Chapter 3819 — Compare Goods, and One Gets Thrown Away
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But Li Zhengming was not asking Wei Zhao to give him a Foundation Establishment Pill. He wanted to ask Wei Zhao to refine one for him. After all, he had just obtained three sets of the spirit-medicine ingredients needed to refine Foundation Establishment Pills from Meng Jueming, while it was already an open secret that Wei Zhao had been an alchemist back in the mundane world.
Even if Wei Zhao was an alchemist, however, that did not necessarily mean he had the ability to refine a Foundation Establishment Pill. But Li Zhengming had no other choice now and could only approach Wei Zhao and try his luck.
What Li Zhengming had never expected was that he had not even figured out how to make the request, while Wei Zhao had taken the initiative to raise the matter himself. From beginning to end, Wei Zhao had not mentioned a single additional condition. He simply wanted to help Li Zhengming break through to Foundation Establishment.
On one side was Meng Jueming's shameless refusal, and on the other was Wei Zhao's loyalty and generosity. Faced with such a stark contrast, Li Zhengming would truly have had to be heartless not to shed tears.
Only through comparison could superiority and inferiority be revealed. Beside Wei Zhao, Meng Jueming, the chief steward and senior disciple, had now been trampled so far down in Li Zhengming's heart that he might as well have been buried beneath a kiln. He was utterly beyond comparison.
"Leader Wei Zhao, the truth is that, besides reporting the intelligence, the other reason I came to see you today was to ask you to help me refine a Foundation Establishment Pill." Li Zhengming rubbed his nose, forcing down his emotion, then took out the three sets of ingredients Meng Jueming had given him and handed them to Wei Zhao.
"Oh? You already have the spirit-medicine ingredients prepared? That is excellent. It saves me the trouble of making a special trip out." Wei Zhao's eyes lit up at the sight.
Although the ingredients for Foundation Establishment Pills were all common commodities available in the marketplace, Wei Zhao did not have enough of them on hand. He had intended to build up his own stores of spirit medicines, but he had only started recently, and his reserves were still far from substantial. If Li Zhengming had not brought the ingredients, Wei Zhao would have had to make a trip to the marketplace for several of the medicines.
During the day, Wei Zhao had used a first-impression deception to fool Yu Jiang, temporarily preventing him from connecting Wei Zhao with the identity of Lin Er. Yet even a man thinking with his toes could have guessed that Yu Jiang and his master, Nantian Yong, would remain around the marketplace these next few days and continue investigating. They would never give up until they dug up the truth about this person named Lin Er.
So, if Wei Zhao went to the marketplace in the guise of Lin Er during this period, there would still be considerable risk. He might easily be intercepted by Yu Jiang and Nantian Yong. Wei Zhao was not afraid of Yu Jiang given his current strength, but the other side also had Nantian Yong, someone powerful enough to take a seat as an Inspector Deacon of the Skyward Pavilion. His strength could be imagined; it was unquestionably formidable.
If those two caught him, then with Wei Zhao's current strength at the peak of the early Foundation Establishment stage, the outcome would certainly be grim.
Yet if he went to the marketplace in his true appearance as Wei Zhao instead of using the identity of Lin Er, it would be even more likely to arouse suspicion. After all, in name, all the fine jade Wei Zhao had possessed had already been exchanged for worthless jade. If anyone with ulterior motives saw him buy so much as a single item in the marketplace, it could easily arouse the suspicions of Meng Jueming and the others. That would be very troublesome.
Unless absolutely necessary, Wei Zhao had no intention of going to the marketplace in the near future.