Chapter 1745 — Greed
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That was not a matter of his family's ability either—they simply lacked the skill. Kang Jingming could not make sense of the prescription himself, but he forwarded it straight to the mailbox of You Zhentian of the Hidden Right Family.
Kang Jingming had not expected Guan Xuewen to capitulate so easily. In his estimation, Guan Xuewen ought to have gone to Wei Zhao, and given Wei Zhao's temperament, Wei Zhao ought to have sought out Guan Xin and mounted a rescue first, only to be crushed by the Hidden Right Family's Earth-rank experts, and only then, with no way out, hand over the prescription. But none of that happened—Guan Xuewen simply produced the prescription outright!
This made Kang Jingming regret it somewhat. Truly, what you seek far and wide comes to you without any effort at all! Had he known, why would he ever have cooperated with the Hidden Right Family? A few thugs plucked off the street could have kidnapped Guan Xin, and once his family had the prescription in hand, their bargaining chips against the Hidden Right Family would have been far stronger than they were now!
But matters had already come to this, and regret availed Kang Jingming nothing—the Hidden Right Family had simply reaped a huge bargain. Of course, the authenticity of the prescription had yet to be confirmed, so it was a bit early for regrets.
When You Zhentian received the email, he noted that it stated the Life-Extending Detox Pill required a alchemist of the third rank or above to refine it, yet he was not surprised in the least. He had known all along that Wei Zhao was an alchemist; though he did not know the man's true strength, it was no wonder that a pill of such heaven-defying caliber had come from an alchemist's hands.
Thus Wei Zhao's tampering was taken by You Zhentian as entirely natural—this was the trouble that appearances brought. You Zhentian gave the pill formula a cursory look and found the arrangement of pharmacology and medicinal properties to be exceedingly reasonable. Put simply, there was nothing wrong with the formula at all.
Anyone who refines pills knows that a single ingredient used improperly can risk blowing up the furnace, and this formula plainly carried no such risk. You Zhentian did not believe that Guan Xuewen or Wei Zhao could have fabricated such a reasonable formula in so short a time.
Unless this formula was not the formula for the Life-Extending Detox Pill at all—but if it was, then there should be no problem.
After all, anyone capable of freely altering a pill formula was a top-tier alchemist. Never mind the Hidden Right Family—it was doubtful whether even the Mystic Pill Sect harbored talent of that caliber.
You Zhentian quickly printed out the formula and brought it to the current helmsman of the Hidden Right Family, Old Master You Taishan.
"Father, the formula is in hand. Please, Elder, examine it and judge whether it is genuine!" You Zhentian presented the formula with both hands and handed it to You Taishan for inspection.
"Oh? The Kang family works with remarkable efficiency—obtaining the formula in such a short while?" You Taishan took the formula with some surprise and said, "Have you looked it over? Is there any problem with this formula?"
"From my examination, there is no problem at all in the arrangement of pharmacology and medicinal properties; it will not blow the furnace. But whether this formula is truly the Life-Extending Detox Pill, I am not quite certain..." You Zhentian said.
"Fine, let me have a look first and we shall see!" You Taishan nodded. He had a fair measure of confidence in this son of his, whose intuition for alchemy was excellent; if he said there was no problem, then there was basically no problem.