There's something good up there! Li Xiaoya was extraordinarily experienced. The moment he caught that astonishing fragrance, he knew its source had to be something exceptional, and delight stirred within him. Still, he did not hurry, but slowly climbed the steps toward the summit...
But then!
"Hm?" Li Xiaoya's expression shifted, as though he had discovered something. A warning seemed to stir within him, and blue and red waves of light suddenly erupted around his body... He vanished on the spot...
And at the very instant Li Xiaoya disappeared...
"Rumble!" An astonishing series of explosions tore through the air, hurtling toward where Li Xiaoya had stood. Boom! An enormous mass of golden light, dozens of zhang across, slammed into his former position. The entire mountain seemed to shudder violently. Countless rocks flew in every direction, and a colossal crater thousands of zhang wide was blasted into the path. A bottomless pit instantly appeared in the ground...
"Boom!" Li Xiaoya reappeared hundreds of zhang away. A cold gleam flashed through his eyes as he abruptly looked toward the source of that golden light...
There before him!
Ahead lay an enormous clearing. At its very center stood something like a gigantic raised flower bed, dozens of zhang tall, with an immense tree growing inside...
No!
More precisely, it was an immense peach tree. Several hundred zhang tall, it looked ancient beyond measure. Peaches the size of human heads covered its branches, each exquisitely beautiful and giving off an intensely enticing fragrance. Wisps of golden light curled around every peach in rings... Not only that, but all the tree's leaves radiated shimmering golden waves, sending faint ripples through the air. It looked utterly alluring...
"Those... are... five-million-year-old Immortal Peaches?" As Li Xiaoya gazed at the enticing peaches, he did not seem to focus