“Lian, what is your current cultivation level?”
“Seventh level of the Earth Immortal Realm. After coming to the Immortal Realm, Lian has been searching for master everywhere. Two hundred years ago, Lian defeated the king of a nearby mountain stronghold and took his place, temporarily cultivating here. I only led them here to search for treasures because I heard there was activity in the Heavenly Court Relic.”
“…”
True to form, Lian became a mountain king herself.
“You all go back, from now on I will follow master.”
Lu Qinglian dismissed the bandits and returned to Lu Changsheng’s fold.
The bandits looked at each other, their boss having run off with her master, so they had no choice but to make their way home.
Lu Qinglian sized up Ning Qianqian, the eighth disciple Lu Changsheng had taken in, and proactively hugged the little junior sister, sniffing her intensely.
“Senior sister, what are you going to do?”
Ning Qianqian had a bad feeling.
Why did it feel like this senior sister was going to eat her?
“Junior sister, you look very tasty.”
Lu Qinglian’s words startled Ning Qianqian.
Ning Qianqian, with her Dragon Emperor Bloodline, had enticed several powerful beings who wanted to use the Dragon Emperor’s Blood for medicine. And since Lu Qinglian was from the Huang Tribe and had eaten many Great Demons, the Dragon Emperor’s Essence Core also had an allure for Lu Qinglian.
“Lian, stop scaring junior sister. Let’s quickly find the treasures that have emerged to avoid any unnecessary complications.”
“Alright.”
Lu Changsheng, with his four disciples, entered the Heavenly Court Relic through the Southern Heavenly Gate.
Lu Changsheng had a map from the Moon River Kingdom, and had personally felt the tremors of the dragon vein underground, which allowed him to pinpoint the source of the disturbance in the Heavenly Court Relic.
“Master, that skeleton seems to have been a Heavenly Immortal.”
Xiao Fan saw a not yet fully fossilized skeleton in front of a collapsed pavilion and surmised that the person was a Heavenly Immortal in life.
“Don’t go near there recklessly.”
Lu Changsheng knew that where a Heavenly Immortal fell, there might be ancient arrays and traps nearby.
Such ancient arrays, if not destroyed, could autonomously absorb nature’s spiritual energy and continue operating.
Even Daluo Golden Immortals might fall to some ancient arrays.
As Lu Changsheng ventured millions of miles into the Heavenly Court Relic, they occasionally saw the remains of cultivators and Great Demons along the way.
As for Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, Lu Changsheng had not found any.
The Heavenly Court Relic, although a forbidden land, had been scavenged clean of various Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures by Daluo Golden Immortals looking for treasures over countless years, so few people ventured there anymore.
Lu Changsheng also risked entering the Heavenly Court Relic due to the earthquakes emanating from it.
“The place where the Earth Vein Dragon Qi is coming from should be around here.”
Eventually, the master and disciples arrived in front of an ancient Daoist Temple.
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“This Daoist Temple might have surfaced from the ground during an earthquake. That suggests the treasures inside might still be unclaimed.”
Lu Changsheng couldn’t help but feel excited at the potential of an undiscovered structure hidden underground within the Heavenly Court Relic.
Lu Changsheng took out a talisman, and channeled mana into it, causing a puppet of the Void Refinement Realm with Great Accomplishment to appear out of thin air.
An eleventh-grade talisman, the “Mixed Gold Puppet Talisman,” contained a Mixed Gold Puppet of the Void Refinement Realm.
Under Lu Changsheng’s control, the Mixed Gold Puppet led the way to check for any protective arrays within the temple.
“It’s safe.”
The Mixed Gold Puppet went ahead without triggering any arrays.
Lu Changsheng then entered the Daoist Temple to find it empty.
Inside the temple stood an ancient tree bearing thirty fruits resembling human beings, emitting an enticing fragrance.
Lu Qinglian and Ning Qianqian both eyed the fruits on the tree, their mouths watering.
The two reached for a fruit and ate with relish.
Knowing they weren’t poisonous, Lu Changsheng let them eat.
“Could this be a Ginseng Fruit Tree?”
Lu Changsheng, having read widely in the Scripture Pavilion of the Jing Long Immortal Temple, knew of many Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures in the Immortal Realm.
The Ginseng Fruit Tree, the spiritual root of heaven and earth, blooms every three thousand years and bears fruit every three thousand years. After another three thousand years, the fruit matures. If one is lucky, smelling it can extend one’s life by three hundred and sixty years, and eating one can extend life by forty-seven thousand years.
Like the Pan Peach Tree, the Ginseng Fruit Tree is a treasure that extends lifespan, but the Ginseng Fruit Tree is rarer, and its ginseng fruits, being fourteenth-grade Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, do not have cumulative effects with Pan Peaches.
For instance, Qingyue Fairy, the Temple Master of Jing Long Immortal Temple, had a nine-thousand-year-old Pan Peach Tree but neither a thirty-thousand-year-old one nor a Ginseng Fruit Tree.
Lu Changsheng did not expect to encounter an intact Ginseng Fruit Tree here.
With a wave of his sleeve, Lu Changsheng gathered the entire Ginseng Fruit Tree along with the surrounding soil, putting it into a small world he had created within himself.
Having reached the Heavenly Immortal Realm, with a small world within his body comparable to Immortal Ruins, Lu Changsheng transplanted the Ginseng Fruit Tree into the medicinal garden he had started within his small world.
With the Ginseng Fruit Tree, Lu Changsheng could reward his disciples with ginseng fruits.
Alternatively, he could use the ginseng fruits to make connections with a group of Loose Immortals, thereby strengthening both his Sect’s power and his personal network.
Cultivation was not only about fighting; interpersonal relationships and networks were also extremely important.
The Demon Kings of places like Accumulated Thunder Mountain, Nine Holy Mountains, and Jueyun Ridge had become sworn brothers, jointly contending against the human racial Immortal Sects around them.
Ginseng fruits could prolong life, and for those Earth Immortals, Heavenly Immortals, and even Daluo Golden Immortals who were nearing their end but still had not managed to break through, ginseng fruits were a top-tier treasure.
Extending their lifespan by forty-seven thousand years gave them more hope of Path Comprehension and increasing their lifespan limits.
“I wonder what kind of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures I can receive in exchange for rewarding disciples with ginseng fruits?”