"Li Chengfeng, the number one on the Heavenly Prodigy Ranking, can become renowned throughout the land. Could it be that you, the number two on the Heavenly Prodigy Ranking, cannot?"
"Since you accepted this mission together with Li Chengfeng, once it is completed, both you and Li Chengfeng will naturally receive the reward—a separate but identical choice of resources for each of you."
"I asked Li Chengfeng first rather than you merely out of respect for the number one on the Heavenly Prodigy Ranking. Without him, neither of you could have completed this mission, one could say."
Qian Anguo looked at the flushed, excited Zhao Lie and spoke with a beaming smile. "That is why I naturally asked Li Chengfeng first, but it does not mean you do not get this reward."
"So now you may consider it as well. Will you choose elixirs that can support cultivation all the way to the peak of the Spirit Aperture Realm, or a fourth-rank martial office—the Assistant Commissioner of the Embroidered Uniform Guard?"
Qian Anguo's smiling words instantly filled Zhao Lie with overwhelming surprise.
"What? I get to choose too?"
Zhao Lie exclaimed in sheer delight, "That's right! Chengfeng and I accepted this mission together. Since it has been completed, Chengfeng gets a share, so naturally I get one too! We are sworn brothers, bound as one!"
"Then what should I choose? The peak of the Aperture-Condensing Realm, or the fourth-rank Assistant Commissioner of the Embroidered Uniform Guard...?"
Zhao Lie spoke with great difficulty. After saying that, he sighed. "Then I might as well pick blindly. For example, the fourth-rank Embroidered Uniform Guard Deputy Commandant."
As Zhao Lie spoke, his eyes shifted slightly as he looked at Li Chengfeng with a grin.
"I'll choose the fourth-rank Embroidered Uniform Guard Deputy Commandant too."