"Materials to break through to the Divine Mansion Realm?"
Guhongzi's voice abruptly rose.
"That's right."
Elder Jiang smiled broadly.
He patted Guhongzi on the shoulder and chuckled. "Old Daoist, you'll have to work harder. Otherwise, who knows in what year of the monkey and month of the horse you'll finally get a chance to attempt the Divine Mansion Realm?"
With that said,
he left with Hua Wuyi, smiling all the way.
Guhongzi alone remained, standing there in a daze.
A long while passed.
Then Guhongzi suddenly smiled.
First Zhao Wujiu, then Hua Wuyi—with those two examples before him, he could finally set his mind completely at ease.
Could I, Guhongzi, possibly be any worse than them?
When the Marquis of Chu employed someone, he asked neither their background nor their origins. He looked only at their achievements and their worth.
Those rules were refreshingly straightforward.
He bent down to pick up the chicken leg he had dropped, brushed off the dust, and took another bite. Yet the look in his eyes had already changed.
"At my age, I'm in my prime for fighting my way up."
He murmured to himself, then vanished from beneath the shade of the tree in a blur.
After collecting the materials the Li Family had prepared for his breakthrough to the Divine Mansion Realm, Hua Wuyi rested for three days and adjusted his condition. Then he entered the Li Family's Nine-Layered Spirit Gathering Tower for secluded cultivation and began attempting his breakthrough.
The news soon stirred considerable waves both inside and outside Green Maple Valley.
"The Lord truly is generous!"
"It seems that as long as we serve loyally and earn enough merit, we might one day have a chance to glimpse the Divine Mansion Realm!"
"Only the Li Family would treat us with