Arc 39The Peach Garden Mystery

Fang Chen brought Ye Qingci and members of the Glazed Sword Sect to Yaochi Holy Land for the Peach Banquet, where he helped cleanse the Peach Garden of demonic corruption. He and the Moon Saint then discovered that the Ten-Thousand-Year Peach Garden was an ancient sealing formation and considered whether Fang Chen could help its failing trees bear fruit again.

  • Fang Chen studied the Heavenly Wheel Secret Codex, then fought the Myna bird with the Floating Immortal Sword until the bird’s seal loosened as far as he could manage.
  • Fang Chen promised Ye Qingci he would solve his Life Wheel problem and invited her to the Peach Banquet, then secured invitations for their companions and led them to Yaochi Holy Land.
  • The Moon Saint asked Fang Chen to investigate strange energy in the Peach Garden, where he discovered demonic runes had tainted the peaches, trees, and Spirit Vein.
  • Fang Chen’s Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm defeated an Azure Sky Demonic Worm beneath the garden, and the Chaos Demonic Star Vine absorbed the Demonic Qi throughout the garden.
  • Saint Bai Shuang rewarded Fang Chen with Five-Colored Peaches and allowed Saint Qingyuan to treat the Old Willow Tree’s worm infestation.
  • The Moon Saint showed Fang Chen and Ye Qingci the Ten-Thousand-Year Peach Garden, where Fang Chen learned that the old trees’ fruit had been shriveling and falling before ripening.
  • The Myna bird identified the garden as the Immortal Trapping Grand Array, and Fang Chen sent Chi You underground, where it found stone blocking its path.
  • Fang Chen suggested that special Dao Patterns might help the old Peach Trees absorb energy and bear fruit again, and the Moon Saint agreed to ask Senior Bai Shuang for permission.
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Ch. 951Heavenly Wheel Secret Codex

Fire Glazed Saint gave Fang Chen the Heavenly Wheel Secret Codex after his evenly matched battle with Chaos Holy Lord Yue Canglan, then went into seclusion to reflect on the fight. Fang Chen began investigating the ancient manual and learned that its ordinary appearance was likely an illusion, leaving him to seek another way to perceive its Mystifying Heaven Script.

  • Fire Glazed Saint told Fang Chen that neither he nor Yue Canglan had overcome the other, and that even Nine Layer Wave had failed to defeat Yue Canglan.
  • Fire Glazed Saint gave Fang Chen the Heavenly Wheel Secret Codex and left to cultivate in seclusion.
  • Fang Chen returned to his residence on Glazed Peak and began studying the manual, whose pages were covered in overlapping writing.
  • Myna bird told Fang Chen that he had to sense the Mystifying Heaven Script with his soul rather than read it with his eyes.
  • Fang Chen examined the manual with Soul Power and Spiritual Sense, finding no unusual energy and seeing pages that appeared to be ordinary straw paper.
  • Fang Chen reasoned that the ancient book could not truly be ordinary paper, and Myna bird explained that Mystifying Heaven Script could deceive even the Heavenly Dao Will.

Ch. 952The Opponent Was Right Before His Eyes

Fang Chen decided to help the myna bird break the Seal inside him by fighting him in the Demon Cave. He urged the myna bird to use his full strength so the battle could also sharpen Fang Chen’s Combat skills.

  • The myna bird encouraged Fang Chen not to give up on the Heavenly Theories Secret Codex, suggesting that its secrets might become clear with time or in different surroundings.
  • Fang Chen thanked the myna bird, then smacked him off his shoulder and announced they were going to the Demon Cave to fight.
  • Fang Chen explained that his previous strike with the Floating Immortal Sword had broken open the Seal inside the myna bird and offered to help break it further.
  • At the Demon Cave, the myna bird transformed into a bird with a wingspan of over thirty meters as Fang Chen drew the Floating Immortal Sword.
  • Fang Chen told the myna bird to resist with everything he had, and the myna bird agreed to fight seriously.

