Chapter 1420 — Striking the Deal — Indeed! That Billion Had Been Prepared in Advance! Old Yu Was So Furious He Wanted to Curse Aloud — Had You Calculated Just How Much Money the Secular Yu Family Had Before You Made Your Demand? That Billion Was Demanded with Real Skill!
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"Young Master Zhao, you see... the secular Yu family can indeed produce this billion, but that is working capital! If we hand it over, several of the Yu family's businesses will grind to a halt!" Old Yu explained, somewhat helplessly.
"Tell me, Old Yu, what has any of that to do with me?" Zhao Qibing frowned, his patience wearing thin. However one looked at it, his standing far outstripped that of an old man whose secular family had only just been promoted to a hidden one, so he saw no reason to beat around the bush. "Old Yu, let me be frank with you: if you want to be cured, produce the billion. If you say your cash can't be touched, then bring me goods of equal value instead — property, companies, even the Yu family's auction house. Otherwise, go find yourself another expert!"
Zhao Qibing had long been casting a covetous eye on the Yu family's holdings. If he could get his hands on them, it would be a great merit rendered to the Zhao family, and his grandfather would look at him with new eyes.
Old Yu was frustrated to the point of death. Yet frustrated or not, to turn on his heel and walk away now would be the act of a brute. But to stake the rise and fall of the entire Yu family as the price — Old Yu would sooner die!
Suddenly, something came to Old Yu's mind! Something that might just tempt both Zhao Qibing and the Medicine King! He was reluctant to part with it, true, but as things stood, while it stayed on his person it was worth not a copper. Once he returned to the hidden Yu family he would have to hand it in anyway, and it would bring him, Old Yu, not the slightest benefit.
It was the Qi-Gathering Pill he had found in the ancient tomb! A divine pill that could drive a cultivator straight from the peak of the late Earth Rank to the Heaven Rank!
But that divine pill was of little use to Old Yu either. His present strength was still far from the peak of the late Earth Rank, and if the hidden Yu family ever learned he had it, it would only spell trouble. Better to trade it for his life. He trusted that, having gained such a boon, the Zhao family would never go around boasting of it and drawing envy.
So, having thought it through, Old Yu spoke: "What if I trade treasures of heaven and earth of equal value? Would that do?"
"Oh? What heavenly treasure?" The Medicine King's interest was piqued; he raised an eyebrow and asked.
"A Qi-Gathering Pill! Worth no less — more, in fact — and beyond price, for there is no market for it!" Old Yu said, his resolve hardened.
"A Qi-Gathering Pill? What's that supposed to be?" Zhao Qibing had never heard of any Qi-Gathering Pill. "Is it valuable? Worth a billion?"
"Young Master Zhao, the Qi-Gathering Pill is a sacred medicine for cultivation! I believe that with your discernment, Medicine King, you must know its value." Old Yu knew Zhao Qibing's knowledge was shallow, and he took no offence — after all, he was the one asking a favour — so he explained with what patience he could muster.
"What you speak of... is it truly the legendary Qi-Gathering Pill?" The Medicine King's gaze sharpened; he fixed his eyes on Old Yu and asked gravely, "Old Yu, you are not joking with me, are you?"
"My old life rests in your hands, Medicine King. Would I dare joke about such a thing?" Old Yu smiled bitterly. "This time I went through living hell and back for that Qi-Gathering Pill, and in the end it came to nothing — and I suffered no end of torment besides!"
As he said this, Old Yu's expression turned bleak. At such cost in scheming, so gravely wounded, with his balls skewered and poison in his veins, he had at last carried the Qi-Gathering Pill safely out of the ancient tomb — only to hand it over to another to save his own skin. How pitiful!
"If you truly have such a thing, then it is I who am getting the better of this bargain!" The Medicine King knew the value of the Qi-Gathering Pill, and hearing Old Yu's confirmation, he could not help but be moved. "Might I have a look?"