Chapter 185: Chapter 117: Slaying Foundation Establishment, Zhou Kang Disappears (Joint Chapter 9K Seeking Monthly Tickets)_5
Translator: 549690339
Yang Zhaoyu hurriedly left the shop, he still needed to meet with other managers from various Sects. If this matter wasn’t investigated thoroughly, they would likely have sleepless nights filled with anxiety.
Because Foundation Establishment Stage Cultivators were already the strongest battle force in the market, now that the Pei Family has been wiped out, trouble could arise if Pei Shiping were still alive. Thus, they have to be prepared.
However, if Pei Shiping were also dead, the situation would be even more terrifying. After all, even Foundation Establishment stage Cultivators could die, it was reasonable to think that these Qi Cultivators couldn’t possibly withstand the same threat.
At this moment, the managers of the Three Sects and Six Orders once again convened. After exchanging ideas, they all supported Yang Zhaoyu’s theory.
The perpetrator must at least be an alchemist at the Qi Cultivation 8th Layer state, or rather, a Poison Master of the same level.
If this person was not thoroughly investigated, or if the threat to the market was not eliminated, it is likely that everyone would live in perpetual fear.
At this moment, Yao Mu was in charge of integrating the resources of the Three Sects and Six Orders to carry out an investigation in the market and hoped to uncover the truth as quickly as possible.
If they confirmed that their abilities were insufficient, they would probably have to report the situation to their Sects and request assistance as soon as possible.
However, unless absolutely necessary, neither Yao Mu nor the managers of the Three Sects and Six Orders wanted to disturb their Sects.
Requesting assistance would mean admitting their incompetence!
In the time following this, Loose Cultivators within the market hardly dared to go out- after all, the entire Pei Family was annihilated, who amongst them could guarantee their own safety?
Under the vigorous investigation by the combined forces of the Three Sects and Six Orders’ shop, they quickly gathered almost all the information, but no one knew precisely what had transpired.
Now they only knew that Pei Shiping was not at the Pei Family residence before, but now no one knew his whereabouts. Yao Mu took the initiative to personally investigate, and finally made progress.
They only found out that some time ago, there were indeed alchemists who left the market, among which was Wang Kuo, a Qi Cultivation 8th Layer state cultivator.
After grasping this clue, they followed this lead and discovered that Fu Liantao and his partner had made contact with Wang Kuo in another market.
The relationship between Fu Liantao and his partner and Pei Shiping was naturally known to them. Their discovery led Yao Mu and others to focus on these alchemists who had left the market, especially Wang Kuo.
Fu Liantao and his partner travelled to several markets and surprisingly gathered several kinds of Spirit Grass for the Foundation Establishment Pill. Unfortunately, after this discovery, they didn’t find any new leads.
Upon finding out about Fu Liantao and his partner, they quickly discovered the traces left behind by Pei Shiping outside the market.
Yao Mu and others compared the information countless times and finally came to a conclusion, a month ago, it seemed like Pei Shiping was tracking someone.
It was very likely that Fu Liantao and his partner were the ones Pei Shiping tracked, however, the rest of the clues abruptly ceased. Yao Mu couldn’t find any other relevant information, no matter how hard he tried.
Actually, the traces left by Pei Shiping were naturally Zhong Liangsheng’s doing. With Pei Shiping’s storage bag, it was extraordinarily straightforward for him to fake Pei Shiping’s tracks.
And the so-called poison pills of the Pei Family, were initially just poison pills diluted a hundred times. A month before the poisoning, Liang Sheng stealthily switched them to poison pills that could kill instantly.
Meanwhile, Liang Sheng, with his superior skills, mixed in some Spiritual Grass that didn’t affect the efficacy of the medicine and, coupled with the clues he purposely left, misled the Three Sects and Six Orders in the wrong direction.
Who could think that Liang Sheng, a Foundation Establishment Stage cultivator, disguised as an alchemist at the Qi Cultivation Fivefold, and set such a trap?
Because there couldn’t be further investigation, Yao Mu and managers from the Three Sects and Six Orders could only surreptitiously investigate. However, no incidents occurred for the three months that followed.
They only slightly let their guards down at this point, guessing that the Poison Master who exterminated the Pei Family, most likely had left the market.
However, during this time, sales of Array Technique Flags in the market suddenly exploded, many Loose Cultivators felt unsafe and started adding more defences to their cave dwellings.
Array masters stationed in the shops of the Three Sects and Six Orders were kept busy during this period. But Yang Zhaoyu and others were inexplicably delighted.
After all, it was a boost to their performance!
Though the Loose Cultivators were frightened in recent times, they still needed to acquire cultivation resources, so they began to cautiously venture out in the past two months.
Since nothing unusual happened in these two months, the orderliness in the market gradually returned to how it was before.
Liang Sheng was not worried about his plan from the beginning. He maintained an average mindset and, after getting familiar with the Alchemist in the shop, gradually began to indirectly inquire about the Golden Yuan Pill.
Unfortunately, no alchemist in the shop knew the pill formula for the Golden Yuan Pill. After all, the Golden Core Realm is too far away from them, so why would they care about Golden Yuan Pill?
And it’s not as if everyone is like Chen Sheng, who Linag Sheng was impersonating, who came up with the theory of making Medium-High-grade Elixirs to boost his own skills. Why would you torment yourself needlessly?
However, Liang Sheng did have some gains during this period, he had got more detailed information about the Three Sects and Six Orders.
For example, amongst the Three Sects and Six Orders, Hua Tian Sect was specialized in refining weapons, and the Refining Equipment Peak Elder had even consecutively refined Spirit Tools.
Of course, the Three Sects and Six Orders also had Sects that were good at refining pills, the most impressive of these was the Dan Ding Sect, which was famous for its Production of Alchemists.
However, the market where Liang Sheng was currently at was closer to the territories controlled by the Hua Tian Sect and the Upper Green Sect. In addition, this market’s income was moderately low compared to other markets, so the Dan Ding Sect’s alchemists stationed here were very few..
