremely pitying.

After 49 days, the threads fell off, and the dried lotus seeds fell into the mud with them, leaving only the white jade-like love lotus standing proudly on the mud.

Occasionally, lotus seeds remain active after suffocating childhood and can take root. At this time, the mother plant will turn its back on its face and fight desperately with the child plant to compete for the thin spiritual energy in the swamp.

Because of its anti-natural breeding method, love lotus is very rare and is on the verge of extinction.

Therefore, there is another more appropriate name for Ai Lian, "Holy White Lotus".

And this lotus seed that makes the lotus grow in a difficult situation is the spiritual medicinal material needed by Xuanpo Jinglu.

At the root of the Ai Lian, there is also a kind of companion monster, a shrimp with a plate.

The shrimps swallow a large amount of black and smelly mud every day. After the silt is processed through the belly, it is converted into more nutritious and delicate black mud for Ai Lian to enjoy. The adult male demon shrimp has an emerald green disc on the top of the head, which is formed by the impurities of the mud they eat and are discharged through the glands on the top of the head, which is named "Shrimp".

The shrimps not only help Ailian cultivate soil, but also work part-time to catch the fallen lotus seeds and protect Ailian. They are a group of conscientious nanny and bodyguards. What they need is only a small part of the spiritual energy attracted by Ailian.

This kind of demon shrimp is the biggest obstacle for Zhang Ning to pick lotus seeds.
Chapter completed!