Chapter 337 The shocking truth, can't wait a moment
"The aura of these two peach pits is not the innate spiritual root fruit."
Li Dingguo has a five-colored sacred tree as his life spirit root, so he can naturally distinguish the difference between innate aura and acquired aura.
“However, the aura left by these two peach pits is of extremely high grade, far exceeding any spiritual fruit I have ever come into contact with. They are at least acquired spiritual fruits, and they are not ordinary acquired spiritual fruits.”
So far, Li Dingguo has never seen any acquired spiritual root of good quality, let alone eaten acquired spiritual fruit of this level.
One of the purposes of his trip south with Wan'er this time was to go to Beimang Mountain outside Luoyang City and seize the Kang family's spiritual roots and the hidden spiritual land.
While the government troops led by the new governor of the Three Borders, Hong Chengchou, have not yet launched a counterattack, he should first get the top-grade acquired spiritual root Phoenix Blood Fruit Tree mentioned by the big eagle and accomplish this important task.
In about ten days, the nine phoenix blood fruits produced by the phoenix blood fruit tree will be ripe, so there is plenty of time now.
He never imagined that this time when he personally led the army south and captured Yumen Ferry, the most important pass fortress in the Yellow River Basin, he would actually see traces of a kind of acquired spiritual root peach tree again.
From the two peach pits collected by the female manager of the Tian family, Li Dingguo could clearly sense the aura of extremely high-grade spiritual roots.
After using his spiritual power to read the letter in the large wooden box, Li Dingguo finally understood the general reason behind the incident.
"Wan'er, this female shopkeeper who is in charge of this business is indeed not as simple as she seems."
Li Dingguo explained to Wan'er, "The reason why the letter that Tian Shenglan gave to her most capable subordinate was not destroyed after being read by the female shopkeeper named Tian Xiaomei is because it is a plan that contains a lot of information about the Tian family's plans for the past few years."
"As one of Tian Shenglan's most trusted confidants, Tian Xiaomei naturally had to carry out the plan step by step. She was afraid that she might remember it wrong, so she kept the plan that contained many of the Tian family's secrets."
"Tian Shenglan, the head of the Tian family, was just an ordinary merchant's daughter more than 20 years ago. However, she had an adventure in the Longmen Grand Canyon north of Yumen Ferry, and according to the clues she got from the adventure, she discovered an ownerless secret place."
"Some of the relevant ancient books we have read mentioned that secret realms are also a type of spiritual land. This is because there is a special space array that completely isolates it from the outside world, thus forming a special spiritual land isolated from the world."
"Any secret realm has a characteristic. It will usually exclude any cultivators who do not belong to the secret realm itself. Only when the formation portal is opened regularly can cultivators from the outside world enter. However, after entering for a few days, they will be repelled by the special laws of time and space."
"Unlike normal spiritual places, any secret place will be impossible to occupy if you cannot crack and control its protective magic circle."
"It was only after Tian Shenglan had an encounter and obtained an ancient inheritance that he learned about the existence of this secret realm and how to enter it. However, he could not truly occupy this secret realm. He only entered it every twenty years when the secret realm was open."
"So far, Tian Shenglan has only entered this ancient secret realm twice."
As a junior formation grandmaster, Li Dingguo's understanding of formations is much stronger than Wan'er's.
Although Wan'er currently possesses talent in this area, she is ultimately no match for Li Dingguo, who is often instilled with knowledge related to the Human Emperor Cauldron.
Wan'er is currently only a junior formation master, junior alchemist, and junior weapon refiner, and has not even reached the master level.
He then said to Wan'er, "These two peach pits are from the acquired top-grade spiritual root peach tree in the secret realm. They only produce spiritual peaches once every twenty years. They were left behind after the female shopkeeper ate all the flesh."
"She must have wanted to keep the peach pit and plant it in the Tian family's spiritual garden to obtain a second-rate acquired spiritual peach tree."
"The acquired high-grade spiritual peach in the secret realm is the hub of the protective formation that suppresses the secret realm. Without cracking and controlling the formation, it cannot be moved at all, otherwise the secret realm will collapse instantly, and all the practitioners who enter the secret realm will be buried with it."
"The fact that Tian Shenglan was able to lead the Tian family to rise so quickly was closely related to the adventure she encountered."
