Ji Qiang's excitement did not last long before it was replaced by a surge of rage.
After swallowing the Nine Yang Blazing Fire Pill, he found that it had not melted at all. Instead, it silently hid deep within his sea of qi, and even he could not figure out where it had gone.
Nor had his cultivation increased in the slightest, as though the pill had been completely useless.
"Bastard! Are you sure this pill came from Elder Shi Qin?"
After all that effort had yielded nothing, Ji Qiang was so furious he was about to explode. He grabbed the heavily injured Zhu Hai, hauled him up, and viciously slapped him several times.
He had painstakingly paid an enormous price to obtain those precious medicinal herbs and ores from Nine Yang Mountain, then paid another tremendous price to have Elder Shi Qin act. How could he possibly have refined such trash? Even swallowing those treasures raw would have produced better results than this!
"Elder, I got it directly from Elder Shi Qin..." Zhu Hai had never imagined that simply fetching a pill would bring such undeserved calamity upon him. He wept bitterly.
"Got it my ass! It was switched! Elder Shi Qin's pill bottles all bear names, but this one has nothing on it. It's just ordinary junk—it must have been stolen and replaced!"
Ji Qiang took out the pill bottle and flung it into Zhu Hai's face.
Only after swallowing the pill and seeing no results did he carefully inspect the jade bottle that had held it, immediately understanding what had happened.
Elder Shi Qin's pill bottles all bore unique markings, yet this one was completely blank. It had definitely been switched!
"Elder, it must have been Nangong Xiao. No one else would dare do something like this..."