More than nine thousand years ago, the first time Thieving Laozu stepped into the Longevity grotto-heaven, he was discovered by the Wood Luan demon slaves at that time. It was also at the place where Lu Ping and the rest appeared, the two mid Dharma stage Wood Luan demon slaves joined forces and heavily injured Laozu who had just entered.
Having lost the inheritance of the Wood Phoenix clan after advancing to the Dharma stage, the strength of the demon slaves could only be considered mediocre among practitioners of the same level, but it was still not something that the Thieving Sky Patriarch could withstand. Even though he was also a mid Dharma adept, to be able to push his cultivation to the mid Dharma stage, it was unknown how many tricks he had used, and how many coincidences he had encountered. With his cultivation and strength, it was not an exaggeration to say that he was the weakest among the practitioners of the same level, so how could he withstand the attack of two Wood Phoenix demon slaves?
The heavily injured and captured Thieving Laozu had no choice but to agree to the Wood Luan race's many conditions, the most important of which was that he would enter the Longevity grotto-heaven in the future and bring the Wood Luan race's descendants out of the grotto-heaven, so that they would not be enslaved by the Nine Xuan Tower.
For this, the Wood Luan demon slaves in the grotto-heaven secretly helped Thieving Laozu to steal a large number of rare herbs from the Longevity grotto-heaven before letting him go.
Of course, even if the Wood Luan demon slaves in the Longevity grotto-heaven did not know the ways of the world, they still had to guard against Thieving Laozu going back on his word after leaving the grotto-heaven. Thus, they had a backup plan, so that Thieving Laozu would not be able to enter the grotto-heaven again.
Back then, when Thieving Laozu entered the Longevity grotto-heaven, he was captured by the ancestor of the Wood Luan demon slaves. However, at that time, the Wood Luan demon slaves did not have any eggs that had not hatched yet, so they could not let Thieving Laozu take them away. And after the Wood Luan race was born, they would be turned into demon slaves by the Nine Xuan Tower's divine will. Even if they were not in the Longevity grotto-heaven, their life and death were at the mercy of the Nine Xuan Tower.
With no other choice, the ancestor of the wood luan demon slave had no choice but to let Thieving Heaven Laozu leave and agreed to enter the grotto-heaven again to take the wood luan egg and raise it in the cultivation world.
However, the Wood Luan demon slaves did not expect that the injuries they had inflicted on Thieving Laozu, which were not considered serious, would be fatal. Thieving Heaven Laozu only had the cultivation of the mid Dharma stage, but in reality, he really could not take a beating.
The plan of the Wood Luan demon slaves immediately came to nothing. This wait lasted for nearly ten thousand years. That year, the ancestor of the Wood Luan demon slaves had already become the meal of some powerful person in the Nine Xuan Tower, while the Wood Luan demon slaves in the Longevity grotto-heaven secretly passed down the information that there was a flaw in the grotto-heaven left behind by Thieving Heaven Laozu, hoping that someone from the outside could use this flaw to reopen the passage to the outside world. For this reason, every generation of Wood Luan demon slaves had been secretly preparing for this.
Because Thieving Heaven Laozu had entered the grotto-heaven from here, the Wood Luan demon race built their nest in a forest not far from here.
With regards to this request of the Wood Luan race, Lu Ping naturally would not refuse. Since he was already here, taking away some of the Wood Luan's descendants was just a matter of convenience. Moreover, this matter would only benefit Lu Ping.
The sky above the forest was connected to form a huge nest. When Lu Ping and Green Fox arrived, the two discovered that this was actually a small colony of Wood Luan. Apart from the four Dharma stage Wood Luan demon slaves, there were also three pairs of Wood Luan demon slaves. Two pairs were at the Core Forging stage, while the other pair was only at the Blood Condensation stage.
"We have already gathered all of our tribe members. There are ten of them in total, and they are all here now. However, we did not inform them of your arrival, so your followers will not meet them in the grotto-heaven."
The one who spoke was the Wood Luan cultivator with a silk scarf on his head. This person was Luan Xiu, and one of the two female Dharma adepts who came after him was his Path Companion, while the other was the Path Companion of the pale-faced cultivator.
Lu Ping and Green Fox followed the four Dharma adepts of the Wood Luan race to the grotto-heaven. They saw the pale-faced Wood Luan Qing raise his hand and slap an inconspicuous little tree near the nest. This little tree, which would at least be a top-grade spiritual material when it was fully grown, was instantly broken. However, the center of the broken little tree was hollow, and two snow-white eggs rolled out of it.
Luan Qing carefully held the two snow-white eggs in his hands and caressed them for a while before handing the eggs over to Lu Ping under the dejected expression of his Path Companion. He said, "These are the descendants of my wife and I. Ever since our union, we have only left five descendants. Other than these two who have been hiding in secret, of the remaining three, two have hatched into adults, a boy and a girl. Both are now at the Core Forging stage. The girl was brought to the Wuxing School by the Nine Mystical Tower in exchange for a girl of the same cultivation level as the Path Companion of the boy. As for the other egg, it was taken away by the Nine Mystical Tower before it hatched. It is highly likely that it has already become someone's stomach."
At this point, Luan Qing's Path Companion's voice was slightly choked as she said, "Fortunately, the Wood Luan race has a secret technique that allows us to preserve these eggs for almost a hundred years. Otherwise, if you had come ten years later, my two children would have died in the eggs before they hatched."
Lu Ping received the two eggs and carefully placed them into the House of Gold. Immediately after, Luan Xiu took out another egg from the heart of another tree and handed it over to Lu Ping.
