Chapter 35, the wonderful peach, the acquired spiritual root
Just when the peach banquet was held in the square outside, Pan Long and the others also set off to eat fairy peaches.
Everyone stuffed two pungent pills in their noses, followed the ancestor Ren Changsheng through the magic circle like layers of water curtains, and came to a peach tree with an increasingly strong fragrance.
The peach tree is not large, and the diameter of the trunk is no thicker than a fist of an average adult. Compared to the big trees outside whose trunks require several big men to hug, it can be said to be a sapling.
On this "sapling", between the green leaves, hang six fist-sized bright red peaches. Whether it's a tree, a leaf, or a peach, it looks ordinary. If it weren't for the fact that it was not an extraordinary product, and that there was a disturbing fragrance as evidence, probably no one would have thought that this tree was anything special.
"Two hundred and forty years ago, when the old man saw this tree, it was a little thinner than it is now, and it had a little less foliage. Ren Changsheng said, "More than 200 years have passed in a blink of an eye, and the old man is already old and dying, but it has only grown a little...... Wen Chaogong's "Monkey Chronicle" once said that there is a female fairy named Golden Mother, who planted fairy peaches in Yaochi. The peach needs to be planted for thousands of years to grow, hundreds of years or even thousands of years to mature, and those who eat peaches can become immortals. When the old man was young, he only thought it was a story, and it wasn't until he saw this tree that he knew that it was groundless, and it may not be without a cause. ”
"According to the predecessors, could this tree be the so-called 'peach' of the predecessors?" Jiang Bei couldn't help but ask.
Ren Changsheng replied: "Maybe, the old man thinks that it probably hasn't grown up yet." Maybe when they grow up, the peaches that bear them really have the effect of making people become immortals. But maybe its peaches are actually so powerful, but the predecessors exaggerated its effect by false rumors. Of course, perhaps it is just a relic of the Yaochi immortal seed, and it no longer has the potency of authentic peach...... Anyway, I won't see it fully mature until the day comes. ”
He sighed, and the crowd sighed with him.
"If I had been born a thousand years later, I might have been able to eat fully ripe peaches. The demon disciple who was as thin as a monkey said.
"If this is really a peach, when it will ripen in a thousand years, it will be up to me to wait, I'm afraid it will be impossible to smell the taste, where will it be our turn to eat!" Fan Yan sneered and said, "People are content, I am not greedy, it is already good to have this peach to eat." ”
Everyone nodded one after another, and even the demon sect disciple smiled and agreed.
Just like Fan Yan said, where can the peaches that can make people become immortals, where can they get their turn?
If there is really such a treasure, all the princes in the world, all the major sects, and even the Great Xia royal family will do their best to fight for it. Not to mention their little bits, even the entire Suitao Mountain may be directly bombarded to the ground.
In contrast, it is still this kind of immortal peach that improves the cultivation of qualifications, which is more suitable for them.
In a group of people, only Pan Long did not react.
Ever since he walked through the protective circle, he had looked a little dizzy. But looking at his youthful appearance, everyone is not surprised.
After all, the young man is inexperienced, probably relying on the medicine that can cure the peach fragrance, he inhaled a few deep breaths of the aroma carelessly, and is now trying to resist the temptation of the fragrance.
Everyone present was a figure who cultivated advanced martial arts, and they originally looked much younger than their real age. Even Fan Yan, who looks like he is in his early twenties at first glance, is actually nearly thirty years old.
But they can almost see that Pan Long is really only seventeen or eighteen years old - no matter how young he is, some details between his eyebrows and eyes are always hidden.
But no one knew that Pan Long was actually infused with a steady stream of aura pouring into his body.
As soon as he walked through the protective formation, he felt that the surging aura was pouring into his body like opening the gate and releasing water, and the position of his heart was no longer slightly hot as when he usually absorbed the aura, but directly hot to the point of piping hot.
If it weren't for the fact that he had practiced foreign kung fu since he was a child and exercised a will beyond ordinary people, he was afraid that he would have already screamed and exposed his abnormality.
Now he looked dizzy and stupid at first glance, but he was actually trying his best to disguise himself and avoid revealing his feet.
At this moment, he couldn't help but thank the Nine Transformations Xuangong again, the wonders of this exercise to increase his cultivation have not been seen for the time being, but it has already helped him a lot for the enhancement of his own control ability.
Absorbing the Earth Demon Heavenly Gang is an extremely dangerous thing, and if you can't control your body as precisely as possible, you will add a lot of unnecessary risks to the cultivation process. Therefore, the Nine Turns Xuangong places great emphasis on self-control, and the skill is profound, and even a single hair can be manipulated arbitrarily, and as for the true qi, it can play with flowers.
Pan Long is naturally far from that realm, but he wants to disguise it as if nothing happened, control his expression, suppress his breath, and lock his sweat...... These relatively basic things are no longer difficult for him.
Now, if he can return to the world before he traveled, even if he doesn't rely on his kung fu to break through the world, he can be a good actor just by controlling himself.
It may be difficult to play a good person, but if you want to play a bad guy, what facial muscles are beating, and what eye sockets are deformed and your eyes are fierce...... None of this bothered him.
Naturally, everyone present did not pay special attention to Pan Long, and even Ren Changsheng, after making sure that he was fine, no longer paid attention, but talked to everyone about the story of this fairy peach tree.
