Son-in-law Heaven Emperor Xiao Yi

"It's over, the Nangong Family is finished."

Nangong Shengtian felt the world spinning, dizzy and vision-blurred.

The Nangong Family had stood strong for many years, and aside from the cheap medicinal materials supplied by the Beitang Family, the most important aspect was the Nangong Family's potent alchemy team. Even without top alchemists, the middle- and low-end elixirs were enough to dominate the entire Great Qian Dynasty.

Plus the hefty profits.

That's what allowed the Nangong Family to pass down their legacy, becoming one of the four great noble clans.

Once there was trouble with the elixir shop.

The financial lifeline of the Nangong Family was severed.

Just the massive amount of money they owed the Beitang Family could nearly drain the Nangong Family's resources, never to recover.

What's the thing the elixir industry fears the most?

Exactly, problems with the elixirs!

"I just hope that all my suspicions are false, only then does my Nangong Family have a glimmer of hope!" muttered Nangong Shengtian, but even he felt that this hope was extremely slim!

Meanwhile.

Nangong Shou had already taken out all the elixirs from the storage ring.

Elixir bottles, crystal-clear and flawless, were laid out on the ground, totaling over ten thousand bottles, each containing ten pills. Just here, there were elixirs worth over a hundred billion silver.

Yang Ling picked up one of the jade bottles and poured out the elixirs inside.

This was the Shen Yi Elixir.

Yang Ling examined the color and quality, frowning slightly.

These elixirs not only lacked any issues but also were all of the highest quality, definitely not fakes!

"Your Highness, may I have a look?" Nalan Qianqiu spoke up.

Yang Ling was startled, as Nalan Qianqiu himself was a seven-star alchemist. He indeed had more authority in assessing elixirs than Yang Ling, who immediately passed the elixirs to Nalan Qianqiu.

"Shen Yi Elixir? Top quality?"

Nalan Qianqiu inspected it carefully.

Yang Ling frowned, "Master Nalan, are you saying there's nothing wrong with these elixirs?"

Nalan Qianqiu shook his head, sneering, "The fact that there's nothing wrong is the biggest problem.

"What do you mean by that?"

Everyone looked at Nalan Qianqiu, puzzled.

Nalan Qianqiu spoke gravely, "The Shen Yi Elixir uses thirty-six different herbs that interact with each other, capable of neutralizing most atypical medicinal properties. The only herb, Green Glaze Grass, would make the elixir have cold attributes. But these Shen Yi Elixirs have no cold properties, which means something else must have been added!"

Yang Ling frowned, "Can you analyze what exactly was added?"

Nalan Qianqiu shook his head, "With my expertise, I can't tell, but..." He looked at Xiao Yi, smiling, "Dean Xiao, I'll have to trouble you now!"

Nangong Shengtian raged, "Nalan Qianqiu, even you can't discern what extra has been added, so why pass it to Xiao Yi? He's just a young boy, could his alchemy skills surpass yours? The elixirs from my Nangong Family would never have any problems; I think you're intentionally saying this, trying to frame my Nangong Family!"

In his view, this was a unique opportunity.

As everyone knows.

Xiao Yi is invincible among his peers, and he's only twenty years old!

With such a cultivation at twenty years of age.

How could he possibly also practice the way of alchemy?

Nalan Qianqiu looked at Nangong Shengtian as if looking at an idiot, shaking his head in a sigh, "Nangong Shengtian, to this moment you still don't know how terrifying your opponent truly is. I really don't understand where you got the courage to dare make an enemy of Dean Xiao!"

"Hmm?"

Nangong Shengtian was stunned, his face filled with bewilderment.

Ning Luo spoke indifferently, "Dean Xiao's alchemy skills far surpass ours."

"What?"

Nangong Shengtian's eyes widened in disbelief, he shook his head, "Impossible, absolutely impossible. How old is he? Moreover, as far as I know, he was imprisoned by Xiao Tianjiao and has only truly been exposed to the martial path for less than three years…"

Nangong Shengtian's voice suddenly stopped.

