An Extravagantly Generous Master, Dao Comprehension Tea

Jiang Chen nodded slightly. Even a Divine Spirit's ruins could not shake Han Yuyao's resolve. She truly had made up her mind.

Though she was at a disadvantage, she still had a chance to turn the tables.

If Han Yuyao let such Divine Spirit ruins hold her up, other things would hold her up as well. Then it would be utterly impossible for her to forge an unstoppable momentum through her trials along the way!

"All right, there's no need to be so pessimistic. Your senior sister will be fine!"

Jiang Chen stopped Ye Hao from offering any further reassurance, turned his gaze toward Han Yuyao, and said with a smile, "I happened to obtain a tea tree and plan to plant it outside my cave abode. Before you leave the mountain, you can pick some tea leaves to take with you and savor along the way!"

Ye Hao's eyes widened in surprise. "Master, just for a cup of tea, you're actually planting a tea tree yourself?"

"If you don't want any, no one's stopping you!"

Jiang Chen shot him an exasperated glance.

Ye Hao ducked his head and said with a cheeky grin, "I do! I do! I've wanted some tea for ages! Nothing you have is ordinary, Master! Wouldn't I lose out terribly if I didn't drink any?"

A trace of a smile blossomed on Han Yuyao's face, and she said in a clear voice, "I remember the Myriad Worlds Gazetteer we received upon joining mentioned a Purple Haze Cloud and Mist Tea Tree in our Purple Firmament Holy Land's forbidden grounds. Every leaf is wreathed in misty clouds of purple Qi. Its fragrance is clear and pure, its flavor like sweet rain. It cleanses the soul and enhances comprehension, making it worthy of being called divine tea! Is that the tea you mean, Master?"

"Purple Haze Cloud and Mist Tea? You've guessed wrong this time!"

Jiang Chen shook his head with a smile and said mysteriously, "Come and see for yourselves!"

With that, Jiang Chen rose into the air and drifted toward his cave abode.

"Gasp! From what Master said, his tea tree is even more precious than that Purple Haze Cloud and Mist Tea Tree? I really wonder what kind of tea it is!"

Ye Hao's eyes shone, and he unconsciously swallowed, as though he could already smell the tea.

"Come on! We'll know once we see it!"

Han Yuyao spoke briefly. An illusory longsword appeared beneath her feet, and she sped after Jiang Chen.

"Senior Sister, wait for me!"

Ye Hao leaped up, transformed into a streak of golden rainbow light, and followed close behind.

Jiang Chen descended from the clouds outside his cave abode, and Han Yuyao and Ye Hao landed behind him.

Unable to contain his curiosity, Ye Hao said, "Master, just what kind of tea tree did you obtain? Let us feast our eyes on it!"

With a smile, Jiang Chen flicked a finger. An ancient tea tree wreathed in immortal Dao laws landed on the platform beside his cave abode and took root on the spot, Dao resonance spreading around it.

The tea tree stood about ten feet tall, its trunk twisting with the rugged strength of a horned dragon, its old bark cracked like dragon scales. It bore leaves but no flowers, three thousand leaves in all, and gave off an ancient, delicate fragrance that left the mind clear and unburdened, peaceful and serene.

The leaves were all crystalline and translucent, dreamlike and illusory, yet each differed in shape and color.

Some leaves resembled divine bells, lustrous as white jade, shrouded in Dao resonance, with faint chimes ringing from them;

Some leaves resembled true dragons, their forms winding, Dragon Qi suffusing them, vivid and lifelike;

Some leaves resembled divine swords, icy blue in color, with a biting presence and frost patterns covering them;

Some leaves resembled mighty mountains, with leaping springs and cascading waterfalls, billowing clouds and radiant mists, their patterns naturally formed...

Every leaf contained a Great Dao!

"The three thousand Great Daos..." Ye Hao cried out in a daze.

Three thousand leaves represented three thousand Great Daos.

There was no need to count them with divine sense. Simply approaching the tea tree naturally brought the three thousand Great Daos represented by its leaves into their minds, and every leaf seemed capable of letting someone comprehend the Dao on the spot.

"Could this be the Ancient Dao Comprehension Tea Tree, one of the Innate Spiritual Roots?"

Han Yuyao blurted out, ripples stirring in her clear eyes.

This tea tree was exactly like the Ancient Dao Comprehension Tea Tree recorded in the Myriad Worlds Gazetteer!

