Chapter 82: Bees And Night Flower Bush
“Sorry, Mother, I simply can’t learn that power right now.” Xilutiya awoke from her dream, looking at her hands with amusement and helplessness.
That power and method, despite Mother deliberately demonstrating all the details of the skills that day and fully engraving the cultivation method of this ability into her memory, she was still too weak to match the miraculous scene in her memory.
If she was not mistaken, Mother should have the blessing and favor of the ‘Cornflower’, which was different from her own ‘Cornflower’. Additionally, their family bloodline seemed to have a natural affinity for ‘Brilliant Moon’. Many of the methods and abilities Mother demonstrated showed manifestations of the ‘Brilliant Moon’ Nature.
Crossing time and space, materializing fantasy, freely switching between illusion and reality, dominating the Dream Realm—Brilliant Moon was indeed powerful, one of the higher Natures.
However, mastering ‘Brilliant Moon’ was exceptionally difficult. It was not a Nature that could be easily comprehended by piling up resources. Whether one could perceive that strange, illusory rhythm depended entirely on a person’s spirituality and talent.
Xilutiya floated quietly in the clear water, her thoughts swirling in her mind, with colorful lights flickering in her eyes.
Although she could not achieve the miraculous effect Mother had, after simplifying it countless times, it could be used to break out of a siege, which seemed somewhat possible.
She closed her eyes again, gradually adjusting her posture, slowly bringing her hands together in front of her, her palms and thumbs forming a faint triangle.
In the hollow of that triangle, specks of starlight emerged, and at the same time, the silver meteors in the card on her Fate Plate began to disappear one by one.
【Girl Under the Starry Sky】（First Order·Alien Star）→【Sleeping Girl】（None）
The hard-earned First Order Nature disappeared again, and the precious Nature Power condensed within it gathered bit by bit into Xilutiya’s palm, forming a small yet captivating vortex of star sand.
『Power of the stars, please manifest at this moment』
『Manifest in the form I desire』
The swirling star sand gradually took on the silver color of ‘Brilliant Moon’ from the clear water, expanding bit by bit, continuously absorbing and devouring…
Until finally, a massive vortex formed underwater, the water flow emitting a faint silver glow as it surged upward, carrying countless twinkling starlights out of the pool.
In the Temple Ruins, the black mist and White Bees were still entangled in battle, but now the black mist was nearly depleted, while quite a few White Bees remained.
Water splashed everywhere as the vortex waterspout rose, reaching the high sky before slowly falling like a curtain.
A transparent water curtain, a water curtain glowing with silver halo, a water curtain dotted with stars.
The falling water curtain embedded the white bees one by one, then the specks of starlight swiftly moved, sketching and painting on the water curtain. Blooming cornflowers appeared, not real but, due to her talent, allowing Xilutiya to control this arduous secret arts skill relatively easily.
Finally, the silver-glowing water curtain completely hovered in the air, and the painting depicted by the wandering starlight also froze with the final flow of moonlight.
Xilutiya slowly stepped out of the pool, gazing at the massive flowing water curtain painting in the sky, the light in her eyes swirling as she poured her last bit of energy to complete it.
Soon, the giant painting slowly descended, shrinking smaller and smaller until it became an illusory card floating in front of Xilutiya.
【Bees and Night Flower Bush】（First Order·Alien Star·Insect Moth）
‘At night, white bees shuttle like fireflies through the illusory cornflower bush, like a dream.’（The starlight flower bush seals the bee swarm, their powers achieving a fragile balance）
Phew… Xilutiya breathed a sigh of relief. She had finally dealt with these murderous bee swarms.
However, as it was her first time using it and simplified countless times, all she could achieve was sealing these bee swarms. If it were Mother performing it, not only could she preserve the ‘Brilliant Moon’ Nature, but she could also command the bees for her own use and grant them starlight enhancement.
She was still too weak, probably unable to even beat the maids at home. She vaguely remembered that the maids at home were almost all Third Order or above, skilled in all sorts of skills and means, nearly omnipotent.
Although she still could not recall her full name or Mother’s name, with the abundance of clues gained from this dream, recovering her past identity was just a matter of time.
“Elysia…” She recalled the name mentioned in the dream.
Though she did not know Mother’s name, she inexplicably remembered the name of her best childhood playmate. Could their relationship have been that close in childhood? She could not remember Mother’s name but remembered ‘Elysia’.
Elysia—she seemed to have golden hair, a bit mischievous, with eyes like golden jade.
……
After straightening her dress, the Maiden returned to the Fountain Pool. The clear water under the white stone sculpture had been completely consumed by Xilutiya, and the water bottle that once flowed with clear water was now dry and solidified, leaving only the stone sculpture of the female figure standing in the center of the pool.
Even though Xilutiya knew nothing about it, she could tell this statue was a handed-down masterpiece. She approached it, tiptoeing lightly, carefully examining and observing the statue, trying to spot something different.
However, she had now shed her original Nature, returning to zero order, and the effect of her Discernment Eyes had weakened considerably. She could not discern anything.
Whatever. If there were any obvious secrets, they would have been discovered long ago. She lightly jumped down into the empty pool.
The pool was now not even waist-deep for her, without the previous bottomless feeling. It seemed this pool was also a crafted item with strange abilities, capable of holding far more clear water than its current capacity.
For now, ignoring these, Xilutiya gave up on the fountain and searched around the Temple Ruins.
Along the way, she actually found something: a stele collapsed in the corner, inscribed with a short segment of history.
Based on the text description, this temple should belong to some church, which once had vast influence across the entire Continent. In the Eighth Epoch, they battled various forces for the inheritance of the Silver Moon Dragon.
Silver Moon Dragon? Wasn’t that the Law Dragon that ruled the ‘Brilliant Moon’ Nature in the Sixth Epoch and Seventh Epoch? It was said that in the Sixth Epoch, dragons rose, upgrading the ‘Snake Lizard’ Nature to ‘Dragon Eye’ and seizing the authority of the Fae Monarchs, becoming the overlords of this world.
Later, the Silver Moon Dragon fell, and the Star Lords of the ‘Brilliant Moon’ Nature became quite mysterious, to the point that now the Fae Monarchs hold the rules of the ‘Brilliant Moon’ Nature in their stead, as they were the previous owners with familiar mastery and experience.
She had not expected this place to hide such special secret history. In a sense, knowledge was power. If she could fully understand this history, she could rely on rituals to borrow the legendary power within it.
After reading the content on the stele, Xilutiya found nothing else useful, and now she was tired.
In this world, the sky seemed to be permanently unchanging low dark clouds, with no distinction between day and night. She was not sure how many days she had been here.
But since it was safe here, she would sleep for a while first.
She turned around and went to the fountain plaza in the center, lying down on a stone bench on one side.
Gradually, her breathing steadied, and this ancient temple relic returned to tranquility once more.
A long time later, faint, imperceptible moonlight slowly emerged on this Maiden, drawing her once again into a distant and strange dream.
