Junior sister, I really need to control you.

Before the peach tree used for sacrificial offerings.

After listening to Mu Xiaoyu recount the Dragon-Tiger Swallowing Ancient Technique she had acquired, Li Yinsheng also tried it out himself.

Then he was surprised to find...

As a True Person, and one whose cultivation level shouldn't be too bad, I still haven't reached the so-called "Dragon and Tiger in Harmony, Kan and Li in Balance".

It's not that his cultivation method doesn't include this, but rather that he hasn't truly reached that stage yet on this path.

However, this also makes the Dragon-Tiger Devouring the Rice useful to him.

However, compared to Mu Xiaoyu, he is still much closer to the union of dragon and tiger, so this ancient technique will not be as effective on him as it is on his junior sister.

Correspondingly, the side effects are much fewer on him.

"Hmm, I wonder how much my magical power will increase after this secret technique is used?"

Mu Xiaoyu tilted her head: "If I had known this move when I fought that giant python, it would have been much easier, right?"

"When we encounter a strong enemy in the future, won't we have a chance to try?" Li Yinsheng said with a smile.

Mu Xiaoyu nodded subconsciously at first, then quickly shook her head: "No strong enemies! No strong enemies!"

"To hope to encounter a powerful enemy in the future just so that I'll have a chance to try out this ancient technique is too foolish, isn't it? If that's the case, I'd rather never have the chance to use this move at all."

Li Yinsheng nodded in agreement: "That's indeed the point."

But junior sister, it's impossible to avoid encountering formidable enemies in the Shifeng Gathering and the Shaoyang Dao Examination.

You should know that your ultimate goal is to achieve the highest grade in the Shaoyang Dao Examination!

Li Yinsheng estimated that if his junior sister achieved a first-class grade in the Shaoyang Dao examination, he would also prove himself in the Zhengyang field and succeed as the abbot.

With my junior sister holding the title of a top-tier prodigy, it shouldn't be too difficult for me to find a way to get her a deputy abbot position in the lineage, right?

He might even apply to the lineage, saying that as a True Person, it would be inconvenient for him to serve as the Abbot, but he could allow his junior sister to be appointed Abbot through an exception?

After all, the true people in other Taoist temples do not serve as abbots; abbots are all cultivators with profound cultivation, but who have not yet become true people.

Given the unique circumstances of Xuanzhen Temple, the lineage might agree to the suggestion from a true master.

He had not forgotten his two aspirations for cultivation: the Shaoyang Daoist examination and becoming the abbot.

The Shaoyang Daoist Examination, Grade A, rewards a total cultivation level of 181 years.

The reward for becoming the deputy abbot is thirty years.

The reward for becoming the abbot is fifty years.

In other words, if his junior sister wins the first-class award, his total cultivation will be at least 211 years and at most 260 years.

There are also the cultivation points from the Two Elements Dividing Light Sword that haven't been claimed yet, totaling one hundred and twenty years.

In addition, he now has two hundred years of cultivation...

Five or six hundred years of cultivation.

Can a real person live for 500 years? Probably not, right?

Li Yinsheng racked his brains, but he couldn't recall ever hearing of a real person over three hundred years old.

Gathering his chaotic thoughts, Li Yinsheng reminded himself not to be too happy too soon.

Aside from his ambition to become the deputy abbot and abbot, which he was relatively confident about as a true person of Xuanzhen Temple, he also had other aspirations.

As things stand, it's uncertain whether we'll be able to collect all the rewards from the other two cultivation aspirations.

Moreover, this cave is only for cultivating martial arts techniques, not for practicing magic.

In terms of various methods other than cultivation level, not to mention cultivators of the same level, even those two or three levels below him could probably leave him far behind.

Li Yinsheng shook his head.

Alas, I still haven't cultivated myself enough.

"Junior sister, our good fortune here has run its course. Let's go."

Li Yinsheng got up from the big rock.

"Okay!" Mu Xiaoyu also stood up.

However, she did not leave immediately, but ran to the ancient peach altar and bowed deeply.

"Big peach tree, thank you for the ancient magic you gave me! We're leaving now, goodbye!"

Mu Xiaoyu waved to the ancient peach spirit.

Just as she was about to turn around, the ancient peach spirit, which had already lost its spiritual light, suddenly trembled and shone brightly once more.

Mu Xiaoyu was standing close to the tree, and the light made it hard for her to open her eyes.

But Li Yinsheng saw it clearly: in the bright light, the ancient tree, which was originally lush and full of peach blossoms, was rapidly decaying.

In the blink of an eye, the peach leaves withered and fell one after another, and the peach blossoms withered and died even before the leaves.

On the contrary, on the branch closest to Mu Xiaoyu, there was a single peach blossom that quickly turned into a small peach.

The peach then grew rapidly. In just over ten breaths, when all the flowers and leaves had fallen, the peach had grown to the size of a watermelon, requiring both hands to hold it.

Moreover, in those dozen or so breaths, the branch that carried the peaches slowly stretched towards the junior sister.

When the radiance faded, the peach tree, now devoid of any blossoms or leaves, had only a branch laden with peaches extending towards Mu Xiaoyu, stopping just out of her reach.

Mu Xiaoyu, who hadn't seen what had happened in between, was startled when she saw the fallen leaves and withered branches covered with peaches.

Although Li Yinsheng wasn't frightened, he was no less calm than she was.

After he arrived here, he never sensed any spirituality in the ancient peach tree itself, only its spiritual light as a sacrificial offering.

