Pill Tower

"Who are you?"

Li Zheng was still waiting at the exit of the Magical Beast Mountain Range for his subordinates to return, because he desperately wanted to obtain that peerless furnace.

By his estimate, as long as he could obtain the maiden's primordial yin energy, the Prisoned Phoenix Art he cultivated would be able to break through to the third level.

He himself would then advance directly to become a Dou King! As long as he became a Dou King, he would no longer have to live while watching the expressions of that perverted younger brother of his, who spent every day doing nothing but playing with women...

Yet after waiting and waiting, the ones who finally arrived were not his subordinates, but a white-robed person of unknown identity...

Li Zheng warily watched the mysterious white-robed figure approach him step by step. He had already secretly circulated the dou qi within his body, ensuring that he could use his movement technique to flee from this unfathomable white-robed person at any moment...

"My friend, the Li Clan should bear no grudge against you. May I ask why you have attacked the Li Clan?"

Although Li Zheng was the Li Clan's young master, his status within the family was not even as high as that of his half-brother, Li Cailang!

It was because of Li Cailang's nearly terrifying talent in alchemy that his younger brother received their father's special attention.

Not only had their father handed down the incomplete Emperor Pill formula inherited from their ancestors to him, he had also assigned Shadows to follow and protect him. He had even given him his mount's inner core to use for pill refinement! As for Li Zheng, he was like an unnecessary extra. All the resources and affection belonged to Li Cailang!

And he himself had nothing!

Why did he have to suffer such unfair treatment? Just because Li Cailang was the most outstanding alchemist in the Li Clan's history? But he himself was also the martial artist with the greatest cultivation talent in the clan's history!

What did he have? Merely the future position of clan head, which even his younger brother did not want? Even if he became the Li Clan's head in the future, as long as his younger brother lived, he would forever be the unnecessary one!

Therefore, when those five people abducted his younger brother, he had tampered with things a little. He let them successfully escape into the Magical Beast Mountain Range. Otherwise, could a few wild Dou Kings who had appeared from who knew where really have abducted his younger brother under the protection of the clan's Shadow Guards?

Clearly, he had succeeded. Li Cailang had successfully been taken away by those five foolish Dou Kings. As for whether they would let his younger brother live, Li Zheng was not worried. They could never leave the Magical Beast Mountain Range alive, because they were nothing more than blades borrowed by Li Zheng...

However, a month had already passed since Li Cailang had been abducted. Yet the loyal men Li Zheng had sent out had not found even the slightest trace of those five Dou Kings or his younger brother, leaving him deeply anxious and unsettled...

It was at this time that he discovered Little Fairy Doctor, who possessed the Woeful Poison Body. Poison was inherently yin in nature. Women born with the Woeful Poison Body had their primordial yin nourished by the toxins within their bodies, making it incomparably vast and pure.

Although this acquired primordial yin was of little use to ordinary cultivators.

To Li Zheng, who cultivated the Prisoned Phoenix Art, however, this immense primordial yin was precisely what he needed.

Through zero-distance contact between man and woman, the Prisoned Phoenix Art could directly absorb a woman's primordial yin energy and convert it into a special energy that helped its practitioner raise their realm!

And if the woman serving as the furnace had cultivation that was too low, the Prisoned Phoenix Art would absorb her blood essence and life force, further purifying the converted energy...

This was precisely why Li Zheng had been unable to move on after seeing Little Fairy Doctor...

Originally, he had thought everything remained within his control.

But when this mysterious white-robed figure, like the god of death, appeared, he knew his plan could no longer be completed...

In Li Zheng's eyes, that white-robed person was like the god of death.

Constantly harvesting the lives of the guards around him...

No matter who they were,

And regardless of whether they were Dou Kings or Dou Emperors, every step the white-robed person took caused several people to be instantly frozen, then burned directly into ashes by a flame tinged with gold! It was as if they did not know how to run. They simply stood motionless where they were, watching themselves be frozen without having the slightest ability to resist.

With every step the white-robed person took, several piles of ash drifted down and scattered with the wind...

Li Zheng could only stand there blankly. It was not that he did not want to run, but that he discovered he could not move at all!

He could only stare wide-eyed in terror as that demon-like figure drew closer and closer...

Despair was perfectly reflected on his face at that moment...

"Are you the young master they spoke of?"

The white-robed person's voice had clearly been altered, making it impossible to tell their gender...

"You... you're a demon!..."

After the white-robed person spoke, Li Zheng realized that he could finally speak again.

His face was streaked with tears and snot, his features twisted by fear...

"I do not have much time to waste on nonsense with you. I only want to know how you obtained that incomplete pill formula."

As he spoke, frost began to slowly spread from beneath Li Zheng's feet toward his body...

"If I tell you, can I survive...?"

Feeling the terrifying chill beneath his feet, Li Zheng gritted his teeth and asked a question whose answer even he knew.

"I am not here to negotiate with you. You have one final chance... Of course, if you want to become ashes like them, you may choose not to take this chance..."

The white-robed person did not answer his question. After all, anyone could see that since the white-robed person had killed his way here, he could not possibly leave any survivors...

"So even if I tell you, I'll only have an intact corpse compared to them, right?"

Faced with his approaching death, Li Zheng instead came to terms with it...

Since the Li Clan has treated me unjustly, then do not blame me, Li Zheng, for being unrighteous!

With that thought in mind, Li Zheng told the white-robed person everything: the source of that incomplete formula, the hidden location of the Li Clan, and the storage locations of every precious treasure the Li Clan possessed.

Afterward, he was completely frozen over with a crazed smile still on his face...

"Pill Tower? How did I forget about that? If I want to learn alchemy, wouldn't it be faster to go study at Pill Tower? I remember their Tower Master is a ninth-grade alchemist..."

Casually burying Li Zheng's frozen corpse deep underground, the white-robed person returned to his original voice...

"It seems that once the Green Lotus Core Flame takes shape, I must make a trip to Pill Tower..."

Gu Xia pondered briefly and planned out his next itinerary. But on second thought, he could not just suddenly show up and inexplicably ask someone to take him as a disciple.

"Hmm, looks like this genius will have to show off my talent a little... There seems to be some kind of Alchemist Grand Competition in two years. It's decided, then! Quack quack quack, tremble, mortals! It's time to show you what a true genius is!..."

Gu Xia walked along while laughing like a duck. Then he gradually disappeared into the dense forest of the entrance area...