"Not good!"
Realizing the other party's intention, the woman's expression immediately became extremely tense. Almost subconsciously, she plunged both hands into the snake's head beneath her, pouring all her Origin Qi into the giant python's body, forcibly controlling the python to turn around and rush towards the Nascent Pill above.
As for the Nascent Pill, having lost the suction pull of the five giant pythons, they returned to the control of their original masters once again.
In the blink of an eye, the Nascent Pill controlled by the masked man arrived before the gray-white barrier. Under the watchful eyes of everyone in the hall, and amidst their anticipation, it suddenly exploded.
Only at this moment did the five giant pythons controlled by the woman appear close by.
"Boom!"
Amidst the deafening explosion, a flash of white light appeared at the point where the Nascent Pill exploded, then burst forth completely, filling the entire venue in an instant, before gradually fading and shrinking after a dozen or so breaths.
The epicenter of the explosion was surprisingly calm, with no further fluctuations in the Origin Qi.
Upon realizing this, everyone present let out a triumphant roar, and the Origin Yuan Zun experts on the arena below also breathed a sigh of relief, their hearts immediately relaxing. After exchanging glances, they turned their attention back to the medicine cauldron in front of them, preparing to carry out the final refining of their respective Nascent Pill.
However...
As the white light faded and the scene in mid-air came into view, not only the spectators outside the arena, but also the Yuan Zun experts who had just calmed down in the arena were momentarily dazed. They slumped back down, feeling powerless, and their faces showed a look of exhaustion and despair.
The enormous body of the five-headed python had vanished as a phantom, while the woman stood frozen in the void, her clothes torn to shreds and her private parts exposed. With each violent rise and fall of her chest, suppressed growls of rage escaped her throat. Above her head, the gray-white barrier remained firmly in place, separating the people inside and outside the arena.
The explosion at such close range of an eighth-tier Nascent Pill was something even ordinary Yuan Zun experts would not dare to underestimate, yet it still failed to break through this barrier.
Just moments before the Nascent Pill exploded, the woman forcibly controlled the five giant pythons to swallow it whole. Although she managed to salvage her previously advantageous situation, the five giant pythons were completely annihilated in the explosion of the Nascent Pill, and the Nascent Pill that was about to be obtained was returned to the alchemists. Even the Origin Qi within her body suffered a great loss as a result.
Even though the woman had anticipated the unforeseen circumstances before setting out, the current situation was still beyond her expectations.
Damn it!
Despite her intense rage, the woman's eyes, filled with murderous intent, were first fixed on the Fu Kui below.
If this thief hadn't eliminated all the Tier Seven Alchemist on the field in one fell swoop, she wouldn't have had to bite the bullet and try to seize all the eighth-tier Nascent Pill, and she wouldn't have ended up in this predicament.
"It seems I underestimated you all after all. To have driven me to this point, neither of us has come here in vain!"
With a flick of her Nascent Pill, the woman seemed unable to suppress her anger any longer. She immediately raised her head and let out a furious hiss, while two drops of blood tears flowed from her eyes and fell onto the snake skull.
But that wasn't all. The woman reached out and summoned downwards again, and all the remaining wisps of Yin energy from the Snake Tomb gathered there. Even the dense black energy surrounding Xiao Yan was drawn back and poured into the snake skull. In the blink of an eye, the originally pale white snake skull was stained pitch black by the Yin energy from the Snake Tomb.
As the black mist dissipated, the remaining people in the arena also noticed what was happening to Xiao Yan out of the corner of their eyes. Their expressions immediately changed slightly, especially Fu Kui, who couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.
"That little bastard, how did he manage to get away unscathed?"
Compared to others, he was extremely clear about Xiao Yan's cultivation level. Facing that strange black aura that even he had to treat with utmost respect, Xiao Yan was able to escape unscathed from such an encirclement, which was simply unbelievable.
The black aura receded, and Xiao Yan was still sitting cross-legged in front of the medicine cauldron. Although his face was rather pale, the Nascent Pill inside the cauldron had at least been preserved.
Outside the medicine cauldron, six Heavenly Flames of different colors floated slowly. Although these Heavenly Flames appeared somewhat weak due to the huge consumption of Origin Qi in Xiao Yan's body, the unruly and wild energy emanating from their origin still burned everything around them. The blazing firelight shone on the cyan-gold medicine cauldron, as if it were covered with a golden body that was impervious to all evil.
"Very well, since you still have the energy to worry about others, then why not try my Great Dao Technique, Devour Heaven and Consume Earth!"
Suddenly, the woman's stern shout rang out, and everyone immediately focused their attention. Under the woman's frantic infusion of Power of the Great Dao, the pitch-black snake head in front of her seemed to come alive as if flesh had grown from bones. At the same time, a terrifying suction force emanated again, but unlike before, this time the devouring power actually tore apart the void around the snake head and sucked it into its mouth, and was even spreading outwards at an extremely fast speed.
In just a few breaths, half of the void and the power of heaven and earth in the entire arena were completely devoured!
Now, even with the strength of Xu Qinghe and the others, they had no choice but to do their best to resist this devouring power. However, the fat old man who was already weak was the first to succumb to the influence of this devouring power. His medicine cauldron and the nascent Nascent Pill were sucked away together, and he himself had to do his best to retreat to a corner of the arena to hold on.
On the other hand, Xiao Yan keenly sensed something as soon as the devouring power struck.
" The Great Dao of the Void?"
Xiao Yan hadn't expected that this woman was also using the Great Dao of the Void, and her methods were countless times more domineering than his own. Perhaps because they were both using the Great Dao of the Void, after Xiao Yan withdrew his Heavenly Flames, he actually managed to briefly resist the devouring power for a few breaths by using his own Great Dao of the Void. However, due to his weakened state, he was uncontrollably pulled into the air along with the cauldron and flew towards the snake's head.
Now, everyone on the field is barely holding on to this devouring power. It seems that in less than a quarter of an hour, all the Nascent Pill will fall into the woman's hands.
"Bang!"
However, at that moment, a violent shattering sound suddenly rang out throughout the venue, as if a city gate had been smashed open by a tremendous force.
Everyone's attention was instantly drawn to it.