Ch. 953Myna Bird's Strength

Fang Chen and Myna fought in the core region of the Eighth Layer of the Demon Cave, while the Floating Immortal Sword absorbed Myna’s Dao Patterns and strengthened Fang Chen. Fang Chen unleashed his full power and battered Myna into a Pit, where Myna continued screaming.

  • Myna attacked Fang Chen, and their clashes shed Myna’s Dao Patterns, which the Floating Immortal Sword absorbed.
  • Myna repeatedly struck Fang Chen and pierced him with his claws, forcing Fang Chen to unleash the Glazed Golden Body.
  • Myna overwhelmed Fang Chen until Fang Chen fused his six Saint Seals with the Floating Immortal Sword and unleashed his Manifestation.
  • Fang Chen used the Floating Immortal Absolute Shadow Movement Technique to strike Myna repeatedly, stripping away feathers and damaging his Seals.
  • Fang Chen drove Myna into the ground and plunged into the resulting Pit as Myna screamed from within the dust.

Ch. 954Ye Qingci's Decision

Fang Chen repeatedly struck the Myna bird with the Floating Immortal Sword, absorbing energy and Dao Patterns until the Seal inside the bird stopped loosening. He returned to the Qingyang Realm and reunited with Ye Qingci, who worried that her cultivation was progressing too slowly.

  • Fang Chen attacked the Myna bird with the Floating Immortal Sword, which devoured energy and Dao Patterns and grew stronger as the Seal inside the bird loosened.
  • After ten days, the sword stopped absorbing energy because the Seal's remaining parts were too strong for Fang Chen to break.
  • Fang Chen left the Demon Cave and hurried to Ye Qingci's residence in the Qingyang Realm, where she was practicing Seven Layer Wave.
  • Fang Chen and Ye Qingci embraced, and Ye Qingci offered to give up her cultivation and let him protect her.
  • Fang Chen urged Ye Qingci to keep pursuing strength so they could protect the Glazed Sword Sect together, while she worried that mastering the Immortal Scripture of Indestructibility would take too long.

Ch. 955The Invitation Glowed

Ye Qingci considered giving up cultivation to marry Fang Chen after learning his Life Wheel was incomplete, but Fang Chen urged her to keep pursuing the Immortal Scripture of Indestructibility. Three days later, Fang Chen received notice that Yaochi Holy Land’s Peach Banquet would begin in one month, and he planned to attend with Ye Qingci.

  • Ye Qingci told Fang Chen she wanted to marry him and have his children because he had only a few hundred years left to live.
  • Fang Chen reassured Ye Qingci that he would solve his Life Wheel problem and encouraged her to keep cultivating, promising to take her and Ye Kong to the Sacred Land after the Peach Banquet.
  • Fang Chen studied the Heavenly Wheel Secret Codex while Ye Qingci cooked, and he reflected that he needed to grow stronger before the approaching Great Calamity.
  • Three days later, Fang Chen’s Yaochi Peach Banquet invitation glowed and revealed that the banquet would begin in one month.
  • Fang Chen invited Ye Qingci to attend with him, and they discussed whether the Ye Family would also be there.

Ch. 956The Generous Moon Saint

Fang Chen contacted the Fire Origin Glazed Saint and the Moon Saint to arrange attendance at the Peach Banquet, receiving thirty additional invitations from the Moon Saint. After explaining the Half-Immortal Realm Heavenly Demon Remnant sealed in Yaochi Holy Land’s Forbidden Grounds to Ye Qingci, he accepted the invitations and took her to see the Fire Origin Glazed Saint.

  • Fang Chen asked the Fire Origin Glazed Saint about bringing more companions to the Peach Banquet, but they had only four extra places between them.
  • Fang Chen contacted the Moon Saint, who congratulated him and Ye Qingci on being together.
  • The Moon Saint gave Fang Chen thirty additional invitations so the Glazed Sword Sect could bring more people.
  • Fang Chen told Ye Qingci that a Heavenly Demon Remnant from the Half-Immortal Realm was sealed in Yaochi Holy Land’s Forbidden Grounds.
  • A messenger delivered the invitations to Fang Chen, who then took Ye Qingci to see the Fire Origin Glazed Saint.

