Chapter 13 Infiltrating the Main Forum
Until the stars disappeared and the sun rose, Zhang Qian was awakened by a terrifying pressure.

Dong Dong Dong...!
A series of deafening war drum sounds suddenly rang out, and the pink mist that enveloped the entire giant mountain disappeared in an instant. Dense crowds of figures flew out of the mountain, led by an old man in a white robe, with kind eyes and a big pimple on his forehead.

The old man's aura was extremely terrifying. He held a peach in one hand and a twisted peach wood staff in the other. Three strands of white beard fluttered under his chin, and he looked like a Taoist immortal.

Sensing the old man's pressure, Zhang Qian hurriedly turned Silver Face and Red Face into stone and put it into his storage bag. Then he used the method taught to him by the old fox to activate the old fox's hair, and then his figure disappeared and became invisible.

"You know what? This old fox's hair is quite useful. Is this old man the leader of the Peach God Sect? I thought that the leader of the Divine Sect would be hideous, but who would have thought that he would be so sage-like."

Thousands of muscular disciples were flying behind the Peach God Sect Leader. Each of these disciples was covered in animal skins and was extremely tall. The strangest thing was that all of them were bald. Zhang Qian was very far away, but he could clearly see the sunlight reflected by these bald heads.

"Why are they all bald? What's the point of this?"

Zhang Qian sensed quietly with his mind and was surprised to find that there were at least a dozen disciples behind the Peach God Sect Leader who were at the Golden Core Realm.

"The Taoshen Sect has a great foundation. It is able to train more than a dozen Golden Core disciples. The Taoshen Sect Master is a great man at the eighth level of the Golden Core Realm. He should not be underestimated."

At this moment, accompanied by the deafening sound of drums, thousands of Taoshen Sect disciples suddenly shouted in unison: "Tao Shen is immeasurable, we look up to him as a holy god. He succeeded the heavens and established the highest standard, and his merits are shared by all spirits. He is forever relied upon by the world and is sacred. His merits are shared by the two principles, and his influence is felt throughout the universe! His merits are shared by the two principles, and his influence is felt throughout the universe!"

Thousands of monks shouted frantically, and a peach tree about a hundred feet high suddenly appeared above them amid the shouts.

This gigantic peach tree seemed both real and illusory. As soon as it appeared, it exuded the supreme and unique Tao spirit, as if this peach tree was the only god in the world.

brush!
The peach tree suddenly flashed and appeared behind the Peach God, scattering pink divine light and emitting a strange fragrance that made people faintly intoxicated.

Zhang Qian saw the sage-like Peach God Patriarch wave his hand, and the huge peach tree suddenly became about three feet high, and a human face grew on the tree. The face clearly looked like the Peach God Patriarch.

"The Peach God Cult leader follows the path of gods and demons. I heard that the path of gods and demons is very different from the cultivation of immortals. Could it be that this peach tree is the peach god that the Peach God Cult leader sacrificed and refined?"

Just as Zhang Qian was secretly guessing, the Peach God Sect Leader even collected the small tree, and a pink auspicious cloud spread out under his feet, lifting up thousands of disciples.

This pink auspicious cloud was ten acres in size, carrying everyone and drawing a pink stream of light as it flew straight towards the Li River.

When the light faded away, Zhang Qian breathed a sigh of relief. Before he could make any move, the talisman left by the old fox in the depths of his mind suddenly shook slightly. The talisman turned into a fox head, which opened its mouth and shouted, "The Peach God Sect Leader has already headed for the Li River. What are you waiting for? Hurry up and go up the mountain. I'll keep an eye on you!"

This voice was exactly the voice of the fox clan's ancestor. The voice made Zhang Qian's face turn very ugly. He didn't expect that this talisman had this effect.

Thinking about the magical Yiqi Peach God idol, Zhang Qian smiled lightly, suppressed the anger in his heart, walked forward calmly, and soon arrived at the foot of the giant mountain.

With the old fox's hair concealing his body, Zhang Qian was not afraid of being discovered. Looking up, Zhang Qian found that after the Peach God Leader left, the giant mountain was once again shrouded in pink mist.

"This mist is the eternal peach blossom miasma. Hold your breath!"

The old fox's voice made Zhang Qian's heart skip a beat. The ten thousand year old peach blossom miasma was not a simple thing. This miasma was extremely poisonous and could pollute people's consciousness and destroy their magic power. If a mortal inhaled a trace of it, densely packed pink bumps would grow all over the body in an instant, and finally these bumps would explode together and take people's lives. It was extremely vicious.

"Follow the route I show you!"

The old fox in his mind scolded him, but Zhang Qian did not refute. He held his breath and went up the mountain step by step according to the route in his mind.

The place where Zhang Qian went up the mountain was not the main gate of the Peach God Sect's headquarters, but the side of a huge mountain. No one knew how the old fox did it, but Zhang Qian followed the route he pointed out and did not encounter any obstacles along the way. Except for the endless thousand-year-old peach blossom miasma, there were no formations or traps.

"How does this old fox know so much? Logically speaking, the formation arrangement of the Peach God Sect's headquarters should be a huge secret, so why does this old fox know it so clearly?"

Zhang Qian was puzzled, but he simply didn't care about it. As time passed, Zhang Qian had reached the halfway point of the mountain. There were no longer only peach trees here, but gradually, there were extremely magnificent palaces.

The shapes of these palaces are very strange. They are all built with huge stones about ten feet long. They are square in shape, which is very different from the palaces and temples Zhang Qian had seen before.

These tall palaces and temples are located in a mysterious position in this giant mountain. Starting from the middle of the mountain, a tall square palace appears every few steps.

