Hidden Moth-Chapter 297 - 164: Narrow-Mindedness Is Never Multifaceted

At this moment, dinner was already over. He Kao tidied up things as he spoke, appearing very casual and relaxed, without contacting anyone outside during the process.

He just glanced at his phone and saw a message from Qian Guran, saying that the dinner party had ended and he had successfully arrived home.

Ren Zhongqing: "I am also a Tier Three Sorcerer, so I naturally understand that he is a senior master with at least Tier Six cultivation. People like this never speak falsehoods, and their divine thought is even less likely to be false."

He Kao: "Think it over again, was the high master’s divine thought ever assertive in its judgments? Or were they all mentioned as possibilities, reportedly, or Jianghu rumors?"

Ren Zhongqing: "But I’ve reached a dead end and would rather give it a try."

He Kao: "Do you consider yourself wronged?"

Ren Zhongqing: "I only think this matter is a personal vendetta. Jinlu Garden can come after me for revenge, but they cannot slander me by accusing me of violating the Joint Punishment Order, prompting the Ancestral Hall to mobilize the entire Magic Sect to hunt me down... Is the Ancestral Hall owned by the Jin Family?"

He Kao: "You think Jinlu Garden can come after you for revenge, but the Ancestral Hall shouldn’t explicitly order all disciples to pursue you?"

Ren Zhongqing: "Yes, if the Ancestral Hall can handle the Jin Family’s matters today, why didn’t they deal with my family’s matters ten years ago?"

He Kao: "What makes you think you haven’t violated the Joint Punishment Order?"

Ren Zhongqing: "Of course I have reasons! It’s not because of the conflict with Jinlu Garden that I threatened them with the safety of Golden Heron Wave, but because I have a grudge against the Jin Family brothers!

As sorcerers, we must not use techniques to oppress ordinary people, but after succeeding in cultivation, do we have to be oppressed by ordinary people instead? There’s no logic in that no matter what you say!

The Jin Family brothers oppressed my father and humiliated my mother back then, so I am avenging my parents!

Is it that any ordinary person who has a sorcerer among their relatives can easily provoke other sorcerers, and if the other party dares to fight back, they can accuse the other of violating the Joint Punishment Order?"

He Kao nodded slowly, "Your logic... it seems it’s been turned around, but the premise of logic is facts. Can I ask you three questions?"

Ren Zhongqing: "Go ahead and ask."

He Kao: "As you just claimed, at fourteen years old, Golden Heron Wave colluded with his brother Jinlu Garden to seize your father’s shares and oust him from the company, citing two reasons.

One was to engage in official-business collusion, finding your father an obstacle; the other was being jealous of your father’s excellent company management, wanting to seize it.

You said Jinlu Garden was a certain bureau leader in the district at that time, may I ask which bureau it was?"

Ren Zhongqing was taken aback, never expecting such a tricky question. He paused before answering, "I don’t know about that, it was just some bureau in the district."

He Kao shook his head, "You were only fourteen then, it’s normal not to know the inside story, but you never investigated later, so how did you draw a conclusion?"

Why did He Kao ask such a question? Because Ren Zhongqing mentioned that currently, Golden Heron Wave is the head of urban construction but only said he was a district leader fourteen years ago.

This shows that Ren Zhongqing did not know which bureau Golden Heron Wave led in the district, otherwise he wouldn’t have said so.

Thus, it’s evident that Ren Zhongqing himself hasn’t closely investigated the past events, otherwise, how could he accuse someone of official-business collusion without knowing their job title?

Today, he encountered the meticulous He Kao, who pointed out the flaw with the first sentence.

Ren Zhongqing: "I was young then, but my mother knows, it was all told to me by her. How could my mother deceive me?"

He Kao was momentarily speechless, "Parents wouldn’t lie," "Kids can’t lie," kind of arguments, and there’s actually someone who uses them as evidence. 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

He Kao didn’t dwell on the issue, nor was there a need to dwell on it, he continued asking, "Second question, how much is a bottle of Spring Rain Pill worth?"

Ren Zhongqing was startled again, speaking awkwardly, "This is a cultivation spirit medicine, its value can’t be measured with money."

He Kao: "Your father hasn’t succeeded in cultivation, so he probably didn’t refine it himself. Since it was obtained from elsewhere, he must have paid a price. Let me ask differently, if you had a bottle of Spring Rain Pill and wanted to sell it, how much would you sell it for?"

Ren Zhongqing lowered his head, "It would be worth at least several million."

The Spring Rain Pill is a very niche elixir, one of the most precious ones that ordinary people can access. If Jiang Daozhen hadn’t passed on the complete teachings of the Seven Great Magic Sects to He Kao, he wouldn’t have heard of it either.

The spiritual effect of the Spring Rain Pill is to nourish the bone structure, improving a person’s innate physique, making it easier for them to cultivate. But it needs to be combined with internal cultivation and external practice, and its effects can only be seen with long-term use.

One bottle can be used for a year. If there’s no effect after taking it continuously for three years, then there’s no need to continue. Elixirs aren’t omnipotent; if the innate talent is lacking, it’s just lacking.

Even with as strong a backing as He Kao, he couldn’t get the Spring Rain Pill. He had also asked Lin Qingshuang if three bottles of Spring Rain Pill could be obtained and how much it would cost?

His purpose, of course, wasn’t for his own use.

Lin Qingshuang told him very tactfully that three bottles of Spring Rain Pill would cost at least tens of millions, and it’s not about money. There haven’t been any available recently because no one is refining it.

This thing isn’t an industrial product you can buy at will; its required spirit medicine is very hard to find, even if someone gathers it, mostly they use it to refine other elixirs.

Occasionally, a master refines a batch, it’s for their particularly esteemed juniors, and if they’re willing to put it up for transfer, there are plenty of people eager to buy it at a high price, and it would be gone in an instant, with no stock left.