Notes on Longevity

Chapter 139 Peonies are hard to grow, but with cultivation one can attain the Great Dao.

The golden runes on the rapidly spinning disc attacked the green-clad woman vertically, like countless extremely sharp knives cutting through space, accompanied by the howling sound of the wind.

The woman in green turned around, but the forsythia was gone, nowhere to be seen. She calmly raised a hand, her gaze fixed on the cursed seal, and softly uttered, "Break."

In an instant, the sound of the wind disappeared, and the sound of the cursed seal shattering rang out, scattering in all directions before finally disappearing before hitting the ground.

Meanwhile, all the flowers in the flower sea disappeared deep underground, leaving only a bare open space and the wooden house.

Yun Gong frowned as he looked at the green-clad woman, wondering to himself, "Has this flower demon made another step forward in her cultivation?"
Moreover, she is much more composed now than when we first met. Before, she would only run away in panic, but now she actually dares to face me directly. If that's the case, then her inner core must be even better than before.

After thinking it over, Yun Gong once again swung his whisk at the woman in green. The woman in green easily dodged the blow by bending over.

But why did Yun Gong give him such a chance to breathe?

As he swept the whisk across the ground, he chanted the incantation again, and before the man in green could even get up, a huge golden disc appeared out of thin air below him.

The sixty-four hexagrams on the disc slowly rotated, as if some invisible force grabbed the green-clad woman and pulled her down, causing her delicate body to crash heavily to the ground!

"Witch, you've lived for so many years, it's time for you to die. Consider it clearing the way for my path to ascension!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Yun Gong disappeared from the spot, and reappeared inside the circular magic disc.

He slowly squatted down, looking at the green-clad figure lying quietly on the ground, feeling a little strange.

On the surface, she must have been hurt from the fall, but for some reason, she didn't seem flustered at all. Instead, she looked at him with disdain, her face contorted in a distorted expression.

He found it strange, so he withdrew his outstretched hand, then stepped back from the disc, watching the green-clad man warily.

With a flick of his finger, the green-clad figure and the disc lying on the ground rose to their feet, leaving her hanging there. Looking at Yun Gong with disdain, she said, "You damned Taoist priest, didn't you want my inner core? Why are you backing away? Come and take it!"

Yun Gong flicked his sleeve, snorted coldly, and did not answer, but just looked at her cautiously.

He thought to himself, "Could this demoness be planning to detonate her inner core and perish together with me?"

Although her inner core won't kill me, if it injures me, my cultivation will be ruined. And with these flowers burrowed underground, if they emerge again then, I won't be far from death.

This damn woman!

Yun Gong glared at the man in green with gritted teeth, unaware that someone holding a forsythia flower was also staring intently at him from the window on the second floor of the wooden house next to them.

Why won't you let me help her?

He turned away and hid behind the half-open window, looking at Yingchun, the baby who had woken him. He remembered that he was standing outside, so when did he get inside?

And then there's this winter jasmine, which woke me up and said someone wanted to take the inner core of the green-clothed one. As soon as he heard that, he jumped out of bed and was about to rush out, but it stopped him and said to wait a moment.

Judging from what just happened, Yun Gong was clearly about to make a move, and he didn't understand why Ying Chun was stopping him. He had come precisely because he was afraid someone would harm her, which was why he had stayed in the woods all night, only falling asleep when dawn was approaching and he felt nothing would happen. "Sister Linglong said to wait a while. This old Taoist priest has considerable magical power; if you go out rashly, she's afraid neither of you will be a match for him."

Although Yingchun explained it this way to Daoyisheng, it was also very worried about Green Robe. It didn't know why Green Robe was doing this.

"Wait until when?" Dao Yisheng wondered. His life was in imminent danger, so why wait?

Yingchun said, "They said it was when the old Taoist priest would take my sister's inner elixir."

When extracting the inner elixir?
Dao Yisheng was startled and felt his breathing become slightly rapid. He understood how important the inner core was to a demon.

After transformation, the inner core becomes a second heart; if it is taken away, it's like losing half a life. Moreover, forming a core again is extremely difficult, with a very low probability.

But he also understood why Green Robe was doing this.

Retrieving the inner core of a living creature occurs when a person or demon is most focused. If disturbed, the process becomes extremely difficult. Similarly, when focused on retrieving the inner core, one rarely pays attention to their surroundings. If this happens to deliver a fatal blow, the person is almost certainly doomed.

However, this method is too risky. For someone with extremely high cultivation, obtaining an inner core is very simple.

However, judging from Yingchun's words, if even he and the green-robed man couldn't defeat him together, then this old Taoist priest must be extraordinary.

He frowned, holding the "Welcoming Spring" in his hand, and carefully stood by the window again, looking down, hoping that the Taoist priest's cultivation level was not too high.

Yun Gong looked at the woman in green warily and slowly walked towards her. "If I didn't need to take your inner core while you were alive, I would really like to kill you."

"A dead Taoist priest wants to become an immortal? What a joke." The man in green looked at him with extreme disdain. "Just tell me how much demon blood has stained your hands."

"All living things are the Dao. How many times have you killed the Dao?"

"Provoke me?" Yun Gong sneered. "I used to kill countless demons who harmed people. Even if it was the path of killing, it was to eliminate some evil and crooked paths. I won't be afraid of criticism when I go to Heaven in the future."

"But I did nothing, why did you take my inner core?"

This was something Green Robe couldn't understand. She had dealt with quite a few Taoist priests, and after they learned that she was a demon, they all advised her not to harm people, but to focus on cultivation so that she would have the opportunity to attain the Great Dao in the future.

She listened and did it, but in the end, she just happened to run into this guy.

"Because your inner core is different from other demons." Yun Gong stared at her and slowly said, "You, this green peony, have absorbed the essence of the sun and moon and been nourished by all things. It takes three years to take shape, five years to speak, and thirty years to attain human form. Taking your inner core can greatly advance my cultivation. Compared to those demons, it's much faster than arduous mental cultivation!"

Green peony?
Dao Yisheng stood by the window listening to Yun Gong speak, his heart filled with surprise.

Green peonies are truly rare and extraordinary, their survival is extremely difficult. If what Yun Gong said is true, that Green Robe attained human form after thirty years of cultivation, then if she were to cultivate the Great Dao in the future, she would surely be extraordinary.

"Is this why you want to take my inner core?" The woman in green frowned as she looked at Yun Gong.

(End of this chapter)