Gazing at the golden sapling coiled and winding like a horned dragon, and the two ripe fruits hanging heavily from its branches, Lin Ming and Zi Yan were both stunned for a moment.
The golden sapling was only half a person's height, yet though its trunk was small, it was vigorous as a dragon. Every inch of bark was covered in ancient, profound patterns, like Dao runes engraved upon it at the creation of heaven and earth.
The two fruits were even more wondrous.
A tiny golden dragon and a tiny golden phoenix twined around each other. The dragon body wrapped around the phoenix wings, the phoenix beak clasped the dragon tail, their heads and tails connected. They were lifelike, as if they would fly from the branches in the next moment and transform into true dragons and phoenixes soaring through the nine heavens.
Then, the two turned their heads and looked at each other.
Unconcealed excitement and sentiment surged within Zi Yan's purple-gold dragon pupils, while a rare trace of reminiscence passed through Lin Ming's abyss-deep eyes.
Although this was their first time here, neither of them was seeing this golden sapling, nor these fruits shaped as entwined dragons and phoenixes, for the first time.
Back then, on the Dou Qi Continent, within the Secret Realm left behind by an ancient Dou Sheng, there had been a similar fruit tree bearing Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruits of a similar shape.
It was also then, so that Zi Yan could safely consume that Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit, that Lin Ming brought her to the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion in search of her father, Zhu Kun.
That journey to the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion was also what truly set Lin Ming's various plans in Middle Continent into motion. After absorbing the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit,