"Venerable One, do these meet your discerning eye? This is the very essence of this herb garden." The White Turtle spoke with a face full of ingratiating smiles.
That fawning expression of his looked as though he only lacked the four words "utterly loyal" written across his Turtle Shell.
The Taiyin Jade Rabbit and Cao Yusheng, standing nearby, were nearly popping their eyes out.
Little Rabbit still clutched half a Spiritual Grass stalk she had not finished chewing. Her mouth hung wide open as she stammered, "Th-this old turtle has no shame at all! When we pulled a few blades of grass earlier, it acted like we were killing it and called us bandits. But now, just to curry favor with Big Brother Ye Xuan, it's scraped away even the soil itself!"
Cao Yusheng nodded deeply in agreement and wiped the cold sweat from his brow.
"For a turtle to reach this point, it really is one hell of an oddity. When it comes to being a lackey, it leaves no stone unturned. Compared to it, our little bit of looting earlier was practically children playing house."
Faced with the White Turtle's fawning display, Ye Xuan merely smiled faintly, his expression as composed as ever.
"You old turtle are quite clever." Ye Xuan casually offered a word of praise.
Since the other party had voluntarily presented such a lavish gift, there was naturally no reason for Ye Xuan to refuse it.
His right hand, which had been held behind his back, slowly extended and casually traced a light stroke through the empty air before him.
Sssht.
There was no earth-shaking roar, nor any violent spatial turbulence.
A Space Channel over three meters tall silently opened beneath Ye Xuan's fingertips.
This was not a passage leading to another region of the