Zhixue Sect Main Hall.
Bloodpill Ancestor opened today’s revenue reports from various regions with satisfaction.
Battles occurred every day in the cultivation world, and to survive, one couldn’t do without medical cultivators and Bleeding Stop Pills.
Because the Taiming Sect’s Medical Halls and pill shops had closed, the sales volume of Bleeding Stop Pills in every area of the Great Sima Nation had more than doubled!
Even Bloodpill Ancestor himself was surprised by this data. He had expected sales to increase by at most thirty percent, but to see them double… that damned Taiming Sect should have been crushed long ago!
He continued flipping through the regional data, seeing nothing but soaring growth rates… until he reached the page for Jing City, where he suddenly froze.
In Jing City’s revenue report for today, sales of Grade D and Grade C Bleeding Stop Pills had also approximately doubled, but Grade A and Grade B… not only had they not increased, their sales had plummeted by ninety percent! Not a single Grade A pill had been sold!
How strange.
Jing City had just opened a Dan Sect Alliance Flagship Store yesterday, so logically sales should have been even higher…
And with the Taiming Sect Medical Hall’s closure, cultivators should be rushing to buy Top Grade Bleeding Stop Pills to save their lives.
Why then such a steep drop? Had something unfortunate happened at the store?
He immediately summoned the chief manager of Jing City.
The manager inspected the store, then laughed: “Ah, it’s all because of that idiot over in the Consignment Area…”
“Hmm? Explain.”
“Something big happened in Jing City during the day! Some foolish rich guy was just handing out pills for free, tossing many precious pills to passersby. Among those were Grade A and Grade B Bleeding Stop Pills… The passersby grabbed the pills and immediately ran to the Auction House to consign them for sale.”
Bloodpill Ancestor frowned slightly.
The manager continued, “These scattered cultivators, as you know, Ancestor, never care about market balance or playing the long game. They only want to quickly sell what they find to cash out…
So to sell fast, they priced their pills lower and lower, so much so that no one comes to our store anymore—all are flocking to buy pills in the Consignment Area!”
“Someone is maliciously disrupting the pill market?” Bloodpill Ancestor pondered deeply.
“No way, who can afford that!” the manager laughed again.
“Who could hoard so much stock? Even if someone is temporarily undercutting prices at a loss, we alone have the Exclusive Pill Formulas and the ability to produce Bleeding Stop Pills… Once those cheap pills are all sold off, the prices will be ours to set again.”
“No, what I fear most is the pill formula leaking,” Bloodpill Ancestor said with worry.
His rise to his current position owed greatly to his extreme caution.
He understood that the formula was the very foundation and lifeblood of the Zhixue Sect.
If anyone else managed to crack it… he would stop at nothing to eliminate them! To destroy all who knew!
“That won’t happen. You’re being too paranoid,” the manager reassured him.
“The ones affected today aren’t just us Zhixue Sect but many other sects too.
The pills given away weren’t only Bleeding Stop Pills—there were at least dozens of rare pills! If this person wanted to cause trouble, they’d have to have dozens of monopoly formulas in hand! And that’s just laughable, isn’t it?”
“That’s true,” Bloodpill Ancestor finally relaxed. “Keep a close eye on this, and try to find out exactly who they are.”
“Understood, Ancestor. Don’t worry! Nothing will go wrong!”
The members of the Taiming Sect couldn’t figure out Jiang Ke’er’s purpose at all and obediently followed her instructions, heading out to nearby cities to sweep up cheap Small Universe Bags.
Meanwhile, Jiang Ke’er continued making pills and lucky bags, working tirelessly for hundreds of hours until it was already late at night.
Because cultivators had boundless energy, there was no real difference between day and night; the streets remained bustling with people… blending into the crowd, Jiang Ke’er entered the Auction House to consign more goods.
She filled out the form, wrote her remarks, then followed procedure by entering the Auction House’s dark room to hand over the items before turning to leave.
The Auction House staff were relatively reliable—at least for now—not colluding with the Dan Sect Alliance, so Jiang Ke’er didn’t have to worry about her identity being exposed.
Unless she crossed the Auction House’s bottom line of interests, they would try to maintain their fair and just image and wouldn’t target her. Instead, they would ally with her.
But after today, things would be uncertain.
Jiang Ke’er then went upstairs to the second-floor tavern opposite the consignment booth and sat down.
Coincidentally, the consignment clerk was still the same young man from earlier, but now he looked completely alert.
The moment he saw the lucky bags, he instantly became excited.
He hadn’t expected that this generous rich fool would actually return to consign more lucky bags!
Although he wouldn’t earn a single cent from selling the lucky bags, just being involved in something so fresh and thrilling made his blood boil.
With a flourish of his brush, he wrote boldly on the product name plate—“Second Phase Super Value Elixir Lucky Bag! 50 Magic Crystals each, limit 10 bags per person.”
Immediately afterward, he posted another sign beside it according to Jiang Ke’er’s notes—“This issue’s Grand Prize: One full bottle of Immortal Grade Perfect Top-Grade Bleeding Stop Pills, 10 pills. Second Prize: One full bottle of Immortal Grade Jia-Rank Luo E Pills, 10 pills. Third Prize…”
While he wrote the sign, a hungry crowd had already gathered in front of the booth.
They were all cultivators from various regions, drawn by the rumor of free pills.
Throughout the day, news of a rich benefactor handing out pills in Jing City had spread across the entire Great Sima Nation. Judging by the product name, there might be a second round of lucky bag events, so many cultivators came to Jing City and camped out, hoping to strike it rich overnight!
However, upon seeing the 50 Magic Crystal price tag, a chorus of groans immediately echoed around.
“Damn it, should’ve known—it’s just a merchant’s hype!”
“Scatter, scatter! Fifty Magic Crystals? That’s a rip-off! Don’t pay this stupidity tax…”
“But the grand prize is a whole bottle of Bleeding Stop Pills! If you get it, aren’t you rich?”
“That actually makes sense…”
“No! It’s definitely a scam! You’re just getting duped if you buy!”
【Gained 20 Villain Points from xx.】
【Gained Villain Points from xx…】
Ignoring the uproar outside, Jiang Ke’er rested her chin on one hand, blissfully watching the flood of Villain Point notifications appear on her screen.
These cultivators had come from all over, hoping for a windfall, only to be met with a price increase, which instantly sparked a wave of negative emotions.
While the Villain Points earned from a single person were small, the large crowd made up for it! And because of the huge price gap between yesterday and today, every hopeful cultivator seeing the new prices couldn’t help but feel some resentment.
The first batch of Villain Points had been acquired—check.
And she had done it before midnight, not eating into the Daily Villain Point Acquisition Limit.
Next came the second batch.