Chapter 165 : Chapter 165
Chapter 165 Low-Grade Qi-Gathering Spiritual Liquid Is Produced
Hearing Li Mu’s words, An Xing did not know whether to laugh or cry.
“Trick them? Wouldn’t that directly push them into desperation?”
“Is it really wise to fall out with the Lu Family right now?”
An Xing did not have Li Mu’s courage.
The higher one’s position, the more things one had to consider.
It was not cowardice. He had to take responsibility for thousands upon thousands of Abyss-Suppression Army soldiers.
But Li Mu smiled and said, “Deputy Commander-in-Chief An, remember this. If the Lu Family chooses to fall out with the Abyss-Suppression Army...”
“Then that will be the worst decision they have ever made!”
Li Mu had already asked around about the production volume of the Lu Family’s Spiritual Energy Concentrate.
With the current area of his Blessed Field Art, if Li Mu set aside half of it specifically to grow ingredients for Low-Grade Qi-Gathering Pills, then the Lu Family’s high-grade Spiritual Energy Concentrate production would only be about half of Li Mu’s pill production.
Moreover, it was not as though Li Mu had never drunk High-Quality Spiritual Energy Concentrate before.
If a Low-Grade Qi-Gathering Pill was broken apart and divided into eight pieces, even one of those pieces would be stronger than spiritual energy concentrate.
And that was not even mentioning his High-Grade Qi-Gathering Pills.
If the Wanren Military District was constrained by the Lu Family because it chose to stand with him, Li Mu was fully capable of covering for them.
Perhaps Li Mu’s words were simply too confident, because even An Xing inexplicably felt that he was reliable.
“All right! We will do it your way!”
An Xing agreed.
After hanging up the phone, Li Mu sighed.
“It seems this Lu Family is much more seasoned than the people I dealt with before.”
He had dealt with Tong Longyi, and the Lu Family had acted so quickly afterward. That meant they were indeed furious.
But even under such anger, the Lu Family had not rashly made a move against Li Mu directly.
Instead, they had chosen to first find out Li Mu’s background.
They were also trying to cut off all of Li Mu’s escape routes and backing.
Only then would they deal with him.
After pondering for a while, Li Mu took out a Low-Grade Qi-Gathering Pill.
Now that he was Ninth Grade, eating this thing was basically only useful for satisfying hunger.
“Can it be turned into liquid too?”
Li Mu took a bottle of water from the side.
Although he could indeed take out Qi-Gathering Pills, he could not simply give them away for free. He planned to open a pharmaceutical factory.
He would also start from a business model. He could supply the Abyss-Suppression Army at a low price through special channels, and he could also flood the public market.
In any case, he could produce low-grade pills very quickly. It was not impossible to use them to make money.
But was he really supposed to break Qi-Gathering Pills apart and then knead them into miniature pills?
The finished pills would still attract too much attention.
At present, Spiritual Energy Concentrate was still the most mainstream product on the market, and it was also the product most easily accepted by people.
Li Mu first broke the pill apart.
A rich medicinal fragrance spread out, and Li Mu inwardly cried, Damn it.
The spiritual energy had actually dissipated quite a bit along with the damage to the pill.
Damn it. These were pills he had made himself, but he had truly never noticed this before.
Li Mu directly threw a small piece of the pill into the cup of water and stirred it with his hand to help the pill dissolve.
Sure enough...It did not work very well.
The more thoroughly the pill broke down, the faster its medicinal power volatilized.
In just four or five minutes, the medicinal power of this pill had already completely dispersed.
Li Mu rubbed his chin.
Could he only sell whole pills? Judging by this medicinal effect, if he sold them cheaply, there simply would not be enough to meet demand.
If he sold them at an appropriate price, they would definitely be extremely expensive.
“Hmm?”
Snap!
Li Mu’s eyes lit up. He snapped his fingers, then quickly took the cup of water into the Blessed Field Art and brought out a cup of Spiritual Spring water.
This was Li Mu’s first time taking Spiritual Spring water out.
As soon as the Spiritual Spring water appeared, it faintly emitted waves of spiritual energy.
But the spiritual energy of the Spiritual Spring water was condensed and did not disperse. It allowed one to sense the spiritual energy, yet it did not diminish.
Even if he did not mix it with a pill, Li Mu felt that this Spiritual Spring water could probably rival the lowest-end Spiritual Energy Concentrate.
Li Mu broke apart another Low-Grade Qi-Gathering Pill and threw about a quarter of it into the cup.
Li Mu’s eyes immediately shone.
Earlier, after ordinary water dissolved the pill, it had become a dark-brown, murky liquid.
But the moment the pill fragment entered the Spiritual Spring water, it actually dissolved like white sugar. With a gentle shake of the cup, faintly silver, transparent threads like silk slowly drifted through the clear Spiritual Spring water.
It was exquisitely beautiful.
Li Mu drank it all in one go.
Not bad at all!
The medicinal power of this thing was definitely much purer than Spiritual Energy Concentrate. However, Li Mu still did not know exactly how effective the Lu Family’s Spiritual Energy Concentrate was.
If it was far stronger than theirs, he would actually have to adjust it downward.
