Nine-layer armor-breaking

Chapter 65: Two Houses Fighting for Supremacy
Yingzhou City, early morning, Xing family.

"Yue'er, the Heaven Grade Pill will be refined in the next two days. As long as you take this Heaven Grade Pill and your strength reaches the Heaven Grade, you can participate in the official martial arts school selection and enter the Yingzhou martial arts school. In this way, even the Xu family will not be able to suppress our Xing family." In the hall of Xing Mansion, Xing Rufeng, the head of the Xing family, said to Xing Yue with a smile on his face.

"Father, I will work hard. Not only will I enter the official martial arts school, but I will also strive to pass the Jade Cultivation Passage Trial as soon as possible, so that the Xing family can become the largest family in the Yingzhou Chamber of Commerce!" The Heavenly Grade Pill is about to be refined. As a direct beneficiary, Xing Yue naturally can't hide his excitement.

Xing Yue only said that he wanted the Xing family to become the largest family in Yingzhou Chamber of Commerce, rather than the Xing family to become the largest family in Yingzhou. Naturally, there was a reason for this.

Although Yingzhou is not a high-ranking state, it has its own unique features. The uniqueness of Yingzhou lies in the existence of the royal palace and the management style of the Yingzhou City Lord.

The old mayor of Yingzhou City is old and is about to step down. This is a well-known fact in the Yingzhou Chamber of Commerce.

Since this mayor of Yingzhou City took office, after just one year of adjustment, he gradually transferred most of Yingzhou's interests that were originally held by the mayor in the second year.

As a result, while the mayor of Yingzhou City, like most other mayors, still held the highest position in the state, the actual affairs he had to manage were relatively few. It could be said that the old mayor of Yingzhou City had already retreated to the second line of Yingzhou's governance.

After the old city lord of Yingzhou City gave up some of his interests, he always prioritized avoiding conflicts with the royal palace and always adopted a relatively soft attitude towards the Yingzhou Chamber of Commerce.

Since business and other affairs were handed over to the Yingzhou Chamber of Commerce for management, under the operation of the Chamber of Commerce headed by the three major families of Xu, Xing and Jiang, Yingzhou's business was highly developed, which made Yingzhou, originally a small state, gradually develop into a medium-sized state that meets the standards of a medium-sized state.

Although the biggest factor in Yingzhou becoming a medium-sized state is the existence of the royal palace, the Yingzhou Chamber of Commerce has indeed made a significant contribution to promoting the development of Yingzhou.

This was the case with the old lord of Yingzhou City. So what would happen after he stepped down? Would the new lord continue to cede these interests? What would become of the Yingzhou Chamber of Commerce? All of this was unknown.

In any case, the newly appointed mayor of Yingzhou City has the possibility of recovering some of the benefits.

At this delicate moment in Yingzhou, facing this uncertain situation, the most anxious families in Yingzhou City are the Xu, Xing, and Jiang families of the Yingzhou Chamber of Commerce. Among them, the Xu and Xing families are the most worried.

According to the Xu and Xing families, Jiang Yuan, the head of the Jiang family, had two children: his eldest son, Jiang Xuan, and his second daughter, Jiang Xian. Unlike the descendants of the Xu and Xing families, Jiang Xuan and Jiang Xian did not seem to have any experience in martial arts training.

Jiang Xuan and Jiang Xian are already quite old, but no one has ever heard that the Jiang family has invited any well-known warriors in Yingzhou to be their masters.

The eldest son of the Xu family is in his twenties. His strength has already reached the heavenly level, and he is now training in the official martial arts school.

Xing Yue was even younger than Jiang Xuan, but his strength had already reached the peak of the Earth Rank. The Heaven Rank Pill was about to be refined. As long as Xing Yue took the Heaven Rank Pill, he would likely advance to the Heaven Rank and become a Heaven Rank warrior.

The role of a family's young warriors, especially those with good qualifications, is self-evident. In this regard, the Jiang family seems to have voluntarily withdrawn from the competition with the Xu and Xing families.

People in Yingzhou are talking about the fact that the Yingzhou Chamber of Commerce is now divided into two companies competing for supremacy.

In this competition between the two families, the Xu family currently has a clear advantage, while the Xing family is catching up.

The most critical link in the Xing family's catching-up trend is Xing Yue and the heavenly-grade pill he is about to take.

"Master, no... something bad has happened, the alchemy room..." Just as Xing Rufeng was immersed in the joy that his son Xing Yue was about to be promoted to the heavenly level, a servant of the Xing family rushed into the hall of the Xing Mansion in a panic.

Xing Rufeng was very displeased by the servant's sudden intrusion.

Xing Yue, who was standing by, also frowned and said to the servant who had barged into the hall, "What are you panicking about? What's going on? Tell me!"

"Heavenly Grade Pill...Heavenly Grade Pill..." The servant almost fell to the ground, gasping for breath.

"What happened to the Heavenly Grade Pill?" Xing Rufeng immediately sensed something was wrong and shouted to the servant. "Master, the Heavenly Grade Pill is gone!" The Xing servant, having recovered his breath, knelt on the ground again, head bowed, not daring to look at Xing Rufeng.

Not only the servant kneeling on the ground, but the entire Xing family knew that the head of the Xing family paid a huge price to exchange a second-level scaly-eared white bear inner core with the Jiang family in order for Xing Yue to successfully advance to the heavenly level.

Now that the Heavenly Grade Pill is about to be refined, if the Heavenly Grade Pill is lost at this time, no one in the Xing Mansion will be able to withstand Xing Rufeng's impending wrath.

"Say it again!" Xing Yue couldn't contain his anger, grabbed the servant's collar and shouted loudly.

At this time, Xing Rufeng sat back in his chair, looking confused.

After a while, Xing Rufeng finally spoke in a very low voice: "Call the pharmacist."

Not long after, a middle-aged man was dragged into the hall of Xing Mansion by the servant.

As soon as the Xing mansion servant let go of his hand, the pharmacist collapsed on the ground, trembling and unable to speak.

"When did the pills disappear?" Xing Rufeng asked in a daze without looking at the pharmacist.

"Master, just now... just now I went to the alchemy room and found that the pills in the medicine furnace were missing." said the pharmacist.

"If someone steals it, will the medicine still be effective?" Xing Rufeng thought for a moment and asked in a low voice.

"Report to the master, the pill is about to be refined. It has medicinal effects now, but the effect is not good." The pharmacist calmed himself down and told his understanding of the pill that was about to be refined.

The reason why Xing Rufeng asked the pharmacist this was that he wanted to know the motive of the person who stole the medicine.

If the pill has no medicinal effect at this time, then it will be almost unusable even if it is stolen. Then the purpose of the person who stole the pill is probably to prevent Xing Yue from advancing to the Heavenly Level.

If the elixir has already had considerable medicinal effect at this time, then the purpose of the person who stole the elixir is probably to take it and use it.

The alchemy room in the Xing Mansion is heavily guarded. Except for the pharmacist himself, it is very difficult for anyone else in the Xing Mansion to enter, let alone people from outside the Xing Mansion.

"Yue'er, call the housekeeper and start the investigation from the inside." Xing Rufeng's low voice was filled with a bit of anger.

"Let the guards above the Heavenly Rank gather in the courtyard." Xing Rufeng stood up and walked out of the hall.

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