Just as the three were puzzling over this, the breathless old man, Gu Yu, came rushing out of the house, holding a chipped pottery bowl in both hands.
Looking into the bowl, they saw several large green jujubes.
Gu Yu brought the chipped bowl before the three, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and said with a beaming smile:
"If you three Upper Immortals haven't had your fill, you can try my jujubes."
At first, the three had thought the green jujubes looked somewhat underripe, but the instant Gu Yu brought the pottery bowl closer, a strange fragrance that only upper-grade spirit fruit could give off suddenly washed over them.
The three exchanged glances once again.
Suppressing his curiosity, Xu Taiping reached out and took a jujube. After holding it up for a close look, he said solemnly:
"Let me try one."
With that, he put the emerald-green jujube to his mouth and took a bite.
In an instant, that refreshing marvel exploded inside his mouth.
At the same time, the jujube flesh he had bitten off transformed into a stream of exceptionally pure spiritual power the moment it entered his mouth. It surged through Xu Taiping's extraordinary meridians before pouring into his Golden Core like a hundred rivers emptying into the sea.
Had Xu Taiping's Golden Core not been capable of holding far more spiritual power than those of ordinary cultivators at his level, that single bite alone might have filled thirty percent of it.
"Whew..."
Xu Taiping exhaled softly and calmly set down the eight remaining jujubes in his hand. Then, taking the pottery bowl from the old man, Gu Yu, he asked without betraying anything:
"Could you bring us a few bowls of water as well?"
The old man, Gu Yu, immediately nodded repeatedly.
"Please wait a