This is not surprising, as it is extremely rare for anything other than humans to be able to give birth to a spiritual being.

For example, magical treasures like my uncle's White Rainbow Sword can be considered to have a spirit, but they are far from being considered to have intelligence.

As for the ancient peach tree in front of him, although he had never sensed any spirit in it, the scene just now, which seemed to offer peaches on its own initiative, was hard to explain if it didn't have any spirit.

and……

His consciousness landed on the peach.

Its aura was clear and pure, without any trace of turbidity or impurity, far surpassing ordinary medicinal herbs and fruits, and could almost be regarded as a rare and precious treasure.

After consuming it, it can be easily refined into one's own magical power, and it will not cause the foundation to become unstable in the slightest. It may even strengthen the foundation.

This is also the biggest difference between rare and precious medicinal materials and ordinary elixirs.

The problem is that the amount of vital energy contained within it is not very large.

Li Yinsheng estimated that this peach might only increase his magical power for a few years.

If a tree with a spirit only bears fruit at the cost of losing all its flowers and leaves and withering away to the point of near death, then its spirit is worthless.

It should be understood that only beings of the level of real-life magical artifacts have only begun to possess sentience.

In his view, this peach tree was probably more like a sacrificial altar, containing another inheritance besides the ancient techniques.

If a visitor meets certain conditions, a certain restriction is triggered, causing the peach tree to exhaust all its resources to produce a single peach, which is then given to the recipient of the inheritance.

"Senior brother..."

Mu Xiaoyu had her senior brother in her mouth, but her eyes were fixed on the peach, her mouth almost filled with saliva.

These peaches smell so good! They smell even better than the crab eggs from last time!

"This is a gift from that peach tree, please accept it," Li Yinsheng said.

Hearing her senior brother say this, Mu Xiaoyu no longer hesitated and decisively reached out her hands to pick the peach off the withered branch.

The moment she held the peach in her hands, Li Yinsheng felt that the last bit of life in the peach tree had completely vanished.

"Senior brother! Come and have a taste! These peaches are so fragrant!"

Mu Xiaoyu ran over carrying a peach that was bigger than her head, and it did indeed smell delicious.

"This peach can increase cultivation without causing your foundation to become unstable," Li Yinsheng said. "However, it doesn't increase cultivation much, so it's not very meaningful to me, but it's very useful to you."

"So, Senior Brother, you're not going to eat?" Mu Xiaoyu understood what he meant.

"Yes," Li Yinsheng nodded, "If you eat it, you'll definitely reach the third level of the Qingxuan True Scripture."

Junior Sister still has the primordial energy from the crane egg within her body. With the addition of this peach, reaching the third level of the Pure Profound Scripture will be no problem at all.

However, according to his estimation, to achieve perfection in the third level, he would have to wait for his junior sister to completely refine the dormant Crane Egg Yuan Qi within her body.

Moreover, the mana required to reach the fourth level is not low.

It's highly unlikely that she'll reach the fourth level directly.

However, the effects of peaches and crane eggs both require time to refine, so it won't be long before she reaches the fourth level.

After being urged repeatedly by Li Yinsheng, Mu Xiaoyu lowered her head and began to eat the peach with great gusto, her face showing a satisfied expression that said, "Life is like this, what more could one ask for?"

However, after eating about a third of the peach, she handed it to Li Yinsheng again, insisting that her senior brother must taste it.

In her words, the extra bit of cultivation might be useless to her senior brother, but this was truly the most delicious peach in the world, and she would regret it for the rest of her life if she didn't try it.

Unable to dissuade her, Li Yinsheng had no choice but to cut off a small piece with his Hanming sword and taste it himself.

Well, whether it's the best peach in the world is debatable, but it's certainly the best he's ever eaten.

When the junior sister had eaten half of the peach, she had already reached the third level of the Qingxuan True Scripture.

This is also because the aura contained in the peach is extremely pure and gentle. She only needs to circulate her cultivation technique slightly to refine it, and she can directly transform it into cultivation and break through to the third level.

If Li Yinsheng hadn't reminded her, she wouldn't even have realized that she had made a breakthrough.

After finishing the peach, she took out a handkerchief and carefully wrapped the fist-sized peach pit in it.

After glancing at the withered peach tree, Mu Xiaoyu looked longingly at her senior brother.

"Senior brother, this peach tree has withered and died. The peach pit is what it left behind. Why don't we... plant the peach pit after we return to the temple?"

Li Yinsheng nodded: "That's good, this peach tree looks quite extraordinary."

"Moreover, there is a spirit-refining array in the temple, and the spiritual energy is quite beneficial to the growth of spiritual plants. Since I have more spiritual energy than I can use, I will share some with this peach pit."

Mu Xiaoyu cheered and carefully put the peach pit into her Qiankun bag.

If we grow big peach trees in the future, won't we be able to eat such delicious peaches every day?

Li Yinsheng could guess what she was thinking, but he didn't discourage her—this kind of spiritual plant couldn't be grown in three or five years.

"what?"

After putting the peach pit into her Qiankun bag, Mu Xiaoyu raised an eyebrow and took out the black stone that had previously contained poisonous miasma and could not be detected by divine sense.

"Senior brother," Mu Xiaoyu said uncertainly, "my divine sense... seems to be able to sense this stone?"

Li Yinsheng was taken aback.

At this moment, the black stone was still not in his perception, but his junior sister's expression did not seem like a joke.

Could it be... that the peaches were responsible?