A Tale of Encounters with Immortals: A Peach Blossom Temple in the Martial World

"Prepare!"

"Listen to my command!"

A young voice echoed with a drawn-out roar in the square.

The eldest disciple, Qingyangzi, unleashed his magic weapon—the wooden fish. The wooden fish suddenly grew larger in the air, becoming like a giant wooden basin that covered the entire Peach Blossom Temple.

We must preserve the Peach Blossom Temple.

This was Qingyangzi's only thought.

My eyes are bloodshot!

All sorts of magical treasures flew into the sky, including golden phoenixes and precious swords.

Suddenly, the sky was filled with brilliant light, as if trying to suppress the dark shadow in the sky.

After the Grand Preceptor finished chanting the incantation, a sword aura shot into the sky, like a pillar of light, heading straight for the low, thick clouds. However, this pillar of light was a bit too thin and sparse.

Then he looked towards the direction of Peach Blossom Temple, where it was radiant with light and various magical treasures were displaying their power in the air, which filled him with envy.

If only he had a magic weapon too.

The Seventh Princess said to Hu Yunying beside her, "Auntie, do you think this looks... like a tree?" She tilted her head and studied it for a long time.

Hu Yunying chuckled: "A tree? I think it's a big fat ass. When it farts, we'll probably all be suffocated by the stench."

Guo Lanying giggled.

These women, on the contrary, are no longer worried at all. They are even discussing the form of the strange phenomenon that has occurred in the sky with great interest, and they are enjoying it immensely.

Even Hai Tianfu and Qin Shouzhong brought out their treasures. They had been ordered by their senior brother Qingyangzi to protect the people of Linbin at all costs.

"It really is a tree!"

Suddenly the little mouse let out a shriek.

It had originally hidden under Zhang Zhengdao's bed in the palace, intending to bury itself with the female corpse. However, rats are naturally timid but love to join in the fun.

So I sneaked out to take a look, and when I looked up, I was surprised to see that it was shaped like a tree.

Rats are naturally very sensitive to these things.

With a screech from the rat, the entire Peach Blossom Temple heard it.

Everyone looked up at the sky.

"A tree?" Qingyangzi turned to look at Qingxuzi.

Qing Xuzi rubbed his eyes: "Senior Brother, don't try to fool me. What kind of tree is this? Don't all trees have branches?"

Then branches appeared.

Even though it's just a branch, it almost looks like a horizontal mountain ridge.

"Wow--"

Everyone couldn't help but gasp in amazement.

"It really is a tree!"

The Seventh Princess's neck was getting sore from being tilted back, so she turned to look at Hu Yunying.

Hu Yunying: "This tree looks familiar."

Guo Lanying nodded vigorously: "It does look somewhat familiar."

The female corpse appeared out of nowhere, looked at the tree, and said two words in a very aloof manner.

"Taoist Priest!"

Taoist priest?

Hu Yunying was suddenly startled by the two words. After carefully examining them, she immediately let out a sharp scream, even sharper than the squeaking of a mouse.

"Daoist Master... my husband is back! The Chaos Tree, this is the Chaos Tree!"

After shouting, it disappeared from the spot with a "whoosh".

The Seventh Princess stared wide-eyed at Guo Lanying and asked, "Has your master gone mad?"

Guo Lanying angrily said, "Even if you're crazy, my master wouldn't be. Master is right, the Taoist priest is back, and I'm going to tell my senior brother too."

The Seventh Princess snorted: "You're not even a disciple, why are you calling me Senior Brother!"

"Whoosh!"

Guo Lanying also disappeared on the spot.

"Master has returned!"

After Hu Yunying told Qingyangzi her thoughts, Qingyangzi immediately realized something. When he used his supernatural powers to look at the thing again, it was indeed a tree, and it was exactly the same as the Chaos Tree that his old Taoist temple had planted before.

My heart was instantly shaken.

"Take all the magical treasures!"

Qingyangzi issued orders.

Immediately, everyone put away their magical artifacts.

The dazzling light in the sky vanished instantly.

Everyone had heard what Hu Yunying said, and they all began to carefully examine the objects. These were all first-generation disciples of Peach Blossom Temple, so they naturally knew that Peach Blossom Temple had once planted the Chaos Tree.

It really is the Chaos Tree.

However, if this huge tree were to fall, even the Chaos Tree of Peach Blossom Temple would not be able to withstand such a blow. If it were to fall, Peach Blossom Temple would be finished.

