Chapter 788: Three-Pearl Spirit Tree Bears Immortality, Primordial Plague Locusts Transform into Heavenly Punishment

Yan Shu divided three pearl leaves for Ning Qingchen, but saw her come to a small stream, pick a jade stone the size of a peck from the stream, polish it into a pot with ice soul cold light and ice chips, and then sacrifice the Taiyin treasure to draw a stream of water from the stream.

The crystal-clear stream was pure and contained clear spiritual qi, which was top-grade good water.

And the spirit jade picked up at will from the stream was also top-grade spirit jade.

Spirit spring and beautiful vessel, Ning Qingchen put the jade egg of Feng Shi into the pot, soaked it in the spirit spring, and then added three smears of pearl leaves, letting the sun true fire within the Feng Shi jade egg slowly bake the spring water purified by the Taiyin treasure.

Ning Ning Shimei Ning carefully held the jade pot in her palm, warming her slightly cold palms, and at the same time blew air toward the edge of the cup with small breaths.

Looking at Yan Shu's surprised eyes, Ning Qingchen's eyes were slightly guilty, but immediately became serious again: "I want to let Feng Shi taste it too!"

Yan Shu's eyes turned to blame—you clearly want to taste Feng Shi!

He immediately said: "Give me a cup too! Qian Shidi hasn't tasted this yet! I want to drink a sip first..."

Ning Qingchen said righteously: "Yan Yan Shixiong Qian wants to eat tea eggs, but it's impossible to give him eggs, but the tea leaves that have been soaked can be given."

The jade egg shook slightly in the pot, seemingly protesting.

Yan Shu took down the green jade gourd from his waist, and poured the jade pearl tea handed over by Ning Qingchen into it.

Hearing him laugh: "This green jade gourd was also handed over by Qian Shidi Qian last time when he gave me longevity wine. It's a pity that the wine was drunk long ago, and the taste has been forgotten for a long time, otherwise, I might be able to find a way to take out the Immortal Divine Medicine."

Saying this, he looked up and took a sip of the jade pearl tea—spirit tea brewed with Feng Shi's jade egg and Three-Pearl Tree leaves.

Not to mention this casual combination of Ning Ning Shimei Ning, it was also full of fragrance and long aftertaste.

Especially when taking water with Taiyin vessel, and the fire used was Feng Shi's sun jade egg, the harmony of yin and yang fully exerted the taste of the Three-Pearl Tree's jade-like beauty and pearl-like softness.

Dan Chenzi, who was nearby, smelled that faint tea fragrance and kept twitching his nose.

He glanced at Yan Shu's side from afar, then pushed his disciple Ling Gong beside him and scolded: "What about the Three-Pearl Tree flowers and leaves from before?"

Ling Gong quickly handed over the pill: "The Three-Pearl Tree's medicinal properties are gentle and round, and it naturally has a pill nature, but it is difficult to increase that medicinal property."

"With the three pearls of the Three-Pearl Tree as the monarch medicine, pure yin and pure yang as the minister medicine, and the assistance of many spirit medicines with gentle medicinal properties, the disciple tried his best, but the pill could not exceed three turns."

Dan Chenzi took the spirit pill and first saw that the medicinal property was round, the spiritual light was upright and not evil, condensed and not scattered, and the light color was pure cyan, which was clearly top-grade.

He raised his hand and took a pill. The medicinal property was indeed gentle, slightly better than taking it directly.

But the tasteless spirit pill in his mouth, compared with the faint tea fragrance in his nose that hooked his gluttonous worm, became more obvious.

Dan Chenzi immediately straightened his face and examined: "I ask you, if you want to use the Three-Pearl Tree as medicine, what should you do?"

Ling Gong frowned and thought for a long time before hesitating: "This thing's nature is too gentle, it can be taken directly! Although refining it into a spirit pill has a slight benefit, the gain is not worth the loss. If it falls into the hands of a vulgar pill master, it may even refine the spirit medicine! Even if I want to refine a spirit pill, the disciple can only use pure yin and pure yang materials, and refine it with the principle of yin and yang rushing together..."