"Indeed! This is the Ancient Dao Comprehension Tea Tree!"

Jiang Chen nodded with a smile.

Han Yuyao's eyes shimmered with wonder. According to the Myriad Worlds Gazetteer, the Ancient Dao Comprehension Tea Tree grew in Undying Mountain, a forbidden zone of life in the Canggu Great World.

Each year, only a few dozen leaves ripened and fell on their own, flying out of Undying Mountain, and all were collected by the truly great figures of the myriad worlds.

Even legendary Divine Spirits faced untold difficulties in obtaining a single leaf from the Ancient Dao Comprehension Tea Tree!

And now, an entire Ancient Dao Comprehension Tea Tree had appeared before them just like that. Han Yuyao's shock could not have been greater.

"Master, did you go and rob Undying Mountain?"

Han Yuyao's eyes were filled with disbelief.

An Innate Spiritual Root?

The Ancient Dao Comprehension Tea Tree?

Ye Hao's heart gave a sudden spasm. He had guessed that his master's tea tree was no ordinary thing, but he had never expected it to be this extraordinary!

Though he had yet to read the World Gazetteer, he had learned something of Innate Spiritual Roots in his efforts to open his Wheel Sea back then, and knew well how precious they were.

Just one Dao Comprehension Tea leaf would have been enough for him to open his Wheel Sea!

Of course, his master had helped him open his Wheel Sea with the Chaos Azure Lotus, which was even more effective than an Innate Spiritual Root, but the preciousness of this Ancient Dao Comprehension Tea Tree was equally beyond question!

Innate Spiritual Roots were the exclusive possessions of Great Emperors!

Even many Great Emperor lineages did not possess a single Innate Spiritual Root!

Ye Hao's mind reeled with shock, but when he remembered that his master even possessed a supreme treasure like the Chaos Azure Lotus, he felt that his master owning an Ancient Dao Comprehension Tea Tree was only natural.

"This Ancient Dao Comprehension Tea Tree is not the same one as the one in Undying Mountain."

"Only a few dozen leaves ripen on the Ancient Dao Comprehension Tea Tree in Undying Mountain each year."

"All three thousand leaves on this Ancient Dao Comprehension Tea Tree have ripened. They simply haven't fallen. Only those with the destined affinity can obtain them."

Jiang Chen shook his head and spoke softly. With a gentle wave of his hand, a set of stone table and stools, lustrous as jade, appeared beneath the Ancient Dao Comprehension Tea Tree.

On the stone table stood a small red-clay charcoal stove, with an antique purple-clay teapot atop it and three purple-clay teacups beside it, possessing a refined, ancient charm.

A flicker of surprise crossed Han Yuyao's eyes. She mused, "According to the World Gazetteer, only one Innate Spiritual Root that existed before heaven and earth were split apart, such as the Ancient Dao Comprehension Tea Tree, can exist in the world."

"One lives, one dies; the two never meet."

"Since you've obtained this Ancient Dao Comprehension Tea Tree, Master, does that mean the Ancient Dao Comprehension Tea Tree in Undying Mountain will die?"

Ye Hao clicked his tongue. "If Senior Sister's guess is right, even if Master never went to Undying Mountain himself, this feud has probably been forged!"

Jiang Chen said unconcernedly, "Never mind that! Even if those old fellows from Undying Mountain really came, there's absolutely no way they could break through my Clear Void Peak's mountain-protecting formation!"

Recalling the Two Modes Dust Mote Grand Formation her master had set up, Han Yuyao felt thoroughly reassured.

Though Ye Hao knew nothing about the Two Modes Dust Mote Grand Formation, from his master's tone, he did not even take a forbidden zone of life seriously, so Ye Hao cared even less.

Jiang Chen beckoned, and the clearest, sweetest spring water from the summit of Clear Void Peak flew through the air and poured into the white-jade pot. Crimson flames flickered gently inside the small red-clay charcoal stove, slowly heating the spring water.

"However many tea leaves you can pick before the spring water in the pot boils will be yours to keep."

Jiang Chen spoke with a smile.

At these words, both Han Yuyao's and Ye Hao's eyes lit up.

This was ancient Dao Comprehension Tea! Any single leaf could make Divine Spirits fight until their heads split open.

And now, their master was actually letting them pick as much as they pleased!

Their master was truly extravagantly generous!