Just then, the enormous tree, stretching for hundreds of miles, suddenly stopped in mid-air, and then dark clouds gathered in the sky, and a torrential rain poured down.

"It's raining!"

However, Qingyangzi did not leave.

Qingyangzi didn't leave, so neither did his fellow disciples. However, they all possessed divine powers protecting them, so the heavy rain didn't touch them at all.

However, the heavy rain drove away all the people who came to watch the spectacle in Linbin Town.

However, the rain soon followed the wind, and as the wind blew away the dark clouds, it fell into the largest valley of Peach Blossom Mountain. This valley was built by Zhang Zhengdao when Peach Blossom Mountain was first constructed, so that the moonlight could be drawn down to form a lake.

Even after he passed away, he never brought the moonlight water to this mountain valley.

This rain is pouring down, like water being poured from the sky into this mountain valley.

The rain lasted for a long time without stopping.

However, the other places had already stopped, so people from both Taohua Temple and Linbin Town came out again, and many of the bolder people came to Taohua Temple to watch the excitement.

Qingyangzi ordered that everyone at Peach Blossom Temple be put on guard.

So the third-generation disciples also came out to witness this magnificent spectacle.

The torrential rain, specifically targeting the mountain valley, has been falling for almost ten days. It shows no signs of stopping, but the valley has only just begun to fill with water; it's still a long way from being full.

So, the public's attitude changed from watching the spectacle to being indifferent in just a few days.

The sun reappeared in the sky.

As the sun shone, the image of the giant tree in the sky became even clearer. It truly was a colossal tree. Looking up from the ground, even from a great distance, one could tell that if this tree were to fall, the entire Peach Blossom Mountain and Linbin Town would likely be buried deep underground, turning into fossils millions of years later.

However, because such a huge thing is standing in the air, even with sunlight, it is not very bright during the day, and the shadows move with the sunlight.

Ten days later, everyone had completely lost interest.

But that couldn't stop the martial arts practitioners from outside Linbin Town, as well as curious men and women, from coming to see.

So the eldest disciple, Qingyangzi, immediately seized the business opportunity.

The tall trees in the sky are nothing special; they're in the sky, beyond the control of Peach Blossom Temple. Therefore, they can't charge admission. However, the rainwater directly flooding the valleys of Peach Blossom Mountain is something worth discussing.

Qingyangzi had already planned ahead; he began assigning tasks just three days into the mission.

"Xiaoyaozi Ye Jianxian, go and guard the back mountain. Don't let those with ulterior motives take advantage of the situation and sneak in from the back mountain. Qingweizi Su Tang, you and Qingxuanzi Yang Shengtian, go and guard the entrance at the foot of Peach Blossom Mountain. You two have excellent appearances and temperaments, and you are quite famous in the martial arts world, so you can attract guests to come up the mountain."

"Me, me!"

The Seventh Princess always wanted to show that she wasn't a freeloader and that she could work, so she actively invited people to go on missions, which was a great affirmation for her.

Qingyangzi glanced at her.

"You are responsible for leading a few second-generation disciples to dig a large septic tank next to the place where the rainwater falls into the valley, and then set up a temporary tent or something similar, which should be far apart, as a temporary latrine for men and women."

Seventh Princess:......

"I'm supposed to be greeting guests, what's wrong with my looks? Make me dig a latrine!"

Of course I can't do that! It's an insult! She's a princess, after all...

Qingyangzi glanced at her sideways: "That's fine, but if this gets to His Majesty's ears, saying that the Seventh Princess is showing her face in public at Peach Blossom Mountain, greeting guests and putting on a smiling face... Do you think His Majesty will summon you back to the palace?"

The seventh princess was immediately discouraged.

He kicked a pebble in frustration and went off to pick a fight.

"All income during this period was recorded by Qingxuzi and deposited into the treasury."

"I have something to say!"

Hu Yunying stepped forward, and Guo Lanying, who was next to her, tried desperately to pull her clothes but couldn't hold on.

"Please speak, Aunt Hu!"

Qingyangzi bowed respectfully, performing the proper etiquette of a junior to an elder. She was, in a sense, his teacher's wife, and he had to show her respect.

Hu Yunying: "This accounting business also involves my husband's income, so it can't be just one person; I have to get involved."

Qingyangzi: ...

You, a woman who dares to spend one tael of silver on a pair of incense sticks, two taels of silver on a pound of pork ribs, and fifty coins on a pound of radishes, actually want to get involved in managing the accounts?

Do you understand how to manage it?