All Matters Rest with Me

Jianyang Prefecture, Shen Residence.

A dark figure stepped out of the void and returned to the courtyard.

Shen Yi glanced sideways and found that someone had long been waiting there.

"I brought you something."

Wu Shan rose from beside the stone table and pointed at the two golden pellets on its surface. "Both are thirty-calamity pellets. One is my apology, and one is a reward from the court. Keep them safe."

The matter in West Mountain Prefecture had clearly involved a fifth-rank Arhat of the Bodhi Sect, yet the reward being issued had plainly not counted him. It covered only the sixth-rank Celestial Immortal realm Flood Dragon and the demons under its command.

Shen Yi pondered for a moment but said nothing more. "Thank you, Senior."

After all, tearing off all pretense with the Bodhi Sect had not been an order from the court, but General Yan's decision alone. It was already good enough that no one intended to hold him accountable.

As though he had seen through Shen Yi's thoughts, Wu Shan took another golden pellet from his storage pouch. It was considerably larger than the first two. "A hundred-calamity golden pellet. General Yan paid for this one himself. It has nothing to do with the court."

He held the pellet in his palm for a long while without setting it down.

Perhaps worried that Shen Yi might misunderstand, Wu Shan added in a muffled voice, "I have no interest in this thing, and I don't have the nerve to keep it for myself either."

That was obviously the truth.

A hundred-calamity golden pellet was certainly valuable, but one had to live long enough to digest it. Since he had spoken those words before and intended to draw a clear line between himself and the others, he could not