Chapter 161: Rainbow Flowers
I don't know how long it has been, Li Zhen woke up quietly, only to find that he seemed to have fallen asleep and lost consciousness in a dream.
The surrounding scenery is still the same, and on the spacious meadow at the foot of the mountain there is a circle of purple and red dream butterflies, which are spread out on the blades of grass like colorful brocades, and even some of them fall on themselves, like flower petals.
However, in this dreamy and beautiful scene, there is a danger of almost disconnection, and even the loss of the road sign and spiritual mind, because as far as Li Zhen knows, this dream creature called Dream Butterfly has the ability to devour spirits and digest dream spirits, and if they eat it, bad changes will occur.
There is a saying that people who die in dreams because of this will also suffer corresponding injuries in reality, and after many times, they will die simultaneously.
This is related to the characteristics of the dream butterfly itself, as well as the characteristics of this heaven and earth.
"There seemed to be an intoxicating ingredient in its scales, and I almost said it. ”
Li Zhen shook his body and found that his clothes were torn through several holes, and there were some insect-eaten wounds on his body, hands, and shoulders.
"There seems to be a big problem with the laws of heaven and earth in this place, it is a dream, but it is different from a dream, my dream spirit has been greatly suppressed, and I am even fascinated by butterflies!"
His eyes fell on those dream butterflies, and he found that they were as if they were intoxicated, falling there without moving, and Li Zhen's expression changed slightly.
"Fortunately, before I was stunned, I cast all the wonderful incense tricks, catalyzing the magic incense with my spirit, and infecting his heart with seven emotions and six desires!
Although this kind of dream butterfly is not a sentient being, it is able to connect with the spirit of sentient beings and feed on emotions.
The enchanted scent of worry and anger is enough to trap them in the dream trap I have carefully prepared, trapped in a dream within a dream.
In this way, it will not be possible to eat up my dreams while I am asleep. ”
This time they hurt each other, and it seems that they have won.
Li Zhen thought for a moment, and created a butterfly trap that looked like a birdcage, and then picked up all the dozens of intoxicated dream butterflies scattered nearby and loaded them in.
The number of dream butterflies before was about thousands, and it seemed that they felt the fascination of their companions and flew away in shock.
But this is just right, Li Zhen didn't expect to be able to catch more, he just wanted to bring some back first and study it clearly.
After the dream butterfly wakes up, she can gnaw off the cage at any time, and she needs to continue to cultivate it with the incense of the gods to suppress it.
There are some problems with the rules of this place, and if he catches too many dream butterflies, he doesn't have the confidence to suppress them.
At the moment of regaining consciousness, the wounds on Li Zhen's body began to recover on their own, and the mental condition of the dream spirit body seemed to be in good condition.
So, Li Zhen crossed the hillside and came to the bottom of the hill opposite, and sure enough, there was a narrow mountain road leading to the inside.
Thinking of Xiao Gu's name, Li Zhen's face changed a few times, and he understood a little.
"There must have been a master here who came to explore, and left a warning, those dream butterflies often run to the open space outside the valley, if a stone monument is erected at the mouth of the valley, I am afraid that it will be too late to see it. ”
"But now that they seem to be gone, do you want to go inside?"
It may be the lair of Dream Butterfly inside, and if you break into it rashly, it is still a little dangerous.
But if you miss such a place, it seems that it is unreasonable.
"It's all coming......"
In the end, Li decided to take the plunge and find out.
He controlled the butterfly trap cage to float behind him with his divine thought repellent, like a firefly sac following, walking inside.
The valley is deep, and the trails are winding and winding, leading to the depths of the unknown.
After a while, a grassy woodland in the valley appeared in front of me.
On the low hill more than 100 zhang square, there are nameless wild flowers, all of which are gorgeous and colorful, and there is light, rendering the whole valley like a dreamland.
Looking at these colorful wildflowers that exude dreamy aura, Li Zhen's expression was slightly condensed, and he suddenly remembered the record of a senior master about dreams in "The Chronicles of the Scenery of All Nations".
There is grass, its shape is like a leaf, short branches and long leaves, its color is like a rainbow, so it is called a rainbow flower. ”
According to the account of the senior, the flowers of this exotic grass called rainbow flowers are strangely colored, and the dream butterfly feeds on the nectar of its flowers, which can refine the spirit in it.
