"I offer you longevity for ten thousand years to form the elixir!"
If these words were heard at any other time, Elder Patriarch of Armor Wood Mountain would probably just chuckle no matter where he was and take it as a joke.
But this was no joke now!
He’ll be damned, it really formed a pill!
The elixir dragon has even come out. What grade of elixir could this be?!
Recalling Chen Xia's crude alchemy techniques from before, grief welled up in his heart at this moment. Compared to Chen Xia's techniques actually being able to form a pill, he’d rather believe it was because of his ten thousand years of longevity.
The emerald elixir dragon in the sky no longer hid itself and stuck its head out directly, staring fixedly at the pill furnace.
Chen Xia stood to the side, knowing that the final step to pill formation had arrived, which was to draw the elixir dragon into the furnace and use it to form the pill.
The elixir dragon rolled in the tribulation lightning in the sky, flashed brightly, then abruptly spiraled above the pill furnace in front of Chen Xia.
It wanted to steal the elixir will inside!
Chen Xia's eyes flashed suddenly, with a crimson color jumping out. At the edge of the sky, a crescent blood-red moon suddenly spread out.
Chen Xia, wearing a crimson crown on his head, looked at the panicked elixir dragon in front of him and smiled, "Not only can it trap cultivators, it can also trap wild beasts."
Suddenly no one was in front of the pill furnace, leaving only a shining pill furnace, inside which was a pill on the verge of taking form.
A knowledgeable cultivator said, "This should be a mystic art similar to a minor world, he has confined the elixir dragon together with it!"
After a while, ripples suddenly appeared in that void, undulating in layers.
First a hand stretched out above the pill furnace, then an arm with the elixir dragon coiling around it, its head facing the pill furnace.
Chen Xia's gaze was deep, the hand above the pill furnace suddenly snapped its fingers and said softly.
"Pill formation."
Boom!
The entire pill furnace exploded directly, turning into scattered ashes drifting between heaven and earth.
Rich pill fragrance instantly rushed into everyone's nostrils in an instant, it was simply unavoidable.
Next was unmatched pill light, suppressing everything, even becoming a shining pillar of light.
Finally it was the pill.
A large pill, black and white, covered in dense pill patterns!
The scene fell silent. The cultivators present were left speechless, only able to stare blankly at the large pill. After a long pause, someone said in disbelief.
"Pill... Pill Master?!"
This was a figure that only existed in the upper realms!
"That's right."
A not very loud voice suddenly rang out, resonating throughout the entire venue.
Several beams of light appeared in the sky, like a door.
A figure walked out from the door, hands clasped behind his back, like an immortal descending to the mundane world, standing in front of everyone.
The middle-aged man from Triumphant Mountain who was fiddling with his ring turned around in pleasant surprise and respectfully greeted the figure.
"Qin Ding of Triumphant Mountain, humbly welcomes you, Sir!"
When the surrounding cultivators heard these words, their expressions instantly became shocked.
The only kind of existence that could be called "Sir" by the Patriarch Qin Ding of Triumphant Mountain was...
A peerless cultivator of the upper realms!
This person didn't bother with Qin Ding at all. With hands clasped behind his back, wearing mysterious purple robes, with seven small dragons coiling around them, constantly gliding along the robes, he laughed and said.
"I didn't expect a Pill Master to appear in the middle realms of this realm. It really caught me by surprise. Earlier when Qin Ding complained to me about you hitting Qin Guan, I thought you were just some reckless nobody. I didn't expect you to actually have some skills."
Chen Xia replied, "It was just exchanging some courtesies with Qin Guan, nothing major, just doing what was proper."
"Do you know who I am?" This person raised his hand, and a ray of light fell on it, shining on his finger like a luminous sword.
Chen Xia tilted his head slightly. "Do you need something?"
This person laughed. "I am Li Guang, from the upper realms. I can be considered the upper echelon of Triumphant Mountain. As for my cultivation realm... I happen to be at the twelfth heaven of the Heaven Mending Realm."
When he said this, the cultivators present were truly dumbfounded.
A cultivator of the twelfth heaven of the Heaven Mending Realm could be said to be second only to saints. He was a top figure even in the entire realm, let alone the middle realms!
To think Triumphant Mountain could actually contact such a figure!
"Do you need something?" Chen Xia still frowned as he asked.
He had seen emperors before, let alone someone at the twelfth heaven of Heaven Mending Realm. If provoked, just shake them up, don't mess around.
