The Green Ox Spirit's explanation was watertight.
Tusita Palace had lost some discarded scraps, and the Censorate had helped recover them, receiving a subsidy in accordance with regulations.
All the paperwork was in order, and everything was perfectly legitimate.
Unfortunately, Chen Wei had other plans in refusing the golden cores. A handful of pills had never been his target.
As an immortal official in the Heavenly Court, he could not afford to be shortsighted.
For a loose immortal with no backing, becoming a golden immortal was already the pinnacle. The next step was a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal.
The Primordial Unity Dao Fruit was not something one could hammer out simply by shutting oneself away and stubbornly cultivating. Its allocation was fixed by the Heavenly Court.
As the saying went, each radish had its own hole.
There were only so many places for Primordial Unity Golden Immortals. Cultivation alone was not enough to attain the Dao; the great powers of the Heavenly Court also had to nod their unanimous approval.
If the Great Heavenly Venerable nodded, there would naturally be no problem.
But Chen Wei did not want to take that route. The Great Heavenly Venerable was Yang Chan's own maternal uncle. Shamelessly going to beg him again would look far too greedy, both emotionally and reasonably speaking.
Then, across the Three Realms, whose nod could carry even more weight than the Great Heavenly Venerable's?
Taishang Laojun was the perfect choice!
As long as he could establish a connection with Laojun, show his face before the venerable elder, and clean up the loose ends the Green Ox Spirit had left behind-
Laojun would surely think more highly of Chen Wei and add a word during his evaluation: "This young man is promising."
Then the dawn would break, and his future