Inside the Barrier
Ao Zhan wore a look of utter disappointment. But alchemy was not combat; it was not something he could accomplish simply because he wanted to, nor could force solve the problem.
In truth, Lu Xiaotian had not been deceiving Ao Zhan. The pill formula was indeed extraordinarily profound. When he had just returned to Nine Central City, he had less than a one-in-ten chance of success. Even now, the odds of successfully refining the pill himself were not high. It was no easy matter for Ao Zhan to obtain the immortal materials, but if he wanted to find someone of sufficient caliber to refine the pill, he seemed to have very few good choices. After all, a fourth-grade Pill Sage was either an existence like Daoist Yihua, who was himself a Golden Immortal, or someone under the tight protection of one of the great celestial courts or another major power.
Without someone they could relatively trust, the Rahu avatar behind Ao Zhan and the Qinling Emperor, who most likely existed as well, would not easily hand these immortal materials over to someone else. As far as the Rahu avatar was concerned, Lu Xiaotian still had some roots left in the Spirit World, though most of them had already left it. The Rahu avatar was not certain whether he could still fully use that to threaten Lu Xiaotian. Toward Lu Xiaotian as he was now, the Rahu avatar and the Qinling Emperor still harbored some apprehension.
On the other hand, Lu Xiaotian did not quite understand what the Qinling Emperor and the Rahu avatar were plotting. The fighting in the Luoyang Prison had now been brought under control, and the demon army had been forced to retreat into the Luoyang Prison again several centuries ago. After accumulating for