Don't Panic, Great Elder, We Have the Advantage!

Without any unnecessary words, the word "war" says it all.

When the word "war" appeared, everyone in the Zhou Medical Hall was stunned.

What the hell is going on?

According to their usual practice, shouldn't the Vast Heaven Sect just send out a blank spirit bird?

If it's blank, we at the Zhou Medical Hall will know what's going on.

Even if it's not blank, even if the Vast Heaven Sect demands an exorbitant price, saying that Xinghe is Vast Heaven Sect most important disciple, so they have to pay more...

Even so Zhou Medical Hall could not refuse to accept it.

The Vast Heaven Sect didn't have to do anything to avoid conflict between the two sides and make the Zhou Medical Hall back down. It seems like the Vast Heaven Sect made a huge profit.

But the Vast Heaven Sect didn't offer any bargaining whatsoever; their only response was "fight!" What the hell was going on?

You don't need to argue if we offer a lower price, right?

Zhou Fengshan was dumbfounded. Finally, after some hesitation, he contacted the elder of the strongest family among the various forces behind Zhou Fengshan 'Zhou Medical Hall.

Upon hearing Zhou Fengshan's question, the other party remained silent for a full three minutes.

The last look in Zhou Fengshan's eyes was as if he were looking at a complete idiot!

Zhou Fengshan, you said your spirit bird made peace with the Vast Heaven Sect?

That's a challenge, you idiot!

If you had asked me beforehand, things would have turned out very differently today.

Everything you wrote above is correct, and the Vast Heaven Sect can accept it. But you told the Vast Heaven Sect that Chu Xinghe was acting recklessly?

How many heads do you have, Zhou Fengshan? How dare you say such absurd things?

Have you sold your brain along with your medicine these past few years?

Who is Chu Xinghe? What is his status in the Vast Heaven Sect?

Anyone who knows a little about the inner workings of the Vast Heaven Sect knows that although Chu Xinghe is nominally the Grand Elder's personal disciple, he has long been being groomed to be the young sect leader.

To put it simply, the only reason Chu Xinghe didn't become the Vast Heaven Sect is because he was still young and his cultivation level wasn't high enough.

If a few decades pass and Chu Xinghe's cultivation reaches the Martial Emperor level, Gu Mingchao will be able to become the Supreme Elder immediately.

If you're asking the Vast Heaven Sect to publicly claim that a certain disciple of theirs has acted recklessly, the Vast Heaven Sect is willing to consider it, as long as the price you offer is high enough.

But Chu Xinghe is the only exception!

You're saying Chu Xinghe is acting recklessly?

That's tantamount to saying the Vast Heaven Sect has acted recklessly. Chu Xinghe represents the Vast Heaven Sect in the Future; he is the face of the Vast Heaven Sect. The Vast Heaven Sect will never allow anything to harm Chu Xinghe. Is this your attempt to seek peace?

This is practically a challenge!

If you want to fight, do you think the Clear Vast Heaven Sect will back down?

Zhou Fengshan was completely stunned after hearing the whole thing.

He didn't think that much about it. Martial Emperor City had clashed with the Zhou Medical Hall before, and the solution was the same: Martial Emperor City sent out a disciple to say that the disciple had acted recklessly, and then Zhou Medical Hall apologized profusely, and everyone resolved the issue perfectly.

But this time... he is Chu Xinghe... The Vast Heaven Sect will not accept any apology that says Chu Xinghe acted recklessly!

Now that things have come to this, Zhou Fengshan knows that a battle of elixirs with the Vast Heaven Sect is inevitable, so he begins to mobilize all of the Zhou Lineage's resources to prepare for it.

Even though the Vast Heaven Sect is large and powerful, the Zhou Medical Hall is not without its own strength to compete with the Zhou Lineage in the low-end pill market.

Since your Vast Heaven Sect is so protective of Chu Xinghe, then I, Zhou Fengshan, will go all out and this time I will definitely let your Vast Heaven Sect know the strength of my Zhou Medical Hall!

Wan Lineage, Li Yunxian's face was very ugly.

Li Yunxian had already received news that Zhou Fengshan had used a spirit bird to seek peace with the Vast Heaven Sect. Li Yunxian was very worried that Vast Heaven Sect would eventually be moved by the Zhou Medical Hall's "apology".