Dan Chenzi listened, although he was somewhat satisfied because Ling Gong was frank and did not use Pill Dao to correct all things, and did not stick to the fact that spirit medicine must be refined into spirit pills.

But he still raised his hand and hit his back head twice.

"Stupid, stupid, stupid... You know the principle of yin and yang, why don't you know how to use moon dew and sun fire to combine spirit spring to rush and brew? This simplest water refining method can exert the three flavors of this medicine. How can I have such a stupid disciple?"

Ling Gong touched his head, but couldn't figure it out, and said stupidly: "Water refining? Isn't this making tea?"

Dan Chenzi's eyes widened: "If you know it, why don't you brew a pot for your master!"

Ling Gong hurriedly took the order, gathered with his junior brothers and sisters, and took out a set of jade pot magic tools. He also took three pearl tree flowers, leaves, and even the most precious pearl fruits, used the stored moon dew, combined with his own pure yang pill fire, and brewed a pot of tea.

Respectfully offered!

Dan Chenzi took a sip beautifully, feeling that the tea fragrance was too heavy, and the rushing and combining qi, although wandering all over his body, felt quite comfortable, but in the end, the medicinal property was too strong, losing the indifferent taste.

He couldn't help but frown: "Don't add pearl fruits next time! The medicinal property is too heavy..."

"Oh!"

Ling Gong honestly responded, but there was a trace of grievance in his voice.

The Three-Pearl Tree originally had many flowers and leaves but few fruits. Previously, they had picked hundreds of pearl leaves, and there were about a hundred pearl flowers. Only spirit fruits were no more than a dozen. The Doushu Palace crowd treasured them! This time, it was to show filial piety that he took one of the three spirit fruits bestowed upon him and offered it to his master.

But I didn't expect that instead of getting any benefits!

"This water and fire are still a bit off. I don't know how Shaoqing brewed it so well? The fire qi is so indifferent, and even carries a vibrant vitality. This realm of all things competing for development is still in front of my eyes..."

Even so, Dan Chenzi kept nodding: "Good tea, good tea!"

Holding the fragrant spirit tea, Dan Chenzi felt relaxed in body and mind, and was suddenly touched by something.

"Three-Pearl Tree, flowers and leaves are tea, only spirit fruits are close to medicine..."

"Although tea is also medicine, now the water of yin and yang combines with this medicine, but it is not indifferent, indicating that there is still a trace of fierceness in its medicinal property. But, the Three-Pearl Tree is like jade and pearl, the most peaceful and round, how can there be fierceness?"

"Wait..."

A flash of spiritual light suddenly crossed his mind, clearing all of Dan Chenzi's senses.

"The medicinal properties of an object do not just exist in the species itself; they are determined by the water and soil!"

"And the greatest influence on the water and soil here is the Immortal Divine Tree, so this trace of ferocity is the immortal medicinal property it has been stained with! The Three-Pearl Tree is like pearls and jade; it is a natural tree of the Dao of alchemy. It's just that its flowers and leaves ultimately failed to reach perfection. To carry this property, one must have the fruit reach fullness to, in the dark, carry that trace of elusive immortal medicinal property!"

"In other words, this is the pill-head of the Immortal Divine Medicine!"

"One must gather the many spiritual roots in the vicinity that have been influenced by the immortal medicinal property to synthesize a pill-head! Only then can one hook out the true hidden medicinal property of the Immortal Divine Tree and draw out the Immortal Divine Medicine!"

Thinking of this, Dan Chenzi felt his mood suddenly grow excited, and he slapped his thigh hard.

The Hong Xuesheng Fu Fu Lao Mo in the distance heard the slapping sound and instantly perked up! Transforming into a streak of blood light, he arrived beside Dan Chenzi and said joyfully: "Old Daoist, have you thought of a way to harvest the Immortal Divine Medicine?"

Hearing this, Dan Chenzi immediately knew that the trace of wild joy that had leaked from his spiritual platform just now had been sensed by the demon lord in the old demon's heart.

He immediately guarded his spiritual platform, letting only a sense of pure joy show, and said: "Good tea, truly good tea!"

