If Hun Tiandi could still transform into a Pill Spirit after being refined into a pill, then they truly had no need to keep fighting.
The Emperor Grade Young Pill in the Ancient Emperor Cave Abode had been able to suppress five Nine Star Dou Sheng by itself, let alone Hun Tiandi, who had already gone a step further.
...But judging from the look of things, the situation was not as terrible as they had imagined.
"It's done?"
Xiao Yan finally lowered his hand, but his body could not help staggering with it. Only with Yao Wan supporting him did he barely steady himself.
"It's done."
Yao Wan's eyes were filled with heartache. She immediately took out a few medicinal pills from her Storage Ring and fed them all into Xiao Yan's mouth.
"Does it hurt?"
"It doesn't."
Xiao Yan shook his head. He did not care whether Yao Wan would scold him for being stubborn and forcing himself. He merely raised his hand by instinct, and that Emperor Pill flew toward Xiao Yan, landing in his palm.
"Here, for you."
His rough fingertips gently rubbed the pale-gold pill with silver patterns, and the corners of his mouth, still stained with blood, revealed an utterly unburdened smile.
Toward this pill, which was enough to let someone cross the shackles that no one had been able to cross in these ten thousand years, Xiao Yan showed not the slightest greed. He placed it in Yao Wan's palm.
"This pill..."
Looking at the pill in her palm that now seemed to have fallen into silence, Yao Wan, rarely, began to hesitate a little.
For the sake of this Emperor Pill, she had spent no small amount of effort and thought. Every move she had made this time, though mostly subconscious, had indeed