Chapter 2084 Sharing Far away in another city to the northeast where the Azure Mountain range ended, a man sat in his room with a talisman in his hands. He read through it, blinding anger forming in his heart. "Blue Silk sect?" he thought. "That bastard was part of the Blue Silk sect?" He found it hard to believe. All this time, he had assumed his being there was accidental. He was just a regular person who got caught in between. But as it turned out, he had always belonged to the Blue Silk sect. "Dawnblade!" the man grunted in anger as the information that came out the past few hours had made him very angry. He took deep breaths and read through the talisman, looking for more of the information. He learned about Alex's Alchemy accomplishments and where that had happened. "So, he's in Newsky City?" he thought as he read. A twisted smile formed on his face, one of glee and anger mixed together, the memory of his two dead brothers flashing in his eyes. He remembered the day he had called this youth to his house, the day everything had gone wrong. His master had told him that should he be able to find the person who could get him more of the Heavenly silks, he would get something grand in return. He had been searching for him for a while now. "Finally, I found you." * * * * * * * * * Alex did not open the store that day. He just couldn't. With the amount of people outside waiting for him to open the door, the only way he could handle all of them was by not serving any of them. He would have to take some time to think about what he was going to do with the store going forward as it would not be the same at all. Fang Yuxie, Wang Yanwei, Rocksoul, and the four other regular staff had gathered in the store in front of him, each still unable to believe what they had witnessed today. Even the ever-cheerful Rocksoul didn't talk as much once Alex met up with them. "Are you… going to explain?" Wang Yanwei asked. "Explain what?" Alex asked. She tried to gesture her answer, her arms flailing widely in all directions. "Everything?" Alex smiled. "Well, I suppose an apology is in order to begin with. I… am not that bad when it comes to making pills as I might have led you all to believe," he said. "You think?" Wang Yanwei said. "That's an understatement if I've ever heard one before, boss," Rocksoul said, releasing a breath he had held for long. "Were you this good back in the sect as well?" Fang Yuxie asked. "Sort of," Alex answered. "I had only just started making Immortal pills when I joined the sect, so I wasn't exactly as good, but it didn't take too long to get there." "99%. That was nearly 100%. You could've called the pill cloud had you not made some sort of mistake," Wang Yanwei said. "What mistake did you even make?" "I think one of my ingredients wasn't up to quality," Alex said after a bit of a pause. "Oh! Understandable. Although, I'm surprised you had good alchemy ingredients, to begin with," she said "I had been planning for this duel for a long time. So I made plenty of good preparations. The ingredients were just part of it," Alex said. "You were planning for this to happen?" Wang Yanwei said, slowly realizing what he meant. "No wonder! No wonder you never told them you had joined the Blue Silk sect. Bastard, you wanted them to come after the store." "Of course," Alex said with a grin. "After I heard the requirement for becoming the Supreme Alchemist, I had to make the preparations. That was the only way to do it." Wang Yanwei couldn't help but be impressed by that. "You planned for it and then won. Honestly, I think I should apologize for trying to stop you," she said. "You could've told me though. I wouldn't have lived the past few days with constant agony." "I… did tell you though." "That doesn't count. You made it sound like you were saying it just to not get me to stress." "Wasn't that what you just said you wanted?" "Semantics!" "Alright, you two. Stop," Fang Yuxie joined in. She reached into her robe next, and with shaking hands, brought out a storage bag. "I feel like this has been burning a hole in my robes for the past hour. Take it already." Alex curiously took the storage bag and checked inside it. "Oh! I nearly forgot about the bets. How much did we make?" "3 Million Spirit stones," Fang Yuxie said. "The real earning was supposed to be around 3.2 Million, but the ones running the bet didn't have the money at all. Those idiots had simply not planned for a possible loss at all and had been trying to earn as much as they could by making your side look attractive." "Wait, they didn't give 200 thousand?" Rocksoul asked. "That's a lot of spirit stones though. We have to get it back." "We'll get it back," Fang Yuxie said. "They're funded by the three great houses, so they should come to us with the rest of the resources as soon as they can. They know they can't afford to offend him, not with what he's revealed to be able to make." "Well, I was going to just let it be since we got a lot," Alex said and pulled out a bunch of storage bags from his robes. He quickly transferred some of the spirit stones from his storage bag into those. Then, he handed each one to the people in front of him and the staff that had been sitting far away. Each one took it, looking inside at the same time. All of them gasped simultaneously when they realized how much they had gotten. "Wait, this…" "Boss! You rule." "Are you giving this to us?" Each one showed a different reaction. Alex found that quite charming. "Each alchemist gets 200 thousand, and each staff gets 100 thousand," Alex said with not a hint of hesitation in his voice. "This is…" Rocksoul looked around, quickly counting all the 7 people who had gotten something. 3 alchemists and 4 staff. "A million spirit stones," Fang Yuxie said, her mouth open agape at the thought. "We can't accept this. This is yours," Wang Yanwei said. Alex was about to tell them how he wouldn't take it back when he felt a strong presence at the door. In fact, there were several strong presences. It wasn't just him that felt it. Everyone did. They all turned around and looked at the door, beyond which the gathered crowd had moved to create a small space. In that space gathered 5 individuals; 3 men and 2 women. There was no doubt that each one of them was a Divine realm cultivator. Alex couldn't help but be curious as to who it was. He pulled out his teleportation dial to run away should a problem arise, and made his way toward the door. Once he arrived in front of it, he opened it.