"Hey, it really is you! Your eyebrows, hair, and beard are all gone. I didn't recognize you at first glance." Covering his chin, Lin Qing now looked somewhat familiar.
"Well, I felt it was too dangerous down there, so I cut off my beard and gave it to the people up there. That's why I was transferred to guard the Peach Garden."
The old man was unsure whether to laugh or cry; his beard, hair, and eyebrows would take at least ten years to grow back.
This is still in the Peach Garden, a place rich in spiritual energy. If it were outside, it would probably take hundreds of years.
This land is where ginseng has attained enlightenment; even a single hair from it can revive the dead and heal bones.
"The Peach Garden is indeed a good place." Lin Qing breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that it was an acquaintance, especially since he had saved the man's life.
The Earth God did not relay the message, but instead continued to ask, "I wonder what brings you here, Immortal?"
"Haha, I came here to give you a peach!"
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh!" The Earth God only felt a flash before his eyes, and then a soft object was pressed into his mouth.
Feeling the enticing aroma, the Earth God subconsciously took a bite. At that moment, he felt extremely comfortable, as if he was about to ascend to heaven.
Suddenly, the fruit in his mouth was hit by a strong force, and the Earth God could only quickly swallow the object in his mouth in a few bites.
Then, the Earth God felt a tremendous energy erupt from his body, and in just a few seconds, his hair, beard, and eyebrows grew at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"How is it? The peaches are delicious, aren't they!" Lin Qing looked at the Earth God with a mischievous grin.
"Oh, immortal, am I a peach of immortality?" The local earth god was immediately flustered.
"It's okay, what are you afraid of? No one will find out. Even if they do, if anyone asks, just say that I forced you to eat it."
"Now, you can have a good night's sleep. When you wake up, I promise no one will bother you," Lin Qing said with a hearty laugh.
"Oh no, Immortal, you won't be able to bear the Queen Mother's wrath! Pick one or two peaches and run away quickly. You take the peaches and leave!" the old man said anxiously.
"Hehe." Seeing that the local earth god still wanted to speak, Lin Qing directly released a burst of spiritual energy, which made him fall asleep peacefully, and then placed him together with the little Taoist boy next to him.
Lin Qing walked to the nearest peach tree, hugged it with both arms, and then slowly uprooted the peach tree and put it directly into his storage space.
"Ah, no, this place is too close to the entrance. It would be troublesome if the guards outside saw us. Let's start with the Nine Thousand Year Peach Book deep inside!"
Lin Qing immediately ran towards the depths and soon arrived at the deepest part. These peaches were twice the size of the peaches that the local earth god had eaten earlier.
Time was of the essence, and Lin Qing didn't waste any time, immediately starting to uproot the peach trees one by one.
It took him an hour to store all 1,200 nine-thousand-year-old peach trees into his storage space.
Then, they set their sights on the six-thousand-year-old peach tree again, and spent another half an hour harvesting another 1,200 peach trees.
Now, two-thirds of the entire Peach Garden is empty, except for the 1,200 three-thousand-year-old peach trees near the entrance.
When Lin Qing pulled up another thousand peaches, leaving only two hundred in the entire peach orchard, the two golden-armored guards outside finally noticed something.
Guard A looked into the peach orchard and said, "There seems to be some movement inside."
Guard B frowned slightly: "I thought it was my imagination, but I didn't expect you to have noticed it too."
“Let’s go in and take a look. If anything goes wrong, we can’t afford the consequences,” said Guard A.
“Yes, let’s go in and take a look. Isn’t that new old man inside too? Let’s call him in later.” Guard B nodded in agreement.
Then, the two activated the formation and went inside.
As soon as they entered, their expressions changed drastically. They had only felt a slight sensation outside because of the array that blocked their way.
As soon as the two entered, they noticed the ground shaking beneath their feet, and immediately rushed towards the source of the noise.
After running for a short while, the two of them suddenly noticed that what used to be full of peach trees was now filled with large pits.
"Where is the peach tree?" Guard B asked, his expression changing drastically.
"Look there!" Guard A exclaimed, pointing into the distance.
Guard B immediately looked in the direction he was pointing, and his mouth gaped open, showing how shocked he was.
In the distance, a man in a golden robe uprooted a peach tree, and then the peach tree vanished in a flash.
"What kind of demon dares to trespass into the Peach Garden and destroy these peach trees? Are you truly committing a heinous crime?" Guard B shouted angrily as he regained his senses.
Lin Qing also noticed the newcomer at this moment: "Hmm?"
He smiled, casually took out two peaches, and before the two could react, the two peaches were already in their mouths.
Since she didn't know these two people anyway, Lin Qing wasn't so gentle anymore. She directly stuffed the peaches into their mouths and made them swallow them, and then knocked them unconscious.
He then continued his tree-pulling operation, and because even the guards had noticed, Lin Qing sped up his pace once again.
Previously, they were afraid of making too much noise and being discovered, but now that they have been discovered, they don't care about making any noise anymore.
In just a few minutes, Lin Qing had taken two hundred peach trees into the Pan Tao tree.
Looking at the peach orchard full of pits, Lin Qing felt a great sense of accomplishment and then left the peach orchard with satisfaction.
At this moment, none of the people who had fallen unconscious in the Peach Garden knew that it had been transformed into a Peach Garden full of large pits.
It's not that the Jade Emperor or the Queen Mother, these great deities, lacked the ability to know, but rather that they had no need to concern themselves with it.
Just like, would the world's richest person care about a mere hundred dollars?
...
Holding the Jade Emperor's token, Lin Qing arrived at the South Heavenly Gate without any hindrance.
