War Profits!
Second Master of the Qian family explained the reason for his visit inside the Overturned Water Hall.
He wanted to do business with Tianshui Sect.
The Qian family was a merchant lineage. Wherever there was business to be done, their presence could be found.
Where in this world was money easiest to make?
Nowhere but on the battlefield.
The longer a great war lasted, the more money it consumed.
Take the battle between Tianshui Sect and Heaven and Earth Gate, for example. In just two or three days since the fighting began, the two sides had already consumed more than a billion spirit pills and Divine Weapons combined.
More than a billion pills—that was no small number.
Only the sects and lineages of Chu's Five Great Families and Seven Sects could support such an enormous consumption of pills.
The Grand Elder's eyes glimmered with a cold, eerie light as he asked with a smile, "We are also willing to cooperate with the Qian family, but I wonder whether the pills and resources you sell could be a little cheaper?"
Second Master of the Qian family smiled. "Naturally. Our Qian family and Tianshui Sect have been family friends for generations. You may not know this, but when Tianshui Sect's founding patriarch, Xuan Fengzi Shen Jun, established the sect all those years ago, he once received help from the Qian family!"
"Now that Tianshui Sect has fallen into hardship and suffered this great calamity, my Qian family is not the sort to take advantage of your misfortune!"
"I can make the decision myself. All spirit pills, miraculous medicines, and Divine Weapons sold to Tianshui Sect will be below market price. Everything will be sold at a ten-percent discount!"
A ten-percent discount.
It sounded like a substantial concession.
But in reality,