Chapter 3813 — The Midnight-Noon Heart-Shattering Pill
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And unless it was absolutely unavoidable, Xu Lingchong did not wish to take the underhanded path of hiring someone to assassinate Wei Zhao. Simple and direct as that method was, cutting straight to the root, it would in the end leave a handle for others to grasp. If those people from the Law Enforcement Hall caught even the faintest trace, then this Young Master Xu would be finished for life!
Before core interests were at stake, to run such a risk merely to deal with the likes of Wei Zhao was clearly not worth it for Young Master Xu. The most practical and reliable course was still to let Meng Jueming handle him!
After pondering and hesitating for a long while, Xu Lingchong cast a glance at the pitiful Meng Zhou beside him. Only then did he turn to Meng Jueming and say, "Given Meng Zhou's present condition, ordinary pills certainly won't do if we mean to force him up a grade. If we truly are to go through with this, this young master thinks we can only try some out-of-the-way, little-known prescription. What do you say, Old Meng?"
"An out-of-the-way, little-known prescription?" Meng Jueming was briefly taken aback, then nodded again and again. "Young Master Xu is brilliant. Old Meng was in fact thinking the same—ordinary pills simply could not achieve the effect we need."
Meng Zhou, listening from the side, was utterly bewildered by this exchange. He had not the faintest idea what this so-called out-of-the-way prescription was all about; he only knew that Young Master Xu seemed to have agreed, and he was secretly rejoicing in his heart.
Little did he know that anything called an out-of-the-way, little-known prescription meant a path far from the ordinary—and as everyone knew, in the matter of cultivation one could never be too careful. One wrong step meant every step thereafter wrong, and the risks involved were no joking matter!
In truth, both Xu Lingchong and Meng Jueming knew this perfectly well. With Young Master Xu's background and resources, if he were truly minded to raise Meng Zhou's grade at any cost, there were entirely more steady and reliable methods.
For instance, the way Wei Zhao had done it—a Foundation Establishment Golden Pill supplemented by a Foundation-Breaking Pill. Such a combination could swiftly boost one's strength in a short time with no side effects at all; even failure carried no danger.
Though Young Master Xu might not be able to obtain a Foundation Establishment Golden Pill, he likewise had ways to secure other pills in its place. Only, every one of those pills was incomparably precious—even a thousand spirit jade might not buy a single one. And even if Young Master Xu had them on hand, there was simply no chance he would bring them out for Meng Zhou to use.
Moreover, even if Young Master Xu were truly so noble and generous as to bring out pills of that caliber, they would never fall to Meng Zhou. Meng Jueming would have stretched out his hand and snatched them long before—how would they ever be left to a dim-witted fool like Meng Zhou?
Pies never drop from the sky for free—and yet this fellow Meng Zhou still foolishly believed that Young Master Xu and Meng Jueming would truly grant him such a great boon. One could only say he was truly blind as a bat!
Seeing that Meng Jueming had no objection, Young Master Xu simply ignored Meng Zhou's reaction and said at once, "Then it's settled. This young master happens to have a Midnight-Noon Heart-Shattering Pill in his collection—a senior alchemist handed it to me in passing some years ago. Used properly, it is quite enough to raise one a full grade, no matter how poor the foundations."
"So it's the Midnight-Noon Heart-Shattering Pill!" Hearing this, Meng Jueming's eyelid twitched involuntarily. He too had once, by chance, heard people speak of this pill—a pill of utterly heaven-defying effect, and at the same time one that made the blood run cold!