"Teacher!" Liu Ling shouted from behind Gu He, his eyes nearly splitting with anguish.
He hurried forward and caught Gu He in his arms.
"Teacher, how are you?"
"I'm fine. Anger merely overwhelmed my heart." Gu He lay weakly against his disciple.
Now, his gaze held despair as he looked at Xiao Yan. From this moment onward, he truly understood the gulf between himself and this youth.
Gu He's collapse brought complicated expressions to many faces, but their gazes soon turned toward the fathomless black clouds overhead.
Next, they would witness a spectacle unseen in the Jia Ma Empire for a hundred years.
Pill lightning!
The black sea of clouds grew ever vaster, bearing down like dark clouds threatening to crush a city. Even Yun Shan's expression changed at its tremendous pressure.
Yet among everyone present, Xiao Yan alone looked utterly relaxed.
The true essence of the Heavenly Thunder Body-Tempering Pill lay not in those supposedly precious medicinal ingredients, but in the heavenly lightning before him.
Boom! As the pressure from the clouds intensified, a silver bolt illuminated the darkened sky and struck toward the Heavenly Thunder Body-Tempering Pill.
"Refine it for me!" Xiao Yan changed his hand seals, and the previously motionless Heavenly Thunder Body-Tempering Pill shot straight toward the lightning.
"What is he doing? Making a pill withstand lightning head-on-isn't he going to destroy it?" Anxiety appeared on the faces of several alchemists.
Yet the instant the silver pill collided with the heavenly lightning, the immensely powerful bolt abruptly vanished, while faint sparks slowly radiated from the pill.
"This pill can actually absorb heavenly lightning!" Several alchemists felt their blood surge. Their eyes had truly been opened.
Had they not encountered Xiao Yan, they might never have learned in their entire lives that alchemy could be practiced like