"Great Immortal, is the matter settled?" The eldest of the Four Heavenly Kings opened the formation and said with a smile.
"Yes, it's done." Lin Qing nodded in response.
Meanwhile, somewhere in the Heavenly Court, a dignified and elegant middle-aged man frowned slightly.
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Just as Lin Qing was about to leave, suddenly, the token in Lin Qing's arms flew up uncontrollably and flew into the distance.
This phenomenon immediately turned Lin Qing's face pale. Without the slightest hesitation, he leaped downwards and then transformed into a streak of light, disappearing from sight.
"Hurry up, hurry up, I still have things to do." Lin Qing muttered to himself, pushing his speed to the limit.
Lin Qing's urgent goal was, of course, the Wuzhuang Temple on Longevity Mountain, the production base for ginseng fruit.
In the entire mythological world, peaches of immortality and ginseng fruits are the most precious.
The ginseng fruit blooms once every three thousand years, bears fruit once every three thousand years, and then takes another three thousand years to mature.
If you smell it, you can live for 360 years; if you eat one, you can live for 47,000 years.
Although a tree can only bear a maximum of thirty fruits, that doesn't diminish its preciousness.
...
Just as Lin Qing was rushing to Wuzhuang Temple on Longevity Mountain, the Jade Emperor's token that had flown away appeared in the hands of a middle-aged man.
The man examined the token repeatedly for a while before whispering, "This token..."
Suddenly, the man flipped his left hand, and another token that was exactly the same as the one in his hand appeared.
"These two tokens come from the same source and also bear my aura, but... I don't remember making two of them?"
The man was none other than the Jade Emperor of this world.
"Huh? This token... it activated the array of the Tushita Palace, and the Peach Garden?"
The Jade Emperor put away the two tokens, then slowly stood up and appeared in front of the Tushita Palace in a flash.
With his hands behind his back, he walked towards the Tushita Palace. The formations didn't need to be controlled; they automatically opened when the Jade Emperor entered.
Upon entering, the Jade Emperor's expression changed slightly, for he discovered that all the attendants in the Tushita Palace had fainted on the ground.
Moreover, he saw through Lin Qing's illusion at a glance. In the entire Doushuai Palace, apart from the half-finished immortal pill being refined, there was not a single immortal pill left, not even a waste pill.
"My Nine-Turn Golden Elixir!" The Jade Emperor suddenly remembered that Sun Wukong had stolen and eaten all the Nine-Turn Golden Elixir that Laozi had refined for him.
"Oh no, the Peach Garden!" The Jade Emperor suddenly remembered that the token had mentioned visiting the Peach Garden. He disregarded the fact that the Peach Garden was under the jurisdiction of the Queen Mother of the West and immediately appeared outside the Peach Garden.
As soon as he appeared, he saw the empty peach orchard full of pits and was immediately enraged.
"Who is it?" the Jade Emperor roared, and with a wave of his hand, the Earth God, the Taoist boy, and two golden-armored guards appeared before him.
Furthermore, the group of people also regained consciousness at the same time. The Jade Emperor looked at them coldly without saying a word.
The golden-armored guards trembled as they tried to speak, but the Jade Emperor snorted angrily, flicked his sleeve, and the guards were immediately forced to their knees by a powerful force.
"I want to see who dares to commit such a heinous crime!" The Jade Emperor was furious and unleashed a spell directly into the void.
Suddenly, the entire Peach Garden began to undergo a dramatic change; upon closer inspection, it was actually flowing backwards.
A short while later, Lin Qing appeared on the screen, holding a peach tree in her hand, and then quickly planted the peach tree into the large pit.
The Jade Emperor watched as Lin Qing "planted" the peach trees one by one, his face growing increasingly gloomy.
Then, he flipped his hand and took the extra Jade Emperor token, closed his eyes and carefully sensed something.
A moment later, it opened its eyes and roared, "What a vicious dragon! It has committed such a heinous crime!"
The Jade Emperor pointed with his right hand, and the Haotian Mirror appeared in front of him. A flash of white light appeared on the Haotian Mirror, and Lin Qing's figure appeared on it.
"How dare you! You're still not satisfied, you even want to take the ginseng fruit tree."
The Jade Emperor immediately calculated with his fingers and then said softly, "No wonder, I didn't expect that Zhenyuan Daxian was also invited to the Ten Thousand Buddhas Assembly, just like Laozi."
Watching Lin Qing, who had just uprooted the ginseng fruit tree, speed away on the screen, the Jade Emperor scoffed, "Trying to run? With me here, no one can escape."
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"The evil dragon has committed a heinous crime by stealing the helmet... Go and capture it immediately, regardless of its life or death, just leave its soul behind."
At this moment, Erlang Shen, who was drinking with several brothers at Guankou and Meishan, suddenly changed his expression and put down the wine pot.
At the same time, a Taoist robe imbued with Lin Qing's aura descended from the sky and landed in Erlang Shen's hands.
"We've got a job. The Jade Emperor wants us to capture an evil dragon, the Celestial Hound, and find out what it tastes like." Erlang Shen smiled slightly and tossed his Taoist robe to the disheveled man squatting on the ground beside him.
Without a word, the man with the loose hair, also known as the Celestial Dog, took the Taoist robe, sniffed it intensely, and then said with delight, "It smells so good! If I eat this evil dragon, I will definitely be able to enter the realm of a Celestial Immortal."
"Haha, then once I've caught that evil dragon, we'll have a dragon feast!" Erlang Shen grabbed his three-pointed double-edged sword and strode towards the outside.
The Howling Celestial Dog and the Meishan Brothers followed closely behind, full of excitement.