"He does have the strength. With so many of us here, none of us could take him down alone. And Lu Xiaotian was right about one thing: he's not like us. His foundations are all in the Chaotic Demon Realm."
Profound Venerable shook his head. "Besides, we've been entrenched in the Chaotic Demon Realm for so many years. We've relied on the fact that ordinary forces from the outside can't easily enter the Demon Realm, and each of us has done plenty to antagonize other forces beyond the realm. As a fourth-rank Alchemy King, Lu Xiaotian doesn't have that problem. If he really left the Chaotic Demon Realm, it wouldn't affect him."
"So we're just going to let him do whatever he pleases?" the Ice-Crowned Crocodile Demon said, unwilling to accept it.
"As the Demon Realm's foremost Alchemy King, Lu Xiaotian is still quite useful. Let's first see what he does over in the Scarlet Moon Desert. If he really stops refining pills and it doesn't affect the Demon Realm much, we can discuss it again."
Though Lord Ji Yuan wore a smile, a bone-chilling menace lurked behind it.
"Fine. We'll talk about it then." The old monsters nodded one after another.
"People are never satisfied. They'd swallow an elephant if they could. These old monsters really think a newcomer like me is easy to push around."
After leaving Profound Moon City, Lu Xiaotian gave a cold snort. Then he stroked his chin, deep in thought. By rights, as a fourth-rank Alchemy King, he shouldn't have been singled out like this. It seemed someone had instigated that meeting of the old monsters.
"This really is complicated." Lu Xiaotian shook his head. He might have seemed overbearing in front of those old monsters, but that was simply because his strength had