Super System in the Early Tang Dynasty

Having received the answer, the middle-aged man thanked Li Xingzhi and prepared to lead the others back.

At this moment, Li Xingzhi took out the last remaining large, bright red and pink fruit from the wooden box and handed it to the child in front of him. “This is said to be a fruit from the far west, called the Wisdom Fruit. Legend has it that it can enhance people’s wisdom and open their minds. Although it doesn’t actually have such effects, it tastes quite good! Consider it a gift from your older brother to your younger brother!”

Seeing the adult beside him nod, the little boy, his eyes sparkling, accepted the cutest fruit in front of him.

The girl sitting next to Li Xingzhi rolled her eyes at his words, a strange smile on her face. After watching the group walk away, she finally spoke, "It was clearly a big apple, how did it become some kind of wisdom fruit in your mouth? You make it sound so real!" She didn't think the apple Li Xingzhi gave her was particularly valuable; after all, there were quite a few of them in the wooden box earlier, otherwise there wouldn't have been only one left.

In Central Asia and Western Europe, apples were just ordinary wild fruits, naturally not precious! But through the improvements made by space, they possessed an extraordinary spiritual essence! If you were to show the apples he was holding to Europeans now, they would certainly not imagine that such pink and beautiful fruits were the same thin, ugly wild fruits they usually saw! At this time, apples had not yet undergone the many changes that would follow!

Li Xingzhi was unaware that the apples he sent out today contained seeds that would take root and sprout on this land, allowing the people of China to taste the flavor of apples more than a thousand years ahead of schedule!

Seeing the slightly disdainful look in the girl's eyes, he casually recited the story of the golden apple from Western European mythology.

"Ah! You said these apples are descendants of the golden apples, so if I eat so many, will I become very smart in the future?" The girl looked at Li Xingzhi with a face full of anticipation.

"A little stupid pig will become a smart pig if it eats too many apples, but whether it's a stupid pig or a smart pig, it's still a pig and can't become a human!"

Hearing Li Xingzhi's explanation, the girl was slightly stunned before she came to her senses. "Li Qing! You're the pig—" As she spoke, a grape the size of a ping-pong ball flew out from nowhere and hit Li Xingzhi's face!

"Wow—you're still hoarding them! I was wondering how you ate all these grapes in one go!" Li Xingzhi said, dodging the large grapes that were being hit.

The grapes hit the stone behind him.

"Snapped!"

Juice splattered!

The sweet juice splashed all over Li Xingzhi, who couldn't dodge it!

Joy is always fleeting, and the sun gradually sets in the west.

As the sun sets in the west, the ancient road lies to the side. There is no west wind or lean horse, only three figures, and much joy.

The three of them went out through the west gate and returned through the north gate, and the sights they saw were quite different.

Sometime later, in the middle of the ancient road before the three of them, stood a massive tree that could encircle the entire road, bisecting it and leading towards Luoyang. Further on, the city of Luoyang was mostly obscured by the tree, its shape only vaguely visible.

Beside the big tree, under its towering shade, sat two people. One had jet-black hair and looked no more than middle-aged. He wore a crane-feather cloak and seemed to take flight like a bird in the wind. The other was just a young man with an ordinary appearance that went unnoticed, but upon closer inspection, he possessed a calm and aloof air.

Two figures, one large and one small, sat cross-legged on either side, watching the three people who were playfully fighting and slowly approaching. Their eyes, which had been slightly closed, suddenly opened! Both of their eyes were clear and bright, like those of innocent infants, revealing a hint of amusement.

The boy's clear voice asked the person next to him, "Which way should they go this time?"

The man, who appeared to be middle-aged, took out some tortoise shell objects from his sleeve, fiddled with them briefly, and said, "Qian is the most revered, the left is the most honored, so the left side!"

After listening, the young man considered the situation and said, "Extreme prosperity must lead to decline, and a dragon that has soared too high will regret it. We should move to the right!"

Li Xingzhi was not far away. Although he was playing around, he had already noticed the two rather strange people sitting cross-legged under the tree.

Before he knew it, the voices had reached his ears. Li Xingzhi heard their guesses and thought to himself, "Could it be that I've encountered a charlatan?" Then, hearing the difference between left and right, a strange look flashed across his face. He thought to himself, "Whichever side I go, I'll let one of you be smug!"

Thinking about this, I found myself already under the tree.

The two people beside them looked at the two strange people sitting under the tree with their eyes closed in thought and felt strange. But seeing that the two people did not pay attention to them, they did not take the initiative to approach them.

However, the large tree blocking their way caused a commotion between the two.

Wang Erlang was about to go to the left, while Li Linzhi wanted to go to the right! Anger arose, and being only children, they couldn't help but be stubborn.

"Hmph! You go left, I'll go right!"

As soon as he finished speaking, no one noticed the smug expressions on the faces of the two people sitting beside him with their eyes closed and no words spoken.

At this moment, another voice said, "If you go right and I go left, then where are you going, brother?"

"Brother Li will definitely follow me to the right!"

"No, no, since ancient times, men have been superior to women, and men should be on the left and women on the right. How can a real man like you go to the right?" Wang Erlang spoke in the tone of an old scholar, making the girl next to him grit her teeth in anger.

"Humph--"

Seeing that the girl next to him was about to get angry and start making a scene, wouldn't that just play into the hands of the two fake Taoist priests?

Li Xingzhi quickly stepped in to mediate, saying loudly, "Since one of you wants to go to the right and the other wants to go to the left, why don't we go to the middle? It shouldn't be difficult for you to get over this tree!"

After speaking, Li Xingzhi glanced at the two people sitting cross-legged and listening intently beside him. Seeing the strange look on their faces, he grinned smugly and said, "There's no shortcut!"

Although the tree was tall, its branches and roots were intertwined, making it difficult to climb. However, for the three men with internal strength, it was not difficult at all. The girl leaped up the tree in a few bounds; Erlang followed closely behind, lightly touching the ground with his feet, and soared away like a golden goose in the sky. Li Xingzhi followed closely behind, not lagging behind at all, as if walking on flat ground, taking only a few light steps to naturally climb the tree, and then descending from the other side!

The two people under the tree squinted as they watched the group leap into the air, and were startled!

Climbing the tree wasn't difficult for them, but it wasn't easy either. At most, they could leap up like the girl, but the two behind them could never do it! However, since they were skilled in Taoist magic and arithmetic, not martial arts or internal energy cultivation, they were only surprised and sighed before regaining their composure.

When Li Xingzhi reached the tree, he heard a clear, youthful voice, “The Qian hexagram, line 2, says: ‘The Master said: “It is the dragon’s virtue that is upright and in the center!” Teacher’s judgment was indeed correct!

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Second update! It's a bit late, but it's still during my usual update time, so it's not really late!