422: Flowers and Grass

If someone were to ask Zu Long Grass: What is romance?

It would definitely reply: Romance is when you, romance is, it’s like, it’s similar to that thing, romance is like, romance is like, do you really want me to explain it to you?!

—Song · What is Happiness · SpongeBob SquarePants

Yes, it probably doesn't know what romance is.

What kind of concept is a planting area of hundreds of millions of flowers?

A 15-country research team, led by experts from Yale University, used traditional counting methods combined with satellite and supercomputer technology to complete what they called the most comprehensive “tree census” ever, finding that there are no more than a hundred billion trees on the entire Earth.

Based on this, it can be estimated that a planting area of hundreds of millions of flowers, enough to cover the entire continent of Asia, should not be a problem. This is also roughly the area of the Secluded Valley, the entire world of flowers.

Zu Long Grass transplanted all the flowers from the Prairie of Mysterious Loneliness to the Secluded Valley. This crazy act undoubtedly deeply shocked Long Aotian and Lan Qianqian, making them unable to help but look at this fellow with new eyes.

In real society, Zu Long Grass would undoubtedly be a man who could romantically charm women to death, yet it doesn't even know what romance is... Approaching the Secluded Valley, a fragrant scent wafted, intoxicating.

Zu Long Grass, whose heart was originally somewhat anxious and even sorrowful, felt proud of its masterpiece upon entering this place. Crucially, its friends also lived here, and many negative factors seemed to be smoothed out after stepping inside.

Under the cover of his Divine Sense, Long Aotian quickly found Feng Mao Flower in the Secluded Valley.

This flower, it was difficult for Long Aotian not to notice it.

After all, it was an Immortal Elixir, and the aura it emitted was distinctly different from other flowers, seemingly carrying a sacred and immortal Qi.

Amidst hundreds of millions of flowers, it was the king of this world!

Additionally!

Its accompanying phenomenon also exposed it.

If Zu Long Grass would transform into a Dragon phantom every ninety-nine breaths, then Feng Mao Flower would transform into a Phoenix soaring through the Nine Heavens every ninety-nine breaths.

During the process of the Phoenix soaring through the Nine Heavens, the Phoenix's feathers constantly burned and detached, looking incredibly cool.

Is this the origin of the name 'Feng Mao' (Phoenix Feather)?

“Human Cultivator?”

At the same time Long Aotian discovered Feng Mao Flower, Feng Mao Flower, located in the center of the Secluded Valley, also discovered Long Aotian from afar.

After his Divine Sense probed and he heard Feng Mao Flower mutter ‘Human Cultivator,’ Long Aotian couldn't help but be surprised.

The extent of this Feng Mao Flower's control over this world was simply beyond his imagination!

“Zu Long Grass, this old friend of yours is much more formidable than you. We just stepped into its territory, and it already discovered us.”

Saying this, Long Aotian couldn't help but sigh: “On the Prairie of Mysterious Loneliness, if you had its level of control over the Secluded Valley flower sea world, and could have avoided meeting us, then truly no one would have been able to do anything to you.”

The reason he was able to catch Zu Long Grass was simply because this fellow had billions of years of incredibly bad luck and was discovered by them.

If it hadn't been discovered, trying to catch it in the vast Prairie of Mysterious Loneliness would have been incredibly difficult.

“…”

Zu Long Grass couldn't help but fall silent.

Flowers have the language of flowers, which is why Feng Mao Flower has such strong control over the Secluded Valley; it has already become the true king of the flower sea world.

Similarly, grass also has the language of grass!

If it were willing to strengthen its control over the grass on the Prairie of Mysterious Loneliness and become the true king of the grassland world, when Long Aotian and the others appeared, it might indeed have been able to avoid danger.

Perhaps some people might think this is impossible!

How can flowers and grass speak?

Why haven't I heard their voices?!

But why should it be impossible?

Why must others be able to hear them when they speak?

Sound waves with frequencies above 20KHz are called ultrasound, and bats use ultrasound for obstacle detection during flight.

Frequencies below 20Hz are called infrasound, and elephants use infrasound to communicate with each other.

The human hearing frequency range is between 20Hz and 20KHz.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, humans cannot hear the sounds emitted by either bats or elephants.

Humans are also animals, and the expression of sound is divided into so many levels based on frequency alone within the same medium, and each level has its own way of communication.

What about plants?

Perhaps a gust of wind passing through is their vast, interwoven language, like a mountain roar and a sea surge.

There is simply too much grass on the entire Prairie of Mysterious Loneliness. If Zu Long Grass were to really do what Feng Mao Flower did, it would undoubtedly be a colossal project.

Zu Long Grass had the heart to transplant all the flowers from the entire Prairie of Mysterious Loneliness to the Secluded Valley, but it didn't have the heart to talk about life with every single blade of grass on the Prairie of Mysterious Loneliness and make them recognize it as their boss.

Or perhaps, it was too confident in its speed, never imagining that one day it would suffer a devastating fall in speed from which it could never recover.

Or perhaps, it disdained to do so?

Or perhaps, doing so would not fit its easygoing nature... “Welcome, human friends, to be guests in the Secluded Valley!”

Upon realizing that Long Aotian had discovered it from such a distance after it had already discovered him, Feng Mao Flower's expression immediately changed drastically, but it dared not be slow, and bravely came out to greet Long Aotian and his companions.

Like Zu Long Grass, Feng Mao Flower is also an Immortal Elixir. They are naturally afraid of Human Cultivators, as Human Cultivators possessing them is almost equivalent to possessing a second life.

No Human Cultivator who sees them doesn't become eager and frantic.

How could this not make them afraid?