Chapter 3477 — Demanding the Cauldron
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Likewise, some ancient sects and noble houses were reluctant, while others, eager to curry favor with Wei Zhao, were quite forthcoming. Together with the materials he had already gathered, Wei Zhao now held enough ingredients for a full fifteen batches of Qi-Gathering Pills!
Even allowing for a few failed refinings along the way, that much material would still yield a considerable number of Qi-Gathering Pills! Wei Zhao had three fragments of a heaven-tier trial entry token, which meant two remaining slots. Of those two, he intended to give one to Han Jingyi, and the other to either Wang Xinyan or Sun Jingyan!
Wang Xinyan's constitution was somewhat peculiar—no one knew whether she could cultivate at all. Sun Jingyan, meanwhile, was of the support type, and her mental cultivation method differed from Wei Zhao's, so it was unclear whether it would work for her. The crux of it was that Sun Jingyan's level did not follow the normal progression; whether she broke through to the Heavenly Dao or went to Cloud-Tier Island seemed to matter little to her!
But the Qi-Gathering Pills still had to be refined. Han Jingyi had to break through sooner or later!
Han Jingyi's first- and second-grade automatic medicinal cauldrons had already hit the market, yet the Xuan Dan Sect's—or rather, the Five Luminaries Sect's—imitations were still nowhere to be seen! It was not that Dr. Benjamin II did not want to release them; it was that a certain energy stone used in the first- and second-grade automatic cauldrons—the so-called spirit stones—could not be obtained at all!
The Five Luminaries Sect itself had precious few of these left—enough to keep for their own use, but far from sufficient to outfit their cauldrons. And even if they did sell them, they would be unable to provide after-sales service to the buyers!
When this news arrived, it threw Old Ancestor Xuanchen into a foul mood!
The Limit-Breaking Qi-Gathering Pills had not killed Wei Zhao. He Meiyue had not dealt with Wei Zhao. Now the technology for the first- and second-grade automatic medicinal cauldrons had been cracked, only to prove utterly useless—the most important material, the energy stone, simply could not be procured!
"Zhaoming, word has come from the automatic cauldron project—they cannot replicate it at all. We don't have enough energy stones, and I have no idea where Wei Zhao got his!" Old Ancestor Xuanchen said with some helplessness. "Forget about making money. It seems the Five Luminaries Sect is simply not suited to commerce. All this time we've been chasing every trend, and we've made nothing—we're on the verge of squandering our last reserves! And now my disciples are all but gone—dead or wounded. When the two of us leave for Cloud-Tier Island, I fear the Five Luminaries Sect of the mortal world will decline into ruin..."
"Well... Father-in-law, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. If you and I both break through to the Heavenly Dao at the same time, then when we return, reviving the Five Luminaries Sect will be no difficult task! I say we stop fretting over this. Wei Zhao's energy stones were probably obtained from the Poli clan—they have plenty of the stuff. Heaven knows what agreement Wei Zhao struck with the Poli clan back then; otherwise they would never have lifted a finger to kill our senior brother!" Kang Jingming said. "Still, speaking of energy stones, something did just occur to me! When Wei Zhao took the Limit-Breaking Qi-Gathering Pill, perhaps it was precisely because he had energy stones to draw power from that he turned disaster into safety!"
"Oh? That is quite likely!" Old Ancestor Xuanchen's expression darkened at the thought. "We should have realized this earlier. Had we known, we never would have refined that pill for him—what a waste of effort with nothing to show for it!"