"What? Senior Brother, you were already refining the precious pill? Does that mean..."
A look of shock appeared on the refined man's face, and the delicate young woman beside him also opened her little mouth wide, throwing all ladylike bearing to the winds.
There was no helping it.
It was too astonishing!
Such an outcome was something they had never dreamed of.
No wonder Senior Brother He had been like an ant on a hot pan these past several decades, spinning round and round without end.
If they had been in his place, they feared they might have fared even worse.
This was simply too much of a farce.
"Senior Brother, since you had already put the Nine-Curve Spirit Ginseng into the furnace back then, why didn't you explain your difficulty to the Ancestors? Why insist on accepting this task?" The delicate young woman's voice entered his ears, her face filled with disbelief.
"Exactly. If you had said it plainly at the start, it is not as if the two Ancestors are unreasonable people. They would certainly have understood your difficulty."
The refined man also spoke in astonishment.
Both of them were utterly confused. The way they looked at their companion was as if they were looking at a monster. No matter from which angle one viewed the way he had handled the matter, it was far too outrageous.
"Hmph, easy for you to say. Back then, how was this old man supposed to know that although this Nine-Curve Spirit Pill is precious to the extreme, that is because the materials are hard to obtain; the refining of the pill itself is actually very easy. I thought, ah, delivering a treasure to Martial Uncle Lin wouldn't take more than a few hours. The pill could be left there to refine