"Sect Leader Yuan Yi."
Karn smiled and continued, "Before coming here, I considered over a dozen cities in the Black-Corner Region. I felt that Eight Gates offered the greatest potential for cooperation with the Karn Chamber of Commerce, which is why we chose Black Mark City as our base."
Yuan Yi asked curiously, "May I ask how you intend for us to cooperate, Chairman Karn?"
"Medicinal ingredients. The medicinal ingredients of the entire Black-Corner Region!"
As Karn spoke, he took out ten purple-gold cards, each containing fifty million, for a total of five hundred million. He had exchanged for them with the Mittel Family, practically clearing out the Miteer Auction House's entire reserve of purple-gold cards.
The Mittel Family had not lost out, either. They had received roughly five hundred and fifty million in gold. With a few months of effort converting the gold into coins, they would net fifty million. Mittel Teng Shan could certainly do that arithmetic, so he had handed them over quite readily.
"In return, Eight Gates can purchase any pills below tier seven from the Karn Chamber of Commerce at a fifteen-percent discount, with no limit on quantity. However, you must provide your own ingredients for tier-five and tier-six pills."
The moment Karn finished speaking, Yuan Yi, the leader of Eight Gates, visibly jolted and grew serious. He hurriedly asked, "Chairman Karn, do you mean that?"
Every pill below tier seven, with unlimited purchases? Even a tier-eight alchemist would not dare make such an outrageous claim, would they?
Although Yuan Yi was not an alchemist, he knew that every pill refinement took a considerable toll on one. Otherwise, the tier-six alchemist Medicine Emperor Han Feng would not wait so long between refining batches of high-tier pills.
Would a tier-eight alchemist dare promise unlimited purchases of