Following the Tang Clan's aggressive price reduction, the gravitational pull of the market swung violently back toward the Jade Spring Hall. The city was a sea of shifting loyalties, and Peng Kai, driven by a mixture of ancestral pride and pure, unadulterated desperation, responded by slashing his prices by another two gold coins.
The real war of attrition had begun.
What followed was a week of economic bloodletting that Thousand Waves City would talk about for decades. It was a race to the bottom, a relentless, grinding descent where each clan tried to suffocate the other with the weight of their own margins. Every morning, the criers would announce a new, lower price, and every afternoon, the rival clan would match or beat it.
