Chapter 332: Finding a Heaven and Earth Treasure
After cleaning the battlefield and collecting the storage artefacts, the group of six went to the ancient forest.
As expected, the ancient forest was full of old trees.
It had a dense wood qi and felt a little gloomy.
[I am suddenly reminded of horror movies that take place in the woods.] Jiang Yue transmitted.
When Yu Nianzhen heard that, his lips twitched and he took his husband’s hand.
[Are you still afraid of ghosts and serial killers?] He asked.
[Not afraid.] Jiang Yue answered but shuddered a little.
After coming to the Cangxing world, he encountered ghost cultivators, corpse cultivators, and all kinds of horrors.
However, he still shrunk back when he recalled the horror movies he watched when he was on Earth.
[Don’t be afraid. I will protect you.]
[Make sure to protect me well.]
[I won’t leave your side.]
While the two were flirting, Yang Xu gestured for everyone to stop.
"What’s wrong?" Bing Lan asked.
"There is a nest of demonic plants ahead of us." Yang Xu explained and continued.
"The most powerful is at the peak of the third level."
"Senior Yang, I want to deal with them." Li Futian immediately volunteered.
Like demonic beasts, demonic plants also had cores.
Although Hongzhu was a class five demonic plant and level three cores weren’t of much use, Li Futian still wanted to get them for her.
"Prepare and be careful." Yang Xu said and Li Futian nodded.
A short while later, Li Futian walked ahead and entered the nest of the demonic plants.
Without expending too much effort, he dealt with all the plants and collected the herbs in the nest.
"Let Hongzhu refine the herbs we find." Yang Xu said.
Since they couldn’t take the herbs out of the Nine Treasures secret realm, it was better to quickly turn them into pills.
"Good." Li Futian agreed.
"This forest doesn’t seem to have any demonic beasts." Jiang Yue observed.
"There may not be any demonic beasts but there are many demonic plants. We should all be careful." Yang Xu said.
"We know."
With that, the six continued to walk forward.
Seven months later, they came to the core of the ancient forest.
"I didn’t expect this." Jiang Yue exclaimed and looked at everything in wonder.
"It’s like a fairyland." Bing Lan agreed.
Although the ancient forest was dark and gloomy, its core wasn’t.
The area was open and golden rays of sunlight fell on the thousands of trees and flowers in the area.
"There are so many spirit fruit trees." Xuan Ke stated.
"Look at that one..., it’s the origin purifying peach tree." Bing Lan exclaimed and everyone gasped.
The origin purifying peach tree was a rare heaven and earth treasure.
It was one of few treasures that could improve the quality of a cultivator’s origin.
"It has borne twenty-five fruits but they aren’t ripe." Jiang Yue mentioned and Yu Nianzhen continued.
"From the looks of it, it should take at least three years for the fruits to ripen."
"I want to wait." Xuan Ke expressed.
"Mmmm." Yu Nianzhen agreed.
Although they were pressed for time, it was impossible to give up the origin purifying peach fruit.
After all, sharpening the blade would not delay chopping the wood.
With a better-quality origin, their cultivation speed would increase and would more than make up for the time spent waiting for the fruits to ripen.
"There are twenty-five fruits and we are only six." Jiang Yue stated and everyone understood.
In their life, a cultivator could only take one origin-purifying peach fruit.
Under ordinary circumstances, their six would divide the surplus and trade them for other resources.
However, the origin purifying peach fruit was delicate.
It had to be refined within one day of being picked and could only be refined by the person who picked it.
If the conditions were not met, the fruit would lose its effect and rot.
"About this..." Yang Xu started but stopped in the middle.
He looked conflicted and uncomfortable but the others understood.
Although Yang Xu was abandoned by the people of the world, his heart had never abandoned the people of the Cangxing world.
Now that such a precious treasure had appeared, Yang Xu didn’t want it to go to waste.
He wanted to invite a few others which would hopefully increase the overall strength of his Cangxing world.
"Master, shall we invite nineteen others?" Yu Nianzhen asked and Yang Xu sighed.
