The next moment, the flower bud suddenly burst open, and a small girl fell out.
The girl was petite and delicate, with a youthful face that held a captivating charm. Her body was wrapped in a tight, long dress woven from plant fibers; this was miranda's true form.
However, her body was disabled, with only one arm and one leg, as she had not yet grown to her full form.
She had been in a dormant state and had just opened her eyes. After looking around in confusion, miranda shyly looked at Qin Jie and asked, "Big Brother, where is this?"
"I'm so cold, can you hold me?"
She looked utterly pitiful, and combined with her astonishing beauty, it made people want to approach and help her.
Even Qin Jie, with his strong willpower, was almost drawn in by her at that moment, but he quickly snapped back to reality, feeling suspicious.
It wasn't until he used Insight that he realized the little girl's charm attribute had reached 48 points, and only then did Qin Jie understand.
No wonder he was attracted to her.
Qin Jie suddenly feigned being enchanted, then smiled, "Don't be afraid, little sister, I'm here to help you."
He strode forward, then extended his single arm, as if he was about to embrace her.
miranda's true form put on a pitiful expression, then looked joyfully at Qin Jie as he walked towards her, like a captive princess awaiting her knight.
Until the knight plunged a Sword into her heart.
With her heart pierced, Qin Jie whispered.
"Hold you? Being Parasitized by you is more like it."
Seeing that Qin Jie wasn't falling for it, the little girl's face immediately became indifferent. Although her heart was pierced, her tone was somewhat calm.
"Strange, according to the knowledge the Mother Body imparted to us, humans should be very susceptible to our charms. Why didn't you fall for it? Or did I make some mistake?"
"Never mind, I've already stalled for enough time. I've now taken root underground and will soon be able to submerge myself. By then, you won't be able to catch me—"
Her expression suddenly changed again.
"What?"
She suddenly reached out and grabbed the devouring abyss embedded in her heart. Her five slender fingers were severed at the root the moment they touched it. "Why is my body's vitality being cut off?"
Her face was extremely ugly; she hadn't looked this bad even when Qin Jie saw through her. At this moment, the vitality of her heart had been extinguished, and death was a certainty.
A weapon capable of killing the vitality within an abyssal creature should have been completely hidden in the devouring abyss, and its owner long lost.
There should only be one such weapon!
"Could it be that the weapon in your hand is the devouring abyss? Impossible! Wasn't it already lost? How could it be in the hands of someone like you?"
With a look of disbelief, miranda's body slowly fell. Her body withered again, visibly shrinking.
Until finally, only a seed and a purple treasure chest remained on the ground.
A pitch-black seed.
[Obtained Soul Value 8.6]
[Hunter obtains miranda's Seed.]
[Upon submitting or destroying this seed, the Hunter's mission will be completed.]
[This seed is extremely dangerous. Hunter, please handle with caution.]
Qin Jie picked up the seed and the purple treasure chest; it seemed his main mission in this world was complete.
Killing miranda was somewhat simpler than killing the Fish King, for many reasons. For example, the resilient Sakura Dragon always kept his health within a range that wouldn't awaken miranda, and the devouring abyss countered miranda, and the Sword Shadow, boosted by Change Luck, could continuously suppress the Sakura Dragon.
Therefore, killing miranda this time felt quite easy.
After collecting the spoils of war, Qin Jie turned to look at the Sakura Dragon.
Startled by Qin Jie's gaze, the Sakura Dragon's body trembled, for Qin Jie's terrifying performance had truly stunned Him.
The Sakura Dragon had lived for so long and had never seen a human capable of directly suppressing Him with their own power.
Even in His homeland, those people relied on Talismans and other Spells to suppress Him.
Although they did beat Him quite badly— "Hey, how do I leave Fountainhead Palace?"
In response to Qin Jie's question, the Sakura Dragon moved His claw, and a wooden figure rose from the ground next to Qin Jie. Compared to the previous ones made from cherry trees, this wooden figure was more refined.
He couldn't speak, but He could control the wooden figure to speak.
The wooden figure suddenly spoke, "There is a reservoir in Fountainhead Palace, with a passage directly to Shuisheng Village."
As he spoke, the wooden figure pulled out a map from somewhere. The map was quite intricately drawn and marked the location of the reservoir.
It seemed the Sakura Dragon really wanted Qin Jie to leave quickly.
Putting away the map, Qin Jie was in no hurry, and slowly asked.
"I did you such a big favor, shouldn't you give me something in return?"
Nonsense!
The Sakura Dragon wanted to say that.
Objectively speaking, Qin Jie did help Him remove miranda from His head, but he also destroyed Shuisheng Village and Fountainhead Palace. All the achievements He had cultivated for decades were ruined by Qin Jie, and all sources of faith were gone.
But He had also worked hard to suppress that strange flower bud for a long time, hadn't He?
The Sakura Dragon clearly realized that if the flower on His head bloomed, the entire Japan would likely suffer, and He would certainly die then.
Of course, He still underestimated miranda's power. After miranda bloomed, the radiation range would be the entire world.
But to avoid offending Qin Jie, the Sakura Dragon still compromised.
Although His immortal power was abundant at the moment, this immortal power still had to supply all the immortals in Ashina. This immortal power was non-renewable until the Sakura Dragon found enough believers.
The next moment, the wooden figure presented several blue glass-like objects.
[Obtained Fountainhead Glaze X3]
Fountainhead Glaze
Quality: Purple
Type: Enhancement Materials
Effect 1, Fountainhead Enhancement: Using this Material, blue equipment can be directly enhanced to +7, and purple equipment can be directly enhanced to +5.
Effect 2, Fountainhead Blessing: Items enhanced with this Material have their durability limit increased by 3 points. An item can only be enhanced once.
Description: Precious Pure Fountainhead Glaze. Items forged with it will never break or rust.
—This is truly a good thing.
Blue equipment directly upgrading to +7 would save Qin Jie a lot of money, as enhancing equipment often costs a fortune. With this, Qin Jie could save a lot of paradise coins and wouldn't have to worry about equipment enhancement failure.
As a Tier 1 LV6 world, Sekiro's purple quality items were the ceiling, so the Sakura Dragon must have gone all out.
It seemed He really hoped Qin Jie would leave quickly.
At this point, the entire Ashina was a mess for the Sakura Dragon, and He had to find a way to leave.
To the Sakura Dragon's relief, Qin Jie actually left after accepting these three Fountainhead Glazes.
Thankfully, this guy wasn't insatiably greedy.
The Sakura Dragon breathed a sigh of relief.