Chapter 55 Peach Blossom Forest

After New Year's Eve, Hanyu Mountain returned to its former tranquility.

The white ape returned to the forest to find its monkey group, and no longer returned to the Wolf Temple. Lu Heng returned to the underground and continued to practice in seclusion.

This time, the seclusion time was longer than any previous time, because Lu Heng's practice had reached a critical node. He deliberately used his soul to incarnate, just to accompany the little girl on New Year's Eve.

Now, he is at the most critical first hurdle in the way of practice - opening the gate of heaven.

Visualize the inner world and shape your own [gate of heaven]. If you can knock on the door and enter, you can be regarded as entering the room and have made some achievements in the way of practice.

And if the demon cultivator can knock on the gate of heaven and enter, he can transform into a human.

This is an extremely important threshold for demon cultivators.

Therefore, Lu Heng needs to go all out and try to get rid of external interference.

In the underground temple, a huge white wolf silently lay in the dark yellow earth spirit, eyes slightly closed, motionless, as if asleep.

In front of the white wolf, a human figure silently floated.

Between the human figure and the white wolf, there were faint traces of lightning power flowing. These heavenly thunder powers that nourished the white wolf's demon body are now slowly refining Lu Heng's soul.

The surging lightning power between the human-shaped soul and the huge white wolf's demon body formed a wonderful cycle, and it can be clearly felt that the soul sitting cross-legged in the air is becoming more and more solid.

In such a practice and perception, the years in the mountains passed day by day.

After the Lantern Festival, the weather became warmer and warmer. The villagers of Shuisheng Village began to prepare for spring plowing and sowing, and the outside of the mountain soon became lively.

For the villagers, spring plowing is a major event that cannot be ignored.

Even the Xifeng tribe, a tribe where everyone can fight lions and tigers with bare hands, has begun to prepare for spring plowing. The wasteland that was reclaimed last winter is now in use.

When the sun rises, you can see the shadowy figures of villagers planting rice in the rice fields on the plains, and the Xifeng tribe members planting yellow rice and potatoes in the mountains and forests. It is very lively.

In such a bustling atmosphere, the two alternating hot and cold flames in the sword furnace behind the Xifeng tribe seem to be getting stronger.

Since it was closed before the New Year, the sword furnace has never been opened again. Two priests are in the sword furnace, casting the Heavenly Tribulation Sword for Lu Heng day and night.

Now, the alternating hot and cold flames no longer rotate every twelve hours, but change every six hours or so.

The land around the sword furnace has long become barren. Even in the early spring when everything sprouts, this area is still barren, because no vegetation can survive in such an extreme environment.

Even the tribesmen of the Xifeng tribe dared not approach the sword furnace now, unable to bear the pressure of the two sacred fires that the Li tribe had inherited to this day.

The only one who could approach the sword furnace was a girl named Qianqian.

But she had been there several times, but could only stand outside to guess the casting of the Heavenly Tribulation Sword, unable to contact the two priests in the sword furnace.

For the girl, the greatest pleasure now was to go to the Wolf God Temple to play with Xiao Ai.

But Xiao Ai was busy with cultivation, and was quite helpless about her frequent visits. In the end, the two made an agreement to meet every three days.

And today was the day Qianqian could go into the mountains.

When she walked out of the tent early in the morning, the girl carried two jars of wine, hummed a cheerful ballad, left the camp directly, and stepped into the river that ran through Hanyu Mountain.

The cold river water surged under her feet, and the barefoot girl in a white skirt stepped on the waves. The fish in the water were big and fat because they had not been preyed on in large quantities for a long time.

When the girl walked along the river, many curious fish would even swim to her feet, wriggling their mouths to touch the soles of the girl's feet.

Although she could fly directly to the front of the Wolf Temple, that would be too fast and too boring.

She came to have fun, not to hurry, so the girl walked through the mountains with a cheerful but no faster pace than mortals, and finally came to the small ferry at the foot of the main peak of Hanyu Mountain.

This small ferry has not been used since it was built. After all, Hanyu Mountain is remote and no one will row a boat here.

Qianqian walked along the river to the shore, like an ordinary climber, carrying two jars of wine and climbing up the stone steps.

The morning sun fell on her body, and it was already a little hot, but Qianqian was not tired at all.

"Xiao Ai! I'm here!"

After climbing to the end of the stone steps, Qianqian shouted to the depths of the tree-lined path, "Look what good things I brought you."

She shouted as she walked in.