His face turned from pale to flushed repeatedly.

Yes!

A person who had been exposed to martial arts for less than three years had managed to grow from the Physical Body Realm directly to a realm comparable to the masters of the Dharma Manifestation Realm.

Could it be that he couldn't cultivate the path of alchemy at the same time?

Gurgle!

Nangong Shengtian's face turned pale as he muttered to himself, "Is there really such a genius in this world? Xiao Zhengde even said he was trash? Go to hell with your trash..." Stay connected via My Virtual Library Empire

Xiao Yi gently sniffed the Shen Yi Elixir placed in front of his nose.

"This has added millennium flower, hundred beasts' blood, as well as heavenly centipede vine... all these ingredients can increase the pill success rate and the quality of the elixirs, but they all have one thing in common. That is, they cannot be preserved for long, generally undergoing changes within three days and turning into deadly poisons. Within seven days, all the elixirs will rot into mud!"

Xiao Yi looked at the corpse on the cart with bleeding orifices, shook his head slightly, and sighed, "He must have taken the elixirs after they changed, that's why he was poisoned and died. What a pity, if he hadn't taken those elixirs immediately and waited a few more days, those pills would have thoroughly rotted away!"

"Is there evidence?" Yang Ling asked.

Xiao Yi nodded his head and approached the young man's corpse.

He pointed several times at his lower abdomen.

Streams of Qi entered the body.

Xiao Yi stepped back and said, "One of the characteristics of taking heavenly centipede vine is that after death, the stomach will turn into sticky black strip-like objects, resembling black centipedes."

As soon as the words were out.

The young man's body shook violently, he opened his mouth with a "wow," and several black, sticky stripe-shaped objects spurted out from his mouth.

They hung from the cart.

Like black centipedes, they crawled between the cart's boards.

Hiss!

All present inhaled sharply.

The symptoms were exactly as Xiao Yi had described!

"He really was poisoned!"

"The poisoned components are the same as the ones added by the Nangong Family in their elixirs, it seems that he did indeed die from taking the Nangong Family's elixirs..."

"The Nangong Family has been in business for many years, how could they suddenly add these things?"

"Didn't you hear what Xiao Yi said? These ingredients can improve the success rate and quality rate of pills, just think about it, a batch of pills that would normally yield ten pills, adding these could lead to twenty or even thirty, cutting the cost down to one third!"

"Isn't that too unscrupulous?"

"Who will dare to buy the Nangong Family's elixirs again in the future?"

"We must let everyone know about this. The Nangong Family has tens of thousands of elixir shops within the Great Qian Dynasty, we absolutely cannot let these unscrupulous merchants get away with it. From now on, when buying elixirs, only trust Treasure Pavilion!"

Outraged curses continued to arise.

In Nangong Shengtian's ears, they were like numerous swords, repeatedly piercing his body.

Nangong Shengtian's vision darkened.

Feeling as if all the strength had been drained from his body, his face was filled with despair. This time the Nangong Family was utterly disgraced.

Completely defeated!

Defeated beyond repair.

There was no longer any possibility of rising again!

Let alone the ruined reputation, it was now impossible for anyone to purchase elixirs from them again, just based on what Xiao Yi had just said, all elixirs made with those ingredients would turn to mud after seven days.

For the sake of concocting this batch of elixirs, his Nangong Family had invested all they had!

The elixirs, which were crafted from ingredients worth a total of ten trillion Silver, would turn into mud within a few days and all would be lost.

At that moment...

Nangong Shengtian suddenly realized.

Ning Kang's betrayal.

The secret formula stolen.

Poisoning!

All of it was a trap laid out by Xiao Yi!

With bloodshot eyes fixed on Xiao Yi, Nangong Shengtian spewed out a mouthful of fresh blood, and as his eyes rolled back, he let out a desperate and unwilling roar before fainting, "Xiao Yi... you have such a cruel heart..."