Chapter 3983 — Heading to the Birthday Banquet
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"Quite right. By any reckononing, trash of your lowly sort could never set foot in a banquet of such high breeding in a hundred lifetimes. This young master is merely repaying a favor to my junior sister Lan'er on your behalf, and incidentally letting you see clearly just how vast the gulf between us truly is—so you can spare yourself any further deluded fantasies and stop pestering her." Xu Lingchong looked down on him from his lofty perch with utter disdain.
That said, without so much as a glance at Wei Zhao's expression, Xu Lingchong promptly led Kang Jingming and the others away, striding off with his nose in the air.
Wei Zhao merely smiled, unbothered. Thinking over what these people had done for him today—delivering spirit herb seeds and even a birthday banquet invitation—it was like a door-to-door delivery service of warmth. He truly could not fathom what they were so smug about.
Then again, Meng Jueming and Meng Zhou had worn that same expression every time they came to deliver spirit jade in the past. The people of Cloud Terrace Island really were a bit short in the wits department!
Still, it was hardly surprising. The cultivation world of Cloud Terrace Island had its share of scheming and backstabbing, but when all was said and done, it ran on raw strength, so it stood to reason that its people were not as sharp as those of the mundane world.
After all, these people spent their days pondering how to cultivate. No wonder Kang Jingming had found favor—a scoundrel this despicable was probably the first Xu Lingchong had ever encountered.
After this little interlude, Wei Zhao returned to his cave dwelling on his own and devoted himself to refining Foundation Establishment Barrier-Breaking Pills. This time, thanks to the abundance of spirit herb materials he had stockpiled in advance and his deliberate intention to refine extra batches in exchange for spirit jade, he worked without pause, refining three whole furnaces in one go.
It was just as well he had the Divine Farmer's Cauldron. Had it been any ordinary pill furnace, Wei Zhao's reckless exertions would likely have blown it apart long ago. Yet apart from running a little hotter than usual, the Divine Farmer's Cauldron showed no abnormal reaction from first to last.
Everything proceeded smoothly, and three furnaces later, Wei Zhao had reaped a veritable windfall—thirteen Foundation Establishment Barrier-Breaking Pills in total, every single one of them of the finest quality!
If all thirteen of these top-grade pills were sold to the Hong Merchant Guild, even at the absolute rock-bottom rate of eight hundred spirit jade apiece, they would still be worth at least ten thousand spirit jade—more than enough to cover whatever the auction demanded.
What was more, Wei Zhaoshou still had the millennium tree crystal and that sack of blood-red gravel treasure in hand. Neither was of any use in artifact forging, so if need be, they too could be put up for auction—and would no doubt fetch another enormous sum.
This time, in order to gather all the artifact-forging materials that Scrap King had spoken of, Wei Zhao had truly gone all out.
In the past, even if Wei Zhao was short on spirit jade, he would never have put such a massive quantity of top-grade Foundation Establishment Barrier-Breaking Pills on the market. After all, no wall in this world was truly windproof, and if word of such a thing reached the wrong ears, it would be just like the secret of the Star Ink Stone being exposed—very likely to land him in deep trouble.
This time, however, Wei Zhao had no choice. According to Scrap King, without at least ten thousand spirit jade on hand, it would be nearly impossible to gather the other six materials besides the mysterious water droplet, even with an auction qualification. And the worst part was that once this auction passed, there would be no assembling those materials again anytime soon.