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The journey had been fairly peaceful. But when Su Xin returned to Shengjing City, everyone was taken aback. No one had expected him and his group to move so quickly—they had obtained the Medicine King Valley's Spirit-Condensing Flower in almost no time at all.
Had the Medicine King Valley taken leave of its senses, or were they truly so timid that they handed over the flower as soon as the Imperial Court showed up?
But when Ji Haodian heard the news, he burst into laughter. "Good! As expected of someone I had faith in. Su Xin is indeed one of my pillars of support—a man who gets things done efficiently. Go, summon him here at once."
Eunuch Tang hurried off to deliver the order, but a bad feeling stirred in his heart. It wasn't because Su Xin had won Ji Haodian's favor; rather, it was because Ji Haodian had become increasingly unpredictable lately, swinging between moods at the drop of a hat.
Earlier, Ji Haodian had worried that something might go wrong when Su Xin went to obtain the Spirit-Condensing Flower. He had deliberately assigned Nan Heng to Su Xin's team, making it clear that he didn't entirely trust him.
Ji Haodian would never have done something like that in the past. Even if he had wanted to plant spies among his subordinates, he wouldn't have made it so obvious. That would only breed resentment among them.
Yet the moment he heard that Su Xin had successfully brought back the Spirit-Condensing Flower, all that distrust vanished, and Su Xin was once again one of his pillars of support.
Eunuch Tang found this behavior extremely hard to adjust to. He had served Ji Haodian his whole life, and