Then she turned her head,
her icy gaze locking onto Shui Bing'er.
"Senior, I didn't steal anything. I was only curious and took a sniff! Please calm your anger!"
Shui Bing'er hurriedly explained, lowering her head.
"I am willing to accept punishment!"
"You are quite honest," the female Immortal snorted coldly. "But can you afford to compensate me?"
She reached out and gently stroked the Flat Peach tree beside her, her voice cool and clear.
"This peach blossoms once every three thousand years, bears fruit once every three thousand years, and takes another three thousand years to ripen. A mortal need only smell it to gain a hundred years of life! Eat one, and you may live as long as heaven and earth—"
"Tell me, what can you use to compensate me?"
"I-I..."
Shui Bing'er was left speechless for a moment.
She was indeed in the wrong, but with a treasure like this, she could not afford to repay it even if she sold herself!
"If not for the trace of Phoenix Clan aura on you, I would have killed you already."
The female Immortal's tone softened slightly, but she frowned again.
"You are an ordinary mortal without the slightest cultivation. How exactly did you barge into this place?"
Just as Shui Bing'er was about to speak, the female Immortal's expression suddenly turned grave, and she looked up at the sky.
Then excitement appeared on her face, and she respectfully bent down in worship.
"I obey the Dao Venerable's decree!"
When she rose again, she wore a gentle smile.
She softly said to Shui Bing'er,
"Congratulations! The Dao Venerable has personally chosen you to be an Immortal maid of the Imperial Garden."
She blinked, a trace of envy entering her voice.
"Perhaps... someday, you may even meet the Dao Venerable himself!"
Inside Daoyuan Hall.
A handsome figure clad in golden robes sat cross-legged amid the cosmic river of stars. Dao rhythms permeated his body, as though they could crush the eternal ages.
When he slowly opened his eyes—
The stars flowed, all phenomena returned to concealment, and the surrounding scene contracted into an ordinary study.
"Chrysanthemum Douluo, Shui Bing'er, Ning Rongrong... what distant names!"
Lin Feng sighed softly.
At the beginning of the Prehistoric World, he had transmigrated to the Sun Star and taken the places of Di Jun and Donghuang Taiyi,
becoming the only Three-legged Golden Crow between heaven and earth.
Relying on his advantage of foreknowledge,
he established the Heavenly Court, won over the Wu Clan, created the Human Race, opened the Six Paths of Reincarnation, divided the Three Realms...
and ultimately became a Hunyuan Sage!
The Dao Venerable of the Prehistoric World!
Countless eons had passed, yet with a sweep of his divine sense today, he had actually sensed several familiar auras.
His first reaction was that
Hongjun, who had merged with the Heavenly Dao, was plotting in secret.
But after investigating, he discovered that the Sky Screen was responsible.
What surprised him even more was that
in the unseen depths, he sensed a trace of an opportunity to break through to the Hunyuan Wuji Saint realm.
Since he had nothing better to do,
he summoned Shui Bing'er to the Imperial Garden, intending to offer her some guidance.
As for Ning Rongrong...
Seeing that she was having such fun playing with Xiaotian Dog, Lin Feng did not disturb her.
In any case, he had no favorable impression of that ungrateful wretch.
Sword Bone Douluo had treated her so well, yet when he died, she did not even spare him a glance and instead mourned Tang San!
The fact that Lin Feng had not slapped her to death
already showed how good his temper was.
"Hubby, what are you thinking about? You look so absorbed!"
A fragrant breeze wafted over as a peerless beauty approached with graceful steps.
"Nothing."
Lin Feng smiled.
"I just thought of something interesting to pass the time."
"My husband would rather pass the time... than put more thought into figuring out how to continue our bloodline?"
Xihe spoke resentfully, casting him a watery glance.
"Ahahaha... I'm researching it. I've been researching it all along!"
Lin Feng gave a dry laugh.
Back then, in order to avoid repeating the tragedy of Houyi shooting down the suns,
he had deliberately left behind no bloodline.
But after the overall situation stabilized, both of them had become Sages, and the difficulty was far from ordinary.
Yet his wife's maternal instincts had overflowed,
and she insisted on having biological offspring. She would not even accept a Dao embryo incarnation.
That gave him quite a headache!
"No."
Xihe stepped closer, her gaze resolute.
"Now."
"Senior, may I ask where this Imperial Garden you mentioned is? And who exactly is the Dao Venerable?"
Shui Bing'er followed behind Feng Qing'er and carefully asked.
"Senior? Why does that sound so strange?"
As the female Immortal walked, she examined the growth of the Flat Peaches above and below. Hearing Shui Bing'er's words, she frowned slightly.
"Fairy?" Shui Bing'er tentatively changed her form of address.
"Fairy is a title only great powers can bear. I wouldn't dare overstep."
Feng Qing'er waved her hand, though the corners of her lips lifted slightly. Clearly, she was quite pleased by it.
"I'm merely an Immortal maid tending the garden. Just call me Feng Qing'er."
"Hello, Sister Feng."
Shui Bing'er readily went along with it.
"My name is Shui Bing'er, and I come from Douluo Continent."
"Douluo Continent? What kind of place is that... How have I never heard of it?"
Feng Qing'er stopped walking, a puzzled expression appearing on her face.
She came from a branch of the Phoenix Clan and had entered the Heavenly Court early in life. She considered herself broadly knowledgeable, yet she had never heard of such an Immortal mountain or blessed land.
"Um... uh, Douluo Continent isn't in the Prehistoric World! I was brought here by a ray of light!"
Shui Bing'er did not know how to describe it, so that was all she could say.
"A ray of light? Not in the Prehistoric World?"
Feng Qing'er looked Shui Bing'er up and down, an enlightened expression appearing on her face.
"Oh—you mean a small world, or perhaps the Saha World!"
"As it happens, I have one here. I'll give it to you to play with!"
Before you continue
Explore the wiki