'Didn't your Chen Family Ancestor go out to sea to seek opportunities? Who do you plan to give this Spirit Pill to?'

'Is it because your Chen Zhixing has made a breakthrough, or has that old Chen Daoyan finally decided to come back from the East Sea?'

'If no one in your family can take it for now, can you temporarily give your Chen Family's share to the palace and retrieve it when you or Chen Zhaosheng need it?'

Such words.

Naturally, Chen Zhaosheng would not agree to this, but he explained that these Fire Spirit Lotus Seeds were produced from one of the Chen family's fire ponds, and that in a few years, more seeds would mature and might require the help of this alchemist uncle's words. This managed to evade the issue with the alchemist uncle.

Hmm, although that great black serpent doesn't take it seriously, materials like the Fire Spirit Lotus Seed are still very precious. Even in the Celestial Saint Palace, Peak Realm powers covet them!

After all, this is a main ingredient in pills that greatly enhance a Peak Realm cultivator's cultivation, and even for those in the Longevity Realm, it holds some benefits.

Two hundred and eighteen Fire Spirit Lotus Seeds, taking one and a half months, resulted in sixteen furnaces of pills. With the Celestial Saint Palace providing auxiliary ingredients and alchemists, they kept fourteen furnaces.

Chen Zhaosheng only took back two furnaces with nineteen finished pills!

Smiling as he bid farewell to the well-intentioned elders of the Celestial Saint Palace, Chen Zhaosheng's face darkened once he left the palace gates.

"Ugh... to be exploited like this, when will we noble families ever see the light of day?!"

But if not do this, what else can be done?

Reflecting on the 'warm greetings' from those 'elders' who came to him upon hearing the news, Chen Zhaosheng knew that if he weren't from the Ziwei Chen Family, if he weren't soon to become the head of the Chen Family, and if he didn't have Chen Zhixing, the 'bad example' of the Celestial Saint Palace in the family, then he might only have received one furnace of pills!

And the reason for retaining even that one furnace wasn't because he was a disciple of the Celestial Saint Palace, but because it was necessary to set an example for other noble families, showing that they should send their materials to the Celestial Saint Palace for refining!

"This is survival of the fittest. If Ancestor Tianyuan personally went to seek alchemical assistance, at least a third, maybe nearly half, could be kept."

At this moment, Chen Zhaosheng began to resent his own cultivation status. If he were at the Peak of Peak realm, how dare those so-called uncles and elders bully him like this?

"I still need to improve my cultivation."

Returning to Ziwei Mountain on the Chen family's flying ship, Chen Zhaosheng, having adjusted his mood, recounted the events to Chen Zhixing.

Chen Zhixing nodded upon hearing his words.

"Let's leave it for now. Every five years, we'll send a portion of the Fire Spirit Lotus Seeds to the Celestial Saint Palace. This batch of pills will first be supplied to those high-tier Nirvana cultivators on the verge of reaching the Peak Realm in our family, hoping some of them will soon prove themselves in the Peak, liberating our Chen Family from the plight of having no Peak cultivators."

"Isn't that unwise?" Chen Zhaosheng frowned, "Zhixing, before you reach the Peak..."

"No worries." Chen Zhixing understood what Chen Zhaosheng meant and shook his head lightly: "With us two alive, our Ziwei Chen Family doesn't need that so-called strong preying on the weak. It's just a few pills. If any of them can truly break through to the Peak and Golden Nature from these pills, and leave their mark in Longevity... ah, that would be a great fortune for our Chen Family."

Seeing Chen Zhixing say this, Chen Zhaosheng did not rebut.

Just as Chen Zhixing mentioned, with the two of them present, even if the family produced a few Peak outsiders, there wouldn't be major errors.

After all, under this Ziwei Mountain, quite a few Peak Realm demons and specters are imprisoned, so a few more foreign family slaves wouldn't really matter.

"Let's do as you said, I will distribute the pills soon, should we supply Lii Shuang and Snow Soul first?"

"Yes." Chen Zhixing nodded: "Currently, they are the only two in the family suitable to take the 'Purifying and Warming Divine Pill'."

