Lin Chi said, "This is tricky. You don't have the Heavenly Heart Pill, yet you claim mine was poisoned. Wouldn't that ruin my reputation? You supplied the main ingredient for this Heavenly Heart Pill and inspected it when you took it away. Now you've advanced to the Body Forging Late Stage, but without a shred of evidence, you insist my pill was poisoned."
At that, Yan Chihuo glanced at Lin Chi. The man's face was as cold as if veiled in frost, yet he showed no sign of agitation. A thought stirred in Yan Chihuo's mind. There's something wrong with this pill. Lin Chi probably knew about it all along. Otherwise, how could he be so calm?
Yang Chenglin cut in. "The main ingredient for this Heavenly Heart Pill was provided by Yan Chihuo?"
"That's right," Lin Chi said. "I only provided some supplementary ingredients. If the Heavenly Heart Pill had been adulterated with poison, how could no one have noticed?"
Everyone present nodded to themselves, finding his words reasonable. They knew that alchemists had other methods of concealing poison in pills, making it impossible to detect, but such techniques were uncommon. The alchemists of the Cloud Soaring Sect were only Body Tempering Stage disciples; they likely had no access to such methods.
Tian Lingzi asked, "Chihuo, what was your main ingredient?" In the cultivation world, some spirit pills had been revised so many times that they had more than one main ingredient. The Heavenly Heart Pill happened to be one of them.
"It was the Snake Pearl of a mutated Red-Scaled Poison Python at the Body Forging Late Stage," Yan Chihuo replied.
Yang Chenglin asked, "What kind of Red-Scaled Poison Python was it? How did you get it?"
"I encountered it a few days ago while digging for Jade