"You've got some nerve, kid."
Inside the Alchemy Chamber of Tusita Palace, Daoist Lord Wangchen looked Xu Taiping up and down.
Having fled back to Tusita Palace in haste, Xu Taiping looked thoroughly bedraggled.
Somewhat embarrassed, Xu Taiping said to Daoist Lord Wangchen:
"I've made a fool of myself before you, Daoist Lord."
Old Daoist Huang, beside him, said with some shame:
"I was rash this time."
Having refined the fortune of that isolated island, Old Daoist Huang no longer looked like a big orange cat. Instead, he had become a young man with a rather old-fashioned air.
Ping'an, who likewise looked like a young man, hooked an arm around Elder Huang's shoulders and said with a broad smile:
"All that matters is that you came back safely."
He was delighted that Xu Taiping and Old Daoist Huang had managed to return safely from such a dangerous situation.
Daoist Lord Wangchen withdrew his gaze from Xu Taiping and turned to Old Daoist Huang:
"For a little cultivator like you to refine the fortune accumulated on that isolated island over hundreds of thousands of years, your Qi-Gazing Art barely qualifies as usable."
Hearing this, Old Daoist Huang immediately gave an awkward smile:
"Come now, Daoist Lord. I have broken through to the Origin Opening Realm, after all."
Indeed, after refining the fortune of that isolated island, Old Daoist Huang now truly counted as a Qi-Reading Practitioner of the Dao Integration Origin Opening Realm.
Even among the Qi-Reading Practitioners of the Upper Realm.
He now had the strength to put up a fight.
Had Xu Taiping not warned him that Daoist Lord Wangchen's cultivation reached the heavens, he might already have snapped back.
Daoist Lord Wangchen gave Old Daoist Huang a cold look:
"Still not convinced?"
As he spoke, he extended a