This scent...
The fruit before her had pinkish-white skin flushed with red, its top curving smoothly and its bottom plump and slightly rounded. Pointed above and round below, it resembled a bead of dew. Resting in the box, it looked freshly picked, luscious and glistening.
Though Qing Si had smelled it only once, she could never mistake it. This spirit fruit was definitely the same kind she had encountered at the Yi Sword Gate.
As the fragrance spread, Xuan Xi likewise flashed over and stared at the jade box, momentarily speechless.
Whether Spirit Artifacts, spirit treasures, or resources for spirit roots, Xuan Xi had seen plenty of good things, but this was truly something she had never seen in her life.
"Is this... a West Peak Spirit Peach?"
Both were Purple Mansion True Persons. Though neither had seen one before, they had certainly read plenty of relevant texts. Few people today might recognize its appearance, but tales of immortal peaches that extended lifespans and let one ascend amid radiant clouds had passed from mouth to mouth since ancient times without ever dying out.
Qing Si had likewise never expected the source of this fragrance to bear such a famous name. She murmured as though dreaming:
"The stars shone brighter at the sight of the Immortal Mansion appearing; wind and thunder issued their commands as, far off, the gates of heaven opened."
"A spirit root of heaven and earth said to have been born within the ancient West Peak Jade Lake..."
Those fleeting lines in the ancient texts had left later generations yearning for a thousand years. She scarcely dared imagine how magnificent that sight had been.
Could an immortal spirit root from those times still remain within this Blessed Land?
Xuan Xi cut off her distracting thoughts and turned toward