Tang Yan was deeply moved. It was already March eighteenth, and the alliance leader had acted very quickly indeed.
After notifying the various sects, Lin Jiuyuan gathered the Pill Alliance's experts and headed for the Sword Sect.
Tang Yan was in no hurry to return to Heaven's Punishment. Instead, he boarded the Pill Alliance's flying Magic Treasure and took the opportunity to explain the Pill Dao to its senior members.
Once he finished, Tang Yan saw that Rao Baoyue seemed to have understood everything, so he simply gave her an extra private lesson.
After cramming Rao Baoyue's head full until she was dazed too, Tang Yan returned to the Sea Region to safeguard Heaven's Punishment.
Soon, it was March twenty-fifth.
The Eight Great Houses joined forces with their allies, mobilizing a total of one hundred and sixty Heaven and Earth Realm experts and five hundred Entering the Dao Realm experts. Dividing into several groups, they concealed their auras and quietly crossed the Sea Region toward the Otherworld Ruins.
The Otherworld Ruins.
Inside a great hall.
The senior members of the Otherworld Ruins and members of the Divine Clan and Gu Race had gathered in the hall.
Ji Yinzhou glanced around, a note of puzzlement in his voice. "Eight days have passed, and there's still no movement from Zhong Tianyin. Where do you think he's gone?"
"Even ants cling to life, let alone people. Perhaps Zhong Tianyin's threat that day was all fierce bluster masking a cowardly heart. He would never dare actually attack," the Third Elder declared.
The Grand Elder shook his head. "He's invincible beneath the Heavenly Venerable level. Surely he wouldn't be too afraid even to show his face. He must be brewing some nasty scheme.
"Zhong Tianyin may have guessed that we've laid a Heavenly Net