CH 10

Fu Li looked at the red thread on his hand, and at the energy continuously pouring into Bai Ze’s body through the Yueyue cup, he probably knew what was going on. Bai Ze was an ancient divine beast, and he absorbed the essence of the sun and moon instinctively, unlike immortals like them who had to cultivate in human form and thus absorb the essence slowly.

Yue Lao’s red thread brought the bodies and souls of the two of them together, and also distributed the moonlight absorbed by Bai Ze to Tianzun’s body. Turning into a young man, no longer as weak as before when he was three feet tall, Fu Li smiled a little, raised his hand, and touched Bai Ze’s big head.

The next day, the sun shone on Bai Ze’s furry body, baking it warm and fluffy. The dazzling light disturbed his sweet dreams. Bai Ze opened his big amber eyes, smacked his lips and said, “Last night, I dreamed of a beauty.”

“What beauty?” Yue Lao, who was sleeping on him, poked out his head from the fur.

“Well, I don’t remember either, it was a very good-looking beauty…” Bai Ze looked around, and saw Fu Li who was looking at him calmly, still three feet tall, with no expression on his small face, he was staring at him intently, making him swallow the words that would have followed. The beauty was wearing a long blue robe with wide sleeves…

Bai Ze turned into a human and went to get food for the children.

With the loss of mana, these children’s bodies would gradually become weak, and they needed to eat something to maintain their strength. Bai Ze found round-grained rice grown in the cold spring water, small fish caught in the Xingzi Waterfall, and a bamboo shoot dug by the children in the bamboo forest of Yuqing Palace, and cooked porridge for everyone.

There were not many ingredients in the heavens, as the immortals didn’t need to eat. They just drank tea and ate fruits to taste the taste on weekdays. Bai Ze rubbed his chin, ready to open a field in Yuqing Palace to grow vegetables.

When Shun Feng heard this proposal, he quickly flew over to laugh at him. The Yuqing Palace where Tangtang Tianzun lived was the most sacred place in the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, but it was about to be used by this guy to grow vegetables. Thinking about the immortals who came to listen to Tianzun’s teachings in the future, their expression must be quite exciting when they saw the leeks and radishes surrounded by the sea of clouds.

However, Fu Li, the owner of Yuqing Palace, had no objection to this, and just silently followed Bai Ze who was carrying a hoe. Wherever Bai Ze went, Tianzun would go there, keeping a distance of three steps or less.

Bai Ze looked at Tianzun who was following him, and couldn’t help scratching his head, why did this child suddenly become clingy? While Bai Ze was working, Fu Li stood aside with his arms folded. The essence of the sun and the moon poured into Bai Ze’s body, and after a circle, some of it would pass into his body through the red thread.

Seeing that Bai Ze and the others were going to hoe the ground, Li Jing also looked for a hoe with great interest. Yue Lao was not interested in this, so he sat on the mat and weaved a bracelet with red thread. Laojun sat on the Baiyu Bridge eating jelly beans, watching their actions and frowning: “Can this land of Yuqing Palace grow vegetables?”

Just as he finished speaking, Bai Ze heard the crisp sound of a hoe snapping.

Dissipated aura could turn jade into dust, and strong aura could turn dust into beautiful jade. Every inch of land in the Yuqing Palace was washed away by Tianzun’s aura day by day, and after a long time, it became jade. Therefore, although the ground looked brown, it was as solid as a rock when knocked upon.

The bamboo and grass growing in the Yuqing Palace were extraordinary products that could take root in jade. But leeks and radishes were not like that. You can’t turn them into essence in order to eat a dish, right?

Bai Ze put down the hoe with a sad face and squatted on the ground to scratch the hard ground.

“Idiot Bai Ze, you don’t even know how to plant a field. Look at my Pantao Garden. It grows so well.” The Queen Mother came to the kindergarten on time, and seeing Bai Ze’s appearance, she couldn’t help laughing at him.

