The immortals of the two worlds started from farming and refining pills.

Chapter 278: Heavenly Offering Mural, Savage Beast Vermillion Fruit (First Update)
Seeing Jiang Minghe enter the cave, Li Qing surrendered and said, "You two Taoist brothers are both excellent at chess, and everyone in the Immortal City knows it. It is only natural that I cannot defeat them."

Jiang Minghe shook his head and laughed: "After building the foundation, you can live for three hundred years. If you don't cultivate some interest, how can you survive this long journey to immortality?"

Li Qing put away the Lingxiao Dan Jing beside the chessboard and said, "I have my own entertainment. Planting spiritual plants and refining elixirs are more interesting than playing chess, aren't they?"

Zhou Hanguang laughed loudly: "That's right. You can earn spiritual stones from spiritual plants and alchemy. It is indeed more satisfying than playing chess..."

Jiang Minghe sat down and the three of them chatted again.

Li Qing expressed his doubts: "Since we are trying to save Zhu Guo, why do we have to set a two-year deadline? Wouldn't it be safer to let me come earlier?"

Zhou Hanguang sighed helplessly: "That secret place was not open before, and there is still a risk of being lost. I only anchored it last month."

"At that time, your Earthly Immortal Realm was just beginning to take shape, and it was the time to consolidate your foundation. How could I delay your important event?"

Li Qing nodded slightly and said, "Since Brother Jiang has returned, why not go to the secret realm first? I am also very curious about the thousand-year-old red fruit tree."

Zhou Hanguang smiled and said, "I said I would hold a banquet to welcome you. Now it seems that I should take you to enjoy the fruit trees first, which is more to your liking."

So the three of them left Tanyuan Fairy City without any delay and flew north on the wind.

When they were approaching a mountain, Jiang, Zhou and Li Qing hid themselves and dodged a wave of pursuers before flying eastward.

After so many false alarms, they finally stopped in front of a deep stone pool.

Although the stone pond is bright enough to reflect a person's reflection, it is so deep that it appears a dark blue color.

"This is the place. Fellow Daoist Li, you must practice the Water-Repelling Technique well, otherwise it will not be easy to get through." Zhou Handang reminded.

Jiang Minghe said, "The bottom of the pool is extremely cold, it can even freeze your true essence. Fortunately, you are an alchemist and have spiritual fire to protect you, so you don't need to worry about danger."

Li Qing did not dare to neglect it. He performed the Water Repelling Technique while secretly protecting himself with Nirvana Fire: "Please lead the way."

The three of them used the Water-Repelling Technique to protect themselves, naturally blended into the pool of water, and began to explore the secrets below.

The stone pool is very deep. After diving down for a hundred feet, the waterway suddenly becomes extremely narrow, only enough for one person to pass sideways.

Moreover, there is no sunlight here, and it is dark all around, front, back, and left. It seems that even the spiritual consciousness is obscured. Even if one controls the true energy to emit light, it can only illuminate a small area in front of him.

"Before, there were monsters guarding this place. Whenever there was a little light, they would bite it madly. Fortunately, we have cleaned them up." Zhou Handang transmitted the message.

Besides the darkness, there is also coldness.

When you swim to this section, the water in the pond gradually becomes chilly enough to penetrate your bones. Even with the water-avoiding technique, you cannot resist the chill that comes with it.

Li Qing hurriedly summoned the Nirvana Fire, which covered his body surface in a shallow layer, and he felt better.

In front, a pair of scarlet jade pendants on the waists of Jiang and Zhou emitted a faint glow, flickering, and dispelling the coldness.

In this way, they walked for another hour before a little light gradually appeared in front of them.

"It's not far from the exit!" Jiang Minghe reminded softly.

Only then did Li Qing breathe a sigh of relief.

Soon, the cave turned two more corners, and the light from the sky in front finally illuminated the last section of the journey.

Li Qing looked around and found that there were many abstract patterns painted on the cave walls submerged in water.

The pattern probably tells of a wizard offering sacrifice to the gods, but the offering is a kind of bright red fruit. "Could the fruit above be the red fruit?" Li Qing guessed.

"Splash..." The three of them pushed aside the water and emerged from the other side of the stone pool.

As soon as he got ashore, Li Qing keenly discovered that there was no sun in the sky, but a white gem was shining.

He secretly activated the "Gate of Heaven" magical power and found an extra secret realm imprint that he could activate and leave at any time.

"We have entered the secret realm already?" He was very surprised. "How come I didn't feel anything while swimming all the way here?"

Zhou Hanguang said: "In fact, the road we just walked is a pilgrimage into a secret realm, which is essentially a ritual similar to the teleportation array."

Li Qing didn't ask in detail, but looked around and asked, "Where's the red fruit tree?"

Jiang Minghe pointed to the left rear, where there was a small hill about a hundred feet high: "It's on the back of that mountain, hanging on the cliff."

Li Qing couldn't wait to fly over on the wind, and sure enough, he saw a strange fruit tree growing out from the rubble of the cliff.

The fruit tree was about ten feet tall, bright red all over, with branches as crystal clear as jade. It looked no different from coral, but it had emerald green leaves that rustled in the wind.

Among the red branches and green leaves, there are pale red fruits, the size of dates, with a bit of green smell, obviously not yet ripe.

There was only one fist-sized fruit growing on the top of the tree, which was purple-red and emitted a light golden glow under the sunlight.

"Look, fellow Daoist. The one on top is the red fruit that has been ripened for a thousand years." Zhou Hanguang flew to Li Qing's side. "The others have only recently borne fruit."

Li Qing was a little puzzled: "Why did you keep only this one?"

Zhou Hanguang pointed to the bottom of the cliff, where a crack about a hundred feet long and three feet wide seemed to have been blown open by something.

There are countless holes of different sizes near the cracks, which shows that there have been fierce battles in recent years.

He explained with some relief: "This secret place was once occupied by two wild beasts, who regarded this red fruit as a forbidden delicacy."

"Every time a batch of red fruits mature, they eat most of them, but leave a few for later use. That's how we get these thousand-year-old red fruits."

Li Qing's eyebrows jumped: "This wild beast that grew up eating red fruit, I'm afraid it has the strength to form a pill, right?"

Jiang Minghe was somewhat pleased with himself: "Of course not! Fortunately, they were not smart enough, so we used a little trick to provoke them to fight among themselves, and in the end, both of them were injured, so we got the advantage."

"It's a pity that when the two beasts fought, it was the red fruit tree that suffered. Almost all the fruits that were originally hanging on it were destroyed. Only this thousand-year-old fruit was left."

Li Qing was somewhat envious when he heard this: "Does the wild beast still have remains? There are two elixirs in this Lingxiao Dan Jing that require this precious spiritual material."

Zhou Hanguang felt a little regretful: "Maybe it's the problem of the secret realm. As soon as the two wild beasts died, they disappeared into thin air without even a drop of blood."

"That's a pity indeed." Li Qing nodded and looked at the red fruit tree. "Then I wonder what's wrong with the tree? Do you want me to help?"

Zhou Hanguang took him closer and said, "The problem lies with the roots below the fruit tree. They were damaged by the two wild beasts and are now losing their vitality."

Li Qing leaned over to take a look and saw that there was indeed a dark red rhizome as thick as an arm extending out and drooping on the stone wall, with crystal clear juice dripping down continuously.

It can be seen that Jiang and Zhou also took many measures, but to no avail.

But the two of them were smart enough to hang a few small jade bottles below, so that not a single drop of the precious liquid dripping from the red fruit tree was wasted.

(End of this chapter)