Chapter 4989 — Sealing the Heavenly Elixir Pavilion
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"Ha ha, Vice Island Lord Wu is indeed a man of keen perception. To be frank with you all, though today you are nominally doing the Myriad Medicines Sect a favor, in truth you are doing me a favor as well." Zheng Dongjue and Zheng Dongyang exchanged a smile.
"What do you mean by that?" Wu Che and Nan Tian Liuguang were still utterly at a loss.
Catching the meaningful glance Zheng Dongjue shot him, Tong Yangxi hastened to explain, "There have long been outsiders speculating and sniping about who stands behind the Myriad Medicines Sect, and we have never responded directly. But Vice Island Lord Wu and Vice Chancellor Nan Tian are hardly outsiders, so there is no need to keep hiding it. The power behind the Myriad Medicines Sect is far in the sky and yet right before your eyes: it is the Zheng family!"
"Is such a thing possible?!" Wu Che and Nan Tian Liuguang were startled at the same time. This was no small surprise. The Zheng family had a seventh-rank alchemist like Zheng Dongyang and Zheng Dongjue, whose word in the Elixir Hall was law, and yet hidden behind them was a commercial force on the scale of the Myriad Medicines Sect. They already bore a trace of what it meant to be a top-tier clan!
"Absolutely true. This matter should not be spread abroad, so I hope the two of you will keep it confidential for us." Zheng Dongjue nodded.
"Naturally." Wu Che and Nan Tian Liuguang nodded again and again, thinking to themselves that no wonder a mere Myriad Medicines Sect could summon a seventh-rank alchemist like Zheng Dongyang and have him take such pains to help deal with the Heavenly Elixir Pavilion. It was their own family's enterprise all along!
But this only hardened their resolve to cultivate ties with Zheng Dongyang and Zheng Dongjue. A family of such scale, even if not truly a top-tier clan, was still a formidable ally on one side, one that could prove of great use in days to come.
"The Myriad Medicines Sect is of the utmost importance to my Zheng family. The Heavenly Elixir Pavilion must be eliminated. I entrust this matter to you, Vice Island Lord Wu." Zheng Dongjue cupped his hands in salute.
"Leave it to me. Wait for good news." Wu Che nodded with great readiness.
Wu Che was a man of swift and decisive action. He immediately sent word to the Island Lord's Pavilion and requisitioned a squad of Central Island Guards, then swept off in grand array toward the Heavenly Elixir Pavilion.
The market street was thrown into an uproar once again. In a span of barely a single day, the Heavenly Elixir Pavilion had become the center of attention for the third time. The first two occasions were one thing, but this third time had actually stirred the Central Island Guards, and even the Standing Vice Island Lord Wu Che had appeared in person. This affair had truly blown up.
Because Wei Zhao had earlier opened sales of seventh-rank elixirs, not only placing five seventh-rank Great Return Pills on the display stand but also announcing that orders would be accepted for any kind of seventh-rank elixir, the Heavenly Elixir Pavilion now brimmed with popularity. The little shop was packed three layers deep and then some, its business more booming than ever before.
With so many customers, they simply could not keep up. Not only did Xueli and Tianchan pitch in personally, even Wei Shenjin was so busy his feet hardly touched the ground. As for Wei Zhao, he had simply gone off to the Five Elements Merchant Guild to find Cai Zhongxuan—first, to pay his respects to him and Hou Guanqi, and second, to borrow a few assistants to meet the emergency. Otherwise, with only Xueli and the others to rely on, they would have been worked to death.
As it turned out, it was precisely during this interval while Wei Zhao was off at the Five Elements Merchant Guild fetching reinforcements that Wu Che led his men in a charge upon the Heavenly Elixir Pavilion.