In the end, Xuan Kongzi exchanged two pills with Nine-Colored Pill Lightning and one pill with Eight-colored Pill Lightning for the prescription. Even someone as wealthy as Xuan Kongzi could not hide the pained expression on his face during the transaction.
Although he could refine pills with Nine-Colored Pill Lightning, his success rate for such pills was extremely low. Moreover, the medicinal ingredients required were exceptionally difficult to gather. Sometimes, even one or two years would not be enough to collect a complete set of ingredients for a single pill. Thus, after trading two pills with Nine-Colored Pill Lightning for the twenty-thousand-year Ice Lotus Seed, Xuan Kongzi had only one such pill left in his Ring. The other one used to exchange for the prescription had been borrowed from Tian Lei Zi.
Once the exchange was complete, Gu He and the others had no desire to remain in Space Town. They immediately rose, left the space, and flew back in the direction they had come from.
Unlike on their journey here, they were in no hurry on the way back. Gu He did not distort space to increase their speed, and the four flew toward the Pill Region at a normal pace. Of course, the weakest among them was still a Seven-Revolving Dou Zun, so they moved at astonishing speed. Ordinary people would not even be able to glimpse their flight paths.
Suddenly, Gu He stopped. Xuan Kongzi and the other two were somewhat puzzled, but they knew Gu He was not one to act without cause. If he had stopped, something they did not know about must have happened. Thus, the three stopped behind him as well.
"Gu He, what is it?" Xuan Kongzi was the most familiar with Gu He, so he took the initiative to ask.
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