Ch. 957Stay for Dinner

Fang Chen visited the Fire Glazed Saint, then brought Ye Qingci to Dog Head Ridge to introduce her as his Dao companion to Elder Yun, Li Yanshan, and Wu Qingfeng. Elder Yun arranged a meal and insisted that Fang Chen and Ye Qingci stay for dinner.

  • Fang Chen offered the Fire Glazed Saint extra invitations to the Peach Banquet, and the saint told him to give them to people in the sect.
  • Fang Chen took Ye Qingci to Dog Head Ridge to give invitations to Elder Yun, Li Yanshan, and Wu Qingfeng.
  • Fang Chen surprised Elder Yun and Li Yanshan while they were playing chess, and Wu Qingfeng noticed Ye Qingci with him.
  • Fang Chen introduced Ye Qingci as his Dao companion, and she respectfully greeted Elder Yun, Li Yanshan, and Wu Qingfeng.
  • Elder Yun contacted Chef Wang to prepare a meal and insisted that Fang Chen and Ye Qingci stay for dinner.

Ch. 958Bringing Invitations to Longevity Valley

Fang Chen and Ye Qingci visited Dog Head Ridge and Longevity Valley while distributing invitations to the Peach Banquet at the Yaochi Holy Land. Saint Gu Yu accepted thirteen invitations for Longevity Valley, and Fang Chen said they would travel to the banquet together in a month.

  • Fang Chen and Ye Qingci shared a feast with Elder Yun and the other old-timers at Dog Head Ridge, but kept their invitations for a later visit.
  • Fang Chen gave fifteen invitations to the Black Flame Saint to distribute among the others.
  • Fang Chen and Ye Qingci visited Longevity Valley, where Saint Gu Yu and the other Saints welcomed them.
  • Fang Chen gave Saint Gu Yu thirteen invitations and encouraged Longevity Valley to attend the Peach Banquet as part of the Glazed Sword Sect.
  • Saint Gu Yu thanked Fang Chen and saw him and Ye Qingci off, while the Xingyun Saint expressed surprise at how many invitations they received.

Ch. 959They Must Have Bought Their Invitations

Saint Gu Yu struggled to distribute Longevity Valley’s Peach Banquet invitations after Fang Chen gave him more than a dozen. A month later, Fang Chen arrived at the Yaochi Holy Land with a group from the Glazed Sword Sect, and Dao Master Yun Hua was surprised to hear more of their people were still coming.

  • Saint Qingyuan received an invitation from Saint Gu Yu and hoped to study how the Yaochi Holy Land grew its peaches.
  • The Saints crowded around Saint Gu Yu, and they snatched invitations from him until he hid the last one in his robe.
  • Fang Chen declined to bring his Clones to the Peach Banquet so they could protect the Glazed Sword Sect and Longevity Valley.
  • Fang Chen led Ye Qingci, Ye Kong, Yun Su, Elder Yun, and others through the Glazed Sword Sect’s Teleportation Array to the Yaochi Holy Land.
  • Dao Master Yun Hua welcomed Fang Chen and his companions, then learned that more people from the Glazed Sword Sect had yet to arrive.

Ch. 960What on Earth Was Yun Hua Doing?

Fang Chen led the Glazed Sword Sect’s ninety-six members to the Yaochi Origin Realm for the Peach Banquet, where Dao Master Yun Hua discovered they all had invitations. As the group reached a long entry queue, the Moon Saint told Fang Chen to show Yun Hua the invitations so she could take them straight inside, and Fang Chen gathered everyone’s invitations.

