Ten Thousand Treasures Medicine Depot

"That's right—it's a shop wholly owned by Ten Thousand Treasures Hall's Commerce Guild! They're filthy rich and ruthless. The moment they opened, they offered outrageous prices, sweeping up every High-Grade Spiritual Material in the city at thirty, even fifty percent above market value!"

"Whether it was old local herb merchants, herb gatherers coming down from the mountains, or small suppliers scattered all over, they bought up every High-Grade Spiritual Material and rare herb anyone had at a premium!"

"In just over ten days, that Ten Thousand Treasures Medicine Depot has stripped the Commandery City and its surroundings of almost every High-Grade Spiritual Material!"

"They have money to burn. Ordinary medicine depots like ours can't compete! We can barely get our hands on any High-Grade Spiritual Materials now. Today's shipment—just twenty or thirty percent of the usual amount—was all we could scrape together by calling in favors and searching everywhere. We've truly reached our limit! Next time, we might not even manage this much. Sigh!"

As he listened, everything clicked into place for Lin Fan. A cold glint flashed in his eyes.

Ten Thousand Treasures Medicine Depot! Ten Thousand Treasures Hall! Ten Thousand Treasures Commerce!

Of course it was them!

He had not expected them to lie low for more than ten days, only to make a move like this.

After he had rejected their offer with its harsh terms, they had appeared to do nothing. In truth, they had been laying plans in secret, waiting for a chance to strike back at him!

They knew he depended on High-Grade Spiritual Materials to refine pills. Those materials were his lifeline!

Since they could neither recruit nor win him over, they had decided to pull the firewood from beneath the cauldron: monopolize the city's supply of High-Grade Spiritual Materials and cut off