"I told you so you could prepare in advance and adjust your state of mind. As a cultivator, your heart is already unsettled. I don't know whether that's a good thing or a bad thing, but if your spirits stay low, it will surely slow your cultivation. That is not something I wish to see," Jiao Yazi said.

"All right, then since you've seen through it, is there any other way?" Wei Zhao asked.

"If my true body were here, there would be no problem. But there's no help for it. I am only a phantom, or rather a wisp of a remnant soul, able to exist only within the jade pendant. Naturally, there is no other way!" Old Jiao shook his head.

Jiao Yazi's words could not help but plunge Wei Zhao into deep thought. Though Wei Zhao was extremely unwilling to accept this outcome, there was nothing at all he could do about it!

"Forget it. Let everything take its natural course!" Wei Zhao sighed.

The Kang family had lately been buying up Doctor Guan's trauma medicine in enormous quantities, yet the situation they had anticipated never came to pass. In their estimation, no matter how much of the raw material for Doctor Guan's trauma medicine they cornered, it could not withstand consumption by such an immense supply volume!

But Doctor Guan's trauma medicine had begun to be distributed nationwide on a massive scale, and the supply appeared inexhaustibly abundant. What was more, according to the Kang family's investigations, Doctor Guan Pharmaceuticals was throwing up factory buildings in grand fashion!

Building factories? What did that mean? It meant the raw materials were exceedingly plentiful, and it was only the scale of the factory buildings that constrained production capacity! This conclusion left the Kang family thunderstruck!

"What is going on here? Can anyone explain it? Where on earth do their raw materials come from?" The moment Divine Doctor Kang learned this news, he flew into a rage: "Weren't they said to be taking losses just to make a show? Who takes losses in such a manner? Building more factories and expanding capacity so as to lose money?"

"Th-this... Father, don't fly into a rage just yet. This matter requires further investigation! Their building factories doesn't necessarily mean it is for producing trauma medicine. Perhaps they have a new product they intend to bring to market?" Kang Guifeng hesitated a moment, then stepped forward and said.

That earlier notion of buying up Doctor Guan's trauma medicine in bulk had been proposed by Kang Guifeng and Kang Zhaolong in the first place. Now that trouble had arisen, he naturally had to clear himself of blame!

"Never mind their factories for the moment. What I want to ask is this: where do their raw materials come from? Our Kang family has now nearly exhausted every last bit of liquid capital to purchase Doctor Guan's trauma medicine, and our warehouses are stuffed to the rafters! Even in the Kang family's heyday, our storehouses were never this full. What are they producing their trauma medicine with? Even in a year of bumper harvest for medicinal herbs, we never turned out this much!" Divine Doctor Kang was about to explode with fury! He slammed his palm against the table and roared: "And this is only what our Kang family has bought up — already this much! What about all that is on the market? There is even more of it than we have bought, an absolute glut. Even if we bought up that much again, they would still have stock!"

That day Divine Doctor Kang had by chance paid a visit to the Kang family warehouse, and discovered it packed full of Doctor Guan's trauma medicine. Only then did he sense that something was off! How much raw material would it take to produce all of that?

So he had immediately summoned Kang Guifeng, the man in charge of purchasing medicinal materials! When Kang Guifeng saw the Doctor Guan trauma medicine in the warehouse, he too got a terrible shock. Wasn't this a bit absurd? He had merely instructed his subordinates to buy up Doctor Guan's trauma medicine, as much as could be had, and had never personally gone to take stock of just how much had been gathered.

Besides, it had been only a matter of days. Kang Guifeng thought that no matter how much more they bought, they could not have collected all that much. But seeing it today, something truly did seem wrong! What had been collected was far too much, and it seemed to have made no impact, no dent whatsoever, upon the market!

Doctor Guan's trauma medicine on the market still sold just as it always had. There had never once been any word of a shortage!

"Th-this... this... Isn't the matter of the other side's raw material supply channels always the responsibility of Zhaoming, my nephew?" Kang Guifeng wiped the cold sweat from his brow. His father truly was angry! But the state of the warehouse, Kang Guifeng had truly never anticipated; it was practically swollen to bursting with goods!

So, with no way out, Kang Guifeng could only divert the floodwater elsewhere, pinning all the blame upon his nephew Kang Zhaoming! It was Kang Zhaoming who had been charged with investigating the other side's supply channels. If he had failed to uncover anything, if his information was poor, what had that to do with him? He himself had merely, in the absence of information, made an erroneous judgment!

Kang Zhaoming had been watching coldly, savoring the spectacle. He had long since opposed buying up Doctor Guan's trauma medicine in such quantities, but no one had listened. Now look, trouble had been stirred up, and inwardly he was delighted. Yet he had never imagined that his elder uncle could be so utterly shameless as to shove all the blame onto him!

"Elder Uncle, you can't talk like that. Back then I opposed your approach. I said the other side might well have changed the formula, dropped a few costly ingredients, and so lowered the cost and raised the output! But none of you would believe it, would you? Now you're pinning it on me. Isn't that a bit underhanded?" Kang Zhaoming leapt straight out and retorted.

"This..." Kang Guifeng suddenly recalled that Kang Zhaoming had indeed been opposed back then. At the time he had paid it no mind. Now that Kang Zhaoming jogged his memory, he remembered: it seemed Kang Zhaoming really had said those very words? Surely not? Had he hit the mark yet again?

"Zhaoming? You seem to have been foreseeing things like a god of late? Several times now, it seems, your predictions have come true?" Kang Zhaolong shot Kang Zhaoming a dark, sinister look and said mildly.

Kang Zhaolong's words seemed on the surface to praise Kang Zhaoming, but in truth anyone could hear that Kang Zhaolong was suspecting Kang Zhaoming of colluding with outsiders to deliberately bring ruin upon the Kang family!

"Enough!" Divine Doctor Kang looked at Kang Guifeng and Kang Zhaolong, each wriggling out of responsibility, and his rage boiled over in an instant. He slammed the table and cursed: "Shut your mouths! Don't imagine I don't know what you're thinking! Zhaoming did say it before, but that was a warning to us, spoken out of good intent! It is I who have grown muddle-headed, listening to you two worthless creatures! However much of a wastrel Zhaoming may be, he could never collude with outsiders to harm the Kang family. This Kang family is his Kang family as well. When he becomes patriarch in the future, will not all of this be his? What would he have to scheme for?"

Divine Doctor Kang's words left Kang Guifeng and Kang Zhaolong somewhat dumbfounded! What did Divine Doctor Kang mean by that? Could it be that he had already decided that the future patriarch would be Kang Zhaoming?

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