Chapter 294: Millennium Covenant

Xu Qing threw the 200,000 incense of the Cat Immortal Hall to Peach Third Sister as an advance salary, then stood with his hands behind his back under the peach tree, lost in thought.

Liu Su'e once had a fate with the willow tree godmother on the banks of the Tanggu River. Now Liu Su'e still has the willow branch horse whip left by her godmother as a protective treasure.

That horse whip is a big demon with five hundred years of cultivation, and it is the essence of her body, and she is willing to be used as a magic weapon for Liu Su'e to drive.

Peach Third Sister's eldest sister had a similar experience.

Xu Qing thought of Ge Hongwen, the master of the Songyun Temple on Mount Henglu. Although he had never met him, he had intersections with him in many things.

The cheap "godfather" of the tooth-traveler Li Siye, the old physician Yang Chunfu who was once super-delivered by him, was a lay disciple accepted by Ge Hongwen.

Peach Third Sister's eldest sister, who died of a lightning strike, once voluntarily condensed her cultivation and turned into a peach wood magic sword, following Ge Hongwen.

Xu Qing stood in the backyard of the coffin shop, looking at the big peach tree in front of him.

In the same place, in a different time dimension, the little Daoist Ge Hongwen had also stayed here...

Xu Qing suddenly remembered that two hundred years ago, Hu Baosong, who was drunk all day, dreamed of Peach Third Sister entrusting him with a dream, and then he realized, determined to quit drinking, and buried the wine gourd he carried with him under the peach tree.

Now the old fox is sleeping in the Huyang Mausoleum, but this wine gourd might still be under this peach tree.

Xu Qing didn't open his five-flavor consciousness early and couldn't distinguish the taste of grain and wine, so he put the matter of the gourd aside for the time being.

Now his five-flavor consciousness has been opened, but it is just the right time for future generations to enjoy the shade and taste the century-old wine!

Thinking of this, Xu Qing immediately took out an iron shovel and began to estimate the position around the peach tree.

Under Peach Third Sister's body, there is more than one gourd of wine buried.

At the beginning, Zichen, the mother of Daoist Yizhen, buried a jar of wine in the Five Old Temple. Daoist Yizhen thought her mother buried it for Hu Baosong.

It wasn't until later that she saw the letter left by Hu Baosong that she completely realized it.

It turned out that Daoist Yizhen's mother was from Shaofu, and on the side of Shaofu, when a daughter was born in each family, parents would bury a jar of daughter red as a necessary item for marrying a daughter.

Yizhen didn't know why, so she brought the jar of wine to the coffin shop to pay homage to Hu Baosong. After reading the letter left by Hu Baosong, she understood that the wine was left by her mother for her.

At that time, Xu Qing helped Daoist Yizhen dig a pit under the peach tree and buried the wine jar with special significance, saying that when the peach blossoms in the courtyard bloom in the future and the time is right, Daoist Yizhen would come to take it herself.

Xu Qing was greedy, but he wouldn't move Daoist Yizhen's "dowry," but Hu Baosong's wine gourd was different!

Here, Xu Qing turned his back to Peach Third Sister and began to move earth and dig a pit in front of the peach tree. Behind him, Peach Third Sister was still lying on the stone table, dizzy, as if she were drunk, making silly laughs.

Even if she were a tree demon who had lived for nearly a thousand years, she had never seen so much incense, and listening to what Sect Leader Xu meant, this 200,000 incense was just the salary of a branch hall master for four or five years.

She didn't dare to think about how much incense she would save if she worked under Xu Qing for a few hundred years?

With this incense, let alone thunder disaster, even the more powerful fire and wind disasters, it was not impossible for her to survive!

Peach Third Sister was laughing silly, fantasizing about a beautiful future, when she suddenly felt an unusual feeling from her body.

She woke up suddenly and looked back. When she saw the shovel handle Xu Qing inserted into the dirt pit, she was horrified, "What are you doing?"

