Too late for regrets
After that apart from training with his friends and subordinates, Long Chen doubled down on alchemy, mainly creating 2 products.
The first one being the Profound Virtue pill.
It was a blue-colored pill and just smelling it would put one in a good state.
The crucial ingredient in this pill was the diluted essence of the profounder fruit.
The pill also contained the essence of several other black-grade herbs.
It had a basic function of cumulating essence qi.
The second pill Long Chen focused on was the Nethercrane pill.
It was a red-colored pill and looked very sinister.
The crucial ingredient for this one was the diluted essence of nether fruits.
It focused on refining the nether attribute in one's essence qi.
This pill would be very useful for everyone apart from the Grand Xia's top clans, as most people don't have a profound inheritance to cultivate an attribute in one's essence qi.
A black grade herb can cost anywhere from ten thousand silver to a couple hundred thousand silver, depending on its quality and rarity.
The 2 pills Long Chen refined were made of diluted essence of low-grade herbs apart from the crucial ingredients.
Each pill(Of both types) roughly costs about ten thousand silver or a hundred gold.
Long Chen planned to sell each pill for one thousand gold.
Not only making a shit ton of profit but also keeping it so expensive that it won't affect the business at the imperial city.
The pills sold there are quickly emptied by the first and second-rate clans of the imperial city.
The 8 major cities had a lot of trouble purchasing pills considering the supply and demand ratio which was terrible.
Most clans hoarded the majority of pills to keep the other clans in check.
Long Chen planned to target the top 8 cities by the vast availability of his pills.
At the same time, he planned to make them more expensive thus not bothering the market at the imperial capital.
Long Chen would be making 2 different qualities of pills, 60 percent and 80 percent.
The former would be for the market and the latter for his own people.
The ones at the imperial capital are typically sold at 65 percent quality.
The increase of even 5 percent more quality is major it literally changes its grade.
The reason Long Chen was being so caution was because he did not want to use He Mao and Xiao Bai publicly.
It may make things convenient for the time being, but there will be some backlash from both the sects and the deep forest.
After demonic beasts so talented are bound to catch attention.
Long Chen spend the final 2 days before the banquet making all the pills he may need.
Just a couple of hours before the banquet Long Chen got a piece of information from one of his spies.
"Perfect time to settle this debt"
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The entire Southern Phoenix City was decorated like a new bride.
All shops and establishments had colorful lamps hanging on their rooftops.
All the trees were decorated with colorful ropes, with the streets being exceptionally well cleaned.
The atmosphere in the city was jovial especially among cultivators as the city lord estate had set up many open trading markets between various cities.
Thus allowing the residents to see the myriad wonders of the world in terms of resources.
The Security of exceptionally tight making some weaker clans feel safe while buying stuff.
Many new faces were seen around the city but no one made trouble.
The inns were completely full and even the top clans of the city had welcomed some guests from afar.
A hooded man is seen exiting the city, but despite his suspicious appearance nobody batted an eye since there was a lot of rush.
The man is breathing heavily and is shaking in his boots.
There is a reason for his fear, the man is Bei Chen.
Bei Chen had repeatedly tried to sabotage Long Chen, from selling his whereabouts to the Long Clan in the beginning to snitching about Long Chen's every major move to the Main Long Clan's spy.
In fact, Long Chen's recent outing to train some battle arts was also reported to him both via person and talisman.
He has cooperated with both the black market and the main city's Long Clan, recently he even tried sending information to the 2nd imperial prince without much success, alas none of his endeavors succeeded.
There were many times he wanted to stop, but alas he rode on a tiger and couldn't get off, he knew Long Chen would eventually find out and when he does death would be salvation.
To make matters worse in the beginning he bragged about a lot of his dealing with his lackeys.
A lot of people in the middle level of the clan are aware of his deeds.
The people who used to call his boss were giving him the cold shoulder and avoided him like the plague.
It was as if he lost all his lackeys in one night, although they haven't snitched yet, Bei Chen knows it's only a matter of time.