After all, the so-called game between major powers is sometimes really just about interests.

If the Zhou Medical Hall offers enough benefits, the Vast Heaven Sect might accept it, right?

Wasn't the conflict between Martial Emperor City and Zhou Medical Hall a few years ago the same? In the end, Martial Emperor City sent out a disciple to take the blame and reached a settlement with the Zhou Medical Hall. Then, only half a year later, Zhou Medical Hall made another move and took down the Lineage that Martial Emperor City had previously protected.

Therefore, Li Yunxian was very worried that the Wan Lineage would become the second one.

"Mother... you're overthinking it. Vast Heaven Sect isn't Martial Emperor City, and Senior Brother Xinghe isn't that direct disciple. You want Senior Brother Xinghe to take the blame? It's better for the small Zhou Medical Hall not to do that; if they do, it's Dao of Dying!"

Li Yunxian could only shake her head inwardly at her daughter's confidence. "My daughter," she thought, "You simply don't understand the power struggles between different factions."

Li Yunxian's worries didn't last long; soon a message flew out of the Vast Heaven Sect and spread throughout the world.

All Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce under the Vast Heaven Sect have begun selling various low-grade but high-quality pills, and the prices of these pills are all the same as those of the Zhou Medical Hall!

The news caused an uproar worldwide.

Everyone knew that Vast Heaven Sect had essentially declared that it was going to fight Zhou Medical Hall to the death!

Everyone involved with the Zhou Medical Hall was completely baffled. What the hell was going on?

After some investigation, all parties involved were speechless upon learning of Zhou Fengshan's baffling actions.

Zhou Fengshan then asked, "Why did you issue a challenge to the Vast Heaven Sect?"

Originally, everyone was on the verge of war but hadn't even started yet... there was still room for negotiation, but now your declaration of war is useless no matter who says it.

What's this? Are you going to come to the Vast Heaven Sect now and ask them to make Chu Xinghe take the blame?

Do you believe Gu Mingchao could chase you to the ends of the earth with the Heaven-Supporting Sword?

Chu Xinghe is the Achilles' heel of the Vast Heaven Sect; even the Demonic Sect dares not easily touch him. Have you, Zhou Fengshan, gone mad?

Looking at his mother's incredulous expression, Wan Lin could only shake his head inwardly. Mother, you simply don't understand Senior Brother Xinghe.

The battle of pills between the Vast Heaven Sect and Zhou Medical Hall has officially begun. Vast Heaven Sect's strength is undeniable; the moment they unleashed their various pills, they completely overwhelmed Zhou Medical Hall.

Anyone who's not an idiot knows how to choose between the pills from the Vast Heaven Sect and the pills from the Zhou Medical Hall, right?

At the same price, Zhou Medical Hall's pills are utter garbage compared to the Vast Heaven Sect's pills!

Regardless of whether the pills from the Vast Heaven Sect are low-grade or high-grade, their quality is unparalleled. What is the Zhou Medical Hall? They mainly focus on volume.

However, Zhou Medical Hall did not back down this time and directly launched a price war.

Your Vast Heaven Sect is lowering prices, huh? Then my Zhou Medical Hall will continue to lower prices. Our costs are already much lower than yours.

Moreover, we have so many people; if we engage in a price war, wouldn't your Vast Heaven Sect suffer huge losses?

Chu Xinghe was extremely excited about the price war waged by the Zhou Medical Hall and kept issuing various instructions to the Vast Heaven Sect.

What? Zhou Medical Hall lowered its prices?

Good grief! You want to lose money playing with me, huh... Come on, this round I'll make you lose until you bleed!

Do you know how much inventory our Medicine King Palace has? I'm scared just looking at it myself. Our costs are high, but our inventory is even bigger! Try to play price wars with me, or I'll make you lose everything.

This price war that swept the world brought tears to the eyes of countless Rogue Cultivators.

Thanks to my friend Xinghe for the cheap medicine... And thanks to the Zhou Medical Hall for stirring up this controversy...

However, compared to the frenzied celebrations of the Rogue Cultivators, the major powers all shook their heads in dismay.

While Vast Heaven Sect's move seemed to have severely suppressed Zhou Medical Hall, in everyone's eyes, it was truly reckless and unethical.

After all, both sects suffered losses, but the Vast Heaven Sect's losses on pills were much greater.

