Boom-
Whoosh-
A tremendous roar rang out, and a pillar of energy containing an unknown, terrifying amount of Dou Qi pierced straight through the roof of Xiao Yan's alchemy chamber.
The attacker who had unleashed the energy pillar then turned into a black-robed figure and fled toward the outskirts of the Origin Return Manor.
The crisp sound, meanwhile, came from Xiao Yan's Dou Qi. The seemingly feeble strand of Dou Qi shot out at tremendous speed and soon caught up with the fleeing pill. Without slowing down, the pill spoke in Xiao Yan's direction. "Since you refined me, you could be considered my father. Why must you press me so relentlessly?"
"My fatherhood? Do you know that I refined you to eat you in the first place?"
The moment Xiao Yan finished speaking, the Dou Qi swiftly took shape, turning into an enormous hand that seized the pill in a crushing grip. The hand then rapidly drew back toward Xiao Yan. However powerful the pill might have been, against an eight-star Dou Saint like Xiao Yan, it had absolutely no chance of struggling free.
The instant the pill reached Xiao Yan's hand, the sky over the Origin Return Manor went dark.
It was utter, complete darkness. Countless black clouds piled upon one another, covering the sky above the Origin Return Manor without leaving a single gap. Bolts of lightning that had almost become solid constantly writhed through the clouds, each at least dozens of feet long. This was no ordinary lightning, but Black Demon Lightning that could truly blast a Dou Saint expert to death!
Faced with such might, even a six-star Dou Saint might not dare take it head-on and could only find ways to maneuver around it. After all, like flames, lightning was the utmost embodiment of yang