Chapter 3813 — The Midnight-Noon Heart-Shattering Pill
The Blossom Guardian · Page 1 of 3
"When the master is shamed, the servant dies"—Meng Jueming's meaning could not have been plainer: to deal with Wei Zhao, there was only one way out. Resources had to be poured into Meng Zhou, to push him as swiftly as possible to the peak of the early Foundation Establishment stage and reclaim their advantage in sheer cultivation rank.
Otherwise, they could only stand by and watch Wei Zhao and his crew keep swaggering about. And when that happened, the ones disgraced would not merely be these underlings—far more important was the face of Xu Lingchong, the Young Master himself. If he could not even settle a mere newcomer from the secular world like Wei Zhao, what grand ambitions could he possibly speak of hereafter?
But to take a fine hand like Meng Zhou, only at the early Foundation Establishment stage, and swiftly raise him to its very peak—how easy was that, really?
Had the fellow possessed deep foundations and already brushed against the barrier between the early Foundation Establishment stage and its peak, then that would have been a different matter. After all, that would be a simple case of a single Foundation-Breaking Pill—nothing for Young Master Xu to hesitate over.
The problem was that this fellow had broken through to Foundation Establishment less than a month ago—and even that breakthrough had not come from his own accumulated depth, but had been forced through by the combined use of a Foundation Establishment Pill and Foundation Establishment Liquid.
One might say that Meng Zhou's foundations were even shallower than those of an ordinary early-stage Foundation Establishment hand. Otherwise, he would never have been fought to a mutual ruin twice in a row by Qiao Hongcai, who had himself broken through only days before!
His Thousand Legs martial technique, matched against Qiao Hongcai's Iron Cold Palm, should in theory have given him a considerable edge between cultivators of the same rank—and yet twice over he could only fight Qiao Hongcai to a draw. That fact alone spoke volumes.
To forcibly elevate a Foundation Establishment hand with such wretched foundations to the peak of the early stage—though with Young Master Xu's background it was not as if there were no means at all, the resources consumed in doing so were simply not something a single Foundation-Breaking Pill could ever be compared to!
If the pill resources required here were converted into spirit herbs, it would be nowhere near a matter of a few hundred spirit jade—it would be a scale of at least a thousand spirit jade!
For such a colossal price, even a young master with foundations as absurdly deep as Xu Lingchong's would, once the sum was spent, be pained to the point of spitting blood.
And besides—if he truly had such extraordinary pills in hand, capable of forcibly raising a person by a full grade, why would he not keep them for his own use, instead of giving them to a lowly underling like Meng Zhou, who did not even count as one of his trusted retainers?
But looking at the eager, pleading faces of Meng Jueming and the others, Xu Lingchong was, after all, a young master of standing. To refuse outright would leave him feeling somewhat unable to save face.
After all, what Meng Jueming said was the plain truth. If they did not find a way to quickly raise Meng Zhou's strength, then through proper channels at least, there was already very little they could do to punish Wei Zhao and his band of insolent fools who knew not the height of heaven and the depth of earth.
Before absolute strength, no matter how many ingenious schemes Meng Jueming devised, in the end he still could not take the field in Meng Zhou's place. However clever and cunning the stratagem, when all was said and done, not to mention Wei Zhao himself, they likely could not even settle his two underlings. How was that supposed to work?