262: Chapter 262 Father, there's something that needs to be done today.

"Following your instructions, we have limited sales to one pill per day, priced at five hundred Spirit Stones. In the first three days, we sold them to three Loose Cultivators.

Starting from the fourth day, people from the Tiangang Sect arrived. They wanted to buy out ten pills at once, but the shopkeeper told them we only have one per day.

After the people from the Tiangang Sect left, representatives from the Qingxuan Sect, the Wanfa Pavilion, and the Hundred Beasts Gate arrived one after another. They all asked the same question: whether we could provide a long-term supply.

This move felt a bit like a coordinated attempt at coercion."

Su Cheng did not respond, waiting for him to continue.

"In the end, the shopkeeper had no choice but to intentionally or unintentionally reveal to several of those powers that the Danding Sect stands behind the Zhenpin Pavilion.

After the news spread, the attitude of the four Sects changed overnight. Not only did they start lining up honestly to buy Medicinal Pills, but those previous demands to buy out the stock, lower the price, or sign long-term supply agreements were never mentioned again."

Su Cheng nodded; the three words 'Danding Sect' were indeed the best protective Talisman.

In the entire Tianlan Province, the only power capable of producing second-grade supreme grade pills was the Danding Sect. Outsiders would only guess that the Zhenpin Pavilion was the private property of some Elder from the Danding Sect.

No one could verify this. Besides, the current Su Cheng truly might be able to refine supreme grade pills even without relying on the creation furnace.

Now that he had the exotic fire and the wanbao mirror could transform into a precious artifact pill furnace, with the addition of these two items and the Qi of Creation, the probability of success might not be small. It was just that he hadn't tried it yet, so he wasn't sure.

Su Cheng wasn't afraid of being investigated. Even if someone from the Sect came to check on him, he would dare to try refining in their presence.

So, although this guess was quite far from the truth, it couldn't really be called false.

"Sell as usual, don't mention the quantity," Su Cheng said. "Maintain the rhythm of one per day for three months. After the four Sects get used to this supply volume, we'll consider whether to adjust it."

Afterward, Su Cheng spent over an hour sorting out the rest of the Chamber of Commerce's trivial matters: the five Foundation Establishment Cultivators stationed with the Su Family had arrived, the storefront in Qinghe County was operating normally, and all personnel stationed in Tongbao City had been withdrawn.

As for the matters regarding the Heavenly Sun Sect, there was no rush for now. As long as the other party didn't take any targeted actions, there was no need to worry about them.

Having finished explaining everything that needed to be said, Su Cheng stood up.

"Young Master Su, the spiritual wine and spiritual fruits you ordered have been prepared. Additionally, the accounts for the Chamber of Commerce over the past few months have been organized. Would you like to take a look?"

"I won't look."

Su Cheng took the Storage Pouch containing the spiritual wine and spiritual fruits. "Send me a message if anything major happens; otherwise, don't look for me. I have important things to do after returning to the Sect."

Fang Zhenhai nodded in agreement and then withdrew from the room.

Su Cheng and his father left the secret room, crossed the corridor of the Chamber of Commerce's backyard, and entered a guest room.

"Father, there's something that must be done today."

Su Chengyuan looked up at him in confusion.

"Is it about that Pill Furnace?"

"Yes." Su Cheng closed the door behind him and took out six formation stones from his Storage Pouch, embedding them into the four corners of the room and both sides of the doorframe. With a flick of spiritual energy from his fingertips, three layers of isolation formations lit up in sequence, sealing the entire guest room tight.

"The longer this matter stays in your head, the more of a hidden danger it becomes. If you happen to encounter a Cultivator at the Golden Core level or above who uses soul-searching methods for a forced investigation, this memory probably won't be hidden."

Su Chengyuan nodded, also deeply convinced.

"Fine."

He only said one word, then placed both hands flat on his knees, closed his eyes, and voluntarily opened the defenses of his Sea of Consciousness.