Because if it surpassed them by too much, then he would not be taking over their market level. It would become a product one tier higher.
If the Lu Family’s product scored sixty points, Li Mu could not make something that scored one hundred and twenty.
He had to make something that scored eighty!
He would beat them precisely at their sixty-point level!
So Li Mu took a mineral water bottle, entered the Blessed Field Art, and filled it with a bottle of Spiritual Spring water.
With the Spiritual Spring lake and the infinite river channel, Spiritual Spring water replenished itself when lacking and receded when excessive. It was inexhaustible.
After filling the bottle and turning around, he saw Yaogu urinating beside the field.
Li Mu immediately cursed in annoyance, “Hey! Pee farther away!”
Yaogu was so startled that it nearly parried on reflex. It shuddered, then looked at Li Mu with confusion and stubbornness.
Why was he even controlling where others were allowed to pee?
Seeing the way it held its head high and puffed out its chest, Li Mu ran over and kicked it in the rear.
However, Yaogu’s backside was extremely sturdy.
For Li Mu, it was almost like kicking a lump of iron.
Ever since Yaogu had entered this Blessed Field Art...Ever since Yaogu had entered the Blessed Field Art and could eat properly, this fellow’s strength had been improving with each passing day.
It ate the key parts of Eighth and Ninth Grade monsters, the internal organs, hearts, brains, muscles, and all kinds of spear-like and whip-like parts...It drank Spiritual Spring water, and when Li Mu was not paying attention, it even gnawed on two mouthfuls of medicinal herbs to cleanse its palate!
Putting combat power aside, in terms of physical strength alone, it was at least as strong as a Seventh Grade monster.
If measured according to the ranking of warhorses, it was at least Rare-Grade!
After all, ordinary warhorses were basically takeout when they encountered Third or Fourth Grade monsters.
Special-Grade Warhorses were basically a full meal when they encountered Fifth or Sixth Grade monsters.
But if Yaogu encountered a Fifth or Sixth Grade monster now, it could take a running start and slam the monster into serious injury.
Li Mu lectured Yaogu for a while and forbade it from urinating near the Spiritual Spring in the future.
Although the Spiritual Spring had always been so clear one could see the bottom and could purify itself, the feeling was still a little strange...
After coming out, he dissolved one Low-Grade Qi-Gathering Pill into five hundred milliliters of Spiritual Spring water.
The silk-like threads inside seemed much denser.
Li Mu would compare it with the Lu Family’s Spiritual Liquid tomorrow.
However, looking at the Spiritual Spring water, Li Mu’s thoughts opened up again.
Could his mother use Spiritual Spring water to brew wine?
That was worth trying.
Early the next morning.
At six o’clock in the morning, before the sky had fully brightened, the Lu Family’s man with glasses once again brought his attendants personally to the deputy command center of the Wanren Military District.
Sure enough, at the entrance, he was carefully checked by the guards.
But the man with glasses laughed inwardly.
It seemed that this old fox An Xing had indeed been overly cautious yesterday.
In addition, once they entered the Commander-in-Chief’s Office, An Xing changed his cold attitude from before and warmly shook hands with the man with glasses with a smile.
This made the man with glasses even less suspicious.
He only believed that An Xing wanted to secretly pocket some benefits.
No matter what, he could never have imagined that a Deputy Commander-in-Chief like An Xing would report the matter to a Junior Tiger Marquis.
Everything that followed was just as the man with glasses had expected.
An Xing vaguely expressed that they indeed did not have any especially deep connection with Li Mu.
He also expressed that he was very much looking forward to this batch of supplies from the Lu Family.
The man with glasses immediately agreed readily.
He promised to support the Wanren Military District with five hundred bottles of Low-Grade Spiritual Liquid.
Although it was low-grade, it was at least being given for free, and its value was at least around ten to twenty million.
The Lu Family had another plan in supporting them with this batch of supplies.
They wanted to use this matter to test the Wanren Military District’s attitude.
If the Abyss-Suppression Army accepted it, that would also be a good opportunity to improve their relationship.
This was where Ironhand City and Linyuan City were different.
Every force in Ironhand City wanted to extend its hand into the Abyss-Suppression Army because the Ironhand City Abyss-Suppression Army controlled the vast majority of Abyss development resources and permissions.
In Linyuan City, that was not quite so urgent.
Because the Abyss-Suppression Army in Linyuan City was, to some extent, unable to truly stand tall.
The only reason they were stronger than the Pearl Military District was that the total amount of resources in the Verdant Abyss was large enough and vast enough.
Of course, the Lu Family naturally could not simply hand over the Spiritual Liquid to the Wanren Military District so readily.
They said it would definitely be delivered within forty-eight hours.
During these forty-eight hours, the Lu Family had already sent people to begin arranging how to deal with Li Mu.
However, over these two days, Li Mu seemed to have vanished from the face of the earth. They could not find him at all.
An Xing reminded the Lu Family once more.
The Lu Family could only first fulfill their promise to An Xing and hand over these Mid-Grade Spiritual Liquids.
An Xing even held a proper-looking donation ceremony.
And by coincidence...
On the third morning, the Lu Family had just donated the Spiritual Liquid to the Wanren Military District.
At noon, Li Mu appeared...