“Young…
Young Master?”
The moment the numerous Sub-Pavilion Masters of the Divine Pill Pavilion in the Eastern Domain saw Gu Qingyan, they all paled in shock.
As one of the three great Pill Master factions of the Sword Dynasty, the Divine Pill Pavilion’s sub-pavilions were already spread across all realms.
The Sub-Pavilion Elders might not recognize Gu Qingyan, but every Sub-Pavilion Master was a Pill Master executive trained by the main pavilion.
Naturally, she was no stranger to them.
And today was the Eastern Domain’s Pill Master Tournament.
At least seventy percent of the Divine Pill Pavilion’s Sub-Pavilion Masters in the entire Eastern Domain were present.
“It really is the Young Pavilion Master.”
When they confirmed that the young girl beside Bai Wufeng was the daughter of the Divine Pill Pavilion’s Pill Master—the future master of the Divine Pill Pavilion—the Sub-Pavilion Masters from various Earth Realms of the Eastern Domain were stunned.
One by one, they took to the sky.
While the crowd was still guessing the girl’s identity, streaks of elderly figures had already stepped through the air.
“Young Master, is it really you?”
“We greet the Young Master.”
A group of gray-haired elders in Alchemy Robes, their eyes brimming with excitement, bowed deeply to the young girl in the void.
Some of them even wept tears of joy, overcome with emotion.
“To think it is truly the Young Master!
My days are numbered, but to see the Young Master in my lifetime…
I can die with no regrets.”
“Young Master, is the Elder Pill Master here as well?”
Looking at the familiar faces, Gu Qingyan smiled sweetly.
She bowed to the many Sub-Pavilion Masters of the Divine Pill Pavilion and said, “Qingyan greets you, Elders.
My father did not accompany me on this trip.
However, he misses you all very much and talks about you all the time.”
Hearing that the Pill Master still remembered this group of old fogeys, many Pavilion Masters felt deeply gratified, lumps forming in their throats.
However, as the countless Cultivators of Xingyue City watched this scene, every single one of them was utterly flabbergasted.
“Young Master?
Those senior Pill Masters actually called that girl ‘Young Master’?”
“What senior Pill Masters?
Those are the Sub-Pavilion Masters of the Divine Pill Pavilion from the various Earth Realms in the Eastern Domain!
Don’t you see the hall of the Divine Pill Pavilion embroidered on their Alchemy Robes?”
“What did you say?
The Sub-Pavilion Masters from the Divine Pill Pavilion’s various Earth Realms?
Could it be that she is…?”
“The Young Master of the Divine Pill Pavilion?”
Upon hearing this, the hundreds of thousands of Xingyue City Cultivators gasped in collective shock.
Meanwhile, Bai Wufeng slowly turned to look at Qi Yun Mountain.
With a faint smile on his lips, he said, “The Qilin Child is right.
I cannot represent the entire Divine Pill Pavilion.
However, I wonder if my Young Master has the qualifications to do so?”
RUMBLE!
As soon as those words were spoken, the members of the Qi Family felt as though they had been struck by lightning, their hearts trembling violently.
The Young Master of the Divine Pill Pavilion naturally represented the entire faction, and even the will of the Divine Pill Pavilion’s Pill Master.
A mere Great Cultivation Race of an Earth Realm was completely insignificant when pitted against the Divine Pill Pavilion.
Although the Divine Pill Pavilion was nominally an Alchemist Association, its power was terrifying.
But that wasn’t even the most frightening part—the most frightening aspect was their complex, far-reaching network of connections.
Gu Qingyan, on the other hand, was as calm as still water.
She paid absolutely no attention to the Qi Family.
Instead, she fluttered her beautiful eyes and slowly looked down at the young figure below.
“Jiang Hao, you hid yourself quite well.
You’re much more capable than I imagined.
Don’t forget your agreement with Uncle Bai.”
Gu Qingyan’s words exploded among the crowd like a bolt of heavenly thunder, stirring up monstrous waves of shock.
“The Young Master of the Divine Pill Pavilion is actually talking to that piece of trash?”
“Judging from what she said, it seems they’ve known each other for a while!”
“How is that possible?
How could a universally acknowledged piece of trash know a VIP like the Young Master of the Divine Pill Pavilion?”
For a moment, all the Cultivators of Xingyue City were dumbfounded.
Let alone the future master of the entire Divine Pill Pavilion, even Sub-Pavilion Master Bai Wufeng was an existence completely out of their reach.
Yet, the young man on the stage actually had ties with her, to the point that the Young Master of the Divine Pill Pavilion stepped forward personally to protect his life.
In the crowd, the members of the Ye Family watched this scene as if struck by lightning, endless shock churning in their hearts.
“When did Jiang Hao get to know the Young Master of the Divine Pill Pavilion?
Why didn’t I know about this?”
“It’s impossible.
He’s just a useless piece of trash who has been a fool for three years.
He stayed in the Ye Family for the past three years.
How could he possibly meet such an earth-shattering VIP?”
It wasn’t just the Ye Family.
Wang Jiang had completely descended into madness.
Shaking his head repeatedly, he muttered, “It’s fake.
This is all fake!
You’re just a despised piece of trash, a piece of garbage!
What right do you have to befriend such a VIP?”
While the crowd remained in a state of utter astonishment, the faces of the Qi Family members turned incredibly grim.
The more connections Jiang Hao built, the greater the threat he posed to the Qi Family.
The Qi Family absolutely could not allow this boy to live.
“Yang’Er, what should we do?”
“The Divine Pill Pavilion is intentionally extending an olive branch to him.
If this boy truly joins the Divine Pill Pavilion, it will lead to endless troubles in the future.”
Even Qi Yun Mountain felt the pressure now.
