Watching Jiang Tingting eat with great relish, Fang Zheng did not feel tempted.
It had been so long since he had eaten anything or tasted any flavor that he had nearly forgotten what taste even was.
Fang Zheng merely asked curiously, "Why isn't that big white monkey eating any? Don't monkeys all like peaches?"
Jiang Tingting shook her head. "Spirit Monsters that have not embarked on the path of cultivation are naturally like that. But this white ape is already advanced in years. Though it has gradually developed intelligence, its declining vitality has left it with no chance of cultivating."
"Although the few Spirit Peach Trees in the mountains that are not protected by formations contain a trace of Spiritual Energy, they are no longer of any benefit to it."
"For many years, the white ape has offered peaches, and I have returned the favor with Moonlight Essence. Though its vitality is fading, it can still prolong its life."
Fang Zheng asked curiously, "What about the extra peaches? Did the other monkeys in the ape tribe eat them?"
Jiang Tingting said, "In past years, after harvesting the Spirit Peaches in the mountains, it would mostly brew them with herbs and ganoderma into Monkey Wine, then offer it to Jiang Family Cultivators in exchange for protection. Though this Monkey Wine offers no benefit to cultivation, it does taste quite good."
"So in this world, once you get too old, you can't cultivate anymore?" Fang Zheng pondered for a moment, then suddenly had an idea.
Ah! I've got an idea!
He opened his Inventory and held a Splash Healing Potion in his hand.
Under the Old White Ape's frightened gaze, he swiftly smashed several hundred bottles at it.
As the red spiraling mist quickly dissipated, the Old White Ape, shrouded within it, began to stand taller and straighter.
In barely more than ten seconds, its aged body, originally just over two meters tall, abruptly grew to a full four meters. The suddenly increased mass even pressed a pair of shallow giant footprints into the grass beneath its feet.
Muscles surged across its entire body, and its sinews twisted like Flood Dragons beneath its fur. Its once long, drooping brows became sharp swords stabbing toward the heavens. Its kindly, peaceful face now appeared fierce and mighty. It had become a Silver Great Vajra capable of tearing apart tigers and leopards with its bare hands and wrestling savage elephants!
As the Old White Ape had aged, its intelligence had gradually awakened. Only its declining vitality had prevented it from truly stepping onto the path of cultivation.
At this moment, upon the foundations it had built up through growth and then lost through aging—
Every loss that the passage of its lifespan had inflicted upon the old ape's body, whether physical injuries, depleted potential, stiffened meridians, or even the dimming of its soul...
Everything, all of it, had been restored out of thin air by the Healing Potions' effects!
Even though Jiang Tingting could be considered a Jiang Family Princess, possessed the inheritance of the Taiyin Human Emperor, held an extremely lofty status, and had already reached the Immortal Platform Second Realm, having seen no shortage of spiritual pills and wondrous medicines, she was still utterly astonished by such an absurd effect.
She swept it lightly with her Divine Sense and discovered that the silver violent ape's body possessed the toughness and strength of a body-refining martial artist tempered a thousand times over, yet its entire body was as pure and flawless as a newborn infant's.
This was not a state one could achieve by consuming some ordinary spiritual medicine.
Usually, only Demonic Beast cubs possessing special bloodlines could have bodies that were both innately powerful and physically pure.
Jiang Tingting swept it again with her Divine Sense and actually observed a faint, gentle white glow emerging from its dantian and Sea of Wheels.
The Old White Ape had lived for nearly a hundred years. Its body had aged, and throughout those hundred years, it had never so much as touched the gate of cultivation. Yet as it regained its youth, its previously unopened Sea of Wheels had naturally opened as well!
Looking into its eyes again, the abundant divine light within them also signified a powerful soul and vigorous youthful vitality.
In an instant, Jiang Tingting, who had seen the Jiang Family's Divine King Jiang Taixu, immediately realized just how outrageous Fang Zheng's displayed ability was.
"While preserving the original strength of the body and soul, he could make it live a second life out of thin air and completely regain its youthful spring?"
This was practically a heaven-defying opportunity akin to reincarnation, remaking one's bones, and changing one's fate!
