Chapter 83: Peach Elixir of Immortality

The Holy City of the Northern Territory, Yaochi Stone Archway.

The Fairy Lake ripples with colorful waves, giant trees form a forest, flowers are everywhere, cranes and phoenixes sing, and auspicious clouds fill the sky, creating a fairyland-like scene.

Inside the Tianzihao Stone Garden, Ouyang Ming used the Yuantian Baolun to inspect the stones one by one, and finally selected a strip of stone priced at 30,000 kilograms of pure source.

The stone was about five feet long, three feet high, and two feet wide, and weighed no more than three thousand pounds, but the pure source it was priced at was more than ten times the weight of the stone.

The bet is no longer about whether a source will appear in the stone, but whether a divine source will appear, or even the immortal treasure sealed in the divine source.

The stone selected by Ouyang Ming emitted a dazzling golden light under the exploration of his Yuantian Baolun, as if it contained magical treasures, which made the gamblers present extremely excited.

After all, they all bet that Ouyang Ming would win in this gambling game.

Some people looked at Li Zhi with a gloating look in their eyes. What was the difference between gambling on stones with the masters of the Yuanshu family and giving them the source?

Everyone felt a little bit of pity for Li Zhi, the handsome young Taoist priest.

The inexperienced kid is about to make a big mistake.

Although it is a recognized fact that the top-level stone gardens in the stone archways of major holy places produce immortal treasures.

But there is another fact that cannot be ignored, that is, the Tianzihao Stone Gardens in the stone archways of the major holy places are also famous pits that will make countless people who come to gamble on stones lose their pants.

Those stones, which often weigh tens of thousands of yuan, are often hollow. People hold great expectations, but after opening the stones, they find that there is nothing inside.

Therefore, those who dare to select stones from the Tianzihao Stone Garden are all senior and powerful people with rich wealth.

Now, Ouyang Ming, who came from the Ouyang family, one of the four ancient families of source arts, selected a piece of stone that was obviously pregnant with fairy treasures after using source arts, giving everyone hope of victory.

In their view, the pressure had been passed on to Li Zhi.

But just when everyone was waiting to see Li Zhi's embarrassment, Li Zhi stepped forward and asked, "Old senior, have you made your choice?"

Ouyang Ming seemed to be insecure because of Li Zhi's confidence. After thinking for a moment, he said, "The rules are still the same, but I think the details need to be improved."

"What details?" Li Zhi asked in surprise, and thought to himself, "Is this old man planning something bad? Is he going to use his source technique to attack and trick people?"

Ouyang Ming saw that Li Zhi had a puzzled look on his face, so he smiled and said, "After the stone is cut, the value of the treasure minus the cost of buying the stone. After that, whoever cuts the stone with the highest value will win."

Li Zhi thought about it carefully and felt it was reasonable.

At the same time, he secretly admired in his heart, "This old man is quite rigorous. He seems to be worried that I will spend a lot of money to buy those famous stones."

Ouyang Ming's proposal also made those ordinary audience members in the crowd who were loyal to Li Zhi secretly despise him. Was this a sign of giving in after seeing the young Taoist's terrifying financial resources?
At this moment, Queen Mother Yao Chi also spoke up and said, "Senior Ouyang's suggestion is very fair. Young Taoist priest, it's your turn to choose a stone."

For some reason, Li Zhi faintly heard a hint of gloating from the Queen Mother's words, as if the Queen Mother of Yao Chi did not want him to win this bet.

The Saintess of Yaochi asked in a low voice with some concern: "Master Changshou, are you sure?"

Perhaps, she was the only person at the scene who was worried that Li Zhi would lose.

"I will definitely win." Li Zhi smiled and nodded at the Saint Maiden of Yao Chi.

But after seeing this scene, Queen Mother of the West seemed to glare at him, making Li Zhi feel a little puzzled.

Afterwards, Li Zhi began to select stones in the Tianzihao Stone Garden, and at the same time he kept stretching out his hands to measure the height of each stone.

This scene caused everyone present to talk about it.

"Could this young Taoist priest want to pick the biggest stone?"

"What are you doing, young Taoist priest? It seems that you are not proficient in the means of source technique."

"How strange! Is this little Taoist priest planning to compare his height with the stone to determine whether the stone contains any immortal treasures?"

Under the puzzled gaze of the crowd, Li Zhi finally identified the highest stone and jumped on it.

