Beastmaster: I don’t want to be a breeder!

It was evident that the Golden King cared deeply about the orange-seed gourds, but their random nature of growth caused him much distress.

Li Cunxu was overjoyed and immediately began to demonstrate how the Golden Jade Gourd could resolve the Demonic Prison Qi within the Golden Secret Realm.

Li Cunxu opened the mouth of the Golden Jade Gourd and sucked in the Demonic-tainted gold and white jade.

The Golden Jade Gourd would produce results after a mere seven days of refinement.

However, Li Cunxu couldn't allow the Golden King to simply wait for seven days.

Seven days was too long, and the allure of the Golden Dragon's dragon egg was too tempting, making unforeseen circumstances likely. For example, someone else might offer another solution to the Demonic Prison Qi in the Golden Secret Realm during that time, snatching the dragon egg.

Li Cunxu then retrieved some gold and white jade from his spatial ring and burned them, which could shorten the Golden Jade Gourd's refinement time to as little as one second.

Li Cunxu usually didn't use this feature of the Golden Jade Gourd because it was too expensive.

Refining a piece of gold and a piece of jade, shortening the time to the fastest 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 Golden Jade Liquid refined with Demonic-tainted gold from the Golden Jade Gourd into it.

"As everyone knows, the abilities of gourds grown from different seeds vary greatly and are often bizarre. The ability of my Golden Jade Gourd is to refine gold and jade into Golden Jade Liquid. Consuming Golden Jade Liquid can continuously strengthen the physique and grant a defensive skill called [Golden Jade Body]."

The secretary looked at the blackish Golden Jade Liquid and asked, puzzled, "What is the connection between the Golden Jade Gourd and resolving the Demonic Prison Qi? Although your Golden Jade Gourd can refine Demonic-tainted gold into Golden Jade Liquid, it doesn't seem like the Demonic Prison Qi inside is being refined away."

Li Cunxu nodded, "The Demonic Prison Qi within the Demonic-tainted gold is indeed not refined away…"

Golden Jade Liquid refined with Demonic-tainted gold contained Demonic Prison Qi, greatly altering its properties and causing significant side effects upon consumption. Long-term use of this Golden Jade Liquid would lead to irreversible Golden Jade-ification of the body.

The so-called Golden Jade-ification meant that some organs would turn into gold, while others would turn into jade.

Li Cunxu named this type of Golden Jade Liquid refined from Demonic-tainted gold as Demonic Golden Jade Liquid.

Li Cunxu changed the subject, "Although the Golden Jade Gourd doesn't refine away the Demonic Prison Qi, it does refine away the Secret Realm imprint on the Demonic Prison Qi, which means…"

"Which means the Demonic Prison Qi within this Golden Jade Liquid can be taken out of the Secret Realm," the secretary excitedly interrupted Li Cunxu.

The secretary immediately tested this, taking the bowl of Golden Jade Liquid and exiting the Secret Realm. The Demonic Prison Qi within the Golden Jade Liquid did not remain in the Golden Secret Realm but was instead taken out of the Secret Realm by the secretary.

The difficulty in resolving the Demonic Prison Qi in the Golden Secret Realm stemmed from the fusion of the Demonic Prison Gate with the Golden Secret Realm. The Demonic Prison Qi summoned was naturally imprinted with the Golden Secret Realm's label, preventing people from taking the Demonic Prison Qi out of the Golden Secret Realm. As a result, the Demonic Prison Qi accumulated more and more, eventually affecting the Violet Gold Mine deep within the Golden Secret Realm.

If the Violet Gold Mine was affected, it would not produce Dragon-patterned Violet Gold. Without Dragon-patterned Violet Gold, Violet Gold Dragon Coins could not be minted, and the Alliance would lose a significant amount of revenue each year. The Golden King, as the person in charge, would inevitably be held responsible. Even if the Golden King was wealthy, he couldn't afford the loss of a Violet Gold Mine. To compensate for it, the Golden King's path to becoming a尊王 (Zun Wang, a respected king) might be cut short.

This attack planned by the Demon God Sect could be said to achieve multiple goals with one move, sacrificing only an ordinary king to destroy the Alliance's major gold mine and the Golden King, a promising king with the potential to become a尊王 (Zun Wang).

It just so happened that the problem they created was easily solved by the Golden Jade Gourd.

During the process of the Golden Jade Gourd refining Demonic-tainted gold into Demonic Golden Jade Liquid, it would refine away the Secret Realm label on the Demonic Prison Qi, allowing the Demonic Prison Qi to be taken out of the Secret Realm.

As long as the Demonic Prison Qi could be taken out, the amount of Demonic Prison Qi within the Golden Secret Realm could be controlled, preventing the Violet Gold Mine from being affected.

The Golden King asked, "Does refining each portion of this Golden Jade Liquid require so much gold and jade?"

The Golden King saw Li Cunxu take out hundreds of pieces of gold and jade and assumed that was the cost of refining the Golden Jade Liquid.

Li Cunxu shook his head, "No, refining a portion of Demonic Golden Jade Liquid only requires one piece of Demonic-tainted gold and one piece of jade. I consumed so much gold and jade to speed up the refinement process. The Golden Jade Gourd's refinement speed is a bit slow, taking seven days, but the slow speed doesn't matter because the Golden Jade Gourd can refine a lot of Demonic-tainted gold at once."

In other words, resolving one strand of Demonic Qi only required consuming one piece of Demonic-tainted gold and jade.

"Only needing to pay the price of one piece of jade to resolve one strand of Demonic Qi," the Golden King said to himself with his hands behind his back, looking at the city scenery below.

The Golden Secret Realm had dozens of large gold mines that could continuously generate gold by absorbing void matter. The amount of Demonic-tainted gold consumed was even less than the amount of gold the Secret Realm itself produced, so in the Golden King's eyes, consuming gold wasn't a cost.

Given the value of the Violet Gold Mine, solving the problem by paying a little jade was simply too cost-effective.

Although the problem was solved, the Golden King didn't seem very happy. Instead, he turned around and looked at Li Cunxu with a deep gaze.

Was the Golden King planning to betray kindness with enmity and kick away the ladder after crossing the river?

Not quite.

It was just that everything was too coincidental.

The Golden Secret Realm encountered a problem, and a reward was just issued. In the afternoon, someone came to the door to solve it.

It was like in ancient times, a wealthy landlord suddenly contracted a strange disease in the morning that all the doctors in the town couldn't cure. In the afternoon, a mystical Taoist came to the door, saying he could cure the strange disease, but he wanted half of your family property.

Wouldn't you suspect that the so-called strange disease wasn't a disease at all, but a poison, and the person who poisoned you was precisely this Taoist, whose purpose was to plot half of your family property?

The Golden King stared straight at Li Cunxu, making him very uncomfortable.

Why are you looking at me like that? Could it be… that the Golden King likes men?

The Golden King said, "You just casually stuffed the Demonic-tainted gold containing Demonic Prison Qi into the Golden Jade Gourd. Aren't you afraid that the Golden Jade Gourd would be contaminated by the Demonic Prison Qi?"

I wanted to adjust the update time, but I got writer's block. I wanted to write it last night, but I got stuck.

I wanted to write it this morning, but I'm still stuck.

It's almost like I've become Kakashi.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I missed a day because of the block.