Zhenyuanzi: Bring Fifty Ginseng Fruit!

Zhenyuanzi: "Knock down fifty Ginseng Fruits!" "Jie Teach Disciples?"

Zhenyuanzi's brewing mood was interrupted: "Do you know which Personal Disciple of the Jie Teach came?"

Qingfeng and Mingyue both shook their heads, answering truthfully: "Reporting to Master, the five who arrived are not the four Personal Disciples of the Jie Teach. Could they be mere nominal disciples trying to use the prestige of a Saint's sect to sponge off our Wuzhuang Temple?"

"Be cautious with your words. How could Fellow Daoist Tongtian's Jie Teach have such disciples?" Zhenyuanzi said: "Invite them in."

"Yes."

Qingfeng and Mingyue withdrew to invite Cangyuan and the others into Wuzhuang Temple.

"Greetings, Senior Zhenyuanzi."

Seeing Zhenyuanzi approach, Cangyuan knew exactly who this was without needing to guess.

Who else could it be but the future Ancestor of Earth Immortals, Zhenyuanzi?

"This junior is the fifth Outer Disciple of the Jie Teach. This is the newly accepted Personal Disciple of our teacher, and these three are, like me, Outer Disciples under our teacher's tutelage."

Cangyuan introduced himself.

Zhenyuanzi's expression shifted with surprise, his calm and peaceful gaze drifting between Cangyuan and Bai Lianxin: "The two Nephew-Disciples have extraordinary origins; both are Innate Divine Beings. You are no less impressive than the batch of fellow daoists we knew back then."

"Brother Tongtian has great fortune to be able to accept two newly born Innate Divine Beings as disciples in this current era."

Cangyuan said humbly: "Being able to serve our master is our greatest fortune."

"Hmm." Zhenyuanzi nodded, turning to Qingfeng and Mingyue: "Take the Golden Striker and knock down fifty Ginseng Fruits for the five Nephew-Disciples to have a taste."

"Yes."

Qingfeng and Mingyue acknowledged the order and withdrew.

They went to harvest the Ginseng Fruits.

The Ginseng Fruit Tree is one of the Ten Great Supreme Innate Spiritual Roots of the Primordial World. The fruits it bears require thirty thousand years to blossom, thirty thousand years to bear fruit, and thirty thousand years to ripen, taking a full one hundred thousand years to mature.

They are extremely precious.

In the entire Primordial World, the only one who could eat Ginseng Fruits like ordinary fruit was likely the now-fallen Old Ancestor Hongyun.

"A gift from an elder must not be refused."

Cangyuan did not decline.

They had a purpose in coming to deliver Old Ancestor Hongyun, and a secondary goal was naturally these Ginseng Fruits.

While Qingfeng and Mingyue went to fetch the Golden Striker to harvest the fruits, Zhenyuanzi got straight to the point: "I wonder what important business brings the five Nephew-Disciples to my Wuzhuang Temple? I assume you didn't just happen to be passing through this area."

As he spoke, Zhenyuanzi's gaze fell upon a verdant, lotus-leaf-like sword behind Cangyuan.

Qingping Sword!

The Dao Proving Spiritual Treasure of Saint Tongtian.

How could Zhenyuanzi not recognize it?

What surprised Zhenyuanzi was what kind of matter could move a Saint to dispatch his own Dao Proving Spiritual Treasure to protect his disciples on their way to his Wuzhuang Temple.

Cangyuan smiled slightly. Not being one to hide things, he took a red gourd, brimming with extreme killing intent, out from the Cangyuan Realm!

A Supreme Innate Spiritual Treasure—the Nine-Nine Soul Scattering Gourd!

The moment Zhenyuanzi saw this red gourd, his eyes instantly welled up: "Esteemed Brother Hongyun!"

A red mist drifted out from the Nine-Nine Soul Scattering Gourd, slowly condensing into the tattered Primordial Spirit of Old Ancestor Hongyun.

This was the lingering damage to his origin after his self-detonation; recovering would be no simple task.

Old Ancestor Hongyun looked at Zhenyuanzi before him, flicked his wide red robe, and said softly: "Zhenyuanzi, it has been a long time."

"I heard you were attacked and vanished into the River of Time. I searched the entire River of Time but could not find your true spirit. My heart ached that I could not protect you, Esteemed Brother."

Old Ancestor Hongyun also sighed with a smile: "Though I escaped death this time, my situation is not much better. If not for this young friend Cangyuan, I fear I would still be drifting in the layer between the Primordial World and Chaos, not knowing when I could return, or perhaps... dying outside the heavens."