Sitting cross-legged on the tall stone, Li Zhi began to chant scriptures.

Mysterious scriptures emanated from his mouth, and a grand heavenly sound rang out in the stone archway, as if it came from the sound of sacrifices in the ancient times of immortals, or the sound of funerals in the chaotic ancient times.

The sound of Tao was mysterious and grand, but no one present could hear the specific content of the scriptures that Li Zhi was reciting.

I just felt that it was a scripture with a very grand and profound artistic conception, and it seemed to be leading people into the truth, but I just couldn't grasp that feeling.

Even the Queen Mother of the West was no exception and could not hear clearly what sutra Li Zhi was chanting.

Just as everyone was puzzled, a tree suddenly broke through the ground on the ground of the Tianzihao Stone Garden and then grew rapidly.

In just a few breaths, it grew into a towering tree, and its huge crown directly covered the entire Tianzihao Stone Garden.

Afterwards, the mysterious sound of the Tao emanated from the big tree. Everyone felt that they could vaguely hear the specific content of the scriptures, but when they wanted to remember those scriptures, the chanting sound became vague again.

I just can't grasp it no matter what I do. The harder I try, the more vague and lofty the scriptures seem.

"The way of heaven is to reduce the excess and replenish the deficiency. The way of earth is to absorb all things and return them to chaos. The way of man is to establish heaven and earth and cultivate all other ways."

Underground, at the roots of the tree, a three-story altar emanated a mysterious light. Thirty mysterious avenue runes constantly flashed on the altar, and emitted mysterious avenue heavenly sounds, which were then transmitted through the roots to the big tree on the ground.

A special Taoist realm was created inside the stone archway.

At the same time, in the dimensional world invisible to everyone, a sea of ​​Tao was beginning to spread out in all directions with the big tree as the center, directly covering the entire stone garden.

It attracted countless sources of Tao that exuded the aura of the Tao.

Some of the sources of Tao emanated from the bodies of the monks present, some from the stones in the stone garden, some from the plants in the stone garden, and some from the fish in the fairy lake.
Li Zhi carefully observed the aura of Tao emanating from the stones. Some were explosive, some were thick, some were full of murderous intent, and some were
Suddenly Li Zhi felt a special breath of the Tao, as if it was a breath of immortality that transcended the mundane world.

Li Zhi immediately locked his mind on the place that exuded the aura of immortality.

Then he opened his eyes directly, and two rays of divine light came out of his eyes, locking onto a bucket-sized stone that was placed next to the Fairy Lake in the stone garden and used as a step.

An expression of extreme joy appeared on Li Zhi's face, as if he had discovered a rare treasure.

With a "whoosh", Li Zhi jumped down from the highest stone and appeared directly next to the stone by the lake.

And as if afraid that the Yao Chi Holy Land would not sell the stones to him, Li Zhi directly threw five thousand kilograms of source towards the Yao Chi elder who was in charge of the stone workshop.

"It's mine." Then, Li Zhi happily held the stone in his arms and announced it loudly to everyone, as if he was afraid that someone would snatch the stone from him.

At this moment, the special vision he had just created by chanting also disappeared, and everyone came back to their senses.

Looking around, there was no trace of the big trees and the Great Dao Tianyin in the Tianzi Stone Garden, and everyone was shocked.

"What method did the little Taoist priest use just now?" someone asked with a puzzled look on his face.

"Queen Mother, could you introduce to us the methods used by the young Taoist priest? Why have we never seen this method of finding stones?" Someone asked the Queen Mother of Yaochi directly.

"Senior Ouyang, you are a senior expert in finding the source of stones and are knowledgeable. Can you tell us what kind of source technique the young Taoist priest used just now?" Someone also asked Ouyang Ming.

A hint of doubt flashed across Ouyang Ming's eyes. He couldn't figure out what Li Zhi was doing just now.

This doesn't seem like Master Yuan Tian's method.

Among the cultivators present, only Queen Mother of the Yao Chi and Saint Maiden of the Yao Chi had solemn expressions. As they practiced the Western Emperor Sutra, their spiritual perception was much stronger than that of the other cultivators present. They could vaguely sense that just now, Li Zhi seemed to have used a magical method to attract a sea of ​​Tao, and then identified the stone.

This method is simply unheard of.