Su Cheng sat cross-legged opposite him. After regulating his breathing for a moment, he condensed his Divine Sense into an extremely fine thread and slowly probed into Su Chengyuan's Sea of Consciousness.

His father's Sea of Consciousness was much emptier than he had anticipated.

The scale of a Divine Soul at the Early Foundation Establishment Stage was limited, and the storage method for memories was simple and direct, unlike high-level Cultivators who had layers of nested protections and indexes.

Su Chengyuan's memory pathways were clearly discernible, arranged one by one in the shallow layers of the Sea of Consciousness like neatly placed bamboo slips.

Su Cheng searched backward along the timeline and quickly locked onto the target.

The memory regarding the creation furnace was not complex; there was only one core node.

Over three years ago, demonic Cultivators launched a surprise attack on Qingyang Town. Su Cheng and his father had sensed the killing intent in advance and intercepted them in battle outside the town.

When that battle reached its most perilous moment, Su Cheng was pushed into a corner and had no choice but to manifest the creation furnace. That was the only time Su Chengyuan had seen that furnace with his own eyes.

During the fierce slaughter, an ancient Pill Furnace constructed from spiritual energy rose from his body, suppressing and refining the invading demonic Cultivators.

The emotions in that memory were extremely intense: fear, shock, the relief of surviving a disaster, and the pride and unease of seeing his son holding such a Heaven-Defying object—all mixed together in a complex tangle.

Su Cheng marked all the memory nodes involving the creation furnace and began to work.

First, he stripped away the core node—that battle outside the town.

His Divine Sense transformed into a thin blade, slowly cutting along the edges of that memory segment.

The image of the creation furnace rising into the air was separated and lifted under the blade, revealing a crack at the junction with the preceding and succeeding memories.

Su Cheng did not rush to continue; instead, he first injected a pre-woven replacement scene into the crack.

The course of the battle in the scene remained almost unchanged: the demonic Cultivators' attack, the father and son's engagement, and Su Cheng being pushed into a desperate situation at the height of the fight—all were kept as they were.

Only the most crucial scene was replaced: what Su Cheng manifested was not the creation furnace, but two High Grade second-grade Talismans.

The moment the Talismans were activated, two sharp spiritual lights slashed out in a cross, killing the demonic Cultivator on the spot.

For an Early Foundation Establishment Stage Cultivator to be able to pull out High Grade second-grade Talismans meant they held an Opportunity from somewhere unknown, but that was all.

Talismans were consumables; once used, they were gone, and it wasn't worth looking into deeply.

The emotions in the replacement scene were meticulously adjusted by Su Cheng. The fear and shock remained the same, and the relief of surviving was unchanged, except the object of that relief was switched from 'the creation furnace saving lives' to 'the Talismans saving lives.'

In subsequent memories, all conversations and self-reflections mentioning the 'creation furnace' were eliminated and replaced.

For the final step, Su Cheng also wiped out Su Chengyuan's memory of the procedure itself today—from agreeing to cooperate and voluntarily opening his Sea of Consciousness defenses to the entire process being stripped clean.

Then, he added a newly woven scene: Su Chengyuan was meditating and practicing in the guest room. When his spiritual energy reached a certain node, it suddenly lost control and flowed backward, a hot current rushing straight to his Sea of Consciousness, and then his vision went dark as he lost consciousness.

This step was simpler than the previous replacements; the time span was short and the emotion was singular. A 'cultivation mishap' could reasonably account for any disorientation upon waking.

An hour later, Su Cheng withdrew his Divine Sense.

The moment he withdrew it, his face turned pale instantly, and a layer of cold sweat broke out on his forehead. He propped his hands on his knees, his fingers trembling uncontrollably.

The consumption of the Divine Soul by the Wangchuan Formula for the caster far exceeded his estimations. Simulating it in his own Sea of Consciousness during practice was entirely different from actual operation.

The stripping of every memory node required extremely fine Divine Sense control, and weaving replacement scenes required a continuous pouring of his own Divine Soul power into them.