Beast Power Pill

Pills—those two words could be said to run through the entire content of Battle Through the Heavens even more than Heavenly Flames.

Zhu Jin stared at the tiny purplish-red "pellet," utterly insignificant compared to his own body, his eyes full of envy. Though he had been born on Dragon Island, the Dragon Island of today was no longer what it used to be. The medicinal herbs allotted to them were scarce, let alone pills.

Zhu Jin had once wondered what taking a pill actually felt like. Or perhaps every reader of Battle Through the Heavens had wondered what they tasted like.

Xie Yun looked at the pill in his hand, his heart aching as well. This pill was expensive, obtained only after he had paid an enormous price. It was a trump card, a secret weapon he had intended to use after the final encirclement succeeded, when the others had lowered their guard, to wipe out his other "allies" in one fell swoop.

But he had no choice now. If he did not use it, he would die here.

The pill went down his throat, and a strange red hue instantly surged over Xie Yun's body. A low roar escaped his throat as the purple battle qi rising from his body suddenly erupted out of control. Within the deep-purple battle qi, faint traces of dark red seemed to be mixed in.

The next second, Xie Yun's speed doubled. He dashed before Zhu Jin in an instant, his enormous pincer smashing heavily toward him. With a thunderous boom, Zhu Jin answered with a punch of his own. Xie Yun then unleashed an overwhelmingly powerful force, and Zhu Jin was caught off guard by the rebounding impact, stumbling back a step. Yet just as he steadied himself, a massive black shadow flashed past him. The huge python tail behind Xie Yun lashed heavily against Zhu Jin's body.

Bang!

A dull sound rang out as the Battle Qi Dragon Armor around him shattered instantly. Intense pain surged through him. After taking the pill, Xie Yun's strength had soared so much that he had directly blasted Zhu Jin's massive body back more than ten meters.

"I had originally saved this fifth-tier pill to send those three old Heavenly Fox Spider bastards on their way. Using it to kill you now isn't much of a loss!" Seeing that he had suppressed Zhu Jin, Xie Yun spoke smugly. At this point, he had nothing left to hide. All he wanted was to beat the little dragon before him to death, then tear out his tendons, flay him, drink his blood, and eat his flesh. If he could eat dragon meat, it would benefit him too. It was not much of a loss.

"Fifth-tier?" Yet upon hearing Xie Yun's words, Zhu Jin tilted his dragon head slightly. He might never have eaten pills before, but that did not mean he had never seen them.

Zhu Jin swept Xie Yun with his Dragon Sense and easily discovered that the wounds on Xie Yun's body had not healed. Instead, they had worsened due to the pill's strengthening effect. This proved that it was not a healing pill. It had to be a pill that temporarily enhanced strength, but the enhancement was there—and not much of it.

Based on Zhu Jin's experience of rereading Battle Through the Heavens dozens of times, this pill could not possibly be fifth-tier.

"That's right. What I used was precisely a fifth-tier pill, the Dragon Power Pill." Xie Yun revealed a smug expression. "I obtained this Dragon Power Pill from the Nine Nether Deep Earth Python Clan. Prepare to die!"

Hearing this, Zhu Jin could not help but gape. If it had been any other pill, he was not an alchemist, so naturally he would not have recognized it. But this just had to be the Dragon Power Pill!

Zhu Jin looked at the overjoyed Xie Yun, a trace of pity appearing in his eyes. He shook his head helplessly and said, "What you took was not a fifth-tier Dragon Power Pill. Judging from its color and power, it should be a fourth-tier pill that had only barely reached the fourth tier—the Beast Power Pill."

Selling a fourth-tier pill as a fifth-tier one... tsk, tsk, tsk. Was that even human? No, the Nine Nether Deep Earth Python Clan was not human to begin with.

Upon hearing Zhu Jin say this, the expression on Xie Yun's face, which had been full of confidence in victory, instantly froze. His face darkened as he said, "Impossible. It was sold to me by an expert of my clan. It is a genuine fifth-tier Dragon Power Pill!"

