"Those Wang and Hu families too—they forced the East into rebellion for their own selfish desires, causing the entire Heavenly Court to suffer such grievous losses. They deserve to die, they deserve to die!"
Fang Shiji muttered on and on, until at last his eyes grew bleary and he slumped over the table, unconscious.
Lou Yikong and Fu Lianyue exchanged rueful smiles. Fang Shiji had dragged them over to question them about the specific circumstances inside Sea Soul Palace.
Fang Shiji was close friends with Kuang Ziyou, and he had a very good relationship with Lu Xiaotian as well.
As a fourth-grade Alchemy Saint, he held a position of no small standing, even higher than theirs. But when it came to knowing what was happening on the front lines, he was nowhere near as quick as Lou Yikong and Fu Lianyue.
What they had learned was far more detailed than the reports circulating outside. That included how Lu Xiaotian had faced off alone against three fourth-grade Alchemy Saints—Han Shiqi, Wu Daoxin, and Luo Yuanliang—and defeated all three by himself. He had gathered the power of their pills into a manifested divine ability and slain them on the spot.
Lu Xiaotian and Kuang Ziyou had both reached the astonishing level of fifth-grade Alchemy Saints, after which they engaged in a fierce alchemy duel.
They had each succeeded in refining a fifth-grade immortal pill, one after the other. The duel had been every bit as fierce and perilous as a battle between Daluo Golden Immortals.
Kuang Ziyou had even inherited the Pill Soul Tower's legacy and refused to return to the Yu Xuan Heavenly Court.
After that, Lu Xiaotian had fought his way onward, clashing with the many Golden Immortals, the many soul corpses, and the tower's alchemy spirits controlled by the