Chapter 123 Ginseng Fruit Core
Chapter 123 Ginseng Fruit Core
"Ginseng fruit tree?!"
The two of them shouted in unison.
Hearing these four words, even the usually calm Cheng Xinzhan lost his composure.
Everyone knows that the ginseng fruit tree is a legendary treasure, a sacred tree that has been bred since the beginning of time. The owner of the sacred tree is the Immortal Zhenyuan, who is known as the ancestor of earthly immortals!
According to legend, the ginseng fruit tree can increase one’s lifespan!
Eleventh Lady looked at the white mouse and said,
"Do you know the whereabouts of the ginseng fruit tree? You have to know that the ginseng fruit tree is not a tree grown from ginseng grass!"
The white rat was furious, "Of course I know!"
"But wasn't the legendary sacred tree taken away to outer space by the Immortal Zhenyuan?"
Eleventh Lady asked.
"Who said I know the whereabouts of the sacred tree?"
White Rat Road.
"Then you are teasing us?!"
Eleventh Lady picked up the white mouse and shook it hard.
The white mouse was frightened and screamed, and finally stopped making riddles, saying, "What I want to talk about is not the ginseng fruit tree, but a ginseng fruit core!"
Eleventh Lady and Cheng Xinzhan looked at each other. The core of the ginseng fruit is also an extraordinary divine object!
Eleventh Lady put the white mouse down.
"Tell me in detail where the core came from! Legend has it that the rules of Zhenyuan Immortal are even stricter than those of the Queen Mother. Even if the immortal fruit is given away, he will send a boy to retrieve the core afterwards.
"Besides, according to legend, this treasure blooms once every three thousand years, bears fruit once every three thousand years, and takes another three thousand years to mature. After waiting for ten thousand years, only thirty fruits were produced, and each one was recorded in the book. How could there be a lost kernel?!"
The white mouse rolled his eyes.
"How do I know where the core came from? Anyway, I saw it. Now, do you think this secret can save my life?"
Eleventh Lady nodded and said,
"Of course you can, but how do you know that what you saw is the ginseng fruit core?"
The white mouse raised his head high and replied,
“In this world, there were ginseng fruit trees first, and then there were ginseng grasses. The ancestor of ginseng grass was the mortal grass beside the ginseng fruit tree. Its roots touched the roots of the ginseng fruit tree and were contaminated by the immortal aura. That’s when it was named ginseng grass. Now that I have seen my own ancestor, how can I not recognize that aura?
"Besides, I have tracked that fruit core. It travels through the earth veins, absorbs and releases the vast amount of essence in the earth veins, and forms a five-element magic ban on its own. I can't get close to it at all. Apart from the ginseng fruit core, what other fruit core has such power?"
"Where is the core now? Tell me in detail!"
Eleventh Lady said anxiously.
But the white rat ignored him.
"Saint Ancestor Sanqing, I, Cheng Xinzhan, a disciple of Sanqing Mountain, hereby swear that as long as the wood spirit leads me to find the ginseng fruit core, I will immediately let the wood spirit go without arresting or hunting it down. If I violate this oath, I will forsake my own path to immortality."
Cheng Xinzhan stretched out three fingers of his left hand and swore an oath towards the sky.
"So you are the Taoist priest from Mount Sanqing. Of course I believe you, but I am really afraid of death, so please add one more sentence. If this Xiao family girl wants to keep me, you must stop her and you are not allowed to look for me or send anyone to look for me in the future."
The white rat said again.
Cheng Xinzhan agreed and swore again.
The white mouse was relieved and said slowly,
"The first time I saw a fruit core was two hundred years ago, in a deep vein in the mountains of Miaojiang. At that time, I was traveling underground and accidentally saw a group of five-colored mysterious light. I knew I had encountered a treasure, so I moved closer to take a look.
"That mysterious light is nothing but a rotten fruit. The shape of the fruit can no longer be seen. It has shriveled and rotted into a layer of skin. The essence of the flesh has been absorbed by the core. The core is absorbing and exhaling essence, emitting five-color mysterious light. It's a pity that the fragrance of the rotten fruit is locked in the mysterious light. Otherwise, if I could smell it, I would also be able to ascend to immortality."
