Because he was nearby, Luo Chen should have been the first to reach the City Lord's Mansion.
But the moment he stepped into the hall, every hair on his body stood on end.
He looked up. The Soaring Sky City Lord still sat smiling in the seat of honor, while an old man in a chair beside him studied Luo Chen with keen interest.
"So this is the famous Pill Sect everyone's been talking about?"
Luo Chen recognized the old man at a glance.
He was the powerful figure who had set up the array over Soaring Sky Pass, darkening the Azure Nether.
After all the earlier hints, the man's identity went without saying.
"This old man is Heavenly Capital Child. A pleasure to meet you."
Luo Chen gave a formal salute. "Luo Tian Sect, Luo Chen!"
At a gesture from the Soaring Sky City Lord, he found a chair and sat down.
He had barely settled into it when Heavenly Capital Child asked curiously, "I hear Fellow Daoist Luo is exceptionally skilled in pill-making. They say there's no pill you can't refine, and that you stand above everyone else in the Eastern Wasteland's Pill World?"
Luo Chen opened his mouth. When had the rumors grown so outrageous?
He had wanted to make a name for himself, but he had never used advertising that grandiose!
Wait. He had said he could refine a hundred kinds of pills and was proficient in them all. That did sound much the same.
Before he could answer, the Soaring Sky City Lord said with a smile, "Heavenly Capital Child, that is no mere rumor. In my view, almost no one in the vast Eastern Wasteland's Pill World can compare with Fellow Daoist Luo. Even some of my Mingyuan Sect's veteran Pill Refiners fall a