186: Chapter 186 Giant Monkey, Just Because You're Too Beautiful

"Little Cai, help Academician Jiang pick some flat peaches, lingzhi mushrooms, and other mushrooms."

"Give this little fellow a good boost."

Professor Shen Wanyu called out to Director Cai Minghui and brought over several baskets.

Director Cai Minghui immediately acted like a shop assistant, eagerly bringing over several baskets to help pick the flat peaches from above.

The flat peaches here were all the best varieties, much safer than the wild ones outside.

Led by Professor Shen Wanyu, the group walked further inside.

They returned to where the monkey-head mushrooms had been originally.

However...

Originally, the monkey-head mushrooms only reached Jiang Chen's shoulder.

Now, it...

Jiang Chen's mouth fell open as he looked up at the ten-meter-tall monkey-head mushrooms, exclaiming in amazement, "Professor Shen, how did this monkey-head mushrooms grow so tall?"

Last time, Jiang Chen could still pat its 'monkey head'.

Now, he could only touch its... tail.

It hasn't even been half a year!

It actually grew ten meters!

Damn, this thing grows way too fast!

Is this even still a mushroom variety?

Professor Shen Wanyu adjusted his reading glasses and squinted at the monkey-head mushrooms, saying, "To be honest, I don't know either. When we first got this variety, we were observing it as an edible mushroom!"

"Later, we studied its contents and found that this thing isn't edible."

As Professor Shen Wanyu spoke, he had a guard bring over a cutting knife. With one stroke, he sliced off a small section of the monkey-head mushrooms's tail.

With a thud...

The small piece of the tail, weighing about half a pound, hit the snowy ground.

Professor Shen Wanyu picked it up and handed it to Director Cai Minghui, instructing, "Take this back for testing to see if there are any new changes in this monkey-head mushrooms."

"Yes, Teacher."

Director Cai Minghui hurried to put the small section of the tail into an experimental bag.

"monkey-head mushrooms?"

Looking up at the tall, mutated monkey-head mushrooms, Commander Jiang Qiuzhi couldn't help but think of that Deep Space Giant Monkey.

It was just a pity.

That Deep Space Giant Monkey had also fallen into the endless void during the Battle of the Milky Way Galaxy's Right Spiral Arm.

While Commander Jiang Qiuzhi was lost in thought...

Jiang Chen and Professor Shen Wanyu had already arrived in front of another flat peach tree.

This flat peach tree looked ordinary, but it had a tag on it: 29.

Professor Shen Wanyu pointed at the tree and said, "This is a non-experimental flat peach tree. You can write your names on it, as if you're adopting it."

"Adopt a flat peach tree? That works."

Jiang Chen looked at his daughter. "Do you like it?"

"It's fine!"

So Jiang Chen took a pen and wrote the names of Jiang Chen, Commander Jiang Qiuzhi, Jiang Haipeng, and Qin Xueyao on this flat peach tree.

A family of four.

All together.

All written on there.

"By the way, Professor Shen, can I leave something here?"

Jiang Chen took out the gathering immortal flag.

He had been looking for a place to plant this gathering immortal flag.

He had originally thought about placing it on some mountain.

But on second thought...

Placing it here in the Flat Peach Garden was actually quite good.

It could both gather Qi and nourish the Flat Peach Garden.

Professor Shen Wanyu didn't know what the gathering immortal flag was for and assumed it was some token of Jiang Chen's, so he said, "As you wish!"

"Great."

Jiang Chen planted the gathering immortal flag next to the flat peach tree tagged 29.

He picked a few more good fungal ingredients.

With a full harvest, Jiang Chen finally left with his daughter.

Anyway, the gathering immortal flag was already planted.

Not long after Jiang Chen and his group left...

The gathering immortal flag began to automatically absorb the surrounding spirit elements.

There wasn't much spiritual energy in the Flat Peach Garden, and it was soon completely absorbed by the gathering immortal flag.

The gathering immortal flag began to ripple slightly, and streaks of rosy light spread out from it.

The moment these rosy lights appeared, a massive amount of Qi elements from deep beneath the ocean seemed to be attracted and began to surge out!

Whoosh!

Invisible energy erupted from the seabed, turning into gusts of wind that continuously converged toward the Antarctic Continent.

At the same time...

On the Moon outside Earth, rocks and soil flew everywhere as gusts of wild wind swept toward Earth.

From Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, Pluto, and the void...

No matter where they were, Qi elements began to continuously converge toward the Antarctic Continent.

The first to be affected was, naturally, the Flat Peach Garden.

"Hiss!"

In the middle of the night.

A guard was on duty when a wind that seemed to pull one's soul from their body blew past, nearly making him ascend.

He couldn't help but take a deep breath.

As he breathed, he felt his body fill with energy.

Though he had been somewhat tired, he suddenly became inexplicably excited.

It was as if he had been injected with positive energy, bursting with vitality.

Inside the Flat Peach Garden, a mushroom as large as a millstone began to change color after being hit by a massive amount of Qi, becoming kaleidoscopic, dazzling, and incredibly beautiful.

A lingzhi mushroom also emitted a dim glow, illuminating the snow.

The flat peaches hanging from the trees seemed to be recharging, emitting a strange blue light as they frantically absorbed energy.

By the latter half of the night...

The ten-meter-tall monkey-head mushrooms began to show lines of light from its base to its top.

They converged at its eyes.

The monkey-head mushrooms suddenly opened its eyes.

It released two red high-energy particle beams.

These two high-energy particle beams struck a distant giant mountain, instantly piercing two holes several meters wide through it.

A gaze attack—terrifyingly powerful.

"I, the Deep Space Giant Monkey, have returned."

The monkey-head mushrooms looked around and murmured to itself.

With one step, it crossed several hundred meters and left the Flat Peach Garden.

Under the night sky, it was a giant, standing as tall as the mountains.

"What is that?"

A guard on duty nearby suddenly noticed something stepping over his head. He looked up and saw a massive figure walking toward the mountains.

This giant figure was even larger than a mecha.

The guard stared at the massive back, dumbstruck. He couldn't help but rub his eyes and mutter, "I must have eaten too many monkey-head mushroomss and gotten poisoned!"

Under the guard's bewildered gaze...

The Deep Space Giant Monkey quickly disappeared into the mountains of the Antarctic Continent.

Several hours after the giant monkey left...

The sky was gradually beginning to brighten.

Just then...

The clucking of hens suddenly echoed from inside the Flat Peach Garden.

"Where did chickens come from?"

The guard became increasingly confused.

He walked into the Flat Peach Garden.

He saw seven hens, each over a meter tall, wearing lotus leaf crowns and walking toward him in a line with long legs.

"Holy crap, Lotus Chickens?"

The guard was stunned.

He knew that snow lotuses were planted in the Flat Peach Garden.

In the innermost pool.

But at this moment, the leaves of those snow lotuses were all growing on top of the hens' heads, serving as their combs.

"Could it be that these chickens evolved from snow lotuses?"

The guard stared intently at the hens, not daring to move.

As the seven hens passed by the guard...

One of the hens gave the guard a sidelong glance.

"What are you looking at!"

"Haven't you ever seen the Seven Fairies!"

Uh...

The guard felt a bit awkward and scratched his head.

"Only because you are too beautiful."