"Rip..."
"Zhu Yike" tore off his ugly facial skin, revealing a clean, neat face and a radiant smile.
Though there was a little more worldliness in his eyes and a little less youthful innocence, the Dragon Apricot Spirit had not forgotten that face.
After all, to the Ancestral Dragon Apricot Tree, several decades were no more than the flick of a finger.
It still remembered that year on Void Island...
It had still been the Forest of Miracles. This young man had come to the Shennong Medicine Garden.
Unlike the other humans, he had been exceedingly clever, using a secret art to evade the Void Attendants' Perception.
He had even found the true master of the Shennong Medicine Garden—the Ancestral Dragon Apricot Tree—and successfully awakened the Dragon Apricot Spirit.
The Dragon Apricot Spirit had set him a trial.
The young man had passed it with ease. On one hand, he had used the Ancestral Dragon Apricot Tree's apricot dignity as leverage; on the other, he had remained refined and courteous, his words appropriate, neither servile nor overbearing.
Left with no choice, the Dragon Apricot Spirit had split off a Dragon Apricot for him to pick.
Time flowed on, yet the Dragon Apricot Spirit still remembered...
The young man's sole breach of etiquette back then had been a greed that did not fit with the rest of him at all.
After picking the Dragon Apricot that belonged to him, he had reached for a second one!
Naturally, the Dragon Apricot Spirit had stopped him.
Yet the man had said as though it were only right, "Taking the present as the trial, Senior Long Xing naturally owes me one Dragon Apricot."
"Taking the future as the trial, Senior Long Xing should gift me another Dragon Apricot."
"If I could return to the