And that pill had come from Chen Changqing.
A junior at the middle True Lord stage had unhesitatingly offered up an opportunity great enough to drive all of Shushan mad.
Such character, such boldness, gratified the Tianyuan Patriarch even more than his own breakthrough to the ninth Tribulation Immortal stage.
He fell silent for a moment, seemingly savoring the new power within him.
Then he turned and issued his first command since reaching the ninth Tribulation Immortal stage to Daoist Qingyuan and Daoist Wuzhen.
The command consisted of a single sentence, yet it sent another violent shock through the master and disciple.
"Go and bring Chen Changqing here."
Meanwhile, throughout the world of the Nine Provinces.
Inside an Immortal Palace suspended among the clouds, an elderly monk who had sat cross-legged for a thousand years suddenly opened his eyes.
The prayer beads before him burst with a crack, scattering across the floor.
"A ninth-rank Tribulation Immortal!"
The old monk's voice was full of shock, and even his gesture of pressing his palms together went slightly awry.
"Another ninth-rank Tribulation Immortal has actually emerged in this world!"
A ninth-rank Tribulation Immortal stood at the very limit of this world.
Beyond that, there was only the path of ascension.
Across the entire Nine Provinces, no more than three ninth-rank Tribulation Immortals were publicly known. Each was an ancient monster who had lived for untold tens of thousands of years, a being truly capable of holding an entire era beneath their might.
Now, a fourth had appeared!
On the Northern Frontier Icefield, inside a Frost Palace whose ice had remained frozen for ten thousand years.
A figure shrouded in freezing air suddenly rose, and dozens of cracks instantly split the palace's ice.
"Who?"
Her voice was bone-chillingly cold, yet it could not