That evening, Zhou Zhiren personally led his men in delivering crate after crate of Demonized Garden Balsam fruit to Xu Qingtong's lodgings.
Xu Qingtong swept his divine sense over them for a cursory look, then sent Zhou Zhiren away. He still had to select suitable fruit from among them to refine into World-Breaking Fruits.
After a night of sorting, Xu Qingtong had selected more than five hundred Demonized Garden Balsam fruits. Not all of these five hundred-odd fruits could be refined into World-Breaking Fruits; only fourteen met the requirements.
As for the other fruits, Xu Qingtong had another clever use for them. The idea had come to him on a whim: although these fruits could not be refined into World-Breaking Fruits, he could try refining them into slightly weaker "World-Breaking Fruits."
If he succeeded, they would be powerful enough to threaten Nascent Soul Realm cultivators as single-use treasures. After all, he had once nearly taken Jade Spring True Person's life with a single World-Breaking Fruit!
Xu Qingtong guessed that the five hundred fruits he had selected could probably be refined into powerful single-use treasures similar to World-Breaking Fruits. When he encountered Jade Spring True Person again, perhaps he could blast him to death with eight or ten of them.
As he thought about it, the corners of Xu Qingtong's mouth could not help curling upward, and a happy smile appeared on his face, as though he had already blasted Jade Spring True Person to death.
After indulging in his own fantasy for a while, Xu Qingtong put away the remaining Demonized Garden Balsam fruits, left the courtyard, and took flight toward Hanshui City.
"Senior Lu, I'm glad to say I fulfilled my duty and successfully completed the harvest supervision assignment. Here is this year's harvest." Xu Qingtong took out several