Chapter 510 - 510 Patriarch
510 Patriarch
Qin Chen and the rest could see countless golden fruits on the divine tree. There were probably more than a hundred of them.
However, only a small portion of them had ripened. Most of them were still green.
...Qin Chen and the others did not pick the unripe fruits. After all, the ones that were truly useful to them were the ripe fruits.
After that, Qin Chen stored all the fruits in his storage ring. Everyone hurriedly picked and plundered all the ripe fruits on the divine tree.
The big scorpion was simply ruthless. He dug at the soil as if he wanted to take away a section of the divine tree’s root to plant!
Everyone couldn’t help but exclaim in admiration. Truly such a genius!
The divine tree that appeared in this world might not even exist in the nine Heavens and ten lands or even the cosmic.
The big scorpion was bringing the tree’s roots back to benefit future generations.
He said it so seriously that Qin Chen and the others couldn’t help but feel a sense of respect for him.
After a long while, the big scorpion finally managed to dig out a section of the root and threw it into the storage ring before leaving with the others.
When they had just walked out, they had been on guard. However, they realized that there was no one else outside the array except for the old man.
There was not a single person in the back mountain.
Could it be that there really weren’t any disciples patrolling this place?
Qin Chen immediately took out five ripe fruits from the divine tree and gave them to the old man.
He believed that these five golden fruits would definitely extend the old man’s life and allow him to be reborn. The other party might even be able to embark on the path of a cultivator. This was the only thing Qin Chen could do for the old man.
Although he didn’t know what kind of enmity this old man had with the Shangqing Sect, since the latter had helped him, Qin Chen would not let him suffer a loss.
Then, Qin Chen and the others wanted to leave, but they were stopped by the old man.
The old man told Qin Chen and the others mysteriously, “If you go down the mountain now, you will definitely be at risk of being discovered along the way.”
He pointed in another direction. Everyone looked over and found a large rock.
The old man moved the huge rock away with great effort and said to Qin Chen and the rest, “Leave from here and you will have no worries about being caught.”
Qin Chen and the others cupped their hands at the old man gratefully. He had helped them so much that they did not know how to thank him.
“Old man, why don’t you come with us? In any case, there’s no point in you staying here. If such a major mistake were to happen, they’ll definitely find you for revenge. What if they vent their anger on you…”
The old man shook his head.
“Don’t worry. I’m an old bag of bones. They won’t dare to do anything to me. ”
The crowd then nodded and finally left.
They did feel that the hole seemed kind of strange though.
By leaving through such a place, it felt like a dog hole.
After Qin Chen and the others left, a little dog ran out from the side of the stone.
This dog had yellow fur and looked very good-natured. It ran to the old man’s side and wagged its tail at him.
Qin Chen and the rest did not dare to stay any longer and left immediately.
Soon after, they realized that the entire Shangqing Sect seemed to have exploded. There were strong fluctuations.
Could it be that they had accidentally leaked some clues?
That being said, if they left now, no one would be able to catch up to them.
After all, they had already left the Shangqing Sect’s territory. If they left now, the Shangqing Sect cultivators wouldn’t even know where they went.
Finally, after walking for a long time, they came back to their senses.
Many terrifying auras exploded in the Shangqing Sect. They were furious.
“What the hell is going on?”
Then, they heard the report from their disciples. It was said that something had happened in the back mountain. Something big!
Someone had stolen the fruits of the divine tree from the back mountain.
This was an incalculable loss. It was enough for the Shangqing Sect to bleed.
Many powerful elders rushed out, including some powerful consecrators. All of them came to the back mountain of the Shangqing Sect.
They were all willing to stay in the Shangqing Sect because of this divine tree. But now that they found out that the ripe fruits of the divine tree had all been stolen, they were furious.
But now, facing an old man, they were trembling with fear. They suppressed their anger and stopped throwing a fit. Instead, they cried and complained.
“Patriarch. What’s going on?”
The old man’s body exuded a terrifying fluctuation. Even the simple and honest little dog beside him burst out with an extremely terrifying power as if it was an ancient human-eating fierce beast. It stared at the crowd with an intimidating aura.
At this moment, the old man seemed to have changed into a different person.
He sat cross-legged on the ground and let out a long sigh of relief. He burped and said, “What else could it be? You guys didn’t protect the place well enough and let the thieves break in. When I found them, they had already escaped! Aren’t you going to hurry and catch those people?”
This old man was the respected patriarch of the elders from the Shangqing Sect. Even the sect leader was respectful to him.
No one noticed that there were a few pits of the divine tree’s fruits behind the old man.
What really made the old man willing to help Qin Chen and the others was Qin Chen’s almost unfathomable fate.
This old man was extremely terrifying. His cultivation prowess had already reached a powerful realm that allowed him to collapse the world at will.
He had been in seclusion here all this time and had never taken the final step.
But today, he saw a cultivator from the outside world. The old man could tell that the other party was definitely not a cultivator from the Divine Illusionary Realm because the aura he carried was from the outside world.
The old man wanted to see Qin Chen’s fate, but he could not. It was as if the other party was covered by fog. If he was involved with such a guy, the karma Qin Chen caused might affect him.
Still, the old man chose to help Qin Chen. With this, he could form karma with Qin Chen. Perhaps in the future, Qin Chen would become an expert even more powerful than him and help him take the last step.
There were all sorts of things in this world that could not be described clearly.
Fate was just vague.
The old man seemed to have an intuition that Qin Chen was not as simple as he had seen, although the latter was currently still relatively weak.
However, he believed that Qin Chen would become an expert one day. If the other party did not die, he would probably be even more powerful than him.
These were the old man’s thoughts.