Chapter 3993 — Kang Jingming Stamps the Pills
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
By the time Shangguan Lan'er thought to stop him, it was already too late.
Kang Jingming picked up one of the pills with a show of great care, examined it, then put on an expression of exactly-what-I-expected and sneered loudly, "I knew this Wei Zhao was no good. Back in the secular world all he ever did was fake this and forge that, and now he's pulling the same trick again—he truly doesn't know death when he sees it! Don't let him fool you, everyone. These so-called top-grade Foundation Establishment Golden Cores are nothing but fakes wrapped in a shell!"
With that, amid a chorus of gasps from the hall, Kang Jingming flung both pills to the ground and, without another word, stamped them flat with his foot—and after stamping, he made sure to grind them in hard with a twist.
Watching this, Wei Zhao's eyelid twitched. A dog really cannot stop eating shit—Kang Jingming had pulled this very same stunt back in the secular world, and now, instead of learning his lesson, he had simply changed venues and played the old trick again!
A dead silence fell over the hall. Many of those present now looked at Wei Zhao with evident hostility. They were all persons of name and face; if, right under their noses, a petty scoundrel like Wei Zhao had truly fooled them with fake pills, they would be the laughingstock of the streets for years to come!
Xu Lingchong and Kang Jingming exchanged a smile of secret triumph. Wei Zhao had no backing here, after all—no great personage would step forward on his behalf. Whether or not those two top-grade Foundation Establishment Golden Cores had originally been genuine, they were fakes now.
Both pills had been stamped to a pulp by Kang Jingming, their appearance utterly destroyed. Unless a true connoisseur took them in hand and examined them closely, an ordinary layman could never tell fake from real. But among the great personages present, who would risk losing face to personally inspect them on behalf of a Wei Zhao they did not even know?
This tactic was called striking first to gain the advantage. So long as no one spoke up for Wei Zhao, there would be no evidence left to verify.
Yet just as the two of them believed their scheme had succeeded and were preparing to savor Wei Zhao's stifled expression, a figure appeared beside Kang Jingming like a gust of wind, shoved him aside, picked up the pills from beneath his foot, and examined them closely.
Wei Zhao had been about to rise and settle the matter himself, but when he saw who had stepped forward, a faint smile returned to his face and he sat back down in calm composure.
The person who had rushed out to inspect the pills was something of an acquaintance of Wei Zhao's: the Manager Linghua of the Pill Hall's spiritual herb garden.
"Uh, Manager Linghua, what are you doing? I already told you these are fake pills..." Sensing trouble, Kang Jingming broke out in a sweat and hurried to stop him. He had truly never imagined that anyone would actually come forward to inspect the pills in person.
"Fake pills?" Manager Linghua was so angry he nearly laughed. "Whether it's the color, the medicinal scent, the pill halos, or the texture—by which of them did you conclude these are fakes wrapped in a shell? Top-grade Foundation Establishment Golden Cores like these, and you dare to stamp both of them underfoot! You're damn well wasting pills—is a man like you even fit to be an alchemist?"
Everyone knew that Manager Linghua detested above all else the scoundrels who ruined good things. Once he had agonized over a few dozen spiritual herb seeds; now Kang Jingming had publicly ground two priceless top-grade Foundation Establishment Golden Cores into fragments underfoot. How could he possibly let this pass? (Author's public WeChat: yuren22—welcome to add for the latest game and film adaptation news!) R1152