Although this was not Xuan Kongzi's first time seeing Tang Chen withstand Pill Lightning head-on, the last time had been eight-colored, while this time it was nine-colored. The difficulty was simply on an entirely different level.
He forcibly suppressed the shock in his eyes and said, "This kid... he truly is terrifying!"
Xuan Yi did not speak. She merely watched the figure bathed in lightning, her gaze complicated.
High in the sky, Tang Chen had already absorbed all the lightning into his body.
With his cultivation technique operating at full force, the lightning was refined bit by bit into pure Dou Qi, surging through his limbs and meridians. A moment later, it finally settled completely.
He slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air and lowered his head to look at his clenched fist, satisfaction flashing through his eyes.
By refining this pill, not only had he made a breakthrough in alchemy, but through the tempering of the nine-colored Pill Lightning, his strength had advanced once more.
He could sense that the Dou Qi within him had filled up again and could no longer increase.
At this, Tang Chen immediately revealed a delighted expression. Once he completely refined and compressed the residual energy within him, he was fully confident that he could attempt a breakthrough to a Second-Turn Dou Venerable.
Movement suddenly came from the medicinal cauldron beneath him. Immediately afterward, a streak of light shot into the sky, transforming into a palm-sized little snake that wagged its head and tail as it tried to flee through the air.
Tang Chen had long been prepared for this. His Heavenly Realm soul force descended overwhelmingly, firmly imprisoning the little snake in midair. After struggling a few times, it rapidly shrank and finally turned into a crystal-clear pill, which Tang Chen grabbed in