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Chapter 50【Peaches】

At this time, a young man with a sword on his waist was standing under a tree admiring the flowers, and not far away there were more than a dozen ox carts parked on the official road.

"I've long heard that the giant peach trees in Zhangjiabao, though grown in the north, are evergreen year-round. Seeing them today, I can see they're truly worthy of their reputation."

The moment Chen Sheng stepped out of the door, the young man turned around and said.

"Zhao Cheng, I'm honored to meet the Great Sage Master."

Chen Sheng took a few quick steps and came in front of him. He showed no sign of being unhappy when he heard that this man wanted to chop off his head. He smiled and introduced him.

"This tree is the Peach Tree, originally planted in the Peach Garden of the Queen Mother of the West. In this fairy garden, it blooms once every three thousand years, bears fruit once every three thousand years, and matures once every three thousand years.

When the fairy peach is ripe, eating it can make you immortal and ascend to heaven instantly. It is a holy product among fairy fruits.

My master, the Immortal Nanhua, once attended the Peach Banquet. After eating the peaches, he secretly hid a peach pit and gave it to me as a gift when I became his disciple.

I planted a peach pit three years ago, and surprisingly, this tree grew in an instant. Perhaps because the earth in the mortal world is poor and barren, and extremely polluted, the immortal fruit this tree produces can only prolong life and ward off evil and illness. What a pity.

In fact, the big peach tree in front of him was the old peach tree that Chen Sheng saw piles of corpses under when he woke up three years ago.

Two and a half years ago, when he was practicing the Taoist magic [Curse of Evergreen Trees], he took it as the target of the magic and continuously used the magic to stimulate the growth of the tree, making it grow unusually tall and strong.

In addition, its roots spread deep into the ground, and it is often maintained with Taoist techniques, which allows it to grow normally in the cold winter.

But for Zhao Cheng who was listening to the story.

Today, Chen Sheng deliberately chose this place to see the patient, and made up a story about secretly planting peaches using the peach tree as the material, but it made him a little disappointed.

Having treated his father for many years, Zhao Cheng has seen many marketing methods of miracle doctors. He feels that this man is most likely a liar and is afraid that he will chop off his head soon.

But since he was already here, he sighed and said with a glimmer of hope.

"Alas... My father is seriously ill, and no doctor in Yanhan can cure him. If I can't cure him, I'd be unworthy of being his son.

If the great and virtuous teacher can give me the peaches and cure my father's illness, the 200,000 yuan we agreed on will be paid to me in full.

But I see only peach blossoms on this fairy tree, but no fairy fruits. Does it mean we have to wait for several months before it bears fruit?
I’m afraid my father’s condition won’t last that long.”

"This is not difficult. I have a method to quickly ripen the immortal fruit."

Chen Sheng raised his hand and pointed at a peach blossom in the treetops.

Invisible waves spread from the fingertips and fell on the peach tree, and the peach blossom immediately withered at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Then a small green fruit grew at the back, and then the fruit grew bigger as if inflated, and the skin turned red.

Finally, the fruit ripened and fell directly into Chen Sheng's open hands.

"One inferior peach costs two hundred thousand coins."

This operation left Zhao Cheng stunned.

This is a world of martial arts. Warriors who have cultivated true qi can defeat thousands of enemies alone on the battlefield with unparalleled bravery and strength.

It is said that the Martial Saint who appears rarely in a century can communicate with gods through martial arts and suppress an entire era with force.

But the martial arts in the world are often good at destruction but not good at creation.

This person can induce the birth of fruits. Could it be that he really knows some magical skills?
Because Zhang Shou had cured many high-ranking officials and dignitaries of serious illnesses with elixirs and talismans in recent years, Zhao Cheng had heard various legendary stories about his treatments.

But he had always thought that Zhang Shou was just a doctor who was proficient in medical skills but used supernatural magic to gain fame. When human power is limited, how could any doctor in this world dare to claim that he can cure all diseases?

But his father's illness had long been terminal and was now incurable. He had come all the way here just to give his father some hope and not let him fall into despair.

But after seeing the Taoist magic performed by Zhang Shou, Zhao Cheng felt that this magic was so mysterious and unfathomable that it was far beyond human power, and a glimmer of hope suddenly arose in his heart.

He immediately took the peach solemnly and ran towards the ox cart using his lightness skills.

She jumped onto the carriage, pushed aside the maid beside her, helped her unconscious father up, and wanted to stuff the peaches into his mouth.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the bright red peach was placed next to Zhao Gou's mouth, it turned into a pool of emerald green liquid, wrapped in a circle of golden light and flowed into his lips and teeth.

As soon as the liquid entered his mouth, a greenish-green glow immediately appeared on the skin of Zhao Gou, a bedridden patient.

It shone through the clothes and quilt on my body, and also illuminated the entire carriage.

During this process, his skinny cheeks gradually became plump, the mottled hair on his head began to turn black, and his rapid breathing also became much smoother.

Chen Sheng, who was standing outside the car, took a look at the patient through the lifted door curtain. He had already anticipated the healing effect of the [Eternal Spring Curse of Ten Thousand Trees].

In fact, although the fruits produced by this technique have the effect of curing diseases, they can only rely on the wood element's vitality to strengthen the exhausted human organs, delay cell aging, and have the effects of repairing external injuries and curing poisoning.

When facing some stubborn diseases such as cancer, viral infection, congenital heredity, etc., it can only replenish the patient's vitality, but it is not a real cure for all diseases.

Chen Sheng always prepared two different sets of words of advice. In recent years, whenever dignitaries came to seek medical treatment, he would tell them whether eating peaches could cure the disease or only prolong their life temporarily, depending on whether the disease could be cured.

And with his recent mastery of the Water Mirror Technique, his ability to play tricks has reached a new level.

Before this, Chen Sheng used magic to discover in advance that Zhao Gou was suffering from ALS, a neuronal degenerative disease that happened to be the disease that the [Curse of Evergreen Trees] was targeting.

This is why as soon as the two sides met, he performed magic and made medicine without even seeing the patient.

The fluorescent light in the carriage gradually dimmed, and not long after, the sleepy Zhao Gou coughed up some thick phlegm and slowly woke up.

He looked at his son with a puzzled look on his face.

"Cheng'er, have we arrived at Zhangjiabao?"

As soon as these clearly enunciated words came out of his mouth, he was completely stunned.

When I lowered my head, I found that my neck could turn.

When I raised my hand, I found that my arm, which had been out of control for a long time, could move freely.

It was not until Zhao Gou struggled to sit up that he fell back onto the mattress, gasping for breath, because he was too weak.

Zhao Cheng, who was beside him, quickly supported his father and said happily.

"Dad, I just fed you a peach from the Great Sage Master.

It seems that your strange illness has been cured."

Seeing that Zhao Gou was stunned for a moment and was about to stand up to thank him, Chen Sheng, who was standing outside the car, quickly put on a friendly attitude.

"Your Excellency has been exhausted from the journey and has just recovered from a serious illness, so your body is weak.

There are beautifully decorated, upscale guest rooms in the fort. You can get off the train and rest for a night. We can discuss everything after you feel better."

(End of this chapter)