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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"Naturally!" Old Yu had already resolved to use it as his bargaining chip for survival; how could he not let the Medicine King examine it first? He drew a small bottle from his breast and handed it to the Medicine King with great care, his heart aching with reluctance — for this thing he had risked his life, and in the blink of an eye it would belong to another.
The Medicine King likewise took the bottle carefully, opened the stopper and sniffed. Astonishment immediately spread across his face. "Judging by the pill's quality, colour and fragrance, it must be a pill of at least the third grade. The colour and scent match the legendary Qi-Gathering Pill closely — this should be genuine!"
"I would not deceive you," Old Yu said, his heart bleeding.
"Good! I will do all in my power to purge the poison for you!" the Medicine King declared on the spot. This deal was simply too good to pass up! After all, this was a spirit pill capable of raising a cultivator from the peak of the late Earth Rank to the Heaven Rank — and at present, the head of the Zhao family was stuck fast at precisely that bottleneck, with six years and more gone by and no progress made. If he and Zhao Qibing could present this pill to the patriarch, then their standing in the Zhao family would be that of men who had rendered immortal service!
"Wait a moment!" Old Yu now waved a hand and cut the Medicine King off.
"Oh? Is there something else, Old Yu?" the Medicine King asked, betraying nothing in his face, though inwardly he feared Old Yu might renege and demand the pill back in exchange for the billion.
"The rest of my body is injured too. You will heal those as well — that should be no problem, yes?" Since Old Yu was paying such a price, he could hardly settle for mere detoxification.
"Naturally, no problem at all," the Medicine King agreed readily.
In truth, while removing the poison was no easy matter for the Medicine King, it was by no means overly taxing either. He merely wished Old Yu to feel he had gotten his money's worth for the pill, and so deliberately stretched a poison that could be cured in a single day into three. As for the wounds on Old Yu's hand and on his balls, those were trifles; the Medicine King dealt with them straight away.
After one round of treatment, Old Yu was much improved in spirits, and at last he breathed a sigh of relief and returned to the hotel first.
"Medicine King, what exactly is that Qi-Gathering Pill?" Zhao Qibing had held his tongue until now. From the Medicine King's expression he could tell it was certainly a good thing, but he did not know just how good.
"Congratulations, Young Master Bing, congratulations! This time our Zhao family will enter a new era of glory!" The Medicine King now burst into hearty laughter. "Heaven truly favours the Zhao family! This Qi-Gathering Pill is a spirit medicine that can help a man break through from the peak of the late Earth Rank straight to the Heaven Rank. Even among the legendary ancient sects, such pills were rarely seen — and now, of all people, our Zhao family has got its hands on one!"
"What?!" Zhao Qibing was utterly stunned by the Medicine King's words. "Really? Truly? This thing is that powerful? Then doesn't that mean... once Grandfather takes this pill, he'll become a Heaven Rank expert?"
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