10. I Almost Forgot Who I Am
Two days later, a name began to circulate in the capital of the Youhan Dynasty.
Immortal Youyuan.
Who was this person? Her name was Lü Youyuan.
In this region, not only was her name unfamiliar, but her title was also unheard of.
But the things she had done were the talk of the town, exciting rumors that had yet to be officially confirmed.
First, this Immortal Master had single-handedly annihilated the notorious Hehuan Sect and even withstood the pressure from the Myriad Demons Palace, completely foiling their plan to invade the Heartflame Empire.
Although the details were vague, she could easily cure the demonic sect’s lingering injuries and could tell at a glance that the King of the Heartflame Empire was poisoned.
These things were verifiable.
Later, her disciple, the Fifth Princess of the Heartflame Empire, received the auspicious sign of the dragon and phoenix and rightfully became the next Empress. Whether this was related to her or not, it was a matter of opinion.
And after that, the recent incident at Qian Yue Academy, which had shaken the entire gossip world, was said to have been exposed and handled by her disciple, the so-called “mastermind.” This matter was originally supposed to be buried by the Qian Yue Academy officials, but it was leaked by a demonic sect disciple who had infiltrated, causing the Hundred Paths Mountain to lose face.
These two incidents were enough to show this Immortal Master’s extraordinary abilities. And since her disciple could stand up to the discoverer of the Mingjue Sect’s ruins, it further proved that her attainments in alchemy and medicine were astonishing.
As for this Immortal Master’s true identity—although this had yet to be fully confirmed, she seemed to be a member of the long-lost Great One Engineering Sect, and her status in the sect was not low.
Information about this previously unheard-of person began to spread, and many people became very interested in her.
Of course, they were not interested in what this person could do, but in what benefits she represented.
Yes.
Merchants could not change their profit-seeking nature.
Especially since this woman had a unique attainment in alchemy and medicine, and the Cloud Rainbow Sect’s pharmacopoeia was inherited from the Great One Engineering Sect.
You had to know, the pill business was the most profitable business in this world. The cost and the value of the output were generally dozens, or even hundreds of times different, especially for those rare and precious high-grade pills, whose prices were hard to ignore.
And not long after their appetites were whetted, another, even more explosive piece of news broke out in the city.
The Immortal Master’s eldest disciple, a girl named Yan Hongling, was going to open a pill shop in this capital.
As soon as this information was released, it caused a huge uproar in the city.
The pill business in this capital was already in a state of saturation, and the various chambers of commerce had an agreement that the effects of the pills they circulated on the market were not overlapping or conflicting.
Suddenly, a person with such a big reputation appeared. What did the others think?
Of course, opening a shop here was not as simple as buying a piece of land, setting up the venue, and opening for business in the afternoon.
If you wanted to open a shop here, you had to get the approval of the Youcang Court, that is, the Murong royal family.
—Actually, this matter was usually handled by the Youcang Court itself. The Murong royal family couldn’t be bothered with some commercial matters and just left it to the professionals of the Youcang Court.
However, this time, I don’t know if it was because the preparations were too exaggerated or for some other reason, but this time it was the royal family who personally invited Yan Chuyue over. Oh, no.
She should be called Yan Hongling now.
“Tomorrow is the day Murong He wants you to have an audience with the Emperor, right?”
Yan Chuyue, while gnawing on a grilled fish, mumbled, “Why is it so troublesome this time? I thought I could ask the old man to use his old connections to help us, and we could just muddle through.”
“Who knows what this Emperor is up to.”
Gong Yiling, while grilling a fragrant fish for her, had to endure the pain of hunger, waiting for the second grilled fish to be ready.
Don’t ask, just assume it’s her family status.
Hearing her words, Gong Yiling couldn’t help but say with a smile, “You’ve blown your own trumpet too much.”
“Hmm?”
“You’ve blown your own trumpet so much, and you even brought out the old sect to increase your persuasiveness. If a disciple of such a person is running around in your backyard, even if what she says is true, don’t you have to find a way to beat her down a bit, to tell her what the rules of the game are?”
Since these messages were released, the subsequent messages had been within Gong Yiling’s expectations until now.
She, who had frequented many auction houses, naturally knew what could quickly break into the already iron-clad market of the capital. That would naturally be only the highest-grade pills.
As for why she wanted Yan Chuyue to do this, it was actually very simple.
They didn’t have a single card in their hands that could stop the impending storm, but that didn’t mean they had no way.
The best way was to temporarily create a chamber of commerce that could gain a voice in a short period of time, to use it to balance the outbreak of war.
Of course, this method seemed to be just a sentence, but in fact, it was almost a very unlikely thing to do.
What did it have to do?
First of all, it was to integrate the large and small chambers of commerce in the Youhan Dynasty, at least to ensure that about 30% of them could act with them, so that the royal family would be constrained.
Secondly, this organization could withstand the pressure from the Youcang Court and would absolutely not become one of the many bloodsucking objects of the Youcang Court. This way, it could show enough strength to make the large and small chambers of commerce believe that they were trustworthy partners.
Thirdly, this organization must also let people know that even if the Youhan Dynasty now had the ability to point its sword at the world, this was only at this stage.
The Four Kingdoms each had their own foundations. If they fought to the death, the end would only be a lose-lose situation, and no one could get anything useful from this battle.
These three things, looking at the entire Youhan Dynasty, no chamber of commerce had ever done it. They had to do three things at once to ensure that this war would not happen. This sounded simply like a fantasy.
However, Gong Yiling did not think so.
On the contrary, she felt that after taking her own name and using it as a stepping stone to gain a foothold in this capital, many things seemed not impossible to accomplish.
Just because the other chambers of commerce did not have as many useful assistants as she did.
