The Peerless Great Emperor sighed with emotion. "I never expected that the person I was planning to visit would turn out to be someone I'd already run into ahead of time in Pillfire City. This must be what they call fate, right?"
"Brother Mo, this is destiny. Leave your wife's problem to me." Jiang Chen's blood ran hot, and he readily adopted the casual brotherly tone with the Peerless Great Emperor.
"Good! You brat, I love that fearless spirit of yours." The Peerless Great Emperor was full of admiration. "Do you know why I set my sights on you?"
"Why?" Jiang Chen asked, curious.
"Because I'd long suspected that you might be the Jiang Chen the Indestructible Heaven Capital has been hunting." A flash of shrewd insight crossed the Peerless Great Emperor's face.
"What?" Jiang Chen froze.
"The Myriad Longevity Pill first appeared in the Dan Qian Palace. But somehow it ended up in the hands of the Peacock Sacred Mountain. And in your hands, you even used it to defeat Pill King
It had to be said that people facing desperate situations always possessed boundless imagination. They would come up with all sorts of theories and hypotheses.
And more often than not, these theories weren't mere fantasies. Especially when a Great Emperor was the one making the deductions — they were typically backed by meticulous reasoning.
The facts proved that the Peerless Great Emperor's reasoning was entirely sound. It might have been a powerhouse's intuition, or it might have been the accumulation of various details that gave him grounds for such a deduction.
Jiang Chen sighed softly. "Brother Mo, your intuition truly frightens me. Thank goodness I wasn't clever enough to keep up the deception, and didn't choose to keep hiding the truth. Otherwise, sooner or later, you would have turned against me for sure."
"You brat — as long as you didn't toy with me on the critical issue, I'm not so petty as to hold a grudge. Besides, given your history with Pillfire City, I can completely understand why you wouldn't reveal your true identity. And of course, I appreciate your honesty. Your candor makes me think even more highly of you."
The Peerless Great Emperor was quite pleased. After all, it took courage for Jiang Chen to be so forthcoming with him. Most young people in his position wouldn't necessarily make the right call to reveal their identity.
But this young man had the nerve to face him squarely under these circumstances, and that gratified the Peerless Great Emperor greatly.
"Ah, Brother Mo, actually there's something even more important I need to come clean about." Jiang Chen said with a bitter smile.
"What?" The Peerless Great Emperor had grown accustomed to Jiang Chen's ways, but he still managed to catch him off guard.
"The truth is, I've had the Pine Crane Pill for some time now."
"What?" The Peerless Great Emperor's eyes went wide as copper bells. "You… you have the Pine Crane Pill?"
Jiang Chen nodded. "I refined this Pine Crane Pill in Liu Li Royal City a while back. At the time, given the circumstances, I wasn't able to be honest with you about it. I'm sorry for making you worry these past few days."
As he spoke, Jiang Chen produced a Pine Crane Pill. "Brother Mo, this is a superior-grade Pine Crane Pill. After taking it, it will absolutely extend your wife's lifespan by a thousand years."
For a moment, the Peerless Great Emperor's lips trembled slightly. He stared at the Pine Crane Pill in disbelief, his eyes shooting out brilliant light as he fixed his gaze unblinkingly on the pill.
"Take it." Jiang Chen pressed the Pine Crane Pill into the Peerless Great Emperor's hand.
"Brother, I…" Even a man of the Peerless Great Emperor's stature found himself choking up. It wasn't that he lacked composure — it was simply that happiness had arrived too suddenly.
He'd harbored some hope before, but his heart had been wracked with uncertainty.
Yet in an instant, this happiness had been delivered directly into his hands. How could he not be overwhelmed with joy?
As he took the pill, a powerful surge of life energy pulsed within it. The spiritual energy that washed over him made the Peerless Great Emperor's eyes light up even further.
"An excellent pill! Absolutely an excellent pill!" The Peerless Great Emperor was beside himself with excitement.
"The Pine Crane Pill is classified as Heaven-grade, but it has actually surpassed some of the characteristics of a Heaven-grade pill." Jiang Chen smiled. "Brother Mo, close the jade box quickly — don't let the pill's efficacy escape."
After a long while, the Peerless Great Emperor finally returned to his normal state and sighed. "Brother, a great debt of gratitude need not be spoken. I, Mo Wushuang, owe you a favor. However you want me to repay it, I will."
"Brother Mo, let's not stand on ceremony. I just hope I can meet your wife soon and assess her condition — perhaps there's more I can do. The Pine Crane Pill extends longevity, but ultimately it only treats the symptoms, not the root cause. I still hope to see a perfectly healthy sister-in-law, able to stay with you as a devoted pair of immortals for a long, long time."
These words struck right at the heart of the Peerless Great Emperor's deepest concern. In that moment, his heart was filled with anticipation, brimming with sunshine.
For reasons he couldn't quite explain, an unshakable conviction settled over the Peerless Great Emperor. He was absolutely certain that Jiang Chen was the person he'd been searching for — the destined benefactor for him and his Dao companion!