Chapter 3818 — Reporting Intelligence
The Blossom Guardian · Page 1 of 3
Three sets of Foundation Establishment Pill ingredients were, in theory, indeed enough to refine three Foundation Establishment Pills, and genuinely enough for him, Li Zhengming, to make a push toward the Foundation Establishment stage. The problem was that he was nothing but a newcomer to Qingyun Pavilion—where would he find the financial means to hire an alchemist to do the refining?
At the Alchemy Hall, no matter what pill one wished to refine, beyond providing one's own ingredients, there was an absolute baseline requirement of handing over two hundred spirit jades. This was a threshold that even Senior Brother Kubi, a managing senior brother with years of savings, could not meet—let alone Li Zhengming, a mere newcomer at the peak of the Heaven Rank.
The greatest value of a pill lay not in the ingredients, but in the refining process! Never mind three sets of ingredients—even five or eight sets, and no alchemist would dare guarantee that a single Foundation Establishment Pill could be produced!
And setting the Alchemy Hall aside, if one wanted to buy one outright in the market, a single Foundation Establishment Pill would cost at least two hundred and fifty spirit jades. There was simply no way Li Zhengming could afford such a price!
In other words, these three sets of Foundation Establishment Pill ingredients that Meng Jueming had given him were utterly useless—not worth a fart. Meng Jueming himself must surely have foreseen this outcome, yet he still insisted on putting on this hypocritical show of being the good man!
Looking at the two faces of Meng Jueming and Meng Zhou, and thinking back on how he had once been blind enough to risk his life for people like this, Li Zhengming felt disgust welling up from the very bottom of his heart!
"Then I thank Senior Brother Meng for your concern," Li Zhengming could only force down his stifled resentment and play along with the other man.
Meng Jueming chuckled. "I am glad you can appreciate my painstaking efforts, Zhengming. This senior brother is most gratified. Work hard in the days to come, and I will certainly not treat you unfairly."
"Of course. I will certainly not let Senior Brother Meng's high expectations down." Li Zhengming's mouth twitched involuntarily. Just how brainless would I have to be to believe Meng Jueming's nonsense about not treating me unfairly?
Things having come to this, he had utterly given up hope on Meng Jueming. Were it not for the need to keep serving as Wei Zhao's mole, he would even have been tempted to fall out with the man publicly. Fortunately, his capacity for forbearance far exceeded that of ordinary men. No matter how disgusted he felt inside, he could still keep enduring it.
And apart from the consideration of continuing as Wei Zhao's mole, there was one thing Meng Zhou had just said that also weighed heavily on his mind: Meng Zhou had actually claimed he was about to advance another step!
Earlier, when Xu Lingchong and Meng Jueming had spoken, they had deliberately sought out a remote corner, one that even Li Zhengming could not approach too closely. So he did not know exactly what these people had plotted. But he could now be certain that whatever they had discussed was definitely connected to that sentence Meng Zhou had let slip just now!
And if one carefully pondered that casual sentence of Meng Zhou's, the hidden implications within were enormous!
Meng Zhou had only recently reached Foundation Establishment, and even then he had barely succeeded by relying on a Foundation Establishment Pill combined with Foundation Establishment Liquid. By any reasonable measure, with a foundation like his, he should not even dream of advancing another step for several years. Yet the man was already making such a claim now!