Hearing this, Zhenyuanzi looked at Cangyuan opposite him and said gratefully: "Thank you, Nephew-Disciple Cangyuan."

"Qingfeng, Mingyue, don't knock down five—knock down fifty Ginseng Fruits!"

In the backyard, Qingfeng and Mingyue, who were using the Golden Striker to harvest the fruit, were so shocked by their master's words that they nearly fell off the clouds.

What on earth did those Jie Teach disciples do for their master to have them harvest fifty Ginseng Fruits at once?

Even if a Saint had arrived, they wouldn't have received such treatment.

In the front courtyard.

Zhenyuanzi's expression turned fierce, and he asked in a deep voice: "Esteemed Brother Hongyun, who exactly attacked you?"

Old Ancestor Hongyun sighed: "It was Kunpeng and Dijun from the Heavenly Court. They sealed the Heavenly Secrets in advance and set up a Heavenly Net and Earthly Net. They launched a sneak attack on me while I was traveling through the Primordial World, seeking the opportunity to become a Saint!"

"The Heavenly Court!"

Zhenyuanzi's kind eyes suddenly turned sharp. He looked up, gazing across the void toward the Heavenly Court atop Mount Buzhou, as if he might charge up there at any second to slaughter them and avenge Old Ancestor Hongyun.

Old Ancestor Hongyun hurriedly tried to dissuade him.

"Zhenyuanzi, don't be impulsive. The Heavenly Court is powerful, far beyond what you or I can contend with. Do not let me be the cause of your ruin."

"But!" Zhenyuanzi narrowed his eyes and spoke in a deep voice, "The final strand of Primordial Violet Qi is in your hands. Dijun and the others will certainly not let this rest. Once they deduce that you are at Wuzhuang Temple, the armies of the Heavenly Court will surely descend upon us together."

In a one-on-one fight, as long as he did not encounter Taiyi, Zhenyuanzi feared no Quasi-Saint powerhouse from the Heavenly Court.

But... for the sake of the Primordial Violet Qi, the Heavenly Court would not engage him in a one-on-one fight.

If the Quasi-Saints of the Heavenly Court swarmed him, even a Great Supernatural Being as renowned as Zhenyuanzi would not be able to hold his ground.

"What is to be done?"

Zhenyuanzi paced back and forth in anxiety.

Esteemed Brother Hongyun had finally returned to his side; he absolutely could not stand by and watch Esteemed Brother Hongyun face such a calamity.

To the side, Bixiao blinked her large, watery eyes and exchanged glances with her second sister, Qiongxiao. The two women's eyes flickered nimbly, as if they were conversing through their gazes.

Yunxiao, dignified and elegant, sat quietly and composed beside Cangyuan. She knew that this was not an appropriate occasion for them to speak.

Bai Lianxin tilted her little head, her mind still occupied with wondering what the Ginseng Fruit tasted like.

Only Cangyuan was thinking about serious matters.

That's not right. Legend has it that Zhenyuanzi controls the Supreme Innate Spiritual Treasure—the Book of Earth. The Book of Earth connects countless Earth Veins of the Primordial World, forming a peerless defensive array. Even Saints would not dare to attack Zhenyuanzi lightly, so why would he be wary of that bunch of Quasi-Saints from the Heavenly Court right now?

Zhenyuanzi's Earth Vein Great Array had another name: the Great Array of Moral Coercion!

The Book of Earth connected to countless Earth Veins of the Primordial World to expand the array. If the array were broken, the connected Earth Veins would also rupture and face Destruction, resulting in the spontaneous generation of evil obstacles, a backlash from heaven and earth, and the body being incinerated by Karma.

Look at Dao Ancestor Hongjun: in the past, because he forced Demon Ancestor Luohu to blow up the Earth Veins of the West, he had to grant two Saint Positions to the West just to repay the cause and effect and dissipate the Karma from the destruction of those Earth Veins.

This was the very reason why even Saints dared not attack Zhenyuanzi, who possessed the Earth Vein Great Array, without careful consideration.

If the Earth Vein Great Array were to shatter and all the Earth Veins of the Primordial World were destroyed, the resulting monstrous Karma would cause even the six Saints combined to be knocked down from their Saint Positions!

It was just that ruthless.

This was also the reason why Zhenyuanzi was later able to become the transcendent Ancestor of Earth Immortals.

Could it be... that at this point in time, Zhenyuanzi has not yet conceived the idea of using the Book of Earth to connect the Primordial Earth Veins to form the array?

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