Chapter 2731 — A Little Guidance
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Uh... how can you call it swindling? This person really exists! Brother Kang Jinglong can vouch for me—if you don't believe me, ask Brother Kang!" You Panhu shot Kang Jinglong a meaningful look, signaling that it was his turn on stage.
Kang Jinglong had been waiting for this moment, practically itching with impatience. He hastily said, "Naturally that's true, because that person is my younger brother, Kang Jingming. He is currently the Eighth Elder of the Xuandan Sect, a Heaven-rank expert, and a third-rank pill refiner!"
"Oh, so that's how it is..." Han Jingyi said flatly.
The whole time Kang Jinglong said this, he kept watching Wei Zhao's expression for a reaction. But to his dismay, Wei Zhao seemed not to have heard a word—he simply went on quietly eating his boxed lunch, showing no sign of anything amiss at all.
In truth, Wei Zhao's shock was all on the surface. Deep in his heart, he was utterly shaken. He could never have imagined that a good-for-nothing prodigal young master of the past had actually become a Heaven-rank expert and a third-rank pill refiner.
This was simply insane, wasn't it? Wei Zhao had long known that a lone cultivator like himself could not be mentioned in the same breath as disciples of ancient sects, but even so, he had never imagined Kang Jingming could go from an ordinary person to the Heaven rank in such a short span of time. Faster than even Zhang Naipao?
Even though Wei Zhao understood that pill refiners cultivated faster than ordinary cultivators—and were correspondingly weaker in strength than ordinary cultivators—he still could not quite stomach it. Had the man been popping pills? How could his strength have grown so fast? Even Feng Xiaoxiao, an inheritor, was not this fast, surely?
Still, this revealed one thing at least: either Kang Jinglong was boasting, or the Xuandan Sect was concealing strength among the ancient factions. It was not merely one of the strongest of the ancient sects—it must have other cards up its sleeve as well.
What baffled Wei Zhao most was how Kang Jingming had become the Eighth Elder of the Xuandan Sect. What did he have to his name? Why would the Xuandan Sect pour such effort into cultivating a prodigal young master like him? They would have been better off cultivating Kang Jinglong!
Suddenly, a possibility occurred to Wei Zhao. Back when Kang Jingming had kidnapped Guan Xin, he had demanded the pill formula for the "Life-Extending Detox Pill." But what Wei Zhao gave him was actually a new "Marrow-Cleansing Bone-Transforming Pill" formula that he had derived by merging the Life-Extending Detox Pill with Zhang Lifeng's genuine Marrow-Cleansing Bone-Transforming Pill.
Wei Zhao had deliberately planted two small flaws in that formula. One of them was that refining the new "Marrow-Cleansing Bone-Transforming Pill" required having previously taken either the Life-Extending Detox Pill or the Marrow-Cleansing Bone-Transforming Pill. Only a person of pure constitution could refine it successfully.
And according to what was said, Kang Jingming had eaten the other half of that dog-turd-like Life-Extending Detox Pill at Kang the Divine Physician's birthday banquet. That made Kang Jingming one of the candidates capable of refining the new "Marrow-Cleansing Bone-Transforming Pill." And with that, everything fell neatly into place.
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