Chapter 69
"Master, whose treasury has been overturned? It's all scattered here." Longbao picked up the large, glittering gold ingots from the ground.
Huo Feng also squatted down and picked them up: "Not only are there gold ingots and gold bricks, but there are also gold bracelets and gold necklaces, which have been artificially processed."
Ye Zi raised her hand, and a gold ingot flew into her hand. Ye Zi turned it over and saw that the bottom of the gold ingot was printed with a 'plum blossom' pattern.
Luo Hengzhi waved his hand and flipped over all the gold ingots and gold bricks on the ground, revealing the bottom, which was covered with "plum blossom" marks.
Ye Zi suddenly remembered that her golden core phenomenon was red plum blossoms, and looking at the golden plum blossom patterns all over the ground, it seemed familiar!
Luo Hengzhi: "Fire Phoenix Dragon Treasure, don't be stunned. Money is only yours if you pick it up and put it in your pocket."
"I found money! I found money!" Long Bao Huo Feng formed hand seals, and the gold on the ground flew into the storage space with a "whoosh".
All the four of them could hear was the crisp, pleasant sound of small coins constantly being deposited into their vault, as the space was continuously filled with gold bars and ingots!
After all the gold on the ground was taken away, nearly half of the four people's storage space was occupied, leaving just enough space to store any more treasures they encountered.
"Who took my gold!"
A powerful voice came from all directions. Ye Zilu Hengzhi couldn't even pinpoint the location of the voice, let alone the cultivation level of its owner.
As soon as the sound came out, the inner core of the Dragon Treasure Fire Phoenix was shaken. The Dragon Treasure Fire Phoenix protected its inner core and retreated, hiding behind Ye Zilu Hengzhi.
Ye Zi summoned her spirit sword and shielded Luo Hengzhi behind her: "Be careful, I can't tell her cultivation level."
Luo Hengzhi understood that this was yet another opponent they couldn't defeat!
"We didn't know this gold had an owner, and we apologize for offending you, senior." After saying this, Ye Zi looked around, wanting to confirm again where the person was hiding.
As soon as Ye Zi finished speaking, a tree slowly walked over from the open space in front of her.
Yes, it's a tree, a golden money tree!
"Wow... a money tree!" Dragon Treasure Fire Phoenix looked at the giant golden tree approaching, its round eyes sparkling like stars.
"A living money tree!" Fire Phoenix had never seen a walking tree before, let alone a money tree.
"Why aren't you returning the gold yet?" the giant money tree asked, hands on its hips.
It really is hands on hips, with the golden branches on both sides bending down, making a very vivid angry pose of a tree with its hands on its hips.
Ye Zi confirmed that the tree was the source of the sound earlier; they couldn't even discern the cultivation level of a tree.
However, it's clear that the tree doesn't seem to have any ill intentions towards them at the moment!
"You're truly a money tree! You're so tall, you must have lived for tens of thousands of years!" Long Bao asked with great respect.
"It won't be long, only fifty million years!" the giant tree said calmly, stroking its beard.
"Five million... ten thousand years!" Long Bao counted on his fingers, "Grandpa Qian, you're older than my great-great-great-great-ancestor, and my dragon clan has only existed for forty million years!"
“You clever little dragon boy, you even guessed that Grandpa’s surname is Qian. It seems we are destined to meet. Come, come, Grandpa Qian will give you a greeting gift.” The tree stretched out a branch and beckoned to the dragon boy. “And you phoenix boy, come over here too. Grandpa has a greeting gift for you.”
"Okay, okay, we're here!" Longbao said, pulling Huofeng along as they ran towards Grandpa Qian.
Ye Zilu and Hengzhi exchanged a glance; this turn of events was quite unexpected!
"You two come over here too. I don't know how you've managed to get by. You're all broke, and you're even picking money off the ground!"
Ye Zilu Hengzhi was thus rejected by a tree for being poor.
At the same time, Luo Hengzhi also sensed the familiarity from an elder in the tone of a tree, and took Ye Zi's hand and walked over.
Old Qian looked at the two of them, the branches on the top of his head twitched, and he glanced down.
Although Ye Zilu and Hengzhi didn't know where the tree's eyes were, they both sensed that the tree's gaze was on their clasped hands.
