Whenever the Queen Mother of the West's birthday came around, she would hold a grand celebration, serving Peaches of Immortality as the main course and inviting the immortals to a feast. The immortals would come to wish her longevity. This was the Flat Peach Festival.
Peaches of Immortality were legendary immortal fruits.
It was said that the Queen Mother of the West's Flat Peach Garden contained three thousand six hundred peach trees. The first twelve hundred bore small blossoms and fruit, ripening once every three thousand years; whoever ate them would become immortal and attain the Dao. The middle twelve hundred ripened once every six thousand years; whoever ate them would ascend amid rosy clouds and live forever without aging. The last twelve hundred had purple veins and tiny pits, ripening once every nine thousand years; whoever ate them would share the lifespan of Heaven and Earth, as eternal as the sun and moon.
The first two kinds of Peaches of Immortality may be useless to me, but the nine-thousand-year peaches should be of some use, Xiao Yun thought.
Across from him, Bai Suzhen approached with graceful lotus steps. She seemed like a white-robed fairy who had descended from a heavenly paradise, her brilliance and ethereal beauty matched almost flawlessly. Her slender, supple figure was like immortal mist drifting through the mountains, while her deep, pool-like eyes reflected a riot of colors.
Xiao Yun's eyes brightened slightly. She truly deserves to be called a peerless fairy from legend. Someone like her might not appear even once in a million years. No wonder she left behind a tale celebrated among common folk for ages.
Still, Xiao Yun merely admired her. He had no particular interest in Bai Suzhen. A sacred fairy like this was fine to look at, but taking one