The Heaven Mending Pill appeared at precisely the right moment: Wan Tianming's avatar had just failed to seize the Transformed Fire Wolf, while Qing Yi and Tian Wuzi had each unleashed a magic treasure against the other.
All five immediately abandoned their struggle over the ancient treasures and charged toward the Heaven Mending Pill in unison.
Wan Tianming clapped his hands together before his chest. Billowing purple flames instantly blazed over his body, turning him into a purple flame fireman who soared into the air.
Man Huzi's body abruptly swelled to thirty or forty feet tall. The clothing over his upper body shattered into powder, revealing the densely packed scales on his chest. They shone as though he wore golden armor, radiating a golden brilliance too dazzling to look at directly. Then he stamped both feet against the ground and shot toward the Heaven Mending Pill like a cannonball.
The willow branch in the Withered Wood Elder's hand curled around him, and he immediately became a green shadow that flew toward the Heaven Mending Pill.
Hermit Qingyi and Tian Wuzi also activated their secret arts, becoming an azure rainbow and a streak of white light respectively as they hurtled toward the Heaven Mending Pill like two meteors.
After shooting out of the opening, the five-colored ball of light surrounding the Heaven Mending Pill did not flee outward. Instead, it hovered quietly above the opening.
As they flew upward, the cultivators could clearly see a pill about an inch across slowly rotating within the ball of light. With every rotation, the light contracted and flickered like a beating heart, setting their hearts ablaze with desire.
Meanwhile, once the Nascent Soul cultivators abandoned their blockade, the two ancient treasures that had emerged earlier summoned their escape lights again and tried to flee.