The Queen Mother of Yaochi did not speak. Instead, after seeing Li Zhi's money-obsessed look, the Saint of Yaochi felt a little embarrassed and said directly, "Since the Taoist priest has already selected the stone, why don't you cut it together with Senior Ouyang now?"

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone's thoughts were brought back from their emotions and doubts.

Li Zhi came to the small square in the center of the stone garden with the stone in his arms and said to Ouyang Ming, "Old senior, who goes first, you or me?"

But after he finished speaking, he turned to everyone and said, "You all get my sources ready. They will be back in my pocket soon."

Ouyang Ming was directly angered by Li Zhi's tone and said, "You bastard, you dare to say that you won before you even cracked the stone."

Li Zhi continued to hold the stone, looking at the stone under Ouyang Ming's feet, and said, "Old senior, have you paid? I advise you to pay for the stone first. Otherwise, you can't say that you didn't choose that stone."

"Little Taoist, why do you keep holding the stone? Are you afraid that it will run away?" The wealthy monk said with a smile as he saw Li Zhi holding the stone.

"Haha." The others also laughed.

"What do you know? If you knew what was hidden inside, I think you would hold it tighter than me." Li Zhi had a look on his face that said, "You guys don't understand."

"Could there be a little fairy in there?" someone joked.

"Haha." Another round of laughter.

"Young Taoist priest, you'd better put the stone down. This is the Yao Chi Stone Workshop, it can't run away." The Saint of Yao Chi couldn't bear to watch it anymore and said to Li Zhi.

Li Zhi had no intention of putting down the stones, but instead said to Queen Mother Yao Chi: "Senior Queen Mother, you have to keep an eye on them for me. If anyone doesn't pay later, you must not let them sneak away."

The corner of Yao Chi Queen Mother's mouth twitched slightly, and then she said, "Let's start cutting the stone."

After paying for the stone, Ouyang Ming looked at Li Zhi and said, "Little Taoist priest, I will let you broaden your horizons today."

After saying that, he started to cut the stone. He used a knife to cut off layer after layer of fine stone skin from the stone.

Gradually, the core inside the stone was revealed. There was no source in the stone, but a petrified placenta-like thing.

The people who were watching the stone cutting were a little disappointed, and some even showed signs of pain on their faces.

But when Ouyang Ming cut open the apple-sized placenta, a walnut-sized golden stone gall bladder exuding vigorous vitality appeared before everyone's eyes.

After seeing the golden stone gall, Ouyang Ming began to tremble all over, and directly sealed the golden stone gall with the purest jade.

"Haha" and then he laughed with great excitement, as if an old man was talking about the youth's wildness. Just when everyone was wondering what it was, Queen Mother Yaochi said, "It is a mature stone gall bladder bred in the stone. It can help cultivators cultivate the Heavenly Eye. In the hands of the Grandmaster of the Source Technique, it can allow them to cultivate into the Source Heavenly Divine Eye."

After the Queen Mother spoke, someone in the crowd explained to everyone what the Source Heavenly Divine Pupil was. It was a terrifying pupil technique that could see through the earth and see the peerless source veins hidden underground.

Everyone couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.

This is not a stone gall, it is clearly an innumerable source of gods.

Then, everyone smiled happily, after all, it seemed that they were on the verge of winning the bet.

"Little Taoist priest, it's your turn." The monks who were betting in the crowd began to shout at Li Zhi in unison.

However, Li Zhi did not show any worry on his face. Instead, he said to Queen Mother Yao Chi: "Senior Queen Mother, my life safety depends on you to protect it."

Afterwards, Li Zhi began to cut the stone.

He dragged the stone with one hand and made sword gestures with the other hand, then released sharp sword energy with his fingers and began to continuously cut the stone.

Many people showed a hint of surprise. This kind of physical strength is not simple.

With the sword energy from Li Zhi's fingertips, the bucket-sized stone quickly became the size of a basketball.

Under the expectant gaze of everyone, Li Zhi scraped off the skin of the basketball-sized stone.

An aura belonging to the divine source immediately emanated.

Ouyang Ming was not panicked at all. Instead, he looked at Li Zhi with great interest. It seemed that even if he opened a piece of divine source the size of a basketball, its value could not be compared with his mature stone gall.

However, the expressions of the Queen Mother of the Yao Chi and the Saint Maiden of the Yao Chi became surprised.

When Li Zhi unwrapped all the stone skins, everyone saw a piece of aqua-blue divine source as big as a football.

