"Eighteen Heavenly Women."
"Present!"
"Take my Peach Blossom Token and inspect the forty-seven Peach Blossom Shrines across the twenty-six prefectures of the Seven Paths. Present each shrine with a bundle of peach branches, to be enshrined beneath the Fairy statue in the main hall." Shen Ying said, "These branches come from the Old Peach Tree. They can draw upon its power and can also be used to contact me."
"Yes!"
Tao Zhen stepped forward and accepted the Peach Blossom Fairy Token and basket of peach branches Shen Ying handed her.
"I shall also give each of you a Jade Peach Blossom. They are Incense Luck artifacts that can carry you through the air and form an array. Once arranged into the forces of earth, water, wind, and fire, they will be enough to contend against even an expert with a thousand years of Dao comprehension."
With a wave of Shen Ying's hand, eighteen crystalline peach blossoms carved from pink jade flew from her bracelet, landing one by one in the hands of the Eighteen Heavenly Women.
Tao Zhen and the other Eighteen Heavenly Women were both shocked and delighted. They stared at the Jade Peach Blossoms in their hands, unable to put them down.
They had once been nothing more than female ghosts from the Paradise Heavenly Maiden Soul-Bewitching Realm, and their former mistress had possessed barely two hundred years of Dao comprehension. After following Shen Ying, their cultivation had soared, but their talents had been limited and the time short. Now, each of them possessed two or three hundred years of Dao comprehension, something once beyond their wildest dreams.
Now, as Shen Ying's subordinate gods, bound to the Old Peach Tree, they lacked for nothing in life and cultivated smoothly. They had thought things could get no better than