" With a senior personally overseeing things, there shouldn't be any major problems," Lu Xiaotian said.
"You're an alchemist yourself, so you know how uncertain the success rate can be. Treating Vice City Lord Xue was originally a sure thing, but now things are different." Yihua Daoist shook his head.
"Has something happened?" Lu Xiaotian asked in surprise. Compared with the last time he had met Yihua Daoist, the other man seemed much less confident.
"We underestimated those demons in Luoyang Prison. The Corrosive Slaughter Heart Demon actually broke through the city lord's blockade and used some tricks. Although I drove it back, it injured quite a few Alchemy Saints. And the nine altars you see now—two of them have already been damaged. That's lowered the odds of success considerably."
Yihua Daoist continued, "We could rebuild the altars and gather more Alchemy Saints to work together, but there isn't enough time. Vice City Lord Xue can't wait that long."
"The Corrosive Slaughter Heart Demon actually broke through the Luoyang Prison immortal army's defenses and made it into the core of the immortal city to attack?" Lu Xiaotian was deeply shocked. If that was true, then he wasn't very safe here, either.
"The Corrosive Slaughter Heart Demon excels at controlling people's minds. Ordinary Profound Immortals can't resist its tricks. It used this method to slip in, and I was too careless. I fell for its scheme. I thought it was coming after Vice City Lord Xue, but it was using a feint to strike elsewhere, destroying the foundation of the Nine Extremes Alchemy Dao that I'd laid for the Golden Vault Nine Extremes Essence-Transforming Pill," Yihua Daoist admitted.
"Is there no other way?" Lu Xiaotian asked.
"For now, there's no better option." Yihua Daoist shook his head. "An arrow loosed cannot