In merely half a day, the news that Shen Han had outmatched Su Jinyu in the competition spread throughout the Shen Mansion.

Some things cannot be easily concealed even if one wishes to.

In the dining room, the hands of the Shen Mansion's servants were trembling slightly while serving meals today.

The young master Shen Han, who used to dine with them in the dining room, has now reached the mountain peak.

In the eyes of the servants, a prodigy woman like Su Jinyu was the fairy mentioned in legends.

With peerless beauty and extraordinary talent.

But today, news spread that Shen Han, the once destitute young master.

Had defeated Su Jinyu in yesterday's competition...

Originally, Shen Han reaching the eightieth level at the Thousand-Autumn Grand Gathering, and excelling in the Shen family's internal assessment.

Had already made the servants somewhat anxious.

But at that time, it was tolerable; the higher-ups in the Shen Family still looked down on Shen Han.

But now, with Shen Han's astonishing performance, might the future master of Shen Mansion not be Shen Ye, but Shen Han...

Those who had once mocked Shen Han were even more unable to sleep peacefully.

Seeing this, one slightly smarter servant continued to eat heartily.

"You can still eat... are you preparing to be a satisfied ghost...?"

Faced with others' pessimism, the servant merely smiled.

"You all are overthinking things, just eat your meals uneventfully.

Young Master Han has long forgotten us as he reached that stage.

If he really wanted to deal with us, he could have easily crushed us with his strength earlier.

Instead, it's the other young masters and ladies in the mansion who are harder to serve, lacking ability and only venting their anger on us.

Of course, with their abilities, they only dare to vent their anger on us."

With these words, the servants seemed to have an epiphany, indeed so.

In the mansion, the young masters and ladies with the least capability were the ones most fond of beating and scolding servants.

Even the strict Old Dowager rarely punished servants.

Within the Shen Mansion, after hearing this news, the other younger generation gathered together, troubled.

When Shen Han lived at the Shen Mansion, they used to always ostracize him.

Expressions of disdain filled their words.

Of course, they were just following the example.

The Shen Family's higher-ups treated Shen Han this way, naturally, they learned to do so too.

But now that Shen Han is accomplished, what if he returns to seek them out?

More urgently,

The Shen Family has produced two prodigies.

Although Shen Ao does not deserve the title of prodigy, he is still young and not bad.

In terms of overall performance, at least three younger members of the Shen family excel.

Those who have achieved nothing wonder how the Shen Family will demand from them...

On this day, the entire Shen Mansion seemed somewhat gloomy.

From the masters to the servants, it seemed everyone had something on their minds, lacking the heart to speak.

In the tents of the Eastern Garrison,

Since the incident with the Pills, Shen Qingshan was somewhat worried every day.

It should be known that every pill consumed by soldiers now entails expenses from the Shen Family.

Having controlled the Eastern Garrison for so many years, coupled with military merits and rewards, the Shen Family is quite wealthy indeed.

But even with great wealth, it cannot withstand such consumption.

Shen Qingshan's worry stemmed exactly from this.

If the Pill issue is not properly resolved, there will be no peace in the military.

To solve this issue, there are only two methods.

First, the Shen Family could seek a path to procure these middle-grade Pills at low prices.

The Shen Family had indeed invested some effort into this method.

Over the past few months, Shen Qingshan visited numerous Medicine-Refining Families.

These families were extremely welcoming to Shen Qingshan.

After all, there is a massive garrison behind the Shen Family, consuming astronomical numbers of pills daily.

Being on good terms with the Shen Family would ease the sale of their pills.

But when Shen Qingshan demanded purchasing middle-grade Pills at 60% of the current price,

The medicine-refining families didn't think twice before declining.

As families in the Alchemy Dao, they naturally realized that the Yun Family was selling its middle-grade Pills at 60% of the price.

However, currently, the Yun Family's production cannot meet the demand for middle-grade Pills.

Those unable to buy the Yun Family's Pills would turn to buy their pills.

Selling at 60% would break even at best for them.

Since that's the case, why should they be the scapegoats?

Take the Shen Family for example, they're buying Pills at the original price as of now, right?

Since they aren't unable to sell, there's no need to lower the price, they even have thoughts of raising it.

After visiting numerous medicine-refining families, Shen Qingshan gave up.

The second method is to have the entire military revert to the past.

Back to using low-grade Pills, with only Squad Leaders qualifying for middle-grade Pills.

Shen Qingshan considered bringing some misfortune to the Yun Family members' bodies.

But he quickly dismissed this idea.

The current Yun Family has an Honored Guest Elder at the Immortal Realm.

Even small actions were extremely difficult.

With a deadlock in the situation, Shen Qingshan grew increasingly anxious.

If only it ended there, but at night came another alarming piece of news.

The Shen Family's once discarded and forsaken descendant, Shen Han.

Had defeated Su Jinyu in competition.

A Sixth Grade Half-Step Realm victory through the Sword Dao.

Upon receiving this news, Shen Qingshan shared the reaction of the other Shen Family members.

Feeling somewhat unreal.

But he knew that the messengers were all scouts arranged from his own troops.

They understood the rules, and if it weren't verified, they wouldn't relay the message this way.

Moreover, based on the scouts' report, many people witnessed this competition.

Even Shen Ye was present, so it couldn't be faked.

These were certainly true.

After receiving the news, Shen Qingshan had already arranged to summon Shen Lingsheng.

About two quarters of an hour later, Shen Lingsheng arrived.

With a faint look of happiness on his face.

"Father, the Liu Family from Yilan City has agreed to sell us middle-grade Pills at 90% of the price.

Although the efficacy of the Liu Family's middle-grade Pills is slightly inferior, they are still middle-grade Pills.

It can at least ease our current situation."

With a hint of happiness, Shen Lingsheng felt this hard-negotiated 10% concession was worth rejoicing over.

At least in his opinion, it is a matter of delight.

On hearing this, Shen Qingshan let out a cold laugh, then shook his head.

"90%...

To negotiate a 90% price and feel self-satisfied with it.

I just realized that the predicament our Shen Family faces isn't external.

It's within our Shen Family, within our people."

Shen Lingsheng was a bit stunned, not understanding why his father was suddenly so furious...

When he went to negotiate himself, not even a 90% procurement price was returned with the Pills.

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