Outside the competition's core area, Ling He and Ling Haonan watched from afar. If they wished, they could naturally have watched from the innermost area, but their presence here served an ulterior purpose, so they could not let the Pill Tower discover them. Fortunately, with their Dou Sheng-level strength, a distance of several thousand zhang posed no problem.
Seeing that Ling Zhuo had not impulsively challenged Xiao Yan to a battle of flames and had instead swiftly settled into the rhythm of pill refinement, Ling Haonan felt somewhat gratified. "Knowing he is outmatched, he does not stubbornly fight over a momentary victory or defeat. It seems this trip to the Pill Realm was not without gains..."
Ling He also secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Earlier, she had only seen Ling Yu beside Ling Zhuo and had been quite worried that Ling Luo was nowhere to be found. Ling Luo and Ling Yu both belonged to the Spirit Guards, and both were eighth-tier alchemists. Their status was far more important than that of ordinary Spirit Clan members. If they had truly died in the Pill Realm, someone would have had to answer for it. The Spirit Guards had always obeyed only the orders of Supreme Elder Ling Haonan. As long as he did not pursue the matter, everything would be fine.
Yet Ling Haonan's attention was clearly elsewhere. Watching the contestants throughout the arena, he murmured in a voice only he could hear, "I hope it is not too late..."
At the Pill Convention, as time passed, all the contestants gradually entered the state of pill refinement.
Xiao Yan had ultimately decided to refine a pill of his own creation. There were two reasons behind this decision.
First, the origin of this pill formula lay in the blood transfusion