"Our Cangxing world is now fighting the Death Flower Ascension Front. We should do our best to contribute." Jiang Yue said and everyone laughed.
"Is it okay with everyone?" Bing Lan asked.
"I am okay with it." Xuan Ke said.
"I am also okay." Li Futian said.
Beneath his closed lids, his eyes shone like stars and warmth softened his heart.
’I was not wrong to trust them.’ He thought and chuckled softly.
"Brother Li, why are you laughing?" Xuan Ke asked with a confused expression.
"It’s nothing." Li Futian said and changed the subject.
"Who should we invite and how should we invite them?"
"Why don’t we check the Cangxing list?" Xuan Ke said and the others rolled their eyes.
"Brother Xuan, the bounty list has names but the Cangxing list doesn’t. Even if there were names, how would we invite them?" Jiang Yue asked.
"If you trust me, you can leave this matter to me." Li Futian said.
"Brother Li, do you have a way?"
"I do." Li Futian said but didn’t explain.
"I almost forgot that Brother Li is from the Celestial Sky sect. Brother Li, you can do it if you have a way." Jiang Yue said.
The others also agreed and the matter was left to Li Futian.
"We need to prepare." Yu Nianzhen said.
Since the origin purifying peach tree was a heaven and earth treasure, it would produce a vision when its fruits were about to ripen.
At that, a lot of cultivators, demonic plants, and demonic beasts would be attracted to the ancient forest.
When that happened, a fight would break out and Yu Nianzhen didn’t want his group to get involved and miss the opportunity.
"We should first find a place to release one of the ancient palaces." Bing Lan suggested.
Normally, it was okay for one person to stay behind to carry the ancient palace.
However, the refining conditions of the origin purifying peach fruit didn’t allow anyone to stay behind.
In that case, they needed a secure retreat place for everyone to refine the fruits.
"Finding a large enough place to put the ancient palace is a bit of a problem." Jiang Yue lamented and the others agreed.
"It’s too bad we can’t modify the size of the ancient palace." He continued.
"We have never tried it." Yu Nianzhen suddenly said and then looked at Yang Xu.
"I have also never tried it."
When the others heard it, they couldn’t help but look at the two in surprise.
Normally, Yu Nianzhen and Yang Xu were very reliable.
How could they have dropped the ball in such a strange way?
"Let me try it." Jiang Yue said and immediately released his ancient palace.
He looked at the palm-sized palace and took a deep breath.
A moment later, he threw it and the ancient palace began to grow rapidly.
In less than a breath, it filled the empty area in front of them before it stopped growing.
"I can’t believe this." Jiang Yue said and looked at his husband with resentment in his eyes.
Back then, Yu Nianzhen only showed him how to release and collect the ancient palace.
He also received a lot of information when he refined the palace but didn’t learn anything about customising its size.
"It’s my fault. I should have thought about it." Yu Nianzhen accepted the wrongfully placed blame.
"I always felt that such a powerful ancient palace shouldn’t have such a shortcoming. Turns out I was right." Xuan Ke said.
"If you thought so, why didn’t you say anything?" Jiang Yue asked.
"I assumed that you had already tried it and failed. It turns out that Brother Yu can also be careless."
"What are you talking about? I am in charge of the ancient palace. How can Azhen make such a careless mistake?" Jiang Yue said and everyone looked at him in shock.
’Did we hallucinate the resentment in his eyes when he looked at Yu Nianzhen a few moments ago?’ They wondered.
However, no one said anything.
It was the worst mistake to argue with Jiang Yue because he could be very unreasonable when he wanted to be.
Worst of all, Yu Nianzhen would follow his lead and also become unreasonable.
Dealing with one was still okay but the combined power of the two was beyond the sky.
’Let’s just pretend we didn’t see Jiang Yue blaming Yu Nianzhen.’ They thought and Li Futian spoke.
"Brother Jiang, it’s best to be more careful in the future." He said.
"Don’t worry. I will carefully study the ancient palace to eliminate any wrong assumptions I may have." Jiang Yue said proudly.
