Protect Our Clan Leader

Chapter 545: Chapter 34: Young Clan Leader! Don’t Let Down My Beloved Daughter_1

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However, this time all of the ordinary disciples dared not act.

Spirit Mushrooms are a blessing for ordinary disciples, and core disciples usually do not compete for them. As for the leaves of the Longevity Tree, elders and senior brothers tend not to care about them too. If you’re lucky enough to pick one or two, it’s reasonable and it’s a decent find.

This has become an established convention.

But, the bark of the Longevity Tree, including the Longevity Fruit, these are not things the ordinary disciples could touch.

“None of the bark from the Longevity Tree is allowed to be privately kept, it all has to be given to the communal warehouse.” Senior Brother Yuzhe reacted at this moment and immediately shouted, “Any violators will be immediately expelled, have their study points deducted, and put under confinement!”

… After hearing this, even though the ordinary disciples were very eager, they could only honestly retract their gaze and start picking Spirit Mushrooms again.

Thankfully, although the Longevity Fruit and bark of the Longevity Tree weren’t for them, the Spirit Mushrooms under the tree, thanks to the Spirit Tide, thrived remarkably. Not only were there a large volume of them, but each one of them had also grown bigger and had a better quality than in previous years.

Soon, the baskets hanging on the backs of the three already filled with Spirit Mushrooms.

At the same time, they were picking Spirit Mushrooms, a few people wearing the core disciple’s robes appeared under the Longevity Tree, among them was Senior Brother Jinshan.

The current Senior Brother Jinshan was already in his early seventies, and the beard on his face represented his authority. The entire person had become a lot more mature and stable.

However, he was not the oldest one among them.

Next to him, there were several who seemed older than him by quite a bit. They were likely to be in their eighties, nineties, or even over a hundred years old, all of them core disciples with potent auras, and their cultivation bases were unfathomable.

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The Changchun Valley never lacked talent. However, most of the disciples liked to stay indoors tending to their fields and researching various plants. It was common not to see them for ten or eight years.

But now with the eruption of the Spirit Tide, all kinds of changes were occurring with the Longevity Tree, immediately causing a lot of core disciples, who had always laid low, to surface.

Simultaneously, as these core disciples were appearing, five or six middle-aged men, wearing the garments of elders, also arrived from all directions and all descended under the Longevity Tree.

The elders of Changchun Valley mostly preferred to stay indoors and skep to their own corners, hardly moving about. But now, they were also alarmed by the movement of the Longevity Tree and all came out.

“What a strong Wood Spirit Tide,” the elder with the strongest aura amongst them couldn’t help but sigh when he saw the scene before him,”I have not seen a Spirit Tide of this scale for over two hundred years, and yet, there is even an extra Longevity Fruit! Such remarkable events are rare indeed!”

His beard was entirely black, and he wore a dark green jade crown on his head. His face looked like that of a middle-aged man, but in reality, he was already over three hundred years old and among those with the longest history in Changchun Valley.

“A Spirit Tide eruption is a good thing~” Another elder, also with a black beard, laughed heartily, “Thus, our Changchun Valley’s various Spirit Plants will grow even faster.”

The Longevity Tree was planted on top of top-quality wood-type Spirit Veins, nourished by spirit veins. Every few years, it would spit up excess Xuanling Qi that it couldn’t digest, forming the “Spirit Tide”.

Because this Xuanling Qi had already been transformed by the Longevity Tree, it could be directly absorbed by plants, providing significant benefits for the growth of Spirit Plants.

This “Spirit Tide” could be considered one of Changchun Valley’s special features.

Then, these elders with black beards, who never seemed to age, were another highlight of Changchun Valley.

Due to the nature of “Longevity Youth True Verses”, the elders generally have long lives. Elders at the Celestial Being level can usually live to be four hundred years old. If they have a chance to eat a Longevity Fruit, they might live even longer.

However, because the Longevity Fruit could extend one’s lifespan, it is often targeted by powerful figures as soon as it appears. The elders of Changchun Valley, despite having an advantage in location, may not necessarily be able to get a share.

For this reason, Master Changchun always had to sneak around to collect them and then hoard them.

During this conversation, these five or six elders had already arrived among the crowd.

Senior Brother Jinshan immediately led the disciples over to greet them and paid his respects to each of them.

“Greetings elders.”

“Oh, isn’t it Jinshan ~” the elder with the dark green jade crown chuckled, “Master was saying, presently the mundane affairs of Changchun Valley are being handled by you?”

“Answering elder,” Jinshan responded with a steady tone, keeping his head bowed, “I am just managing trivial matters on behalf of the Master. For bigger matters, decisions still have to come from the elders.”

Over the years, he had been trying hard to change his wretched temperament, striving to emulate Wang Shouzhe’s charisma in hopes of finding a girlfriend sooner. After several years of cultivation and imitation, he believed that he had acquired seventy to eighty percent of Shouzhe’s aura.

However, despite his calm exterior, he couldn’t help but grumble inwardly. If it weren’t for the fact that the valley elders are too sluggish and stay confined to their own corners, would the Master have left the mortal affairs to him to handle?

“Very good,” the elder with the dark green jade crown nodded after hearing his words, “Since the Master is not here, this extra Longevity Fruit should belong to me.”

However, as soon as he finished speaking, the other elders quickly showed their disapproval.

“How can this be?”

“The Longevity Fruit’s ownership, it certainly can’t be decided by your word alone, can it?”

In the blink of an eye, the elders started arguing. Everyone wanted to get their hands on that one Longevity Fruit.

No wonder, in this world, there are originally few Heaven and Earth Treasures that could be used to extend one’s lifespan, Longevity Fruit appears once every hundred years, thus, occasionally extra fruit could be found when a Spirit Tide erupts, which is a more stable output.