As soon as Gu Yuan, Lei Ying, and the others returned to the Central Plains, they hurried back to their clans.
Lei Ying and Yan Jin returned to enter seclusion, hoping to use this half-year to one-year period to attempt a breakthrough into the Nine-Star Dou Sheng Realm.
If Xiao Yan could truly open the Source Qi Channel after becoming an emperor, they could also further shorten the time needed to charge into the Emperor Realm.
As for Yao Dan, the Emperor Realm was unrealistic for someone like him, a Late-Stage Seven-Star Dou Sheng, in the short term. Thus, he simply went back and cheerfully waited for the result.
Gu Yuan was waiting for Xiao Yan to emerge after succeeding. However, after returning, he had planned to fully ripen that Emperor Grade Embryonic Pill, even if it meant exhausting all the Ancient Clan's resources.
Yet just as Gu Yuan was about to act, Xun'er persuaded him otherwise.
Her reason was:
After Brother Xiao Yan entered the Emperor Realm a year later, his alchemy would surely advance into the Emperor Grade as well. At that time, as an Emperor-Grade Alchemist, refining an Emperor Grade pill would be no more than a simple gesture for Xiao Yan, much less ripening an Emperor Grade Embryonic Pill.
Therefore, Father, you should not waste the resources of our entire Ancient Clan.
Gu Yuan thought it over and agreed, abandoning the idea.
In truth, ripening the Emperor Grade Embryonic Pill had always been a trap.
In the original story, what had Hun Tiandi done to fully ripen this Emperor Grade Embryonic Pill? He activated the Soul Devouring Absolute Life Formation across the entire Central Plains, killing more than half of the Central Plains' population—who knew how many billions—and extracting energy from their blood to catalyze the