It's clear that the Golden King is quite concerned about the Orange Seed Gourds, but the characteristic of these Seed Gourds growing only by chance troubles him greatly.

Li Cunxu was overjoyed and immediately demonstrated how the Gold-and-Jade Gourd could solve the Magic Prison Energy of the Golden Secret Realm.

Li Cunxu opened the Gold-and-Jade Gourd's bottle mouth and absorbed the demonized Gold and White Jade.

It takes only seven days of refining, after which the Gold-and-Jade Gourd can produce results.

However, there is no way Li Cunxu would let the Golden King just sit and wait for those seven days.

Seven days is too long, and combined with the tempting Dragon Egg of the Golden Dragon, changes could occur, such as someone else providing alternative solutions to the Magic Prison Energy of the Golden Secret Realm during this time, intercepting the Dragon Egg.

Li Cunxu took out some Gold and White Jade from the Space Ring and burned them, which could shorten the refining time of the Gold-and-Jade Gourd, at best, to one second.

Li Cunxu usually doesn't use the Gold-and-Jade Gourd's function because it's too expensive.

Refining one piece of Gold and Jade, shortening to the quickest time of one second, would burn through a hundred pieces of Gold and a hundred pieces of Jade.

Li Cunxu took out a bowl and poured the Magic Golden Liquid refined from demonized Gold into it.

"As everyone knows, every gourd grown from a Seed Gourd possesses different, peculiar abilities. The ability of my Gold-and-Jade Gourd is to refine Gold and Jade into Magic Golden Liquid, consuming the liquid can continuously enhance physique and acquire a defensive skill called [Gold-and-Jade Body]."

The secretary looked at the darkened Magic Golden Liquid, puzzled, "What is the connection between the Gold-and-Jade Gourd and solving the Magic Prison Energy? Although your Gold-and-Jade Gourd can refine demonized Gold into Magic Golden Liquid, it seems that the Magic Prison Energy inside has not been refined away."

Li Cunxu nodded, "The Magic Prison Energy within the demonized Gold indeed has not been refined away..."

The Magic Golden Liquid refined from demonized Gold contains Magic Prison Energy, which drastically changes its properties. Using it will lead to significant side effects, and long-term consumption will result in irreversible Gold-and-Jade transformation of the body.

The so-called Gold-and-Jade transformation means that some organs of the body become Gold, while others become Jade.

This Magic Golden Liquid refined from demonized Gold, Li Cunxu named it Demonized Golden Jade Liquid.

Li Cunxu shifted the topic, "Although the Gold-and-Jade Gourd did not refine away the Magic Prison Energy, it did refine away the Secret Realm Marks on the Magic Prison Energy, which means..."

"Which means the Magic Prison Energy in this Magic Golden Liquid can be taken out of the Secret Realm."

The secretary excitedly interrupted Li Cunxu.

The secretary immediately tested it, holding the bowl of Magic Golden Liquid and exiting the Secret Realm. The Magic Prison Energy within the liquid did not stay in the Golden Secret Realm but was taken out by the secretary.

The difficulty in dealing with the Magic Prison Energy of the Golden Secret Realm is that the Gate of the Demon Prison merges with the Golden Secret Realm, thus the Magic Prison Energy summoned naturally bears the label of the Golden Secret Realm. As a result, people cannot take the Magic Prison Energy out of the Golden Secret Realm, leading to its accumulation, which eventually affects the Purple Gold Vein deep within the Golden Secret Realm.

If the Purple Gold Vein is affected, it cannot produce Dragon-patterned Purple Gold. Without Dragon-patterned Purple Gold, Purple Gold Dragon Coins cannot be minted. Each year, the alliance would lose a significant income, and as the person in charge, the Golden King would have to take responsibility. Even with all his wealth, the Golden King cannot compensate for the loss of a single Purple Gold Vein. In fact, to pay the compensation, the Golden King's path to Venerable King might be cut off.

