"What do you mean?" Lu Feng froze for a moment, then suddenly thought of something and cried out in alarm, "Sun Liuliu?"
Zhu Yizhong nodded with a measure of grievance. "On my way back to the temple after leaving the Sword Ruins that day, I was ambushed by her. Not only was I abducted here by her subordinates, she even joined forces with an alchemist here and repeatedly forced me to help them refine some kind of Evil Elixir."
A sharp glint flashed through Lu Feng's eyes. He recalled Sun Liuliu mentioning that all the Southern God Fire in her possession had been depleted. She must have failed in her attempts to control it, finding it impossible to refine pills with precision and unable to withstand the Southern God Fire's tyrannical nature, causing it to be ruined entirely. That was why she had set her sights on Zhu Yizhong.
The Fire Essence Qi contained within a Five Elements Pure Fire Body might not match the Southern God Fire in quality, but it was indeed far stronger than that of ordinary people.
Zhu Yizhong gave a bitter laugh. "I deliberately played dumb and pretended I couldn't control the amount of Fire Essence Qi properly, ruining quite a lot of their medicinal ingredients. Yet that alchemist wasn't angry over the wasted materials at all. Instead, she called me useless, as though my Fire Essence Qi had disappointed her and failed to meet her standards."
"Then they locked me up for a long time. Just when I thought they had forgotten all about me, they suddenly brought in an array master and set up some eerie, sinister formation. It could actually extract the Fire Essence Qi from my body, channeling it through the formation into palm-sized pill furnaces. Each furnace held an Evil