"Elder Ye Lin, didn't you say so yourself earlier? Killing that old bastard counted as removing a great scourge for the Supreme Heavenly Palace."
"You're absolutely right. You really did help them get rid of a major scourge."
Tang Feng said with a smile, his arms folded.
"That old bastard had joined the Supreme Heavenly Palace a long time ago—probably over a hundred thousand years."
"But as you know, his cultivation had been forcefully elevated by swallowing a Dao Fruit, and his realm was extremely unstable. Every year, he had to consume a vast amount of resources just to stabilize it."
"Many people in the Supreme Heavenly Palace had long been dissatisfied with this. After all, that old bastard's Daluo Golden Immortal cultivation was full of water—impressive to look at, useless in a fight."
"Being all show and no substance would have been one thing, but the resources he enjoyed were exactly the same as those allotted to other Daluo Golden Immortals. Naturally, the other Zenith Heavens of the Supreme Heavenly Palace were unhappy."
"But however dissatisfied they were, there was nothing they could do. That old bastard was still a Daluo Golden Immortal, and an old member of the Supreme Heavenly Palace. They couldn't drive him away openly, much less make a move against him in secret."
"For years, the Supreme Heavenly Palace had secretly contacted Daluo Golden Immortals from other factions to assassinate that old bastard."
"Later, who knew what news that old bastard got his hands on? He kept hiding inside the Supreme Heavenly Palace and refused to come out, so the plan never succeeded."
"But this time, that old bastard somehow stumbled into your hands and got himself killed by you."
"And this item is hush money. In any case, for the next three years, no