"This... three-thousand-year-old Bone-Spirit Flower was rare to begin with. The Shang Clan's previous stock was all bought by a Nascent Soul Middle Stage senior, Crippled Immortal. It should have been for cultivating some secret art or refining some treasure, and he needed a great quantity..."
Uncle Fu bowed. "This flower is produced only in several special environments. Our tower has already urgently dispatched goods... but an accident occurred, and the merchant ship is currently still at Brocade River Island..."
Upon hearing this, Shang Yuanxin's face immediately darkened.
Fang Qing knew that someone was most likely truly pulling strings behind the scenes.
After all, Shang Yuanxin had barely secured the Nascent Infant Pill. There were surely many Shang Clan young masters who resented it, perhaps even... secretly plotting against him!
He habitually formed hand seals, intending to calculate the threads of karma, before suddenly shuddering.
He could not help but smile bitterly. I cannot entirely trust divination results, but on the Qi Refinement Way, it is still barely workable...
Fang Qing shook his head and continued calculating in secret. Mm... there are indeed traces of a conspiracy within this, and it is even riding the current downstream.
The more complex and intricate a conspiracy was, the more prone it was to mistakes—let alone in the cultivation world, where there were countless methods of investigation.
If the Shang Clan discovered that one of their own had harmed Shang Yuanxin, the price would be more than they could bear.
Therefore, the best course was to subtly exert influence, causing Shang Yuanxin to meet with an accident himself, while ensuring the culprit had not the slightest connection to them.
"But however you wish to play is none of my business. Interfering with my acquisition of the Bone-Spirit Flower is not acceptable..."
"Rather than killing