Chapter 4800 — Name Your Price
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"Is it you who are playing tricks?" Leng Rufeng's gaze swung at once to Ren Zhongyuan and the rest, his face unfriendly.
Ren Zhongyuan and Yi Xiaotian both started in alarm. They had come only to add fuel to the fire and enjoy the sight of Wei Zhao getting his comeuppance—surely they were not to be found out this quickly?!
"Tricks? What tricks? We only came over to watch the fun when we heard someone screaming. Don't go slinging mud at honest folk, Leng—I'd advise you to keep your mind on dealing with this young man who struck your woman. He's very strong, you know!" Ren Zhongyuan disclaimed any involvement without so much as a flicker.
Sure enough, at these words Leng Rufeng's gaze settled once more on Wei Zhao. The question had been only a casual probe; whether or not someone was pulling strings, it remained a fact—one he had seen with his own eyes—that this young man had wounded Yang Qianshuang. For that alone the boy deserved to die.
"Leng Rufeng, I hear you've been scouring the world for Beauty Pills and Thunder Profound Pills. It seems you've found the right man—this boy has both. I've dropped you that hint; do as you see fit." Yi Xiaotian stirred the pot at just the right moment, his tone neither yin nor yang.
"You have a Thunder Profound Pill?" Leng Rufeng's eyes narrowed. Even in the resource-rich Dongzhou Academy, such a thing was not easily come by; for its practical value, it was the rarest of all seventh-grade pills. Let a single Thunder Profound Pill appear on the market, and the competition one faced would be hundreds of times fiercer than for a Beauty Pill.
"Whether a Thunder Profound Pill has already been refined, I can't say for certain—but this boy came by a whole Thunder Profound Vine during the West Island trials, and that is how he became the West Island's consort. If you can get that vine from him and split it with me, I can ask my father to step in and refine it into a Thunder Profound Pill for you." Ren Zhongyuan chuckled. To put Wei Zhao in his place and lay hands on the Thunder Profound Vine at once—two birds with one stone.
Thus urged by the two of them, Leng Rufeng—already inclined to strike at Wei Zhao—was now all the more resolved. He had never been a good man; for Yang Qianshuang's sake he would make an enemy of the whole world, let alone deal with some stranger, a West Island consort he had never met.
Yet Leng Rufeng did not strike at once. Instead he said to Wei Zhao, "I want both the Beauty Pill and the Thunder Profound Vine. Name your price."
At that, Ren Zhongyuan, Yi Xiaotian and the others changed countenance. All they had done was meant to set Leng Rufeng and Wei Zhao at each other's throats—not to help them strike a bargain! (To be continued.)