The Divine Martial Stars

Chapter 865 The Merit Spring

The other elders in the Deity Realm rushed over. When they saw the ground reduced to ruins by the storm of wind swords and recalled the bronze chariot that had disappeared, they were all shocked and couldn’t understand what had just happened.

“Senior fellow apprentice, what happened just now…” an elder asked.

He was confused.

The face of the lord of the Wind Clan became a sullen mask.

He did not answer the elder’s question but muttered to himself.

“Has that old man taken action?

“That shouldn’t be the case.

“According to the agreement, he shouldn’t enter the immortal palace.

“Back then, he couldn’t even intervene in the battle through the immortal palace. Could it be that he could do that today?”

The eyes of the lord of the Wind Clan flashed with fear for a moment.

He could clearly feel the mysterious power that rescued Li Mu.

The problem was that he had no clue as to where the mysterious power came from and what kind of power it was.

“Lord, what should we do now?” Another elder asked.

The lord of the Wind Clan composed himself and took a deep breath.

“Let’s retreat. Protect the white millstone and continue to summon the gods. It doesn’t matter whether Li Mu has escaped or not. The sacrificial ritual is almost finished. As long as our plan works, we can summon ancient gods at whatever levels. With the help of ancient gods, we will fear nobody.”

“Have I been teleported again?”

Li Mu was puzzled.

“Is it because of the residual effect of the Escape Talisman?

“Damned Rain Clan.”

Li Mu cursed silently.

If he hadn’t been pursued by the people of the Rain Clan, he wouldn’t have used the Escape Talisman in a hurry and been teleported to the Temple of Blood. He almost lost his life, and the Rain Clan was to be blamed for that.

However, he didn’t know that the people of the Rain Clan were not chasing him. He had misjudged the situation.

“What is this place?”

He had no extra strength to drive the bronze chariot.

He reclined against the railing of the bronze chariot and vigilantly surveyed his surroundings with difficulty.

“Hmm? This place seems to be… Have I come back to the Immortal Peach Garden?”

He was surprised to see the lush peach trees full of vitality around him. Their canopies were like opened emerald umbrellas, fresh and green.

A faint fruity scent permeated the air.

“Is this the smell of fruits?”

Li Mu was confused.

“Wait a minute.

“How could there be this fruity scent in the air?

“The peach trees in the orchard that I’ve been haven’t bloomed or borne fruit yet. There was no such a smell in that orchard.

“Could it be that this orchard is another Immortal Peach Garden?”

Li Mu’s heart started beating wildly at once.

“Are those… immortal peaches?”

He was overjoyed to find that there were a few pink things flickering among the green leaves on a peach tree in the distance. Obviously, they were ripe immortal peaches.

“This place is definitely another Immortal Peach Garden.

“It’s bigger than the one that I’ve seen before.

“It’s older.

“Moreover, there are peaches.”

Li Mu got excited at once.

He no longer cared about his injury. While enduring the pain, he jumped out of the bronze chariot and ran towards the tree with ripe immortal peaches.

“You won’t get the immortal peaches if you go like that.”

A voice suddenly rang out behind him.

Without looking back, he asked subconsciously, “Why?”

As soon as he asked the question, he suddenly realized something. What just happened made his hair stand on end. He immediately drew his broadsword and held it horizontally in front of his chest. Then, he turned around and asked, “Who is it?”

He found that in the carriage of the bronze chariot, a beautiful fairy in a yellow dress was staring coldly at him with her hands resting on the railing of the carriage.

She had beautiful eyes and brows. The look on her face was clear and distinct, her hair was streaming in the breeze, and a clear and noticeable breath of life emanated from her delicate body.

Li Mu was greatly shocked by what he saw.

“She… Has she come to life?”

He glanced at the other six beauties made of divine jade.

Their facial expressions became more vivid, but they remained in their original postures and showed no sign of life. They were still jade statues.

“What’s going on?

“When did this statue come to life?

“How did it come to life?

“Has she saved me and teleported the bronze chariot here?”

For a moment, Li Mu didn’t know what to say or ask.

The fairy in yellow slowly got out of the carriage of the bronze chariot. She was graceful and beautiful, and her every move was full of a divine aura, which made people feel intoxicated. She looked at Li Mu and said, “The peach tree has divine roots, and it has a spirit. You’re a mortal and an outsider with the smell of blood. When you get within ten meters of the tree, the peaches on it will surely go away on their own. You won’t get them.”

“Ah? How can I get them?” Li Mu asked.

He withdrew his long broadsword.

When he performed the Xiantian Skill, his intuition told him that the fairy in yellow bore no hostility against him.

The fairy in yellow didn’t say anything. She suddenly soared into the air.

She was like a flying fairy in a glorious mural, and her fairy dress fluttered in the wind. She flew to a peach tree, gently raised her hand, and plucked a bright red peach, which fell into the basket on her arm.

“Catch it.”

After she landed on the ground, she threw the basket toward Li Mu and walked over to him.

Li Mu took the basket and saw an intoxicating pink thing glimmering inside it. A fairy peach about the size of an adult’s fist was giving off a strange fresh scent that suddenly whetted his appetite.

