"Did you find the Xuanming Treasure Tree? Did you find any trace of the Xuanming Treasure Tree?" Pill King Shuilian's eyes were filled with anticipation.
"This..." Ye Zhen hesitated.
The moment Ye Zhen hesitantly uttered that word, Pill King Shuilian's eyes instantly widened to their fullest.
In truth, when Pill King Shuilian turned back to ask Ye Zhen this question, he had merely been probing, treating a dead horse as if it were alive, hoping for a stroke of luck.
He had not held much hope that Ye Zhen could discover any trace of the Xuanming Treasure Tree. He had only thought that, since Ye Zhen had managed to dive to the rare depth of roughly three thousand five hundred miles into the Underwater Canyon, perhaps he might have found something.
But Ye Zhen's hesitant expression immediately made the shrewd-as-a-fox Pill King Shuilian realize that Ye Zhen had definitely found something.
The next instant, Pill King Shuilian was like a bachelor who had spotted a young widow. His eyes gleamed as he rushed forward and grabbed Ye Zhen's hand.
"Young Friend Ye, where did you find the Xuanming Treasure Tree? A rough area will do. Tell this old man, and this old man will reward you handsomely—handsomely!"
The instant Pill King Shuilian's well-maintained, jade-smooth hand clasped his, Ye Zhen broke out in goosebumps.
Being gripped so tightly by an old man, at such close range, was simply...
Ye Zhen wrenched himself free from Pill King Shuilian's hands as though fleeing for his life. Pill King Shuilian had yet to react and instinctively moved to pursue him, startling Ye Zhen into shouting.
"Pill King Peng, do you still want to know where the Xuanming Treasure Tree is?"
This was practically Pill King Shuilian's Achilles' heel. At those words, he immediately stopped