"Congratulations to us both~" The Golden Armored Confucian General nodded slightly, narrowing his eyes as he looked at the Nascent Soul lying atop the disc with its eyes tightly shut and not the slightest movement. "This is already the third one! Royal Brother truly is my peerless strategist. I destroyed two Daoist sect countries and went to great lengths to scour the Cangxian Continent for Daoist sect Nascent Souls, yet in two years I captured only fourteen. That still fell far short of what the immortal envoy required. Who would have thought that beside Yaotai, we would capture three in barely a dozen days?"
"Haha, this is all due to Royal Brother's good fortune!" The scholar waved a hand and laughed. "Had Royal Brother not granted me land and made me a lord, how could I have learned of the Yaotai Gathering from that Daoist sect cultivator? Besides, it is said that most attendees of the Yaotai Gathering are the Daoist sect's so-called Golden Core cultivators, with few Nascent Souls able to participate. Yet the ones we encountered one after another were all Nascent Soul cultivators. Is that not proof that Royal Brother's blessings reach the heavens? Once Royal Brother fulfills the immortal envoy's command, you will surely win the favor of the Immortal Palace. Forget founding an empire to endure for ten thousand ages—even taking your place among the immortals can be expected!"
"Rest assured! You and I have stood shoulder to shoulder since childhood. If I have something, Royal Brother will never lack it!" The Golden Armored Confucian General laughed. "Once I erase this Nascent Soul's Primordial Spirit, we shall seek out a fourth Nascent Soul!"
As he spoke, a dragon pattern emerged between the Golden Armored Confucian General's brows. He bit his middle finger, and a drop