The only reason he was so restrained now was because he needed to get the pill for Big Yellow Dog. Otherwise he would've just taken the pill and left already.
Li Guang stretched out a finger and started listing: "First, return Qin Guan's soul lamp."
"Second, publicly apologize to Triumphant Mountain."
"Third..."
He revealed an arrogant smile and continued. "Give me this grand pill as compensation for troubling me."
Chen Xia didn't react much to the first two points, but when Li Guang stated the third point, his brows immediately furrowed. Still unwilling to stir up conflicts, he tried to negotiate.
"I can help you refine pills in the future, but I have to take this one pill with me."
The smile on Li Guang's face gradually disappeared. He pointed at the Great Dao Reincarnation Pill in front of Chen Xia and enunciated word for word.
"I said, I want this one pill."
Not a single person around dared to speak up, or even discuss it. They understood that Chen Xia had kicked an iron plate this time.
With Chen Xia's skills as a Pill Master, he was naturally unmatched in the middle realms of this realm.
But in the upper realms, a low-grade Pill Master was still not enough to contend with a cultivator of the twelfth heaven of Heaven Mending Realm.
In fact, Li Guang had only made these three demands. In his eyes, this was already giving ample face to Chen Xia as a Pill Master.
If it were usual times, he would've beaten the other party half to death first before starting to talk conditions.
The scene was silent.
Suddenly Chen Xia reached out and firmly grabbed the Great Dao Reincarnation Pill in front of him, staring straight at Li Guang as he calmly replied.
"I refuse."
The azure robe fluttered in the breeze, stirring his hair to sway slightly.
Chen Xia's firm dark eyes suddenly reflected a dazzling light. He blinked and lowered his head to look. At some point, blood had started oozing out of his chest.
A ray of light condensed into an arrow was stuck in his chest.
"He's just a Pill Master, does he really think I don't dare to kill him?" Li Guang sneered disdainfully.
The scene was deathly silent, everyone was horrified.
A top power of the upper realms wanted to kill a Pill Master of the middle realms!
Zhen Hu had already turned his head away, closing his eyes, not daring to speak or watch.
He knew that if he spoke up now, it wouldn't be just one Chen Xia who died, but the entire Starry Sky Pill Sect would be implicated.
This was no longer about what was proper or not, but extermination of the sect.
Bai Jie was extremely anxious at the side, pacing back and forth, going forward and back again, but still couldn't muster the courage.
Blood started trickling from the corner of Chen Xia's mouth. He reached out and forcibly pulled the ray of light arrow from his chest, then wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with his sleeve. His other hand still firmly gripped the pill, his expression still calm as he said.
"I refuse."
Li Guang raised his head arrogantly, stretching out a finger and flicking lightly forward. His face was cold and emotionless. "Then go die."
Between heaven and earth, a ray of light abruptly condensed into a thread, piercing through Chen Xia, blood splattering continuously, spraying all over heaven and earth.
Chen Xia gritted his teeth, his hand holding the pill never once loosening, trembling as he softly chanted.
"Past... future..."
He didn't get to utter the last word.
Because deep underground in a small hut tens of thousands of miles below, the Big Yellow Dog that had been sleeping for hundreds of years suddenly opened its eyes. The sky and earth changed color, the blue light in its eyes like an entire cosmic expanse.
Its face was filled with fury as it directly tore open the dome of heaven, seeming to pass through time and space as it forcibly appeared in the middle realms of the realm. Its eyes landed on the pierced Chen Xia.
The blue light in its eyes condensed tightly as its whole body trembled with rage. It instantly whipped its head to look at Li Guang and roared furiously.
"Die!"
The firmament started shattering layer by layer, falling like broken glass.
Behind the crumbling firmament was an enormous finger crushing down enveloped in millions of mystic arts!
True immortal arts and miracles!
Li Guang's expression changed to shock and disbelief as he looked at the scene before him. He cried out loudly.
"Ancestor save me, Ancestor save me!"
"If your Ancestor dares save you, I'll kill your Ancestor. If a Saint saves you, I'll kill the Saint. Sages, Great Sages, quasi-Emperors, Emperors, whoever dares save you, I'll kill them!"
Big Yellow Dog roared furiously, radiating unmatched killing intent.
The million-zhang finger descending from the heavens landed.
Millions of mystic arts pressed down together.
This finger was heavier than the heavens!