The Red Water Lotus thought for half a day but didn’t know what to say, the other party being both an Alchemist and an artifact refiner was truly daunting; yet, it didn’t want to die, nor did it want to be refined by the Human Clan...

"Rest assured, I won’t refine you. After all, you are so rare, it would be too much of a pity to refine you. As long as you provide a bit of leaf or petals when I need them!" Mo Jiuli said, looking at the Red Water Lotus.

"Are you serious? You really won’t refine me?" The Red Water Lotus hesitated and asked upon hearing this.

"That’s right, absolutely not. You should have confidence in your own value!" Mo Jiuli replied with a smile.

"Alright then, I agree to follow you. But if you change your mind and want to refine me, I’d rather self-destruct than let you succeed!" The Red Water Lotus thought for a moment and said.

"Alright, if I want to refine you, I’ll let you go!" Mo Jiuli responded.

"But I need some time to leave this Red Lake. You can wait for me here or wait for me above." The Red Water Lotus glanced at Mo Jiuli and the three people and said.

"I’ll wait for you here, you can send them up." Mo Jiuli said after thinking for a moment.

"Okay." The Red Water Lotus said, and directly sent Di Minghan, Wang Dagen, and Xiaohong to the surface.

Xiaohong looked at the lake surface speechlessly and said, "Master, why do you want that woman, she’s so annoying!"

"It’s a rare medicinal material! Just like you, very precious, and unique in the world!" Di Minghan said calmly.

"So that pearl is a treasure?" Wang Dagen asked curiously upon hearing this.

"It should count as a treasure, after all, it’s a unique medicinal material in the world!" Di Minghan replied.

"As long as it’s a treasure, that’s good. Our Junior Sister found a treasure, so we didn’t come here for nothing!" Wang Dagen replied happily, showing no envy and truly happy for Mo Jiuli.

At the lake bottom, the Red Water Lotus looked at Mo Jiuli who had sat down beside it and curiously asked, "How did you recognize me?"

It was very confident in its disguise and couldn’t figure out how this woman recognized it!

"When you moved, the lotus fragrance from within your body..." Mo Jiuli said calmly. 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

"I see!" The Red Water Lotus hadn’t expected that a slight leak of its aura would reveal its identity.

"The Red Water Lotus is not a plant from here, why are you here?" Mo Jiuli asked curiously, looking at the Red Water Lotus.

"You’ve likely guessed from my appearance that I was sealed here by Master. Master sealed me in this refining material to save me, so that bad people wouldn’t find me, and then placed me into a Space Rift, causing me to fall here..." The Red Water Lotus said with a hint of sadness.

Mo Jiuli listened to the Red Water Lotus and for some reason felt somewhat uncomfortable inside. It was surprising that she was emotionally affected by a Red Water Lotus, making her feel she was perhaps getting sentimental as she aged...

Mo Jiuli did not speak further, nor did the Red Water Lotus ask more questions. The person and the pearl stayed quiet at the bottom of the lake, and over a month went by...

The red pearl on the exterior of the Red Water Lotus began to emit cracking sounds, like an eggshell breaking, as something was about to emerge. Mo Jiuli looked curiously at the Red Water Lotus breaking out of its shell...

Once again, they were grateful Xiaohong had brought them here to encounter the Red Water Lotus. Otherwise, once the Red Water Lotus broke out of its shell, shortly after, the Red Lake might fail to mask the fragrance of the Red Water Lotus, certainly attracting countless Beast Clan and Human Clan members coveting it...