The next day.
Two figures suddenly appeared in a remote, secluded alley.
One was a graceful, beautiful woman with flowing long hair-Xiao Sui.
The other was a man in his thirties, his medium-length hair hanging loose and his eyelids drooping lazily. He looked half asleep and utterly listless, every inch the world-weary older man.
When they reached the corner of the alley, the listless man suddenly looked at the pine tree outside the Calligraphy and Painting Shop. After studying it briefly, he nodded slightly and said, "Interesting. A pine tree spirit that has opened its immortal aperture actually received the inheritance of the Fuxi Dharma Body?"
He could tell that the pine tree outside Fellow Daoist Lin's Calligraphy and Painting Shop seemed unremarkable, yet its essence contained a trace of immortal energy resembling that of an Immortal Peach. It qualified as a rare treasure of heaven and earth.
Perhaps it had encountered some opportunity before, opening its immortal aperture and transforming from an ordinary pine tree into a rare treasure of heaven and earth.
"Mr. Dongyan, Senior Lin enlightened it."
Xiao Sui said softly, "It probably opened its immortal aperture because it consumed and absorbed an Immortal Peach pit, right?"
She and the Cheng Family Ancestor had arranged for the Lesser Immortal Peach to be delivered to Senior Lin, so she could naturally guess as much. Presumably, Senior Lin had given the peach pit to this pine tree.
"Of course Fellow Daoist Lin enlightened it," Great Venerable Dongyan said casually. "Without his influence, even a rare treasure of heaven and earth with an opened immortal aperture would be unlikely to receive the Fuxi Dharma Body."
His original self was a supreme figure in the Heavenly Realm, so he naturally understood such matters fairly well.
Although the supreme figures of the