Yun Che and the other three looked toward the voice and saw a curly-haired man in a white lab coat, wearing a spectacle lens over his left eye, walking slowly out of the shadows.
An embroidered dark-purple nine-petaled lotus marked his collar. He was Wang Teng, the mad scientist in charge of pill experiments in the Nine Immortal Alliance.
He toyed with a still-pulsating dark-green Demon Core in his hand. Black-purple poisonous markings crawled across its surface; it had clearly been taken from a newly refined mutant demonic beast.
"You killed so many of my Nine Immortal Alliance brothers. Today is the perfect chance to keep you here. Your body and your three great phenomena are all excellent experimental materials."
With a light toss from Wang Teng, the Demon Core struck the ground and split open instantly. The poison miasma inside immediately spread, blanketing more than half the square.
The remaining Nine Immortal Alliance cultivators in the square all clutched their throats and collapsed. Within a few breaths, they had dissolved into puddles of bloody pus, even their bones completely dissolved by the poison miasma.
Holding the half-dragon fetus, Huo Jinshang took a step back. A gentle breeze scattered the wisp of poison miasma drifting toward her, and she spoke coldly.
"So it really was you. This was exactly how our Mystic Dragon Coalition Domain's Divine Tiger Team was wiped out in the Lianjue Mountain Range. Today, I'll get justice for those fallen comrades!"
Wang Teng laughed loudly and clapped his hands. The cultivation pods surrounding the square all lit up at once. Inside were mutant Experimental Subjects submerged in green liquid. At the sound, they all began frantically slamming against the pod walls, unleashing earth-shaking roars.
"Justice? Then you'll have your work cut out for you. To tell you