Compared with Fu Lianyue and Lou Yikong, who had relatively uncomplicated feelings and did not need to consider too many conflicting loyalties, Nie Tianhou, Shentu Zhanfeng, Bai Ruxue, and several other old acquaintances who had once been on good terms with Lu Xiaotian felt rather conflicted. On one hand, they did not want to see Lu Xiaotian die in the pill contest. On the other, they did not want to see the Honghao Celestial Court's alchemy saints suffer heavy casualties. After all, although they had ties with both sides, they had grown up within the Honghao Celestial Court's system and gradually risen to where they were today. Naturally, they felt an extraordinary attachment to the Honghao Celestial Court.
But events would not turn according to any one person's wishes, especially when it came to outsiders who could not interfere in the pill contest.
At that moment, the pill essence between Lu Xiaotian and Yin Hu clashed in a ceaseless barrage of deafening booms. The tremendous tremors were enough to make even celestial immortals turn pale. Once the resentful spirits merged into the pill essence, its destructive power had risen to a level beyond the reach of ordinary celestial immortals.
Dragon-shaped shadows darted back and forth within each side's pill essence. They surged at their opponents, turning the area centered around the alchemy saints of the four celestial courts into a domain where dragons ran wild.
As he controlled his pill essence and traded attacks and defenses with Yin Hu, Lu Xiaotian appeared utterly calm. Yet he felt a measure of strangeness within. The resentful spirits, formed from the fusion of residual dragon souls and their grudges, were indeed an exceptionally unusual existence, but they still retained many of the characteristics of dragon souls.
Among the more than a hundred alchemy