Think about it, even if the ingredients are the same, what kind of concoctions does the Zhou Medical Hall use to refine these pills?

A bunch of mediocre alchemists; their manpower costs are incomparable to those of the Vast Heaven Sect.

To refine a single First Rank pill, the Vast Heaven Sect would need a proper alchemist, but the Zhou Medical Hall had no such concern—they had plenty of mediocre alchemists.

Therefore, after various assessments, all parties concluded that if this battle continued indefinitely, the final losses suffered by the Vast Heaven Sect would be irrelevant, as the Vast Heaven Sect was not incapable of escaping losses. However, if this continued indefinitely, when would it end?

In Martial Emperor City, Zheng Yu fell into deep thought as he looked at the analysis materials sent by the stewards regarding the recent fierce price war between the Vast Heaven Sect and Zhou Medical Hall.

According to these materials, the Vast Heaven Sect suffered far greater losses than the Zhou Clan. Analysts from all sides believe that if this continues, even if the Vast Heaven Sect becomes a large and powerful family, it will eventually have to give up.

Chu Xinghe's baffling maneuvering might temporarily suppress the Zhou Medical Hall, but the cost is using up the Vast Heaven Sect's elixir reserves. And reserves are finite; what happens when they're depleted?

At that time Zhou Medical Hall can continuously supply its own dregs with low-grade pills, since that's all the dregs in the Zhou Medical Hall can refine.

But what about the Vast Heaven Sect? Are they going to make all the disciples of the Medicine King Palace start refining low-level pills?

Even if it works at first, wouldn't it affect the cultivation of the Medicine King Palace disciples if it continues? So, in terms of sheer numbers, the Vast Heaven Sect is at a greater disadvantage.

"Make arrangements to sell the shares that Zhou Medical Hall gave us last time," Zheng Yu said after thinking for a long time.

"Huh?" The group of managers were dumbfounded.

Senior Brother Zheng Yu, do you want to hear what you're saying...?

At this moment, everyone believed that as long as Zhou Medical Hall withstood the pressure, it would definitely be able to stabilize later. If Zhou Medical Hall stabilized this time, wouldn't it take off immediately when Vast Heaven Sect ran out of resources and withdrew?

What? You mean retaliation from the Vast Heaven Sect? With so many powerful forces behind the Zhou Medical Hall, it's not so easy for the Vast Heaven Sect to take action and kill someone. So, are they just going to sell off their shares now? Isn't that a huge loss?

Faced with the persuasion of a group of managers, Zheng Yu said with a solemn expression, "You only saw this battle of pills, but you don't understand Senior Brother Xinghe at all. Senior Brother Xinghe never misses a move. Have you forgotten the lessons you learned before? Forget about them!"

The managers were speechless, but they had no choice but to follow Zheng Yu's instructions.

The only good news is that selling Zhou Medical Hall shares now is a huge profit, since everyone is convinced that Zhou Medical Hall can hold out. As long as they withstand this battle, the price of the shares will definitely soar.

Chu Xinghe was completely unaware of Zheng Yu's sale of shares. At this moment, Chu Xinghe was in the Vast Heaven Sect, and he had a serious expression on his face.

The original intention was to help Junior Sister Wan Lin, and also to take the opportunity to consume some sect resources.

But now things have completely spiraled out of control, turning into a life-or-death struggle between the sect and the various forces behind the Zhou Medical Hall.

The Grand Elder has already given the order: we will spare no effort, even at the cost of the entire sect's resources, to prevent outsiders from accusing Xinghe of acting recklessly.

To be honest, Chu Xinghe was truly moved when he heard this.

Elder, don't panic!

I, Chu Xinghe, am going all out! So what if we fight Zhou Medical Hall to the death? The advantage is on our side!

What? You're asking why the advantage lies with us?

Even though I have no idea how we're going to win this game, we won't lose anything even if we do!

If we really lose, although the sect will suffer a huge loss, the Misfortune Compass will still be spinning wildly! I, Chu Xinghe, will break through on the spot to apologize to the sect leaders!

But Chu Xinghe really didn't want to lose this round. Damn, the sect was protecting him with all its might, and he couldn't let the entire sect down. But he had no idea how to do it. However, Chu Xinghe not flustered at all. Luck and misfortune would definitely intervene, and his lucky generals would definitely give Zhou Medical Hall a huge surprise!