"And the serpent in your courtyard?"

"Ignore it."

...

The Purifying and Warming Divine Pill is a 'great medicine' used by Peak Realm cultivators to enhance mana, ranking as Upper Upper Grade among all the pills that can enhance cultivation. After all, even for the Longevity True Monarch, it holds some value.

Such a great medicine seems somewhat wasted on Nirvana Realm cultivators, suitable for late-stage cultivators as they could barely handle it; however, those in the middle or early stages of Nirvana would find the benefits of cultivation more fruitful than the time spent calming the body's turmoil post-ingestion.

Among the Chen Family, only Lii Shuang and Snow Soul received two Purifying and Warming Divine Pills each from Chen Zhaosheng's hands.

This approach stirred a wave of criticism within the entire Chen Family.

After all, having good things and not rushing to give them to one's own people but giving them to outsiders is something the Chen family descendants find hard to accept.

Then Chen Zhaosheng publicly displayed the remaining fifteen Purifying and Warming Divine Pills from the family's treasury, stating that any member of the Chen Family, regardless of surname, could exchange for them when reaching the required cultivation!

This statement angered some Chen Family members.

"Young Master Zhaosheng, if you're saying this, can outsiders join our Chen Family to exchange for it?"

Chen Zhaosheng calmly responded, "Indeed."

"Chen Zhaosheng! You're undermining our family's foundation!!! How can you distribute our Chen Family's divine pills to outsiders! Chen Zhaosheng, if you don't provide a reason today, no one will agree!!!"

Hearing this, Chen Zhaosheng simply laughed.

Laughed greatly, with amusement.

"Whether you agree or not, what difference does it make to me? What delusion led you to believe you could sway my will?"

After Chen Zhaosheng said this, before anyone else could argue, Chen Tianchen, who was maintaining order behind him, scolded first: "Zhaosheng!"

"Fourth Uncle." Chen Zhaosheng nodded but didn't remain silent. Instead, he loudly continued in the presence of many incredulous family members: "These pills belong to the Chen Family, not to me alone, Chen Zhaosheng. Therefore, anyone who has contributed to the Chen Family and reached the appropriate cultivation level naturally has the right to exchange for them. This is the essential principle of our Ziwei Chen Family and cannot be negatived by some people's doubts!"

After this statement, regardless of the dissatisfaction and curses from the Chen family, at least some non-Chen lineage experts listened with eager anticipation, feeling an increased sense of belonging to Chen Zhaosheng and the Chen family.

Even without the Chen Family's interest, just for the pills, such a sense of belonging must be enhanced!

"Chen Zhaosheng! You're betraying the family!"

"What gives you the right to distribute our Chen Family's things to outsiders! Did your father Chen Tianxiong teach you that way?"

"Chen Zhaosheng, you are an ungrateful traitor!!!"

"Tianchen, as the head of the family, will you just watch him squander the family's possessions?"

"Chen Zhaosheng, you are worse than a dog....."

For some unseen, intangible pills, these members fought like madmen.

Their appearance...

"It's as if I have taken away their benefits and as if they would have gotten them without today's affairs."

On the mountaintop.

Chen Zhaosheng came here and laughed with Chen Zhixing, who had witnessed the entire scene: "Sometimes I can't comprehend why this bunch has such hostility towards the foreign lineages in our family. They view them as either cattle or bandits, as if the foreign lineage in the family were their enemies, here to snatch their things."

"Yes, indeed."

"What?" Chen Zhaosheng was taken aback by Chen Zhixing's remark: "Why do you think so?"

"Because of blood ties. It's the bond between blood that makes them feel that even if they pale in comparison to outsiders, the resources of our Chen Family will flow to them, not the outsiders much stronger than them, all because they bear the surname Chen."

"..."

"The fact also stands, including for you and me. If not for being surnamed Chen, why else would we receive so much resource inclination since childhood? Could it really just be extraordinary talent?"

"Zhixing you...."

At this moment, the expression in Chen Zhaosheng's eyes was unclear, as if he was meeting Chen Zhixing for the first time.

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