This immortal was clearly ordinary, yet he was unusually confident.

"Hmph, that scoundrel Zheng Zhuang is simply too arrogant. I really can't swallow this insult. Why don't we take advantage of this opportunity and have someone kill him?"

The delegation returned to their lodgings, and Chief Envoy Li said fiercely.

“No! If something happens to him now, everyone will know that we were the ones who did it.” Yang Minghan shook his head.

"So what if they know? As long as they can't find any evidence, what can they do to us?" Master Li gave a sinister smile.

"Does Chief Li think that I, Yang, am doomed to lose?" Yang Minghan asked in a somewhat unfriendly tone.

"Ha, of course not! I'm just afraid he'll pull some trick again. Look at him, he comes here as soon as he arrives, and he's even playing the flute! If something unexpected happens, we'll end up losing more than we gain." Master Li quickly explained.

He secretly disagreed, because Yang Minghan hadn't even touched a pen in the first round and had lost quite badly. But he only dared to think it to himself and didn't dare to say it out loud.

"What an accident? He was already proficient in music and had composed one or two poems related to it beforehand. It was I who was short-sighted; I didn't expect the academy to have such a person." Yang Minghan sighed.

"How can you blame Vice Envoy Yang? It's just that the fellow is too cunning."

"Exactly, that guy must have prepared this in advance."

"Vice Envoy Yang just fell into his trap by accident."

The other members of the delegation quickly spoke up to comfort him. They all knew Yang Minghan's abilities, but they hadn't expected Zheng Zhuang to act so unpredictably.

"Alright, I need some peace and quiet to think things through for tonight's two matches." Yang Minghan waved his hand, stopping the flattery from the group.

"Alright, alright, Vice Envoy Yang, think it over carefully. Let's go out first."

Li, the mastermind, gave the others a wink, then walked out the door first.

Yang Minghan sat quietly in the armchair, a charming face involuntarily appearing in his mind, and murmured:

"The one I love".

……

Zhu Teng is a divine messenger of the "Flower Goddess Cult". His main purpose for this trip is to protect the safety of the delegation and to contact other divine messengers in Quliang City.

These divine messengers were few in number, but they all came from various major religions. However, since receiving orders from above, they had remained dormant.

Unlike the Cangyue Kingdom, the major religious sects in the Xuri Kingdom have the support of the Regent Empress Dowager Ye Ningshuang, so they have great power. A small number of them were sent to the Cangyue Kingdom to carry out missions.

The mission was twofold: one was to secretly develop followers and absorb faith, and the other was to create chaos in the Cangyue Kingdom when necessary. Qin Ming was originally one of the missions.

Zhu Teng had not received any special instructions and had not originally planned to make any big moves, but after hearing about the Peach Blossom Immortal, he became restless.

He knew very well that the Peach Blossom Immortal was most likely a cultivator, someone he couldn't afford to offend; what interested him was the old peach tree.

Zhu Teng was originally just an ordinary person. By chance, he became a candidate to fuse with demonic power. Several other people were also selected, but only he survived and successfully fused with the demonic power of a blood vine that had already become a spirit, becoming a divine messenger of the Flower Goddess Sect.

If the old peach tree is truly as miraculous as the rumors suggest, it might have already developed sentience. If he could absorb the spiritual essence of the old peach tree, his strength could reach a new level.

So he waited for his chance outside the Peach Blossom Courtyard, and unexpectedly, his chance finally came.

Zheng Zhuang took Qin Qianqian out, and not long after, Niu Daben also left Peach Blossom Courtyard.

Zhu Teng possessed a unique ability; through the weeds, he discovered that only an old peach tree and a very weak little demon remained in the courtyard.

Having finally gotten this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Zhu Teng naturally wouldn't let it slip by, and planned to sneak in secretly.

The array outside the courtyard caused him a lot of trouble, but he still managed to succeed by sheer luck.

Looking at the old peach tree with its lush branches and abundant spiritual energy, a fiery glint flashed in Zhu Teng's eyes. This trip had not been in vain.

Because the blue cat was too eye-catching, Zheng Zhuang left it in the yard. As soon as it heard the noise, it ran out.

Zhu Teng chuckled, and his body began to change. In the blink of an eye, his two arms turned into two thick vines, which were blood-red in color and covered with poisonous thorns that gleamed with a cold light.

The blue fat man was startled and shrank back, watching Zhu Teng warily through the crack in the door.

Zhu Teng ignored the blue fat man. Such a weak fox demon could be dealt with after absorbing the old peach tree.

The old peach tree looked at the blood vines extending towards it with some confusion, and subconsciously stretched out a root.

Seeing the old peach tree's actions, Zhu Teng was not surprised but delighted. The fact that it could extend its roots showed that it had indeed gained sentience.

Without saying a word, Zhu Teng controlled the blood vine to wrap around the tree root. The blood vine was very fast, and the old peach tree didn't have time to react before the tree root was tightly wrapped.

"Hehe, watch me suck you dry!"

Zhu Teng exerted a sudden force, and the poisonous thorns on the blood vine grew even longer, instantly embedding themselves in the roots of the old peach tree.

"Bah..."

The scene he had envisioned did not appear. The poisonous bark stuck into the tree root with a piercing metallic scraping sound. His poisonous bark could not even pierce the bark of the tree root!

Zhu Teng realized something was wrong and tried to retract the blood vine, but the tree root instead wrapped the blood vine tightly around it.

With a gentle tug on the tree root, the blood vine, as fragile as a hair, was easily torn apart.

"what!"

Zhu Teng screamed in agony. After the blood vine was torn off, it gradually turned back into two arms, and then blood gushed out from his elbows...

Without hesitation, he turned and fled, but the roots of the old peach tree suddenly sped up and wrapped around his ankle.

He struggled frantically, but could only let the old peach tree pull him back little by little.

At this moment, two more tree roots emerged from the soil beneath the old peach tree. One wrapped around Zhu Teng's neck, and the other around his waist, before slowly pulling his entire body into the ground.

Soon, the ground returned to calm, with only a pool of blood slowly seeping from the soil...

The old peach tree, however, seemed to have taken a tonic, its trunk trembling slightly. After a moment, apart from some remaining bloodstains, there was nothing else on the ground.

The old peach tree gradually returned to calm, but upon closer inspection, the peach blossoms on the tree appeared even more vibrant.

Doraemon then mustered his courage and squeezed out through the crack in the door. He glanced at the empty yard, then at the old peach tree warily, before fleeing back into the house.

The last time Zheng Zhuang played the "Nine Tribulations Immortal Melody" on the peach tree, the old peach tree benefited the most. Through the artistic conception of the melody, it silently completed a transformation. At that time, Zheng Zhuang was immersed in his own thoughts and did not notice it.

After a while, several cracks suddenly appeared on the old bark of the old peach tree trunk, and they looked just like a human face!

The face looked in the direction of the blue robot cat with some confusion, and after a while, it suddenly let out a childish laugh:

"hehe!"