"Is Young Master Wang in? Xiong Yue is here to visit!"
Hearing this, Wang Lang smiled helplessly, put away the manuals, and went to open the door.
The moment the door opened, Xiong Yue's iron-tower-like frame filled the doorway.
His face was piled with smiles. In his left hand, he carried two oil-paper parcels; in his right, a seemingly ordinary earthen-yellow gourd.
Wang Lang was somewhat surprised by Xiong Yue's visit, but he still stepped aside and ushered him into the hall.
Xiong Yue placed the oil-paper parcels containing meat on the table, then gently set the earthen-yellow gourd aside before saying in a gruff voice:
"Young Master Wang, I came specifically to thank you this time!"
"During the battle at Black Stone City, if you hadn't carried me out of the city, I'd have left my life there long ago."
"Though I didn't help much, thanks to you, the Demon Subduing Division still credited me with a merit!"
"Not long ago, they handed out rewards based on merit and gave me a Magic Tool and a cultivation art!"
"I originally wanted to come with Vanquisher Wei, but I had to copy out a version of that cultivation art for my own use. That delayed me, so I missed him."
As he spoke, Xiong Yue picked up the earthen-yellow gourd first and solemnly pushed it before Wang Lang.
"This is a Storage Wine Gourd. It may not look like much, but it holds storage space as large as a huge vat."
Seeing Wang Lang about to decline, he hurriedly waved his hand. "Young Master, please don't disdain it!"
"This thing doesn't have much space. Among true storage Magic Tools, it's at the very bottom, but it's still a rare treasure!"
As he spoke, he stuffed the gourd into Wang Lang's