“Fragrant and delicious,” Suisui said, not forgetting to pluck a small wild flower by her feet.
She wanted to decorate a new home for Little Suisui, letting Little Suisui live inside the big rock. The big rock emitted a blue light, and Little Suisui wouldn’t be afraid if she stayed inside.
Ye Wan recalled Kong Qing saying that Suisui wouldn’t eat anything except heavenly materials and earthly treasures. Did that mean this “Luminous Grass” was within Suisui’s edible range?
Ye Wan took out the Seven-Star Sleeve Arrow sent by Qin Zixun. “Does Suisui want to eat this?”
Suisui’s eyes widened, and she took a few steps back, looking pitiful. “Mother, are you going to mistreat the smart, cute, well-behaved, and obedient Suisui?”
“How about this?” Ye Wan put away the sleeve arrow and took out a spirit stone.
“Wow! Shiny and pretty! I want to make a small hair clip for Little Suisui.” Suisui reached out to take the small blue stone in Ye Wan’s hand.
Ye Wan raised her hand higher. “This is a spirit stone that can be spent like money; it’s not for playing. Does Suisui want to eat it?”
“I want to eat it a little bit, but Suisui’s teeth can’t bite through it.” Suisui covered her mouth with both hands and retreated a few more steps, fearing her mother would force her to eat it.
“So, you must remember, you can’t just use that skill that changes locations whenever you want, or else you’ll have to eat stones.” Ye Wan put the spirit stone back into her storage bag, taking the opportunity to scare her a bit.
Suisui nodded her little head vigorously. “I’ve remembewed! I won’t eat stones, and I won’t eat iron blocks either.”
Ye Wan rubbed her little head. Since Suisui was so sensitive to the food she could eat, could this be considered another treasure-hunting skill?
So, was her transmigration “golden finger” dependent on her own child?
……
In the Immortal Realm, after a gap of five thousand years, a descendant was finally born to the Li family. Various factions sent representatives to congratulate them, and the atmosphere of the banquet reached its peak due to the arrival of Immortal Venerable Jiusu.
The cultivation ranks in the Immortal Realm were Immortal Soldier, Immortal Lord, Immortal Emperor, Immortal Venerable, Immortal Saint, and Immortal Ancestor. Immortal Venerable Jiusu had reached the rank of Immortal Venerable in just ten thousand years.
Looking toward the entrance, Immortal Venerable Jiusu arrived slowly in ethereal robes with flowing sashes. His features looked as if they were carved by divine craftsmanship, and his aura was as elegant as a celestial orchid. His appearance immediately caught everyone’s eye. However, although this Immortal Venerable held the title of “Number One Beauty of the Immortal Realm,” his other titles were even more memorable.
Treasure-Snatching Expert—Wherever he went, not a blade of grass remained.
Wealth-Guarding Pixiu—Once something reached his hands, it was impossible to get him to take it out again. It could be said that he loved wealth as much as life itself.
When facing this man, one would rather say they were after his looks than his wealth; otherwise, they would die without even leaving behind ashes or smoke.
Of course, saying one was after his looks would probably also result in being reduced to ashes.
“Uncle,” the Li Family Patriarch stepped forward to bow and salute.
To appear steady and experienced, the Li Family Patriarch had specially grown a beard. At first glance, this uncle looked much younger and more handsome than him.
Well, in fact, he really was a bit younger than him.
This uncle was born when he was twenty years old. His grandfather and grandmother were a rare pair in the entire Immortal Realm who could give birth to two children. Many people couldn’t even have one child in their entire lives and could only rely on Pregnancy Fruits to continue their lineage, and even then, success wasn’t guaranteed.
The Heavenly Dao is balanced. If you already have longevity and still want numerous descendants, how could there be such a bargain? Furthermore, the Immortal Realm governs three thousand small worlds. People from every small world ascend here. If everyone lived so long and the Immortal Realm’s population growth wasn’t controlled, wouldn’t there be a population explosion?
Becoming a god was not like cultivating immortality, where one could undergo tribulation and ascend once their cultivation level was reached.
