Donghua was utterly stunned.
My Jiechuan Ginseng has a karmic affinity with him?
Wait, if it has an affinity with you, how did it end up in my hands, with me nurturing it to life? Saint, that makes no sense!
"Fellow Daoist Donghua, I do not speak falsehoods. The Jiechuan Ginseng truly has a karmic affinity with me. Please part with it; I would be endlessly grateful." Seeing that Donghua had not immediately answered, Zhunti spoke again, then nodded to him.
Donghua came back to his senses and said awkwardly, "Saint, I found the Jiechuan Ginseng in the Central Wilderness Sweetland all those years ago and nurtured it with the Penglai Immortal Spring for nearly a hundred thousand years. For you to suddenly ask this humble immortal to part with it... puts me in a very difficult position!"
"Boundless Heavenly Venerable! Affinities arise and fade, and all must end; flowers bloom and fall, returning to dust. Fellow Daoist, your obtaining the Jiechuan Ginseng back then was indeed a karmic affinity between you and it-the affinity of nurturing it. Now, I have the affinity of possessing it, while your affinity has ended. Please do not force what cannot be. Let everything... follow its destined course." Zhunti counseled Donghua with heartfelt eloquence.
Donghua: "..."
That really rubs me the wrong way. So my affinity was to raise it properly, then let you take it away?
Donghua dared to be angry but not to speak, so he could only seethe inwardly.
Seeing that Donghua still refused to agree, Zhunti had no choice. He shook his head helplessly, then reached out and beckoned toward the depths of Penglai.
Hum! At once, the Jiechuan Ginseng planted in the spirit soil shone with dazzling golden light. It slowly emerged from the soil, transformed into a streak