Chapter 5150 — A Different Path
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"How can that be?" Zheng Dongyang's face darkened. Wei Zhao and the Heavenly Elixir Pavilion had long been thorns in his side. Now that Wei Zhao's primordial spirit had projected to the mundane world, it was the perfect opportunity to crush the Heavenly Elixir Pavilion beyond recovery. To that end, he had even stooped to using his influence as a seventh-grade alchemist to personally take part in spreading rumors—and even that had only produced a barely satisfactory result?
"I hate to say it, but I have to admit the Heavenly Elixir Pavilion is truly no simple matter. To be fair, their pills are genuinely high quality and low priced, and over the past few years they've built up a rather impressive reputation on the hype of their top-grade pills. With just a few rumors from us, it's simply impossible to do them real damage." Tong Yangxi shook his head helplessly.
"So all our efforts were wasted?" Zheng Dongyang frowned.
"Not exactly. What we can do is take advantage of Wei Zhao's absence to completely seize the high-grade pill market—that alone is a very gratifying thing for our Famous Medicine Sect. But to truly strike at the Heavenly Elixir Pavilion through this is unrealistic. After all, they haven't sold high-grade pills for years anyway; at most we've just maintained the status quo." Tong Yangxi spread his hands with a bitter smile.
"Mm, I suppose so. If the Heavenly Elixir Pavilion could be brought down by such a few disreputable little tricks, they wouldn't have dealt us such a heavy blow before. We were being a bit too naive." This time Zheng Dongyang wasn't angry—instead, he was unexpectedly calm and composed.
"So what do we do? Wei Zhao's primordial spirit projection should be about over. If we wait for him to return, dealing with the Heavenly Elixir Pavilion will be even harder..." Tong Yangxi couldn't help feeling anxious.
"You needn't worry about that. Since we can't take down the Heavenly Elixir Pavilion through commercial means, then we may as well take a different path." Zheng Dongyang smiled with a meaningful look.
"A different path?" Tong Yangxi was baffled.
"Indeed. Have you ever considered that the key to dealing with the Heavenly Elixir Pavilion doesn't lie with our Famous Medicine Sect, nor with their Heavenly Elixir Pavilion, but somewhere else—or rather, with someone else: Aotian Zhou." Zheng Dongyang said with an air of profundity.
"Acting Island Lord Aotian Zhou?" Tong Yangxi was startled, but quickly caught on. Indeed, as Zheng Dongyang said, Aotian Zhou was the source of this awkward situation. If not for this big shot shielding them from above, the Heavenly Elixir Pavilion would have been destroyed by them long ago—there was no way they could have survived until now.
"You understand now? If we want to deal with the Heavenly Elixir Pavilion and don't find a way to deal with Aotian Zhou, we'll just be scratching an itch through a boot—doomed to fail." Zheng Dongyang explained.
"That's all very well, but deal with Aotian Zhou?" Tong Yangxi wore a strange expression. Never mind that Aotian Zhou himself was an unfathomable big shot—the Aotian family behind him was one of the few top-tier clans on Yunjie Island! (To be continued.)