Chapter 3144 — The Five Luminaries Sect's Plans
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The Liu family of the secular world? Guan Daifu Pharmaceuticals? Everyone present knew well enough who stood behind those two names—none other than Wei Zhao, the loose cultivator whose star was currently in the ascendant.
"Wei Zhao!" Kang Jingming spat the two words out through clenched teeth, venom in every syllable.
"So it's our enemy after all! It seems we've been unjust to the Cultivator's Chamber of Commerce," said Patriarch Xuanchen. The moment he heard the name Guan Daifu Pharmaceuticals, his thoughts leaped straight to Wei Zhao, and Wei Zhao's motive was plain enough: if you poach my pill market, then I'll make sure your pills can't be sold at all.
"Father-in-law, how do we deal with this?" Kang Jingming was grinding his teeth in fury. Wei Zhao again! He had never imagined that this venture with Patriarch Xuanchen would end with them losing their capital and more—hoist with their own petard. They had refined so many first-grade pills, and now who on earth were they supposed to sell them to?
"What else can we do? When the time comes, we'll buy a few of these first-grade automatic cauldrons and take them back to study. See if we can replicate them!" Patriarch Xuanchen said, unwilling to let it go.
"Or how about we raid the Liu family and Guan Daifu Pharmaceuticals in the secular world? I'd wager this thing is manufactured by the secular Liu family and Guan Daifu Pharmaceuticals. We go there and see if we can seize the production records!" Kang Jingming's mind worked quickly. Since the thing was tangled up with Wei Zhao, it had most likely been commissioned from the Liu family or Guan Daifu Pharmaceuticals—after all, the Cultivator's Chamber of Commerce had known nothing of it beforehand. The only explanation was that Wei Zhao had produced it first and then partnered with Ouyang Nong. So if they wanted the research data, going straight to the manufacturer was the easiest route.
Besides, Kang Jingming had made a specialty of bribery and industrial espionage in the past; he knew the ropes.
"No!" Patriarch Xuanchen shook his head and rejected the idea outright. "Since Ouyang Nong named the secular Liu family and Guan Daifu Pharmaceuticals separately and said the cauldron was jointly launched with them, that tells us that both the Liu family and Guan Daifu Pharmaceuticals are currently strategic partners of the Cultivator's Chamber of Commerce. If we move against either of them, we make an enemy of the Chamber. That would be a most unwise move!"
"What? Father-in-law, are you saying the Five Luminaries Sect is afraid of the Cultivator's Chamber of Commerce?" Kang Jingming asked, puzzled.
"Since you're my son-in-law, there are some things I won't keep from you. Our Five Luminaries Sect may be a leading power on the ancient plane, but the Cultivator's Chamber of Commerce is a being that transcends the ancient plane!" Patriarch Xuanchen said in a low voice.
"Transcends the ancient plane? What does that mean?" Kang Jingming was slightly taken aback.
"The Cultivator's Chamber of Commerce spans the hidden plane and the ancient plane. But above these, there is also a Cultivator's Chamber of Commerce, and although I don't know whether the two are one organization, I fear there's an eighty percent chance they are one and the same." Patriarch Xuanchen's face was grave. "If the Chamber here is backed by the Chamber of that plane, then never mind us as we are—even if we stood on that plane ourselves, we could not make an enemy of the Cultivator's Chamber of Commerce!"
"What's all this about this plane and that plane?" Kang Jingming was utterly lost, hearing only fog and mist.