In the void, Luo Chen swept out with a billowing sleeve.
Yet his grasp closed on empty air.
Luo Chen slowly withdrew his hand, golden light blazing in his eyes.
"Another illusion?"
But he quickly realized that those things radiating dense white light were no illusion. They truly existed.
Only when he tried to seize them by force did they turn slick as eels, impossible to touch.
"Looks like I can't force my way past their protection and take those pills for a closer sniff."
With eyes that could see through illusions, he had already discerned that each glow concealed a pill.
Just like the "pill manuals" in the side hall, they had been conjured through the same illusion technique.
As things stood, taking them by force was impossible. Only by correctly identifying a pill could he actually lay hands on it.
Luo Chen suppressed his restless thoughts and looked toward the other four nearby.
At first, they too had been surprised by the exact nature of this trial.
But they seemed to have encountered something similar before, and soon steadied themselves after their initial panic.
Then each displayed their own Divine Ability!
Chen Mozi took out a gourd, poured out an unknown liquid, and dabbed it beneath his nose.
Red light burst from Xin Yisheng, dazzling as it played against the white glows.
Lu Chun cast a spell and sat cross-legged in midair.
Chu Yu's approach was simplest. She merely put on a white veil, which seemed to filter out the other, muddled scents of Pill Qi.
Under their various methods, progress gradually followed.
Lu Chun's face lit up. Emerging from meditation, he wrote the name of a pill on the desk before him.
As soon as the name appeared, a streak of white light shot toward him and