But the Hundred Flowers Fairy was another matter.
Her eyes widened and her mouth fell slightly open. She stared at the five peach trees laden with fruit, stunned speechless.
"Th-this..."
She opened her mouth, but no complete sentence came out.
Five Acquired Spiritual Roots, just like that?
In a matter of days, he had cultivated five peach trees from nothing?
And all five had already flowered and borne fruit, their branches heavy with peaches?
When the Hundred Flowers Fairy looked at Yellow Dragon, all she felt was awe. Nothing but awe.
The Purple Tenuity Emperor had profound cultivation and powerful connections. Even his skill at cultivating spiritual roots was unmatched in the Primordial World.
Yellow Dragon paid no attention to her gaze.
He picked several peaches and tossed them to the Hundred Flowers Fairy and Ziling.
"Try them," Yellow Dragon said.
Ziling caught hers and bit into it without a word.
Whenever her master grew something, she treated it as though he had more than enough to spare.
After one bite, she frowned slightly. The peach was sweet and juicy, with plenty of spiritual energy, but it fell far short of the one she had eaten in the Hall of High Heaven.
"Not bad! Not bad!" Ziling praised her master's handiwork anyway and took another large bite.
The Hundred Flowers Fairy stared at the peach in her hand, lost in thought.
She was only a minor immortal at the Golden Immortal Realm, charged with tending the Innate Supreme-Grade Spiritual Root in the Peach Garden.
The peach tree bore thirty-six peaches every calendrical cycle, each one a treasure rarely seen in the Primordial World. Though she spent every day beside the tree, she had never been entitled to eat one.
She had never imagined she would taste a peach herself, even