What Mr. Qian gave to Longbao Huofeng was a dragon and phoenix made of pure gold, a one-to-one replica of Longbao Huofeng's original form.
Longbao was overjoyed to receive his original model: "So handsome! Was I really this handsome?!"
"Grandpa, how did you know about our original forms?" Fire Phoenix had never transformed into its original form since it came in.
Mr. Qian: "Grandpa has lived for so long, you can tell at a glance."
"What about me? Is it possible for you to see what my original form was?" Luo Hengzhi looked at the senior and asked about her origins.
Old Qian glanced at Luo Hengzhi and said decisively, "He doesn't even have a Primordial Spirit, so what can he possibly see? Right now, he's just a mortal!"
Ye Zi could tell that Qian Bei was quite aware of Luo Hengzhi's identity, and there was even a hint of reproach in his words.
"Senior, do you know Luo Hengzhi?" Ye Zi asked.
"I don't know him, who knows him!" Old Qian stretched out a branch and took Ye Zi's hand, pulling her to his side. "His cultivation has finally reached the Golden Core stage. This guy is still somewhat useful. Take this thing for cultivation."
Ye Zi opened her palm and saw a disc appear in it.
"Senior, this is a time-manipulating artifact." Ye Zi exclaimed in delight.
"Yes." Old Qian nodded.
"What is a time-based artifact?" Luo Hengzhi didn't quite understand.
"Hmph, you don't understand anything." Old Qian gave Luo Hengzhi a disdainful look.
Although Luo Hengzhi couldn't see where Qian Lao's eyes were, he clearly felt that Qian Lao had just given him a disdainful look.
Luo Hengzhi chuckled softly. This tree must have a deep connection with him, or perhaps it was someone he knew very well or was even close to... no... it wasn't a tree.
Ye Zi explained to Luo Hengzhi, "If you enter the time artifact and cultivate inside for a year, you will only be away from the outside world for a day."
Upon hearing this concept, Luo Hengzhi was astonished: "Then 30 years of cultivation inside would only amount to a month in reality."
This is definitely a cheating device for secretly learning!
“Yes.” Ye Zi nodded. With a time-manipulating artifact, even ordinary people could make rapid progress in their cultivation.
"What's the big deal!" Old Qian rolled his eyes at Luo Hengzhi again.
"Senior, if you have any opinions about Hengzhi, you might as well say them. There's no need to keep giving me the cold shoulder." Luo Hengzhi sincerely asked for advice.
"How can I possibly overturn you with just one tree!"
Old Qian rolled his eyes at Luo Hengzhi again, and said after a moment.
“You’re self-righteous, reckless, blind to reason, and mistake enemies for friends. What’s the point of me telling you all this? You don’t understand anything anyway.” Old Qian shook the branches and lifted up Longbao and Huofeng. “Come on, kids, Grandpa will take you on a treasure hunt.”
Longbao's eyes were now filled with money, and he obediently replied, "Okay, Grandpa."
"Grandpa, can you still drop gold?" Fire Phoenix asked, touching the gold ingots on the tree branch.
Mr. Qian: "Okay, if you run out of money in the future, just ask Grandpa for some."
Longbao clapped his hands: "Great! We won't be short of money anymore."
"Grandpa, why don't you transform into human form?" Fire Phoenix asked.
"Because... I don't want to see a certain person, seeing them makes me angry!" You could tell from Old Qian's tone that he was genuinely angry.
Needless to say, Luo Hengzhi knew that this sentence was directed at him!
Luo Hengzhi recalled the two sentences his grandfather Qian had said about him. The first sentence was, "You don't even have a Genshin Impact, what can you possibly see!"
It means he used to have a Genshin Impact, but now his Genshin Impact is nowhere to be found!
The second sentence is "reckless, disdainful, and mistaking an enemy for a friend".
In short, it means that he once misjudged people and acted rashly, which led to him losing his original spirit and becoming a mortal in his current form.
"What is Genshin Impact?" Luo Hengzhi asked Ye Zi in a low voice.
