strictlysupreme Chapter 37 Forced Ripening
Chapter 37 Forced Ripening
"It's coming."
Lin Yuan suddenly spoke.
The voice just fell.
On the horizon of the Far East, a streak of purple-gold light tore through the boundless night.
"Buzz—"
It was this wisp of innate purple energy, mixed with the first ray of solar essence fire in the world, that pierced through the layers of mist of Jade Spring Mountain and shone on the cliff.
The blue stone cliff face rippled like water.
"They're out!"
Liu Hao, who was in the corner, stared wide-eyed, forgetting even the cold he felt, and pointed at the empty space, shouting loudly.
"Bro, that's the one."
Lin Yuan nodded in acknowledgment, having already pushed the Eye of the Sun to its limit.
On the stone wall, a vine only an inch long slowly peeked out.
The vines grew rapidly in the wind, and in just a few breaths, they had clung to the cliff face.
A seven-colored divine light suddenly radiated outward from the center of this vine!
Liu Hao took just one breath, and his originally exhausted body instantly regained its vitality. Even the wounds on his skin that had been cut by the rocks began to heal rapidly.
"What a powerful and domineering creation of life."
Lin Yuan was secretly alarmed.
He looked closely and saw two fruits hanging at the top of the seven-colored fairy vine.
The fruit was no bigger than a baby's fist, crystal clear, with intricate innate Dao patterns flowing across its surface.
At this moment, the two fruits were like babies who had been parched for a long time and were receiving timely rain, breathing in the first rays of sunlight coming from the east.
With each swallow and spit, the seven-colored divine light on the fruit intensifies.
"The spiritual root of heaven and earth, which absorbs the sun and moon."
Lin Yuan recalled the records about innate spiritual objects in the "Great Heavenly Demon Technique".
"This fruit... seems to be 'starving'?"
He raised an eyebrow slightly.
Although Yuquan Mountain is a blessed land, it is ultimately not the ancient demon court above the nine heavens.
This immortal vine hides in the void, and can only secretly absorb a wisp of the sun's essence during the brief moment of sunrise each day.
For a primordial spiritual root that desperately craves the yang energy, this is like making a strong man drink only a sip of rice porridge every day!
It's never getting enough to eat!
"Although the patterns on the peel are intricate, the color has a hint of unripeness."
"You think you can just pick it already?"
If it is forcibly picked now, the fruit's efficacy will be greatly reduced, and it may even turn into a puddle of mortal water the moment it leaves the immortal vine due to insufficient essence!
"Presumably, even a great being like Master Yuding must have already noticed this immortal vine, but has never taken the time to pluck it."
"It's because this spiritual fruit is not yet fully ripe."
If it were an ordinary cultivator, or even an outer disciple of the Jie Sect or Chan Sect, they would probably be helpless in the face of this situation.
Either forcibly remove the defective product, or obediently retreat and wait for it to mature naturally over hundreds or even thousands of years.
But standing here now is Lin Yuan.
He is a Dao Integration Realm Great Demon whose body is imbued with the essence of the sun!
"Don't you yearn for the essence of the sun?"
"You think the sunrise on earth isn't intense enough?"
"Then I'll give you the most domineering one!"
Lin Yuan opened his beak and took a deep breath.
Deep within his dantian, within the Tai Chi diagram of water and fire, he extracted the purest essence of the Golden Crow True Fire.
"call--"
A breath of crimson-gold breath transformed into a streak of fire, directly striking the roots of the seven-colored immortal vine.
"Buzzing..."
The moment it came into contact with the Golden Crow True Fire, the immortal vine that emitted seven-colored divine light trembled violently.
The crystal-clear leaves of the immortal vine instantly absorbed the wisp of Golden Crow True Fire completely.
Followed by.
The green color on the two fairy fruits quickly faded.
The innate Dao patterns on the fruit peel turned into crimson gold, as if they had come to life, transforming into dragons that roamed and moved around the outside of the fruit.
"It's ripe!"
Lin Yuan's eyes lit up, and with a flap of his wings, he rushed directly to the Immortal Vine.
If anyone else dared to approach so arrogantly, this innate spiritual root would immediately shrink back into the void.
