Douluo Continent: The Peerless Tang Sect - Sharingan Intercepts Tianmeng

Chapter 33 Shrimp and Pork Heart (Seeking monthly votes, recommendations, and continued reading)

Zhao Yuanbu stared at the table in silence. As a principal with a certain background, his desk was made of very precious crystal jade. That thing was essentially a type of stone, and he really couldn't understand how it could be eaten.

Fortunately, Bai Qingshan didn't pay too much attention. After glancing at Xiao Qiang's soul guide communicator number, Bai Qingshan dialed Xiao Qiang's number. Soon after, Xiao Qiang's voice came from the soul guide communicator.

"How have you been lately, Uncle Bai?"

Bai Qingshan glanced at Zhao Yuanbu, then at the things Xiao Qiang had given him. "Not bad."

"Uncle Bai, I've troubled you with things from the past. I mentioned before that I would help you find medicine to improve your strength. Among the medicines I'm giving you this time is a Marrow Cleansing Pill. Take that first; it can clear most of the drug residue from your body. Then there's a Soul Ascension Pill, and some other pills that won't have much of an impact on your future. Take one of those pills at regular intervals, and it should take about a year for you to reach the level of a five-ring Soul King."

"I've heard of the Soul Ascension Pill, but the Marrow Cleansing Pill..." Bai Qingshan looked at the quality label on the Marrow Cleansing Pill and asked, "Is this a special supply from Mingde Hall?"

"Yes, that's about right. This is a special item from the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Auction House. However, it seems that you need to be a nobleman of earl or higher to get in. Fortunately, the owner of Mingde Hall is kind and gave me his disciple's identity token, which allowed me to enter easily."

"Bought it? It must have cost a lot of money."

"Fortunately, on the one hand, my teacher gave me a lot of money, and on the other hand, my teacher's grandson, Xiao Hongchen, is a very kind person. He also thoughtfully helped me share some of the burden."

"It's good that you can get along well with the grandson of the Red Dust Hall Master. But how much do these pills cost?" Bai Qingshan said with relief, but he was also quite curious about the price of these pills. He was a little worried that if he bought so many pills for himself, would Xiao Qiang's cultivation resources be enough?

"Three million Marrow Cleansing Pills, 570,000 Breakthrough Pills, 360,000 Soul Ascension Pills, and the rest are smaller pills, totaling more than six million."

"Isn't this a bit too much? Do you have enough?"

"Well……"

Zhao Yuanbu clutched his chest, feeling a sharp, throbbing pain in his heart.

Others may not know about Bai Qingshan, but he knows the shape of Bai Qingshan.

Given Bai Qingshan's level four soul mastery abilities, if he wants to make money, the safest option is to make level three soul tools.

In the Sun Moon Empire, a place teeming with Soul Masters, the profit margins for Soul Tools, especially low-level ones, are pitifully thin.

Whether Bai Qingshan can make a pure profit of 200 gold soul coins from reselling the soul tools he makes every day is questionable. After all, even in the Three Kingdoms of the original Douluo Continent, a level three soul tool wouldn't fetch a high price.

On that day, even two hundred gold soul coins were questionable, and on a month, even six thousand gold soul coins were questionable. Taking into account Bai Qingshan's original assets, at most, one hundred thousand gold soul coins would be the maximum he could accumulate in a year.

Eight years would have been 800,000 gold soul coins, but now the pills are worth over 6 million. Add to that a black card worth at least 1 million gold soul coins, and the returns over these seven years are nearly ten times the initial investment.

That's almost ten times the return!

More importantly, those pills were clearly not something ordinary people could buy. The Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Auction House was a place that even the city lord of East Sea City, a seven-soul soul saint with a ten-thousand-year soul ring, couldn't enter.

It's a pill that cleanses the marrow and removes toxins, and it has very few side effects. Why did I have to be so stupid as not to agree to Xiao Qiang's request?

He clearly approached him first. If he had agreed, all these things would have been his. Moreover, these pills had no side effects. With these pills, Zhao Yuanbu felt he could even attempt to break through to the seventh-ring Soul Saint realm.

What was he thinking back then? Why didn't he agree to Xiao Qiang's request? If he had agreed, he should have broken through to the fifth-ring Soul King level this year with just these pills.

Why did he do all this for the sake of cultivation...?

Hmm? For cultivation?

Zhao Yuanbu, who was blaming himself, paused for a moment, remembering why he had rejected Xiao Qiang in the first place.

On one hand, Xiao Qiang's demands were indeed very high; on the other hand, he was different from Bai Qingshan, whose talent had been exhausted and ordinary resources could no longer help him advance even one level of soul power.

But things are different for me. Compared to Bai Qingshan, I am much younger. Especially when Xiao Qiang asked me for resources, I was in my twenties, which was almost the second peak of my cultivation.

Zhao Yuanbu understood that strength was the foundation of everything, so he refused Xiao Qiang's request for more resources without hesitation. After all, the resources provided by the family were limited, and the family head would obviously not agree to give Xiao Qiang so many resources. If Xiao Qiang's resources had to be guaranteed, then the only way would be to cut them off from his own resources.

At that time, he was full of vigor and needed good resources to improve his strength. Under such circumstances, unless he was absolutely certain that Xiao Qiang would bring him more good things, good enough to make up for the gap in his cultivation over the past seven years, even if he was sure that Xiao Qiang was a grateful person, he would never choose to give Xiao Qiang resources at that time.

Thinking about it this way, Zhao Yuanbu felt much better.

Bullshit!

Watching the benefits that should have been his own fly away into someone else's hands, he knew he had made the wrong choice, but it was even more upsetting that someone close to him had made the right choice.

It felt like two childhood friends who grew up together. One of them sold his land to work elsewhere. After working hard for more than ten years, he wanted to return home in glory, but when he came back, he found that his house had been demolished. His childhood friend, who had been living a carefree life, suddenly became a billionaire, living in a villa and driving a luxury car, while the little money he earned could only buy a toilet.

Zhao Yuanbu was furious, but he couldn't show it. He could only touch his chest and comfort himself with a blank expression.

"It's alright, it's alright. It's just nearly ten times more. They're ultimately not in the same league. This time, we've repaid all our favors, and we should go our separate ways from now on. By then, we'll all be five-ring Soul Kings, at most qualified to challenge for a six-ring Soul Emperor. Thank goodness."

As Zhao Yuanbu tried to comfort himself, Xiao Qiang's voice continued to come through the soul communication device.

"Uncle Bai, you don't need to worry about me. Thanks to my friendship with Xiao Hongchen, he helped me pay some of the money, so I still have quite a bit of money. There are three million gold soul coins in that black card, which can help you pay off your previous debts and cover some living expenses in the future."

"Oh, by the way, remember to come find me when you reach the Fifth Ring. I'll help you get a ten-thousand-year soul ring. Don't be shy with me, consider this a little interest. After all, you almost went bankrupt helping me back then."

Zhao Yuanbu: "..." For some reason, a dish came to mind.

(End of this chapter)