Chapter 51: Smiling Face Fruit
"The number of Tai'an fruits that need to be handed in each year is thirty. You can keep the extra ones for yourself. It's a benefit for the position of garrison commander."
"On average, I can save two Tai'an fruits every year. In the Tianxuan Mirror, the price of Tai'an fruits is generally around 90 to 100 contribution points."
"So if you add it all up, your remuneration for being the acting garrison commander is really not low." He Zhenghao introduced to Li Fan with a smile.
Li Fan nodded. Although He Zhenghao used some tricks, his words were true.
In Wanxian Island, those who can earn 1,000 contribution points every year during the Qi Refining Stage are extremely rare.
In this matter, He Zhenghao ate the meat and Li Fan drank some soup.
"Thank you very much, senior." Li Fan bowed.
"Okay, okay. You came from the island I guarded, so it's only natural for me to support you. As long as you can improve your cultivation in the future, it will be worth my while..." He Zhenghao was talking when he suddenly stopped.
He uttered a sigh and looked at Li Fan with a slightly surprised tone: "You have broken through to the middle stage of Qi Refining?"
Li Fan was shocked. He didn't expect that the other party could see through his use of the Qi-hiding Talisman.
He nodded and admitted generously: "Yes. Xiao Heng and I have a close relationship. Before he left, he left me a water-attributed technique. This technique is quite compatible with me, and I have made rapid progress in practicing it. I just made a breakthrough a few days ago."
"Haha, you are quite cautious. If it weren't for my special skills, I would have almost failed to notice. Did you use the Qi Concealing Talisman?"
Li Fan nodded.
"That's understandable. After all, it's better to be cautious. There are many people with ulterior motives in this world of immortal cultivation..." He Zhenghao was talking when he suddenly realized that Li Fan was looking at him strangely. He laughed and changed the subject: "I didn't expect that you have such a good relationship with Xiao Heng. He even left a technique for you."
"Xiao Heng is truly a genius. He has only been practicing for a few years, but he is almost at the stage of building a foundation. His future is limitless!" He Zhenghao had obviously been paying attention to Xiao Heng, and he was full of emotion and envy when he spoke of it.
"It is not impossible to achieve the Golden Core or even the Nascent Soul in the future. My friend, you have a close relationship with him, which is a blessing."
As He Zhenghao spoke, his tone became more enthusiastic.
"It is a blessing to meet you, senior." Li Fan boasted casually.
He Zhenghao laughed out loud and was very happy when he heard this.
At this moment, he paused and turned to look in a certain direction in the city: "Coincidentally, there is a Tai'an fruit that is ripe now. I will show you how to pick this Tai'an fruit."
Li Fan nodded and followed He Zhenghao to a house.
Before entering the yard, I heard bursts of crying.
After walking in, Li Fan discovered that there were more than a dozen human-faced fruits kneeling in the house, dressed in mourning and white clothes.
In a coffin in the center, there lay a fruit with a human face, seemingly sleeping.
The fruit had its eyes closed, its mouth tilted to one side with a strange smile, and its body was motionless.
None of the people with face-shaped fruits in the house noticed the arrival of Li Fan and the others. They were just mourning the departure of their loved ones.
The scene on the field looked somewhat funny and scary.
When he got closer, Li Fan smelled a strange fragrance coming out of the coffin.
He Zhenghao came to the coffin, muttered something, and pointed at the smiling face fruit inside, between his eyebrows.
A soft light enveloped the place, and the smiley fruit slowly rose from the coffin and floated in the air.
Then it slowly shrank and turned into a small bright red fruit.
As the Tai'an fruit took shape, all the fruits with human faces in mourning clothes suddenly became quiet.
The white mourning clothes on their bodies slowly disappeared, and the expressions on their faces gradually changed from grief to confusion.
After looking around blankly for a moment, the fruits finally dispersed in silence.
"How is it?" He Zhenghao handed the Tai'an fruit to Li Fan.
"It's very strange." The scene of picking Tai'an fruits made Li Fan feel a little uneasy for some reason, and he just answered reluctantly.
Li Fan took the Tai'an fruit in his hand and observed it carefully.
The fruit looked similar to the apple in my memory, but the color was even more glaringly red.
And waves of fragrance waft out from the Tai'an fruit continuously.
This fragrance seemed to penetrate deep into one's soul. Li Fan smelled it and swallowed involuntarily.
"You haven't eaten Tai'an fruit yet, right? Why don't you try it first?" He Zhenghao suggested.
"Things that increase lifespan have a natural appeal to cultivators like us. The longer it lasts, the greater the temptation becomes." He Zhenghao looked at Li Fan's hesitant expression and added with a smile.
Sure enough, the effect of the fragrance seemed to accumulate, and as Li Fan hesitated, the fragrance became stronger and stronger.
Attracted by the aroma, waves of hunger surged from deep within my heart.
So, after a moment, Li Fan no longer hesitated and swallowed the Tai'an fruit whole.
The feeling of hunger disappeared immediately. Although it was only a small piece, Li Fan still burped after eating it, as if he had eaten a big meal.
Li Fan checked his [Huanzhen] panel and found that the upper limit of his biological age had increased by 5 years.
Li Fan smacked his lips and savored the taste of the Tai'an fruit. "This is the first time I've come across a rare item that can increase lifespan. It's really extraordinary. But it looks a little weird. It looks like a human, which is scary."
He Zhenghao smiled and responded: "This Tai'an fruit is transformed from a human, so of course it looks like one."
Li Fan's expression suddenly froze.
Suppressing the churning in his stomach, Li Fan asked in horror, "Are all the Tai'an fruits in this city real people?"
He Zhenghao was somewhat disapproving of Li Fan's reaction.
However, Li Fan had just entered the world of immortal cultivation not long ago, so he could understand it, so he continued to explain: "Strictly speaking, Tai'an Fruit is a fruit, not a human being."
Li Fan was slightly relieved after hearing this, but he still had some concerns: "What does it mean to be transformed from a human?"
"This has to do with the origin of Tai'an fruit." He Zhenghao said as he took Li Fan and flew back to the top of the city.
"Five hundred years ago, Tai'an Island was just an ordinary island. There were no valuable specialties in the sea area surrounding the island, and there were only a few thousand mortals living on the island for generations."
"I don't know how many small islands there are in the sea of clouds."
"But one day, everything suddenly became different."
"First, the mortals on the surrounding islands discovered that they hadn't seen residents of Tai'an Island for a long time. In the past, merchants from the island occasionally visited each other, but they haven't been seen for more than a year."
"Driven by curiosity, some people sailed to Tai'an Island to find out what was going on."
"Who knew that several waves of people would never come back."
“Realizing that something was wrong, people quickly reported the incident to the island guard at the time.”
"The guard was already a Jindan-stage cultivator at that time. Even so, after seeing what happened on Tai'an Island, he was also deeply frightened."
(End of this chapter)
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