Although the Celestial Person Great Pill ultimately refined from them would lose as much as ninety percent of the raw materials' conceptual images and cultivation, even the remaining ten percent would accumulate, making the increase in cultivation astonishingly swift.
The strike missed.
Lu Qingwu remained unhurried. His gaze toward Zhang Yuan was full of satisfaction, and he was already considering how to process him.
But a moment later, Lu Qingwu's brows creased slightly. A red pill had appeared in Zhang Yuan's hand, and staring at it gave him a vague sense of danger.
What was that?
Zhang Yuan answered the question in Lu Qingwu's mind, saying calmly, "I am on excellent terms with the only daughter of the Sword Immortal Chasing the Cold Away. This is a Sword Pill she bestowed upon me, containing a burst of her Sword Qi at its peak."
At those words, Lu Qingwu's expression changed, and he instinctively covered the unhealed sword wound on his chest.
According to the intelligence bought from the Eastern Sunken Pavilion, this brat loved flitting from flower to flower. The report did indeed say he was exceedingly close to Cui Zhaowei of the Eastern Ya Cui Clan...
Was this truly a Sword Pill Jiang Peilan had given the brat?
Impossible. What did closeness between juniors have to do with their elders? Rather than leave a Sword Pill containing her own peak Sword Qi with her daughter to protect her life, she had given it to an outsider? Jiang Peilan's temperament would never allow that.
Unless Zhang Yuan and Cui Zhaowei were more than merely close, and he was already the son-in-law acknowledged by the Eastern Ya Cui Clan.
*But was that possible? Even he knew Zhang Yuan flitted from flower to flower everywhere. Surely the Eastern Ya Cui Clan could