"I ate four peaches, planted the peach pits outside, and then planted new peach trees with the peach pits of those four peach trees, and gradually, a peach forest was formed outside. He said, "It's a pity that those peaches have no special use other than being delicious." Even if it is the first batch of four peach trees, it can only slightly replenish the vitality, which is equivalent to an ordinary great tonic decoction. ”
"It can be equivalent to a big tonic decoction, which is already extraordinary. Qingcheng Taoist Shiming and praised.
"A pair of big tonic decoction is nothing more than a matter of three or five taels of silver, and 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 your predecessors tried cuttings and grafting?"
"Naturally, I tried, but it was pretty much the same. Ren Changsheng said, "Needless to say, the nature of grafting is no different from Fan Tao." Even if the few peach trees obtained by cutting the branches and cuttings of this immortal peach tree, the fruits produced were very average, not even as good as the first four peach trees. ”
He smiled bitterly and said, "In order to reproduce immortal peaches, the old man spent more than two hundred years. But almost all the ways I could think of were thought of, and in the end, the result was ...... It's still the first batch of four peach trees. So in the end, the old man died and honestly waited for the next batch of peaches to ripen. ”
"I just never dreamed that this would be two hundred and forty years! Two hundred and forty years...... Thirty generations have changed, and the world has changed for eight generations......"
His voice gradually lowered, and his face showed a gloomy look. Then he stopped talking, and with a gesture of his hand, the six peaches on the tree flew down, as if someone was holding them, and they flew slowly and steadily, and flew in front of the six people, stopping in the air and not moving.
Strange to say, when peaches grew on trees in the past, the fragrance was so strong that people almost went crazy about it. But when the peaches are picked, the fragrance fades suddenly, and although it is still slightly seductive, it is far from the maddening feeling just now.
Pan Long and the others were amazed, and were about to be polite, but they saw the young man from the Demon Gate, who was as thin as a monkey, took the peach with both hands, and opened his mouth to nibble without saying a word. He eats peaches really fast, a peach the size of a fist, at most that is the work of the last two sentences, only a peach pit remains.
He put the peach pit on the ground, made a gesture to Ren Changsheng, and bowed his hand to everyone, then turned around and left, and disappeared without a trace after a while.
"He's also shrewd!" Fan Yan said with some sarcasm, "Knowing the identity of the Demon Gate is easy to get into trouble, why don't you finish eating and leave...... I guess he will find a cave near Suitao Mountain and hide in it to absorb the medicinal power. ”
"That's a good idea, too. Minghe Daoren nodded slightly.
"Where is it so troublesome!" The fragment of the Mountain and Sea Sutra in Pan Long's body finally absorbed enough spiritual energy and stopped making trouble, so he smiled and said, "We ate peaches and retreated outside the formation to absorb the medicinal power." In the whole of Suitao Mountain, what other place could be safer than here?"
His statement was agreed by everyone, and Ren Changsheng also smiled and nodded, agreeing to this request.
After a while, the immortal peach in front of everyone became a peach pit on the ground, to be honest, the taste of this spirit seed immortal peach is actually very ordinary, and it is not even as good as ordinary good peaches.
With Pan Long's impression, I feel that it is not as good as the ordinary peaches in the peach forest outside!
He couldn't help but sigh in his heart - it seems that the effect and taste are indeed incompatible.
After eating the immortal peach, Ren Changsheng put away the peach pit and led everyone out of the formation.
"After all, you can't be allowed to sit in the open air. As he spoke, he summoned his disciples and led the six of them to find a room to meditate and pranayama.
Pan Long followed a stout young man to a simple wooden house that had obviously been built for a few days, this house was made of pine wood, and the rosin fragrance was still wafting in it, and the bark of the tree that had not been completely dried could be seen in many places on the ground and on the wall.
But inside the house, everything you need for life is complete. Not to mention that it is just a retreat, even if it is lived for three or five years, there is no problem in thinking about it.
Pan Long lay down on the floor in the middle of the room and breathed his true qi.
When cultivating the Nine Turns Xuangong, there are quite requirements for posture, and it must be stretched as much as possible. Either standing, or lying down, standing must stand with teeth and claws, and lying on all fours, which looks quite unsightly.
Fortunately...... Who will let others visit when they are cultivating?
What does it matter if it is elegant or not?
Pan Long lay down and breathed, and suddenly felt a warm breath spread out from his abdomen, and in the blink of an eye, it spread towards his limbs and hundreds of remains, like thin ice in soup, and like wine blending, quickly integrated into his body.
Then, he felt a wonderful power slowly rising in his body, flesh, bones, meridians...... All of them have undergone subtle changes under the influence of this force.
The change was not strong, and there was no unbearable pain or tingling, just a warm body, as if soaked in hot water.
After I don't know how long, the heat finally completely dissipated, and he couldn't help but sigh, knowing that this creation was over.
I opened the character panel casually and saw that in addition to the increase in physique and the improvement of qualifications, there was also an additional talent, called "Acquired Spirit Root".
[Acquired Spiritual Root: The spiritual physique obtained with the help of external forces is very helpful for cultivation, and it can be directly practiced spells. If you can persist in cultivating the above multiplication exercises, you may have the opportunity to return to your roots and turn into an innate spiritual root. 】