Jiang Tingting knew very well that although this silver violent ape did not appear to possess any special bloodline—
With merely such a pure physical state and such tenacious, pure, abundant spirit, once it embarked on the path of cultivation, it would inevitably experience a long period of rapid advancement.
If it were human, it would already be the kind of so-called immortal seed that small sects would scramble to accept.
Among the demon clans, it would likewise be enough to make great demons nurture it. It could definitely be called a minor genius.
And seeing that Fang Zheng seemed entirely unsurprised by this, Jiang Tingting knew that turning an aged person into this probably came effortlessly to him.
"If only..." Jiang Tingting thought of her grandfather, who had died more than thirty years ago, and sighed.
"Awoooo!!!"
While beating its chest and letting out deafening roars, the silver violent ape, which had suddenly regained its youth, vented for a moment before immediately dropping to its knees and repeatedly bowing and kowtowing heavily to Fang Zheng.
Though it still could not speak, it expressed its gratitude for Fang Zheng's grace of remaking its life in its own way.
After bidding farewell to the silver violent ape, the two continued wandering through the mountain.
The mountain was enormous, filled with all manner of things. White Deer, as white as jade, ran everywhere, while enormous immortal cranes as large as helicopters appeared and vanished amid the clouds. From time to time, they swooped down, snatched up giant pythons, tore them apart, and swallowed them.
Fang Zheng ran everywhere in Hovering Sprint Mode, while Jiang Tingting followed behind at an unhurried pace, continuously explaining various things to him.
Suddenly, Fang Zheng stopped among a stretch of empty, deathly silent cliffs and looked ahead. "By the way, what is that? Why does it look so terrifying?"
Before them stood a strange plant covered in grayish-white patterns.
Its entire body was blood-red, while its grayish-white markings vaguely formed the shape of twisted human faces. It also emitted waves of crying.
Not a blade of grass grew in the surrounding area, and faint black mist permeated the air. It looked like the kind of highly poisonous plant often found in fantasy novels, the sort that would leave one beyond saving after consuming it.
After taking a glance, Jiang Tingting answered, "Senior Fang, this is the Nine Nether Yin Yang Bone Shedding Ganoderma."
"According to ancient records, this medicine grows only in places of extreme yin. Before reaching maturity, its entire body gives off an aura of decay. Once mature, the ganoderma turns crimson-gold and circulates a warm yang aura throughout itself."
"It must absorb Earth Vein Yin Sha and moonlight for a thousand years before taking shape, and it requires five thousand years to mature."
"Before it takes shape, it is highly poisonous and difficult to transplant or cultivate."
"However, once mature, it becomes a precious Medicine King capable of altering one's aptitude and cleansing one's Essence Blood and marrow. After consuming it, the lesser yin and warm yang energies within the medicine can cleanse the bones and sinews, greatly improving one's innate talent."
"According to the Jiang Family's ancient records, Qingming Mountain was originally called Moon Burial Ridge. Legend has it that during the Primordial Era, a Saintess Cultivator with a Taiyin constitution perished here. Her Essence Blood fused into the earth veins, nurturing many yin-aspected spiritual medicines. Later, the entire mountain range was discovered by the Jiang Family and moved here. All its yin-aspected spiritual medicines were gradually harvested, and its yin energy gradually depleted, leaving behind only a few immature spiritual medicines."
Looking at the ancient text marked on the cliff wall beside the spiritual medicine, Jiang Tingting casually said, "It should mature in another two thousand years or so."
"It still needs more than two thousand years before it matures?" Fang Zheng sighed. "This really is a Cultivation World. Everything takes hundreds or thousands of years to grow."
He suddenly became interested. "Say, since items from Minecraft work in this world, could Bone Meal be worth trying?"
Bone Meal was an item in Minecraft. It could be obtained by killing skeletons or mining Bone Blocks in the Nether, then directly breaking the bones down in one's Inventory. Plants could also be converted into it with a Composter.
It could be used as fertilizer or as a dye.
Using it directly could make plants grow by two to five growth stages, with a 75% chance of advancing them to the next growth stage.
Unlike Healing Potions, which restored health out of thin air, Bone Meal's growth effect operated by percentage rather than according to any fixed growth value.
Then could Bone Meal accelerate the growth of plants in this world?
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