The moment that thundercloud appeared, the expressions of the Xiao Clan alchemists within ten thousand miles of Xiao Yan shifted slightly, and their gazes involuntarily turned toward the pitch-black thundercloud in the distant sky.
Not only them, but even some Dou Sheng experts farther away raised their heads to look in Xiao Yan's direction, curiosity flickering in their eyes.
Upon reaching the Dou Sheng realm, they could already vaguely sense disturbances throughout the Xiao Clan. Although they could not perceive things in the exquisite detail afforded by an Emperor Realm Soul, with every movement within the Xiao Realm laid bare before their eyes, they could naturally sense such a large commotion clearly.
"Hmm? This disturbance looks like Black Demon Lightning."
"Tsk, tsk. Which alchemist has refined a ninth-grade pill this time? It's been more than ten years since this old man last saw one emerge."
For a time, curiosity appeared on the faces of many Dou Sheng experts.
Ninth-Rank Alchemists already stood among the rarest, most elite alchemists on the Dou Qi Continent, and most alchemists of this caliber belonged to the Yao Clan and the Xiao Clan.
For the former, it was because their ancestor had been a Medicine Emperor. Their bloodline, constitutions, and inheritances had all been born specifically for alchemy, while the latter was an entirely different matter.
The Xiao Clan possessed multiple Ninth-Rank Alchemists purely because it had so many Dou Sheng experts.
With nearly a thousand Dou Sheng experts, even if only one in a hundred became a Ninth-Rank Alchemist, that terrifying base number still yielded close to ten Ninth-Rank Alchemists.
By contrast, although the proportion of Dou Sheng experts in the Yao Clan who became Ninth-Rank Alchemists was extremely high-even reaching one in five or one in three-how many Dou Sheng did the Yao