Meng Chuan sternly rejected the suggestion that the young dragon call him his adoptive father.
He also gave the True Dragon Mark a serious talking-to.
Did I save your child just so I could have another son?
Of course not.
I saved him because of your past contributions to the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, and because a grown True Dragon could help them in the future.
Do you really think I just want another disciple or another son?
What kind of man do you take me for?
Is this how you test a man of principle? Who could stand against a test like this?!
The True Dragon Mark was so ashamed that he wished he could crawl into a crack in the ground. He had underestimated Meng Chuan's noble character.
In the end, Meng Chuan handed Willow God the materials needed to restore the Dragon Egg's foundations and potential, leaving the work to her.
Of those materials, only the Nine-Turn Resurrection Grass was particularly precious. The rest were commonplace to Meng Chuan.
And even a Nine-Turn Resurrection Grass was worth trading for the service of a future Immortal King.
If you never used such a treasure, never let it fulfill its purpose, but kept it on a high shelf and worshipped it, then however precious it was, it remained just a blade of grass.
Most importantly, Meng Chuan had no use for it.
Even ordinary Immortal Kings had little use for it.
If an Immortal King was reduced to nothing but a soul, as Second Under Heaven and the others had been, they could be revived with what was already available.
It would merely require a Peerless Divine Elixir.
Resurrection Grass could be used as an ingredient.
But the main ingredient of the Ancient Elixir that could revive an