Chapter 1272: The Temptation of Flat Peaches

"Master, the previously mentioned Poison Thorn old man sent a letter asking if we could spare some Flat Peaches. Hearing that our Soul-Suppressing Kingdom is collecting magical beasts, he expressed that he would capture magical beasts of sufficient value for us, and sincerely hopes we can consider it."

The person speaking was Wu Xiaohe.

Wu Xiaohe had now replaced Wu Xiangning and became the Queen of the Soul-Suppressing Kingdom.

The reason was that Wu Xiangning wanted to cultivate with Yun Shen to refine his Supreme Body, which had not yet been completed.

The Poison Thorn old man she spoke of was actually the purple-haired old man from before.

At this very moment, through the Heavenly Derivation Small Spirit Communicator, Yun Shen learned of this matter and couldn't help but be a little surprised. His display of power had been a mistake, but he hadn't expected that his impulsive display of wealth had successfully opened up a trade route.

"Agree to him; we are not short of Flat Peaches."

Yun Shen glanced at the pile of wine brewed with Flat Peaches in the Time Food Treasury and was not worried about this at all.

Besides the main tree body, there were inner-circle sub-trees that ripened every nine thousand years, middle-circle sub-trees that ripened every six thousand years, and outer-circle sub-trees that ripened every three thousand years; there were 1,200 of each of the three types of sub-trees.

With so many Flat Peach trees, sparing a little of the production was nothing.

However, such things couldn't be agreed to casually; it was still...

The main tree was different from the sub-trees; the highest-year Flat Peaches the sub-trees could produce were only nine thousand years old.

But the main tree could produce Flat Peaches up to one hundred thousand years old!

Therefore, in order to wait for the most delicious Flat Peaches of one hundred thousand years, Yun Shen hadn't eaten the Flat Peaches produced by the main tree yet.

Now, irrigating them daily with life essence and Jade Pool Holy Water was much faster than the initial ripening speed, and he believed he would be able to eat them after another period of time.

Yun Shen could probably guess why the Poison Thorn old man wanted Flat Peaches; it was nothing more than someone's lifespan running out, or he simply wanted to extend his own life.

Compared to improving talent and attributes, the greatest efficacy of Flat Peaches was certainly extending life.

Except for special individuals like Ying Zheng, others, even gods, could rely on Flat Peaches to extend their lives!

After becoming a god, not all gods could obtain eternal life; those like the Poison Thorn old man who had no godhead were pseudo-gods.

Only by condensing a godhead could one be called a true god!

Ying Zheng's Ancestral Dragon bloodline had drawbacks; although life-extending items could be useful, the effect would continuously diminish as the lifespan extended, until it completely failed.

Otherwise, for fruits produced by innate spirit roots like Flat Peaches, there was no drug resistance at all; as long as the supply of Flat Peaches was guaranteed, one could extend their life indefinitely!

The reason Yun Shen ate Flat Peaches was purely because they were delicious and he wanted to eat them; it had nothing to do with extending life.

After all, he felt that because of Wu Xiangning creating the universe, he had indirectly obtained a nearly eternal lifespan.

Life-extending items that could be mass-produced like this were very tempting to veteran war lords.

Troops were not immortal; they also had lifespans.

Once their lifespan was exhausted, they would also die.

Moreover, the effects that life-extending items could bring were different between different individuals.

For example, lords with higher status would be more difficult to extend life for than troops and heroes.

And with the improvement of strength, the life-extending effect brought by medicine would also diminish accordingly.

This was not drug resistance; it was purely because the life level was too high.

This also provided a sufficient market for life-extending items like Flat Peaches that could be produced in large quantities; no matter how much was produced, there would definitely be people who wanted them, and they would be in short supply.

Since top-tier life-extending items were hard to come by, it was better to win by quantity.

It wasn't that a one-dollar coin wasn't valuable, but that you didn't have enough one-dollar coins.

Wu Xiaohe asked, "Then Master, how many should we sell to be appropriate?"

Yun Shen thought for a while and replied, "Let him decide for himself; how many magical beasts that satisfy me he sends over, that's how many Flat Peaches he can receive."

Simply put, it was inspect goods first, pay later, and the kind where no contract was signed; after inspection and warehousing, he would then set the price of the goods based on his conscience.

Most people certainly couldn't stand such a bullying clause.

But the Poison Thorn old man had witnessed Yun Shen's "strength," so if he wanted to continue trading, he had to endure it.

That was a Flat Peach; let alone seeing one, a "country bumpkin" like the Poison Thorn old man had only heard of them in legends and had originally thought they were just legends fabricated by the ancients, never expecting they actually existed.

Let alone that these were nine-thousand-year-old Flat Peaches; I'm afraid that in the entire Plague Divine Kingdom, one couldn't find a life-extending item with better effects than it.

After a period of time, the Poison Thorn old man, who was an unknown distance away, received the news that the "ancient existence" had agreed to the trade, and he was overjoyed, not thinking about bargaining at all.

The cost of trying to trade was just a group of magical beasts; he wouldn't care too much about it, at most wasting a little time capturing magical beasts.

Let alone that the wasted time was that of the people in his subordinate forces; he only needed to move his mouth.

As long as he was willing to lose face and had the opportunity to obtain the resources he wanted, what was enduring such a bullying contract?

His exploration of the Great Dao had long since fallen into a bottleneck; if he couldn't continue, he couldn't achieve the effect of extending life through his insights into the Great Dao and could only rely on the help of external objects.

Over so many years, with the continuous loss of his lifespan, the Poison Thorn old man felt that he was also about to reach his limit.

If he could obtain some nine-thousand-year-old Flat Peaches at this time, he felt that he still had hope of breaking through the Great Dao bottleneck in the future, obtaining more lifespan with his own strength, or even condensing a godhead and obtaining eternal life!

If they were of a lower year, as long as the quantity was sufficient, they could also bring him a not-short lifespan.

Under the temptation of increasing lifespan, the reason the Poison Thorn old man didn't personally capture magical beasts was actually because of some unwritten rules in the Plague Divine Kingdom.

Powerhouses like him couldn't easily strike against magical beasts, otherwise, the powerhouses among the magical beasts would certainly not let it go and would come to trouble him, paying him back double.

In order not to look for trouble, the Poison Thorn old man could only outsource this task.

It was just that once he chose to outsource, the leakage of news was inevitable.

The news that the Poison Thorn old man was helping the Soul-Suppressing Kingdom capture magical beasts immediately spread to the outside world, with the specific reason unknown.

In order to prevent other powerhouses from competing with him for Flat Peaches, the Poison Thorn old man didn't tell anyone about the Flat Peaches, so this matter was not yet known to outsiders.

Many people were inquiring about the ins and outs of the matter, but unfortunately, they all ended up with nothing.

Finally, some bold forces directly sent envoy groups or representatives, or even went to the Soul-Suppressing Kingdom personally.

To prevent Wu Xiaohe from making any trouble, Wu Xiangning received these guests as the Queen.

Yun Shen had no intention of hiding the news of the Flat Peaches at all, so Wu Xiangning decided to take advantage of this opportunity and simply release the news of purchasing magical beasts with Flat Peaches!

(PS: I thought I was already better, so I went for a run yesterday afternoon and drank iced cola. I felt something was wrong and stopped. When I got home and measured my temperature, I found it was 37.5. My stomach problems seem to be more serious...) ===== CHAPTER 1274 =====