Blacklisted by the Hall Master

Saint Pill City, outskirts.

Two figures clad in black robes were hiding in a drainage outlet beneath the city, their faces filled with tension.

"F-Fourth Brother, are we still fighting this battle?"

One of them stammered.

At this, the man covered in grimy groundwater wiped his face and snapped, "Shut up! We'll decide after the Hall Master replies!"

Without a doubt, these two hidden figures were the long-vanished Four-Eight Heavenly Venerable.

Since neither of them was an Alchemist, even though the Four-Eight Heavenly Venerable had established connections within Danta, they still found it difficult to infiltrate the Pill Gathering itself. Thus, they could only send Old Man Mu Gu ahead as their vanguard while they waited outside for an opportunity.

That wait lasted an entire month.

As Heavenly Venerables, a month of waiting was naturally nothing. What truly left the Four-Eight Heavenly Venerable trembling in fear were the strange phenomena constantly rising into the sky, as well as the terrifying lightning tribulation at the end that could have destroyed Saint Pill City.

They had not only never witnessed such boundlessly terrifying fluctuations before—they had barely even heard of them!

Thus, upon realizing that the Pill Gathering had ended, the Four-Eight Heavenly Venerable immediately activated their Heavenly Venerate Token, attempting to ask Old Man Mu Gu what had happened.

Yet the result filled them with even greater shock and fury.

Old Man Mu Gu was gone!

Not only had he stopped responding, even the mark attached to the Heavenly Venerate Token had completely vanished.

Under such circumstances, there was only one possibility: he had died completely.

"Fourth Brother, even if we aren't retreating, we should at least go out and gather some information. If we keep living in this drainage outlet, we'll be worse off than stray dogs by the roadside!"