Chapter 3993 — Kang Jingming Stamps the Pills
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Yet what happened next caught Shangguan Lan'er utterly off guard. There was no mocking or jeering as she had expected. Instead, a single collective gasp rose from the entire hall.
Shangguan Lan'er was stunned. Everyone present was a person of rank and standing, each of them deeply experienced and worldly; what rare treasures had they not laid eyes upon?
And yet Wei Zhao's gift had left them all collectively stunned and speechless. That was surely a bit too much.
But when Shangguan Lan'er herself saw what lay inside the spirit-jade box, even she could not help gasping in disbelief.
Within the spirit-jade box rested two pills, Foundation Establishment Golden Cores like Kang Jingming's, but with one slight difference: the two Wei Zhao had given were wreathed in layer upon layer of entrancing pill halos. They were, astonishingly, the legendary and exceedingly rare top-grade Foundation Establishment Golden Cores!
Top-grade Foundation Establishment Golden Cores—marvelous pills that only a legendary alchemist of Zhang Lifeng's caliber could possibly refine!
Search the entire Northern Island Pill Hall, count every alchemist from top to bottom, and one would likely find not a single soul capable of producing a top-grade Foundation Establishment Golden Core.
If an alchemist like Kang Jingming, able to refine high-grade Foundation Establishment Golden Cores, could be counted among the elite, then an alchemist capable of refining top-grade Foundation Establishment Golden Cores was, without question, of grandmaster rank!
For a time no one in the hall spoke at all. Even Xu Lingchong and Kang Jingming, who had deliberately stirred up this scene and been stewing in their desire to see Wei Zhao humiliated, were struck dumb with shock.
"This... this has gotta be fake, right?" Kang Jingming could not help muttering aloud.
Ten days and ten nights to refine a single high-grade Foundation Establishment Golden Core—that was already the limit of what he could achieve, and even then only with Xu Lingchong's considerable support. To refine a top-grade Foundation Establishment Golden Core seemed to him utterly impossible, at least certainly not something an alchemist of his rank could ever hope for.
But Wei Zhao—this fellow had crossed paths with him since the secular world, and they knew each other inside and out. He had never once heard that the man possessed any heaven-defying alchemical talent, still less believed he had any profound mastery of alchemy. How could he possibly have suddenly refined top-grade Foundation Establishment Golden Cores?!
No matter how one looked at it, this was completely unscientific and utterly unreasonable!
Kang Jingming's words set the whole hall abuzz. Had these two top-grade Foundation Establishment Golden Cores come from the hand of some great personage present, there would have been nothing strange about it. But they had come from a mere newcomer, and that was simply too shocking for words.
Two top-grade Foundation Establishment Golden Cores—not to mention that they were priceless and unobtainable, even at the lowest prices of the past they would be worth at least several thousand spirit jades. That was far beyond what any ordinary newcomer could afford.
Xu Lingchong, who had himself been mired in shock, brightened at the words and shot Kang Jingming a meaningful look. "Junior Brother Kang, you are an alchemist, and you have personally refined Foundation Establishment Golden Cores. No one is better qualified to judge whether such pills are genuine. On an occasion as important as this, we cannot let certain persons with ulterior motives slip through. It would be better to examine them carefully."
Seeing that none of the great personages present showed any sign of objecting, Kang Jingming nodded in understanding and stepped forward at once. Before little Curly Bear could react, he snatched up the Foundation Establishment Golden Cores along with the spirit-jade box.