"There's something good up there!" Li Xiaoya had an immense wealth of experience. The moment he caught that astonishing fragrance, he knew its source had to be something extraordinary. Secretly delighted, he nevertheless refrained from rushing and slowly climbed the steps toward the mountain summit...
But then!
"Hm?" Li Xiaoya's expression shifted, as though he had discovered something. A warning stirred within him, and blue and red waves of light suddenly erupted around his body... In an instant, he vanished from where he stood...
And at the very instant Li Xiaoya disappeared...
Rumble! An incredibly powerful barrage of air-rending explosions surged toward where Li Xiaoya had been. Boom! A massive ball of golden light dozens of feet across slammed into his former position. The entire mountain seemed to shudder violently, and countless rocks flew in every direction. A gigantic crater thousands of feet wide was blasted into the passage floor, leaving a bottomless hole in the ground...
Boom! Li Xiaoya instantly reappeared over a thousand feet away. A cold glint flashed in his eyes as he sharply turned toward the source of that golden light...
There!
Ahead lay an enormous clearing. At its center stood something resembling a gigantic raised flower bed, dozens of feet tall, with an immense tree growing inside...
No!
It was an immense peach tree. Several hundred feet tall, it looked ancient beyond measure, and its branches were laden with peaches the size of human heads. Those peaches were exquisitely beautiful and gave off an irresistible fragrance. Threads of golden light coiled around each one in rings... Not only that, but the leaves of the entire tree radiated shimmering golden waves, sending faint ripples flickering through the air. It looked utterly enticing...
"Those... are... five-million-year-old immortal peaches?" Despite looking at those enticing peaches, Li Xiaoya did