A perfectly round, translucent pill hovered in midair, mysterious golden patterns flowing across its surface as its rich medicinal fragrance gathered into visible clouds.
Gu Yuan and the others gazed at the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill with burning eyes, yet none harbored any ulterior thoughts.
Xiao Yan calmly put away the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill. It was incomplete and still needed to be refined again.
The Emperor Grade Nascent Pill's intelligence had already been utterly extinguished in the attack just now.
Seeing Xiao Yan put away the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill, Gu Yuan stepped forward and smiled. "Xiao Yan, with the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill in your hands, your breakthrough to Dou Di is just around the corner!"
Xiao Yan smiled faintly. There was no such realm as Dou Di in his cultivation system, but completing the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill would save him a great deal of effort.
At this moment, Lei Ying and Yan Jin also stepped forward and remarked, "The most valuable thing in Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's Cave is probably this Emperor Grade Nascent Pill."
Zhu Kun actually knew that besides the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill, this place also held Tou She Ancient God's inheritance. Before he could speak, however, Xiao Yan pointed at Tou She Ancient God's stone statue with a smile.
"Don't you all find this statue's presence here rather out of place?"
"Surely it can't be just a decoration?"
Their hearts jolted at his words, and they all began examining the statue.
Xiao Yan watched from the side. He knew that without cultivating the Flame Mantra, even breaking open the statue might not win Tou She Ancient God's approval.
In the original story, Zhu Kun had secretly studied the statue for a month without anyone knowing.
Yet he had still failed to obtain Tuoshe