Journey to the West: Cultivation Begins at Jindou Mountain

Chapter 49: Peach Core

"Wow, so many spiritual fruits!"

Niu Feng and Niu Ping looked at the trees full of spiritual fruits with their eyes wide open. Niu Feng smelled the rich fruit fragrance floating in the air, and a crystal tear flowed down the corner of his mouth.

Among the three monsters, only Niu Li was calm, but his face was full of surprise.

Niu Yi looked at the three demons and said:

"Let's start from here. Fill the basket today and pick whatever you want to eat~"

"Yes, leader!"

Seeing Niu Feng and the others excitedly dispersing, Niu Yi smiled, turned around and walked straight towards the direction of the treasure.

He was actually looking forward to what treasure it was. After all, with his talent for treasure hunting, the treasure was even more attractive to him than the Blood Infant Pill and the Tiger Roar Stone!
Soon, Niu Yi came under a peach tree that was no different from the surrounding fruit trees.

"This is it."

Niu Yi stomped his foot, and the ground shook and surged. In just a moment, a peach wood box flew out from the ground and landed in front of Niu Yi.

Niu Yi stretched out his hand and grabbed the peach wood box in his hand, and easily opened the wooden box without a lock.

Inside the wooden box, there was only a leftover peach pit placed alone.

"This is."

[Longevity Peach Pit (Gold): This pip is from a longevity peach planted by the Longevity Star on Penglai Island, a fairy island in the overseas fairyland. It still holds life within it, allowing it to be grown into a longevity peach tree that bears fruit only once. This peach tree blooms every fifty years and bears fruit every fifty years, producing five longevity peaches, each of which can extend one's life by fifty years.]

Niu Yi looked at the fruit core in the box in surprise, but he didn't expect that there was such a treasure here. Treasures that can prolong life are extremely precious and rare no matter where they are.

"How did the birthday star's peach pit appear here? And this longevity valley?"

Niu Yi turned his head and looked around thoughtfully.

I think the immortal that the old monkey saw here might have some relationship with the old longevity star on Penglai Island.
Niu Yi was thinking about it and was about to close the wooden box, but he saw some inconspicuous black vertical lines on the lid.

"what?"

Niu Yi's eyes flashed with precious light as he looked at the black lines on the lid of the box. Looking carefully, he found that the black lines were actually a dense and tiny handwriting.

Niu Yi looked at it carefully and was a little surprised.

Written on the lid of the box was a spell called "The Secret of Sunlight and Moonlight", a method of tree care passed down from the God of Longevity.

“That’s amazing.”

According to the instructions on this spell, by practicing this spell, one can condense a ray of sunlight in the early morning of every day, and a ray of moon dew when the moon rises.

The Sun's Essence and Moon's Dew are both extremely beneficial to spiritual roots. Using them together can not only enhance the essence, but also accelerate the maturity and growth of fruit trees.

This spell comes with a method to accelerate the growth of spiritual roots, which can greatly speed up the maturation of spiritual roots. However, this method is only applicable to spiritual root fruit trees and will damage the roots of the tree.

Niu Yi lowered his gaze and saw that there was a single sentence left at the end of the spell:

All things in the world grow naturally, and forcing quick success is not the right way.

When Niu Yi saw this sentence, he immediately nodded in agreement and kept it in mind.

"It's quite impressive, worthy of being the tree-planting technique passed down by the God of Longevity."

Niu Yi admired it and closed the wooden box again, then put it away solemnly.

Speaking of Fu, Lu and Shou, their understanding of the cultivation of spiritual roots and materials in the world is well-known in the Three Realms. When Sun Wukong pushed the ginseng fruit tree to Wuzhuang Temple, the first people he looked for were the three old star gods Fu, Lu and Shou from Penglai Island.

"The Tao is one of clarity and one of turbidity, one of stillness and one of movement. Clarity and stillness are the root, turbidity and movement are the end."

At noon, Niu Feng stood on the spiritual tree, picked the spiritual fruits from the trees one by one, and threw them towards Niu Ping on the ground.

At this moment, he suddenly felt a cool breeze blowing between heaven and earth, making him feel extremely comfortable all over.

"It's so comfortable~ Is this wind brought by the leader?" Niu Feng stretched comfortably and looked in the direction of his leader.

He saw his leader sitting cross-legged under a peach tree, wearing a green shirt, with long black hair naturally draped behind him. His face was calm and peaceful, and he was chanting scriptures, just like the enlightened master in the human storybooks described by Guo Leping.

