Chapter 3138 — Kang Jingming Falls into the Trap
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"Yes, Second Grandfather, I understand!" Ouyang Nong said solemnly.
After hanging up, Ouyang Legend immediately dialed Kang Jingming's number.
"Greetings, Grand Elder Ouyang. How may I be of service?" Kang Jingming asked nervously when he picked up.
"Nothing much. Just wanted to tell you that first-grade pills have been selling rather well lately. If you have any more on hand, send some over. I'm afraid we'll run short," Ouyang Legend said offhandedly.
"I don't have any in stock at the moment, but rest assured, Grand Elder Ouyang, we can refine more quickly on our end. I'll have my people start at once, and we'll deliver them shortly!" Kang Jingming said hastily.
"Oh, then make it quick. If we run out here, we'll have no choice but to source from other channels. After all, the Cultivator's Commerce Association can hardly turn its back on profit!" Ouyang Legend said, seemingly casual, yet his words gave Kang Jingming a fright.
If Ouyang Legend truly bought from other channels, then all the pains Kang Jingming and Patriarch Xuanchen had taken would be for nothing. Wei Zhao was, after all, only one man; no matter how many pills he held, it was a limited quantity, and the Cultivator's Commerce Association could swallow his entire stock in a single purchase. If that happened, Kang Jingming would be left weeping with no recourse.
"Rest assured, Grand Elder Ouyang, we'll work through the night and deliver a large batch of first-grade pills to you in no time!" Kang Jingming said in alarm.
"Good, then I'll wait on you," Ouyang Legend said. "I'll give you three days."
"Three days—that's plenty!" Kang Jingming breathed a sigh of relief.
After hanging up, a cold smile flickered at the corner of Ouyang Legend's mouth. He valued Ouyang Nong immensely. He himself now had one foot through the gate of the Heavenly Dao, and with no other ambitions left before the opportunity on Cloud Terrace Island arrived, all his hopes rested on this younger kinsman of his.
Ouyang Nong's injury had been an unhealing wound in his heart. Now that the boy was healed, Ouyang Legend was overjoyed, and he was endlessly grateful to Ouyang Nong's benefactor. Whatever Ouyang Nong asked of him, so long as it lay within his power, he would never refuse.
To quietly deal the Xuandan Sect a blow, so long as it did not harm the Cultivator's Commerce Association's overall interests—on that condition, Ouyang Legend had agreed.
As for Kang Jingming, after hanging up he set people to purchasing materials for first-grade pills, then mobilized the entire sect. Whether disciples of the Five Luminaries Sect or the Xuandan Sect, anyone with spare time began refining first-grade pills in vast quantities.
This time, Kang Jingming and Patriarch Xuanchen went all in, pouring out nearly every liquid asset the Five Luminaries Sect possessed to buy materials for first-grade pills. It was not that Patriarch Xuanchen was foolish or easily duped—mainly, in his view, once the first-grade pills were refined they could always be sold. Spirit-Gathering Pills were, after all, a highly popular pill, in constant short supply among the hidden families, ordinary sects, and even the ancient sects. Refining them could not possibly mean a loss.
Shrewd as Patriarch Xuanchen was, he could never have imagined that something as heaven-defying as a first-grade automatic pill cauldron existed. In his mind, such a thing simply did not exist.
So Patriarch Xuanchen did not overthink it. He simply ordered Kang Jingming to find people to refine a great quantity of first-grade pills. It did not matter if they could not be sold for now—so long as Wei Zhao's pills could be blocked. Wei Zhao's stock would rot in his hands, while the Xuandan Sect's first-grade pills could sell for three to five years if need be. In the end, such goods would always sell through.