Chapter 1386 — Terms of Exchange
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"There are other pills over there - Qi Recovery Pills, antidote pills, and the like. Those ought to serve you far better. How about this: you hand both of these Qi Gathering Pills over to me, and I'll give you every one of those pills?" Elder Yu pointed toward a cabinet a short distance away as he asked.
"Have you lost your mind?" Wei Zhao stared at Elder Yu as though he were looking at an idiot. "This was agreed upon beforehand. You want only the Qi Gathering Pills and the medical practice notes. If there are two Qi Gathering Pills, one of them goes to me; if the notes are found, you lend them to me to copy. You were to want nothing beyond that. The rest of the pills I take or leave exactly as I please - what business is it of yours?"
"This..." At Wei Zhao's words Elder Yu's face turned unbearably dark. What Wei Zhao said was not wrong - he had indeed spoken so back then. Only, back then he had assumed the tomb held a single Qi Gathering Pill and never dreamed there would be two. Now, seeing two before his eyes, he found his heart stirring.
His plan was to slip one away for himself and hand the remaining one over to the Yu family. After all, he too was an Earth Grade expert, and he could not say the day might not come when he reached the pinnacle of the late Earth Grade. Should that day arrive, a single Qi Gathering Pill taken in secret would carry him through to the Heaven Grade in one stroke, and his standing within the hidden Yu family would shoot straight up.
Yet if there was only one Qi Gathering Pill, then even had he been the one to discover it, it could never have been his to take. It would be reserved for the most core figures of the hidden Yu family - there was no way it would ever fall to him.
But Wei Zhao flatly refused to part with it, and it infuriated him beyond measure. He was an Earth Grade expert! An ordinary Profound Grade expert - even one standing at the pinnacle of the late Profound Grade - quailed and trembled at the mere sight of him. Earth Grade and Profound Grade were worlds apart! Yet Wei Zhao alone showed no fear, and on top of that he possessed a killer move in his true-qi bomb, which left Elder Yu in constant dread. The result was that Elder Yu could only nurse his rage in silence, not daring to press Wei Zhao too openly on the surface.
"Take what is yours. Were it not that I have no wish to fight you to the death, I wouldn't give you a single bottle." Wei Zhao tucked away his own bottle of Qi Gathering Pills, left the other standing there, and spoke.
"!!!" At Wei Zhao's words Elder Yu was so angry his heart seemed ready to explode - and yet there was not a thing he could do about it. The more Wei Zhao menaced him with an all-out fight, the less Elder Yu dared provoke him. Especially now, when his body was covered in wounds: his right hand injured, both feet injured, and - most critically - his groin injured as well.
With wounds that numerous, going head to head with Wei Zhao, he had no confidence of victory whatsoever. That was precisely why he swallowed so much.
Elder Yu slipped the small bottle from the drawer into his robe, grinding his teeth with fury. "Then all the other pills belong to me."
"Don't force me to blow you apart," Wei Zhao said evenly.
"You—" Elder Yu was choked speechless by that single sentence. It was a long while before he managed: "I am wounded; I will not stoop to your level! Do not imagine for a moment that I am afraid of you!"
Elder Yu thought to himself: wait a few days, until my injuries have mended - will I still tolerate your arrogance? When that time comes, I'll simply snatch them back by force.
Wei Zhao strode over to the other cabinets and pulled open every drawer labeled as holding pills. Most of them, however, were empty; only a handful of drawers contained anything at all.