"Not good!"
After catching sight of the peach tree’s appearance, the two thieves who had originally thought their luck had turned and planned to make off with another heist, were suddenly shocked.
Like being electrocuted, they imdiately retracted their bodies and flew back in retreat.
[Taboo Four: In the Immortal Peach Orchard, besides the pink, white, red, and purple varieties, there must never be a peach tree with purple-black blossoms. If a purple-black peach tree is discovered, one must retreat from it quickly.
At the first opportunity, find a nearby white-flowered peach tree, climb up, close your eyes and ears, and silently count to ten before you can look again.]
The taboos make it clear that there are mainly three dangers in the Immortal Peach Orchard.
The first danger is those companions lost among the "Seven Fairies"; the second is the peach trees with leaves and blossoms that are [Weird·Fairy];
The third is the strangely colored purple-black peach tree.
Clearly, there is a progressive relationship in terms of the danger they pose; once encountered, the difficulty of evading them also increases.
And within the rules of the Immortal Peach Orchard, Wang Yuan and his companion have no distinction from ordinary people; they absolutely do not dare to break the taboo and test the law with their bodies.
Whiz—!
Wang Yuan was pulled by Su Guyun like the wind, retreating ten ters in two steps.
But when he took a look around,
He discovered that the white-flowered peach trees, which were not too rare among a hundred peach trees, had suddenly beco impossible to find.
"We’re in trouble! It seems we haven’t just run into bad luck by accident, but exposed ourselves while engaging in black-on-black cri, and caught the attention of this thing."
Seeing this very targeted scenario, the two of them understood that this "encounter" was no coincidence.
It was because the two "fake devotees" were too brazen, having accumulated too many peaches at once, which triggered further counterasures from the Immortal Peach Orchard.
Thinking about it, it seed normal. Although the "Seven Fairies" were essentially stealing peaches, they at least concealed themselves under the guise of "fanatics."
These two, on the other hand, simply pretended to be [Weird·Fairy] and outright robbed, discarding even the slightest pretense, presenting a truly ugly spectacle.
Before they had more ti to think, in the blink of an eye,
The purple-black peach tree couldn’t wait to attack the two who hadn’t managed to hide in ti.
The ground beneath their feet shook violently, and countless ink-black roots burst from the earth in an instant.
Making a "hissing" sound, they surging over like bloodthirsty giant pythons.
"Retreat again!"
Su Guyun’s face was solemn as he continued to pull Wang Yuan back, while in his other hand, a small white jade basin appeared with a flip of his palm.
In the basin, water rippled, and lotus blossoms blood, with layers of green lotus leaves concealing a yin and yang fish, each biting the other’s tail.
This was the treasure embodying the [Inner Scene Heaven and Earth·Lotus Court].
Watching the roots that tore through rock and earth, the White Lotus Holy Daughter recited a Buddhist mantra:
"Stepping on the white lotus, each step creates life, hand holds the Emperor Bell to overco obstacles. Constant compassion gives birth to joy and fear, quickly uniting the gains from the Five Directions, Om Mani Pad Hum! Imperial Decree!"
A violent wind arose around them imdiately.
A massive white lotus exploded into bloom, bearing the two at its heart.
A ring of crystal-clear ripples spread swiftly from their feet, sharply separating their location from the space of the Immortal Peach Orchard.
As the Lotus Court unfolded, the roots like ink-black giant pythons seed montarily unable to discern their position and paused briefly.
Then they continued to stretch outward, slowly forming a large circle around the [Lotus Court].
The ripples from the Lotus Court moved forward and in the blink of an eye, they completely subrged the purple-black peach tree.
Like a heavy rain washing away the murky haze of a smoggy sky.
Crack—!
As the sound of a mirror shattering rang out,
The image of the large peach tree before Wang Yuan and Su Guyun changed instantly, leaving them both with expressions of horror on their faces.
Even with Su Guyun’s composure, she couldn’t help exclaiming upon seeing the sight before her.
What was once a peach tree that, beside its color, seed no different from the others, had now grown a hundred tis larger, standing there like a small hill.
At first glance, whether on the trunk or branches, the ashen bark seed layered upon layer, covered with knobbly growths.
Upon closer inspection, those growths had faces and limbs, with curvy protrusions that were clearly naked, exquisite female bodies!
So of their bodies had already beco completely wooden, inseparably fused with the peach tree.
Others still retained so of their flesh and bone, even parts of undissolved clothing.
Without exception, their faces showed devout expressions, all of them silently chanting the [West Queen Holy Mother Divine Transformation Scripture].
The buzzing chant vibrated their eardrums, seemingly trying to drag them back into the original illusion.
When Wang Yuan and Su Guyun, resisting their discomfort, saw among the roots one woman whose transformation into wood was not very advanced, with half of her orange broad-sleeved fairy dress still intact,
A thunderous roar went off in their minds.
"This is..."
