Although Tang Ren wasn’t very old, he had been doing business for many years.
However, the pills and weapons Jun Changxiao produced brought him profound shock, because he had never seen them before, nor had he even heard of them!
Pills that increased absorption speed tenfold, pills that instantly healed martial artists’ injuries, pills that neutralized a hundred poisons, and that sword with impeccable craftsmanship.
Taking any one of these four items to sell would cause a sensation!
Tang Ren, temporarily staying at Wangu Sect, spent an entire night in his room contemplating. The more he thought about it, the more he couldn’t suppress his excitement!
Undeniably—
The Tang Family was an extremely massive commercial empire.
But their main business was spirit stones. Although they were involved in other industries, they had never been able to open up larger markets.
It could be said—
Spirit stones had made the Tang Family, but also limited the Tang Family.
In recent years, the family’s upper echelons had been constantly discussing how to expand other industries.
Unfortunately, the established patterns of the popular pill and weapon industries had already stabilized, and trying to get a share from other families would be very difficult.
“If Sect Master Jun’s pills and weapons can be mass-produced and sold, it will absolutely be a huge business opportunity!”
Tang Ren’s eyes burned with intensity.
Once the three types of pills hit the market, they would definitely rapidly elevate the family’s prestige in the pill sector and bring extremely lucrative profits!
As for weapons, Tang Ren wasn’t very optimistic.
After all, even Master Fan hadn’t forged too many perfectly crafted weapons in his lifetime.
“Using the three types of pills to break into the market—if I can obtain profits comparable to the spirit stone sector, it will undoubtedly provide me with greater opportunities!”
What opportunities?
Gaining the favor of Tang Family’s old master and inheriting the position of next family head!
Tang Ren was a person with both talent and ambition. He absolutely wouldn’t settle for being just one of the Tang Family’s direct lineage—he wanted to become the Tang Family head to better display his greater aspirations.
However, within the family, his seniority and age were too low.
Although he was one of the heirs, he couldn’t contend with his uncles and older cousins who had extensive connections and higher seniority.
If Jun Changxiao’s three types of pills brought greater profits and allowed the Tang Family to finally break into the pill market they had always been trying to enter but couldn’t expand, his standing in the old master’s heart would definitely greatly increase.
“Coming to Southwest Yang Province was just to establish good relations with Sect Master Jun. I never expected such enormous gains!” Tang Ren said excitedly.
When Wangu Sect, at a seventh or eighth-rate level, challenged Shengquan Sect, he had already received the news and become interested, so he began collecting various intelligence information about this sect.
Destroying the Evil Sect, being ranked among the top three, battling Jihan Palace, even taking disciples to challenge the entire Donghao Province.
All these events reached Tang Ren’s ears, making him even more certain that Wangu Sect’s potential was limitless!
Of course—
The Tang Family had also heard about this sect.
However, while they were still debating and questioning, Tang Ren had already used the excuse of inspecting work to visit the sect, aiming to expand his connections.
To put it simply—
Tang Ren’s proactive visit to Jun Changxiao was a strategic move for his future bid to become family head.
Whether it could help was unknown, but he had to reach out, lest his uncles and older cousins beat him to it.
In terms of political resources, he was far behind his relatives.
The major sects of Central Zun Province had basically already chosen sides. He could only start with emerging sects from outer provinces that were just getting started.
Wangu Sect was just one of them.
Next, Tang Ren would successively visit other promising sects, hoping to establish good relations and build his own network.
Jun Changxiao proactively doing business, especially pill business, was completely unexpected!
An opportunity.
An absolute opportunity!
Whether he could raise his standing in the old master’s heart would depend on the pill business with Wangu Sect!
…
“Young Master Tang.”
The next day, Jun Changxiao said, “Are your accommodations satisfactory?”
Tang Ren smiled and said, “Your sect’s spiritual power is abundant. Staying one night has left me feeling refreshed.”
“Swish!”
Jun Changxiao took out several spatial rings and said, “Inside are one hundred thousand Qi Gathering Pills, ten thousand healing pills, and ten thousand detoxification pills.”
He had even more pills, but didn’t take them all out at once. He mainly needed to evaluate whether the other party had the ability to maximize profits through sales.
Tang Ren smiled and said, “Tang guarantees that within one month, all can be sold and will bring Sect Master Jun abundant profits.”
“Swish!”
Jun Changxiao took out several more spatial rings and said, “Inside are a thousand Hanfeng Swords.”
Tang Ren’s expression froze, then he hurriedly received them. His spiritual sense merged into them, and seeing the neatly arranged thousand Hanfeng Swords, he nearly lost his footing and stood up directly!
He had actually produced a thousand of these swords at once!
Even more terrifying was that judging from their appearance, the thousand Hanfeng Swords all had equally exquisite craftsmanship!
Master Fan’s lifetime of forging weapons could absolutely not achieve this level!
Products from the Forging Pavilion were guaranteed to be quality goods.
Moreover—
These thousand Hanfeng Swords were all rejects, because many Wangu Sect disciples had already upgraded to Hanmang Swords, or even higher-grade Zhenyang Swords!
“Sect Master Jun.”
Tang Ren said gravely, “Your sect’s forging level would make even Master Fan feel ashamed!”
Jun Changxiao said, “I’ll entrust these pills and weapons to Young Master Tang. I’ll await your good news.”
“Mm!”
Tang Ren took out a token and smiled, “This is my Tang Family’s VIP token. In the future, if Sect Master Jun needs to purchase spirit stones, you can present it and will definitely be treated as an honored guest.”
Jun Changxiao received it and casually tossed it into his spatial ring.
The two chatted for a while longer before Tang Ren rose to take his leave.
After obtaining the pills and weapons, his next step was to consider how to sell them as quickly as possible.
Jun Changxiao personally escorted him to the mountain gate and ordered Juexie Sheng to secretly protect him, lest he be abducted by dark sect forces again.
“Sect Master.”
Li Luoqiu said, “I just received intelligence that Young Master Tang’s position among the Tang Family’s many heirs isn’t very high.”
“So.”
Jun Changxiao stroked his chin and said, “His proactive visit to my Wangu Sect also has its reasons.”
He could guess one or two of these reasons.
One needed to do business to earn more capital, one needed to build connections to earn more political resources. Now that they had reached cooperation, it was quite fateful.
However—
Whether the cooperation between them could obtain what each needed still had to be proven through practice.
…
Tang Ren left Wangu Sect and didn’t go inspect the spirit stone shops in Southwest Yang Province. He directly set off to return to Central Zun Province, beginning preparations to sell the pills.
This fellow also had considerable boldness.
After returning, following deep consideration, he decided to personally finance opening pill shops in every commandery city of Central Zun Province!
Although the Tang Family had a pill industry, it wasn’t well-developed.
By doing this, Tang Ren was first letting pill shops bloom everywhere, then promoting the pills externally, so that every shop would have all three types of pills for sale.
Of course—
He couldn’t sell them all at once. He would implement purchase limits first.
This approach was similar to the monthly auctions—although it couldn’t generate sufficient profits in a short time, it could make the pills rare and precious.
There were many commandery cities in Central Zun Province. To fully expand would require extremely high capital.
Tang Ren didn’t care.
At this time, he had to break through constraints and roll up his sleeves for a good gamble!