Chapter 1165 Sky Tree (1/2)

”I have only just arrived. This is my first time doing this,” Han Sen said.

”You'll need to put your back into it and work hard. There may be no guards here, but you have a quota of ten walnut powder sacks a day. If you don't meet that quota, they'll bump you back down a level. Then, you'll have to do the test all over again,” the man explained.

”What use is the powder for?” Han Sen asked, as he began to work.

”Those of us down here don't have a clue. But it's a material that's wanted by the big cheese, and since we're required to produce it, we don't question it any further.” The man briefly paused, look around, and then spoke again in a quieter tone. ”You didn't hear this from me, got it? But... rumors say that Immortal Emperor, the big boss of this place, uses it to craft what has been dubbed Immortal Pills.”

”What are they for? Do they make him immortal?” Han Sen inquisitively asked.

The man laughed and balked. ”Spirits are immortal already! Immortal Pills, however, are said to grant spirits access to the Fourth God's Sanctuary. They were created by Immortal Emperor, so naturally, they were only named after him.”

The man then stopped chatting, so he could focus on working the stone mill and grinding the walnuts.

Han Sen didn't push very hard. He casually worked the mill while his mind relaxed to ponder the nature of Immortal Emperor.

”He needs all this labor for the production of these Immortal Pills?” Han Sen did not believe eating the pills would allow one to ascend and become a demi-god.

He believed this due to his experience with Xiang Yin. To ascend, you had to literally ascend an excruciatingly painful staircase. Walnuts wouldn't allow you to skip that, and Han Sen believed the best they could do was make a person temporarily stronger to weather the cleansing fires a little better.

By the time the day was done, Han Sen had created twenty sacks of walnut powder. When the spirits came to take them, they provided him with two drops of lifewater.

”You're good. You've only just arrived and you've already produced twenty sacks-worth,” the man, receiving his lifewater, said to Han Sen.

The man had produced fifteen sacks, but that only granted him one drop of lifewater. The additional five, however, would count for the next day of work. If he did another fifteen the next day, he'd receive two lifewater drops.

Han Sen spoke to the man briefly, but then fled the shelter, exiting via the tree hole he had entered from. He wanted to spend time researching the effects of the lifewater.

Han Sen returned to his own shelter, and on the third day, his body returned to its ordinary size.

And while Han Sen may have been ordinary, the drop of lifewater he had received was still as small as it used to be. The vial of liquid was so small, it couldn't even be classified as a drop. It was almost invisible to the naked eye.

Han Sen summoned Moment Queen and Dragon King and asked them about Immortal Emperor, to see what they knew. They both claimed not to know who he was, but Dragon King told Han Sen that it was most likely a fake emperor.

”Why would you say he is fake?” Han Sen asked.