Chapter 573: Heavenly Ascension Spell_1
"Elder, I have a question for you. Do you know where in these deep mountains I can find a fragrant torreya tree that’s over four thousand years old?"
Unmoved by your inquiry, the white-haired elder merely glanced up, his eyes void of anything.
The village chief walked over and translated what you had just said into the Zhuji dialect.
Only then did the white-haired elder extend his arm, thin and dry as a dead branch, and began conversing with the village chief.
Although they spoke a variant of the Wu Yu, some of the words were so abstruse that you could only grasp the gist of the conversation.
After the exchange, the village chief turned to you and said, "The elder says there’s a valley behind the village that has a few fragrant torreya trees, rumored to be extremely old, but exactly how old they are he couldn’t say."
"Let’s go have a look, then."
The village chief nodded and, following the directions given by the white-haired elder, led you three swiftly towards the hills behind the village.
Passing through the village, you noticed that the architecture here was quite ancient. The door planks alone, meant to block the wind and shade the sun, were older than the combined ages of you, Xian Qianling, and the village chief.
As for Zhao’er, to be honest, you didn’t know exactly how old she was, but that didn’t affect your feelings for her. There’s a saying that a woman three years older is a catch, but she’s over a thousand years older - enough to pile up gold bricks into a mountain.