Chapter 3114 — It Wouldn't Sell
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"This..." Vice President Ouyang's expression instantly turned rather strained. Looking at the pills Wei Zhao had set on the desk, he had no idea how to explain things to him.
"What's the matter?" Wei Zhao blinked, taken aback. "Vice President Ouyang, are you in some difficulty?"
"Mr. Ling, to be frank with you, our superiors at the Cultivators' Guild have just issued a notice—and it came personally from the Great Supreme Honorary President. We branch chapters are no longer permitted to buy or sell pills on our own authority. All our pills will henceforth be supplied exclusively by the Xuandan Sect." Vice President Ouyang spoke with some embarrassment. "I may have backing of my own within the Guild, but I cannot defy the word of the Great Supreme Honorary President!"
"The Xuandan Sect?" Wei Zhao was baffled. "Don't they refine high-grade pills? They want to corner the market for first- and second-grade pills too?"
"I don't know what's behind it either. All of a sudden, an Elder Kang from the Xuandan Sect approached our Guild with a partnership: they'd provide us with large quantities of first- and second-grade pills, and they signed an agreement with the Great Supreme Honorary President for exclusive supply." Vice President Ouyang explained. "So I hope you'll forgive me, Mr. Ling..."
"Elder Kang?" Wei Zhao frowned, and at once thought of Kang Jingming. The brat was out to cut off his source of income! But how did he know Wei Zhao came here to sell pills? Could he have had someone investigate?
Still, what was the point of doing this? At most it cut off his income; it wouldn't touch his foundations. At most it was meant to disgust him... Could that really be all it was—just to disgust him?
If so, Wei Zhao had to hand it to Kang Jingming. To wield such influence as to sway the Xuandan Sect's decisions, to make the sect's alchemists mass-produce so many first- and second-grade pills—how much manpower and material resources would that burn?
And besides, first- and second-grade pills might not look cheap, but compared with third-grade pills, the difference was like heaven and earth. Wei Zhao found it hard to imagine the entire Xuandan Sect wasting its alchemists' physical stamina and true qi refining such rubbish—all to disgust him?
Were their heads screwed on straight?
"That's right, Elder Kang it is. He's a newly promoted elder of the Xuandan Sect, and by all accounts his word carries a lot of weight there." Vice President Ouyang said. "So, Mr. Ling, I hope you won't put me in a hard spot. There's nothing I can do."
"I know." Wei Zhao nodded. He could tell Vice President Ouyang didn't seem to be lying, and the story was told in convincing detail. As it happened, Wei Zhao did have a grudge against Kang Jingming—though Ouyang probably knew nothing of that, since Wei Zhao's public identity now was Ling Yi, not that Wei Zhao. (To be continued)