Chapter 170 : Chapter 170
Chapter 170 If You Do Not Want to Supply Us, Then Do Not Supply Us!
Over the next few days, the three of them acted separately.
In three days, Li Mu obtained nearly three thousand Low-Grade Qi-Gathering Pills.
This was the result of the Immortal Ape working nonstop for three consecutive days.
Planting alone took one full day, and harvesting took half a day.
One had to know that Li Mu’s current Blessed Field allowed one day to equal five years.
Two days meant ten years. With the addition of Spiritual Spring water, the medicinal herbs had grown for the equivalent of fourteen or fifteen years.
One also had to know that the productivity of the pharmaceutical world more than ten years ago was far inferior to what it was now.
Unless it was a pharmaceutical company or pharmaceutical family with an extremely deep foundation, one that had begun cultivating medicinal herbs more than ten or even several dozen years ago, passed them down generation after generation without interruption, and used secret methods to accelerate the herbs’ growth...
Otherwise, ordinary people would find it very difficult to match Li Mu’s current output.
These three thousand Low-Grade Pills, when converted into Spiritual Liquid in two-hundred-milliliter bottles, equaled twenty-four thousand bottles!
That was five years of the Lu Family’s production on the surface.
This batch alone was enough to give the Lu Family a small shock first.
The next batch of shock would arrive three days later.
For these three days, Li Mu tended to the four saplings every day.
Li Mu named them “Beckoning Trees.”
That was because the four saplings had already grown rapidly, and their trunks had become much thicker.
The leaves had also grown from the size of an infant’s palm to the size of a child’s palm.
Their total height had grown from about seventy centimeters when Li Mu brought them back to nearly two meters.
Moreover, from time to time, they emitted waves of white light. Their little hands kept waving toward the sky, as if they wanted to summon Abyss monsters over.
Unfortunately, this was the Blessed Field, and nothing could be summoned inside.
Aside from handling these matters, whenever Li Mu had time, he would go find Wang Yinhuan.
What amazed Li Mu was that Greedy Snake had actually reached early-stage Eighth Grade!
Even the two dogs had reached the peak of Eighth Grade.
As for Greedy Snake’s body, it had already evolved to more than twenty meters long.
It was as thick as a double-door refrigerator!
Especially that enormous python head. Its oppressive aura was overwhelming.
It was also unclear what had stimulated Wang Yinhuan, but in the past few days, she had basically only reported to the Research Institute.
After that, she ran into the Abyss by herself and stayed there for an entire day.
Of course, she was not stupid either. Relying on the two Eighth Grade large dogs, she carefully galloped through the Sixth Grade monster area.
Only after Greedy Snake reached Seventh Grade did she dare kill monsters in the Seventh Grade monster area.
These three monsters simply kept eating, eating, and eating nonstop.
Wang Yinhuan herself had also learned several sets of protective and auxiliary Cultivation Arts.
The two dogs were no longer dogs now. In their normal state, they were already six or seven meters long and more than two meters tall.
They were much larger than horses.
Now, Wang Yinhuan either rode on one of them or directly sat on Greedy Snake’s head.
Although the two dogs’ cultivation had not increased by too much compared with a few days ago, their strength had multiplied several times.
Although they were not restricted by Wang Yinhuan’s cultivation, the stronger Wang Yinhuan’s own strength and True Qi became, the more directly they would also be affected.
The greatest pain point for Beast Tamers was precisely improving their own cultivation.
Because they relied on pets to fight, they lacked personal combat experience, which made cultivation breakthroughs difficult.
This did not exist for Wang Yinhuan.
When she needed to break through, Li Mu would naturally stuff her mouth full of... pills.
On the contrary, Li Mu himself had temporarily fallen into a bottleneck in terms of Triumph Points.
He currently only had around one hundred and fifty thousand Triumph Points.
But upgrading to Great Heavenly Immortal Art required one million.
And if Great Heavenly Immortal Art was not upgraded, Li Mu’s SSS-Grade Talent could not be tested, nor could he learn the Divine Abilities that came afterward.
Especially that [Undying Hairs].
At a glance, it was clearly a life-saving skill. The sooner he learned it, the better.
Now, everything was stuck here, and Li Mu’s greatest hope rested on the four Beckoning Saplings.
He wondered whether he should transplant them outside and see if they could produce a Sub-Profound Spirit Tree.
If he could enter the Sub-Profound Spirit Tree a few more times and only kill Ninth Grade monsters, he would be able to gather one million points very quickly.
On the fourth day, a trending topic appeared on Linyuan City’s local news.
[Lu Pharmaceuticals’ High-Grade Spiritual Energy Concentrate market quota for individual sales this month has increased to 500 bottles!]
[At 12:00 noon today, Happiness Road Pharmacy and Binhai Road Pharmacy will begin sales on time! Limited to one bottle per person.]
This trending topic rose very quickly. Anyone with sharp eyes knew that the Lu Family had deliberately paid to push it up.
Countless comments discussed it frantically below.
“What is going on? Why did the quota suddenly become so high? Was it not only a little over one hundred bottles every month before?”
“I heard that most of it used to be supplied to the Abyss-Suppression Army, so the market supply was low.”
“I know the inside story. In the past, Lu Pharmaceuticals only had about four hundred bottles a month in total. Now there are another hundred bottles!”
“Those who understand, understand. The Lu Family has fallen out with the Abyss-Suppression Army. They are no longer supplying the Abyss-Suppression Army.”
