The wish left Zhao Ci reeling for a long moment.
'For a moment, I actually thought Old Deng cared about me.'
Of course, his safety was closely tied to the Alchemy of Wine and his Kidney Water Divine Treasure.
But those two things alone weren't enough to make the Emperor lose his composure like this.
'First of all.'
'The Alchemy of Wine is precious, true, but the way he casually used it to play games with Gu Xiangzhu proves it's not his top priority. Besides, if I really died, he could find ten thousand reasons to hire a bunch of master craftsmen to safely dismantle the equipment and reverse-engineer it.'
'As for the Kidney Water Divine Treasure… I may have shown some cultivation talent, but talent for physical cultivation isn't strongly correlated with talent for the Five Elements Divine Treasure.'
'Besides, some of the young princes who come after me are also suited to specializing in the Kidney Water Divine Treasure.'
'So…'
'There's only one explanation!'
