Shocking the Nine Heavens With My Sword
Chapter 327 - 315 Peach Blossom Realm (1/3)

Chapter 327: Chapter 315 Peach Blossom Realm (1/3)

"The mechanism has been activated, so our cooperation ends here!" Yang Zhan leaped to the bottom of the pool and, whoosh, without any hesitation, he entered the cave mouth, vanishing in an instant.

"Ha, then it’s up to fate!" Sang Qingshan cupped his hands towards Zhou Heng and the Ice Phoenix Lady, "Both of you, to avoid injuring our harmony, let’s part ways here!"

"Hmm!" The Ice Phoenix Lady nodded, and the two of them jumped into the pool one after the other, whoosh, whoosh, almost simultaneously disappearing without a trace.

After a brief silence.

"This master was about to die from holding it in!" Black Donkey shook its head and began to speak, its four hooves wildly scampering about, "Donkey Master held it in without speaking for several years, nearly getting an internal injury from it! Zhou, hurry up and give that Nine Mystic Trial Tower to this master as compensation!"

The donkey spoke incoherently, not really caring about what it was saying, just for the sake of talking.

Zhou Heng had a faint smile on his face; in the agreement he made with Sang Qingshan, they were indeed meant to split up after activating the mechanism. However, the fact that the three of them ran away so quickly was probably because his Purple Flame Heavenly Dragon was too domineering!

They almost fought over the Green-Eyed Water Buffalo. If they encountered an even more valuable treasure, they would definitely go all out, and it was impossible for them to avoid Zhou Heng’s Purple Flame Heavenly Dragon.

After all, it’s usually best not to show one’s full strength unless necessary. Now, by going their separate ways, they could monopolize any treasures on their own, since fighting over it could leave no one confident of certain victory.

"Donkey, let’s go!" Zhou Heng called out to the Black Donkey.

"Your mother’s sister’s grandmother!" The Black Donkey was still chattering on the side. Hearing Zhou’s call, it raised its head and said, "Let this master talk some more!"

"... the treasure is going to be snatched away!"

Whoosh!

The Black Donkey rushed into the bottom of the pool, its voice echoing, "Zhou, what are you dazing out for, the treasure’s going to be gone!"

This greedy donkey would one day die because of greed!

Zhou Heng leaped into the bottom of the pool and entered the cave. It was roughly three meters tall, so there was no need to worry about bumping his head, and the ground was quite even, clearly the result of careful work and not naturally formed.

"Zhou, hurry up! Hurry up!" Black Donkey shouted, but then its voice abruptly stopped, as if it had entered another world.

Zhou Heng hastened his steps and saw a pink, swirling Gate of Light ahead, which must be the entrance to a Teleportation Array. The Black Donkey had been transported out, which is why its voice suddenly stopped.

He heightened his vigilance, stepped forward, and, whoosh, under the irresistible force, he felt darkness and then light before his eyes, appearing in a strange place.

Hum!

The Black Sword in his Dantian suddenly trembled, the tremor intensifying until it floated into view, quivering non-stop and pointing straight ahead.

There was a treasure! And it had provoked a great reaction in the Black Sword!

Previously, when sensing the Heavenly Mysterious Spirit Crystal and the Underground Immortal Object, the Black Sword had only trembled slightly in the dantian as if casually indicating its presence, but now it had actually emerged from the Dantian Space on its own. How precious must the treasure be?

"Zhou, there must be a Crystal Peach here!" Black Donkey shouted from the side, its large donkey eyes shining and its mouth drooling a river.

Only then did Zhou Heng stabilize his mind and put the Black Sword back into the Dantian Space. Yet the Divine Sword continued to tremble violently, as if it would break free and fly off on its own. What kind of treasure was it that elicited such an intense response from the Black Sword?

He suppressed it forcibly and surveyed his surroundings.

This was a world of pink. The sky was pink, the ground was pink, for this was an entire forest of pink peach trees. The peach blossoms not only adorned each tree but had also fallen to the ground, creating a thick layer of petal mud, and countless blossoms fluttered in the wind across the sky, turning the entire world a crimson color.

"Crystal Peach?" Zhou Heng looked at Black Donkey.

"That’s some good stuff!" The Black Donkey smacked its lips, already drooling to form a stream, "Eating one not only replenishes Spiritual Power but greatly benefits the Divine Sense, speeding up the formation of Deities."

"If this master eats one, within half a year, I’ll definitely break through to the Nascent Soul Realm!"

The donkey was jumping about excitedly.

Zhou Heng pointed to the sprawling peach forest and asked, "Are all of these it?"

"No, no, no!" Black Donkey hastily shook its head. "These are all just offspring trees. Only one mother tree can produce Crystal Peaches, and it takes tens of thousands of years for it to ripen once, it’s a rare wonder of this world!"

The shameless donkey suddenly turned into a historical expert, discussing thoroughly, but the never-ending stream of drool tarnished its image.

Zhou Heng laughed heartily and said, "Then after finding the mother tree, we’ll plant it in the Nine Mystic Trial Tower, and we’ll have peaches to eat every year!"

The Nine Mystic Trial Tower seemed to be very suitable for the growth of Spirit Grass, as evidenced by the Nine Suns Vitality Grass. If the Crystal Peach Mother Tree could also be planted, his companions would no longer need to worry about their cultivation.

"Quick, Zhou, let’s start searching. We can’t let those three get ahead of us!" Black Donkey was pawing the ground, urgency written all over its face.

