Deercry Court.
Shouzhe's study.
Nanming Immortal Emperor, still looking like a frivolous, somewhat improper young man, reclined comfortably in a grandmaster's chair, sipping newly harvested Life Tea with an absentminded air.
Sunlight spilled through the window lattice, casting waves of glazed light over his vivid red robes. They flickered like dancing flames, wanton and flamboyant.
"Boy Shouzhe, the materials brought back from the Scarlet Demon Hall instance have been processed according to plan. The first batch yielded five fourteenth-grade Eternal Divine Pills, nine fourteenth-grade Indestructible Divine Pills, and thirty fourteenth-grade Spirit-Nourishing Divine Pills. Overall, the results were passable, I suppose."
His tone sounded exceptionally relaxed, yet every pore on his body radiated an exaggerated aura of "Praise me, hurry up and praise me!"
Wang Shouye, the Wang Clan's Pill God who was accompanying him, kept his head lowered and said nothing.
He clearly remembered that when the pill completion rate had surpassed expectations, Nanming Immortal Emperor's tail had shot straight into the heavens. He had declared that he would make Wang Shouzhe's eyes pop from shock. Unless Wang Shouzhe fell to the ground in utter admiration and called him Daddy on the spot, Nanming Immortal Emperor would refuse to continue serving as a divine-grade alchemist.
This was the classic scene of someone making a major technological breakthrough, establishing an irreplaceable monopoly, then swaggering before the leader who usually kept him down.
Wang Shouye remained silent because this was not something he could interfere with. Besides, he believed that his Fourth Brother definitely had a way to handle Nanming Immortal Emperor.
Sure enough.
After hearing Nanming Immortal Emperor out, Wang Shouzhe's expression gradually turned solemn.
He slowly rose to his feet and gave Nanming Immortal Emperor a profoundly respectful bow. "On behalf of the countless living beings of the Immortal Realm,