Xiao Yan spread his hands and seemed to speak offhandedly, "Oh, who would have thought that the so-called rgest market in Wu Tan City would be ohat picks and chooses its ers? Uhe Xiao 's market across the street, they urn anyone away. Every er there is treated as if they were a Dou King."
Jia Lie Ao's face ged dramatically. If this rumor were to spread, the reputation of their market would surely be damaged.
"What should we do, young master?"
Jia Lie Ao looked at the surrounding ers and merts. Many of them frowned when they heard Xiao Yan's words.
For merts, of course, the more ers, the better. They had no reason to drive away ers. Especially someone like Xiao Yan, who was known to be a big spender. Needless to say, the ers also didn't want to be driven away for no reason the ime they were shopping.
Having said that, Xiao Yan ignored Jia Lie Ao's sullen fad turo Xun Er, "Xun Er, we should avoid pces that drive away ers like this iure. Let's go back to our market instead."
Xun Er blinked her lively eyes and nodded her head like an obedient child, "Oh, Xun Er uands."
Jia Lie Ao's mouth twitched when he saw Xun Er nod her head in respoo Xiao Yan's words, and the two of them even turned around and prepared to leave. His fists ched so tightly they creaked. His gaze was dark and venomous as he stared at the talented young man.
"Wait a moment!"
Jia Lie Ao slowly stepped back, clearing a path, and said through gritted teeth, "Since you've e to the market to buy things, then please be my guest."
Xiao Yan and Xun Er shared a smile. Xun Er linked her arm with Xiao Yan's as they walked through the path made by the crowd into the market.
Jia Lie Ao watched Xiao Yan's back with a torted face, his knuckles crag in anger. Four years ago, he had been severely beaten up by the then-only ten-year-old Xiao Yan for harassing Xun Er.
It was from that ihat Xiao Yan's reputation as a genius started to spread. In other words, he, Jia Lie Ao, was his stepping stone!
However, four years had passed, and he had only bee a 1-star Dou Practitioner, while Xiao Yan had already reached the 3-star Dou Practitioage.
Almost a star per year, such a rate ress was terrifying!
"Have someone follow these two. Sihey dared to e alohere's a ce..." Jia Lie Ao made a throat-slittiure.
With his powerful Spiritual Strength, Xiao Yan naturally khat they were being followed.
"Three 7-star Dou Practitioners. They are really uimating Xiao Yan ge-ge," Xun Er also noticed that they were being followed, but she wasn't worried.
If Jia Lie Ao khat Xiao Yan had defeated Nan Yanran, who had learhe Xuan Css Dou Skills of the Misty Cloud Sect, in just one move yesterday, they would never have done such a stupid thing.
Not to mention Dou Practitioners, even Dou Masters without Xuan Css Dou Skills would be no match for Xiao Yan.
"Xiao Yan ge-ge, ing here wasn't just for shopping, was it?" Xun Er's eyes sparkled with intelligence. She khat Xiao Yan's sudden risk of venturing into the rival's market couldn't be just for shopping.
Caressing Xun Er's hair, Xiao Yan said, "Xun Er is truly smart. Nothing be hidden from you."
Receiving Xiao Yan's praise made Xun Er unsciously smile.
"The Grand Elder mentioned something at the meeting a few days ago. There are several Dou Grandmaster Elders from the Jia Lie and Ao Ba s who often leave Wu Tan City, and it's not clear what they're up to. That is why I have taken the opportunity to iigate this matter today," Xiao Yan replied in a low voice.
Sending someone else from the Xiao might indeed have resulted in them falling victim to foul py.
"From the looks of it, Xiao Yan ge-ge must have already figured things out, right?"
Xiao Yan could only spread his hands helplessly and smile wryly, "It seems I 't deceive Xun Er anymore. I actually have some clues now, but I still o discuss them with my father."
"Of course, now we should deal with those few tailing us first."