There was no response from the tree-lined path, but Qianqian was used to Xiao Ai's indifference.

She walked to the front of the Wolf God Temple with a smile and saw the little girl sitting under the eaves of the Wolf God Temple with her eyes closed and meditating.

"Wow! I haven't seen you for a few days. Xiao Ai, you seem to be more beautiful again."

Qianqian put down the wine jar and said with a smile, "Come, let your sister pinch your face. Your skin is so smooth and tender, so enviable... It would be great if the Wolf God could also help me cleanse my tendons and marrow."

The girl under the eaves avoided Qianqian's hand calmly and said, "You are already very powerful, you don't need to cleanse your tendons and marrow. Also, why did you bring wine?"

Xiao Ai looked at the two jars of wine Qianqian brought, a little confused, "You want to drink?"

"Of course not," Qianqian smiled and hugged Xiao Ai, rubbing her face against her, saying, "Didn't I say last time? The peach blossoms in your back mountain are very fragrant. I want to pick some to make peach blossom wine, so I brought two jars here... Of course, I won't take your peach blossoms for nothing, one of these jars is for you."

"Don't underestimate these two jars of wine, this is the fine wine that Grandpa Siji has treasured for three hundred years, only slightly weaker than the Thousand Days Drunk brewed by Sister Saint... I spent a lot of money this time."

Qianqian boasted about the wine she brought. Xiao Ai looked at her, but was silent for a long time, and finally nodded slowly, "I can take you there, but you can't pick too much."

Qianqian smiled immediately, "Of course, of course, never pick too much. Just pick a little bit, a little bit is enough."

Qianqian was very happy with Xiao Ai's approval.

Since the rain last year, there has been a rain every month in Hanyu Mountain. The rain from the calamity cloud contains abundant water spirit energy.

With the rainfall in the past few months, not only has the spiritual energy in the mountain gradually become richer, but even the plants in the mountain have been moistened.

Among them, the peach blossom forest in the back mountain seems to have benefited the most.

Since the peach blossoms bloomed in the middle of winter last year, they have never withered. The faint and elegant fragrance of peach blossoms surrounds the mountain, making the main peak of Hanyu Mountain fragrant, as if you have strayed into a fairyland on earth.

According to common sense, the flowering period of peach blossoms is very short, and they will wither in about ten days.

But the peach blossoms in the back mountain have been in full bloom for four months, and there is still no sign of withering. Such strange peach blossoms have long attracted the attention of Xiao Ai and Qian Qian.

Qian Qian saw such strange peach blossoms for the first time, so she wanted to try the taste of peach blossom wine brewed with this kind of peach blossoms.

Xiao Ai couldn't resist her pleading and had to agree.

And she was also curious about what kind of wine the peach blossoms could make. If the taste was really good, maybe she could offer it to Lord Wolf God...

Thinking of this, Xiao Ai took Qianqian to the peach forest in the back mountain.

Because she realized the specialness of the peach forest, Xiao Ai had already built a circle of walls to enclose the peach forest to prevent wild beasts in the mountains from breaking in and destroying the peach forest.

Before they stepped into the peach forest, the two of them had already smelled the faint and elegant fragrance of the flowers.

When they walked into the peach forest, the colorful flowers they saw made Qianqian extremely happy.

However, just as she was about to pick the peach blossoms, she suddenly saw a strange figure in the depths of the peach forest.

It was about the same height as a ten-year-old child, with white hair all over its body. Now it was standing on tiptoe and stretching its hands, as if it wanted to reach the peach blossoms blooming on the peach tree.

That was clearly...

"White ape? What are you doing here?" Xiao Ai asked in confusion.

The girl's voice startled the white ape. It turned around quickly, and when it saw the two humans it knew behind it, its face was a little panicked.

Xiao Ai took a few steps forward, looking confused, "You want to pick peach blossoms? What are you picking peach blossoms for?"

However, as soon as she finished speaking, the white ape, who had not been to the Wolf Temple for many days, jumped away in panic.

"Chi! Chi!"

As if the thief's behavior was discovered, the white ape ran towards the depths of the peach forest in a panic. Finally, under the stunned eyes of Qianqian and Xiao Ai, the panicked white ape climbed up the wall and flipped out.

Indistinctly, Xiao Ai and Qianqian both saw a handful of peach blossoms in the white ape's hand.

Both of them were confused and extremely confused.

"What is this monkey head... doing?" Xiao Ai frowned tightly, her eyes full of confusion.

Even if he was caught stealing peach blossoms, there was no need to be so scared, right?