Cui Daqi's words undoubtedly left everyone present utterly astonished.
Wang Ba couldn't believe it.
After taking a break for over eight years... to be promoted on his first day back at work?
Was that reasonable?
It definitely wasn't reasonable!
Especially since among the Deacons here, the majority were elders, including not a few in the late-stage of Golden Core, even at the peak of the realm.
Some have been in the Spirit Food Department for more than a hundred or two hundred years.
Wang Ba, who had only been in the Spirit Food Department for a little over a decade, and had taken an eight-year leave at that, by what virtue and ability?
Feeling the gazes from the surrounding Deacons that were originally quite amiable but now complicated, envious, or jealous, Wang Ba felt as if he were sitting on pins and needles in an instant.
He was not quite used to the feeling of being the center of so much attention.