Luan Xiu had also given birth to five eggs with his Path Companion. Three of them hatched, two were male and one was female. Of the two sons, one was exchanged for a Path Companion from the Purple Sun Palace, while the other had his Golden Core dug out by the Nine Mystical Tower after he advanced to the Core Forging stage. As for the remaining two eggs, one of them had died due to the passage of time. Only this one was still alive.
Soon after, Luan Xiu took out another egg from the roots of another tree and said, "This is Fellow Daoist Luan Qiu's descendant. Both husband and wife were taken away by the Nine Mystical Tower's Zhu Jiuluan a few decades ago. I believe they were used to nourish her and help her break through to the Pure Yang Realm. I hope that you can take this egg with you and leave behind a descendant for Fellow Daoist Luan Qiu."
This wasn't the end of it. Luan Qing also took out another two eggs from an unknown place. These two eggs looked much fresher than the previous four. They should have been born not too long ago.
Sure enough, Luan Qing said, "These two eggs are the descendants of Fellow Daoist Luan Xiu and I. I'll have to trouble you to take them with you."
When Luan Qing found these two eggs, Lu Ping had already noticed that there were two more eggs together with these two eggs. However, Luan Qing didn't take them out.
Lu Ping could guess that they were still somewhat worried about him. They were afraid that their descendants would enter the tiger's den right after leaving the wolf's den. Therefore, they didn't dare to hand over all of their descendants to Lu Ping. However, Luan Qing and Luan Xiu's descendants had been eggs for too long. They couldn't keep them, so they had no choice but to hand them over to Lu Ping. However, they still kept some of their descendants.
However, Lu Ping still asked, "Since Fellow Daoist trusts me so much, aren't you afraid that I'll turn your descendants into Demon Slaves in the future?"
Luan Xiu smiled bitterly, "There are Demon Slaves on both sides, how bad can it be? Handing them over to Fellow Daoist can be considered a ray of hope. I can only hope that Fellow Daoist's compassion will allow the Wood Luan Clan to continue to exist in the cultivation world. "
Lu Ping put away the five Wood Luan eggs and said, "I'll do my best!"
The Nine Profound Tower clearly didn't only have the Longevity Heaven Grotto-Heaven to cultivate spiritual herbs. However, without a doubt, the Longevity Heaven Grotto-Heaven was the Nine Profound Tower's most important place for cultivating spiritual herbs.
Naturally, there were Nine Profound Tower's cultivators stationed within the Longevity Heaven Grotto-Heaven. However, due to the existence of the Wood Luan Yao Slaves and the fact that the Heaven Grotto-Heaven was incomparably vast, the cultivators guarding the Longevity Heaven Grotto-Heaven rarely paid attention to what was happening inside. Thus, with the help of the Wood Luan Yao Slaves and Lu Ping's deliberate evasion, the Nine Profound Tower's Longevity Heaven Grotto-Heaven remained undetected.
The Nine Profound Tower had sent cultivators to guard the Longevity Heaven Grotto-Heaven. However, due to the existence of the Wood Luan Yao Slaves and the incomparably vast Heaven Grotto-Heaven, the cultivators guarding the Longevity Heaven Grotto-Heaven rarely paid attention to what was happening inside. Thus, with the assistance of the Wood Luan Yao Slaves and Lu Ping's deliberate evasion, the Nine Profound Tower's Longevity Heaven Grotto-Heaven remained undetected.
Not to mention, this was just one of the Nine Profound Tower's Longevity Heaven Grotto-Heaven!
During these three days, Lu Ping's harvest could be described as a fruitful journey. Putting aside the fact that the 3,000 Amethyst Bee Soldiers had brought Lu Ping several jars of Amethyst Bee Honey, Zi Lan would have to spend a long time to brew the Amethyst Royal Jelly.
Just the amount of rare herbs that Dabao had brought back was enough to make Lu Ping overjoyed. In order to not leave behind too obvious a trail, Dabao had to pick and choose what he wanted. If the One Chi Higher Sky had appeared, Lu Ping would not have been able to finish using it even after a few hundred years. Of course, it was impossible for him to collect so many spiritual herbs in the Longevity Heaven Grotto-Heaven in just three days.
Other than this, what was even more precious was the two pill recipes that he had obtained from Laozu the Thieving Heaven, the Thunder Calamity Pill and the Grade Six Transcendence Pill, all the rare herbs that were recorded in the Longevity Heaven Grotto-Heaven were collected by Dabao.
Of course, there were some rare herbs that Lu Ping did not recognize or that had already gone extinct in the cultivation world. Dabao had also found many of them, allowing Lu Ping and Zhenling to have a complete variety of spiritual herbs in their Longevity Heaven Grotto-Heaven Garden.
Lu Ping had also found a few rare tea trees in the Longevity Heaven. He had asked him to take their seeds and branches to see if they could be planted in the Golden House.
The three days that Lu Ping had agreed on with Lu Qin-er and the others had arrived. Before Lu Ping left the Longevity Heaven Grotto-Heaven, Luan Qing and Luan Xiu had surprised Lu Ping again.
"This is the Seven Aperture Pear and Immortal Root?"
Lu Ping looked at the items in their hands. Even though he was surprised, he was very excited.
These were all treasures that could be used to strengthen the physical body. Furthermore, this Seven Aperture Pear was clearly ripe. If he could find the Seven Aperture Pear's seeds in the fruit, wouldn't he be able to use them to nurture the Seven Aperture Pear Tree? He could also try to nurture the Immortal Root.
In terms of preciousness, these two items were not inferior to the Azure Wood Pure Jade Fruit that Lu Ping had once obtained.
"These are the two spiritual items that we have been secretly collecting all these years. Today, we will give them to you."
Lu Ping took the two items and said with a serious expression: "Rest assured, the Wood Luan Race will definitely not go extinct!"
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