The old demon was instantly disappointed. He leaned forward, sniffed the tea fragrance in Dan Chenzi's cup, and said: "Is it really that good? Let me smell it... Uh... it is indeed good tea. Using the spiritual fruit of the Three-Pearl Tree to brew tea, Old Dan-head, you are being extravagant!"

The crowd nearby, who had been secretly paying attention upon hearing "Immortal Divine Medicine," were all momentarily disappointed.

No matter how good the spiritual tea was, it wasn't as tempting as the Immortal Medicine!

Dan Chenzi felt a sense of relief in his heart, but then he heard the Hong Xuesheng Fu Fu Lao Mo's demonic transmission in his ear: "Old Daoist, I helped you deceive the others!"

"You can't hide this from me. I spread my Ten Directions Demon Lords all around you. The moment your mind lost its guard just now, the wild joy within was definitely not something spiritual tea could induce."

"Speak quickly! The two of us haven't split much loot yet, and my Demonic Path has never been greedy; our reputation for cooperation is well-known. Just thirty percent will do..."

"Otherwise, I'm going to shout!"

Thoughts raced through Dan Chenzi's mind. After a moment of silence, he took advantage of bowing his head to drink tea and transmitted: "Fine! But there are too many people watching my Doushuai Palace; there are many things I cannot do myself!"

"If you want the Immortal Medicine, you must gather the fruits of the nine spiritual roots in the vicinity! I cannot handle those fierce insects and strange beasts. Since you want thirty percent, you do it!"

The Hong Xuesheng Fu Fu Lao Mo shook his head slightly and held up a palm.

"In that case, thirty percent isn't enough. I want fifty percent!"

"Fifty percent? You demon, you're dreaming..."

On this side, the two parties went back and forth, haggling.

On the other side, Yan Shu also discovered clues from the Green Jade Gourd: "Three-Pearl Tree, Whirl-Tree, Jade Tree, Crimson Tree, Sandalwood... So that's it. Junior brother is worthy of being the inheritor of the 'Supreme Pill Scripture.' If it were left to me, I wouldn't be able to comprehend the secret of this Immortal Divine Medicine even in ten million years!"

As Yan Shu spoke, he covered his head.

Within his mind, the wisdom of the Demonic Path was raging. He had no comprehension of the Immortal Divine Medicine, but he had fully grasped the Immortal Demonic Medicine!

He even understood all the mysteries of which Primordial Spirit True Immortal to choose to trap here, how to use their longevity Primordial Spirits to refine the Immortal Demonic Medicine, achieve another kind of Primordial Spirit Great Medicine, and refine a Primordial Spirit of endless lifespan to attain the path of the Yu Yu Changsheng Demon.

Yan Shu used his Heart Sword to forcefully sever this Primordial Spirit temptation and pulled his thoughts back to the righteous path.

He appeared to stroll unintentionally with Ning Qingchen toward that patch of Wood Grain, only to see the Nine-Ear Grain stalks on the jade ridges towering like trees. Their stalks were hollow like bamboo, and their leaves were like jade. Only the grain ears hanging down from the tops emitted nine-colored strange light, truly a rare sight.

The wind blew through the rice waves, the rustling sound like that of a konghou, entering his ears and causing his mind to gradually settle, with many distracting thoughts slowly precipitating.

There was also the fresh fragrance of grass, trees, and grain wafting toward him—fragrant but not cloying. Just smelling it gave one a sense of fullness.

Seeing Xiao Yu, who had been watching for a long time, said blankly: "It's truly wonderful! This is the fragrance of heavenly prosperity. If this fragrance could drift to the Central Lands, come autumn, it would merge with the fragrance of the human world's harvest. With such heaven-man resonance, the world would have a great harvest, and there would be no more famine this year!"

The old Daoist nearby looked at the compass in his hand, but no matter how he calculated, he could only calculate the hexagrams of Abundance and Prosperity.

He couldn't help but smile bitterly!