"The original spirit of the immortal body is the immortal spirit, but from what you've said, senior, your original spirit is lost, which is why we can't detect your constitution," Ye Zi said. "However, senior should know the whole story. Once he's in a better mood, we can have Long Bao and Huo Feng try to get some information out of him."
"You two don't need to whisper. Although I'm old, I have sharp ears and eyes and can hear clearly." Old Qian stretched out a branch and tapped Ye Zilu and Hengzhi, who were whispering to each other.
"Grandpa, don't be angry. My master injured his leg before and suffered a lot. Now he's cultivating. Everyone else knows their own constitution, but he doesn't. So my master just wants to know what his constitution is." Longbao coaxed Grandpa Qian to speak up for his master.
When Old Qian heard that Luo Hengzhi was suffering, he turned around to look at Luo Hengzhi's leg to make sure that she was alright before turning back and continuing to walk forward: "Children, there is an orchard ahead. Let's go pick some fruit to eat."
Ye Zi looked at the orchard and saw that all the fruits were rare spiritual fruits of level six or above, and none of them were less than five thousand years old, with the oldest being tens of thousands of years old.
Old Qian put down the Dragon Treasure Fire Phoenix and transformed into human form. He was an old man with an ethereal air. He stroked his long beard and sat down on the tree stump, raising his eyes to look at Luo Hengzhi.
Old Master Qian had white hair but a youthful face, and his clear, deep eyes could see right through people. When Luo Hengzhi met Old Master Qian's bright eyes, she felt that her thoughts could be seen through in a second.
Mr. Qian: "Come here, let me take a look at your legs."
Luo Hengzhi obediently walked over and dutifully stretched out her leg.
Qian Laogang placed his hand above Luo Hengzhi's knee: "The Dragon Clan's Holy Water can open up your meridians, but it is not fully open yet."
After Grandpa Qian finished speaking, he raised his hand and grabbed two bright red fruits, which flew into his hand.
Ye Zi recognized them as Fire Marrow, which could expand the meridians and increase their tolerance to spiritual energy. Moreover, both of these Living Marrow Fruits were ten-thousand-year-old fruits.
Grandpa Qian tossed the fruit into Luo Hengzhi's arms: "Eat both of them."
Ye Zi approached Luo Hengzhi and stuffed the Fire Marrow into Luo Hengzhi's mouth: "Eat quickly, it's good stuff, it expands your meridians."
"Okay." Luo Hengzhi obediently ate it bite by bite.
"It's good that you know to listen to your wife now, unlike before when you were stubborn and wouldn't listen to anyone!" Grandpa Qian glanced at Luo Hengzhi, but this time he didn't roll his eyes.
"Senior, did Luo Hengzhi have a wife before?" Ye Zi asked, glancing at Luo Hengzhi.
Old Qian looked at Ye Zi, as if he wanted to say something, but then paused and spoke after a moment: "He has lived for tens of thousands of years, but he is just clueless about love. How could he have a wife? However, it seems that this reincarnation is not all bad!"
"What did I do before I was reincarnated?" Luo Hengzhi asked.
As soon as Luo Hengzhi asked the question, Grandpa Qian rolled his eyes again: "Hmph, when your broken sword wakes up, go ask your broken sword."
Old Qian changed the subject: "Little Yezi, go and pick all those spirit fruits. If they grow any longer, they will rot and fall, which would be a pity. You can use them to refine pills."
"Let's go pick them!" Long Bao and Huo Feng rushed off to work, even eating as they picked.
Ye Zi hasn't been refining pills recently, so there shouldn't be any residual pill fragrance on her: "How does Senior know my name and also know that I refine pills?"
"Little Leaf, it was that brat Luo Hengzhi who gave you that name, have you forgotten even after reincarnation?" Grandpa Qian recalled something and smiled, "You said you were clearly the true form of Red Plum, but that brat calls you Little Leaf every day."
Luo Hengzhi: "I took it!"
"Am I the real Hongmei?" Ye Zi was also completely bewildered.
Old Qian was also dumbfounded when he saw Ye Zi and Luo Hengzhi, who were both stunned!
Old Qian stood up and touched Ye Zi's forehead: "Little Ye Zi, you didn't come down here specifically to find this kid. What happened that caused you to lose your original body of ten thousand years, even managing to deceive my eyes?"
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