Chen Xun looked up at the sky, then at the enormous Crane Spirit Tree swaying at the center of Double Tree Alley. Pointing at it, he said, "Old Ox, I remember we planted this tree, didn't we?"
"Moo~~~" Big Black Ox let out a long snort. He had noticed it long ago, but it seemed another tree had been cut down.
Qi Taigong's eyes widened further and further. The force of his blood and qi surged through his extraordinary meridians and eight channels. With a cough, he spat out a mouthful of blood, yet felt incomparably refreshed... his entire body had become much lighter.
Chen Xun took a step forward and smiled. "Little friend, you need to take good care of your body. Pay attention to your health."
"I pay homage to the immortal!!!" Qi Taigong cried toward the heavens, overcome with excitement. With a single sentence, his years-old hidden ailment had actually been cured.
"Hehe."
Chen Xun gave him a light nod, but his and Big Black Ox's figures gradually turned illusory and ethereal. Qi Taigong stood rooted to the spot for a long time, as though waking from a grand dream...
Even later, when he boasted in Double Tree Alley that he had met immortal cultivators who had lived there for thousands of years, not a single person believed him. How could such figures possibly have lived here?!
Qi Taigong could not clear himself even with a hundred mouths. In a furious rage, he debated the children fiercely, pointing at the landmark Crane Spirit Tree in Double Tree Alley and shouting that it had been planted by immortals!
Yet no one believed him. It was both laughable and absurd; everyone said Qi Taigong had gone senile. In the end, he tested medicine on himself and claimed that an