"Sure enough, where there is heavenly auspiciousness, there must be ferocity following. Just looking at this field of immortal grain, who could guess that a group of Primordial Plague Locusts is buried within? These locusts inherit the qi of heavenly punishment. Once they scatter into the Central Lands, there will surely be wars everywhere, accompanied by floods and droughts. They will gnaw on human corpses and carry plagues everywhere. Such various pestilential qi will make them multiply even more. If millions of these locusts fly toward the world, I fear they could even bite through the bones of Primordial Spirit True Immortals!"

"Let alone the imperial court, even the Divine Court couldn't withstand it!"

"In the final years of the Five-Colored Divine Court and the Ten Thousand Demon Divine Court, the Heavenly Realm also suffered this locust plague, which even ate the officials of the Heavenly Court, and even the heavenly soldiers and generals!"

Yan Shu also used his magic eyes to look, and sure enough, in the black soil where the roots of the Wood Grain dropped and decayed, there were indeed five-colored, gorgeous locusts lurking.

There were even tiny insect eggs like dust buried in the soil, but most had been rotted by the water and soil qi, leaving only remnants, with only a few intact.

Only then did he know that although the Primordial Plague Locusts fed on Wood Grain, the five-element qi within the Wood Grain was also restraining them.

Adult plague locusts ate the five grains and gnawed on the grain leaves, but the young locusts and eggs were dissolved by the five-element qi. Once the Wood Grain was all harvested and this balance destroyed, I fear the Primordial Plague Locusts would immediately hatch on a large scale and survive in large numbers.

One must know that the Primordial Plague Locusts have a strange ability: the larger the population, the faster they develop, the more poisonous their divine abilities, and the fiercer they are when gathered in groups.

Once millions of plague locusts gather, even a Primordial Spirit True Immortal would have no choice but to flee.

Once such rapidly growing Primordial Plague Locusts form groups, they will gnaw the remaining Wood Grain to nothing, then search everywhere for grass, trees, and spiritual roots to gnaw on, and the desolation left behind will hatch more insect eggs.

In less than a few decades, they will gather in groups on this Jin Ao Island. If they absorb the various end-of-kalpa qi from the Return to Ruins and fly out of the Return to Ruins, I fear there will be a terrifying disaster in the cosmic realms!

"We must absolutely not harvest the Wood Grain here on a large scale!" Yan Shu thought clearly about the key point and couldn't help but turn pale: "If I really lead these insects to the outside world, I fear I would be the eternal sinner of the cosmic realms. How many tragedies of people exchanging children to eat will be caused by me?"

The old Daoist saw that Yan Shu understood the crux of the matter and smiled, comforting him: "Yan Shixiong brother, taking a little less will be fine."

He pointed to the side, where the many noble families of the Southern Jin and Prince Cao of the Northern Wei were all eyeing the Wood Grain covetously not far away. The romantic noble family disciples, one by one, wished they could drill their eyes into it.

"Look at those Central Lands noble families; who doesn't want to pick a few ears?"

"The immortal grain's auspiciousness is one thing, but the key is the seeds! If they could obtain a few grains and cross-breed them with their own spiritual grain, who knows what kind of spiritual seeds they could cultivate. For these noble families with vast lands, spiritual seeds are like their lives. If the Yellow Millet Rice of the Daoist Sect or the Purple-Veined Dragon Tooth Rice of the Southern Jin could take a step further, just what is grown in the fields every year would be worth countless true talismans."

The old Daoist said enviously: "This is only for those great powers who can have such benefits! We loose cultivators obtaining Dao seeds can only fill our own stomachs!"

"Compared to the benefits they can obtain, it's truly pitifully little!"

Yan Shu thought for a moment and said embarrassedly: "My family's Building Wood Ancestor has leaves that are each an island, and countless spiritual fields have been opened on them to plant the Upper Clarity Jade Sword Grain!"

The old Daoist just smiled bitterly: "I also want to steal a few grains!"

"In those fertile lands of the Central Lands, with the protection of the Land City God, through hard work and cultivation, sweat and spiritual emotion can transform the rice and grow a few stalks of spiritual grain. When the officials collect taxes, as long as the spiritual grain is handed over, one can have a year of peace. Thus, both the imperial court and the people are satisfied, so the Jiangnan region is prosperous and taxes are light!"