"The reason why the Tian family has so many evil geniuses is also related to the fact that she obtained thirty-six acquired high-grade spiritual peaches twenty years ago."
"Any acquired spiritual fruit tree that has entered the highest grade is not a simple spiritual root, but a rare treasure that can only be found by chance."
"This acquired high-grade spiritual peach obtained by the Tian family will definitely improve the aptitude and talent of the cultivators, increase their comprehension, and allow them to quickly improve their cultivation while helping them comprehend the various techniques of their own cultivation."
"Unfortunately, we are a step too late. The thirty ripe peaches produced by the peach tree were picked by Tian Shenglan and Tian Xiaomei a month ago. They also picked all the ripe spiritual herbs and roots in the secret realm, and used a top-grade treasure ship to transport these precious cultivation resources back to the Tian family's main residence."
"These two spiritual peaches were given to Tian Xiaomei by Tian Shenglan."
"For the past twenty years, Tian Xiaomei has been here, ostensibly guarding the business here in Yumendu, but in fact, she has been secretly guarding the secret realm to ensure that it is not discovered by outsiders."
"In view of Tian Xiaomei's hard work and great contributions, Tian Shenglan rewarded her with two acquired high-grade spiritual peaches at once. The reason why Tian Xiaomei is so powerful in combat is closely related to her continuous consumption of these magical peaches."
At this point, Li Dingguo's face became very solemn, and he said to Wan'er, "Since the Tian family has become our mortal enemy, we must destroy them as soon as possible."
"Twenty years ago, Tian Shenglan obtained a batch of thirty acquired spiritual peaches. Not only did it give birth to several evil geniuses in the family, but her own cultivation has also reached the peak of level five."
"Moreover, she has already planted the thirty peach pits left after eating the flesh twenty years ago in a large spiritual land of the family. Now, they have grown into thirty acquired middle-grade spiritual peach trees!"
"These thirty acquired middle-grade peach trees bloom and bear fruit once every ten years. Each tree bears seventy-two fruits. Next month will be the time for a new batch of peaches to mature."
“If we allow this batch of more than 2,000 acquired mid-grade spiritual peaches to be consumed by the talented warriors of the Tian family, God knows how many geniuses will appear in the He Tian family!”
"This is also the reason why among all the innate and acquired spiritual roots, spiritual fruit-type spiritual roots are so precious."
"This time, Tian Shenglan got another thirty top-grade spiritual peach cores. She will definitely plant them in the family's only large spiritual land. Ten years later, the family's spiritual peach garden will have sixty middle-grade spiritual peach trees and hundreds of later-world-grade spiritual peach trees!"
“Although a large spiritual land can only support so many acquired spiritual roots, if we allow the Tian family to continue to grow like a snowball, who knows how terrible it will become in a few decades!”
"This will be the root of horror!"
Li Dingguo's face was also turning green and red, and he was obviously very frightened. "I finally understand why the top-grade innate spiritual root peach tree in heaven in the ancient myths and legends was constantly divided and thus fell in grade because of the damage to its origin."
"A Xiantian Spiritual Peach Garden that can be expanded in large quantities is much more valuable than an Xiantian Top-Grade Peach Tree."
"Especially for a superpower like the Ancient Heavenly Court, on the surface they downgraded the top-grade innate spiritual root peach tree, but secretly they used a large number of high-grade, medium-grade, and low-grade innate peaches to allow their own power to grow rapidly in a cheating manner."
"For any top-level power, the value of the Ten Innate Spiritual Roots Peach Tree is definitely worthy of being called the number one spiritual root in the world. It is of great help to the development and growth of a power!"
When he heard about this myth before, Li Dingguo was still wondering why the legendary ancient heaven would differentiate a top-grade innate spiritual root into a large number of upper-grade innate spiritual roots, middle-grade innate spiritual roots and upper-grade innate spiritual root peach trees.
On the surface, this was an extremely wasteful behavior, as it destroyed an extremely high-quality innate spiritual peach tree.
But after careful consideration, I realized the horror of this wasteful behavior.
Under this operation, a large number of monstrous geniuses can be cultivated for the Heavenly Court. With the magical assistance of the innate peaches at all levels, these geniuses can make continuous rapid progress in their cultivation, thus cultivating a large number of masters and rapidly enhancing the grassroots strength of the Heavenly Court.
