Su Che regarded the ghostly judge below with a cold eye. He had not expected the Metropolitan City God to pull a move like this.
Gathering and refining Moonlight Essence required magical power to condense it. Once that power was withdrawn, the essence would scatter according to the laws of heaven and earth.
As the saying went, what had too much was diminished to make up for what had too little. Such was the proper way of heaven.
For so much Moonlight Essence to be sitting here, the Metropolitan City God's side had clearly prepared well in advance. While Su Che had been gathering it in the sky, they might have been doing the same. Perhaps the Metropolitan City God himself had acted to amass this much.
They had prepared it early and waited for him to come looking for trouble.
It was hard to strike a smiling face.
He had come to call them to account, expecting a woman who would defend her virtue to the death. Instead, they had lain down and let him do as he pleased. They were playing the game more brazenly than he was.
"Judge Cui, you're too kind. I thought some monster was causing trouble, but it turns out you merely slipped up. We're all on the same side; there's no need to spoil the peace. Please keep this Moonlight Essence."
Since they had seen through what he was doing, Su Che changed his approach.
Now that he had ascended to Yellow Heaven and returned, he was no longer merely a young master of wealth and rank who could resort to all manner of bullying tactics. As the Yellow Heaven Sect's representative in the mortal world, he represented the orthodox Mystic Gate.
And as its representative, he could no longer bring certain spoiled-young-master