  • Saint Gu Yu and the Longevity Valley Practitioners arrived and joined Fang Chen’s group, followed by Saint Qingyuan and more Glazed Sword Sect members.
  • Fire Glazed Saint arrived with Di Long, Di Kong, Black Flame Saint, and others, bringing Fang Chen’s group to ninety-six people.
  • Dao Master Yun Hua learned that everyone had an invitation and assumed the Glazed Sword Sect had bought them, unaware Yaochi Holy Land had provided them for free.
  • Fang Chen followed Yun Hua toward the Yaochi Origin Realm, where a long queue had formed at the entrance.
  • The Moon Saint told Fang Chen to show Yun Hua the invitations for direct entry, so Fang Chen collected the invitations from the group, leaving Yun Hua puzzled.

Ch. 961All of Them Were VIP Invitations

Fang Chen and his companions entered the Yaochi Origin Realm through the VIP passage and settled on Yunxin Island ahead of the Peach Banquet. After Moon Saint contacted Fang Chen and arrived to see him, the chapter left them about to discuss her urgent business.

  • Dao Master Yun Hua recognized Fang Chen and his companions’ invitations as VIP invitations and escorted them through the special passage into the Yaochi Origin Realm.
  • Dao Master Yun Hua assigned the group courtyards on Yunxin Island and gave Fang Chen her Communication Jade Slip.
  • Fang Chen arranged for Ye Kong to share a courtyard with Chen Xiaofei, leaving himself and Ye Qingci to stay together.
  • Little Crane marked Ye Qingci’s hand so she could summon him, then released the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm and the Chaos Demonic Star Vine from his Spirit Crane Space.
  • Moon Saint contacted Fang Chen through his Spirit Sword Talisman, came to Yunxin Island, and was greeted by Fang Chen and Ye Qingci.

Ch. 962The Old Willow Tree at the Entrance to the Peach Garden

The Moon Saint asked Fang Chen to investigate unusual energy suspected to be Demonic Qi in Yaochi Holy Land’s Peach Garden. At the garden entrance, Saint Qingyuan discovered that its ancient guardian willow had worms and asked to treat it in exchange for keeping them.

  • The Moon Saint told Fang Chen that strange energy had appeared in the Peach Garden and asked him to inspect it.
  • Fang Chen invited Saint Qingyuan and several Spirit Planters from Longevity Valley to join the investigation.
  • The Moon Saint led Fang Chen and the others to the Peach Garden, where she introduced them to its thousand-zhang guardian willow.
  • Saint Qingyuan sensed that the Old Willow Tree had worms inside it.
  • Saint Qingyuan asked Fang Chen to seek permission for him to treat the tree, hoping to keep the valuable worms he removed.

Ch. 963Entering the Peach Garden

The Moon Saint led Fang Chen and his companions through the Peach Garden, explained its peach varieties, and offered them ripe Hundred-Year Peaches to taste. They reached the Thousand-Year Peach orchard, where Saint Lian Yue and her companions appeared from the mist.

  • The old willow tree opened a vortex, and Fang Chen, Saint Qingyuan, and the others followed the Moon Saint into the Peach Garden.
  • The Moon Saint explained the different peach varieties and led the group through the Ten-Year and Hundred-Year Peach orchards.
  • The Moon Saint picked nine ripe Hundred-Year Peaches and gave one each to Fang Chen, Ye Qingci, Saint Qingyuan and his four companions, the Myna bird, and herself.
  • Fang Chen and the others ate the peaches and praised their taste and Spiritual Power.
  • The group entered the Thousand-Year Peach orchard, where Fang Chen sensed stronger Spatial Pressure and found no Demonic Qi.
  • Saint Lian Yue and her companions emerged from the mist in the Thousand-Year Peach orchard.

Ch. 964Saint Bai Shuang

Fang Chen investigated Demonic Qi found on the Thousand-Year Peaches in Yaochi Holy Land and suspected the Devil Race was behind it. He warned Saint Lian Yue to watch the Forbidden Grounds, then questioned the orchard’s caretaker, Saint Bai Shuang, about visitors.