“Who cares about that? Among all the Spiritual Energy Concentrates on the market, the Lu Family’s product may be expensive, but it is currently the best quality.”
“Stop talking. Go line up. If you are late, you will not be able to buy it even if you have money!”
Wanren Military District.
A general manager from Lu Pharmaceuticals, who had previously been responsible for liaising with the Wanren Military District, arrived at the office of the Military Supply Department’s minister.
The Wanren Military District’s Military Supply Minister had been extremely busy over the past two days.
Originally, when the higher-ups informed him that the Lu Family’s High-Grade Spiritual Energy Concentrate supply had been cut off, he was already overwhelmed.
Very soon, he also learned the reason behind it.
Although he strongly supported Li Mu in dealing with the Lu Family, his pressure was enormous.
He was the main person responsible for the chain-like shortage of cultivation resources in the Wanren Military District.
But these matters were not something he could decide!
The Commander-in-Chief could not stand tall. He did not dare compete with those families for resources or arm-wrestle with them. What could he do?
One had to know that the Lu Family supplied two hundred bottles every month, and that alone made up half of what he purchased from the market.
Just as he was overwhelmed, Tiger Marquis Li had unexpectedly brought five thousand bottles of High-Grade Spiritual Energy Concentrate from Zhang Group yesterday at half price!
Originally, he had still been confused and had not known what was going on.
But after personally testing the Spiritual Energy Concentrate, all the gloom immediately vanished!
This Spiritual Energy Concentrate was more than just a little better than the Lu Family’s!
For military district procurement, it only cost half the price. It sold for five hundred thousand outside, but for military procurement, it only cost two hundred thousand!
This was a level of discount that the Abyss-Suppression Army in Linyuan City had never tasted from any family or group before!
The most terrifying part was that Li Mu had tossed down one sentence: “There is no need to save it. Set the Contribution Points a little lower and let the soldiers have a taste. There will be more next month, only more.”
The Military Supply Minister had almost prostrated himself before Li Mu in utter admiration.
Was this not a living Bodhisattva of salvation from the Pearl Military District?
Now, he was ordering people to send notices to the various bases.
Just then, his assistant knocked and entered.
The Military Supply Minister, Tu Jian, did not even raise his head as he processed the form in his hand.
This was a statistical form showing the number of Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Grade Martial Artists in the various bases. These grades were the main users of High-Grade Spiritual Liquid.
“Minister, Manager Zhou from Lu Pharmaceuticals is here.”
Tu Jian’s brows immediately tightened.
His eyes shifted. Then he used something to cover his materials and leaned back.
“Let him in!”
“Yes!”
After the assistant went out, Manager Zhou, dressed in formal clothes with neat short hair, slowly walked in.
He held a kraft paper envelope in his hand, and his expression carried a faint trace of smugness.
“Manager Zhou! Do you still have something to say?”
Tu Jian said indifferently.
Two days ago, it had been this bastard who arrogantly came to notify the military district that they were terminating supply.
The excuse they gave was “insufficient productivity.”
Yet today, they had posted a trending topic saying their market sales quota was actually one hundred bottles higher than before!
This was clearly deliberately embarrassing the Wanren Military District!
A mere insignificant family actually dared fall out with the military district. Tu Jian had truly never suffered such humiliation before.
And the Lu Family’s confidence came precisely from the Wanren Military District’s “weakness.”
Ice three feet thick did not form in a single day.
In the past, Tu Jian had also felt that if the Wanren Military District did not dare act decisively, it would be very difficult for it to stand tall again.
However, Li Mu’s appearance allowed him to see a trace of hope.
Li Mu had already begun chiseling at this solid ice!
“Minister Tu, this is our contract termination document. We have already signed it.”
“I will have to trouble you to sign it as well. Of course, you may also refuse to sign it.”
“In any case, according to the contract, we do not owe any penalty payment. There is still another month and a half left. When the time comes, the contract will automatically terminate.”
Manager Zhou smiled and stepped forward, taking the document out of the envelope.
Tu Jian said directly, “Manager Zhou! Let me ask you this first. The reason you gave for terminating the contract was insufficient productivity. You said you could not produce this much Spiritual Liquid!”
“But the notice you released today says that five hundred bottles of Spiritual Liquid are on sale!”
“How do you explain that?”
Manager Zhou said in a strange, sarcastic tone, “Haha, well, it is the kind of quality we supplied to the military district that can no longer be produced.”
“As for the Spiritual Liquid we are selling now, its quality has dropped. How would we dare supply that to the military district? Am I right?”
Tu Jian smiled.
“Haha! Good!”
“Excellent!”
Bang!
Tu Jian suddenly slammed the table and stood up with a smile. This gave Manager Zhou quite a fright.
Tu Jian sneered.
“I am telling you, Zhou! It is not that your quality has dropped. It is that you want to use this Spiritual Liquid to throw attitude at our military district!”
“There is no need to wait a month and a half! I will sign it for you right now!”
Tu Jian pointed at him with his finger, then grabbed a pen and swiftly signed both copies of the contract.
Afterward, he kept one copy for himself and threw the other copy at Manager Zhou’s feet with a rustle.
“If you do not want to supply us, then damn well do not supply us!”
“From now on, unless I am stripped of my position as Military Supply Minister, our military district will not take a single drop of anything connected to your Lu Family!”
“Also, from now on, your Lu Family had better be careful. Obey the law and do not let anything go wrong! Otherwise, we shall see what happens!”
“Take your contract and get out!”