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After Immortal Su Hua finished speaking, she beckoned toward the peach grove. A fruit as large as a goose egg, round and white, with a touch of pink at its tip and a sweet, fragrant peach scent, flew into her hand. She passed it to Yu Chen.

Taking the peach, Yu Chen examined it closely and discovered with surprise that, though it ought to be classified as a variant in terms of lineage, when traced back to its roots, it truly was the legendary Jade Pool Immortal Peach.

According to the information Yu Chen had seen in Great Firmament Heaven, Jade Pool Immortal Peaches were among the rarest elixirs of immortality in the world. There were three grades, with three thousand six hundred trees in total, twelve hundred trees of each grade.

The lower-grade peaches bore tiny flowers and fruits, ripening once every three thousand years. Whoever ate one would become an immortal and attain the Dao, their body healthy and light. The middle-grade peaches had layered blossoms and sweet fruit, ripening once every six thousand years. Whoever ate one would rise on rosy clouds and ascend, living forever without aging. The upper-grade peaches had purple markings and yellow kernels, ripening once every nine thousand years. Whoever ate one would live as long as heaven and earth, their years equal to those of sun and moon.

The reason these immortal peaches possessed such miraculous effects lay with the Queen Mother of the West.

Long ago, there had been an era belonging to the Queen Mother of the West and the Duke of the East. At that time, the two not only represented the twin poles of yin and yang, but also the four images of heaven and earth.

The Queen Mother of the West controlled the Lesser Yin metal qi