White Rat recalled.
"Rotten fruit? You mean when you first saw it, there was not only the core, but also the flesh? It could have been a whole fruit?"
Eleventh Lady asked.
Cheng Xinzhan was also very confused. How could a ginseng fruit that had never been eaten fall to the ground?
That is the fruit of ten thousand years of growth!
"Yes, a whole fruit. I wonder who would waste it like this."
The white rat said with emotion.
"The divine object has spirits, so it will naturally emit a mysterious light to lock its own fragrance. Otherwise, it would have been eaten by someone long ago."
Cheng Xinzhan said.
"That's right," the rat nodded, and continued,
“Of course I want to see the divine object, but the core of the fruit has formed a five-element domain on its own, and I can’t get through it at all. So I watched from afar while thinking of a way.
"It seemed like fifty years had passed. One day fifty years later, the core suddenly moved and traveled underground. It must have been trying to avoid the demons and ghosts underground. Fortunately, its speed was not very fast. I, an old man, gathered all my strength and followed behind. It traveled for more than ten hours before the core finally drilled into an underground vein and stopped to absorb and exhale essence.
"What did you two guess?"
"Southern Wasteland?"
At this time, Eleventh Lady cooperated and made a guess.
"No."
The rat shook his head.
"Dianwen?"
Cheng Xinzhan also made a guess.
"No."
The white rat still shook his head.
"I can't guess, I can't guess, just tell me."
Eleventh Lady lost her patience again.
"Haha, I came out and saw that there are many trees and sunshine here. We must have arrived at Qiongzhou Island!"
The white rat shook his head.
"The core of the fruit is on Qiongzhou Island now?"
Eleventh Lady asked.
"No, Guo He only stayed in Qiongzhou Island for 60 years, and then he left. This time I won't keep you in suspense. He went to Jingchu again and stayed in Jingchu for 40 years. Forty years later, he went to Heluo and stayed in Heluo for 50 years. Six years ago, he went to the Baishan Songshui area and stayed at the foot of Changbai Mountain."
"Two months ago, I was out for a stroll and was caught by your Xiao family's hunting team."
"Does that mean the core is now at the foot of Changbai Mountain?"
Cheng Xinzhan asked.
The white mouse nodded. "The fruit core only moves once every few decades. It should still be in Changbai Mountain."
Cheng Xinzhan was puzzled and asked again, "What is Guohe doing? Why is he traveling so far?"
The white rat shook his head and said, "Of course I don't know the truth, but I have a guess. There are two reasons. First, it should be absorbing the essence from different veins of the earth. The soil in the south is hot, and the soil in the north is cold. It travels around China and absorbs the essence. Second, I guess the fruit core is looking for a place suitable for taking root and sprouting."
Cheng Xinzhan's mind moved. If the fruit core sprouted, it would be very different. If it didn't sprout, it might be a supreme treasure for refining medicine and tools. But if it sprouted and became a tree, it would be an inexhaustible treasure!
The fruit of this tree, not to mention being able to extend one's life for thousands or even tens of thousands of years, even if it's only for thirty or fifty years, is an extremely valuable immortal treasure!
I haven't even seen the core yet, but I'm already thinking about eating the fruit. Cheng Xinzhan secretly mocked himself, thinking that he still hasn't reached the level of spiritual cultivation.
"Then please take us there. Once we see the fruit core, we will let you go."
Eleventh Lady said with a smile.
The white rat snorted, and now he knew what to call senior.
However, the white rat did what he said. He had a short life span and had already figured it out. He had not touched the fruit core for 200 years, which meant he had no fate with the fruit core. It would be better to give this fate to others and get another chance to reincarnate.
The white rat led the way in front, and the two followed behind. They set out from the land of Qi and Lu, headed north, and after passing Beiyou, they headed east.