"Brother, the Tian family must be destroyed immediately and their Lingtao Garden must be seized!"
As a big foodie, Wan'er's eyes turned red after hearing what Li Dingguo said!
But she has never eaten any acquired spiritual fruit!
Now there is a huge spiritual fruit garden right before her eyes, how can she hold back?
This large Lingtao Garden must be controlled by our own family!
"Brother, does this letter mention where the Tian family's only great spiritual land is?"
"If not, immediately give an order to Wei Jinfan and have the Military Intelligence Department immediately dispatch all the capable personnel to find out the location of that great spiritual land as soon as possible!"
Wan'er thought about the Tian family's peach garden. In ten days, more than two thousand peaches from thirty medium-quality peach trees would mature. She could no longer stay there and asked Li Dingguo in a hurry.
There are so many mid-quality spiritual peaches that you must get them and eat them slowly.
"Wan'er, among these great spiritual lands owned by the big Shanxi merchants, except for the Wang family and the Kang family's great spiritual lands which are very secretive and we just happened to know about them, our intelligence department has roughly found out about the great spiritual lands of the other big Shanxi merchant families." Li Dingguo said to Wan'er, "This includes the Tian family which has only risen for more than 20 years and was created by Tian Shenglan."
"According to the military intelligence department, the great sacred land owned by the Tian family is not too far from Yumen Ferry. It is located in Jiwang Mountain, 25,000 miles to the east."
"This Jiwang Mountain is the place where Shennong and Houji in ancient mythology first planted grains. It is full of mystery."
“But I didn’t expect that there was a big spiritual place hidden in it.”
"This great spiritual land, as revealed in this letter, is protected by an ancient protective array, which may have been left by the ancient Shennong and Houji."
"Many thousand-year-old families may not have such a precious land as the Great Spiritual Land, and only a very small number of them may have it. But I didn't expect that every one of these big Jin merchants has it. Their rise is not accidental."
"This should be due to luck, or perhaps a change of destiny, so that they can assist the Later Jin Tartars to rise completely and replace the Ming Dynasty."
At this time, Li Dingguo finally realized what it meant to be unpredictable.
"Brother, according to the information those two big hawks passed on to you, the nine Phoenix Blood Fruits produced by the top-grade acquired spiritual root Phoenix Blood Fruit tree in the great spiritual land of Beimang Mountain in the north of Luoyang City, where the Kang family is located, will take nearly ten days to mature."
"Why don't we go to Jiwang Mountain first and seize the Tian family's great spiritual land."
“It would be terrible if those mid-grade spiritual peaches that are about to mature were eaten by others.”
"Tian Shenglan has just left Yumen Ferry. He is likely to plant peach pits in the Jiwang Mountain Spiritual Land, waiting for this batch of acquired medium-quality spiritual peaches to mature so that he can pick them in time for use."
"If we are lucky, maybe we can kill this dangerous woman Tian Shenglan this time and put an end to endless troubles in the future. We may even get a few high-quality spiritual peaches that she has not yet allocated to try."
"This Tian Shenglan will definitely not distribute all the high-quality peaches she picked in the secret realm this time so quickly. She also needs to use them to assist in her cultivation."
"After all, as a woman, if her own cultivation cannot create an overwhelming advantage over the Tian family, she will not be able to maintain her position as the head of the family. She may be replaced by the family members at any time."
Wan'er's analysis is also very reasonable, and the actual situation is most likely to be like this.
If we can kill Tian Shenglan, this genius with amazing luck, this time, it will be the best way to eliminate the trouble forever.
The Tian family, headed by Tian Shenglan, has so many acquired spiritual fruits, which is definitely a huge hidden danger to Li Dingguo and the Fuxing Army, who have a life-and-death feud with the Tian family.
If the Tian family is not destroyed as soon as possible, we will most likely face a huge crisis in the future.
Treasures like acquired spiritual fruits are of great help to practitioners in the Qi Refining Realm.
Even though the Renaissance Army has grown to such a large scale now, and has destroyed countless officials and gentry families in the past few years, and even looted the Fan family's old nest and the Wang family's secret spiritual land, it has not obtained any acquired spiritual roots, especially acquired spiritual fruit trees.
It is conceivable how rare this kind of acquired spiritual roots of the highest quality are.
