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Chapter 321: A chance encounter with bandit cultivators
As night fell, the Chen Household's Core Formation celebration drew to a close, and the bustling residence gradually grew quiet again.
Only a few distant relatives remained, their faces flushed from drinking as they discussed the Heavenly Derivation Commandery governor's visit, their voices still tinged with disbelief.
Chen Beiwu politely declined his parents' invitation to the small banquet afterward and returned to the Chen Household's newly built third-tier cultivation chamber.
Taking off the Daoist robe specially made by Ms. Huang Xiaoling, Chen Beiwu sat in the center of the quiet chamber. He turned his hand over, and a pair of flat peaches appeared in his palm.
The two peaches were purplish red throughout, plump and roughly the size of a fist, giving off an enticing fragrance. They were precisely the congratulatory gifts the Heavenly Derivation Commandery governor had presented that day: five-thousand-year-old Purple-Patterned Flat Peaches.
"A Spirit Transformation Venerable truly is extraordinary. Even a casual gift is so generous that one can't refuse it," Chen Beiwu murmured.
Although Purple-Patterned Flat Peaches were third-tier precious medicinal herbs, they were exceptionally rare lifespan-extending treasured medicines among them.
Five-thousand-year-old Purple-Patterned Flat Peaches, in particular, could clear a cultivator's hidden injuries, defy heaven and change fate, and extend their lifespan by eight hundred years.
What did that mean?
An ordinary Golden Core True Person's maximum lifespan was only between eight hundred and twelve hundred years.
That meant a cultivator who ate one of these peaches could possess a lifespan comparable to a Golden Core True Person's.
For Golden Core cultivators whose allotted years were nearly exhausted yet had no path to a breakthrough, such a peach was nothing short of a second life. Calling it a priceless blessing was no exaggeration.
*This favor was worth