Junior sister, I really need to control you

"Miss Shangguan may not know this, but although these kinds of pills and secret techniques have no side effects, they still lack a sense of harmony and naturalness compared to the changes brought about by reshaping the body."

"I believe that with my junior sister's Dao heart and perseverance, even if I told her that she could take this shortcut, after some struggle, she would still choose the right path of reshaping her body."

Li Yinsheng transmitted his voice solemnly.

"Hmm...that makes sense. I won't tell Xiaoyu about this, so as not to cause her any more trouble."

Shangguan Ling'er nodded and transmitted her voice.

……

Seven days later.

Elder Yue continued to lead Li Yinsheng and his group through the towering ancient trees.

After obtaining the millennium-old spiritual milk and spiritual herbs, the four no longer had a specific goal. They simply searched around and gathered spiritual herbs, just like other cultivators.

Thanks to Elder Yue's magic, they could move extremely fast even on the ground, and over the course of several days, they found quite a few spiritual herbs.

However, none of these medicinal herbs were particularly precious; for Li Yinsheng and Elder Yue, they were only considered to be of medium to high quality.

Although it would be quite valuable outside, it is only considered ordinary in Zhelong Valley.

This is still based on the premise that Li Yinsheng and Elder Yue's spiritual senses are superior to those of their peers.

During this time, Shangguan Ling'er, relying on the special perception of her own divine veins, discovered a spiritual herb called "Feather Pattern Grass".

According to her, although this elixir was only a little over three hundred years old, it was very beneficial to her.

Therefore, Li Yinsheng and Elder Yue naturally gave the spiritual herb to her.

Apart from that, there was really nothing else worth mentioning.

As Li Yinsheng walked in a direction he had never been before, he looked at Mu Xiaoyu, who was looking around curiously.

The main reason I brought my junior sister along was that I hoped her unique sense of smell could detect something useful.

But even now, she remains completely unresponsive.

It seems that even in the Hidden Dragon Valley, such things are not readily available.

Just as Li Yinsheng was feeling slightly disappointed, Mu Xiaoyu suddenly sniffed and then reached out to tug at Li Yinsheng's sleeve.

"Senior brother, senior brother, I think I smell peach blossoms! The kind that smells so familiar!"

"The fragrance of peach blossoms? Are there any peach trees or spiritual plants around here?" Shangguan Ling'er asked.

"A very familiar peach blossom scent!" Upon hearing this word, Li Yinsheng immediately remembered something and quickly asked, "Is it the same peach blossom scent as Black Stone?"

Mu Xiaoyu took out the black stone, smelled it, then put it away and sniffed the surroundings again.

"Yes, it smells just like the peach blossoms from this black stone and the big peach tree we encountered last time!" she said earnestly.

"Senior Sister Yue, please stop for a moment!" Li Yinsheng said hurriedly.

In his anxiety, he even reached out and lightly patted Elder Yue's shoulder.

Elder Yue paused, withdrew his magic, and the hazy green light that had enveloped the four of them dissipated.

"Junior sister, smell it again carefully, can you tell the source?" Li Yinsheng asked.

He was somewhat surprised.

The black stone, the fragrance of peach blossoms on it, and the ancient spirit of the cultivators found while searching for the fragrance are all located on the mountain near Xuanzhen Temple.

How come my junior sister can smell the same fragrance in Zhelong Valley?

Mu Xiaoyu sniffed for a while, then pointed in a direction: "It should be over there."

A hint of doubt flashed in Elder Yue's eyes.

She had thought that Li Yinsheng was just bringing Mu Xiaoyu to broaden her horizons, but now it seemed that he was going to have this little girl lead the way.

……

After walking in the direction Mu Xiaoyu pointed for a while, the fragrance of peach blossoms she smelled became stronger.

In this way, she can find the direction more accurately.

Guided by her, after half a day, Li Yinsheng and his companions arrived at a hidden cave.

In front of the cave, a giant, deep purple python, hundreds of feet long, was coiled up. In terms of imposing presence, it was not much different from the giant ape that Li Yinsheng and his companions had seen a few days ago.

But at this moment, the giant python had been vertically split in two from head to tail, and it was completely lifeless, with only one wound on its body as smooth as a mirror.

Li Yinsheng sheathed the Taibai Sword, took the lead, and led the three into the cave.

Elder Yue's gaze swept over the giant python, then turned to Li Yinsheng's retreating figure, his red eyes gleaming with a strange light.

She had long known that Li Yinsheng was very strong, but every time she saw him make a move, she couldn't help but wonder if he was really only in his twenties.

To have such cultivation at the age of twenty-something is already unbelievable, but in a sense, his fighting skills are even more exaggerated than his cultivation level.

Li Yinsheng had no idea what Elder Yue was thinking; he simply shielded Mu Xiaoyu behind him and ventured deeper into the cave.

As you venture deeper into the cave, white miasma fills the air.

Unlike the deep purple miasma of the year's eclipse, this white miasma looked exactly the same to him as the one he had encountered on the mountain near Xuanzhen Peak.

