Chapter 143: The Hidden Past and the Flower Space

At some point, fragments of the original host’s memories suddenly flashed through his mind.

Xiao Shou was slightly startled and immediately stopped focusing on the original novel.

Instead of skimming through the memories as before, he began to examine them carefully.

After finishing, he could not help but sigh.

A strange expression appeared on his face.

It seems the original owner was not as simple as he had assumed, not just he’s the first cannon fodder to fall beneath Xiao Ran’s feet.

Since transmigrating, he had seen the original owner’s memories only in passing.

Most of them were from after he began cultivating, while childhood memories were scarce.

Because he had already read the original novel, he had subconsciously ignored the original owner’s own memories.

Only now, after seeing the empty void stone scene within those memories, did he take the initiative to look deeper.

Unexpectedly, he discovered things that were never written in the original story.

From as early as he could remember, the original owner had frequently had a dream.

In the dream, a man whose face could not be seen would always say to him, "No matter what you reincarnate into or where you are, I will definitely find you."

Every time he heard this, he would wake up.

Once or twice might be coincidence.

Twice might be chance.

But dreaming of it every full moon could not be explained so simply.

Leaving the dream aside, what was more important was the original owner’s strange luck, which was truly astonishing.

In the original story, when Xiao Ran and supporting female characters obtained their opportunities, that was one thing.

But even in the original owner’s childhood, before he began cultivating, his luck was absurd.

When he was gathering wild vegetables, the trees he passed by on the roadside vaguely resembled infant spirit fruit trees.

When he went to a remote stream to catch fish, the stones in the entire stream looked very similar to empty void stones.

These kinds of things appeared more than once in his memories.

However, since he did not recognize any of them, he never obtained a single one.

This luck was honestly hard to describe.

Thinking back to the beginning of the original story, when You Lin deliberately avoided Xiao Shou and chose to act only after Xiao Shou ascended, and considering what You Lin said about the original plot, what he had seen and what she had seen were clearly very different.

It seemed she must have known something.

It’s most likely, the original owner had an unusual background.

And the man from his dreams also did not seem simple at all.

If he was mistaken as someone who had taken over the body of the person he was searching for...

Xiao Shou’s expression changed slightly.

That possibility was too terrifying.

It’s better not think about it.

Still, if there was time, he should visit the original owner’s hometown.

Things that resembled natural treasures or empty void stones should be checked personally to be safe.

After all, in the original story, after Xiao Ran left the Great Liang Kingdom, she never returned.

There was no chance of meeting her there.

If those things were real, the harvest would not be small.

Of course it could not compare to what he had gained in this secret realm, but it was still very good.

Many of them would be useful treasures in this world.

After making his decision, Xiao Shou said to Yao Heng: "I still need a little over a month before I leave here. After I go out, I will help you find empty void stones. It also takes a lot of time for the Ice Heart Tree to mature, so we should prepare your food in advance before that."

"Mm mm! That is easy!"

Yao Heng replied without any worry.

"My kind and our food usually grow in clusters. There must be many of them nearby. We can just take a few more and bring them along."

Xiao Shou blinked his eyes in surprise.

"But aren’t your kind living on the Ice Heart Tree? If you take them as food, what about them?"

"My kind?"

Yao Heng tilted its head.

"Those without spiritual intelligence are food too. They are much easier to digest than Ice Heart Tree, and they taste better."

The small, cute Yao Heng wiped the corner of its mouth with a handkerchief again and said something rather alarming.

"Later I will take out the Ice Heart Tree Core, then extract all the spatial energy inside their bodies and store it in my internal space. When I get hungry, I will just eat them."

Xiao Shou felt a chill run through him.

Eating members of its own kind without spiritual intelligence.

As a human, he really could not understand the worldview of plants or their moral logic.

It felt... a little terrifying.

Something fragile in his understanding of life seemed to be on the verge of breaking.

Still, he needed to be more careful with storing Yao Heng.

If he was not careful, it might get eaten too.

Xiao Shou rubbed his temples.

He had a bad feeling about this, though it might just be an illusion.

He reviewed everything that had happened since Yao Heng was formed from fusion.

Countless thoughts flashed through his mind.

Finally, he made a decision.

"Since that is the case, Yaoyao, I will use your flower space to cultivate for a while. To be honest, the outside world is very dangerous, and my current cultivation is far from enough. I will improve my strength using your ability first, then prepare your food. Is that okay?"

"Master wants to use accelerated time cultivation?"

Yao Heng immediately became serious while fluttering in front of him with its small wings flashing. 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

"What time flow ratio? What about external time? Is the flower space linked with the outside world or disconnected?"

Hearing this, Xiao Shou was slightly stunned.

Unlike many stories he had read before, it did not argue with him over food or try to negotiate.

For a moment, he even felt a little disappointed.