Now, look what’s good. The Tian family has suddenly developed an orchard that is planted with a large number of medium-quality and low-quality acquired spiritual peaches!
Before coming to Yumen Ferry this time, Li Dingguo would never believe it.
Although the seventy-two spiritual peaches produced by a medium-quality spiritual peach tree in the future take twenty years to ripen, the eighty-one spiritual peaches produced by a low-quality spiritual peach tree in the future take ten years to ripen.
But I can’t stand the large number!
Not to mention that in the Tian family's spiritual fruit garden, there were thirty medium-quality spiritual peach trees that were about to ripen. Even Li Dingguo could not resist this temptation.
"Well, without further ado."
Li Dingguo thought about it for a moment and agreed with Wan'er, "We should immediately arrange the military affairs here, and then set off with the two golden eagles and two goshawks."
"As long as we act secretly and don't let the enemy notice us before launching a surprise attack, and don't let them form a formation to counterattack, even if the Tian family has tens of thousands of warriors in that great spiritual land, they won't pose much of a threat to us."
Ever since his innate divine artifact, the Xuanhuang Chaos Bell, had lifted two seals in succession, Li Dingguo's innate Dharma image had been strengthened synchronously. Now that his innate Dharma image's attack had greatly increased in power, it was least afraid of large numbers of people.
As long as the enemy does not form a battle formation and does not have a life-saving artifact to protect the body, for practitioners below level five, a single sweep will wipe out a large number of them.
This is the manifestation of the fighting power of a great master with a super powerful trump card, and it is also the reason why this kind of master can be called the master of the clan.
"This is great!"
Wan'er couldn't wait any longer. Seeing that Li Dingguo agreed to her suggestion, she immediately cheered and said hurriedly, "Let's go quickly, find Wu Hongai and Huang Zhanglong to arrange the military affairs, and then set off immediately!"
Thinking about the large amount of mid-quality spiritual peaches that she would get soon, how could Wan'er, a big foodie, stay any longer?
The two men quickly walked out of the Tian family store, each flew to the backs of the two large golden eagles waiting outside, and said something to them.
The two golden eagles then flew high into the sky and soon found Wu Hongai, the commander of the Suzaku Corps, and Huang Zhanglong, the commander of the Black Tortoise First Battalion, and informed them that they would be leaving temporarily.
"Commander-in-chief, don't worry."
Wu Hongai said, "Next, after our army has dealt with all the aftermath of Yumen Ferry, we will leave 10,000 soldiers and 10 treasure ships to garrison, and then the army will quickly return north on the treasure ships to capture the two river fortresses along the river, Hukou Mountain and Mengmen Mountain, which we missed when we came here."
"Although these two riverside fortresses are located in steep terrain, there are not many defenders, and they are both medium-sized military forts. They can't stop a charge from our army at all, so we can take them down one after another."
Although she didn't know why Li Dingguo and Wan'er were in such a hurry to leave, she thought it must be very important.
The following series of actions were a piece of cake for their own army. It wouldn't be a big problem with the presence of Li Dingguo and Wan'er in charge of the army.
"Well, that's good."
Li Dingguo nodded and said, "After Wan'er and I finish our business, we will return to Yumen Ferry as soon as possible."
"The Yumendu Fortress we just captured is located at the forefront of the border with the enemy. We need to complete the deployment of the protective formation as soon as possible to avoid any accidents that may cause this important fortress to be captured by the enemy army and lost again."
"I don't have enough time to set up a defense formation for this large and important town, but Hong Chengchou is not ready to lead the government troops to launch a counterattack, so there is no need to worry for now."
After spending some time to arrange the military affairs, Li Dingguo and Wan'er quickly prepared to set off.
Now that he has his own divine artifact, the Human Emperor Cauldron, with a greatly increased internal space capacity, Li Dingguo's travel is very convenient. The space inside the cauldron is always stocked with various supplies that are enough for him to use for a long time.
"Chirp..."
"Chirp..."
Following a few bird calls, two golden eagles, carrying Li Dingguo and Wan'er, and two large goshawks soared into the sky. After reaching a height of thousands of feet, they flew towards the eastern sky.
They were extremely fast, like four streams of light, two gold and two green, and soon disappeared at the end of the sky.
(End of this chapter)