This is a strange flower and grass that contains spiritual power and is similar to that of sentient beings!
It also has another name, called the Seven Love Flowers, which corresponds to the emotions of joy, anger, worry, thought, sadness, fear, and surprise in human emotions.
It is said that if a person eats or brews the petals, he can experience the corresponding emotions and thoughts in his dreams, and the aftertaste is long and profound.
This is a kind of flower that can awaken the corresponding emotions in the spiritual will and reproduce the profound experience, as soon as Li Zhen came in, he smelled a familiar fragrance, like a mixture of sweet and sour smells and textures, synthesizing something extremely similar to the incense he had refined.
But this strange fragrance is different after all, its fragrance is unharmonized, and it presents a flocculent form like a seven-colored cloud, which looks a little like a cloud.
At this time, Li Zhen suddenly realized, no wonder after he released the magic incense, he was not immediately fascinated by the dream butterflies, but was still eaten by them a few times and was slightly hurt.
However, the wonders of nature are also reflected here.
These butterflies originally fed on the nectar of rainbow flowers, and after smelling the incense, they mistook it for food, only to be stunted.
Invisibly, it also allowed Li Zhen to safely pass a period of sleep, so that he was able to come here smoothly.
Their spirits seem to be able to digest this fragrance very effectively, and the taste is similar to that of food, so they will not deliberately resist it.
It's like eating food normally, but after brewing it into alcohol, you will get drunk after drinking too much.
His own wonderful fragrance has become the key to brewing this thing.
"It stands to reason that it is not easy to refine the incense of the gods, and it must be based on one's own emotions, simulating the seven emotions and six desires, or picking the spiritual power of others from the dream to be able to refine it.
Either of these is time-consuming, labor-intensive, and limited in production.
If you pick this rainbow flower and process it like any other flower, the yield and quality can be greatly improved!"
Li Zhen immediately stepped forward, collected some fragrant rainbow flowers, and prepared to take them back to the mansion to study.
If you can determine its function, it will be much more convenient to refine the magic incense in the future, and you can also use this sacrifice to refine a powerful magical power.
Suddenly, a cloud of purple and red floated over the valley.
"It seems that those dream butterflies have returned, and they have to get out of here quickly. ”
Li Zhen remembered the scene when he was stunned just now with almost no power to resist, and his face couldn't help but change slightly, and he hurriedly urged the evil incense to be rejected, turning into a fragrance and covering his whole body.
The field formed by this kind of incense can effectively resist the infection of various spiritual forces, and has a special effect on divine power or ghosts.
However, when those dream butterflies approached, Li Zhen smelled the special fragrance emanating from them, and suddenly became confused again.
The incense of repelling evil can't completely resist this charming fragrance!
Li Zhen once again confirmed that this was indeed made by the scale powder on the wings of the dream butterfly, and the smell it emitted in the air smelled slightly sweet, with a honey fragrance mixed with honey and flowers, and it was like a fine wine.
It only took a moment for his mind to start to get dizzy.
Before he was stunned, Li Zhen urged Yun Wushengxiang to try it, but found that it seemed that because the other party was not a sentient being, this kind of incense was useless.
The next moment, he summoned the flames with a wave of his hand, and the flames rose out of thin air, retreating the ***.
But in a moment, those butterflies rushed out in flames.
Li Zhen wanted to keep his strength to deal with other accidents, and he didn't want to fight with them, so he turned around and left.
After a while, he found a path that led to the rear, and when he looked back, the dream butterflies were gone, and it seemed that they were safe for the time being.
"It seems that this valley and the surrounding area are their habitats, and if you stop to explore, you have to be very careful. ”
Li Zhen did not relax his vigilance, but paid attention to his surroundings all the time, and truly saw the six ways and listened to the eight directions.
As a result, it really made him discover those dream butterflies flying in advance several times and was able to dodge.
At this time, he finally confirmed that the perception ability of those dream butterflies was not too strong, as if they were tracking them with their sense of smell.
You can control the fragrance in your spiritual power, and you can only deliberately prevent it from emanating out, or stay in one side in advance and mislead it, and you can lure those dream butterflies away.
