"Master Refiner, you, you, you..."
Snap!
Upon seeing Su Bai, Yuan Wulin's face flushed with excitement, and he could barely speak coherently.
To calm himself down, he raised his hand and slapped himself hard across the face. After kowtowing to Su Bai several times, he finally calmed down a little.
But the respect in his eyes grew even stronger.
"Speak if you have something to say." Su Bai looked at him expressionlessly.
"Yes, that's how it is..."
Yuan Wulin expressed his congratulations on his breakthrough in a few words, and then took out a storage ring and respectfully presented it to him.
"Master Refiner, this is a gift from the City Lord to celebrate your breakthrough, as well as gifts from many powerful figures in Heavenly Demon City that he asked me to pass on to you."
Su Bai didn't say anything upon hearing this, took the storage ring, and sent him away.
The latter, without suspecting anything, respectfully kowtowed several times, then bowed and withdrew from the Tianyun Clan camp.
However, not long after he left this place, he was surrounded by a group of semi-saint realm experts.
"So, Brother Ape, has the Chief Weapon Refiner accepted our congratulatory gift?"
"Brother Ape, tell me quickly, did the Grand Master Refiner say anything to you?"
"Yes, Brother Ape, just tell us already! We're so impatient, we've been waiting here with our hearts pounding!"
"Judging from Brother Ape's smug look, he must have already fulfilled our request!"
"How is it, Brother Ape?"
"......"
Seeing the respectful expressions on the faces of the semi-saint realm experts around him, Yuan Wulin was secretly delighted.
It should be noted that before the Grand Master of Refining revealed his identity as a Celestial-level Refiner, and even before breaking through to the next realm, many of these people did not particularly like him, the newly promoted general.
But now, because of the two immortal-grade longswords that the chief weapon refiner is about to forge, and his own breakthrough in cultivation, these people's attitudes towards him have changed drastically.
Even those powerful figures who were of higher realms, stronger than him, and of higher status than him showed him sufficient respect.
Thinking of this, Yuan Wulin was filled with emotion.
He never imagined that he would one day reach such a height!
But now, with the help of the Grand Master Refiner, he has successfully become a prominent figure in the Heavenly Demon City!
"The Grand Master Refiner is such a prodigy. As long as he survives beneath the Celestial Palace, he will surely be able to befriend powerful figures from all sides of the Heavenly Realm through his refining skills!"
"At that time, given my relationship with him, I would surely have risen to the top and stood at the pinnacle of the Heavenly Path Realm!"
"This is what our martial arts world should pursue; a true man should strive for this!"
At this moment, Yuan Wulin's heart was filled with heroic spirit and lofty ambitions, and his resolve to follow Su Bai to the death was even stronger!
Boom—Crack!
Because his mind was clear, Yuan Wulin actually broke through the bottleneck that had been blocking him for more than 10,000 years and entered the mid-stage of the semi-saint realm.
Sensing the immense power and boundless ambition emanating from him, the foreign experts, who already held him in high esteem, showed even more respect on their faces.
Snap!
However, just as the group of powerful foreigners were about to flatter Yuan Wulin, Yuan Wulin turned around, faced the direction of the Tianyun Clan camp, and kowtowed nine times.
"Yuan Wulin, thank you, Chief Refiner, for helping me break through my bottleneck and successfully achieve my breakthrough!"
"this......"
A powerful foreign warrior hesitated for a moment, then steeled his resolve and, just like Yuan Wulin, knelt down facing the Tianyun Clan camp!
And then, he kowtowed twelve times in a row!
When he looked up, his face was also covered in tears, but the joy in his eyes was impossible to hide!
"Thank you, Master Refiner, for helping my elder brother, Ape Martial Arts, succeed."
"What is this?" Yuan Wulin asked, puzzled.
“Brother, although we haven’t met many times, ever since you came to the general’s camp, I’ve felt that you are very much like my deceased brother. But unlike him, you have a sincere heart, and you are more talented and have a more ambitious goal!”
“My deceased brother told me that one day I would meet someone like him, but a hundred or a thousand times better, and if I met that person, I would definitely recognize him as my elder brother!”
"So, ever since you entered the general's camp, I knew that person was very likely you. But at that time, I didn't see your sincere heart, or your lofty ambition to step out of the Heavenly Demon City and reach the top of the Heavenly Journey Realm!"
"But just now, I saw it. I saw your gratitude to the Grand Master Refiner, and I also saw the lofty ambition in your eyes that you could not hide!"
"So, you are the good older brother I've been searching for all this time!"
"Brother! Please accept my bow!"
As he spoke.
This person actually faced Yuan Wulin and kowtowed fiercely.
"Brother, there's no need for that. Please rise!"
These tearful words moved Yuan Wulin deeply, and the already burly man choked up at that moment.
"Big brother..."
Just as the man was about to get up while grabbing Yuan Wulin, Yuan Wulin pressed him down hard again!
At the same time, Yuan Wulin himself knelt down beside this person!
"Today, let the Chief Refiner witness that you and I are sworn brothers, what do you say?"
"good!"
The man shouted, but couldn't help rubbing his swollen knee with one hand.
And so, the two of them, with solemn and dignified expressions, kowtowed several times towards the direction of the Tianyun Clan camp.
Just as Yuan Wulin was about to get up, he was suddenly pressed down. At the same time, an old man with a full head of white hair knelt down beside him with tears streaming down his face, looking miserable.
"Master Refiner, today I, Old Man Mo, wish to acknowledge General Ape as my godfather, and from this day forward, I will serve him faithfully to the death!"
As he spoke.
Before Yuan Wulin could hesitate, Old Man Mo dragged him and made him kowtow several times.
The group of powerful foreign warriors standing nearby twitched their lips at the sight, clearly not expecting this turn of events.
"Um, old man Mo, you're so old, aren't you ashamed to recognize Brother Yuan as your godfather?"
One of the powerful foreign warriors couldn't stand it any longer and spoke up speechlessly.
Before Old Man Mo could reply, his knees buckled and he knelt down next to Ape Martial Arts.
"Master Refiner, today I, Hu Fengxu, humbly submit myself to General Yuan as my master!"
Upon hearing this, many powerful figures from other races around him knelt down on the ground, just like him.
It wasn't until several hours later that Yuan Wulin was helped up by these people, looking completely bewildered.
Somehow, in just a few hours, he gained twelve brothers, eight sons, seven grandsons, and nearly fifty apprentices!
"Godfather, you're tired. Let me carry you to rest!"
An aged voice came from behind.
Before Yuan Wulin could even react, he was carried on Old Man Mo's back.
Looking at his hunched-over, white-haired adopted son, his lips twitched, and for a moment, he felt as if he were in a dream.
The surrounding powerful foreigners were stunned when they saw this scene, but when they came to their senses, they rushed over to help.
Such deeds quickly spread.
However, the foreigners from the Heavenly Demon City did not laugh or mock them; instead, they looked on with envy.
Some outsiders even rushed to the general's camp where Yuan Wuli lived overnight, just in order to get close to this favored "relative" of the chief weapon refiner!
All of this.
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