Chapter 2754 — An Angered Tian Canbian
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"Yes. Send the formula back to my email inbox. While you're in Donghai you can visit your relatives—come back when that's done," Tian Canbian said.
"Understood. Thank you, Young Sect Master," Kang Jingming answered hurriedly.
After hanging up, Tian Canbian felt a faint pang of disappointment. A fourth-grade formula after all—which made it rather worthless. Within the Xuan Dan Sect, no one could refine a fourth-grade pill; not even Patriarch Xuan Zhen could.
And on the phone just now, as Young Sect Master, Tian Canbian naturally could not vent his pleasure or anger in front of Kang Jingming. He was merely rather irritated: this Wei Zhao, whom he had never even met, had actually played him for a fool!
Wei Zhao must have known that this formula was a fourth-grade one. And knowing it, he had still dared to open his mouth so greedily and demand a third-grade pill from him—the sheer effrontery of it, taking him for an idiot!
Then again, on second thought, Wei Zhao was no alchemist—could he even know the difference between third-grade and fourth-grade pills? But if he did not know, could Han Jingyi—or rather, Leader Bai—fail to know? The more Tian Canbian thought about it, the more he concluded that Wei Zhao was simply rotten to the core. He had committed that name to memory and meant to teach him a lesson when the chance came.
When Patriarch Xuan Zhen received the formula, he took it rather calmly. After reading it through, he sighed and ventured, "The step added to this formula must be precisely the flaw that existed in the earlier version. Back then, Patriarch Zhang Lifeng simplified the formula so that more people could refine it—but it came with this flaw."
"Master, then now... what should we..." Tian Canbian asked cautiously.
No one knew that Patriarch Xuan Zhen actually had a disciple—and that this disciple was none other than Tian Canbian! Few in the Xuan Dan Sect knew of this, and in the Five Luminaries Sect, Patriarch Xuan Zhen alone knew it!
No wonder Patriarch Xuan Zhen kept such close ties with the Xuan Dan Sect—now it made sense. So this was the connection between them.
Only when no outsiders were present did Tian Canbian address Patriarch Xuan Zhen as "Master." At all other times, he did as everyone else and respectfully called him "Patriarch" or "Patriarch Xuan Zhen."
"There's nothing to be done. Even if I could refine this formula, there's no original Marrow-Cleansing and Bone-Refining Pill left to take. Kang Jingming will have to refine it first, and after I've taken it, I can continue refining..." Patriarch Xuan Zhen was a man who could take things up and set them down with equal ease. He smiled and said, "Never mind. It was a windfall to begin with—no point in forcing it. Withdraw for now; I want to think alone..."
"Yes, Master!" Tian Canbian cupped his hands in salute and withdrew from Patriarch Xuan Zhen's room.
Kang Jingming left, taking Kang Jinglong with him. They had no face to remain in Leader Bai's office any longer. Fortunately, Kang Jingming had completed the Xuan Dan Sect's task this time, which counted as barely securing his footing. Returning to the Kang family once more, he could be said to have come home in silken robes, a triumphant return.
Wang Xinyan had been sitting on the sofa the whole time without saying a word, yet her heart was a tangle of complex emotions and endless sighs. She had never expected Wei Zhao to make such demands of Kang Jingming. It seemed that in Wei Zhao's heart, she mattered a great deal!
Otherwise, at the very beginning, when Wei Zhao had agreed to give Kang Jingming the formula simply to cure her illness, he had not raised a single condition—which in itself showed just how important she was in Wei Zhao's heart.