Hela said speechlessly, "Think about it. There are so many spiritual treasures and roots in the world—why did this guy dare call himself the Lord of the Forest? And why hasn't anyone stepped up to beat the crap out of this pretentious bastard?"
Li rubbed his chin. "Could he be some nine-thousand-year Peach Tree?"
Hela rolled her eyes. "Are you stupid? There are so many peach trees in the Peach Garden, but this one is truly one of a kind!" As she spoke, she gave Li a hard kick.
One of a kind in all the world?
The system slowly spoke up at that moment. "This is the Ginseng Fruit Tree!"
Li nearly choked on his own saliva. Could his luck really be this good? The Ginseng Fruit Tree?
Journey to the West once said that within Five Manor Temple on Longevity Mountain stood a ginseng fruit, also known as the Herb Restoration Elixir. There was only this one spiritual root in all Heaven and Earth. It took three thousand years to blossom, another three thousand years to bear fruit, and yet another three thousand years to ripen. Even by the shortest count, it took ten thousand years before one could be eaten. Yet even after ten thousand years, it could bear only thirty fruits. The fruits resembled infants less than three days old. If a person with sufficient affinity merely smelled one, they would live another three hundred and sixty years; if they ate one, they would live another forty-seven thousand years.
Though the peaches were boasted to be even more miraculous, the fairies claimed there were three thousand six hundred trees in the Peach Garden. The first twelve hundred bore small fruits that took three thousand years to ripen; whoever ate one would become an immortal and attain