Soon, the wine and meat were served: Primordial Unity fine wine and Gathering Source Beast Meat, both greatly beneficial to cultivators above the Source Realm. It was quite a lavish spread.
Future Self showed no restraint, eating with great gusto and drinking deeply. Seeing his Master act this way, Ling Gui did the same.
The two clinked cups and drank merrily, treating the smiling Ice Venerable beside them as though he were invisible.
Ice Venerable muttered to himself, the corners of his mouth twitching as anger rose in his heart, though he forcibly suppressed it.
A table full of fine wine and meat was quickly wiped clean by Future Self and Ling Gui. They ate like starving ghosts reborn, nearly swallowing the plates along with the food.
"Hehehe, Fellow Daoist, have you eaten your fill? Would you like more wine and meat?" Ice Venerable lowered his posture and asked politely.
Future Self ignored him completely. He glanced out the window and rose to his feet.
"Disciple, let us go!"
"Yes, Master."
The two walked out of the restaurant. Watching their backs, Ice Venerable was furious beyond measure.
He flashed before them and began berating them loudly.
"What do you mean by this? I treated you with sincere hospitality, yet you dare ignore me?"
"After finishing the wine and meat, you did not even offer a word of thanks. Do you still understand the ways of the world?"
After he babbled on for quite some time, Future Self finally sneered. "Are you finished? May we leave now?"
With that, without caring what Ice Venerable said, Future Self led Ling Gui onward toward the inner city.
"Ah... infuriating! This is infuriating!"
As one of the Controllers and the foremost Supreme in the Ice Venerable City Region, this was the first time he