He couldn't blame them recently he came to be aware of Long Chen's connections not only has his father been rumored to be much stronger than previously admitted, but even the Huang Clan of the imperial city had also declared full support for him, a mysterious strong character is rumored to be behind Long Chen's rise, Even his own clan's patriarch is so deeply tied with Long Chen.
Long Chen is bound to get admitted to a sect his future is limitless.
Although Bei Chen is very ambitious, he is also caring for his family, the thing he fears the most is his little brother, mother, and father being swept under Long Chen's vengeance.
The only choice available for him was to escape, so as to not his close ones being targeted because of him.
He chose this time because the entire city is in a festive mood due to Long Chen's ascension to the essence gathering realm and this is probably the only choice he is gonna get to escape.
After he was at some distance from the city he madly ran before he felt a tight grip on the back of his neck.
"LET GO OF ME ARGG"
Turning his head, his voice got stuck in his throat.
"L-Long Chen, what are you doing ?"
Long Chen indifferently looked at Bei Chen, somewhat annoyed even as he Long Chen had a lot of stuff on his hands and he needs to run on an errand to deal with this bug.
"Since I will be cooperating with your family I won't make it too hard for you"
Listening to Long Chen's words Bei Chen's eyes brightened.
"What are your last words? "
Bei Chen felt cold water thrown on his face.
He wanted to say something but looking at Long Chen's eyes he immediately dropped the idea.
Tears started welling up in his eyes.
"T-tell my father that all my life I looked down on him sniff sniff, I thought he was not crafty enough and kinda indecisive, tell him that I was wrong and he is the man I admire the most in m life sniff sniff.
I c-could not be a filial son in this life, I promise to take care of my family in the next life and I hope he is my father In the next life sniff."
Saying that Bei Chen broke down and tears started streaming down his face, but he had a faint smile on his face."
"I will"
'Crack'
Long Chen snapped Bei Chen's neck before destroying his entire body.
Before that, he looked through Bei Chen's notes about cultivation.
Before going to the city lord estate, he left a letter in Bei Chen's handwriting to Bei Clan's grand elder.
"Brat you could have let of that punk"
The Yama emperor commented in an emotional voice after they reached back to the estate.
"Oi oi old man since when did you become such a softie"
Long Chen was happy that The Yama Emperor came out of his insane phase.
"Tch don't mess with me, this old man only feels that he was a bug who would be of no consequence".
"Old man complacency is a disease.
There are things I have seen which are unfathomable.
I have seen scions of disgraced and suppressed noble houses rising in never before seen power, completely crushing everything and everyone in their path to the top.
I have seen a seemingly crippled fiance of heaven's favorite daughter, who was also brutally dumped by her reach heights that his ex-fiance couldn't even dream about.
I have seen people whose natural talents like spirit bodies, eyes, or special bones being stolen from them. Still, they managed to reach extraordinary heights massacring all those that wronged them.
I have seen sole survivors of familial extermination, who seemed completely inconspicuous to lead to the downfall of clans.
So cutting weeds and pulling roots is something ingrained in my bones"
The Yama Emperor felt absolutely baffled listening to Long Chen narrate his experiences, he felt all these are things that only happen in stories, but then again thinking that most top dogs in the cultivation world are without any special lineage.
He felt that what Long Chen said made sense.
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An old man riding a horse made his way towards the gate of Southern Phoenix City.
"Hey stop old man, why are coming to the city"
Seeing the old man in shabby clothing the guards immediately turned wanted to turn him down from ruining the atmosphere.
"haha nothing much, this old man saw people coming here and saw some celebrations taking place.
You don't mind if this old man participates"
Hearing his casual tone the guards immediately wanted to snap at him, but before they could, they suddenly felt their backs drenched with sweat.
The tamed-looking horse was looking at them with a gaze that pronounced death.
"F-forgive this junior for not having eyes senior, Please make your way inside"
"No biggie" The old man entered the city mumbling something to himself.
"Should we report this to the higher-ups?"
"Are you an idiot, we could get into trouble for that, we will pretend as if we saw nothing. We are not qualified to get involved in these kinds of feuds"
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