A Biography of the Liu Family in Peach Blossom Mountain

Chapter 16: The Ripe Spirit Peaches

Time passed quickly in Liu Zhangxu's intense cultivation life. In the blink of an eye, two months had gone by, and the spirit peaches of Peach Blossom Mountain's Liu Family had ripened.

The fragrance of the ripe spirit peaches filled the air on the mountain. Various traces of Demonic Beast activity also began to appear near Peach Blossom Mountain.

After two months of intense cultivation, Liu Zhangxu had made some progress in his cultivation and his physical strength had improved significantly. He had reached a level where he could use Fireball Technique, Water Arrow Technique, Wood Shield Technique, Entangling Technique, Sword Control Technique, Wind and Rain Sword Technique, and Primordial Origin Void Splitting Palm against enemies.

Liu Zhangxu was full of anticipation for the upcoming battles.

Since the establishment of the Liu Family on Peach Blossom Mountain, they had been continuously cultivating and planting spirit peach trees and other spirit fruit trees. After more than 100 years of effort by the clan members, there were now 818 spirit peach trees and 180 other spirit fruit trees on Peach Blossom Mountain.

Almost all the suitable areas on Peach Blossom Mountain for planting spirit fruit trees had been planted. This had basically reached the limit of what a Rank One High Grade spiritual vein could support. If they wanted to expand the planting area further, they would need to upgrade the spiritual vein.

Among these 818 spirit peach trees, nine Rank One High Grade spirit peach trees were on the verge of breaking through to become Rank Two spirit peach trees. These were also the mother trees of all the jade spirit peach trees in the clan and were the most important.

The spirit peach trees on the mountain were the most valuable asset of the Liu Family and also the root cause of trouble. This was why the clan urgently needed Foundation Building cultivators; without strong power, it would be difficult to protect such a treasure.

Every year, besides keeping some spirit peaches for their own consumption and cultivation, the clan would sell a portion of the harvest and use another portion to brew spirit peach wine. This brought in more than 10,000 low-grade spirit stones in income for the clan each year.

Because of this substantial income, in order to ensure a smooth peach picking, the entire Liu Family would mobilize for the harvest.

On this morning, Clan Chief Liu Baishan gathered all the clan cultivators to arrange and deploy the peach picking activity.

At yesterday's elders' meeting, the clan chief and the elders had already discussed the harvest activity in detail. They had studied and determined the specific arrangements for the personnel involved in the harvest, as well as how to deal with various possible problems.

According to the personnel arrangements made at the elders' meeting, the clan cultivators were divided into five teams. Teams 1 to 4 were responsible for the harvest in four directions. Each team had two Qi Refining Late Stage cultivators, five Qi Refining Mid Stage cultivators, and eight Qi Refining Early Stage cultivators. The last team, led by Clan Chief Liu Baishan, stayed behind at Peach Blossom Villa to control the Wood Element Evergreen Formation. This was the clan's last reserve team.

In the harvest activity, teams 1 to 4 were divided into different roles. Qi Refining Early Stage cultivators were responsible for picking the spirit peaches, while Qi Refining Late Stage cultivators led the Qi Refining Mid Stage cultivators in defending against attacks from Demonic Beasts and Demonic Cultivators.

After the personnel arrangements were made, Clan Chief Liu Baishan reminded the clan members of some important matters and repeatedly emphasized the importance of personal safety. They must not sacrifice their lives for the sake of the spirit peaches. After all, in this dangerous world, every clan cultivator was extremely precious.

After the meeting, the cultivators from Team 4 walked out of Peach Blossom Villa to pick the spirit peaches in the spirit peach orchard outside the estate.

Due to the limited coverage of the clan's Wood Element Evergreen Formation, it could only cover a radius of ten miles around Peach Blossom Villa, the clan's residence. Therefore, most of the spirit peach trees were planted outside the coverage of the formation.

Of course, there were formations that could cover the entire Peach Blossom Mountain, but the mountain had an area of more than sixty miles in diameter. To cover such a large area, it would require at least two to three hundred thousand spirit stones, which was not something a small Qi Refining clan could afford.

The spirit peach trees planted outside the estate were mainly distributed in eight spirit peach orchards, each of which was arranged with a Rank One Middle Grade Peach Blossom Formation by the clan's formation master, Elder Liu Baiqiang.

Elder Liu Baiqiang was a Rank One Middle Grade formation master and the best formation master in the clan. To become a formation master, one needed both talent as a cultivator and inheritance in formations.

Therefore, it was extremely difficult to cultivate formation masters in the clan. It was already not easy for Elder Liu Baiqiang to reach the level of a Rank One Middle Grade formation master.

At this moment, the clan cultivators who walked out of the Wood Element Evergreen Formation saw that several Demonic Beasts had gathered outside the Peach Blossom Formation in several spirit peach orchards, attacking the Peach Blossom Formation.

The battle to defend the spirit peaches had begun!

(End of this chapter)