The voice had come far too naturally, and no one had been able to sense Ye Chen's arrival in the first place.
Thus, the Divine Pill Holy Lord and the others, chatting merrily away, noticed nothing amiss.
The Divine Pill Holy Lord even held up his wine cup and smiled. "Those elders are all cultivating in seclusion in the forbidden grounds behind the mountain, seeking an opportunity to break through to ninth-grade Alchemist!"
But only after he finished speaking did he realize something was very wrong!
His wine cup froze in midair as he looked blankly at the Nine Li Imperial Lord, the Rending Sky Holy Lord, and the Fallen Star Holy Lord. That voice clearly belonged to none of them!
The other three were just as baffled. Who had asked that question just now? None of them had, right?
Who exactly was speaking?
Realizing something was strange, the four abruptly raised their heads toward the source of the voice.
High in the sky, a young man dressed entirely in white, his black hair dancing wildly, was looking down at the four of them with a beaming smile.
Clearly, those words had come from him!
At the sight of this unfamiliar young man, all four tensed, releasing the immortal power within their bodies without restraint!
Boom!
Four terrifying presences shot into the heavens like four enormous pillars supporting the sky, stirring the winds and clouds, affecting the celestial phenomena, and changing the original laws governing the flow of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi!
These were the presences unleashed by four Profound Immortal experts!
Their reactions could hardly have been more intense. Four dignified holy land rulers at the Profound Immortal level, yet none had noticed an outsider approaching?
What brought them out in a cold sweat was that they were inside the Divine Pill Holy Land. If an outsider forced their way in, shouldn't the sect-protecting formation and the other defensive and offensive formations have activated immediately?
Why had there been no reaction at all?
The commotion caused by the four holy lords' drastic movements was immense, even affecting the Alchemist gathering proceeding in full swing below!
The furnaces of many Alchemists who had been concentrating on refining pills exploded, burning entire batches of precious ingredients to ashes.
Some even suffered severe backlash, spraying a mouthful of blood all over their pill furnaces.
"What happened?"
"Has a powerful enemy invaded?"
"This is the Divine Pill Holy Land! How could a powerful enemy invade? What blind fool would have that much nerve?"
The Alchemists all abandoned their pill refining and looked up.
In the sky, four figures radiating terrifying presences caused even space to warp.
Opposite them stood a young man in white.
It looked as though the four holy lord-level experts were facing a formidable enemy.
Some low-level cultivators might not have known, but many higher-level cultivators had heard at least something about the three holy lords invited to attend the Alchemist gathering.
They were the Rending Sky Holy Lord, the Nine Li Imperial Lord, and the Fallen Star Holy Lord!
In other words, four holy lords were now facing a single opponent?
"Who is that man? Why has he appeared in the Divine Pill Holy Land?"
"You can tell all four holy lords are hostile toward him. He hasn't come with good intentions!"
"Who exactly is he, to make all four holy lords brace themselves like this?"
Everyone felt curiosity and bewilderment toward that white-clad figure, and even shock!
To them, the four holy lords were already among the strongest beings in the world. They represented the pinnacle of heaven and earth.
Who else could make them so nervous?
The Divine Pill Holy Lord's expression was now ugly and cold. As the master of this place, how could his own formations fail to keep someone out?
Most importantly, several old friends were here, and they had all witnessed this humiliation!
How was he supposed to show his face after this?
"Who exactly are you? How did you sneak into my Divine Pill Holy Land?"
The Divine Pill Holy Lord demanded loudly, his voice brimming with majesty and oppressive force, as though all of heaven and earth were crushing down along with it.
Such was the tremendous might of a holy land's ruler!
The instant the countless Alchemists below heard that voice, reverence involuntarily welled up in their hearts, and they kept wanting to kneel and kowtow.
Those below the Spirit Transformation Realm could not withstand it at all and had already fallen prone, trembling on the ground!
Ye Chen wore a sunny smile, his tone friendly. "Don't get so tense. I'm here to reason with you. You're the Divine Pill Holy Lord, right? Get a few of your very best Alchemists over here for me. I'll take them to go!"
The Kunlun Holy Land had never been a sect that liked slaughtering indiscriminately. That was far too crude, and Ye Chen disliked it.
The principle he had laid down had always been to reason first, then act!
As for wiping everyone out, as with the Gold and Jade Sect and the Heavenly Gang Dao Sect?
Sorry, but they had refused to see reason first. That couldn't be blamed on the Kunlun Holy Land, could it?
He had no intention of making enemies everywhere, either. Thus, adhering to the principle of friendly exchange, Ye Chen still hoped to take a few top Alchemists away peacefully.
However, Ye Chen's words turned the Divine Pill Holy Lord's face the color of pig liver with rage.
An unknown stranger like you suddenly appears inside the holy land, then opens his mouth and demands to take away our very best Alchemists?
Do you think you're the strongest Immortal Emperor?
Do you think you can blot out the sky with one hand?
"Fellow Daoist, I am the Divine Pill Holy Lord. I will warn you only once: you had best not act recklessly. Once you provoke the wrath of my Divine Pill Holy Land, you will suffer more than you can bear!"
Among all the holy lands, none was more qualified than the Divine Pill Holy Land to say this!
Once they declared Ye Chen their enemy, not just the Central Divine Continent but the entire Desolate Immortal Great World would regard him as a thorn in its eye!
No one wanted to become the public enemy of the entire Desolate Immortal Great World!
Meanwhile, the Rending Sky Holy Lord, the Nine Li Imperial Lord, and the Fallen Star Holy Lord were also sizing up this stranger.
To their astonishment, there were no fluctuations of cultivation coming from him at all!
They had absolutely no way to see through his true strength!
This was simply unbelievable!
After all, they were holy lords, supreme experts at the peak of the Profound Immortal realm, each a formidable figure who could claim to be invincible among his peers!
At their unfathomably profound level, there were hardly any people left whom even they could not see through.
Could this young man be an old monster who had lived for countless years?
Had he already reached the Immortal Lord realm? Or even the higher Immortal King realm?
As for Immortal Emperor?
They did not even dare to think it.
Because, never mind Immortal Emperors from elsewhere, they had not seen even their own holy lands' Immortal Emperor elders in a very, very long time.
Were those Immortal Emperor elders still in the Desolate Immortal Great World, or had they already gone traveling through other great worlds?
They did not know, either.
Thus, the person before them absolutely could not be an Immortal Emperor!
The only certainty was that this person had come with ill intentions and possessed formidable strength!
"I know you're anxious, but don't be anxious just yet."
Seeing the murderous intent shooting from the Divine Pill Holy Lord's eyes, Ye Chen laughed easily, looking utterly harmless to man and beast.
Anyone who did not know better would really have thought he was some sunny, cheerful young man!