The coercion from the Divine Pill Pavilion was enough to make a Patriarch of a Great Cultivation Race like him feel suffocated.
Qi Tianyang’s brows were tightly knit as well, but he remained standing tall and unmoving like a Divine Mansion observing from afar.
After pondering for a moment, he slowly raised his head and bowed slightly to Gu Qingyan.
“So it is Miss Gu, the Young Master of the Divine Pill Pavilion.
Since the Divine Pill Pavilion has spoken, our Qi Family will naturally give the Elder Pill Master some face.”
Hearing that the Qi Family was giving her father “some face,” Gu Qingyan couldn’t help but shake her head and chuckle.
Her father was one of the three Pill Saints of the Sword Dynasty.
Even the Human Emperor would have to show him a degree of respect.
To claim they were giving face to the Divine Pill Pavilion’s Pill Master was merely the Qi Family flattering themselves.
However, Qi Tianyang still seemed to possess some underlying confidence.
Seeing that Gu Qingyan was ignoring a Qilin Child like himself, he didn’t get angry.
Instead, he slowly turned to look at Jiang Hao, his tone abruptly shifting.
“However, Miss Gu, this is a personal grudge between this person and myself.
It has nothing to do with the Qi Family or the Divine Pill Pavilion.
I hope Miss Gu will not interfere in this matter.
Since it is a personal grudge, let us resolve it privately,” Qi Tianyang said, staring down at Jiang Hao from a high vantage point before uttering his shocking proposition.
“Boy, do you dare to sign a Life and Death Contract with me?
“Three months from now, right back here, we will fight with everything we have.
Only one of us will walk out alive.
“After this battle, the grudges between us will be wiped out once and for all.”
As soon as he said this, the entire venue fell dead silent.
Countless Cultivators looked up in shock, never expecting the Qi Family’s Qilin Child to make such a proposition.
Bai Wufeng and the others were also slightly taken aback, exchanging bewildered glances.
It was glaringly obvious that the Qi Family had secured some powerful backing.
Otherwise, Qi Tianyang wouldn’t dare to act so fearlessly while facing the combined pressure of both the Divine Pill Pavilion and the Tang Family.
Up in the Tang Family’s spectator stands, Tang Yan burst into roaring laughter at those words.
With eyes full of mockery, he said, “Hahaha!
What a Qilin Child!
Tang Yan thought he was shameless enough, but who knew the so-called True Dragon genius of the Qi Family could be even more brazen!”
He immediately raised his voice, continuing his sarcastic tirade.
“Qi Tianyang, you know very well that Brother Jiang’s Martial Soul is inferior to yours, and that his cultivation has stagnated for three years.
“Even I can tell that Brother Jiang is only at the Peak of Body Refining Realm.
As a Unity Realm genius, how do you have the gall to propose a three-month life-and-death battle?
“The Qi Family’s Qilin Child truly makes one see things in a new light.”
This immediately sent the entirety of Xingyue City into a flurry of discussion.
“A Cultivator at the Unity Realm can crush someone at the Peak of Body Refining Realm with a single finger.
Let alone three months, given the massive gap between them, even if you gave him three years, he might not be able to catch up to where Qi Tianyang is now.”
“When the Qi Family’s Qilin Child awakened his Martial Soul, it triggered an anomaly in the heavens and the earth.
It is a Divine Dragon Celestial Tier Martial Soul.
His future cultivation speed will only be even more terrifying.”
“Exactly.
That piece of trash and the Qilin Child aren’t even from the same world.
Forget three years, even in ten years, he wouldn’t compare to a single hair on the Qilin Child’s body.
The disparity will only widen.”
“Even if he truly awakened a Martial Soul, he’s already missed the prime age for awakening.
It’s completely impossible for him to reach the same heights as the Qilin Child.”
“In front of the Qilin Child, a piece of trash will always just be a piece of trash.”
“However, the Qi Family’s True Dragon is probably going to be disappointed.
That kid will definitely never agree to a life-and-death battle.”
“That’s exactly the brilliance of the Qilin Child’s move.
If he refuses, it will surely leave him with a Heart Demon of cowardice.
On the path of cultivation, Heart Demons are the greatest taboo, and the same applies to the Alchemy Dao.”
Everyone murmured among themselves in hushed tones, refusing to believe that the young man would actually dare to accept.
After all, only one Martial Soul awakening anomaly had ever appeared in the Xingyue City Earth Realm.
Although they didn’t know how that piece of trash obtained a Martial Soul and even became an Alchemy Master, in their eyes, his Martial Soul absolutely couldn’t reach the Celestial Tier.
It was likely much lower.
“Little fool, absolutely do not agree,” Ye Qingxian said anxiously.
Even though she knew Jiang Hao’s Martial Soul was even more heaven-defying, the gap in their cultivation realms was simply too massive.
Ye Tiannan and the others voiced their agreement as well.
“Hao’Er, you absolutely cannot accept.”
“Jiang Xiaoyou, you need not care about this.
Refusing is perfectly fine.
Although a Heart Demon is frightening, it is not impossible to eradicate.”
“Jiang Hao, don’t worry.
As long as I, Gu Qingyan, am here, no one in Xingyue City will dare to lay a finger on you.”
Seeing this, Qi Tianyang shook his head and endlessly mocked him, “Jiang Hao, if you are a real man, don’t hide behind women.
Otherwise, what kind of man are you?”
Hearing this, Ye Qingxian and the others grew even more furious.
However, on the tournament stage, Jiang Hao looked at the shattered bluestone tiles in front of him before slowly lifting his head.
He quietly gazed at the figure standing high and mighty, exuding an aura as radiant as the midday sun.
For a moment, everyone’s hearts leaped into their throats.