Parting, Seeds, Whale Shadow Azure-Eyed Sea Dragon King!

"Just as I thought—given your character, you'd actually pay out of your own pocket to treat me to this?"

Meng Chuan laughed.

He was only joking. Old Shen definitely had the means, but there was no need for it.

Shen Shuo smiled breezily. "It's nothing."

Meng Chuan reminded him, "Old Shen, now that this contract's been signed, I'm Hanhai's biggest shareholder.

"With this kind of extravagant, decadent behavior of yours, it looks like I'll have to call a company meeting next week and give everyone a proper lecture."

"...Even dragon liver and phoenix marrow can't stop your mouth?"

With a casual gesture of one hand, Shen Shuo used his astral force to seize a pair of chopsticks from afar and pick food for Meng Chuan. Then, as though nothing had happened, he asked curiously, "I heard the rewards for your World Youth Championship were ridiculously generous. Even the worst items were fifth-grade treasures. What did you get?

"Ah! If I weren't too old, I'd have wanted to enter too. With the strength of a veteran Grandmaster like me, even if I couldn't beat you or that Sevis fellow, I could've at least taken third place!"

"Ahem, ahem..."

Bai Zhifeng rolled her eyes at her husband and said helplessly, "How old are you? You're already more than twice past the age limit, aren't you? If you went back to when you were thirty, you probably wouldn't even qualify to compete."

This was a contest between the most exceptional geniuses of their generation.

Shen Shuo had broken through to Grandmaster, which absolutely made him a genius by human standards, but he was nowhere near the very top.

Regardless of other countries, among the hundred Great Chu competitors who could fight their way through the Capital Circuit Tournament and enter the World Youth