But at this moment, having just consumed Lin Yuan's Golden Crow True Fire, it not only showed no aversion to its aura, but instead exuded a sense of intimacy.
With a gentle flick of his sharp claws, Lin Yuan plucked the two immortal fruits as easily as picking flowers and grass.
The very next second after the fruit left the vine.
"Slurp—"
The seven-colored fairy vine withered instantly, turning into a wisp of green smoke that merged into the void, leaving no trace.
A gift from nature, one vine bearing two fruits, the cause and effect are exhausted.
……
at the same time.
Deep within Jade Spring Mountain lies the Golden Cloud Cave, a place perpetually shrouded in darkness, where only the sounds of celestial music echo.
An old Taoist priest, sitting cross-legged on a nine-colored lotus platform, slowly opened his eyes.
The old Taoist priest was dressed in a purple robe adorned with the Eight Trigrams, his face gaunt and expressionless, devoid of sorrow or joy.
But the moment he opened his eyes, the entire void of Jade Spring Mountain seemed to shift between light and darkness.
"what?"
A look of surprise flashed across Jade Cauldron Master's eyes.
He slowly raised his right hand and made two calculations in the air.
"Interesting, truly interesting."
Master Yu Ding gently stroked his long beard and murmured softly.
"The 'Fire Jujube Immortal Vine' that has been nurtured on the cliff behind my mountain for a thousand years should have needed another three hundred years to reach its full potential."
"I never imagined that today, I would be forcibly ripened by a flame of pure Yang."
What surprised this great master of the Chan sect even more was...
The flames that ripened the immortal vines were actually the Golden Crow True Fire of the Sun Star, an ancient demon court that should have disappeared long ago during the Lich War!
Moreover, within that blood of the demon royal family, he also detected a trace of the same source, the [Shangqing Immortal Light]!
"This little demon, who possesses the bloodline of the Golden Crow, cultivates the orthodox methods of my esteemed Uncle Tongtian..."
"When did this variable, outside the calculations of heaven, appear on the chessboard of this great calamity of the gods?"
Master Yu Ding had a profound gaze.
If it were any of the other Twelve Golden Immortals, such as the hot-tempered Taiyi Zhenren, or Guang Chengzi who placed great importance on his origins, it would be a different story.
If any demon dared to steal immortal fruits from the back mountain of his dojo, he would probably have already used the Heaven-Turning Seal or the Nine Dragons Divine Fire Cover to smash them to their very core.
But Master Yu Ding is different.
He was by nature indifferent to worldly affairs and preferred to follow the natural order.
Since this variable could safely pass through the Jade Purity Mountain Protection Array he set up, and even use the Origin True Fire to ripen the immortal fruit, then it must be a cause and effect, an opportunity.
"Such good fortune cannot be obtained by force. Oh well, let it be."
Master Yu Ding smiled slightly and withdrew his gaze from the back mountain.
Then, he parted his lips slightly.
"Jian'er".
Outside the cave, a handsome young man with sword-like eyebrows and bright eyes, and a faint vertical line between his eyebrows, quickly walked into the cave.
"Disciple Yang Jian greets Master! May I ask what decree Master has bestowed upon me upon emerging from seclusion?"
Master Yu Ding looked at his most prized disciple, a hint of affection flashing in his eyes, and gave him a gentle instruction.
"Go and go to the cliff behind the mountain."
"You have a junior disciple who is destined to be your junior brother. Yesterday, while gathering herbs in the back mountain, he accidentally fell off a cliff and suffered a bit of fright and minor injuries."
"Judging by the time, he should have just recovered by now."
"Go and bring him back to your cave, and make sure he is well taken care of."
Yang Jian was slightly taken aback.
A junior disciple (registered)?
He has been cultivating on Jade Spring Mountain for countless years. When did his master accept any nominal disciples?
But he was calm and composed by nature and never asked many questions. He immediately clasped his hands in a fist and bowed his head.
"Disciple will obey Master's decree and will now go to the back mountain to fetch Junior Brother back to the manor."
Watching Yang Jian's departing figure, Master Yu Ding closed his eyes again, a slight smile on his lips.
"A great calamity is imminent, and the winds of change are blowing. Let us see what kind of true gold will be forged in this furnace of heaven and earth..."