Moreover, sealed within the Divine Source was half a peach that had been eaten by someone unknown, and the teeth marks on the peach flesh were clearly visible.

"Haha, little Taoist priest, you lost." someone in the crowd shouted.

Only the Queen Mother of the Yaochi suddenly appeared beside Li Zhi, looking at the divine source in his hand with surprise.

To be more precise, the Queen Mother of the Yao Chi was looking at the half peach sealed in the divine source.

Yao Chi Saintess also followed the Queen Mother to Li Zhi's side. She looked at the Divine Source and the half peach inside it, and said uncertainly, "Master, is this a peach?"

The Queen Mother of Yaochi nodded slightly and said, "And it is the fruit of the immortal peach elixir."

Li Zhi took the divine source away with a flip of his hand, then stretched out his hand to the crowd and said, "I accept the loss. Give me my source quickly."

Then he extended his other hand to Ouyang Ming and said, "Old Senior, please give me my stone gall."

“Little Taoist priest, I’m clearly the winner, so you better hand over the divine source.” Ouyang Ming said with a glimmer of greed in his eyes.

"Queen Mother, who won?" Some monks with limited vision were still confused at this time, not knowing which one of the two people's offers was more valuable.

The Queen Mother of Yaochi looked Li Zhi up and down, and then said, "Your luck is really against the will of heaven. No wonder Junior Sister is optimistic about you."

"Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, I am very sorry for the compliment from you, senior." Li Zhi said shamelessly.

Afterwards, the Queen Mother of Yaochi said to everyone, "This young Taoist priest won the bet on the stone this time."

Ouyang Ming said, "Queen Mother, what do you mean by this? Why do you deliberately favor this little Taoist priest?"

The Queen Mother of Yaochi said, "Senior Ouyang, why do you ask when you already know the answer? Although the mature stone gall can help cultivators cultivate the Heavenly Eye, it is still far less valuable than the immortality elixir that can allow people to live another life."

"What? It can actually allow people to live another life? Is it true or false?" someone in the crowd exclaimed.

The Queen Mother of Yaochi said, "There are records about the immortality elixir in my Yaochi. The ripe immortality elixir fruit can make the emperor live another life. Although the peach in the divine source opened by the young Taoist priest is not complete, the flesh and the core are still there. I think taking it can also make the ancient saints live another life."

Everyone was instantly shocked, and their eyes changed when they looked at Li Zhi.

Ouyang Ming said stubbornly, "Who knows whether the rumor is true or not? No one has ever seen an emperor-level strongman take the fruit of the elixir of immortality and live another life. It is unconvincing to say that a rotten peach is the fruit of the elixir of immortality."

He absolutely could not accept giving up the opportunity to cultivate the Source Heavenly Divine Pupil.

Maybe after cultivating the Source Heaven Divine Pupil, he will have the opportunity to advance to the level of Source Earth Master, or even Source Heaven Master.

Then maybe you can find the legendary Earth Life Fruit and extend your life for a thousand years.

Li Zhi said to Ouyang Ming, "Old Senior, are you going to break the contract?"

Ouyang Ming said, "I am only stating the facts and reasoning. Everyone can see that you have a special relationship with Yao Chi Holy Land. Maybe you are teaming up with Yao Chi Queen Mother to deceive everyone."

As soon as this statement came out, the scene was in an uproar.

For many years, no one has ever questioned the reputation of the Yao Chi Holy Land.

Now Ouyang Ming regards the Queen Mother of the Yao Chi Holy Land as a liar.

“Wulian Tianzun,” Li Zhi’s expression suddenly became serious. After shouting his Taoist name, he said, “Old senior, greed can sometimes blind you and make you unable to see the truth of the world. If you continue to be obsessed, I’m afraid it won’t just be a failed gamble.”

Ouyang Ming continued to shout, "You are such a silver-tongued young man. I clearly won this round, but you teamed up with Yao Chi Holy Land to bully an old man like me. Do you think I am too old and weak to be bullied? I tell you, there is still justice in this world. Although Yao Chi Holy Land is powerful, it cannot make me surrender."

Seeing Ouyang Ming's somewhat crazy expression, Li Zhi said to Queen Mother Yao Chi, "Senior Queen Mother, this man has gone mad. Please help to suppress him."

