Cultivons Notre Jardin

by Scourge Daughter (scourgedaughter)

Chapter 12: Herbarium

Summary:

A fun little extra.

(An excerpt from the journals of Wei Wuxian, Leader of YilingWei Sect, formely known as the Yiling Patriarch. )

Waterwheel
An aquatic and rootless carnivorous plant consisting of a central air pod and protruding whorls. The whorls extrudesnapping traps at regular intervals, which capture and digest prey between their lobes. The waterwheel is capable of self-regeneration and protection, with defensive stems that sense and rapidly move toward water currents. It will autocannibalize its own stems if prey is scarce.

Honeylocust Trees
Highly invasive and adaptive hardwood species with protruding thorns as a defensive mechanism. Sticky red sap. Non-native, origins unknown. Found in the perimeter of the Burial Mounds.

Pitcher plants (Nepenthe)
A carnivorous plant that can grow in any soil, as it obtains nutrients from living prey. It grows to match the size of the prey in its environment. The jug-like container is actually a specialized leaf filled with sweet-scented acid, used to lure and dissolve victims. The cycle of resentment helps nurture the Burial Mounds.

Notes:

Me four years ago reading mdzs and getting drunk in my backyard: haha cultivation… what if it was like… actual plant cultivation. lols

And here were are 45+k words later!

You guys have no idea how often I scribbled finish CNJ!!! in my agendas and to-do lists over the past four years. And now finally I cross it off. Weirdly enough it's that strike through that made me more emotional than writing THE END. Thank you to everyone who read this work, and most importantly thank you to the people that commented even despite the years of inactivity – it was your nice messages that got me to dust this off. Never underestimate how powerful a comment on a work that you enjoy can be, no matter how long it's been.

This was my first work in the MDZS fandom, which probably shows in the early chapters, so thanks for sticking with it. If you liked my world building for this story, I hope you come along for the ride for the next one coming “soon”: a modern demon AU, where hell is real and Wei Wuxian goes there. Did you really think I was done putting him through it?? ^_^

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