Shen's merit blessed him, the Heavenly Dao favored him, and you vile beasts

You were fated to die!

"What exactly happened?"

Dragon-Subduing and Tiger-Taming Great Wisdom King arrived alone, bearing that enormous jeweled palanquin as though announcing the outcome of today's affair.

After all, at most one incense stick's time remained before they could cross the Northflow River. Unless a third-rank powerhouse intervened and killed him, even if those eight prodigies from before caught up, they would never be able to stop that great palanquin over such a short distance.

Yet who could have imagined that a Grand Emperor of Void Alchemy would emerge at the very end and forcibly drag the scripture-transmitting palanquin into the realm of the void!

"You all..."

Hong Jing suddenly turned and looked toward the people of Void Mountain.

Golden Thunder Daoist frowned. "We did not know beforehand that the Alchemy Emperor would take action."

What had appeared in the heavens earlier had indeed been a method of Void Mountain, but the aura of tribulation power it gave off was so astonishing that it was difficult to connect it with the young man who had once quietly refined pills atop the Eight Peaks.

But at a time like this, even if it was not him, it had to be him!

The Bodhi Sect had transmitted its scripture, and Void Mountain had ultimately intervened to intercept it. This matter alone was enough to establish Void Mountain's position as the foremost among the second-generation disciples of the Three Immortals Sect.

The other Void Mountain peak masters also exchanged bewildered looks.

Though they could not quite understand it, among the Eight Peaks, who besides Shen Yi—whom their master had personally bestowed with the name Heavenly Pill—could bear the title of Alchemy Emperor?

"We shall take our leave first. Farewell, everyone."

Golden Thunder had no intention of explaining further. Their master had