Chapter 35, Wonderful Peach, Acquired Spiritual Roots
Just when the peach banquet was held in the square outside, Pan Long and the others also set out to eat fairy peaches.
Everyone stuffed two pungent pills into their noses, followed their ancestor Ren Changsheng through the magic array like layers of water curtains, and with the increasingly strong and strange fragrance, they came to the front of a peach tree.
This peach tree is not big, and its trunk is not thicker than an ordinary adult's fist. Compared to the big trees outside where the trunks require several big men to embrace, it can be said to be a sapling.
On this "sapling", among the green leaves, there are six bright red peaches the size of fists. Whether it is the tree, leaf or peach, it looks very ordinary. If you hadn't known it was not an extraordinary product, and there was the turbulent fragrance as evidence, no one would have thought that this tree was anything special.
"Two hundred and forty years ago, when I saw this tree, it was a little thinner than now, and the leaves were slightly less." Ren Changsheng said, "In the blink of an eye, more than two hundred years have passed. I am already old and dying, but it has only grown a little... In the "Divine Monkey Record" written by Wen Chaogong, there was a female fairy named Jin Mother who planted fairy peaches in Yaochi. The fairy peaches need to be planted for thousands of years to grow, and hundreds or even thousands of years to mature. Those who eat peaches can become immortals. When I was young, I only thought it was a story. Until I saw this tree, I realized that there was no groundlessness."
"According to what my predecessors said, is this tree the so-called 'peach' of the predecessors?" Jiang Bei couldn't help asking.
Ren Changsheng replied: "Maybe, I think it hasn't grown yet. Maybe after it grows, the peaches that have become immortals really have the effect of making people become immortals. But maybe its peaches are actually so powerful, but their predecessors spread rumors and exaggerated their effect. Of course, maybe it's just a relic of the Yaochi Immortal Seed, and there is no effect of the authentic peaches... No matter what, I probably won't see the day when it is completely mature."
He sighed as he spoke, and everyone sighed.
"If I could have been born a thousand years later, I might be able to eat the fully mature peaches." said the disciple of the Demon Sect who was as thin as a monkey.
"If this is really a peach, when it matures in a thousand years, it's impossible for me to wait, but it's impossible to smell it. It's not our turn to eat it!" Fan Yan sneered, "People are content, I'm not greedy. It's good to have these peaches."
Everyone nodded, and even the disciple of the Demon Sect smiled and agreed.
As Fan Yan said, where is the turn of the peaches that can make people become immortals?
If there is such a treasure, all the princes, major sects, and even the Daxia royal family will do their best to compete. Not to mention the little ones like them, even the entire Suitao Mountain may be directly bombarded into flat ground.
In contrast, this kind of Xiantao that improves qualifications and increases cultivation is more suitable for them.
Among the group, only Pan Long did not respond.
After walking through the protective magic circle, he seemed a little dizzy. But looking at his young appearance, no one found it strange.
After all, young people lack experience. Perhaps because they have medicines that can relieve peach fragrance, they took a few deep breaths of the fragrance after taking care of it, and are now trying to resist the temptation of the fragrance.
Everyone present was a person who practiced profound martial arts, and they looked much younger than their real age. Even Fan Yan, who looked in his early twenties, was actually nearly thirty years old.
But they could almost see that Pan Long was really only seventeen or eighteen years old - no matter how young and old, some details between his eyebrows and eyes could never be hidden.
But no one knew that Pan Long was actually flooded with spiritual energy that kept pouring into his body.
As soon as he walked through the protective formation, he felt that the surging spiritual energy was pouring into his body like opening the gate and releasing water. The position of his heart was no longer as hot as when he absorbed spiritual energy, but was directly hot to the point of boiling hot.
If he hadn't practiced foreign kung fu hard since childhood and trained his will that was beyond ordinary people, he would have already lost his screams and exposed his abnormality.
Now he looked dizzy and stupid at first glance, but in fact he was trying his best to disguise himself to avoid showing his feet.
At this moment, he couldn't help but thank the Nine Turns Mysterious Art again. He hadn't seen the wonderfulness of this technique to increase his cultivation yet, but his enhancement of his own control ability has helped him a lot.
It is extremely dangerous to absorb the Earthly Demons and Tiangang. If you cannot control your body as accurately as possible, many unnecessary risks will be added during the practice. Therefore, the Nine Turns Xuan Gong emphasizes control of oneself, the depth of the merits, and even a hair can be controlled at will. As for the true qi, it can be played with flowers.
Pan Long is naturally far from that realm, but he wants to pretend that nothing is wrong, control his expression, suppress his breath, and lock his sweat... These relatively basic things can no longer defeat him.
If he can return to the world he had traveled through time now, even if he doesn't rely on his strength to make a fortune, he can become a good actor by just controlling his own skills.
It may be difficult to play a good person, but if you want to play a bad guy, your face muscles are pounding, your eye sockets are deformed and your eyes are showing fierce light... All of these can't help him.