In this way, although he still kept encountering the dream butterfly, he managed to pass through this valley and enter the wider basin.
From here, a wide slope descending into the eye is visible, and below is a forest-like place, lush and overgrown with various plants.
The plants in this place are very peculiar, most of them are colorful, and some of them even resemble the rainbow flowers seen before.
But strangely, none of them emitted any fragrance, as if they were false illusions.
And when Li Zhen inadvertently turned to the other side and saw some of the rainbow flowers he had seen before, he found that the rainbow flowers that had been confirmed to be real things before were also like dream bubbles and no longer emitted fragrance.
How so? The same thing sometimes smells and sometimes it doesn't, doesn't that mean that they are in the middle of a dream and reality?
It's no wonder that the dream world is bizarre, all kinds of things can happen, and the Heavenly Dao in this place itself is only afraid that it is distorted and deformed.
It's not right, dreams are like this, the world of dreams is always not as stable as the real material world, if you want to achieve complete reality, turn fiction into reality, I'm afraid only a few areas in the center of the dream world can do it.
But it should be the core of the dream world, and it won't be visible for a short time. ”
Li Zhen was thinking about the significance of these discoveries, and he was also thinking about what kind of loot he should bring back in order to reflect the true value.
The only thing he was sure of was that the flowers in the valley were in a more authentic area, and the rainbow flowers picked there still retained their fragrance and fragrance.
Fortunately, he kept one thing in mind, that is, what smells and can perceive the fragrance should be true, and those who have no smell and fragrance are not necessarily illusory, they may be in different dimensions of time and space, supported by the power of different laws.
Li Zhen thought about it, and simply found a place to stop, and began to refine the fragrance among the rainbow flowers, incorporating them into his own wonderful incense recipes.
He didn't know what accidents would happen on the way to this trip, so he just prepared first.
If there is anything dangerous in the future, using the magic incense refined from this rainbow flower should have some effect.
As for the power of the dream spirit body itself, for the time being, it is not easy to replenish, and there is no need to use it indiscriminately.
The process of refining the fragrance of rainbow flowers is tedious and complicated, and this colorful cloud-like fragrance can be peeled back and separated from completely different aromas and fragrances, which requires Li Zhen to carefully distinguish each of them, and then separate them according to different emotional wills, and then twist them again.
It's like pulling a mess out of it and twisting it into a real rope.
In this process, Li Zhen himself inevitably absorbed some incense and fell into various emotions of joy, anger and sorrow.
One moment he was sweet and happy, the other he was sad and resentful, and he tasted all kinds of tastes.
"This floral fragrance has a certain psychedelic effect, and if you absorb too much in a short period of time, it will affect the autonomous will of the Dream Spirit!"
Even in lucid dreams, the dreamer is fragile, it cannot receive a steady supply of spirit at any time like the main body, and can only intermittently replenish some energy through remote remote sensing.
As the incense accumulates, the seven emotions and six desires will also affect the nature of the dream spirit, thus distorting it.
Either of these is not conducive to staying awake, so you can only stop while you can control yourself.
After a while, Li Zhen continued on the road and walked towards the forest below.
At this time, it seemed that he had left the scope of Dream Butterfly Valley, and unconsciously entered a new area, and Li Zhen could even see some clues from the vegetation on the ground, and the valley that was originally full of dreamy colors was replaced by desolation and solemnity.
Suddenly, a shadow passed by.
Li Zhen looked up and saw a giant flying in the sky.
Its appearance is similar to that of a human, with a short skirt made of unknown animal fur around its waist, and its upper body is painted with black and white totems, like a barbarian people, but it has no eyes on its face, only the big eyes on its forehead are erected, with a bit of demonic mystery.
The cyclops soon spotted Li Zhen, and seemed to be a little surprised, so he screamed and swooped down.
It was only at this time that Li Zhen felt the strong aura he possessed, and in the impact, the dirt splashed.
Li Zhen showed a slight surprise on his face, but he was suddenly surprised.
"Sapient beings?"
"How can there be intelligent creatures here, is it a nightmare or an explorer who has wandered in between fantasy and reality, like me?"