The next day.
Hundreds of cultivators gathered on Little South Mountain.
After a full night's rest, Tao Yisheng appeared before them in a fresh Daoist robe, looking radiant.
With everyone's support, he took the seat of family head.
A grand feast began.
During the feast, Tao Yisheng made an announcement to everyone.
"From this day forward, Master Pill Dust is an honored guest of the Tao Family!"
"Treat him with due respect!"
Under everyone's gaze, Luo Chen calmly accepted a specially made token.
The back bore Azure Pill Valley's Nine Cloud Pattern emblem; the front bore a Golden Little Chrysanthemum.
Its meaning needed no explanation.
Azure Pill Valley. The Tao Family!
From that day on, Luo Chen was an honored guest of the Tao Family.
Luo Chen was not surprised by this turn of events.
It was not merely because he was qualified to help Tao Wan in the Dao Seed Competition.
If she truly became Azure Pill Valley's Golden Core Dao Seed, she would also need a nominal affiliation to sell him high-grade pills.
Azure Pill Valley's high-grade pills did not ordinarily leave the sect.
They were either consumed within the sect
or exchanged with other major sects for rare resources.
For cultivation, Low-Grade Pills were everyday necessities, but high-grade pills could already be called strategic resources.
As an honored guest of the Tao Family, Luo Chen counted as one of their own, at least in name.
That way, the pills would not count as leaving the sect.
Tao Wan would not have to worry about punishment under sect rules, either.
Of course!
Luo Chen could forget about the benefits normally afforded to a family's honored guest.
No Spirit Stones, no Cultivation Methods, nothing else.
By the same token,
if the Tao Family ran into trouble later, Luo Chen