By noon on the sixth day of the Gu Family’s arrival in the central provinces, the capture of Myriad Pill Sect Master Dan Xuan , at Rank 5 Peak. His ten Grand Elders—now wearing white sanitary hairnets and blue cotton Gu Family Apprentice Overalls. They stirred giant vats of strawberry gelatin under Auntie Qin’s watchful rolling pin—had sent a seismic shockwave across every city in the Nine Continents!
Yet inside the remaining three of the Four Great Righteous Sects—the Supreme Sword Sect, the Heavenly Talisman Sect. The Beast-Taming Sect—their Sect Masters refused to sit still and watch thirty million rogue cultivators and mortal citizens defect to Gu Changsheng’s banner.
Within two hours of Dan Xuan’s capture, thousands of paid tavern rumor-mongers. Flying-pigeon leaflets funded by Supreme Sword Sect Master Jian Jue flooded the streets of Myriad Pill City and the surrounding thirty prefecture capitals!
“Don’t tear up your Four-Sect Tribute Permits yet, fellow cultivators!” a shifty-eyed rumor-monger in a gray scholar’s cap shouted from atop a wine barrel in the center of Myriad Pill Square. Waving a printed leaflet at the fifty thousand rogue cultivators waiting outside Gu Family Gummy-Bear Supermarket #1.
“Do the math with your own brains!
Refining a single Rank 5 Spirit-Mending Pill or Foundation Establishment Gummy Bear requires at least three stalks of hundred-year spirit herbs! Even with the Jade Lotus Clan’s medicine valley supplying him, Gu Changsheng has already sold two million bags of gummies today for five spirit stones a bag! At that speed…
