Feather Scroll, Let Me See Your Limit (Thanks to "Cuixiang258" for the Alliance Leader reward)

Looking at Zhang Yu before him, Fa Liuyuan's eyes revealed a trace of complicated emotion.

He still remembered the first time he had presented Zhang Yu with an award. Back then, Zhang Yu had only recently obtained Ying Xintian's inheritance, and in Fa Liuyuan's eyes, he had been a promising prospect who naturally belonged with the Reformists.

Fa Liuyuan had originally thought that after he became immortal, Tai Yuebai would take up the mantle, followed by Zhang Yu taking on the great responsibility.

Yet in merely a few years, Zhang Yu's rate of growth had far exceeded his expectations, while Zhang Yu's relationship with the Reformists had gradually become awkward as well.

With a sigh in his heart, Fa Liuyuan said, "Minister Zhang, everyone in the sect has seen your performance over the past half year. The smooth advancement of the legal reform could not have happened without your command of the big picture and your willingness to lead from the front..."

Listening to Fa Liuyuan, Zhang Yu sensed a faintly respectful distance in his words.

Without realizing it, I've become a Sect Affairs Officer whom even Ascension Cultivators must respect.

But the Reformists... won't treat me as one of their own anymore.

Fa Liuyuan continued, "While strongly pushing legal reform, you still cared about the Old Days Graveyard and the situation at the Underworld Property Department. You never forgot your original salary, and you struggled through hardship..."

Zhang Yu thought that he was referring to how, after leaving the Old Days Graveyard, Zhang Yu had continued supporting Yu Xinghan, remotely directing pay raises for the Soul Cultivators there, as well as how he had previously... borne the pressure of the Dual-Cultivation Obligation for the entire Underworld Property Department.

But the more Zhang Yu listened, the stranger it sounded. He