"President."

"Greetings, President."

"President, you’re here."

As Yuan Dongsheng bowed respectfully, Luo Chen came to a halt. "Didn’t she say she had two or three more years? Why so soon?"

Luo Chen clearly remembered Granny Yuan candidly telling him she had a couple of years left just one year ago and yet…

"It was those twenty new spirit fields," Yuan Dongsheng choked out. "My grandmother thought the Luo Tian Society didn’t have enough arable land, so she wanted to create more.

"We didn’t expect… a Black-Spined Stone Drake was sleeping beneath the field. When it was awakened, it flew into a rage and injured many. Grandma fought it herself and brought it down but the cost was heavy. It damaged her core. So…"

Stone Drakes were a common species of demonic beast, frequently hunted by cultivators and processed into first-tier medicinal ingredients. Under normal circumstances, they posed little danger, were easily subdued, and...