Scorpion Fiend, Nine-Ren Mountain, Jin Cangyue, and the others all sucked in a cold breath. Corpse Lord Ying Gou was a powerful figure on the same level as an Immortal Lord.
With such an old monster appearing at Sea Soul Palace, how could they have the slightest chance of surviving?
"Your nerve is impressive. You actually kept my Unbridled Heavenly Corpse Pill from me for so long. Do you know you've truly angered me?"
Ying Gou studied Lu Xiaotian with keen interest. He hadn't spent long in contact with Lu Xiaotian.
Yet he had witnessed Lu Xiaotian perfect the profound mysteries of the Five Elements Laws and advance to become a fifth-grade alchemy saint inside the Pill Soul Pagoda. Millions of immortal troops had nearly been wiped out because of him.
"I was going to kill you just now to vent my anger. But talent is hard to come by, and now that you've become a fifth-grade alchemy saint, you may still be of some use to me in the future. If you're willing to serve me and let my corpse qi scour your body, I might just spare your life."
"Letting corpse qi scour my body would make me no different from a puppet." Lu Xiaotian shook his head.
"So you're looking to die?" Ying Gou's expression turned icy.
"Corpse Lord needs me to refine corpse pills this time. Perhaps I'll be of use to him again in the future. Fifth-grade alchemy saints aren't easy to find."
Lu Xiaotian didn't retreat in the slightest in the face of Ying Gou's threat. The corpse qi around Ying Gou, like the old poison fiend's poisonous aura, filled him with a heart-pounding sense of danger and seemed impossible to resist.
But Ying Gou's terms were simply too much for Lu Xiaotian to