The Sage Master Comes to Lodge a Complaint

More than four years ago, Zhang Yang a military exercise, which led countless sects across the world onto the path of an arms race.

Major sects urgently expanded their recruitment of disciples.

Any major sect has more than 100,000 disciples.

Over the years, they have all kept an eye on the disciples of the Azure Cloud Sect and hoped to replicate their Azure Cloud Sect.

Therefore, they are all doing their best to train those disciples, wanting to cultivate them into elites.

To this end, they invested a great deal of human, material, and financial resources.

Surprisingly, aside from a few sects that haven't equipped their disciples with guns yet, the more than 100,000 disciples have been organized quite well.

Under these circumstances, these major sects have increased their efforts to continue cultivating talent.

A year ago, Azure Cloud Sect lowered the prices of its goods, which made all the major sects prepare to take advantage of the Azure Cloud Sect.

The vast majority of the money plundered was used on these disciples.

After all, the Azure Cloud Sect doesn't sell its high-grade pills; these low-grade pills are what satisfy its disciples.

For over a year, every sect has been eagerly awaiting the Azure Cloud Sect's repayment of that exorbitant IOU.

Because this IOU involves the resources of these disciples.

However, a year has passed, Azure Cloud Sect is still unable to make the payment...

What about those disciples who are desperately needing help?

Have the sect's Alchemist refine it?

That's 100,000 disciples! Can an ordinary Alchemist handle that?

High-level Alchemist are all focused on refining high-grade pills, or even specializing in pills like the Dao Integration Pill. They have no time to refine low-level Qi-Nourishing Pill.

Not every powerful Alchemist in every sect is like Danchenzi, who can be Zhang Yang to refine pills by Zhang Yang!

Under such circumstances, every sect was severely lacking in low-grade pills.

Jiang Tao was forced to raise prices and purchase a batch of expensive pills to take back to his sect to deal with the disciples.

Jing Xian, who followed, also faced a similar situation.

He also paid around 600 million Spirit Stone to buy the pills that originally cost around 500 million.

After Jing Xian left, Yun Song arrived.

Yun Song came specifically for elixirs!

Holding the account book, Situ Mingyue said with a bitter face, "Senior Yun Song, it's not that we don't want to give you the pills, we just really can't cope with this..."

Finally, Yun Song once again spent a high price to buy the elixir.

Situ Mingyue pondered for a while, then took out the account book and made some revisions.

Well, that's it! The price of the Qi-Nourishing Pill has gone up from 200 to 250!

Pills like the Restriction-Breaking Pill and the Nascent Soul-Breakthrough Pill have all increased in price, with each type of pill seeing an increase of over 20%.

When the Sage Master of Langya Sacred Land received the news, he was stunned.

Have elixirs really increased in price this drastically?

What happened?

He quickly inquired and learned that various sects were buying like crazy, forcing them to raise prices...

The Sage Master immediately recalled the price reduction of the Azure Cloud Sect's goods more than a year ago, and began to silently deduce various changes. After a moment, he gasped.

Ever since he was fooled a few years ago, he has frequently studied Zhang Yang's style of doing things and has a great understanding of Zhang Yang's modus operandi.

Therefore, considering the events before and after, he had already deduced the situation.

"Sage Master, shouldn't we hurry and buy some pills?" Tu Shan said worriedly. "If we don't buy some soon, the IOU from the Azure Cloud Sect won't be honored, and I'm worried that the price of pills will rise even further."

The Sage Master nodded firmly. "You should go, but not you, I will go!"

He needs to have a serious talk with Zhang Yang.

Aren't we allies?

This guy even rips off his own allies, that's outrageous!

The people of Langya Sacred Land were shocked. Did this matter really require the Sage Master's intervention?

Afterwards, the Sage Master set off for the Azure Cloud Sect.

Upon arriving at the Azure Cloud Sect, he revealed his identity, Azure Cloud Master appeared, personally coming to greet him.

"Congratulations!" The Sage Master nodded to Azure Cloud Master, congratulating Azure Cloud Master on entering the Mid Tribulation Realm.

Azure Cloud Master returned the greeting, then asked in surprise, "Why are you here?"

The Sage Master gave a wry smile and said, "Fellow Daoist, you should control your disciple! If he keeps going like this, he'll empty the coffers of my Langya Sacred Land!"

Azure Cloud Master suddenly felt a little uneasy.

He had heard of Zhang Yang's deductions before; had they already begun?

They've even come to our doorstep to complain! Look at the state of Langya Sacred Land they've created!

The two arrived at Zhang Yang's villa and found Zhang Yang.

"You brat, you've really screwed us over!" The Sage Master started cursing as soon as he sat down. "It's one thing for you to screw over me, but you've also swindled our money!"

Is this how you do things?

I'm very happy that you helped me, but you can't keep ravaging our Langya Sacred Land!

"How many scapegoats have we, the Langya Sacred Land, and even this old man, taken the blame for you?"

Zhang Yang rolled his eyes. "Uncle Sage Master, please don't complain!"

Why didn't you say anything when you cheated me out of my money?

I acquired those materials worth two billion at a high price; have you forgotten?

And what about that billion-dollar IOU? How much did you make from it? Don't you remember?"

Azure Cloud Master looked at the Sage Master with a strange expression.

He initially thought the Sage Master had been thoroughly swindled, but it turns out the Sage Master actually benefited and is now acting innocent?

The Sage Master coughed twice and said, "We are allies, and I am just cooperating with your plan!"

Besides, I only wanted a few hundred million worth of materials as a token, but those old guys insisted on... you know, I couldn't stop them!

By the way, that IOU, is it still valid?

If that billion-dollar IOU is valid, their Langya Sacred Land can still make a profit.

Of course, because the amount of money they traded was not large, they didn't actually earn that much.

Zhang Yang said with a smile, "I can honor the IOU, but you must publicly declare that you have waived it."

The Sage Master thought for a moment, understood Zhang Yang's intentions, and shook his head helplessly, saying, "You brat, you've made us take the blame again!"

Zhang Yang said irritably, "We're giving you reputation points for free, and you don't want them? Oh, and if you order pills or Law Treasure from us in the future, the prices will increase. But as allies, we'll give you a discount on top of the price increase."

These materials were all purchased at high prices; wouldn't we be losing money if we didn't raise the price?

The Sage Master remained silent.

"I came in person, and this is all the benefit you're giving me?" the Sage Master asked, dissatisfied.

Zhang Yang chuckled and said, "Uncle Sage Master, that's enough... By the way, I'd like to ask, how did you figure out my intentions so quickly?"

He originally thought that it would take another two years for everyone to discover this matter.

The Sage Master gave a cold laugh, "Perhaps I've been fooled too many times!"