Chapter 2393 — The Kang Family's Surprise
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"Hmm... but if we insist on marrying Wang Xinyan to Kang Jinglong, won't Wei Zhao push back? Even if he doesn't lift a finger, won't the Hidden Pi family?" Xiao Ji asked, somewhat worried.
"This business actually has nothing to do with our Xiao family at all. We can simply kick the ball into the Kang family's court—surely the Kang family won't agree to break off the engagement, will they?" Xiao Ben smiled darkly. "Of course, we need to fan the flames and stir up the Kang family's emotions. Right now the Kang family has the Hidden You family as their backer, and they're utterly puffed up with self-importance. When the time comes, our Xiao family will throw in our lot with the Hidden You family too—the Hidden Pi family is definitely finished as a backer..."
"Fine, then we'll do it Second Brother's way!" Xiao Ji nodded and said.
What Xiao Ji said was actually quite true. Over this period, the Kang family's self-confidence had indeed swelled tremendously, almost to its peak!
The reason was simple. Kang Jingming, who had previously been said to be working for the Hidden You family, had suddenly sent word that he was in fact not working for the Hidden You family at all—rather, he had been chosen by the ancient sect, the Xuandan Sect, to go and help them with a certain matter!
Although Kang Jingming had not made clear in that brief phone call exactly what he was doing for the Xuandan Sect, Old Master Kang had heard that note of superiority in Kang Jingming's voice! Kang Jingming must be doing quite well for himself now—otherwise he wouldn't have been able to make such a call home!
Kang Jingming was indeed doing well. After being taken back to the Xuandan Sect, the sect's old master, Tian Diren, had personally examined his physique and found that it was indeed suited to refining the Marrow-Cleansing Bone-Tempering Pill. So on one hand he had the Fifth Elder begin instructing him in the art of pill refinement, while on the other he personally opened the furnace to refine the Flame-Scorching Sun Pill for Kang Jingming, to transform his physique!
The Flame-Scorching Sun Pill was a third-grade pill. Refining it was extremely difficult—several attempts might not yield a single success—and it consumed an enormous amount of stamina. This was also why Tian Diren would not lightly agree to refine the Ice-Heart Jade-Bone Pill for Bing Tang!
With that kind of time and energy, he couldn't even refine enough third-grade pills for his own family's needs—refining pills for others? Naturally that was out of the question!
Even the Xuandan Sect's trial rewards made it explicitly clear: the prize could be any single finished third-grade pill currently in the Xuandan Sect's possession, but one could not demand that the Xuandan Sect refine a third-grade pill on one's behalf. If the Sect had no third-grade pill that the trial-taker needed, other rare treasures and heavenly materials would be substituted!
That alone was enough to show just how difficult third-grade pills were to refine!
Of course, most of the Xuandan Sect's stock of third-grade pills had not actually been refined by Tian Diren, but by the senior fellow disciple of Ancestor Xuanchen, from that place! Ancestor Xuanchen's senior fellow disciple was a pill refiner of a higher level than Tian Diren—but just how high, Tian Diren did not dare to ask.
Of course, if Ancestor Xuanchen's senior fellow disciple had not been in secluded cultivation, Tian Diren would certainly have begged him for help in refining third-grade pills. But now there was no help for it—he would have to wield the ladle himself.
Once the matter was settled, Kang Jingming was permitted to make a phone call home. And when he told Divine Doctor Kang all of this, Divine Doctor Kang was both astonished and overjoyed! He had never expected that this grandson of his, whom he had always looked down on, would once again bring him an incomparable surprise!