Xu Qing silently pulled out the iron shovel and said expressionlessly, "Pay attention when you take root in the future, don't stab everywhere! Look, you dug to the tree root with just one shovel. Fortunately, my iron shovel is of good quality and didn't break, otherwise you would have to pay for my iron shovel!"

Peach Third Sister looked at Xu Qing in disbelief. You dug my root, and still let me pay you money?

This shovel shoveled away more than half of the good mood brought by her 200,000 incense.

Thinking that she would be driven by this shameless human for at least decades in the future, Peach Third Sister felt that the future was bleak.

But when she thought about the lifespan of a tree demon and the short lifespan of a human, her heart calmed down again.

She is a peach tree demon. As long as she survives the thunder disaster, she can increase her lifespan by at least a thousand years, while a human surviving the thunder disaster will not have

Thinking of this, Peach Third Sister's gaze toward Xu Qing becomes gentle.

The Sect Master, after all, has the grace of recreating her; even if the other party is a bit more unconventional, it is nothing, and she can endure it.

Xu Qing, seeing Peach Third Sister's gaze full of love and tolerance, feels a burst of suspicion in his heart.

Does this peach tree demon have some special hobby?

To verify his thoughts, he subconsciously picks up the iron shovel and pokes the tree roots in the dirt pit again.

"..."

Peach Third Sister, with her hands behind her back, comes to the side of the pit, still not showing the slightest anger.

She stretches her neck to look into the pit and asks, "What are you looking for?"

"Wine."

Peach Third Sister realizes, "So it's that; however, I have quite a lot of wine here, which one are you looking for?"

"Quite a lot of wine?" Xu Qing asks suspiciously, "Besides the wine jars that Senior Sister Yizhen and I buried, isn't there only that wine gourd of Hu Baosong's left?"

Peach Third Sister blinks and says, "Five hundred years ago, that talented scholar who drank and wrote poetry buried two jars of fine wine here, saying he would wait until he retired and returned home to drink the fine wine and get drunk."

"Unfortunately, later the country was in turmoil and there were wars everywhere, so I never heard from him again."

Peach Third Sister extends her white, rosy palm, raises her index finger, and hooks it toward the ground; immediately, two five-hundred-year-old wine jars break through the soil.

Five hundred years, can this wine still be drunk?

Xu Qing harbors doubts.

After Peach Third Sister digs out the two jars of wine, her hands do not stop: "This is a jar of wine buried by a resident three hundred years ago, along with some gold, silver, and valuables."

"This is the wine gourd buried by Hu Baosong more than a hundred years ago."

Over the past thousand years, many strange and curious things have been buried around the peach tree, and perhaps the most common among them are wine and gold and silver treasures.

Xu Qing clicks his tongue in wonder: "It's truly strange; when they came to bury things, did no one dig up the treasures left by their predecessors?"

"It's not that they couldn't dig them up, but that I controlled the surrounding land. Wherever old items were buried, the soil and stones became as solid as iron and metal. Outsiders find it hard to dig into them, so they naturally look for soft ground and avoid the old marks."

In Peach Third Sister's words, there hides a trace of imperceptible loneliness and sorrow.

"Why do you do this?" Xu Qing asks.

Peach Third Sister smiles slightly, looks at the sky outside the courtyard, and says softly, "I hope for the return of those old friends to dig up the items they once hid. If I could see familiar faces again, even this thousand-year loneliness could be comforted."

"..."

Xu Qing raises an eyebrow; no wonder this peach tree would get depressed from time to time; it turns out its personality is just like that.

"Since that's the case, why are you giving these buried treasures to me today?"

Peach Third Sister withdraws her gaze, her expression somewhat complex as she says, "Hu Baosong lived here for nearly two hundred years. He entered the path of cultivation and was the longest-lived among everyone, but he still couldn't withstand the erosion of time."

"If even Hu Baosong is like this, how could others come back to take out these buried treasures?"

"They, perhaps like these buried treasures, have already returned to dust and earth."

After Peach Third Sister finishes saying this, the large peach tree behind her seems to become wilted and dejected.

Xu Qing doesn't need to think to know that this peach tree is definitely depressed again.