Pantao Garden… Bai Ze’s eyes lit up when he heard these three words. If there was any soil that could be planted in the heavens, it must be Pantao Garden. The land on which the Pantao Garden grew was the soil dug from the mortal world, but it was watered with the essence of ancient insects and beasts, and it had been cultivated into a ten thousand-year spiritual soil. If you grow vegetables on those soils, it was estimated that you will be able to harvest fresh green and crisp vegetables within a few days of planting.

“Queen Mother, do you want to eat delicious pancakes?” Bai Ze squatted down and began to abduct.

The queen mother blinked and thought about the baked pancakes[1], which was a mortal food, brought to her by the fairies who sneaked down to the world before, and they were much more fragrant than the bland fruits that they usually ate. Thinking of this, the Queen Mother nodded immediately.

“Then, take me to the Pantao Garden to dig some soil and bring back. With the soil, I can grow spiritual wheat and spiritual vegetables, so that I can make baked pancakes for you, as well as wontons[2], shredded chicken noodles[3], radish cakes[4]…” Bai Ze counted the snacks he ate in the mortal world with his fingers. Because these children were gods, they couldn’t replenish their strength even if they ate mortal food. They must eat things with spiritual energy, but eating fruit every day was not a solution.

The Queen Mother sucked her saliva, and without a word, she led everyone to the Pantao Garden.

The Pantao Garden was located in the eighth heaven, where the peach trees beloved by the Queen Mother were planted. The garden was very vast and stretched as far as the eye could see. From a distance, you could only see the endless green trees and the endless fairy fog.

Seeing the group of people, the immortal guarding the garden was very surprised: “I have seen the god Bai Ze, and I dare to ask the god why he came here.”

A lowly immortal like him was not qualified to know about the reincarnation of the vicissitudes of life. So, it was very strange to him that Bai Ze led over a group of unfamiliar children there.

“Oh, we are ordered by the Queen Mother to dig up some spiritual soil.” Bai Ze picked up the little Queen Mother. The Queen Mother was too lazy to talk nonsense with the gatekeeper, so she took out a jade tablet and tapped it on the forbidden spot of the Pantao Garden’s gate. With a bang, the originally foggy door was instantly revealed.

It was said to be a gate, but it was actually two overlapping peaks. After the jade tablet was submerged in it, the two mountains slowly separated, revealing the peach garden they saw from the sky.

The Pantao Garden was divided into three areas. The peach trees in the front bloomed every three thousand years and bore fruit every three thousand years; the peach trees in the middle bloomed every six thousand years and bore fruit every six thousand years; result. Correspondingly, the land inside was also different.

When the Garden was opened, the front land was irrigated with the essence of low-level magic insects; the middle land was watered with high-level magic insects; and the high-level land was watered by the queen mother beheading eighty-one ancient insects and beasts.

Since he wanted to take it, he would naturally take the best one. After Fu Li recovered, he could also use this land to grow some spiritual grass. With a small plan in mind, Bai Ze led a group of children to the deepest part of the Pantao Garden.

Because the Peach Festival was coming soon, the peaches here were ripe, and the further you went, the bigger the peaches were. The sweet smell coming from them made people feel intoxicated.

The Queen Mother picked one casually and rubbed it on her skirt. Laojun leaned over eagerly: “Can I eat one?”

“No!” The Queen Mother said pettishly and took a bite of the peach that was bigger than her head. Flat peaches were different from ordinary peaches in that they didn’t have that layer of fur on the surface, so they could be eaten directly after rubbing them together.

Although these immortals had become children, their dignity as immortals was still there, and they would not take anything without asking the owner. The Queen Mother was the owner of the garden, so they fawned on the Queen Mother, wanting to get a peach to eat.

“Hmph, I’ll give it to whoever behaves well.” The Queen Mother sat on a rock with the peaches in her arms and raised her chin to look at the group of people.

“I have an elixir, I’ll exchange it with you.” Laojun took out the jelly beans he refined, shook them, and the jelly beans collided with the bottle, making a tinkling sound.

