Pill Heaven Immortal Sect.
Amid clouds of seething pill energy, an old farmer in a gray-brown jacket stared at the horsewhip in his hand. Lost in thought, he stood like a statue.
No one knew how long passed.
The cloudlike pill energy around him began to surge, forming dragons and tigers that truly roared. Multicolored light filled the sky, and shifting laws rolled in like mountains and seas, shaking heaven and earth.
Gradually, every phenomenon faded, and the pill energy vanished from the sky.
A meticulously groomed Daoist nun appeared.
She held a fly whisk in one hand and two Dragon-Tiger Limit-Breaking Unity Pills in the other. The dragons and tigers circling and roaring around her plunged into the pills, and the myriad colors became one.
"It's done."
"After 108,881 years, the Dragon-Tiger Limit-Breaking Unity Pills are finally complete."
"As agreed, this Tiger Pill goes to the Heavenly Beast Garden."
The nun flicked her whisk. The pill, imbued with Geng-metal energy and a faint white tiger's roar, streaked into the old farmer's hand.
"Sorry for the trouble, fellow Daoist Pill Heaven!"
"Thank you!"
The Heavenly Beast Supreme's eyes lit up.
He accepted the Dragon-Tiger Limit-Breaking Unity Pill with great care and examined it just as carefully. He held it beneath his nose and sniffed, even giving it a lick. He looked every inch an unsophisticated country farmer, his behavior rather coarse, without much of a cultivator's carefree, immortal air.
Pill Heaven Supreme frowned but said nothing, merely putting away the Dragon Pill.
The Heavenly Beast Supreme studied the Tiger Pill for a long time before putting it away with great care, still only half convinced.
Refining the Dragon-Tiger Limit-Breaking Unity Pills was a joint undertaking under an alliance between their two sects that had endured for generations. Each generation had