Heart Cultivation

"Miss, are you ready?" it asked and Jen sighed.

According to Jen, this day punishment was more exhausting than the previous one, previous day, she was fighting with several beasts and it exceeds normal number but what was with this single colorless flower, it was sapping her essence like an enemy.

She sat and let her essence flow nourish.

"You should be keeping your guards high in the night, here danger comes and usually I will get a blood bath from the battle between enemy and my protector," it reminded her.

"I will make sure to protect you from any danger," Jen rea.s.sured.

She casted a glance at her surrounding and closed her eyes, letting her essence chord keep sensing any change in the region.

Slowly the horizon turned bleak and evening was near, the number of small bugs those were enc.u.mbering around Swan Lake started to return back in this region, they built their habitation among these bunches of flowers.

Harmless bugs chose to stay around sweet and harmless flowers while poisonous bugs haunt around lethal kinds of plants, several thousand bugs swarmed the region, Jen heard the increasing buzz and felt uncomfortable, these bugs were flying above and as if inspecting the new guard of the new colorless flower.

After few breaths, when they were done with the inspection, they settled in their habitation.

Slowly the region lit and several hundred glow warms also joined, these glow warms were not ready to settle early, it seemed they liked to see the girl sitting and her essence circling, Jen felt through her essence chord and opened her eyes.

She looked up and then above, in her surrounding several illuminating bugs were cluttering, the sky was filled with these light bulbs, what a blessing to see this phenomenon of nature.

She was astonished to see glow warms, it was mesmerizing sight to capture her attention.

When did she last witness this much beauty? She could not remember.

The glow warms were satisfied after capturing the attention of a beauty, when did they see such a beauty around Swan Lake, probably never, this was first ever that a girl was sent to protect colorless flower.

These glow warms settled among the vines making them lit up as well.

It seemed a huge wall was lit with illumination pearls, Jen looked around and the whole region was unbelievably spellbinding for her.

She was completely distracted.

"Hey woolgatherer, come back to reality, you need to keep continue absorption if you don"t want to be paralyzed, a paralyzed cultivator would be as useless as corpse," the colorless flower needed nourishment and it was worried for her to see that she was not giving attention at her breaking flow.

"Oh, I forgot," she hurriedly resumed to absorb the essence.

This place was no bleaker and it was lit by the glow warms, Jen kept her eyes opened to see this sight, she wanted to remember this beautiful spectacle.

The weather again changed and the sky was covered with wandering clouds soon the snow started falling and the breathtaking beauty of this region increased hundred fold.

"Since you are such inattentive, I should rest a little so that you could see this region and don"t complain that I am strict and ruthless," the flower waved to show how caring it was.

She stood up and bowed, "I am greatly honored to meet this caring flower," she walked toward where the lethal flowers and plants were swaying, the snowflakes were falling down.

"Can I pluck these lethal flowers?" she voiced to ask if the flower could answer and if there was someone on the security of this region especially?

She wanted to study its poison to know the characteristics, and compare with the scent of slumber, she wanted to know if there was any difference or these kinds of flowers were the source product for the scent of slumber?

"You are quite strange, I told you these are poisonous," the flower answered.

"Ah, I am keeping distance right?" she cleared.

"Okay, the vine told me that wild serpent is allergic with these certain poisonous flowers," the flower helped her gather this information.

She looked back and did not ask further else the flower might get angry at her because she was asking question during its rest.

Serpent was creature of the Swan Lake and whenever it wanted to cross a level or wished a breakthrough, it would come looking for colorless flower before it get matured.

It was several meters long and big serpent with the tongue leaping for treasures.

It usually kill its enemy or opponent with its long and huge body suffocating the victim to death, if it was offended it would make a sharp sound that can terrify everything.

Jen returned and sat again, she plucked few lethal flowers and folded them with leaves, she can"t study immediately it perhaps harm the flower.

She could see though the flower was still colorless but its size increased and the petals glowed with transparency and s.h.i.+ne.

She was not aware what kind of treasure it would turn into but it must be something worth her protection.

But she has question to ask, when core was strong enough that no one can enter or break the barrier why this colorless flower was let to grow at outer region and the expert don"t kill all those beasts who wanted to harm precious treasures?

She was thinking about this question and it proved she was naïve.

The core was divided into many regions and every region was selected for different kind of tasks, these tasks were performed to keep the balance in the core and let the celestial sphere live with peace, if they kill those beasts who were part of this balance between the nature and society then the sphere would turn into mess.

This was the reason that they a.s.signed duties to the respected members of the core to protect few regions and at different times whenever it needed and only protect against those beasts who were not fated to these treasures.

A man possibly cannot run into a den and cause disorder when the beast of the den was not wandering in the city and harming human.

The nature growth depends on the balance factor and if it was disturbed then the peace and harmony would vanish.

Jen absorbed essence to replenish her Acmes Pairs, the wind slowly got tranquil and snowflakes were still falling down, she kept sharp sense to work and notice any change.

She felt the lit glow warms lose the light or they intentionally hid themselves, everything seemed to get cold suddenly and the bugs showed a visible sign of irascibility and fear.

Leaves rustled on the ground.

A hissing sound can be heard from afar, it was wild serpent, it could inhale the scent of colorless flower and it was here to get it because the creature wanted another breakthrough, the addiction of power was a threat for weak.

The serpent was getting more powerful and huge with every breakthrough, it was addicted now to feel the increasing power, the time when it came to know the fact that a serpent can turn into human after a certain level of cultivation, it was tempted to increase the levels early and fast.

It was aware that colorless flower was again here for two days though it wanted to come tomorrow morning or late noon when the colorless flower would be at the peak of its growth, but it lack patience to wait this long.

From this rate, it needed to fight for few colorless flowers to achieve its goal, the more it could get, the better his level increase and possible breakthrough.

One should remember if a serpent was able to achieve that level, it would be a threat for human colonies, the serpents were usually domineering and poisonous despite human appearance and if they get offended, they could kill without letting know how they killed.

An enemy is easy to face but what about hidden enemy? It surly could prove fatal.

The hissing sound was increasing that means a big animal was moving around the place where Jen was sitting for the protection of colorless flower.

The bugs hiding in the vines immediately felt restless, few took courage and left, few just concentrate to hid very well, the glow warms completely shut off with the fear.

The leaves rustled but because the snowflakes constantly fell, it helped leaves to cover from the danger, they must have thanked snowflakes for giving protection against the direct contact with serpent.

Jen was holding her breath to face this enemy, she never saw a serpent and she don"t know how she should battle especially when it was reaching higher levels.

If it was serpent, then what apt.i.tude or attribute she should use against it? She asked to herself silently.

"I sense danger," the colorless flower whispered, and swayed.

"Shush…" Jen gestured it to quiet down.