"What is it, Great Sage?"
"Is this gift from yours truly too shabby? You don't like it?"
Seeing Son Goku's eyes filled with reminiscence, Qing Mo, standing before him, wore a faint smile.
"No... no, not at all!"
"I... I, Old Sun, like this gift from you, Great One. I truly like it!"
"Th... thank you, Great One!"
When Qing Mo handed the Bodhi leaf in his hand to Son Goku, the latter hurriedly held out both hands and received it with the utmost gentleness, as though afraid of damaging the leaf.
"Gr... Great One! Could... could I, Old Sun, ask something more? That old Daoist priest who discussed the Dao with you... is he still well?"
Having just accepted the Bodhi leaf, Son Goku looked at Qing Mo with urgency in his eyes, mingled with an intense longing.
He desperately hoped to learn of the old Daoist priest's current circumstances from this Great One.
Though he had been expelled from his master's school for several centuries!
In Son Goku's heart, however, there had only ever been one master who had truly treated him well and sincerely cared for him!
As for Tang Sanzang of the westward journey, he had always merely called him Master.
"That old Daoist priest is well in every way now!"
"He is still as he was before, always wearing a kindly smile, dressed in flowing white Daoist robes, with that snow-white whisk ever at his side!"
"He looks every bit like a lofty recluse beyond the mortal world!"
"That's good, that's good!" Upon hearing news of the old Daoist priest once more, Son Goku slowly put away the Bodhi leaf in his hand.
He knew that this Great One before him had already learned who his true master was.
Yet everyone understood without saying it