Just as everyone thought Xiao Yan was about to succeed in refining the pill, the energy in the air around him suddenly became exceptionally active. An inexplicable suction force abruptly emerged from within his body, rapidly drawing the energy of heaven and earth toward him.
Strands of natural energy continuously poured into Xiao Yan's body, while the cultivation technique within him began circulating at high speed.
"Is he about to break through?" Everyone on the platform revealed shocked expressions.
"What terrible timing for a breakthrough!" everyone lamented inwardly.
"Ah! Why did he have to break through at a time like this?" Fama sighed.
At this moment, Xiao Yan had only two choices. The first was to abandon the pill refinement and calm himself down to make his breakthrough. Doing so would raise his rank by one star. After all, opportunities for breakthroughs were rare and could only be encountered by chance.
But that would mean losing this competition. Its rewards were incredibly generous—by their actual value, they were absolutely worth no less than twenty million gold coins, and even then, they would be impossible to buy on the market.
But if he gave up this breakthrough and chose to continue refining the pill, he might win the competition. Yet if the energy of heaven and earth entered his body without being refined, it would cause the Dou Qi within him to become impure.
Allowing that impure energy to circulate through his meridians would damage them and have an enormous impact on his body, thereby affecting his future potential.
Moreover, if he chose not to break through this time, the difficulty of his next breakthrough would increase severalfold. He might even be unable to break through again for the rest of his life.
"Ah, losing is losing." Fama let out another