Hearing Li Zhi's words, Ouyang Ming immediately shouted to those who had placed bets, "Why are you retreating? Even though the Yao Chi Holy Land is powerful, it cannot bully us like this. Everyone, follow me and rush out of the Yao Chi Stone Archway. I want to see who dares to stop us. Anyone who stops us is an enemy of the world and the world's justice."

Unfortunately, no one present was a fool, and no one dared to challenge the majesty of the Yao Chi Holy Land in front of the Queen Mother.

“Please help, Queen Mother, to suppress this old villain Ouyang Ming. It’s fine if he can’t afford to lose, but he thinks we are also villains who can’t afford to lose.” The wealthy cultivator who placed a heavy bet bowed to the Queen Mother of Yaochi.

"Please help us, Queen Mother, and give us justice. We are not the same kind of people as old man Ouyang Ming. The Taoist priest won, we saw it clearly." Someone took out the Pure Source directly to pay for the bet just made.

"You are a bunch of villains." Upon seeing this, Ouyang Ming became angry and yelled at everyone.

At the same time, he soared into the sky and planned to escape directly.

Unfortunately, just when it flew ten feet into the air, it was knocked down by the no-fly barrier in the Yao Chi Stone Archway.

Then a pagoda appeared out of nowhere and suppressed him directly.

Although Ouyang Ming is an old senior, his cultivation is only half a step to the first level of the Immortal Realm. Facing the Queen Mother of the Jade Pool, he has almost no ability to fight back.

Then, the Queen Mother said to a disciple behind her, "Go and inform the head of the Ouyang family and ask him to go to Yaochi to get the people."

The disciple said, "Yes, Queen Mother."

If the Ouyang family wants to redeem Ouyang Ming, they will have to pay a lot of money.

After Ouyang Ming was suppressed by the Queen Mother, the Tianzihao Stone Garden became lively again.

A group of people surrounded Li Zhi and asked him all kinds of questions.

Finally, it was the wealthy monk who asked, "Young Taoist priest, what is the method you just used to find the source? Can you teach it to us? We are willing to pay a high tuition fee. We can even take you as our master."

"Old Wang, you are so shameless." A middle-aged monk next to the wealthy monk immediately shouted at him.

Then the middle-aged monk said to Li Zhi, "Young Taoist priest, ignore him. How about we cooperate? I will be responsible for the source stone, and you will be responsible for selecting the stone. After the source stone is unlocked, we will add 20% to 50% and each of us will take half. How about that?"

"Old Sun, you son of a bitch, you want to get something for nothing." The wealthy monk immediately cursed back.

Li Zhi felt like a newborn lamb that had fallen directly into a pack of hungry wolves. Almost everyone was looking at him with green eyes.

"My fellow uncles, I have something important to do, so I'll take my leave now." After Li Zhi said this to the group of people, he immediately used his lightning steps and rushed out.

He squeezed through the crowd to create a passage and headed directly to the palace where the Queen Mother of the West and the Saint Maiden of the West were resting temporarily.

The crowd, who were squeezed to the ground, sighed: "The young Taoist priest has great strength."

Then, they began to select stones in the Yaochi Stone Workshop with great interest.

Two magical treasures appeared in the Yao Chi Stone Archway, making them eager to try their skills.

Especially Li Zhi's strange method of finding stones is even more curious.

Some people even started looking for stones by imitating Li Zhi's method.

I don’t know how many people will lose their fortunes because of this, and I don’t know how many people will get lucky by chance.

Just now, Li Zhi sensed that there were indeed many good things in the Tianzihao Stone Garden of the Yao Chi Holy Land, at least more than twenty pieces.

But compared with the scale of the entire stone garden, it seems a little sparse.

It is certain that the Yaochi Stone Archway will make a fortune today, which is estimated to be enough to offset the income of the Stone Archway for hundreds of years.

But after entering the palace, Li Zhi suddenly found himself unable to move.

The Queen Mother of the Yaochi actually took action and suppressed him on the spot.

"Senior, why are you doing this?" Li Zhi said with difficulty.

The Queen Mother of the West was filled with murderous intent, as if if Li Zhi's answer did not satisfy her in the next second, she would be struck by thunder.

The Queen Mother of Yaochi asked in an unusually sharp tone, "What is your relationship with the underworld? Did you dig the ancestral tombs of the Five Elements Palace, the Illusion Palace, and the Wanjie Sect?"

Li Zhi shouted directly: "Senior, it's a misunderstanding, it's a huge misunderstanding."

(End of this chapter)