And Fu Young was still young.

Now was not the time to test his character.

This matter had to be handled by himself.

He needed to increase his cultivation quickly and reach the peak of Qi Refinement as soon as possible.

He could not say any of that.

Xiao Shou pursed his lips and said with a smile, "Nothing much. I just played with Little An. Sigh, I did not expect taking care of a child to be more tiring than cultivation."

"So exhausting," Fu Young said immediately. "Master, then you do not need to take care of that little one anymore. I can look after him before An Yu comes out of seclusion. If I do not have time, we still have the Tier 3 puppets."

If his master felt it was tiring, did that mean he did not like Little An as much anymore?

Then he should like him more instead.

He had arrived at eight years old, but he had never made his master this tired before.

Fu Young thought of this as he picked up several storage bags and handed them to Xiao Shou who was lounging lazily on the couch with little concern for appearance.

"These are the things I bought today, along with the remaining spirit stones. Master, please check if everything is complete. If it is not enough, I will go buy more."

"Mm. These are enough. Huh? You even bought back demonic beast corpses. Then I will take this one too."

Xiao Shou was planning to set out in the next couple of days.

Anything missing could be purchased along the way.

He casually sorted through the storage bags and only took the one filled with low-grade spirit stones.

However, when he found the bag filled with demonic beast corpses, he also kept that one.

Seeing this, Fu Young said in disappointment, "What about the rest? You do not want them anymore?"

Inside were magical artifacts he had carefully selected for his master.

"No need. Keep them for yourself. Decide how to use them on your own. After all, you are the founding senior disciple of my Eternal Prosperity Sect and responsible for managing all sect affairs. How can you not have enough resources? In the future, we will build a treasury and store more treasures."

Xiao Shou spoke with anticipation, completely unaware of Fu Young’s subtle thoughts.

Fu Young’s disappointed expression flashed briefly across his face. Looking at Xiao Shou’s expectant look, he could not help but think: if the sect really recruited many disciples in the future, would his master stop liking him as much as now?

Imagining that scene made him feel even more unhappy.

"Master, what are your plans for the Eternal Prosperity Sect? Are we going to take in many disciples?" he asked.

"Plans? I do not really have any right now. We do not need too many disciples. Quality matters more than quantity. The design I drew represents the maximum capacity of our Eternal Prosperity Sect. We do not need more than that. I also do not have the ambition to become the number one sect in the Heaven Origin Realm."

Seeing Fu Young’s gloomy expression, Xiao Shou felt a little confused.

Was the Eternal Prosperity Sect not something Fu Young himself wanted to establish?

Why did he now seem a bit unwilling?

It was normal for him to develop his own thoughts as he grew older, so Xiao Shou did not ask further. Instead, he said, "However, this is just my opinion. You are the one who decides what to do. Whether the sect becomes large or small depends entirely on you. You are the founding senior disciple after all. It is fine as long as you let me be a carefree person."

"Mm. I understand."

Fu Young who is sitting beside the couch immediately brightened up upon hearing this.

He wrapped his arms around Xiao Shou and gave him a loud kiss. Then he grabbed the storage bags scattered on the couch and ran off while saying, "Master, I will go set up the puppets and have them start excavating according to the design. Please rest early."

"Ah, this little brat. He’s grown up and still acting spoiled, even learned to sneak attack now."

Xiao Shou wiped the saliva from his face, then smiled.

He slid down slightly and turned his head to lie on the pillow, he then falling asleep shortly after.

He was truly exhausted today.

He slept until a warm sensation rose in his stomach before waking up.

Xiao Shou was dazed for a few seconds, then quickly recalled the feeling in his body.

It was the same sensation he had when he consumed demonic beast essence and beast gel yesterday.

Could it be?

He rubbed his stomach and carefully felt the changes in his body.

It seemed that although these two items could only be absorbed once per day, any portion not absorbed immediately would be stored in the stomach and automatically refined the next day.

Calculating the time he fell asleep yesterday, he had actually slept for several hours.

That sleep had been surprisingly real.

However, beast gel and essence were truly convenient.

In situations where one was in closed-door cultivation and lost track of time, or when it was inconvenient to refine resources during cultivation, they could be consumed in advance.

The body would automatically absorb them later.

Waking up to such good news made Xiao Shou feel very fortunate.

He stretched his body lazily, then sat up and used a cleansing technique to clean himself.

Thinking of the two storage bags he had brought back yesterday, he planned to process all the demonic beast corpses inside.

After peeling a few skins, however, he became a bit impatient and at the same time felt a bit eager to try something else.

What if he did not peel the skin at all and directly combined ten same tier demonic beast corpses whole?

What would he get?

Thinking it, he acted immediately.