The Fifth Form
Chapter 82

Suicide Squad Number One

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"The price of a pill has tripled?"

The Golden Toad Dharma King had suffered grievous injuries. The venerable one had suppressed them, but he needed a steady supply of tonics to nurse himself back to health.

He had no choice but to seek pills.

In the Xieluosi River Holy Land, Demon King Luli was exceptionally skilled at refining pills.

That made him the one many of the Holy Land's great demons went to for pills.

There was nothing wrong with making a profit on pills, but the Golden Toad Dharma King could not accept Demon King Luli's current price increase.

At Demon King Luli's prices, he could spend everything he owned and still have no hope of healing his injuries.

"It really is three times the price. I gave him a piece of my mind, and he chased me out with an antler fork!"

In a fit of pique, the Golden Toad Dharma King had set his hopes of obtaining medicine on Zou Bugui. But no matter how quickly Zou Bugui was caught, it would take at least half a year to bring him to the Xieluosi River Holy Land.

Leave a minor illness untreated and it became a major one; leave a major illness untreated and it killed you. Given how badly he was hurt, those six months would be hard to endure.

The matter still had to be resolved in the end.

Zhang Xuezhou had handled several crises better than he had.

The Golden Toad Dharma King found the current situation difficult to handle himself, so he wanted to hear Zhang Xuezhou's advice.

"Since Demon King Luli has decided to raise your price, all you can do for now is swallow it," Zhang Xuezhou said consolingly. "You'd best trade for a large supply of pills in one go,

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