Son-in-law Heaven Emperor Xiao Yi

Nangong Shengtian slowly woke up.

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He found himself still inside the pill shop on Vermilion Bird Avenue, raised his hand to pat his head, only feeling a bout of weakness throughout his body.

"You're awake?"

A playful voice rang out beside his ear.

Nangong Shengtian was startled and instinctively looked towards the sound, only to see Xiao Yi squatting next to him with a slight smile on his lips and a radiant expression, mockingly staring at him. The teasing in his eyes almost made Nangong Shengtian pass out again.

"Cough, cough cough…"

Nangong Shengtian coughed several times and finally regained some composure, staring intently at Xiao Yi, "I did not expect that I would actually fall into your hands."

"There are many things you wouldn't expect, such as…" Xiao Yi pointed behind him, and there was Beitang Feng, looking at him with a wry smile on his face, then stood up smiling, "You two have a chat first!"

Beitang Feng cleared his throat with a light cough, his face showing a hint of embarrassment, said, "Nangong Shengtian, it's about time to settle those debts your Nangong Family owes me!"

"Hmm?"

Nangong Shengtian's face turned deathly pale as he coughed violently and pointed at Beitang Feng in fury, "Beitang Feng, do you really have to kick me when I'm down, taking advantage of someone's misfortune, despite our acquaintance?"

The batch of medical ingredients worth ten trillion silver had completely gone to waste.

In a few more days, it would all turn to sludge.

Moreover...

He had already owed the Beitang Family over ten trillion silver in debts, and with a total of nearly thirty trillion silver, it was impossible to gather such a sum unless he sold off all of the Nangong Family's properties!

Beitang Feng sighed, "Friendship is friendship, but business is business, you were the one who taught me that!"

"..."

Nangong Shengtian trembled all over.

Back then, outside the Treasure Pavilion, when he prompted Beitang Feng to demand repayment of the debt, it was he who taught Beitang Feng these very words.

And now...

In just a few hours, Beitang Feng returned those same words to him, unchanged.

At that moment, Nangong Shengtian felt the world spin.

His vision darkened, and he almost passed out again.

Even a Dharma Manifestation Realm expert's mental resilience is extremely strong, yet the fact that Nangong Shengtian was so infuriated that he nearly fainted multiple times shows just how great this blow was to him.

Nangong Shengtian clenched his jaws, said in a deep voice, "Beitang Feng, you are well aware of the situation my Nangong Family is in. We have so many pills stockpiled and hardly any liquid silver..."

The Nangong Family's profit from the pill trade might have been very high.

But they also had a large household with immense daily expenses!

After a year's time,

If they could save a few hundred billion silver, that would be considered a prosperous year.

Unless he sold all of the Nangong Family's shops and the stockpiled pills, there was no way to come up with nearly thirty trillion silver. But with the reputation the Nangong Family now had in the pill industry, who would dare to buy their goods?

Weren't they afraid that a few days later, all those pills would turn to mud?

Beitang Feng hesitated for a moment and said, "Nangong Shengtian, you have to understand my situation as well. Medicine King Valley has been pressing for the fifteen trillion silver debt from you, and because of your family, I have to compensate the Treasure Pavilion with fifteen trillion silver. If you don't repay the money, my Beitang Family will also suffer!"

"I, I really have no money!" Nangong Shengtian cried out in despair and indignation.

Experts at the Dharma Manifestation Realm, the old ancestor of the Nangong Family, when had he ever been so subservient?

Beitang Feng turned his head to look at Xiao Yi and Nalan Qianqiu and said in a deep voice, "I do have a way!"

"Hmm?"

Nangong Shengtian was stunned, a glint of hope flashing across his eyes.

Beitang Feng said gravely, "Master Nalan and Xiao have promised that they are willing to spend the money to buy all of the Nangong Family's shops and the medicinal pills they have hoarded."

"Are they so kind-hearted?" Nangong Shengtian snorted coldly.

Beitang Feng forced a smile and said, "Everybody acts for the sake of profit. Master Nalan, after all, is a businessman. He means to offer two hundred trillion silver to buy all of your Nangong Family's shops and the hoarded medicinal pills."

"Two hundred trillion? They must be dreaming!" Nangong Shengtian exploded in rage.

Initially, just purchasing those shops had cost them nearly one hundred trillion silver, not to mention the hoarded medicinal pills, which were valued at least at two hundred trillion silver.

Xiao Yi and his people wanted to swallow it all up for the price of two hundred trillion silver.

In Nangong Shengtian's view, this was nothing short of daydreaming!

Beitang Feng shrugged his shoulders and said, "To speak frankly, those medicinal pills are worth that much only if you can sell them; if you can't, they are just rubbish. I have said all that I can, the rest is up to you to consider!"

This time, Beitang Feng, too, was driven into a corner.

He had not yet found a way to pay back the one hundred and fifty trillion silver he had guaranteed for the Nangong Family at Medicine King Valley, and now he needed to compensate Treasure Pavilion with another one hundred and fifty trillion silver in damages.

After paying these two sums, the Beitang Family would be almost emptied out.

It was at this moment...

Xiao Yi gave him a choice; as long as he could persuade the Nangong Family to sell their shops and medicinal pills to Treasure Pavilion, they would only need to return the one hundred trillion silver deposit. Moreover, from now on, Treasure Pavilion would continue to source from the Beitang Family.

Now that the Nangong Family had fallen, Treasure Pavilion was certain to completely dominate the medicinal pill market of the Great Qian Dynasty.

At that time, the volume of medicinal herbs consumed by Treasure Pavilion each year would be a frightening figure.

After weighing his options, Beitang Feng could only choose to betray his allies!

Just as Nangong Sheng had taught him, friendship was one thing, but business was business!

A dead comrade is not a dead me!

Watching Beitang Feng, who returned to Xiao Yi and the others, bowing and scraping and all smiles, Nangong Shengtian's face turned ashen. Trembling, he struggled to get up and walked desolately toward the Nangong Family.

The Nangong Family was not something he alone could decide for.

Watching Nangong Shengtian leave, Ning Luo said in a deep voice, "Director Xiao, are you sure it's okay to let him go like this?"

This was a Dharma Manifestation Realm expert, after all!

"Don't worry, he won't be able to escape!"

With wise light flickering in his half-closed eyes, Xiao Yi smiled slightly and said lightly, "When the tree falls, the monkeys scatter. The Nangong Family's tree has just fallen, and the demons and goblins have yet to make their move. Once they do, and he faces a real desperate situation, that's when Nangong Shengtian will truly despair. That will be our chance to take over the Nangong Family!"

Beitang Feng, standing by, secretly breathed a sigh of relief: Thank goodness my grudge with Xiao Yi wasn't that deep, otherwise the one driven into a tight corner might have been me!

He looked up at Xiao Yi in front of him.

That handsome and young face, along with the achievements he had made in just three short years, Beitang Feng muttered, "Such a true dragon among men, why was he not born into my Beitang Family! But... that idiot Xiao Zhengde, to have abandoned such a heaven-sent child as if he were worthless, he is the truly pathetic one..."

PS: The climax is not over yet, the explosion continues tomorrow!!!