Xue Wudao froze at his words, then sneered. "Then what are you doing here? Don't tell me you came just to watch us make fools of ourselves?"
Chen Ze ignored his provocation and said calmly, "Tell me, which of you has comprehended one of the five elemental basic laws?"
"You will be rewarded with one day of rest and a Xuan Yuan Pill."
Xue Wudao's eyes flashed with surprise, but he quickly resumed his haughty expression. "Hmph, you think you can buy us off with such petty favors?
We of the Spirit Realm possess steadfast Dao Hearts and unyielding iron bones. How could we be compared to lowly people like you from the lower realm?"
"Oh?" Chen Ze looked at the other Spirit Realm Envoys with a half-smile. "And what about you? Do you all think the same?"
The envoys looked at one another.
At that moment, a lanky envoy standing in the back suddenly shoved his way through the crowd and dropped to his knees with a thud. "This lowly one is Zhao Ming. I have comprehended Gold Law!"
"Zhao Ming! You dare betray the Spirit Realm?!" Xue Wudao's eyes widened in fury. The wound on his chest split open again from agitation, blood soaking through his tattered robe.
Yet Zhao Ming turned a deaf ear. He even crawled forward on his knees. "I am willing to serve you like a dog or horse, Senior!"
Chen Ze nodded in satisfaction and flicked his fingertip. A green pill flew into Zhao Ming's hand. "Very good. This is your reward. Take him out to rest."
Zhao Ming accepted the pill in wild delight and swallowed it on the spot beneath Xue Wudao's almost fire-spitting gaze.
The sword wound on his shoulder, deep enough to expose bone, healed at a speed visible