  • Saint Lian Yue told Fang Chen that Demonic Runes had appeared on the pits of peaches in the Peach Garden.
  • Fang Chen absorbed the Demonic Qi from a peach pit and confirmed that the peaches were tainted.
  • Fang Chen suspected the Devil Race had targeted Yaochi Holy Land and warned Saint Lian Yue that the sealed Demonic Beast might be their true target.
  • Saint Lian Yue said nothing had happened at the Forbidden Grounds and expressed shock at Fang Chen’s account of the North Nether Sect attack.
  • Fang Chen questioned Saint Bai Shuang, the Peach Garden’s caretaker, about suspicious visitors to the orchard.

Ch. 965The Problem Came from Underground

Fang Chen investigated the contaminated peach trees in Yaochi Holy Land’s Peach Garden and traced the Demonic Qi to underground. He sent the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm below the garden to find its source.

  • Saint Bai Shuang led Fang Chen and the others into the Peach Orchard, where Fang Chen dispelled a tree’s Formation Barrier with a touch.
  • Fang Chen found that Runes inside a peach tree resisted his Spiritual Sense, so he cut off a branch and dug up a root, discovering Demonic Qi in both.
  • Fang Chen sensed that Demonic Qi was rising from beneath the Peach Garden and summoned the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm through Little Crane.
  • The Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm burrowed underground, where the soil grew harder and Spiritual Power denser as it descended.

Ch. 966Azure Sky Demonic Worm

The Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm found an eight-tribulation Azure Sky Demonic Worm tainting the Spirit Vein beneath the Peach Garden and defeated it. It emerged with the subdued worm, while Fang Chen set out to find a way to cleanse the Demonic Qi from the vein, garden, and peaches.

  • The Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm burrowed into the Spirit Vein beneath the Peach Garden and found an Azure Sky Demonic Worm releasing Demonic Qi into it.
  • The Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm fought the Azure Sky Demonic Worm as the battle shook the Peach Garden.
  • Fang Chen told Saint Bai Shuang, Saint Qingyuan, and the others what was happening and assured them the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm could handle the fight.
  • The Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm subdued the Azure Sky Demonic Worm, but told Fang Chen it could not quickly remove all the Demonic Qi from the Spirit Vein.
  • Fang Chen told the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm to return while he sought a way to cleanse the tainted Spirit Vein, Peach Garden, and peaches.

Ch. 967This Worm Was Still Useful

Fang Chen and his companions discovered that the Azure Sky Demonic Worm had caused the Peach Garden's Demonic Qi, and Saint Qingyuan took the subdued worm for research. They tested whether the Chaos Demonic Star Vine could remove Demonic Qi from the garden's peaches without harming them, and Saint Bai Shuang began examining the cleaned fruit.

  • The Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm emerged with the Azure Sky Demonic Worm subdued, and Fang Chen absorbed the surrounding Demonic Qi.
  • Saint Qingyuan persuaded Fang Chen to spare the rare Azure Sky Demonic Worm and stored it in a porcelain bottle.
  • Saint Bai Shuang asked how they could remove Demonic Qi from the Peach Garden's trees and peaches, and the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm suggested using the Chaos Demonic Star Vine.
  • Fang Chen had Saint Bai Shuang fetch a tainted peach and instructed the Chaos Demonic Star Vine to absorb only its Demonic Qi.
  • The Chaos Demonic Star Vine removed the Demonic Qi without damaging the peach, and Saint Bai Shuang examined the fruit.

Ch. 968Eat First, Thanks Later

Fang Chen sent the Chaos Demonic Star Vine to cleanse the Yaochi Holy Land’s Peach Garden of Demonic Qi. After Saint Bai Shuang confirmed the trees and peaches were safe, she thanked Fang Chen and offered him and his companions peaches to eat.