Seeing Xie Yun's disbelieving expression, Zhu Jin crossed his arms over his chest and recited fluently, "The fifth-tier Dragon Power Pill allows the user to possess extremely formidable strength for a short period. This strength has nothing to do with battle qi amplification; it is an exceptionally pure form of physical strength. Moreover, the Dragon Power Pill is somewhat more difficult to refine than ordinary fifth-tier pills."

"And fifth-tier pills are pills used by Dou Wang-level experts. If a low-level Dou Wang takes a Dragon Power Pill, they can contend with a mid-level Dou Wang. If someone at the Dou Ling level uses one, they can basically become invincible beneath the Dou Wang level. Most importantly, Dragon Power Pills are dark red in color. What you just took was not dark red, but purplish-red. Though the two colors are not far apart, whether in terms of the strength it boosts or its appearance, what you used could not possibly have been a Dragon Power Pill."

Boom!!! Zhu Jin's words struck Xie Yun's head like a bolt from the blue. Whether Zhu Jin was telling the truth or not, Xie Yun himself had actually noticed something. If it truly had been a fifth-tier pill, then with his own cultivation of an eight-star Dou Ling, even if one punch could not kill Zhu Jin, a three-star Dou Ling, it should at least have seriously wounded him.

The power of a fifth-tier pill could not possibly be this little!

Xie Yun's reddened eyes resembled those of a gambler who had lost everything. He roared, "Impossible! This is absolutely impossible! The clan patriarch could not have deceived me. I traded my life and everything I had for this. It cannot be a fourth-tier Beast Power Pill!"

No~~

Pfft, pfft, pfft. Xie Yun threw back his head and howled, then spat out a great deal of blood. He had actually been angered to death on the spot!

Xie Yun had already been heavily wounded. Coupled with the violent medicinal effects of the Beast Power Pill and his rage attacking his heart, the beast veins within his body collapsed, and he died miserably on the spot.

"Sigh, how could a magical beast clan possibly speak to you of family affection? Even on East Dragon Island, even with Zi Yan, those elders had always regarded her only as a Dragon Emperor with the pure bloodline of an Ancient Void Dragon, a tool capable of unifying all the Dragon Islands." Zhu Jin slowly walked up to Xie Yun's corpse, feeling a sorrow akin to seeing a rabbit die and grieving for a fox.

After all, although Zhu Jin's bloodline was somewhat stronger than that of the dragon beasts from vassal clans—he was a mixed-blood Ancient Void Dragon—he was only a low-grade mixed-blood. The real reason mixed-bloods existed was that too many Ancient Void Dragons had died in the civil war between the four Dragon Islands, creating an urgent need for troops and soldiers.

To put it plainly, they were born as cannon fodder to be sent to the front lines to fight. Mixed-bloods were somewhat stronger than members of vassal clans, were not difficult to reproduce, grew quickly, and could be supplied endlessly.

But sorrow was sorrow. With a sweep of his hand, Zhu Jin stored away the corpse of the Purple Cloud Scorpion Snake that had been angered to death. He muttered to himself, "I wonder if I stew it, whether the pill's power that it swallowed can be refined back out."

After dealing with the corpse, Zhu Jin looked around. The surviving scorpion snake warriors of the entire Purple Cloud Scorpion Snake Tribe all picked up their weapons. Their instinct to survive made them instinctively want to resist.

"Everyone, stop!" At that moment, a rebuke rang out. Deputy Chief Xie Dong raised both hands and looked at his fellow tribesmen around him. "Put down your weapons. Do not make pointless resistance. It will only lead to our clan's extinction. Being able to serve the Ancient Dragons is our honor!"

Zhu Jin narrowed his eyes slightly. He heard a deeper meaning in those words and transmitted through Dragon Sense, "You know who I am?"