Chapter 340: Chapter 340: Blowing Up Peach Mother Divine Mountain
Peach Mother Divine Mountain.
Pink smoke and clouds pervade the mountain, shrouded year-round in a miasma of rotten peaches. Only by wearing a special peach wood token can one resist the miasma’s attack and walk as usual.
In truth, this mountain is not particularly tall among the surrounding mountains, nor particularly steep, but it is regarded as a divine mountain by the people within a hundred miles around.
Because there’s a divine tree on the mountain!
The divine tree possesses a spirit, often manifesting its true spirit, showing miracles in the human world, recruiting followers from the mortal realm, imparting immortal techniques, and protecting one area.
Every household of the people has an image of Madam Peach, offered daily with prayers for blessings.
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"It’s a pity, you might have to switch to praying to another deity."
Lu Zheng arrived at the Earth Realm of Peach Mother Divine Mountain, pinpointed its location, and then sank underground.
No covert visits, no probing of reality, Lu Zheng never intended to show his face from start to finish.
Facing a millennium-old demon, doing more would only lead to more mistakes, stirring the other’s vigilance or triggering a preemptive strike.
Lu Zheng didn’t want to experience the true spirit cultivation of this millennium peach tree spirit.
So, solve it in one go!
Lu Zheng submerged underground, quietly traversing toward the underside of Peach Mother Divine Mountain.
Passing several small hills, slowly approaching Peach Mother Divine Mountain, Lu Zheng crossed the foot of the mountain and stealthily ascended.
Peach Mother Divine Mountain rises over a thousand meters high. Lu Zheng traversed all the way, avoiding stones, only moving through earth, step by step approaching the Peach Mother Divine Tree.
"Eh?"
Lu Zheng halted his movement, not daring to move because he sensed a small tendril in the soil ahead.
It was a root of the peach tree spirit!
"I’ve already reached the area where the peach tree spirit can sense."
Calculating the distance, it’s about three hundred meters from the mountaintop where the peach tree spirit is. But Lu Zheng brought over a hundred high-explosive bombs, planning to detonate them underground; he reckoned it would be no problem to blow over the mountain.
"Let’s get started!"
At a distance where the peach tree spirit couldn’t sense him, Lu Zheng immediately dug holes in the mountain and placed these high-explosive bombs into them, arranging a bomb network beneath the peach tree spirit.
Moreover, these bombs were interconnected, ensuring a chain explosion.
As for the detonation mechanism? Of course, it relied on the hundreds of kilograms of TNT Lu Zheng brought.
To avoid alerting the peach tree spirit, Lu Zheng was exceedingly cautious, using a gourd to collect soil and then replacing it with bombs, causing almost no sound transmission.
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Two...
Three...
Lu Zheng spent five to six days on the journey, yet he spent almost the same amount of time simply setting up the explosive site, ensuring enough space for the bombs to unleash their full power.
For this purpose, besides placing bombs, he also collected a large amount of soil and rocks from beneath Peach Mother Divine Mountain, striving to guarantee a complete collapse, directly shredding the Peach Mother Divine Tree’s body.
"Amazing, I feel after this I can directly join various mountain-carving and road-building construction teams!"
"Tsk tsk, directly enhancing the work efficiency of civil engineering, I’m truly a genius in infrastructure!"
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Peach Mother Divine Mountain, Peach Mother Divine Tree.
The branches and leaves of Madam Peach sway, seemingly sensing a certain unease.
A pink figure suddenly appears in the Peach Mother Temple beneath the divine tree.
"Greetings, Mother!"
"Greetings, Mother!"
Several cultivators on duty in the temple immediately bowed respectfully.
Madam Peach was dressed in a pink Peach Blossom Flying Shadow Silk Cloud Palace Attire, with a Red Phoenix Feather Gold Hairpin atop her head, as her flowing robes moved without any wind.
Her jade-like face and red lips, phoenix eyes and moth-like brows, exuded an aura of dignity and grandeur, with eyes deep like a starry sea, conveying a sense of extraordinary pressure.
"Hmm." Madam Peach nodded, "Has anything happened recently at the foot of the mountain?"
Several attendants glanced at each other and then shook their heads in unison, "Reporting to Mother, the foot of the mountain has been stable as usual, with nothing out of the ordinary."
Madam Peach frowned, her gaze swept over the temple, then her eyes flashed, "Is there any news from the Four Directions Divine Envoy?"
The Four Directions Divine Envoy went to the Central Plains to capture the divine soul of the Peach Blossom Fairy, facing four against one, backed by the Four Extremes God-locking Order which she had blessed, under normal circumstances it should be foolproof.
Considering the time, they should have already collected the true spirit of that incense and candle minor god and be returning to the Southern Border.
"Reporting to Mother, the Four Directions Divine Envoy has not sent any news."
"Hmm?" Madam Peach furrowed her brows, could they have encountered a mishap?
Previously, her Peach Mother Divine Mountain had no animosity with the Da Jing Government and the sects and sects, in theory, the Four Directions Divine Envoy should not encounter anything before acting.
"Perhaps while taking action, they were encountered by someone else, who saved that Peach Blossom Fairy?"
"Or after seizing the Peach Blossom Fairy’s divine soul, they got intercepted by the Great Jing Dynasty’s officials on the way back to the Southern Border?"
"Could it be my unease is because I can’t obtain the divine soul of that Peach Blossom Fairy?"
"Send some more people there..." Madam Peach frowned, then did not continue speaking.
"Forget it, no need..." Madam Peach shook her head, her figure flickered, leaving the Peach Mother Temple, reappearing at the peak top of a seventy to eighty meter tall peach tree.
It was indeed her body, the millennium peach tree!
Madam Peach gazed afar, beholding endless mountain ranges stretching hundreds of miles, clouds unfathomable, beasts roaring in the mountains, birds soaring in the sky, a scene of harmonious natural grandeur.
"Have I overthought?"
Madam Peach again used the roots of the peach tree to sense the realm’s surface and underground within several tens of miles radius, once more finding nothing amiss.
"Could it really be because of that Peach Ghost?"
Logically, the matter of capturing Shen Ying was far off, without any immediate effect. It shouldn’t cause her unease.
Yet she found no other irregularities, forcing her thoughts back to Shen Ying.
Madam Peach stood elegantly like an immortal, hovering atop the millennium peach tree, seemingly a Celestial Divine Empress, causing her followers and mortal attendants on the Divine Mountain to be heart-stricken, bowing to the ground.
"No! That Peach Ghost is key to my ascension. I have reached a bottleneck now; without change, in eight hundred years, my body will wither, my roots will rot, and my divine soul will dissipate.
But if I can consume that Peach Ghost, using the poem ’Peach Blossoms’ to nourish my body, I can certainly cultivate into a Pure Yang True Spirit, achieving long life and roaming across vastness, everything as desired!
Four Directions Envoy, do not disappoint me!"
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On the other side.
Lu Zheng finally arranged all the bomb networks, attaching hundreds of kilograms of TNT as the trigger at the detonation site of the high-explosive bombs, and set the timer.
Ten minutes!
In the next moment, Lu Zheng tunneled through the ground, swiftly departing from Peach Mother Divine Mountain, arriving at another mountain peak ten miles away.
After waiting a few minutes, Lu Zheng stealthily emerged from underground, squatting behind a large rock atop the mountain, then pulled out a professional camera aimed at the distant Peach Mother Divine Mountain.
He glanced at the watch.
"Five, four, three, two, one, boom!"
"Boom!"