For an immortal to become a god, besides reaching a certain level of cultivation, they also had to cultivate their heart and accumulate merit. They had to undergo the evaluation of the Heavenly Dao, which would observe their actions, examine their character, verify their contributions, and test their heart. Only after passing could they ascend to godhood and become eternal and indestructible.
Li Jiushu nodded and looked at the swaddled infant held in the wet nurse’s arms. “Bring the child here for me to see.”
The moment everyone was waiting for was about to arrive. Everyone tacitly and quietly drew closer.
They gathered here today not only to celebrate the Li family’s joyous addition of a son but also to know whether the next contractor of the Divine Tree would fall upon this newborn baby. If not, would they also have a chance?
Legend has it that at the beginning of the creation of heaven and earth, when chaos first opened, seeds sprouted from this land brushed by the Primordial Violet Qi, growing into towering Divine Trees and becoming innate spiritual entities.
They possessed divine powers and immense strength, affecting the balance of heaven and earth. If they did not want to turn into mountains, rivers, wind, frost, rain, or snow to nourish the earth, they could only form a contract downward to coexist equally with humans.
All contractors could obtain the inherent power of the Divine Tree. The relationship between the Divine Tree and the contractor was one of equal symbiosis. The Divine Tree had the opportunity to reincarnate every ten thousand years. During this period, the Divine Tree could choose whether it was still willing to survive through a contract with a person. If it chose to contract, it would return to chaos and grow anew.
The contract was limited to the individual rather than their family. The Divine Tree could choose to renew the contract or choose any other person to be the next contractor.
If the contract was dissolved, the original contractor would lose the power of the Divine Tree but would otherwise be unaffected.
Currently, two families in the Immortal Realm had contracted with Divine Trees. Because contractors were worshipped by their families like gods, throughout history, the next contractors chosen by these Divine Trees had always come from the same family.
Seeing as Immortal Venerable Jiusu’s contract with the Divine Tree was nearing its ten-thousand-year term, if the next contractor wasn’t this newborn of the Li family, surely the tree wouldn’t go back to contracting with those old fogies, right?
Then their chance would come.
The Li Patriarch personally brought the child over. Li Jiushu looked at the milk baby in the swaddle gnawing on a tiny fist. The baby’s eyes seemed to follow the figures around him, and he made “yiya” sounds as if sharing the joy of coming into this world with others.
Li Jiushu tapped his two fingers on the baby’s brow and pulled away instantly. No one could tell whether the Divine Tree had chosen a master or not, which was also why the Li family dared to perform the test in public.
The Li Patriarch tried to find a trace of a sign on Li Jiushu’s face, but the leisure and composure on this man’s face seemed innate; no one could hope to decipher anything from him.
Back then, the family thought the next contractor of the Divine Tree would be him, but unexpectedly, an uncle appeared out of nowhere. This uncle seemed to have been born specifically to become the contractor of the Divine Tree.
Li Jiushu finished the test and was about to take out a gift when his brow suddenly furrowed slightly.
Such an obvious change in expression was noticed by everyone present.
No way, right? No way? Immortal Venerable Jiusu wouldn’t actually feel distressed over a one-month birthday gift for his own grand-nephew, would he?
The Li Patriarch knew that Li Jiushu wasn’t stingy to this extent with his own family; he just didn’t know what unexpected event had occurred.
He timely took out a Breaking Dawn Bow and placed it on the child’s swaddle, remedying the situation. “This is a gift your Grand-Uncle prepared for you long ago. He was worried he wouldn’t be able to attend today, so he left it with me first.”
Everyone: “…”
They would just pretend to believe it.
This was definitely the time Li Jiushu’s reputation was most wrongly maligned.
He took out another gift and sent it over using immortal power. “I still have matters to attend to, so I won’t stay.”
With those words, he strode out of the hall and vanished as a streak of light.
Among the guests, there was no shortage of women who looked obsessed with the back of Immortal Venerable Jiusu.
Sigh… they weren’t after Immortal Venerable Jiusu’s wealth; they only wanted his looks. Unfortunately, Immortal Venerable Jiusu guarded both his wealth and his virtue.
