Preparations!

[The Peerless War King's voice was so hoarse it was almost impossible to hear.]

["Truly," you said.]

["It was left behind by the Alchemy Emperor of the Guiyuan Immortal Domain, prepared specifically for people like you."]

[The Peerless War King finally reached out and picked up that pill.]

[Dark-red light flowed across his rough palm, as if he were holding a ball of fire in his hand.]

[He did not hesitate, directly putting the pill into his mouth.]

[The instant the pill entered his stomach, his back suddenly arched, as if something had slammed into him hard.]

[His hands braced against his knees, veins bulging on his forehead, sweat streaming down his face like rain.]

[The medicinal power of the Great Emperor Breakthrough Pill was even more tyrannical than he had imagined.]

["Senior Wushuang!" Situ Hao Yue stepped forward, but you reached out and stopped him.]

["Let him endure it himself," you said.]

["This is his path."]

[The Peerless War King lifted his head and glanced at you.]

[In those amber eyes, there was pain, there was struggle, but even more than that—unyielding defiance.]

[He straightened his back, turned, and walked toward the mountain wall beside the waterfall.]

[He sat down cross-legged, clenched both fists, and closed his eyes.]

[You could sense the changes inside his body.]

[The medicinal power of the pill turned into a scorching torrent, rampaging wildly through his meridians.]

[Like a mad beast, it tore and bit at every inch of the old wounds that had once been corroded by the Source of the Weird.]

[Those wounds had already healed, but the places where they had healed had left scars behind.]

[The pill's medicinal power was tearing those scars apart, letting his meridians grow anew, become tough, broad, and unobstructed once more.]

[That process was agony