Chapter 248 - 157: Old Monster Exits Seclusion, Pill Hall Shaken

Chapter 248: Chapter 157: Old Monster Exits Seclusion, Pill Hall Shaken

At this moment, even Mu Yunshang and her group immediately sensed something, their hearts skipping a beat in alarm. Although they were not Pill Masters and could not sense the Fire of Heaven and Earth, they could still feel the scorching heat. However, before any of them could speak, Feng Moyuan’s entire body began to tremble slightly. The breathing of this Beardless Sect’s Pill Hall Elder grew rapid. He looked as if he had seen a ghost, his aged eyes filled with disbelief and shock.

"Impossible. How is this possible?"

Others might not feel the terror, but Feng Moyuan could experience it profoundly. At this moment, the Fire of Heaven and Earth within a hundred-mile radius around the Beardless Sect had been awakened. With just a single thought, a raging inferno could swallow the entire Beardless Sect. What shocked Feng Moyuan even more was that after the awakening of the Fire of Heaven and Earth reached a hundred-mile radius, it was still spreading outward. In just a few short breaths, the fluctuations had expanded to an astonishing two hundred miles.

"Impossible. This is absolutely impossible!"

"Who? Who is sensing the Fire of Heaven and Earth?"

Within the Elder Immortal Palace complex of the Beardless Sect’s Pill Hall, the expressions of dozens of Elders who were currently practicing Alchemy drastically changed. They stood up one after another, dumbfounded as they sensed the sudden movement of the Fire of Heaven and Earth.

Outside the Pill Technique Pavilion.

Looking at Feng Moyuan’s expression, Mu Yunshang and the other nine had already guessed something.

"Good heavens, is he really an Alchemy Master?"

Moreover, he had to be an extremely terrifying Pill Master—one whose Alchemy Dao had already reached a level that could shock even Feng Moyuan.

Inside the Beardless Saint Hall.

"A Pill Master?"

A trace of surprise and astonishment rippled in the aged eyes of Master Wugou and Master Wuchen. To think the youth the Sect Leader brought back was actually an Alchemy Master! Furthermore, judging by the area enveloped by the scorching aura, his accomplishments in the Alchemy Dao seemed to be far from simple.

Beside the two of them, Master Beardless sensed the wave of heat. Although there was some surprise in his eyes, he was much calmer compared to everyone else. After all, he had already seen Jiang Hao’s Alchemy Mark through the Concealment Art.

"He is, at the very least, an Alchemy Dao genius who has obtained a Royal Clan’s Alchemy Mark. It’s not surprising that he can stir up a bit of the Fire of Heaven and Earth."

Master Beardless had no affinity with the Alchemy Dao his entire life and had not researched the path of Pill Masters at all. He merely considered this to be a normal occurrence. However, just as Master Beardless brushed it off indifferently, an extremely ancient figure suddenly appeared within the Holy Hall.

It was a weathered old man dressed in the Beardless Sect’s alchemy robes. His hair and beard were completely white, and his deeply wrinkled face was etched with the marks of time. The moment the old man appeared, the three Beardless Sect Saints were successively taken aback.

"Grand Elder?"

"Elder... Elder Qi?"

Looking at the old man who had appeared so abruptly, Master Beardless seemed to realize something, and waves of horror quickly surfaced in his eyes.

"We juniors, Master Beardless, Master Wugou, and Master Wuchen, pay our respects to Elder Qi."

Regaining their wits, the three men hastily bowed deeply to the incredibly ancient old man, their faces filled with utmost respect and reverence. After all, the newcomer was none other than the Beardless Sect’s oldest living senior. He was the martial uncle of the Beardless Sect’s Sect Leader and the two Supreme Elders. He was the current senior hall master of the Pill Hall, a Grand Elder spanning three generations of the sect, and a Half-step Pill King in the Alchemy Dao—Dao Lingzi, Qi Daoling.

"Elder Qi, haven’t you been in secluded cultivation practicing Alchemy all this time? Why did you suddenly come out?"

Master Beardless was extremely shocked as he looked at the suddenly appearing Qi Daoling. This martial uncle could be called a Dan Fool. He had spent his entire life practicing Alchemy. Because of this, the Beardless Sect had managed to survive until today; this Half-step Pill King elder’s contributions were indispensable.

For this very reason, even Master Beardless and the others couldn’t remember how many years it had been since they last saw this martial uncle. If it weren’t for the endless stream of countless Divine Pills transported down from Pill Peak every year, no one in the Beardless Sect would even remember they still had an Elder Pill Master who was a Half-step Pill King. Yet, such an old fossil who never stepped out of his Alchemy Room had actually shown himself at this moment.

For a moment, Master Beardless felt his scalp go numb. Only now did he realize just how terrifying that youth’s accomplishments in the Alchemy Dao truly were.

"Seven thousand years... it has been exactly seven thousand years. To think that a figure capable of controlling the Fire of Heaven and Earth to such a degree has actually been born into this world?"

Qi Daoling trembled unsteadily, looking as though he might collapse to the ground at any moment. As he walked step by step out of the Holy Hall, faint ripples actually appeared in his aged eyes that were normally nearly devoid of all emotion.

Evidently, what shocked the old man was not the range over which the youth in the Pill Technique Pavilion was sensing the Fire of Heaven and Earth, but his level of control over it. With just a single thought, the youth had unexpectedly awakened all the Fire of Heaven and Earth. The intensity of this awakening signified his terrifying potential on the path of the Alchemy Dao.

Pills that regular Pill Masters couldn’t concoct could be refined by such an absolutely monstrous Pill Master—especially those pill recipes that required drawing upon all the Fire of Heaven and Earth.

Even among Pill Masters, there were infinite disparities. Not every Pill Master could mobilize all the Celestial Fire and Earth Fire around them. Some could mobilize a tenth, while others could mobilize seventy or eighty percent. Beneath the surface of that scorching aura, however, lay the mobilization of Celestial Fire and Earth Fire of every single attribute.

"A Pill Saint Seed! A Pill Saint Seed!"

Staring intently at the figure in white within the Pill Technique Pavilion, Qi Daoling’s aged body trembled slightly, and his words were laced with boundless excitement. However, as soon as these words were spoken, Master Beardless and the other two standing behind him felt as if they had been struck by lightning from a clear blue sky.

"Elder Qi, what did you say? What Pill Saint Seed? Who is a Pill Saint Seed?"