"But this kind of transformation seems to be something only rice can do."

"Therefore, the north and the barren, water-scarce lands are deep in poverty. I heard that the ancient sage emperors passed down the five grains; in the past, rice, broomcorn millet, foxtail millet, wheat, and beans all had spiritual grain that could grow due to the resonance between heaven and man. So I want to steal the ancient seeds here to see if I can cross-breed other spiritual seeds that can transform due to human spiritual emotion and the qi of heaven and earth!"

Hearing this, Yan Shu felt great admiration. These three from the side sects were truly people who had experienced the suffering of the lower classes.

Seeing the ancient auspicious spiritual root, they actually had such a wish.

The Samsara travelers nearby also felt greed when looking at the Wood Grain. Even the Lord of Samsara gave them a side quest: collect Wood Grain spiritual seeds, with each type rewarding one thousand morality points! The Wood Grain has nine ears, meaning nine types of spiritual seeds.

One hundred morality points can buy a perfect magic treasure!

One thousand morality points can buy even a magic treasure of slightly inferior essence.

It can be seen how generous the Lord of Samsara was this time...

Moreover, even if they didn't sell them to the Lord of Samsara, there were infinite benefits. Many Samsara travelers from further down the timeline came from worlds that could only rely on spiritual grain to cultivate. Many spiritual medicines were extinct, and pill formulas were lost. Thus, the significance of spiritual seeds that could improve spiritual grain was indescribable!

"That..."

Yan Shu hesitated slightly.

The old Daoist hurriedly said: "Yan Shixiong brother, do not act rashly. The Primordial Plague Locusts will fight to the death upon smelling the qi of spiritual grain. Even hiding a single spiritual seed will invite great disaster!"

He pointed below the jade ridge, and only then did Yan Shu see a few white bones that were almost gnawed away.

"Among them, there were even Yang Spirit cultivators who risked it to plot for it..." The old Daoist said dejectedly: "It's a pity that even their souls couldn't escape."

"Previously, many True Persons dared to attack the Three-Pearl Tree and snatched many flowers and leaves, but no one succeeded in obtaining the Wood Grain spiritual seeds. The difficulty of the Primordial Plague Locusts can be seen from this!"

Yan Shu was silent for a long time before asking: "Can't many Primordial Spirit True Immortals use spiritual treasures to act?"

"If many spiritual treasures act together, what if this Wood Grain land is destroyed? Once the Primordial Plague Locusts are born, everyone present will be trapped in boundless karma."

"If they act alone..."

The old Daoist shook his head: "Prince Cao came over specifically to greet us. There are about a hundred million Primordial Plague Locusts here, which can already evolve into Five-Plague Spiritual Treasures, with power even greater than the imitation spiritual treasures refined by the Heavenly Court's Plague Department, almost evolving six-tenths of the power of the original version."

"And I see that if the Primordial Plague Locusts all come out, I fear they could evolve into Heavenly Punishment Weapons!"

"In the past, the Wang Mu of the West held the Heavenly Punishment, and each of the few Heavenly Punishment Weapons she forged had the power to destroy the world. Therefore, in the past, the Wang Mu of the West was the head of all immortals, holding the punishment of all immortals!"

"Heavenly Punishment Weapon!"

Yan Shu was also shocked in his heart; this thing was already an ancient legend.

The true Heavenly Punishment magic treasures had long been sealed away by the Wang Mu of the West, and the Heavenly Punishment Weapon evolved by these Primordial Plague Locusts might be the only way to witness the Dao of Heavenly Punishment today!

But there was absolutely no one who would want to use their own life to comprehend it...

"I already have some clues on how to obtain the nine grains, but..."

He raised his hand to touch the Green Jade Gourd at his waist, and for a moment, he felt an indescribable hesitation in his heart.

The Shaoqing Sword Immortal was originally the most decisive personality.

But Yan Shu thought of Seeing Xiao Yu and the other two waiting bitterly here, seeking their great wish, and he actually felt a trace of hesitation.