  • Saint Bai Shuang confirmed that the peach Fang Chen had brought was free of Demonic Qi, and Fang Chen told Little Star to absorb the pollution throughout the Peach Garden.
  • The Chaos Demonic Star Vine revealed its true form, spread through the Peach Garden, and devoured the Demonic Qi from the Spirit Vein, soil, trees, and fruit over two days.
  • Saint Bai Shuang inspected peaches from multiple trees and confirmed that the trees and their fruit were healthy again.
  • Saint Bai Shuang thanked Fang Chen, and Saint Lian Yue and Moon Saint praised him for saving the Peach Garden and the Peach Banquet.
  • Saint Bai Shuang offered the group peaches, and Fang Chen handed them out to Ye Qingci, the Myna bird, the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm, Little Star, Saint Qingyuan, and the others.

Ch. 969They Must Be Roasted Over Sacred Flame Before You Can Eat Them

Saint Bai Shuang rewarded Fang Chen for saving Yaochi Holy Land with ten rare Five-Colored Peaches and invited him and his companions to stay in the Peach Garden until the Peach Banquet. Fang Chen then asked her to teach Saint Qingyuan about the Peach Cultivation Technique.

  • After the group ate Thousand-Year Peaches, Saint Bai Shuang led Fang Chen and the others to a mutated Peach Tree bearing Five-Colored Peaches.
  • Saint Bai Shuang explained the tree’s long growing cycle and offered Fang Chen ten peaches in gratitude for saving Yaochi Holy Land.
  • Fang Chen accepted the peaches after learning they could be kept for a long time and softened by roasting them over Sacred Flame.
  • Saint Bai Shuang approved Fang Chen and his companions staying in the Peach Garden, and Saint Lian Yue asked the Moon Saint to keep them company.
  • Fang Chen told Saint Bai Shuang that Saint Qingyuan wanted her guidance on the Peach Cultivation Technique.

Ch. 970Picking the Peaches

Saint Bai Shuang explained that Yaochi Holy Land's peaches owed their qualities to the Peach Garden's Spirit Vein, while Saint Qingyuan offered to cure the infested Old Willow Tree in exchange for its worms. The Moon Saint then explained how the garden's Spirit Spring Pool preserved picked peaches until they left the garden.

  • Saint Bai Shuang told Fang Chen and the others that the Peach Garden's Spirit Vein gave its peaches their unique taste and benefits.
  • Saint Qingyuan asked permission to treat the Old Willow Tree's One-Eyed Golden Thread Worm infestation and offered to take the worms he removed.
  • Saint Bai Shuang agreed, and Yingyue led Saint Qingyuan and his four companions to the Peach Garden entrance.
  • Saint Bai Shuang left to pick peaches, while the Moon Saint offered to show Fang Chen and Ye Qingci around.
  • The Moon Saint explained that picked peaches stayed fresh in the Spirit Spring Pool and began to rot only after leaving the Peach Garden.

Ch. 971Ten-Thousand-Year Peach Garden

The Moon Saint took Fang Chen and Ye Qingci into Yaochi Holy Land’s Ten-Thousand-Year Peach Garden using a special Token. They found the garden’s ancient peach trees sparse and sickly, with no visible fruit.

  • The Moon Saint showed Fang Chen and Ye Qingci the peach pickers at work before offering to take them to the Ten-Thousand-Year Peach Garden.
  • Saint Bai Shuang gave the Moon Saint a black Token that allowed entry through the garden’s Barrier.
  • The Moon Saint led Fang Chen, Ye Qingci, Myna bird, and the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm through the Barrier into the garden.
  • Fang Chen and the others felt the garden’s dense Spiritual Qi and Spatial Suppression Force, then saw its tall, mostly bare peach trees and sparse grass.

Ch. 972The Ten-Thousand-Year Peach Trees

Fang Chen and the others explored the Ten-Thousand-Year Peach Garden and learned that its ancient trees could no longer ripen their fruit because the Savage World’s Spiritual Qi had dwindled. The Moon Saint explained that the garden’s trees could not be replanted successfully, though some still sprouted from old peach pits.

