Chapter 399 (1/2)
The nirvana fruit was its name. Its taste was supposed to be one of the sweetest in the world but also one of the deadliest. If a person was to ingest this fruit without any preparation they would suffer a fast death. The moment the sweet nectar of the fruit reached their insides they would start to burn up.
To this day there were few people that could suffer through this fruit's condensed Qi. It would instantly cause the person that consumed it to burst up in flames of bright light. There would be nothing left but white ashes that radiated an eerie divine glow.
For this reason, the woman that Zhang Dong met up with was close to collapsing. He had managed to devour the whole fruit without batting an eye.
”H-how could this be…”
”It's a bit too sweet for my tastes but not that bad.”
Zhang Dong smacked his lips as he licked up the juices from his mouth. Even when he tried to consume it all, the fruit was a bit too juicy and some of it dribbled down to the grass below. The moment it did a massive white glow of light burst forth while leaving a zone of deathly white ash behind in its wake.
”Hey, are you alright? Would this be a bad time to ask for another one?”
Zhang Dong asked while looking up into the tree. There weren't that many fruits left there as it was clearly something rather rare. While a normal person would probably die rather quickly from ingesting this pure holy energy, he was able to absorb all of it into this golden core.
This was truly a nascent soul treasure of the uppermost level, it was even closely approaching a level above it. It was hard for Zhang Dong to resist the temptation of ingesting a massive amount of holy energy like this. The woman clearly didn't deny him the fruit so he decided to quickly gobble it up before she changed her mind.
”Huh, what? Another one? Stop this instance, put your hand down!”
Zhang Dong was about to reach out for another fruit while he had the chance. It would be somewhat impolite to eat another one when the woman said otherwise. There was also the thing with her tossing herself in front of the tree and pulling out her weapon to defend it.
”How could you desecrate the secret garden, spit out the fruit this instance!”
”Spit it out? But you said that I could have it?”
”I… I didn't think you would eat it! Give it back!”
The woman had long black hair and looked like your everyday jade beauty, the only thing that was characteristic were her deep blue eyes and a strange golden gem in the middle of her forehead.
”I'm sorry but I don't think you'd want the remains of the fruit after I've eaten it… how about you have this instead.”
The woman looked at a fruit that Zhang Dong pulled out from the spatial ring. While he had to clear out his spatial ring before arriving here he still came with some necessities that would be fine to smuggle into the inside of this clan.
”T-that's just a regular peach! How can that replace the sacred Nirvana fruit?”
”Is it a regular peach? How about you look again…”
”What are you babbling about? It's clearly a normal … !”
Soon the peach that he pulled out started glowing with a golden sheen. Soon a similar aura to that of the fruit that Zhang Dong had eaten sipped into this regular peach. Something like this didn't go unnoticed as more people started popping their heads from within this garden.
A group of ten beauties in similar dancer-like robes stood around him while he was holding a glowing peach. They were all pointing their spears at him and he was starting to think that he was transported into a certain Amazonian island.
”W-what did you do?”
”Nothing… I just gave the peach similar properties to that nirvana fruit. Regretfully it's not as potent but should be fine for lesser cultivators to eat, the taste should be the same as well.”
After consuming the Nirvana peach he was able to analyze it. By infusing a somewhat ordinary spirit fruit that he got from his sect's garden he was able to create a lesser version with his own power. It would not hold a candle to the original but could be mass-produced and would still give people quite the boost of holy energies.
”Catch.”
He threw the peach to the lady that was first to meet him. The woman dropped her own spear and almost fumbled in catching this new treasure. She quickly glanced at it and after analyzing it she was left speechless.
”T-this…”
Soon the other women gathered around that peach and started looking at it with much interest. After passing it around between themselves they came to some kind of consensus. They even started talking. One of them even proposed to take this fruit and him to the clan apothecary's for investigation.