"What else could I be doing? Naturally, I'm taking over the Pill Formation. In the end, you're merely an outsider who refuses to follow orders. How could we entrust the life of Consort Qingli to the hands of an outsider like you?"
With the other Pill Saints' cooperation, Devil Lord Huangye took over the Pill Formation with incredible speed. Some of the poison gas had already begun spreading along the formation's channels.
Lu Xiaotian was caught in the middle of it, and it wouldn't be easy for him to extricate himself completely.
"I see now. Refining pills to expel the poison from Consort Qingli was just a pretext. She's been poisoned too deeply. Even if we refine the pills, they'll probably only be able to wake her, not purge all the poison from her body. It'll be impossible for her to return to the way she was before.
"Rather than directly detoxifying her, your true goal is to transfer the poison into us Pill Saints with the Nine-Nine Heart-Connecting Spirit-Transference Pill, isn't it?"
Lu Xiaotian gave a cold laugh. "Every Pill Saint here will become the price of Consort Qingli's full recovery. And I certainly won't be the only one poisoned to death afterward."
At Lu Xiaotian's words, the other Pill Saints immediately grew restless, and the entire Pill Formation began to ripple.
"Don't you dare sow discord!" Devil Lord Huangye cried, startled and furious.
He had thought he'd acted with the utmost care. No one but him knew about this. He hadn't expected Lu Xiaotian to expose the whole scheme with a single remark.
Though these Pill Saints had all been trained, directly or indirectly, by him, how could any of them remain calm when their own lives were at stake?
"Don't listen to that junior from the East