This attack plotted by the Demon God Sect achieves many goals with just one strike, sacrificing an ordinary King, destroying the alliance's major Gold mine, and a potentially formidable and promising King—Golden King—who hopes to become a Venerable King.

But coincidentally, the problem created was easily solved by the Gold-and-Jade Gourd.

During the process of the Gold-and-Jade Gourd refining the demonized Gold into Demonized Golden Jade Liquid, it removes the Secret Realm Marks on the Magic Prison Energy within the demonized Gold. This allows the Magic Prison Energy to be taken out of the Secret Realm.

As long as the Magic Prison Energy can be taken out, the quantity of it within the Golden Secret Realm can be controlled, preventing harm to the Purple Gold Vein.

The Golden King asked, "Does refining each batch of this Magic Golden Liquid consume that much Gold and Jade?"

The Golden King saw Li Cunxu taking out hundreds of pieces of Gold and Jade, assuming that was the cost needed to refine the Magic Golden Liquid.

Li Cunxu shook his head, "No, refining a batch of Demonized Golden Jade Liquid only requires one piece of demonized Gold and one piece of Jade. I consumed so much Gold and Jade to speed up the refining process. The Gold-and-Jade Gourd refines Magic Golden Liquid a bit slowly, taking seven days, but the slow time doesn't affect it since the Gold-and-Jade Gourd can refine a lot of demonized Gold at once."

That is to say, resolving one Magic Prison Energy requires only consuming one piece of demonized Gold and Jade.

"Only need to pay the price of one piece of Jade to solve one Magic Prison Energy," the Golden King said, hands behind his back, looking at the city scenery below, muttering to himself.

The Golden Secret Realm has dozens of large Golden Veins that can continuously derive Gold by absorbing void matter. The amount of demonized Gold consumed isn't even as much as the Gold produced by the Secret Realm itself, so in the Golden King's view, consuming Gold is not really a cost.

With the value of the Purple Gold Vein, solving the problem with just a little Jade is almost too good to be true.

The issue was resolved, yet the Golden King did not appear very pleased; instead, he turned around, his deep eyes fixing on Li Cunxu.

Was the Golden King preparing to repay kindness with enmity, burning the bridge after crossing it?

No, it wasn't.

Rather, everything seemed too coincidental.

The Golden Secret Realm met a dilemma, and just after the bounty was issued, someone showed up in the afternoon to solve it.

It's like, in ancient times, a rich landlord suddenly gets a strange illness in the morning that no doctor in town can cure, and by the afternoon, a mysterious taoist shows up at your doorstep, claiming he can cure it but demands half of your estate.

Wouldn't you suspect that the so-called strange illness wasn't an illness but poisoning, and the one who poisoned you was this taoist? The purpose of poisoning being to plot for half of your estate.

The Golden King stared intently, making Li Cunxu uncomfortable.

Why is he looking at me like that? Could it be... the Golden King likes men?

In the previous life, there was no rumor of the Golden King being homosexual?

However, just because there weren't rumors doesn't mean he isn't.

Li Cunxu quietly shrank back a little.

Although the Golden King didn't have the Mind Reading Technique, Li Cunxu's somewhat shocked and disdainful expression and movements made the Golden King's eyelid involuntarily twitch.

Bastard, what kind of person do you take me for?

To alleviate some of the awkward atmosphere, the Golden King asked, "How did you know that the Gold-and-Jade Gourd could solve the Magic Prison Energy problem of the Golden Secret Realm?"

Li Cunxu said, "My Flame White Horse, while running around the city, encountered a Golden Magical Beast and kicked it to death on a whim, bringing back the fallen demonized Gold. I was curious if the Magic Golden Liquid refined from this demonized Gold by the Gold-and-Jade Gourd would be different, so I gave it a try."

The Golden King said, "You casually stuffed the demonized Gold containing Magic Prison Energy into the Gold-and-Jade Gourd. Weren't you afraid the Gold-and-Jade Gourd would be polluted by the Magic Prison Energy?"

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