  • Fang Chen asked the Moon Saint why the garden’s peach trees looked half-dead, and she led the group deeper to the fruit-bearing trees.
  • The Moon Saint showed Fang Chen and the others the million-year-old mother tree and explained that its peaches needed another three thousand years to ripen.
  • The Moon Saint said the peaches had been shriveling and falling before ripening for hundreds of thousands of years, likely because the Origin Worlds had less Spiritual Power to draw from.
  • Fang Chen questioned why Yaochi Holy Land kept the Ten-Thousand-Year Peach Trees, and the Moon Saint said the Holy Land had tried to help them with Giant Spirit Arrays.
  • The myna bird asked when the trees had been planted, and the Moon Saint explained that new trees planted by the Holy Land died while surviving young trees had sprouted from old peach pits.

Ch. 973The Secret of the Ten-Thousand-Year Peach Garden

Myna bird discovered that the Ten-Thousand-Year Peach Garden was the ancient Immortal Trapping Grand Array, sealing something terrifying beneath the Yaochi Holy Land. The array remained intact, but Moon Saint had never known the garden’s secret.

  • Myna bird asked Moon Saint to take him to the little peach tree, then told Fang Chen he suspected the garden’s trees formed an ancient sealing Formation.
  • Myna bird pecked at the little peach tree and the surrounding rock while Fang Chen explained his suspicions to Moon Saint.
  • Myna bird confirmed that the garden was the Immortal Trapping Grand Array, whose three hundred and thirty-three peach trees served as Formation Cores.
  • Fang Chen and Moon Saint realized the array might be sealing something more formidable than the Heavenly Demon Remnant, perhaps even a legendary Immortal.
  • Myna bird assured Moon Saint that the array was undamaged and nothing beneath it could escape, then asked whether she had known the Peach Garden’s secret.

Ch. 974Heaven No Longer Dared Strike Me with Lightning

Fang Chen learned that the Ten-Thousand-Year Peach Garden concealed the Immortal Trapping Grand Array, an ancient formation whose runes were beyond his ability to perceive. After the Moon Saint confirmed the Yaochi Holy Lord would attend the Peach Banquet, Fang Chen sent Chi You to investigate beneath the garden.

  • The myna bird explained that the Peach Trees marked shifting Formation Cores of the Immortal Trapping Grand Array and that Fang Chen could not perceive its Emperor Source Power.
  • The myna bird told Fang Chen the array had been the Ancient Heavenly Court’s most powerful sealing formation and was said to be able to seal true immortals.
  • The Moon Saint confirmed that the Yaochi Holy Lord would attend the thousand-year Peach Banquet, and Ye Qingci said she looked forward to meeting her.
  • Fang Chen praised Ye Qingci’s beauty and quipped that Heaven no longer dared strike him with lightning.
  • At the myna bird’s suggestion, Fang Chen told Chi You to burrow beneath the garden, and the Moon Saint agreed after hearing the array could not be damaged.

Ch. 975Couldn't Dig Any Deeper

Fang Chen sent the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm to dig beneath the Peach Garden, but it could not penetrate the extremely hard stone underground. After seeing the old Peach Trees’ poor condition, Fang Chen proposed inscribing special Dao Patterns to improve their energy absorption, and the group went to seek Bai Shuang’s approval.

  • Fang Chen ordered the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm, Chi You, to burrow underground and search for anything unusual.
  • Chi You dug about fifty zhang deep but could go no farther through the stone, then returned and showed Fang Chen a piece of it.
  • Ye Qingci suggested leaving the Peach Garden before the Peach Banquet, but Fang Chen wondered whether Devouring God Imprints could revive the old Peach Trees.
  • Fang Chen told the Moon Saint that special Dao Patterns might help the trees absorb energy and bear fruit again.
  • The Moon Saint said she lacked authority to approve the attempt, so she and Fang Chen agreed to ask Senior Bai Shuang.
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