That evening, Huang Zhe held a grand banquet at the City Lord's Manor to celebrate the great victory they had just won.
Although the banquet had been arranged in haste, its offerings were anything but modest. There was high-tier spirit cuisine, spirit fruit, and immortal wine, along with stunning beauties singing and dancing, making for a thoroughly delightful atmosphere.
After the banquet, every Mahayana expert who had participated in the battle received a storage bracelet.
Liu Changxu briefly inspected the spirit treasures in his storage bracelet and discovered twenty thousand low-grade immortal crystals, six supreme-ninth-tier Amethyst Jujubes, and two Ninth-Tier Yin-Yang Pregnancy Spirit Pills. He was overjoyed and privately marveled at Huang Zhe's deft handling of people.
Yet not long after he returned to his lodgings, Huang Zhe came to visit with Huang Yuyao and a pair of breathtakingly beautiful twin sisters, both of whom had reached the completion stage of Tribulation Transcendence. Their beauty could topple a nation.
Once Liu Changxu invited them inside and he and Huang Zhe took their respective seats as host and guest, Huang Zhe came straight to the point:
"I came primarily to thank you, Immortal Prince. Without your help in this battle, our Great Chu would have been in grave peril!"
As he spoke, Huang Zhe took a white jade box from his storage bracelet, removed its seal, and lifted the lid, revealing a translucent, fiery-red fruit the size of a fist.
The fruit held immense energy and extreme heat, like a miniature sun. A phantom Fire Phoenix seemed to shimmer over its surface, which radiated powerful fluctuations of the fire-element origin law and an extraordinary fragrance.
Pointing to the fruit, Huang Zhe said to Liu Changxu:
"Immortal Prince, this is a low-grade Fire Phoenix Immortal Fruit that the Great Chu Immortal Dynasty