By chance, Zhang Qian passed by the main gate of a palace. He bravely looked inside and saw that there was only a ten-foot-tall stone statue in the square palace. The statue was the image of the Peach God Sect Leader.

There was nothing in the palace except the stone statues. Circling around in the mountains, Zhang Qian gradually approached the top of the mountain. Suddenly, a cliff as smooth as a mirror appeared in front of him.

This cliff was very slippery, and there were Taoist characters carved on it that Zhang Qian had never seen before. When he looked closely, these Taoist characters vaguely attracted his mind, and he could not help but take a closer look.

"Don't just look at these Taoist texts. They are the founding scriptures of the Taoshen Sect. If you read them for a long time, you will convert to Taoshen Sect and become his believer."

The old fox in his mind reminded him, but Zhang Qian was not afraid of these scriptures. Don't forget that his mind was extremely strong. Seeing these scriptures, he had no intention of converting. "Behind this cliff is the passage in and out of the real headquarters of the Peach God Sect. You only need to say the Supreme and Holy Peach God Sect Master in front of the cliff to enter."

Zhang Qian rolled his eyes speechlessly, walked to the front of the smooth cliff, and weakly muttered: "The Most High and Holy Peach God."

brush!
As soon as he finished speaking, a pink portal suddenly appeared on the cliff in front of him.

"Pink again. How much does this Peach God leader like pink?"

Muttering secretly in his heart, Zhang Qian walked into the door silently. Behind the door was a wide cave. On the ceiling of the cave, there were night pearls shining with precious light, making the place very bright.

Tap tap tap...!
Just then, there was a sudden sound of footsteps in front, which made Zhang Qian's heart tighten.

He hurriedly held his breath and hid to the side of the cave. Soon a bald man came towards him. In his hand was a compass, on which some strange scenes appeared.

"Strange, my Qiankun Plate clearly sensed a trace of demonic energy in the mountain, why didn't the formation in the mountain react? Could it be that a Dharma-like demon has arrived? How is this possible?"

Hearing the big man talking to himself, Zhang Qian's mind turned away. He began to understand why the old fox did not come to the Peach God Sect's headquarters in person. Apparently, there was a large formation in the Peach God Sect's headquarters that could sense demonic energy. And judging from the appearance of this formation, it was extremely sensitive. If the old fox came in person, he would be discovered even if he knew the entry and exit routes.

The big man walked out of the door holding the compass. Zhang Qian secretly broke out in a cold sweat. He figured out that the reason why the big man's compass could sense a trace of demonic energy was probably because of the old fox's hair attached to his body.

"Even a tiny hair can sense the evil spirit. Although it was concealed, the Taoshen Sect's formation for sensing evil spirits is really powerful."

With a sigh, Zhang Qian continued to move forward. After turning a few corners, the view in front of him suddenly became wider. It was a huge space with no end in sight.

In the center of the space, there is a statue of the Peach God that is about a hundred feet tall. Surrounding this statue, there are portals at the edge of the space, but these portals are all closed at the moment.

Many Taoshen Sect disciples were sitting cross-legged near the statue, either chanting scriptures quietly or tempering their bodies. It seemed quite lively.

"Go to the left, the Ichiki Momo God idol is hidden behind the twelfth portal!"

The old fox's voice sounded, and Zhang Qian moved forward step by step. He brushed shoulders with the disciples of Taoshen Sect several times along the way. However, the old fox's hair was a treasure, and none of these disciples noticed Zhang Qian.

When they arrived at the twelfth portal, before Zhang Qian could ask, a blood-red light suddenly flew out from the hair.

This ray of light faintly exuded a sweet smell of blood, and the strange thing was that after smelling this sweet fragrance, with Zhang Qian's horrified mind, some hallucinations appeared before his eyes.

"What is this?"

The ray of light instantly pierced the stone gate in front of him, and then to Zhang Qian's horror the entire stone gate exploded with a loud noise.

"It's over, this old fox wants to harm me!"

Zhang Qian's face changed. Such a loud noise could be heard by anyone unless they were deaf. Zhang Qian was ready for battle.

However, what was strange was that when Zhang Qian turned around, he found that despite such a huge commotion, the Taoshen Sect disciples nearby did not notice anything and continued to practice and recite scriptures.

"What's going on? Are they all deaf?"

"Don't be surprised. This is a trace of Nine-tailed Heavenly Fox blood preserved in our Qingyao Mountain. Once this blood is released, all the Peach God Sect disciples in the entire space will fall into hallucinations and will not be able to detect any movement here. You don't need to be nervous. It's a pity that the Nine-tailed Heavenly Fox blood preserved in our Qingyao Mountain is too rare. Otherwise, there would be no need to go through so much trouble. We could just confuse all the Peach God Sect disciples."

The old fox's proud voice sounded, and Zhang Qian was a little surprised. He didn't expect that the Qingyao Mountain Fox Clan had some background and actually preserved such a good thing as the blood of the Nine-tailed Heavenly Fox!
"Okay, come in."

Suppressing his thoughts, Zhang Qian entered the stone chamber in the gate.

The stone chamber is not big. There is only a wooden table inside, and on the wooden table there is a huge peach the size of a human head.

The moment he saw the peach, Zhang Qian smelled an incredible fragrance and his mouth couldn't help but drool. After a little sensing, Zhang Qian discovered that this peach was like a source of inspiration, containing terrifying vitality!

"Hahahaha, that's it, the Ichigo Peach God Doll, hurry up and put it away!"

However, Zhang Qian remained unmoved. He stared at the magical peach, suppressed his greed, smiled slightly, and asked in his heart: "What is the magical use of this treasure?"

(End of this chapter)