……
Li Jiushu returned to his Jiuyi Mountain, waved his hand to set up a barrier, and entered his space.
The space came with the Divine Tree contract; it contained its own world. When the contract period ended, the space would disappear along with the Divine Tree.
Inside the space, only the canopy of the Divine Tree could be seen, not its roots. The sky of the space was covered by the massive canopy, with slender branches hanging down from the top, emitting a faint green light. Looking up, it was as if the entire sky was filled with emerald silk ribbons.
Beneath the canopy, there were birds singing and flowers fragrance, mountains, and rivers. Even without a sky or the change of seasons, it didn’t affect the growth of the creatures inside.
Li Jiushu looked at the Xingluo Stone under the Divine Tree. The one-month birthday gift he had specially picked out for his grand-nephew was indeed gone.
That was a Chaos Fruit, born in the land of chaos, fruiting once every ten thousand years. It could strengthen bloodline power and improve comprehension. It was best for young children to consume and was a celestial fruit that several major families fought over to give to their younger generations.
Li Jiushu searched the space inch by inch with his divine sense but found nothing.
The corners of his lips curled into a cold sneer. Having guarded his wealth for over ten thousand years, his own home had actually been robbed.
Li Jiushu’s gaze returned to that Xingluo Stone.
The Xingluo Stone contained the power of stars and could nourish the soul. Meditating and cultivating on it would yield twice the result with half the effort.
Li Jiushu probed the Xingluo Stone with his divine sense. After a while, he ruled out the possibility of the Xingluo Stone developing spiritual intelligence.
He stood with his hands behind his back, looking at the canopy above. “Was it you who played these tricks?”
Of course, the Divine Tree did not respond to him. Or rather, since contracting with the Divine Tree, he had never received a response from it. However, Li Jiushu was certain that the Divine Tree possessed spiritual intelligence.
After a while, a treasure box appeared in Li Jiushu’s hand. After thinking about it, he replaced it with one of the lowest value.
Just as he was about to place it on the Xingluo Stone for an experiment, suddenly, a flower and a stalk of grass appeared on the originally mirror-smooth surface of the Xingluo Stone.
Li Jiushu immediately used his divine sense to seal the Xingluo Stone and set up a barrier, but he still couldn’t stop the extra wild flowers and grass.
Li Jiushu’s brow furrowed slightly. He raised his hand, intending to pull a flower into his hand, but he ended up grasping thin air.
He stepped forward and bent down to pick up the flower, but to his surprise, his hand passed through the wild flower. He caught nothing, as if it were an illusion, yet the Xingluo Stone was real.
Standing by the Xingluo Stone, Li Jiushu watched as the wild flowers and grass continued to pop up one by one. They were placed around the Xingluo Stone quite regularly, like a three-year-old child playing house.
After watching for a while, he swept his hand, and a breeze blew across, intending to sweep away the flowers and grass. As a result, the wild flowers and grass didn’t budge at all.
Li Jiushu: “…”
Li Jiushu glanced at the Divine Tree above again and gave up on the idea of using treasures for experiments. He plucked a flower from the space out of thin air and threw it onto the Xingluo Stone.
In the Qianyuan Realm, Suisui picked another red flower and put it into the rock. After putting it in, she suddenly discovered that a purple flower as big as her face had appeared on the rock!
“Mother, the rock grew a flower!” Suisui took out the flower and ran toward her mother.
The moment the flower was taken out, Ye Wan felt an unprecedented palpitation. She immediately stepped forward to hug Suisui and told her to put the flower back quickly.
The moment the flower disappeared, the sense of panic as if standing on the line of death vanished instantly.
Ye Wan looked at Suisui thoughtfully…
Li Jiushu saw the flower return and reached out to take it, but again, he caught nothing.
The flower was there, but he couldn’t take it out anymore.
Could it be targeting him?
Heh, did he get his title of wealth-guardian for nothing? He simply wouldn’t put anything on it.
Li Jiushu was about to leave with his hands behind his back when suddenly, another spirit herb appeared on the stone.