However, in terms of toxicity, these white miasmas are much stronger than before. Even a Great Master would likely die upon contact with them unless they had some special methods.

However, with his current cultivation level and the protection of the Seven Luminaries Treasure Wheel, he was not afraid of the miasma and was able to lead the four people through the obstacles.

During this time, he even tried it out, and the black stone was indeed able to suppress the white miasma in this place.

As soon as the black stone approached, the white miasma retreated to a distance of ten feet.

After passing through the miasma, a huge void appeared before us.

The entire cavern is at least several miles in circumference and fifty or sixty feet high, so that even the giant pythons outside could live comfortably inside.

Once inside, Li Yinsheng's gaze became even more peculiar.

At the very center of the cave stood a gigantic peach tree, over ten zhang in circumference and twenty or thirty zhang in height, covered in abundant peach blossoms, with a clear, shallow stream flowing around its roots.

The entire peach tree, from its trunk to its leaves and blossoms, was shrouded in a faint fluorescent glow.

In front of the peach tree, there is also a stone altar with mottled marks of time.

Even Mu Xiaoyu showed a strange expression as she looked at Li Yinsheng.

"Senior brother, this looks just like the big peach tree we encountered last time, except this tree is even bigger."

Shangguan Ling'er also had a strange expression.

Although she had never seen it with her own eyes, Li Yinsheng had told her about what happened at the time when he mentioned Black Stone.

A hint of confusion flashed across Elder Yue's face.

She could recognize that the object in front of her was a sacrificial spirit left behind by an ancient cultivator for the purpose of inheritance.

But she couldn't quite understand what Li Yinsheng and the other two were saying.

"Junior sister, did you really not smell a peach blossom scent similar to the black stone from that giant python?" Li Yinsheng asked.

After slaying the giant python outside, he specifically asked his junior sister to smell it carefully—

After all, black stones are not detectable by divine sense, so even if the giant python had similar black stones on its body, they would be easily overlooked.

But after enduring the stench of blood and smelling it several times, Mu Xiaoyu did not find anything resembling the black stone.

Looking at the familiar ancient peach tree and stone altar in front of him, Li Yinsheng felt that he should carefully examine the giant python's corpse again after he went out.

Mu Xiaoyu looked at the ancient peach spirit and the offering table with some excitement.

"Senior brother, let's try again. Maybe this time we'll get the inheritance and a giant peach!"

Last time, that big peach tree bore a large, delicious peach that was also easy to refine.

The peach trees have grown so much bigger this time. Will the peaches taste better, or be bigger, or be more plentiful?

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but swallow.

Chapter 178 Ancient Cultivation Inheritance: Mystic Crystal Mirror

In the nameless cave where the sacrificial spirit resides.

Li Yinsheng led the three people to the offering table, looking them up and down.

Even the shape of this offering table was extremely similar to the one he remembered from the last time he encountered a spirit offering.

Moreover, in front of the offering table, there also stood an ancient stone tablet, on which were engraved rows of ancient characters that he could not understand at all.

Although he couldn't understand it, he compared it with the stone tablet he remembered encountering last time, and the style of the inscriptions on the two were extremely similar, so they must be the same.

"It's another legacy left by an ancient cultivator... and it's a peach tree."

Li Yinsheng rubbed his chin, feeling that it was all too coincidental.

This stone altar and stele can also be considered a common and universal arrangement, just like all the common decorations in a monk's cave.

But the forms of the sacrificial spirits are so varied, how could it be such a coincidence that they were peach trees both times?

"Senior brother, senior brother, should we try offering sacrifices?" Mu Xiaoyu asked.

Li Yinsheng thought for a moment, then nodded and said, "Let's give it a try. I'll put it up this time, but I'll listen to my junior sister. What do you want to put up?"

He remembered that he had tried many times to no avail, but his junior sister managed to subdue the spirit with just a candied hawthorn.

"Hmm... I'd like to try putting on a plate of pastries from Wuxia Peak," Mu Xiaoyu said.

Li Yinsheng was stunned for a moment. Although he felt that the suggestion was not very reliable, he still took out a plate of pastries and put it on the table.

The sacrificial spirit, which was over ten feet thick, trembled slightly, and all its spiritual light converged at the base of the branch.

As the fluorescence at the base of the branch intensified, it eventually transformed into a portal of light.

Li Yinsheng and Elder Yue were both quite surprised, but Shangguan Ling'er's eyes lit up.

"It's actually a sacrificial spirit with a mustard seed space! It's bound to have some good stuff!"

Li Yinsheng and Elder Yue both looked at her at the same time—their impression of the sacrificial spirits was simply that one could obtain the inheritance by offering the right sacrifice.

Meeting their questioning gazes, Shangguan Ling'er explained.

"Although the spirit offering is mainly used to pass on the methods of certain ancient cultivators, some powerful ancient cultivators can open up a small space inside the spirit offering to store things such as materials, pills, and magic treasures."