“Thanks.” Li Mu thanked the fairy in yellow.

Then, he lifted the basket, opened his mouth, and bit into the fairy peach. A jet of sweet juice spurted in his mouth, flowed like a stream of divine spring along his throat into his viscera, and dispersed into his limbs and bones.

The basket was a magical thing that could prevent immortal peaches from escaping.

It was just like the Golden Striker for holding ginseng fruits depicted in the Journey to the West.

Li Mu gobbled the immortal peach.

He ate it like a hungry beggar without regard for his image.

The fairy in yellow couldn’t help smiling when she saw him eating like that.

At the same time, her beautiful eyes flashed with confusion.

“Is this short-haired young man in strange clothes really the person in the prophecy of those sages in the immortal palace?

“If that is the case, he seems too weak.

“If that is not the case, how could his blood break the spell of heavenly devils?”

Li Mu finished the peach very quickly.

He felt that the flesh of the peach suddenly turned into a surge of warm energy that almost filled his whole body. It was like a stream of immortal liquid or spring washing his internal organs, skin, flesh, bones, blood, and marrow repeatedly.

No wonder the peach was a supreme-grade immortal fruit.

It was only the size of an adult’s fist, but it contained endless energy that was difficult to describe.

Li Mu had gone through many adventures, and he had tasted a lot of magic herbs and fruits, but none of them could compare with the immortal peach he had just eaten.

He could clearly feel that as the warm current of energy of the immortal peach circulated in his body, the pain from the cracks spreading in his spine gradually disappeared, and he had a tingling sensation.

His injured bones were healing.

He put the basket aside, ready to sit down cross-legged, run his power to refine the immortal power of the peach, and cure his Taoist injury.

“Wait a moment,” the fairy in yellow suddenly said.

Li Mu looked at her.

The fairy in yellow pointed to the east and said, “A hundred steps away, there is a Dust-cleansing Pavilion with an immortal spring called the Merit Spring. You can go there, take off your clothes, wash yourself with the spring water, practice your cultivation method, and use the spring water to refine the power of the peach. In that way, you can achieve twice the result with half the effort and cure your Taoist injury completely.”

Upon hearing that, Li Mu was overjoyed. He got up and bowed to the fairy in yellow. “Thank you so much.”

Then, he left like a flash of light.

The fairy in yellow walked over and picked up the basket on the ground. Looking at the direction into which Li Mu disappeared, she hesitated a little and said to herself, “The Merit Spring is also known as the Spring of Life and Death. For those who are evil or insidious and those who have committed sins, their fire of life will be put out, and they will die when they get into the spring water. Those who have great merits will benefit greatly… Young man, you have saved my sisters, and I have offered you an immortal peach in return for your favor. Now, I just hope that you are a good person of his words, but not a villain. Otherwise, you will die in the Merit Spring, and you can’t put the blame on me.”

She sighed with a complicated look on her face. Then, she came to the bronze chariot, removed the other six beauties of divine jade from the carriage and put them under a huge peach tree.

“Sisters, we’re finally back.”

Looking at the six beauties, the fairy in yellow couldn’t help crying.

Tears like pure and flawless divine jade flowed from the corners of her eyes, fell to the ground, and turned into pearls.

Ten thousand years had passed.

Great changes had taken place. Many things remained the same, but the people had changed.

The magnificent palace of the powerful Celestial Court had been reduced to ruins. She could clearly feel that the divine emperor, the empress, and the gods had all left.

Her former companions had left, gone missing, or died…

After the battle that took place many years ago, this place became empty.

There was no going back.

“Sisters, I will definitely break the spell that the heavenly devils have cast on you and save you from the sea of bitterness. Then, I will go and find the supreme emperor and empress. They must be alive somewhere in this universe, fighting against the heavenly devils, rebels, and enemies.”

The fairy in yellow wiped tears off her face. She looked determined.

Just then, something unusual happened.

Violent energy fluctuations came from the east and blew toward the peach garden like a hurricane. In an instant, all the peach trees in the garden began to shake, their leaves rustling.

“They’re from the direction of the Merit Spring.”

The face of the yellow-dressed fairy suddenly changed.

“How could it be?”

It was the first time in her long life that she had heard something like this from the Merit Spring. She didn’t know if it was good or bad.

After a moment of hesitation, she rushed toward the Merit Spring.

As soon as she left, the stupid Husky, who had been sleeping in the carriage of the bronze chariot, suddenly twitched his nose. Then, he got up drunkenly without opening his eyes and crawled toward a peach tree with his nose close to the ground.

“Woof, woof. It smells so good. What’s it? It smells so good… Eat, I want to eat…”

He got to the peach tree while talking drunkenly. Then, he climbed up the tree in a daze, opened his mouth, and swallowed a big red peach.

Subsequently, he swallowed another one.

In the blink of an eye, he ate seven or eight peaches on the tree.

Then, he got down from the tree and followed the scent to another peach tree. At first glance, it looked like he was using his nose to identify the direction.