Even though their mories related to her had been thoroughly lost, that vague sense of familiarity was undeniably right.
This woman was none other than the orange-robed fairy who had co with them to Yaochi Fairyland but had suddenly vanished without a trace!
Seeing her in such a pitiable state now, even Wang Yuan, who was used to experiencing tough situations, was slightly taken aback, muttering to himself:
"So that’s how it is, there are no flat peaches in the Immortal Peach Orchard! There are no flat peaches in the Immortal Peach Orchard!..."
Soon after, they finally realized that the intelligence they had gathered was completely and utterly wrong.
They had originally thought that the Purple Pattern Peach Tree, believed to have the best effects, might be a branch of the Killing Tree, enjoying the endless supply of life essence from billions of living beings beneath the Heavenly Gate.
Now it seed that this purportedly non-existent dark purple flat peach tree in the Immortal Peach Orchard was actually the main trunk of all the peach trees in the orchard.
The living rules and knowledge within this flat peach tree ca from the Killing Tree, and the materialized hosts were these seven fairies who were devout followers of the West Queen Holy Mother.
Or rather, fad Immortal Peach Orchard had never really contained any Heaven and Earth Spiritual Root flat peach trees from the beginning.
What existed were rely seven fairies who ca to pick the flat peaches!
These "fairies," with their beautiful appearances and devout hearts toward the West Queen Holy Mother, earned the qualification to enter the Immortal Peach Orchard.
They also possessed a highly compatible essence with the flat peaches.
But once here,
So fairies could possibly, under the influence of the "Heavenly Spirit Qi・Long Spring Qi," shift their cognition and gradually beco deceitful monsters that harm their companions.
So had stronger resistance, so had weaker.
The Peach God Tao seed unable to discern who was more likely to be corrupted.
So they simply added this note to the precautions:[Taboo Five: Be wary of companions who separate from you and then et you again, do not believe her!]
When those normal people returned to the Mortal World with flat peaches, these individuals naturally could not leave the Immortal Peach Orchard anymore.
By the next year, when a new group of fairies arrived, they were already completely corrupted into Weird·Fairies with branches and peach blossoms growing from them.
They began to harm newcors with even greater intensity.
No one knew how long this state would last, but their ultimate fate was to beco part of that large peach tree with dark purple blossoms.
Becoming its main trunk, branches, and leaves...
And when[Taboo Eight]triggered, so beings with particularly high compatibility might skip the interdiate steps and rge directly with the flat peach tree.
Just like this orange-robed fairy, and others from various Taoist establishnts who were missing "rainbows."
With each passing day, the scale of the Immortal Peach Orchard also grew larger.
On the surface, there were over a hundred thousand peach trees in the orchard, but in essence, there was only one "tree" growing here.
The top-grade peach trees were the main branches, the middle-grade were the secondary branches, the low-grade were the treetops, and the ordinary peach trees were the leaves.
The taboo stated that when encountering the dark purple peach tree, to leave the ground and hide in a white blossod peach tree is actually to hide on one of its branches.
Just like the "Taboo: Hold your breath when encountering zombies", disguising oneself as the sa species has a great chance of evading the main trunk’s perception of the flat peach tree.
Unfortunately, Wang Yuan and Su Guyun not only missed this opportunity but also inadvertently uncovered the true nature of the Immortal Peach Orchard.
"Do the higher-ups in Peach God Tao actually know the true essence of the Immortal Peach Orchard?
One would think they mostly do.
They ticulously select seven fairies every year, not just for picking flat peaches but also to continuously feed the ’flat peach tree’.
The ’Killing Tree’ extracts essence from billions of living beings in the world, achieving an outer cycle, while these ’seven fairies’ form an inner cycle.
It’s the combination of both that enables the Peach God Tao’s higher-ups to successfully fleece the West Queen Holy Mother, having an endless supply of flat peaches to eat."
At that mont,
A sharp rebuke from Su Guyun’s mouth pulled Wang Yuan’s attention back to that terrifying flat peach tree made up of countless "seven fairies".
"Xiao Wu, look quickly!"
Wang Yuan turned to look in the direction of her pointing finger.
And he saw amidst the clusters of pale woody lumps shaped like beautiful won,
Three huge fruits, pulsating like hearts or resembling peaches, were emitting a crystal-clear green light.
If the trunk of the flat peach tree was like filthy sludge unbearable to look at, then these three green peaches growing from it were like the gurgling clear spring flowing over mountain rocks.
Just one glance was enough to feel infinite vitality, and even the soul felt as if it had been cleansed.
Without needing to guess much, since the low-grade white peaches were of great use to Yellow Seal Mage,
Then these super-grade green peaches must be precious items that even Corpse Dissection Immortal cannot ignore, right?
However, before the two could be overco with greed,
The flat peach tree, now revealed in its true form, instantly went berserk. Nurous pitch-black roots encircling Lotus Court tightened suddenly.
Creak—!
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