Niu Feng always thought that the storybook that Guo Le'an mentioned was written completely according to his own leader. Now it seems that it is true!
In the evening, when Niu Feng and others had picked most of the spiritual fruits in the Longevity Valley, Niu Yi took the three monsters and a hundred baskets full of spiritual fruits and left here by earth escape vehicle.

What made Niu Yi feel regretful was that all the spiritual roots in the Longevity Valley seemed to be nodes of this natural magic formation and could not be moved. Otherwise, the Longevity Valley cave would collapse immediately.

Otherwise, if all these spiritual roots were transplanted to Jindou Mountain, the spiritual energy on Jindou Mountain would definitely increase greatly.

After returning to Jindou Mountain, Niu Feng and Niu Ping went back to Jindou Cave to ask the little bull spirits to collect the spiritual fruits by category.

Although most spiritual fruits are easier to store than mortal fruits, some are special and will easily spoil after being picked. These spiritual fruits need to be eaten as soon as possible.

On the top of the mountain, Niu Li looked at Niu Yi with some concern and said:
"Chief, are we just going to take these spiritual fruits out like this?"

Niu Yi shook his head indifferently.

"They are just some ordinary spiritual fruits. I can take them out if I want. And how do you think I knew about the Longevity Valley? This is the old monkey's token of allegiance. He told me about it."

After hearing this, Niu Li nodded in sudden realization.

On the one hand, the valley full of spiritual root fruit trees was not known only to their leader.

On the other hand, and most importantly, with the strength of their leader, these low-level spiritual fruits are completely insignificant, and no monsters nearby dare to say anything.

"Let's send some of these spiritual fruits to the Yuehua Deer Clan and the Old Monkey Demon Clan. They have made great efforts in finding spiritual materials for me over the past three years."

"Yes, I understand, Chief."

Niu Li bowed and said yes, then turned and left, thinking to himself that his leader was still as kind as ever.

The two tribes, respecting their leader, joined Jindou Mountain to seek refuge. It was only natural for them to contribute when their leader needed them. This was simply the leader's kindness, granting them some benefits.

Niu Yi smiled as he watched Niu Li leaving.

When he said he would keep it a secret, he actually just meant to stop Niu Feng and the others from spreading the news.

For Niu Yi, the existence of Longevity Valley is actually not that important. The many spiritual fruits left here are all low-level spiritual fruits. They are of no use to him and are far from worth his efforts to cover up.

And in Niu Yi's opinion, anything that is known by two people is not a secret.

Since the old monkeys and monkey groups he protected knew about the existence of the Longevity Valley, then the Longevity Valley was naturally no longer a secret. Moreover, the sudden appearance of a large number of spiritual fruits in Jindou Mountain was also a fact that could not be concealed.

As for the existence of the Longevity Valley, since we can't take it away, then our own people should not show off about it. Even if other monsters know that there are suddenly many more spiritual fruits in Jindou Mountain, no matter how curious they are, they dare not ask too many questions.

"It's this longevity peach core and that spell, I'm afraid there's some kind of causal connection between them."

Niu Yi thought in his heart that whether it was the Sun and Moon Dew Secret, the longevity peach core, or the longevity valley, they all vaguely pointed to the Penglai Fairy Island, but these things were extremely useful to him and it was impossible for him not to take them.

Niu Yi wanted to do a calculation, but he still remembered what Zen Master Wuchao said and the warning he received when he first obtained the cause and effect hexagram money.

The three stars of Fu, Lu and Shou in the Penglai fairy island overseas are not simple gods at all. These three are star gods of quite high status. With the status of the star of longevity as a god, they are by no means comparable.

Niu Yi, who couldn't figure out the reason for a moment, simply put the matter behind him, found a place to plant the longevity peach pit, and returned to the house to prepare to enter the spiritual state of mind.

Things will work out when the time comes. There are some causes and effects, and we don’t know whether they are good or bad. How can they be more important than our own cultivation?

Fairyland of Penglai, a fairyland in overseas mountains.

At this time, the three gods Fu Lu Shou were sitting beside the stone table drinking tea and playing chess. The one watching the game today was the old god of longevity.

Not far from these three star gods, a white deer with soft white fur was dozing under a peach tree, but its mind was constantly wandering.

"I wonder when the master will go to heaven for the banquet again. One day in heaven is one year on earth. I can go back to the mortal world and spend some more years there."

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