Thinking of the drastic decline in Dou Qi across the Dou Qi Continent during ancient times, Lin Feng immediately frowned and continued reading with a head full of questions.
"Ever since those Dou Emperor experts and the envoys from the upper realm disappeared, none of them ever returned. I desperately wanted to know what had happened, so I asked those newly ascended Dou Emperors to see whether they could find a way to send me word after ascending and tell me what was going on in the upper realm. I also wanted to break through to the Dou Emperor realm as soon as possible and go see for myself what had happened."
"My plans to improve my strength were interrupted when another friend invited me to help him attempt to refine an Emperor Pill for a breakthrough. Considering that he was both an Alchemist and a Half-Emperor, I agreed. He promised that after ascending, he would find a way to send word and tell me exactly what had happened in the upper realm. He would also give me a copy of the Pill Recipe, along with the Medicinal Herbs for two batches of the pill."
"After two attempts, we finally succeeded. However, the concentration of Dou Qi in this world has declined far too severely. To refine this pill, we worked together and nearly drained a quarter of the Southern Continent's Dou Qi before barely gathering the energy needed to refine it. At this rate, will refining Emperor-grade Pills on the Dou Qi Continent in the future require forcibly extracting energy from living beings?"
"After all, even an Emperor Soul Realm can only mobilize a limited amount of the world's energy. It cannot draw endlessly upon the energy of heaven and earth."
"My friend also broke through to the Dou