Chapter 2523: You old man, this is going too far!

Zhao Lao used his power to overwhelm people, completely ignoring everyone's resentful gaze, took a step forward, and instantly vanished from the spot.

Obviously, he was already rushing to the place where the ingredients were.

Watching Zhao Lao's disappearing figure, the five Heavenly Palace Celestial Officials all had complex expressions, their eyes full of unwillingness.

What a great opportunity; later we could secretly stash away a couple, and at crucial moments they'd be enough to have a little bite and satisfy our cravings.

But now, that great opportunity is gone.

However, amidst the silence of the few, one celestial official spoke up somewhat optimistically.

"Forget it; with Zhao Lao here, we don't even have this chance—just being able to eat a bite would be enough."

"That's right, after all, a higher rank can crush people."

"Zhao Lao eats the meat; we can just drink the broth."

Someone spoke up, and the other four quickly echoed, saying, "Since it's come to this, if we don't console ourselves, what else can we do?"

"We can't beat them in a fight, so we can only swallow our bitterness like a mute eating coptis."

Unaware of the conversation of the five celestial officials, Zhao Lao, with his speed, soon reached the immortal vessel at the front.

Meanwhile, those extraterrestrial heavenly demons that had been suspicious and paused for a moment earlier.

At this moment, coming to his senses, the leading demon god secretly cursed himself for being stupid.

"These people's expressions are off—what's it to him? Just strike and kill them."

On the entire immortal vessel, only one Earth Ancestor Realm cultivator was seated in command; even if something seemed off, killing him would be just killing him.

Thinking this through, the demon god immediately prepared to act; just now he had really been scaring himself.

But before it could act, having just made up its mind, the next second a powerful pressure surged from afar and instantly enveloped all their ingredients.

Meanwhile, Zhao Lao came flying swiftly from afar; seeing the horde of extraterrestrial heavenly demons, he couldn't help but grin.

"Sure enough, they're ingredients."

Then, without any nonsense, he forcibly dragged this batch of extraterrestrial heavenly demon ingredients into the space he had sealed off.

Next came what was supposed to be a big battle—but no, it erupted into a one-sided slaughter.

"Above the strongest………………………How could that be possible."

As soon as they clashed, the leading demon god was dumbfounded.

Earlier, it had repeatedly confirmed that the strongest aboard that immortal vessel was nothing more than an Earth Ancestor Realm cultivator.

But now, where did this old man who is above the strongest come from?

The number of humans who are Present Era's Strongest is already tiny, and those above that are even fewer.

Usually, unless it's a large-scale death battle, it's hard to encounter cultivators of this level.

But now, is its luck really this good? It inexplicably ran into them.

Moreover, facing an existence above the strongest………………………wouldn't they be doomed to die?

But before the demon god could think much, Zhao Lao's attack arrived as expected.

In the blink of an eye, two extraterrestrial heavenly demons were slain, and their corpses were unhesitatingly stored by Zhao Lao into his space ring.

The whole process was incredibly smooth, without a single hitch.

Thereafter, more and more extraterrestrial heavenly demons were cut down; facing this situation, the demon god also panicked.

Unfortunately, Zhao Lao gave it no chance to escape.

Slaying a demon god is somewhat troublesome, but it's nothing more than that.

Even before Zhao Lao, even if the demon god fought desperately, with all its subordinates dead, it ultimately could not escape the fate of being slain.

And as the demon god died, its corpse was naturally also taken into Zhao Lao's possession.

After the battle ended, the immortal vessel not far away dared to slowly approach.

But at this moment, only seven extraterrestrial heavenly demon ingredients floated around Zhao Lao.

He tossed those seven ingredients directly onto the deck of the immortal vessel, and Zhao Lao said calmly.

"Seven extraterrestrial heavenly demon ingredients—take good care of them. When Ye Xiaozi arrives, hand them to him so he can see how to distribute them; you decide yourselves, and I won't interfere."

"Huh???"

Upon hearing this, everyone on the immortal vessel was dumbfounded, staring wide-eyed at Zhao Lao before them.

What's more, someone couldn't help but whisper a sentence.

"Seven? How could it possibly be only seven? This is clearly…………………"

They had witnessed the whole thing just now, their eyes never leaving the scene.

Now Zhao Lao says there are only seven extraterrestrial heavenly demon ingredients—this is going too far.

Are we supposed to be blind or stupid, having our intellect rubbed underfoot?

But before that person could finish speaking, a cold snort came, and Zhao Lao said coldly.

"How so? I said there are seven ingredients—do you have an objection? Weren't those extraterrestrial heavenly demons that attacked just now exactly seven?"

"I……………………………………"

Faced with Zhao Lao's intimidating gaze, this person dared not answer, feeling utterly speechless inside.

"You're spouting nonsense with your eyes wide open, and it's utterly outrageous."

"Most importantly, you've even hidden that demon god's ingredients—this is going too far."

"That demon god's ingredients, by rights, absolutely cannot be hidden, with so many eyes watching."

"Yet Zhao Lao showed no hesitation whatsoever and simply took in that demon god's ingredients."

"Moreover, from start to finish he never uttered a word about those demon god's ingredients."

"It was as if those demon god's ingredients didn't exist at all."

"That would be bad enough, but the other extraterrestrial heavenly demon ingredients—you only have seven, which isn't even half enough."

Everyone says human hearts are black, but who would have thought they could be this black?

You could have hidden just one or two, even three or five wouldn't matter, but you went and swallowed more than half yourself—how thick is your heart?

Seven heads of Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon as ingredients, and they have so many people—how are they supposed to eat?

Every pair of eyes looked at Zhao Lao, who had fallen onto the deck, with extreme strangeness.

Faced with so many gazes, Zhao Lao showed no change in expression, still as calm as an ancient well.

As the saying goes, old ginger is spicier; this nurturing of Qi skill is nothing the young can match.

For a moment, nobody knew what to say; facing Zhao Lao, they couldn't just refuse to give him face right then.

At that very moment, the Beyond the Heavens flying vessels from behind also arrived one after another.

The first to arrive were the Beyond the Heavens flying vessels carrying the five Heavenly Officials; they dared not delay along the way and came at full speed.

Afterwards, the five Heavenly Officials landed one after another on the deck of this immortal vessel; as soon as they boarded, they sensed the atmosphere was a bit strange.

Not yet realizing the seriousness of the problem, one of the Heavenly Officials, out of habit, saluted Zhao Lao.

"Zhao Lao, is it all settled?"

Hearing that, Zhao Lao nodded as usual, without a blush or racing heart, his face solemn.

"Hmm, the seven Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demons have all been exterminated, slain on the spot by this old man."

Hmm???

The statement itself isn't wrong, but your numbers don't add up—the information that just came in wasn't like this.

It's off by a hundred thousand miles—just then, the five Heavenly Officials looked at the calm and composed Zhao Lao with complex expressions.