"Let's try speeding it up." Yang Qinglan gently raised her chin.

Li Changzhou, who was sitting cross-legged, suddenly transformed into a human-shaped black mist.

The humanoid black mist exhaled a puff of black smoke, which enveloped the peaches and saplings. When the smoke dissipated, 2,000 points of mana were gone, and a year had passed.

The peaches have lost some moisture, and the saplings are as tall as a person.

The sapling, as tall as a person, had its roots entirely embedded in a peach the size of a fist.

"As expected of a peach from nine thousand years ago." Li Changzhou's voice, now in his black mist state, was even deeper and more majestic, and now carried a slight chuckle, giving it a different kind of charm.

As he spoke, another puff of black smoke appeared.

The peaches could no longer remain intact; with a gentle squeeze, the skin would dent, and the flesh beneath would lose its moisture.

The sapling grew to be twice the height of a person, with all its roots still firmly planted inside a half-wilted peach.

Li Changzhou looked up and saw that the sun had just set; dusk had passed, and the Xiaojing mirror was no longer useful.

The black mist surged toward the peach tree like a torrent, and midway, a black hand materialized and plucked a peach.

With the support of the Earth Immortal's strength, 'Great Power - Darkness' no longer limited by fifteen meters, and its power is even greater.

Li Changzhou's upper body emerged from the black mist. He took a bite of the peach, its fragrance filling the air, its sweet juice overflowing his mouth, and a surge of pure essence flowing into his body.

His body swelled slightly, and his magical power was fully restored.

"call!"

Two puffs of black smoke.

Kacha takes a bite of a peach and then puffs out two puffs of black smoke.

After the second peach was eaten, the first peach also completely rotted, its decay shockingly horrifying, with an eerie rusty color on it, only the peel remained intact.

It took a full eight years and 16,000 points of black mist magic power to allow the sapling to completely absorb a nine-thousand-year-old peach.

"It's too slow compared to the players' progress; it's actually quite fast," Yang Qinglan said.

The Kalanchoe pinnata has grown to six meters tall, large enough to provide shade for two people. Stars appear and disappear among the leaves, like blinking eyes.

Li Changzhou continued to hold the six-meter-tall tree with one hand, preventing it from touching the ground, worried that it would absorb the essence of the giant tree in the Honey Pot World.

A vortex unfolded behind him, and Li Changzhou vanished from his spot.

He went to Jupiter and tried to place the Kalanchoe pinnata in the ocean of hydrogen.

As soon as it left his protective magic, it hissed and burst into flames upon landing. With Li Changzhou's reaction speed, by the time he realized what was happening, the six-meter-tall tree was only the size of a palm.

Li Changzhou's heart was pounding violently, and even with his strong constitution, he broke out in a cold sweat.

This prop was bought with a thousand silver coins, which I scraped together and went bankrupt from all my savings!

If it were burned to ashes, he would have the urge to jump into the hydrogen sea and immolate himself!

Li Changzhou's lower body was shrouded in black mist, while his upper body remained in human form. He then took out a peach from the Honey Pot World.

call!

A puff of black smoke billowed out, and as if a movie had been sped up, a second sapling instantly sprouted from the roots that had taken hold on the ground.

This root spread rapidly in the hydrogen sea, forming a dense, impenetrable spiderweb.

When the second puff of black smoke was exhaled, a huge vortex had appeared on the hydrogen sea, and the billowing hydrogen gas was absorbed by the second tree root.

Clumps of hydrogen nutrients burrowed into the tree roots like mice.

The tree, having taken root, has grown to a meter tall. Opposite the first leaf, the second leaf is sprouting new buds, while tiny, rice-grain-sized peaches are taking shape among the branches where the first leaf is located.

"If anything can take root, can't the inner world of an Earth Immortal?"

"I thought you were being delusional, but considering the price and the attitude of Heaven and Earth towards it, I realized it wasn't impossible," Guanyin sighed.

"If Chang'e dares to be arrogant in front of me again, I'll use her as an experiment and implant myself inside her."

"...I think I know a little about the era you live in—are you making a dirty joke?"

"Bodhisattva, have you thought about reincarnation?"

[...]

"I wasn't making any dirty jokes. I just thought it would be a shame not to use this pun, that's all."

Guanyin sighed softly: "I wasn't talking about lewd jokes. Regarding reincarnation, I've already made up my mind."

"Oh?" Li Changzhou became interested.

Guanyin was reincarnated to ascend to the heavenly throne, and the race she chose naturally possessed extraordinary potential and deserved attention.

I have something I can't talk about.

"I am already one with the Bodhisattva, so what is there that cannot be said?"

"Then I'll be frank: I want to be reborn as one of your children."

Before Li Changzhou could react, Guanyin emphasized and quickly continued, "I know this puts you in a difficult position, which is why I haven't spoken up. But this is something we'll have to face sooner or later, and I still want to be honest with you about my true thoughts."

In the time it took to say that one sentence, Li Changzhou had already recovered from his astonishment.

There's no need to think about why Guanyin was reincarnated as one of her own children; she was born with a divine body and later possessed all the resources of the six great stars.

But no matter how valid the reasons are, they are not grounds for agreeing.

“This is not something I can decide alone, and your matter, Bodhisattva, cannot be known to a third party…” Li Changzhou’s tone revealed his refusal.

"I understand." Guanyin smiled wryly, yet with a hint of relief.

Guanyin gave up the idea, but Li Changzhou's conscience was troubled.

He wasn't like Yang Qinglan, who was detached from cause and effect and insisted on clearly distinguishing between gratitude and resentment, but he still demanded of himself that he repay even the smallest kindness with the greatest gratitude.

If it weren't for Guanyin, his visualization techniques would still be "Yin Yang Twin Snakes" and "Giant Kun," and his [Divine Body] would be far from being strengthened to the fourth time.

In the Ring Clan instance, if you have the "Eight-Nine Arcane Arts" and a peak second-tier "Divine Body," it's impossible to defeat a third-tier expert from the Divine Will Star Clan, but there's still a chance to escape alive.

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