Wutan City, Xiao Family.
Since the coming-of-age ceremony, the Xiao Family had been riding high in Wutan City. A Dou Wang had personally visited the Xiao Family and attended their coming-of-age ceremony, sending the Xiao Family's arrogance soaring into the heavens.
Though anyone with eyes could see that Yang Chen's relationship with the Xiao Family was not particularly good, especially with Xiao Zhan, the Xiao Family patriarch, whom he never even deigned to look at directly.
But he was a Dou Wang, and supposedly a high-level alchemist as well. Who would dare casually speculate about what an elder like him was thinking? Were they not afraid of being slapped to death?
However, there was a saying in this world: fortunes always turned.
Less than a month after the Xiao Family had risen to prominence, the Jia Lie Family of Wutan City somehow invited an alchemist to refine pills for them, allowing the Jia Lie Family to nearly monopolize the entire city's market for healing medicine.
Since Wutan City bordered the Magic Beast Mountain Range, there were quite a few mercenaries in the city. Although there were not many large mercenary groups, the major families of Wutan City each had their own mercenary corps, so the demand for healing herbs was extremely high.
Having nearly monopolized Wutan City's healing medicine business, the Jia Lie Family was raking in money hand over fist. Their momentum had even directly eclipsed that of the Xiao Family.
After all, while the Xiao Family had ties to a Dou Wang, that Dou Wang did not belong to the Xiao Family and would not refine medicine for them. The alchemist hired by the Jia Lie Family, however, could genuinely help them make money.
Xiao Family, council hall.
Xiao Zhan sat in the seat of honor with a