"The ambient energy has run out. The pill refining has failed."
Elder Yao and the many Yao Clan elders could not help but laugh bitterly.
The Pill Prototypes within Wei Yang and the other four's cauldrons were only halfway complete, yet all the energy in this region had now been drained. There was no longer enough energy to support them in continuing their pill refinement.
Within a radius of ten thousand miles around Medicine Mountain, the land had become a region utterly devoid of spiritual energy.
Of course, energy still remained elsewhere in the Yao Realm beyond that ten-thousand-mile radius. It had merely become rather thin and had not been completely drained.
However, Heaven Realm Great Perfection souls could at most allow them to manipulate the ambient energy within a range of ten thousand miles.
As for the energy elsewhere, it would take time to flow over and fill this energyless void. It could not happen instantly. After all, the five of them had drained the region dry earlier, extracting far too much.
At such a critical juncture of pill refinement, they clearly did not have that kind of time.
Of course, it would be different if someone possessed the legendary Emperor Realm Soul.
At that level, anywhere their Soul Perception could reach, they could freely manipulate the ambient energy for their own use.
It was said that in ancient times, there had once been a grandmaster alchemist who had reached the Emperor Realm Soul and, with a single thought, controlled the ambient energy across nearly half of the Central Plains.
Just thinking about such a level was enough to make one tremble.
In the eyes of such beings, wherever their gaze could reach, they would never need fear running out of energy.
But clearly, such a thing would not