"Fellow Daoist Kou has long served as an alchemist of my Chief Dipper Trading Company... Now that you have advanced to the realm of Demon Venerable, this old man should naturally rejoice. Yet from this day onward, my Chief Dipper Trading Company may well lose a chief alchemist..."
After learning Wei Tu's origins and confirming that there was no major issue with the reason for his breakthrough, Demon Venerable Kui Dou changed the subject and got to the heart of the matter.
He began discussing Wei Tu's "future path."
Would he remain with the Chief Dipper Trading Company, or merely forge a passing bond of incense and seek higher ground elsewhere?
However, Demon Venerable Kui Dou did not state the matter outright. Instead, he tentatively extended the position of "chief alchemist" before Wei Tu as an olive branch.
Previously, although Wei Tu had been the pillar among the Chief Dipper Trading Company's alchemists and was capable of refining sixth-rank high-grade demon pills...
His status had still only been that of an ordinary alchemist. At most, his position had been somewhat special; it had never risen to the lofty rank of "chief alchemist." After all, the latter was already a figurehead of the Chief Dipper Trading Company. Whether in the cultivation world or the Ancient Demon Realm, it was essentially a managerial position acquired through technical shares—one person below, ten thousand above.
For instance, Alchemist Ji of the Xue Clan Trading Company stood on equal footing with the trading company's helmsman—Second Madam Xue. Above all other alchemists, he was also someone whom the leaders of major factions had to curry favor with upon meeting.
"Senior Kui Dou, what you mean is..." Wei Tu's heart stirred at these words, and he vaguely understood Demon Venerable Kui Dou's intention.
He did not believe