When we arrived at the Baishan Songshui area, we were surprised to find that it was already covered with snow. The majestic Changbai Mountains were visible in the distance, like a white dragon lying prone.
There is the Yaowang Temple on Changbai Mountain, which is a world-famous Taoist medical holy place.
Bai Shu led the two men to a place two hundred miles west of Changbai Mountain and stopped.
"This is it. We have to go underground, very deep underground. Do you two know how to use earth escape techniques?"
Hearing this, Cheng Xinzhan looked at Shiyi Niang.
Eleventh Lady shook her head, "I don't know how to escape into the earth, Xinzhan, go by yourself, I'll wait for you outside."
Cheng Xinzhan nodded, "Then I'll stay with you."
Eleventh Lady nodded, and then took out a few things from her cave stone.
"Xinzhan, keep them well. This is the White Jade Ball, which can block a Jindan cultivator's attack. This is the Nine Flower Jade Dew Pill, which is a good medicine for detoxification. This is the Earth-Clearing Frost Needle, and this is the Mysterious First Level Water Bead. They are all great offensive treasures, so take them all with you!"
Shiyi Niang stuffed all the things into Xinzhan’s hands.
Xinzhanlian smiled and said, "I don't need these things, but Eleventh Lady, who is outside to protect me, should keep all the treasures."
He stuffed the things back into Shiyi Niang's arms and said to Bai Shu,
"Please lead the way."
The white mouse nodded, a flash of light appeared on its body, and then it burrowed into the soil.
Cheng Xinzhan did not wait for Shiyi Niang to refuse, and he made a gesture, the earth power in his body flowed, and he chanted,
"The ten directions of the land, do what is convenient for me, walk on the mountains and the ground, go out of the dark and into the underworld, escape!"
A brilliant light flashed from Cheng Xinzhan's body, then immediately seeped into the ground and disappeared.
Eleventh Lady looked around and found a cave not far away, and hid there with her brother. It was a bit eye-catching to have someone standing in the vast white snow.
Cheng Xinzhan followed the white rat downwards. He estimated that they had traveled about ten miles before the white rat gradually slowed down.
"Look, this is the ley line."
White Rat Road.
Cheng Xinzhan also saw that not far away, there was a bright ribbon flowing slowly in the dark underground. At this moment, Cheng Xinzhan did not feel that he had come underground. Instead, it was like looking up at the starry sky on a summer night. The bright ribbon looked like the Milky Way.
At this time, the inner spirit in his spleen naturally sensed something and took in the essence of the earth's veins on its own.
"This vein goes straight up to Changbai Mountain, and the core is in this vein."
The man and the spirit walked along the earth veins for another three or four miles. Then, without Bai Shu saying anything, Cheng Xinzhan saw another brighter light in the bright earth veins. The light was composed of five colors: white, green, black, red and yellow, interwoven together, like a rainbow at night.
Cheng Xinzhan and Mu Jing slowly approached.
"this!"
When he got closer, the wood elf suddenly widened its eyes and pointed its short claws at Hua Guang.
“It’s sprouting!”
Cheng Xinzhan had already activated his Dan pupil and could see more clearly than the wood spirit.
In the five layers of colorful light, there was indeed a fruit core. The fruit core looked like topaz, and the texture of the fruit core was similar to that of a peach core, full of grooves and veins. It looked messy at first glance, but upon closer inspection, the veins clearly formed a diagram of the human body's Zhoutian acupoints!
But what was really surprising was that a crack appeared on the top of the core, and a little green bud emerged from the crack.
What kind of green is that?
It's like after an early spring rain, the dark and yellow fields are suddenly dyed with a touch of tender green, like buds sprouting on the branches of willows propped up by the chilly spring breeze, like new leaves on tea trees in the rain and fog on the mountains, and like pointed green lotus emerging from the mud in a shallow pond in early summer.
After seeing this green light, Cheng Xinzhan forgot about the colorful lights and the bright spots of the earth veins, as if there was only this hint of light in the dark underground.
This is the concrete manifestation of vitality.
