"I doubt Fengxian City would have a particularly large supply of these two pills, would it? After all, our Luomu Valley had to be very cautious when supplying you orthodox sects. Did you use some method to seize their share as well? Or did you fail to pay them enough and make them resent you?" I couldn't help voicing my suspicion.
"This... Although the Valley Lord is a Saint Alchemist, he doesn't understand the ins and outs of such transactions. Our Qingxian Manor is so wealthy because, although we usually rely on a few underhanded methods to earn resources through trade, once we have abundant resources and need more and better treasures to improve ourselves, we don't act that way. Especially with Yang God Pills and Heaven-Mending Pills—supplies like those are all recorded. So we merely used some of our connections in Fengxian City to seize the shares of more than a dozen major sects. We thought that giving them a few more spirit crystals wouldn't cause any trouble, but who could have known that this would be leaked to some sect? The Riyue Temple and Yiqing Sect then sent people to buy back that portion of the Yang God Pills and Heaven-Mending Pills at half price... We bought them at great expense, so how could we sell them off cheaply? We temporarily refused them, but who could have expected that less than half a day later, the two great sects would arrive with their elite forces? They not only wanted the extra portions we had bought, but also demanded all the shares that should have belonged to them. Since we couldn't see eye to eye, we ended up fighting." An Fan explained everything clearly and methodically.
"So they came prepared to rob you from the start. In that case,