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Within the Heavenly Sword Sect, Ye Tian had just obtained the roster of informants and assisted Elder Ning Suxin in purging every spy the Three-Ringed Golden Saber Sect had planted within the Heavenly Sword Sect. Having rendered such great merit, it was precisely time for rewards to be bestowed according to his achievements.

Yet Ye Tian wanted nothing. He merely asked the sect for one person.

That person was none other than Elder Zhu's grandson, Zhu Qian. Zhu Qian was still undergoing training in the outer sect, and Ye Tian's reason for thinking of him was simple. His restoration of the secret realm had been a tremendous success. Setting everything else aside, he could not handle alchemy alone and still needed an assistant.

Before Ye Tian had restored the secret realm and been summoned away by the sect's promotion decree, he had already asked the little red snake and the white-robed woman, Lin Mubai, to gather a batch of alchemy ingredients for him. Though he had been mentally prepared, he had never expected the little red snake and Lin Mubai to collect so many materials.

Within the newly formed second layer of the Heavenly Spirit Secret Realm, heavenly treasures and rare herbs for alchemy were innumerable. Their quality went without saying—it was of the finest grade—and their quantity was even more staggering. In the brief time Ye Tian had been gone, the alchemy ingredients gathered by the little red snake and Lin Mubai were enough to fill half his cave abode. And that had merely been the result of their casual gathering; they had not even put much effort into it.

With so many alchemy ingredients, it would take Ye Tian far too much time to refine them all by himself.

It was precisely because of this that he thought