“My pagoda is for you to play with.” Li Jing also joined in the fun, holding up his own small pagoda.

“I… I’ll accompany you to turn the flower rope.” The little Yue Lao in white, took out two red threads a little shily, and dexterously twirled his fingers, then propping up a set of flower ropes, and moved closer to the queen mother.

The Queen Mother looked a little moved, took a bite of the peach in her hand, rolled her eyes, and turned to look at Fu Li and Bai Ze.

Bai Ze had taken out a cloth bag and was digging the soil seriously. This land was as fertile as black gold sand mixed with oil, soft and sticky to the touch, full of aura. Thinking of digging more and going back to grow delicious food for the children, he had no time to care about what the children were doing.

Fu Li stood beside Bai Ze with arms folded, watching him dig the ground expressionlessly.

“Fu Li, don’t you want to eat flat peaches?” The Queen Mother couldn’t help calling him, all the boys came to please her, only Tianzun turned a blind eye to her, which made the Queen Mother a little unhappy.

Fu Li glanced at her lightly and said slowly in a clear and tender voice: “I don’t eat peaches with worms on them.”

Worms? The Queen Mother blushed suddenly: “Who said my peaches have worms! I…” As she said that, she was about to show the peach in her hand to Tianzun, when she suddenly saw a white worm where she had bitten just now. The worm poked its head out and looked at her inexplicably.

“Ah—” The screams startled the fairy birds on the branch, and the nine-thousand-year-old peach that she had taken a few bites out of was thrown far away. The other three children who wanted to eat peaches all took a step back when they saw this scene.

“Ah, there are insects in this soil.” Before the Queen Mother could recover, Bai Ze went down with a shovel, revealing the deep soil. Two or three small insects reluctantly came out and then went back.

“Hurry up, catch these bugs!” The remaining memory of the Queen Mother told her that if these bugs were not suppressed, her flat peach trees would be destroyed.

In the 9000-year trees, the ancient magic insects were actually suppressed. They were usually suppressed by the Queen Mother’s magic circle, and they used their own essence to continuously supply the peach trees. But now that the queen mother had gotten smaller, her magic power was weakening, and the magic circle was loose, so these bugs would naturally pop up. They would then gnaw off the roots of flat peach trees and eat up the newly ripe flat peaches.

The flat peach festival was coming soon, if these bugs were not wiped out, only the flat peaches that had been emptied by the bugs would be presented to the immortals of the nine heavens and ten earths.

Bai Ze understood the pros and cons of it, and the fact that the Queen Mother’s mana was weakened could not be exposed, so the task of catching bugs fell on him. Bai Ze had no choice but to put down the shovel, roll up his sleeves and start to eliminate insects.

The name of these worms was “Hundred Sections”, which meant that there were a hundred sections in the body of the insect, one section after another, the whole piece was very long and very disgusting. Bai Ze wanted to retch in disgust, and cast his magic power on his hands. The clear water vapor diffused from his slender white fingertips, eroding along the ground inch by inch, and after a while, large pieces of bugs were dug out.

Bai Ze looked disgusted, quickly gathered the bugs together with water balls, and threw them to Laojun. Laojun opened his precious alchemy furnace and released a wisp of real samadhi fire, instantly turning the bugs into ashes. The little Laojun hurriedly took out the Qiankun bag and collected the ashes. The ashes from the burning of these monsters are also a good material for alchemy: “The elixir produced by this refining will be more delicious.”

The faces of several children who had eaten his jelly beans instantly turned green. It turned out that worms could also be used in alchemy, so what did they eat before?

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Small theater:

Fu Li: You actually fed us bugs!

Laojun: Ordinary elixir is made of spirit grass, don’t be afraid of it

Fu Li: What about the extraordinary elixir?

Laojun: Gave the Jade Emperor all the extraordinary elixirs!

Jade Emperor: (Laughing dish blah)