"What the hell are you roaring for?!"
Xiao Heng shouted and brought his palm down. A colossal claw spanning ten thousand zhang crashed down with a thunderous boom, smacking the pill directly back into its round form.
Xiao Heng flashed forward and grabbed the pill. Looking at the black pill in his hand, streaked with faint three-colored cloud patterns, he snorted disdainfully. "It's just a pill, and I refined it myself. If I actually let it escape, I might as well stop showing my face."
Though he said that, Xiao Heng still placed several more Dou Qi seals on the pill, lest the thing somehow slipped away.
He looked over at Xiao Yan. At that moment, Xiao Yan's pill was likewise undergoing the tempering of Thunder, and the process was much the same.
Xiao Yan held his breath and focused, his gaze fixed firmly on the pill that had been scorched pitch-black by the lightning. At last, with a crisp crack, light emerged from it.
"It succeeded!" Xiao Heng rejoiced inwardly.
The next instant, the pill embryo completely shed away, revealing the pill amid countless phenomena. Of course, it still had to go through the usual process—it had to try to run.
But with Xiao Heng's sword light serving as a warning, far more people remained calm this time.
The pill transformed into a beautiful woman, but Xiao Yan was not one to show tender affection for women. A Yellow Springs Palm sent the beauty straight back into pill form.
Catching the pill and sensing the terrifying power contained within it, a smile appeared on Xiao Yan's face. Yet it swiftly faded away...
"Not bad! You actually succeeded!" Xiao Heng came to Xiao Yan's side and laughed heartily. Naturally, he was happy that Xiao Yan had succeeded.
Hearing that voice,