191: Tong Fenglai

As time slowly Advanced, three Mystic Cannons were set up on top of the Ye Family Building, the Luo Family Building, the Qin Family Building, and the government building, totaling twelve cannons. Their muzzles were aimed in various directions across Yuhua District. One-Eyed stood on the government building, looking down at the bustling traffic below, a sinister smile on his face. By tomorrow morning, this place would be a ruin, and all the valuable assets within the buildings would become his. This was his biggest goal for this trip!

In his opinion, his early-stage Martial Ancestor cultivation was enough to deter all the strong cultivators in Fengyang County. As long as chaos erupted here, he could take whatever he wanted... The main problem now was that there was too much wealth, and how to take it away? Although there were more than a dozen helicopters outside the city, they were mainly used to transport test subject tools. He could only use three or four at most, so he could only load the most valuable items. Alas, just thinking about it gave him a headache. He never expected that having too much wealth could also be a trouble... As he was pondering, his phone chimed. He checked it and his expression immediately tightened, "What? Forgetting Love is asking for help?!"

However, after carefully reading the full message, his expression relaxed. It turned out that Master Forgetting Love had already subdued the Alchemists, but she couldn't take so many people by herself, so she needed some subordinates to help bring them in... One-Eyed didn't hesitate, splitting half of the personnel from the teams in the four buildings to go to the Alchemist Guild to retrieve the people... Just then, his phone rang again. Seeing that it was Scarface, One-Eyed quickly answered. Scarface was mainly asking about the progress of the operation. Upon hearing that both One-Eyed and Forgetting Love's sides were going smoothly, he was overjoyed and said, "Very good! After the teachers and students from all schools gather at Qianlong Middle School, prepare to act. Then, when you see my fireworks signal, move together!"

"Rest assured, Sub-master! We won't stop until Fengyang is turned upside down!"

"Haha, well said! After we return, I will report to General Feng and reward both of you with Advanced Beast Transformation Liquid!"

"Thank you, Sub-master!" One-Eyed said, overjoyed.

"Alright, hide carefully, don't let all your efforts go to waste!"

"Yes!"

Their call ended, and Long Yuan looked at this scene on the light screen, a faint smile flashing across his face!

"General Feng? Feng Guang? The Patriarch of the Feng Family of Nan Yue City?! He's actually a general in the southern sector of the Blood Wolf Hall. I'll have to keep a close eye on him..."

He added Feng Guang to the blacklist and let out a sigh of relief... Although he was alone on West Lake Island just now, he was extremely busy because he had to track multiple scenes and send information to Tong Jingshan and Geng Yun in time. He saw that all the people One-Eyed sent to support Master Forgetting Love had been captured by Tong Jingshan and his group. Those people never expected that this trip would be a trap. As soon as they entered the Guild, they immediately lost all their Xuan Power, completely defenseless, and could only obediently surrender.

"Should I launch another wave? Forget it, another attempt would likely alert One-Eyed. It's better to know when to stop..." Long Yuan pondered, giving orders to Tong Jingshan to imprison those people on the spot, leave a few to continue waiting for prey, and have the others quickly go to the five breeding bases to capture people.

Tong Jingshan naturally dared not be negligent and immediately led his men to the five bases. He was now truly impressed with Long Yuan from the bottom of his heart. A single message directly cut One-Eyed's forces by half. Such a brilliant move was something he wouldn't even dare to imagine... Geng Yun was also overjoyed after receiving Tong Jingshan's report and marveled at Long Yuan's resourcefulness... At this time, the Evil Cultists were operating on multiple fronts, and the county office was actually fighting on multiple fronts as well. Geng Rutai, Qi Huaiyi, and Lei Hao kept a close watch on Scarface and Li Yang's actions near Qianlong Middle School. Xu Guanghu led Bai Pu, Bai Shan, He Hao, Qi Da, and others to keep an eye on One-Eyed, while Xu Guanghai went to the wilderness, naturally targeting the helicopters parked on the high ground. With his Middle Stage Martial General ability, he could easily deal with the remaining Evil Cultists, but to avoid alerting Scarface too early, he was currently only keeping an eye on them. The rest, including Tong Jingshan, Lin Han, and some county office guards, went to apprehend the Evil Cultists lurking in the five beast-rearing bases. These Evil Cultists were not highly cultivated and posed little threat. Within the county office, only Geng Yun and Li Gui remained. They commanded from the center, responsible for information transmission. However, most of their information regarding the Evil Cultists came from Long Yuan. Long Yuan did not point this out, and Geng Yun and the others naturally did not either.

Seeing that the situation was under control, Long Yuan also had time to digest other information he had just obtained, such as the conversation between Tong Jingshan and his father, Tong Fenglai. He could tell that Tong Fenglai was extremely angry about the losses at the beast-rearing bases, to the point of being furious. It seemed that the more than one thousand exotic beasts in these five bases were a considerable fortune for the Tong Family, especially since most of them were invested by Tong Fenglai himself. Now that Tong Jingshan had gone all-in and lost them all, it was no wonder Tong Fenglai was so enraged.

However, the Tong Family, as an Alchemy Family, still had quite a foundation. They actually controlled the Medicinal Pill market in several third-tier bases around Nanming and held a certain monopoly. Otherwise, it would be impossible for them to raise prices at will, because only sellers with a monopoly can act so unscrupulously.

Generally speaking, when a seller's market share reaches more than 35%, they have the ability to manipulate the market and affect its normal operation and fair competition; when it reaches more than 50%, the seller has a monopoly; and when the market share reaches more than 75%, the seller can achieve a dominant position in the market, capable of anything!

According to Tong Fenglai, the Tong Family's Medicinal Pills already held more than 50% of the market share in the Nanming base and some surrounding third-tier small bases. Coupled with the Tong Family's control over the Alchemy Guilds in these areas, which amounted to a technological monopoly, the Tong Family now indeed had the capital to manipulate these markets. In this situation of heavy losses, Tong Fenglai pulling this move meant that the Xuan Practitioners of Fengyang would likely suffer some hardships... Furthermore, on Tong Jingshan's way to the five beast-rearing bases, Tong Fenglai called Tong Jingshan again. The content of their conversation even involved Long Yuan himself. It turned out that after Tong Fenglai learned the events of that day from Lin Han, he was not only greatly angered by Tong Jingshan's incompetence but also came to hate Long Yuan. He demanded that Tong Jingshan find a way to kill Long Yuan, partly for revenge, and partly because Tong Xueqin seemed very smitten with Long Yuan. This made Tong Fenglai somewhat wary, fearing that Tong Xueqin might be lured away by Long Yuan!

Upon hearing these words, Tong Jingshan loudly said to Tong Fenglai, "Father, you don't understand the situation at all! How can you believe Lin Han's words? Let me tell you, if Xueqin can get together with Long Yuan, that would be a huge blessing for the Tong Family!"

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