Xiao Yan slowly turo face the three Dou Practitioners who had been following them. By now, they had ventured deep into the market, into a se that was still under stru and had not yet been opeo the public, whiaturally made it sparsely poputed.
"Do you prefer to leave on your own? Or shall I assist you?" Xiao Yan's gaze was sharp as he looked at the three 7-star Dou Practitioners behind him. He made no effort to hide his killing i.
Normally, the Dou Masters of a were rarely found within their own market. They were mainly in charge of proteg the 's medial herb gathering teams when they went into the mountains and wildero gather herbs, or even leading teams to hunt magical beasts for their cores to sell.
The reasohree major s built their markets was because they were the rgest suppliers of medial herbs and monster cores. Instead of selling to others, they preferred to sell their products to themselves, hehe establishment of the markets.
Therefore, as long as there was no interference from a Dou Master this time, Xiao Yan would have the upper hand with his strength.
The three Dou Practitioners exged ghe leading Dou Practitioner, who was holding a red-tipped spear, suddenly lunged forward with a Dou Teique and thrust the spear toward Xiao Yan's throat with a gust of wind.
Xiao Yan remained calm. He extewo fio catch the spear tip, s off with a click, and then flicked it like an arrow, instantly pierg the oppo's shoulder and pinning him to the wall.
He then kicked the broken spear up from the ground, grabbed it like a long stick, and quickly dispatched the remaining two oppos with just a couple of moves.
"You're even weaker than Nan Yanran."
If Nan Yanrao hear this, she would definitely cough up blood. She, the pride of the Misty Cloud Sect, had bee a unit of measure for bat strength…?!
Xiao Yan walked out of the market, patted Jia Lie Ao on the shoulder, and said, "Send someone more formidable ime."
These words infuriated Jia Lie Ao to the point where his blood surged and his eyes became bloodshot.
…
Xiao Yaed his findings to Xiao Zhan after returning to the Xiao .
"You're saying they're pnning to refine and sell medial pills?!"
Xiao Yan nodded, "I visited our 's market this m and noticed that all the merts selling medial herbs had half of their usual stock of low-grade medial ingredients."
"And in their market, the merts have no low-grade medial ingredients at all."
"Low-grade medial ingredients are usually used to refi and 2nd-tier medial pills. If it's 1st-tier pills, it's still manageable, but 2nd-tier pills would be problematic."
Xiao Zhan's face ged dramatically when he heard his son's analysis. If the Jia Lie d the Ao Ba truly could refine medial pills, it would be a devastating blow to the Xiao !
Ihe alliaweewo s was not easy to deal with!
Xiao Yan patted his father's shoulder to fort him, "Father, don't worry. A 2nd-tier alchemist wouldn't just obey the orders of the Jia Lie and Ao Ba s."
"And if it really es down to it, we could ask Elder Nan Jie for help."
"So our top priority now is to have the herb gathering team collect more herbs and reduce the sale of those herbs so as not to be swallowed up by others. Having the raw materials in hand also gives us some leverage."
Xiao Zhan sighed and nodded. Even though his father and Nan Jie were life-ah friends, he had always beeant to ask for Nan Jie's help. After all, the inal agreement was that Xiao Yan would marry Nan Yanran. If they asked Nan Jie for help, wouldn't it look like the Xiao was living off others?!
Wouldn't his son bee a depe son-in-w?
As a father, how could he allow his son to bear the stigma of living off others?
…
Xiao Yaured into a secluded cave on the back mountain alone and brought out a medial cauldron along with a rge amount of low-grade medial ingredients and several monster cores.
In truth, the reassurahat Xiao Yan gave to Xiao Zhan were nothing more than words of fort. The person he cared for wasn't Nan Yanran, nor did he wish to bee overly involved with the Nan .
Only being strong himself was the true path!
'It seems I o practice alchemy more frequently now. If they really mao hire a 2nd-tier alchemist, just being able to refi-tier medial pills won't be enough.'
