Chapter 3817 — Three Sets of Materials!
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Meng Jueming was well aware that even though he had already latched onto Xu Lingchong, the big tree, if he wanted to gain real importance in the days to come, he would still need sufficiently formidable strength. And that strength referred not only to himself, but even more to the fresh underlings beneath him, for these people were the very foundation on which his future rise to glory rested!
So by both sentiment and reason, Meng Jueming could not simply refuse Li Zhengming outright. Even if he had no Foundation Establishment Pill on hand, he at least owed the man a plausible answer.
After hesitating for a long while, Meng Jueming finally spoke in a slow, halting rumble: "Zhengming, that you have such a heart is a great comfort to your senior brother. It is only a pity that I have no Foundation Establishment Pill on hand at present. Otherwise, why would I have waited for you to speak? I would have given it to you long ago, no?"
At these words, Li Zhengming's heart sank at once. Though in secret he had long since become Wei Zhao's inside man, the wish to break through to Foundation Establishment that he had voiced to Meng Jueming was not false in the slightest.
As one of the Azure Cloud Pavilion's top five newcomers, he alone remained struggling at the Heaven Tier great consummation while the other four had all become early-stage Foundation Establishment hands. And he could see no hope of it coming soon. To him, this feeling was nothing short of torment.
He bore a blood feud on his shoulders and had devoted himself to keeping a low profile, but even a low profile had its limits. If he watched people whose innate talent and foundation were inferior to his own succeed at Foundation Establishment one after another while he, Li Zhengming, stayed bottled up at the Heaven Tier great consummation without moving an inch, that would no longer be discretion. That would be sheer stupidity.
So Li Zhengming was, at this moment, truly desperate to make an attempt at Foundation Establishment. And what he asked was really not much at all. Just a single Foundation Establishment Pill.
By rights, Li Zhengming was now Wei Zhao's inside man, and he could simply have raised this matter with Wei Zhao. But after all, he had not been in Wei Zhao's camp for very long, and apart from sending over a few pieces of intelligence, he felt he had done nothing for Wei Zhao, nor had any achievement worth boasting of.
Strictly speaking, his submission to Wei Zhao back then had been a forced move to save his life after a failed ambush, not a voluntary one. That Wei Zhao had spared his miserable life was already an enormous kindness. So now he truly had no face to open his mouth to Wei Zhao about this.
By contrast, the present situation was one where Wei Zhao's faction held absolute dominance, and Meng Jueming likewise needed someone to step forward and share the pressure for him. So Li Zhengming thought to seize this opportunity to ask Meng Jueming, reasoning that in light of his past merits and the current grim circumstances, Meng Jueming ought, by both sentiment and reason, to find some way to get him a Foundation Establishment Pill.
Little did he expect that Meng Jueming had no such intention at all!
His claim of having no Foundation Establishment Pill on hand was very likely the truth, but if he did not have one, could he not think of some way to get one?
Everyone knew that on Meng Zhou, another underling beneath this same managing senior brother, vast quantities of precious elixirs had been lavished one after another. Not to mention Foundation Establishment Pills and Foundation Establishment Liquid, there had even been the fourth-grade Great Returning Pill, hailed as a life-saving divine elixir. And two of them at that!