Gungun was not a stingy bear, but immortal fruit... that was something he ate every single day! He had just offered to bestow a Yellow Central Plum on the Six-Eared Macaque so the monkey could attain Great Luo cultivation and impersonate Haotian more convincingly. That was already generous. Now, judging by Ao Yue's words, he wanted Gungun to give out even more to reward his subordinates and strengthen the Heavenly Court. What the hell... was strengthening the Heavenly Court more important than making sure Gungun had plenty to eat?
Gungun pursed his lips and puffed out his cheeks, glaring at Ao Yue with some irritation.
Seeing this, the smile on Ao Yue's face slowly faded, replaced by a trace of embarrassment. He explained, "It is not that I deliberately wish to persuade you to part with your spirit fruit, my friend. It is simply... I have no other way to make our generals' cultivation soar."
Indeed, when many of the highest divine positions had been vacant, they could raise someone's cultivation by granting them a divine position and letting its power bolster them. Now, however, almost all the Heavenly Court's highest divine positions had their occupants. Producing several more deities with at least taiyi peak cultivation really was no easy task.
One should not think taiyi peak was weak. It was a very powerful realm. Among the Twelve Golden Immortals of the Expounding Teaching, apart from Cihang and the others who had been appointed the Four Heavenly Kings, Guang Chengzi, who was the Human Emperor's Teacher, and True Person Taiyi, who had been appointed the Eastern Azure Flower Great Emperor, even the strongest of the remainder were only at this realm. And who knew how many years they had spent cultivating?
Returning to the matter at hand, after hearing Ao