Zhou Heng leaped onto a peach tree, looked off into the distance, and frowned, asking, "Do you know where the mother tree is?"

The Black Donkey stood upright, paced seriously for a few steps, then sighed and said, "This master does not know!"

Zhou Heng strode away, saying, "Then follow me!"

He chose the direction pointed by the Black Sword, unfolded his body, and flew off.

The Black Donkey hurriedly followed, asking, "Zhou, do you know the way?"

"I don’t!"

Bang, the Black Donkey crashed headfirst into a peach tree, then suddenly opened its mouth and bit towards Zhou Heng’s behind, "You dare to run around without knowing the way?"

"Haha, then it’s up to you, we can each go our own way, how about that?" Zhou Heng activated the Swift Cloud Radiant Step, and that wretched donkey was also extremely fast, so he had to push his Swift Cloud Radiant Step to a considerable degree just to maintain the distance.

"Ptooey, ptooey, ptooey, thinking of ditching this master and hogging all the loot for yourself, just watch me bite you to death!" The Black Donkey pursued relentlessly.

After cooperating several times, although they were annoyed with each other, they both knew that the other would not mess around when it came to the big picture, so while the Black Donkey kept cursing, it always followed Zhou Heng, their banter being just a way for this idle-tongued donkey to pass the time.

This idle-tongued donkey seemed to need to vent the frustration of not having been able to speak for the past few days, and turned into a complete chatterbox, it’s really hard to imagine talking non-stop for three days and nights without repeating a single word.

Three days later.

Zhou Heng suddenly stopped, his brow slightly furrowed, looking into the distance.

"What’s up, Zhou?" The Black Donkey stared at Zhou Heng’s behind, mouth half open, drool flowing, seemingly eager to leap forward and take a bite.

"Donkey, your gaze is really off!" Zhou Heng first glanced back at the Black Donkey, then said, "That mother tree, it’s moving constantly!"

He was convinced that the treasure making the Black Sword tremble was the Crystal Peach Mother Tree, and the direction pointed by the Black Sword within his Dantian was changing non-stop, having just completed a circle up to now.

"This master loves to eat chicken butts the most!" The Black Donkey stuck out its tongue. In fact, it was a Demon Beast, and had an innate craving for the blood-rich flesh of humans, and Zhou Heng, with his Gold Devouring Clan physique, had much more vigorous blood energy than an average Spiritual Sea Realm expert, not even Sang Qingshan, a young prodigy with one foot in the Nascent Soul Realm, could compare, which naturally made the Black Donkey’s mouth water!

"Black Donkey, if you don’t stop ogling me, I’ll hit you so hard you’ll only be able to walk on your stomach!" Zhou Heng warned.

The Black Donkey reluctantly withdrew its gaze and said, "There are indeed walking spirit grasses and wonder trees around, it’s not strange for the mother tree of such a precious thing as the crystal peach to be able to run!"

"This place is too big!" Zhou Heng sighed, he hadn’t been going all out, but the pace of a Spiritual Sea Realm expert was terrifying, the Spirit Sea had formed, spiritual power flowed endlessly, capable of supporting him running at full speed for several months!

In these three days, he and the Black Donkey had covered at least millions of li. However, considering they had been changing direction all the time, the straight-line distance was far less than that number.

But it still proved just how vast this place was.

"Ma Buqian had also been here before, it was in the sky here that he saw the so-called Peerless Heavenly Maiden and lost his daoist heart, stopping at the peak of Spirit Sea Third Layer Heaven!" Zhou Heng mused while gazing at the sky.

The former Ma Buqian had not yet become a deity, so how did he enter this place? With others accompanying him? This part was not mentioned in his diary.

"Zhou, let’s continue on the road; as long as we are faster than the mother tree, we’ll definitely catch up with it! If it’s faster than us, then even if it’s right in front of us, we won’t be able to catch up!" The Black Donkey stood upright, hooves folded behind its back, mimicking a human pose.

"...You donkey can actually say something so philosophical?"

"Ptooey, Donkey Master is an Ancient Divine Donkey, show this master some respect!"

The man and the donkey continued forward, both going all out, racing along, following the ever-changing direction of the mother tree. Since the Black Sword only had a pointing function and didn’t provide any indication of distance, even Zhou Heng didn’t know how much longer this situation would last.

Unknowingly, another half-month had passed.

They had been racing through this huge peach grove all along, and someone else might have started to doubt Zhou Heng’s judgement, wondering whether they were just running in circles. But the Black Donkey trusted Zhou Heng implicitly, not mentioning it once throughout this half month, while their constant bickering hadn’t stopped for a moment.

"Zhou, when you have a son, if he has excellent roots, this master will reluctantly take him as an apprentice!" The Black Donkey said with a strange laugh, clearly wanting to take advantage of Zhou Heng.

Zhou Heng laughed, asking, "Donkey, do you actually like women or female donkeys?"

"This master..." The Black Donkey’s mouth twitched, "Hey, look ahead!"

Ahead of them, there was a mist of ethereal fog, dancing and changing continuously, as if it was hiding some monster. However, they had seen this scene many times over the past few days; the pink fog contained nothing and was just a special phenomenon of this area.

The donkey was deliberately changing the subject.

Zhou Heng wasn’t interested in probing the donkey’s physiological issues, he swept forward over a hundred yards, and then uttered a light "Eh", there appeared a small lake ahead. (To be continued. If you enjoy this work, you’re welcome to come to Qidian (qidian.com) to vote for recommendation tickets, monthly tickets; your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please go to m.qidian.com to read.)