"It seems that this thing is really not meant for me. I have been guarding it for two hundred years and have traveled all over the world, but I have never seen it sprout. Now I have only been away for two months and I see it sprout. It is a pity that I did not see the moment when the green buds and seeds emerge, which must have been the most beautiful scene."
Bai Shu said with emotion, then looked at Cheng Xinzhan and said,
"This thing is destined to be with the Taoist priest!"
Cheng Xinzhan smiled and said, "Oh? Is it because I saw it sprout?"
The white mouse shook his head and said,
“Not only that, Taoist priest, you don’t know that spiritual objects can seek good fortune and avoid disaster. This spiritual object has never been caught in the underground for many years. This is because spiritual objects travel through the earth veins and leave no trace.
“But it’s different now. I’m a spiritual grass in human form, and I know some of the key points. In my opinion, it sprouted because it took a fancy to this piece of land and wanted to take root here. All the energy it has accumulated over the years has been used to grow roots, sprout, and break the nucleus. Now it should be doing its best to stimulate the growth of roots, and it is powerless to escape anymore. It must wait until the sprouts grow into leaves, the roots drill out, and dig into the soil to absorb the essence of the earth before it can escape again.
"So, this is exactly the Taoist's chance. However, if you miss it, you will miss it. The spiritual creature will be frightened and will definitely escape deeper into the ground, and we will never find it again."
After that, the wood spirit said,
"Master, now you should know that I never lied to you."
Cheng Xinzhan came back to his senses and bowed to the wood spirit.
"I am truly grateful for your guidance and for giving me this opportunity."
The white mouse laughed and said, "Then the old man is free now, right?"
Cheng Xinzhan said seriously,
"I would also like you to swear an oath."
"What oath?"
"I beg you to swear by the Emperor of Dongyue that today's events are only known to you, me, Shiyi Niang, and the dog. No one else should hear of them. If you disobey me, you will never be reborn as a human again."
The Great Emperor of Dongyue is the god who controls life and death, and determines nobility and inferiority.
The wood spirit laughed.
"Okay, okay, this is easy. Dongyue Great Emperor, I, Bai Yongliang, swear here that if I tell him about what happened today, I will be a grass for generations and never be a human being."
Cheng Xinzhan bowed and thanked him.
Then he ignored the white mouse and slowly moved towards the fruit core.
The closer he got, the more he could feel the power of the five-colored light. With the fruit core as the core, the five layers of light were blue, red, yellow, white and black, corresponding to the five elements of wood, fire, earth, metal and water.
Each layer of brilliance is a hundred steps wide.
He stopped in front of the outermost black water domain and sent out a thought, but the thought immediately disappeared when it came into contact with the black light.
So awesome!
He wanted to try again and slowly stretched out his hand, but as soon as his hand entered the black light, he felt that his bones and blood were about to melt, so he quickly pulled it out.
He looked down and saw that the skin on his fingertips had melted and was dripping with blood.
When the white mouse saw this, he laughed and said,
“I have been guarding it for two hundred years, trying every possible way, going the farthest, consuming countless spiritual materials, and finally surviving the danger of death and crossing the waters to reach the Golden Region. But as soon as I reached the Golden Region, I almost lost my soul, and it took me decades of rest to recover.
"I would like to watch the Taoist priest bring out the core, and then let me feel it, so I told him some of the things I have discovered over the past few hundred years.
"The Dharma light in this water area should be the Taiyin Youshui, which is said to be able to dissolve everything. The Dharma light in the Golden Realm should be the Golden Light of Desolation, which is used to kill people's seven souls. As for what's inside, I have never been in there, but I went underground to steal books and asked around. Finally, I found the connection between ginseng fruit and the five elements from an ancient book, which is:
It melts when it meets water;
It falls when it encounters gold;
When encountering soil, enter;
It burns when it encounters fire;
It withers when it encounters wood.
I think these five levels of the law domain may correspond to the relationship between the ginseng fruit and the five elements."
Cheng Xinzhan heard it, turned around and bowed to the white rat, then looked back at the black light and began to think carefully.
(End of this chapter)