Chapter 4834 — A Scene Gone Mad
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
The whole hall erupted, an uproar even more shocking than when the Beauty-Enhancing Pill had appeared. Before, only the women had gone mad; this time, everyone's hair stood on end.
What kind of merchant guild was this, to produce superior-quality Thunder Mystery Pills—and five of them at once?!
One had to know that in any Yellow-Tier academy of East Continent, the Thunder Mystery Pill was the most scarce of seventh-grade pills, bar none!
After all, every disciple of a Yellow-Tier academy shared one common goal: to break through to the Mystery Ascension. Only after succeeding could they rise higher and travel to the Mystery-Tier sea regions—and the Thunder Mystery Pill was indispensable to everyone's breakthrough. However great your talent, you could not do without it.
And it was well known that the high-grade pills of any great merchant guild—especially those at the seventh-grade level—came mostly from the academies' alchemists. Though the guilds had their own other channels, those could not remotely compare with the academies.
For anyone capable of reaching the level of a seventh-grade alchemist could only be found in one place in all East Continent: the academies. Only they could truly afford to support such seventh-grade alchemists; nowhere else could keep such people at all.
But this time, the Hong Clan Merchant Guild, without relying on academy alchemists, possessed such high-grade stock all on its own—each lot more staggering than the last, even producing five Thunder Mystery Pills in one go. It was simply defying the heavens!
Seeing the explosive reaction throughout the hall, even Old Chai, usually so mild-tempered, grew excited. Had he not been mindful of his dignity as branch manager, he would scarcely have restrained himself from dancing for joy.
"The strategy you devised was indeed correct—good things need not be many; four are enough!" Old Chai said, gazing at Wei Zhao with a face full of admiration.
According to his original plan, besides the pills Wei Zhao had refined on the spot, he had wanted to add in the lots prepared earlier. But Wei Zhao had vetoed it with a single sentence: those things, though they seemed rare, could actually be obtained by anyone, and mixing them in would only lower their own standing.
"Heh. Rather than dragging ourselves down with useless filler, better to bring out just these four heavy hitters. That way we build our reputation and leave a deep impression," Wei Zhao said with a faint smile.
If the earlier bidding had been fierce, then this time, faced with the lure of five superior Thunder Mystery Pills, the entire scene had gone as wild as a battlefield!
"This set of five superior Thunder Mystery Pills will be auctioned separately, each with a reserve price of three million spirit jade!" the white-bearded elder announced, straining his voice. A single superior Thunder Mystery Pill already commanded an outrageous price; had the five been bundled together for auction, there would have been no way to play the game at all, for no one could easily swallow such a sum.