Of course, everyone present would not pay special attention to Pan Long. Even Ren Changsheng was confirmed that he was not seriously injured, he no longer paid attention. Instead, he talked to everyone about the story about this fairy peach tree.
"I ate four peaches and planted the peach pits outside, and then planted new peach trees with the peach pits of the four peach trees. Gradually, a peach forest outside formed. "He said, "It's a pity that those peaches have no special use except for their deliciousness. Even the first four peach trees can replenish vitality slightly, which is equivalent to an ordinary big tonic medicine."
"It can be equivalent to Dapu Decoction, and it is already extraordinary." Minghe, Taoist priest of Qingcheng, praised.
"A pair of big tonic medicine is nothing more than a matter of three or five taels of silver. It is indeed not worthy of this immortal peach spirit seed!" Jiang Bei sighed, "It seems that the spirit seed is a spirit seed after all, and it is not so easy to reproduce."
Sun Yuntao thought for a while and asked: "Have you tried cuttings and grafting methods?"
"Of course I tried it, but it's almost the same." Ren Changsheng said, "It goes without saying that the grafting is no different from the van peach tree. Even if you cut off the branches of the fairy peach tree, the fruits they bear are very average, and even the first four peach trees are not as good as those of the first batch."
He smiled bitterly and said, "It took me more than 200 years to reproduce the fairy peaches. I almost thought about anything I could think of, but in the end... it was still the best of the first four peach trees. So in the end I gave up and waited for the next batch of peaches to mature."
"I just didn't expect that this wait would last for 240 years! Two hundred and forty years... Thirty years, every generation has changed into eight generations..."
His voice gradually lowered, and his face showed a look of bleakness. Then he stopped talking. With a move of his hand, the six peaches on the tree flew down, as if someone was holding them, slowly and steadily, flying in front of the six people, stopping in the air and motionless.
It's strange that when the peaches grew on the tree, the fragrance was so strong that it almost went crazy. But when the peaches were picked, the fragrance suddenly faded. Although it was a little bit seductive, it was no longer as crazy as it was just now.
Pan Long and others were amazed. Just as they were about to be polite, they saw the young man from the Demon Sect who was as thin as a monkey, taking the peach with both hands and opening his mouth without saying a word. He ate peaches very quickly. A peach with a size of a fist, at most, only one peach pit was left after just two sentences.
He put the peach pits on the ground, bowed to Ren Changsheng, bowed to everyone, then turned around and left, and then left without a trace after a while.
"He is smart!" Fan Yan said sarcastically, "Knowing that the identity of the Demon Sect is easy to cause trouble, so just finish it quickly and leave... I guess he will find a cave near Suitao Mountain in a while and hide in it to absorb the medicine."
"This is a good idea, too." Ming and Taoist nodded slightly.
"Why can we use it so much trouble!" Pan Long's body finally absorbed enough spiritual energy and stopped making trouble. He smiled and said, "We ate peaches and retreated outside the formation to absorb the medicinal power. What else can be safer in the entire Suita Mountain than here?"
His statement was approved by everyone, and Ren Changsheng also smiled slightly and nodded, agreeing to the request.
After a moment, the fairy peach in front of everyone became the peach pits on the ground. To be honest, the taste of this spiritual fairy peach is actually very average, even worse than that of ordinary good peaches.
With Pan Long's impression, it feels that it is not as good as the ordinary peaches inside the peach forest outside!
He couldn't help but sigh in his heart - the effect and taste seemed to be unable to have both.
After eating the fairy peach, Ren Changsheng put away the peach pits and led everyone out of the formation.
"After all, you can't let you sit in the open air." He said, then called his disciples and led the six people to find a room to meditate and adjust their breathing.
Pan Long followed a stout young man to a simple wooden house that had been built for several days. The house was built of pine wood, and the rosin was floating in it. There were many places on the ground and on the walls that had not been completely dried. It was obviously a hurry and could not last long.
But in the house, all the living needs are complete. Not to mention just being closed, even if you live there for three or five years, it would be fine.
Pan Long lay down on the floor in the house to regulate his breathing and true energy.
When practicing the Nine Turns Mystery, there are quite requirements for posture and must be stretched as much as possible. Either stand or lie down, standing with your teeth and claws, or lying on your back and forks, and look quite indecent.
Fortunately...who will let others visit when practicing?
What does it matter if it is elegant or not?
Pan Long lay down to regulate his breath, and suddenly felt a warm breath spread out from his abdomen, and in a blink of an eye it spread towards his limbs and bones, like thin ice entering the soup, and like wine and water blending together, quickly integrating into his body.
Then, he felt a wonderful force slowly rising in his body, with flesh, bones, meridians... all under the influence of this force, causing subtle changes.
The change is not strong, and there is no unbearable pain or numbness. It is just that the whole body is warm, as if soaked in hot water.
After a while, the enthusiasm finally completely dissipated. He couldn't help but sigh, knowing that this fate was over.
When I opened the character panel casually, I saw that in addition to the increase in physical fitness and the improvement of qualifications, I also had an additional talent called "Acquired Spiritual Root".
Chapter completed!