The Sword God of the Universe

Chapter 2429: Chapter 2429: Surveillance

In the long history of the Immortal Domain, some top-grade Immortal Pills and even supreme-grade Immortal Pills that appeared early on are now no longer in existence. The alchemy methods for these pills have either completely disappeared or even their names are lost, while some only have some incomplete pill formulas left.

Many capable Immortal Pill Masters constantly attempt to complete the incomplete pill formulas, but wanting to do so is extremely difficult, and the success rate is very low. It must be understood that even once an incomplete pill formula is completed, it still needs to be verified through alchemy, and the pills involved are extremely precious, the materials required equally astonishing in value. Every failure results in great loss. To successfully complete a pill formula, who knows how many times one might fail.

It can be said that failing a few hundred times and finally succeeding is good luck. More likely, even after failing several hundred or a thousand times, success still eludes them.

For this reason, incomplete pill formulas are generally of low value, and even for those special pill formulas, few would spend large sums to buy them. Places like the Golden Toad Commerce occasionally acquire incomplete pill formulas but find it difficult to quickly deal with them, thus they are piled up, and few can remember these incomplete formulas.

Gao Zhenjiang saw Jing Yan interested in pill formulas, so he casually mentioned them. He certainly understood that City Lord Jing Yan probably wouldn’t want those incomplete pill formulas.

”Incomplete pill formulas?” Jing Yan, hearing this, had a slight light flicker in his eyes.

”City Lord Jing Yan, these incomplete pill formulas, we at Golden Toad Commerce actually have quite a few stored internally. To be honest, these formulas are hard to sell, and even if someone buys, they don’t want to pay a high price. If the City Lord wants them, Golden Toad Commerce can dispose of them at a very low price. Just know that if you find these formulas useless, don’t blame us later,” Gao Zhenjiang said.

He needed to clarify this.

This City Lord Jing Yan is clearly not someone to be easily deceived. If things aren’t clearly stated now, many issues might arise later. For quite a while to come, Golden Toad Commerce wouldn’t have time to deal with Jing Yan.

”Heh heh...” Jing Yan chuckled softly.

He looked at Gao Zhenjiang and said, ”If these incomplete pill formulas are reasonably priced, then feel free to bring them here, I am somewhat interested in them.”

”Alright, no problem,” Gao Zhenjiang nodded.

Gao Zhenjiang directly communicated with the President of the Trade Union Headquarters, detailing his negotiations with City Lord Jing Yan. The President wasn’t bothered by Gao Zhenjiang spending twenty-eight trillion Black Crystal Stones to purchase twenty-two Divine Soul Items and generally supported Gao Zhenjiang. The President instructed Gao Zhenjiang to stay in Hongmeng City temporarily and immediately arranged for the pills and various materials to be sent to Hongmeng City.

The need for Gao Zhenjiang to remain in Hongmeng City is also to prevent other incidents.

The allure of Divine Soul Items is too great, and if anyone from Golden Toad Commerce engages with Jing Yan during Gao Zhenjiang’s absence, it would be a loss for the Commerce.

Actually, even if Gao Zhenjiang temporarily left, Jing Yan wouldn’t trade with others. He’s already made a verbal agreement with Gao Zhenjiang, and he won’t casually break it. Besides, others don’t know Jing Yan holds so many Divine Soul Items; only a few individuals know this information. Meili, the City Lord of Mystic Underworld City, knows, but she’s anxious awaiting headquarters’ handling and won’t divulge such information. The other is the auction house president, Quan Guangzhen, who is deceased.

The remaining one is Ru Li under Jing Yan, who won’t casually leak any information about the Divine Soul Items.

Tianji City, City Lord Mansion.

”Still no movement?” The City Lord frowned deeply.

Opposite him stood a person in a black robe.

”Yes, Gao Zhenjiang has been in Hongmeng City for a few days, but it doesn’t appear he’s being kept under house arrest by them. The people in Hongmeng City are very tight-lipped, and even with high prices, it’s difficult to obtain useful information from them,” the black-robed person nodded and said.

During this time, both Tianji City and Windward City dispatched large numbers of spies to monitor Hongmeng City, but the information they acquired was limited.

Elder Gao Zhenjiang from Golden Toad Commerce is clearly not here to demand justice, yet his prolonged stay in Hongmeng City is perplexing. Is it possible Golden Toad Commerce still has some unresolved dealings with Hongmeng City?

”Keep investigating!” The City Lord said, his face darkened.

”City Lord, it might be difficult to achieve a breakthrough. Even if Gao Zhenjiang truly has some secret dealing with the City Lord of Hongmeng City, ordinary underlings likely won’t know. Moreover, the captains and vice-captains in Hongmeng City seem extremely loyal to Jing Yan City Lord, making it hard to bribe them with Black Crystal Stones. Otherwise, we might have to secretly capture someone for interrogation,” the black-robed person suggested.

”No way, we can’t do that now,” the City Lord immediately shook his head.

It’s a joke. The incident in Mystic Underworld City happened less than a month ago. If they captured high-ranking individuals in Hongmeng City, once discovered by Jing Yan, what would be the consequences? Anyway, Mystic Underworld City would be powerless to stop retribution.

If he was easy to deal with, Golden Toad Commerce wouldn’t be as cautious now. The strength of Golden Toad Commerce isn’t any weaker than the powers behind Tianji City.

”Keep monitoring Hongmeng City, see what Gao Zhenjiang does next, and... perhaps others from Golden Toad Commerce headquarters will also go to Hongmeng City. Keep an eye on their movements,” Tianji City’s City Lord pondered aloud.

”Yes!” The black-robed person responded, silently exiting.

Similarly, Windward City expressed a similar reaction.

In an unclear situation, these large powers also wouldn’t act rashly against Hongmeng City. At least until Hongmeng City poses a direct threat to their interests, they won’t hurry to mobilize against it. Naturally, the main reason for these powers’ caution is due to Jing Yan’s displayed strength. If Jing Yan were weaker, these powers wouldn’t waste time and energy here; they’d just deploy a few Immortal Venerables to eliminate the new city.

Hongmeng City, Jing Yan’s residence.

”City Lord!” Xu Yiming hurriedly came to see Jing Yan.

”Yiming?” Jing Yan smiled at Xu Yiming.

”City Lord, following your instructions, I’ve been screening the guards’ spiritual power. Just now, I discovered a guard with extremely strong spiritual power,” Xu Yiming said, slightly excited.

”Oh? Who is it? Have you brought them?” Jing Yan stood up, his eyes flickering with interest.

The intensity of spiritual power is actually the purity of the Divine Soul Body. Since the nearby robber organizations were incorporated, Jing Yan had tasked Xu Yiming with using his innate ability to sense the Divine Soul Body purity of these newly incorporated members.