The rules for hosting had changed...
"I don't really care where the competition is held..."
It was just that the Sect Master and some of the younger disciples seemed rather concerned about it.
Pill Ancestor withdrew his gaze and turned to Hong Sovereign. "By the way, I heard Daoist Ning Fu also entered seclusion not long ago in pursuit of a breakthrough?"
Ning Fu was one of the few among Hong Sovereign's Dao companions who had comprehended Dao Extremity and reached Immortal-Knocking Pass.
Hong Sovereign paused. "Why are you asking about that?"
"Just mentioning it in passing." Pill Ancestor remained calm. "Since she has entered seclusion, the handover arrangements should be made properly, yes? This year's 'Metamorphic Condensate' has already been delayed by a month."
Metamorphic Condensate was an auxiliary material for pill refinement that had to be personally gathered by a Truth Insight cultivator, and its yield was not high.
Normally, only extremely high-grade pills had any use for it.
But since it involved someone at the Immortal-Knocking Pass level—and one of Hong Sovereign's Dao companions at that—the juniors responsible for this matter simply did not dare make decisions on their own.
In the end, it had been his own disciple who informed him.
Now that he thought of it, he simply brought it up.
Hong Sovereign: "..."
This fellow had nothing but pills on his mind.
"Later, I'll have someone take over and deliver this year's quota as soon as possible. But there won't be any next year."
Since she had entered seclusion, naturally they could not call her out to keep gathering it.
What was more, the Metamorphic Condensate had originally been something Ning Fu collected and refined incidentally while seeking that sliver of opportunity to reach Immortal-Knocking Pass.
It was one thing if it did not