"I already gave you a chance, but sadly, you missed it!"

Xiaobai said slowly, her regal bearing surprising even Lin Chang’sheng.

He never thought Xiaobai could be so noble.

"I... If I die, they definitely won’t let you go—"

Xiaomu spat out, unwilling to accept defeat, but his lifeforce was quickly fading away.

If it were any ordinary sneak attack, at most they could wound Xiaomu—it would be nearly impossible to land a fatal blow.

But Xiaobai possessed immense immortal power; at her peak, she was an Immortal Realm expert.

Her strength was overwhelming; she could slay Xiaomu with a single strike.

Now, he was nothing more than a dying candle flicker before the flame snuffed out.

"Then I’ll wait for her. Even if they don’t come after me, one day I’ll return and seek her out! Just go to the afterlife in peace!"

Xiaobai snorted disdainfully.

"I... I’m not willing—"

Xiaomu uttered his final words and plummeted from the sky, dying instantly.

Buzz—

In the next instant, Xiaomu’s divine soul separated from his flesh, trying to escape, but Lin Chang’sheng collected it with the Celestial Soul Banner.

This banner, after being strengthened, was incredibly effective; unless one was an Immortal Realm master, it could absorb the soul of any creature.

"Wait!"

As Lin Chang’sheng landed and was about to store Xiaomu’s corpse in his storage bag, Xiaobai called out to him.

He watched as Xiaobai pressed her palm forward, stirring the immortal power within her. Instantly, Xiaomu’s blood energy was suspended outside his body, finally forming into a blood-red orb in midair.

"This is his life’s blood essence. If you consume it, your cultivation will soar!"

Xiaobai handed the blood-red orb to Lin Chang’sheng.

This surprised Lin Chang’sheng—Xiaobai could absorb others’ blood essence?

"Why didn’t you help me absorb more blood essence before?"

Lin Chang’sheng asked.

But Xiaobai just shot him an annoyed glance.

"Refining blood essence consumes immortal power. Most cultivations aren’t worth my effort!"

With that, Xiaobai dove into the spirit beast bag.

Fortunately, the Fox Race expert who came this time wasn’t an Immortal Realm powerhouse, or even she would’ve been hard-pressed to survive.

Seeing this, Lin Chang’sheng stored Xiaomu’s corpse in his storage bag too—it would be a formidable asset for refining a corpse puppet in the future.

With Xiaomu’s death, the grand array instantly dissipated.

At this moment, Lin Chang’sheng appeared on the bustling main street.

The fierce battle seemed to have nothing to do with the real world.

"That grand array is truly something! I wonder if Xiaomu’s storage bag has any cultivation techniques?"

Lin Chang’sheng mused to himself—the array could break away from reality and create a sprawling illusion realm from thin air.

No matter what happened inside, it didn’t affect the outside; its terror was self-evident.

"Better get back and take this Blood Pill—let’s see how much I can improve?"

Lin Chang’sheng thought.

This was the condensed blood essence of a Middle Stage of Tribulation Crossing powerhouse—its boost for someone in the Integration Stage would be astonishing.

On his way back, Lin Chang’sheng caught sight of Zhu Xuan.

Zhu Xuan still looked at Lin Chang’sheng with a cold expression.

But Lin Chang’sheng couldn’t be bothered to pay her any mind.

Back in his room, Lin Chang’sheng sat cross-legged, took out the Blood Pill, and tilted his head to swallow it down.

The moment the pill entered his body, Lin Chang’sheng felt a wild surge of energy explode within, flooding into his Eight Extraordinary Meridians.

Like rampaging tigers, the energy tore through his body, nearly bursting him apart.

Luckily, Lin Chang’sheng’s flesh was tough enough—his meridians and bones had been strengthened multiple times over.

Otherwise, an average Integration Stage cultivator would’ve died trying to withstand this.

Lin Chang’sheng immediately activated the Void Primordial Technique to refine the blood energy within.

Every drop of blood was packed with thick Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi.

Lin Chang’sheng’s refining took more than ten days straight.

Normal spiritual energy would’ve been absorbed in ten days at most; it showed just how monstrous the spiritual qi inside this Blood Pill was.

After ten days of refinement, Lin Chang’sheng felt his cultivation was swelling to the very brink of the Late Stage Integration bottleneck.

He could faintly sense a breakthrough coming.

"So domineering?"

Lin Chang’sheng was shocked; one Blood Pill could push him all the way to the Peak of Late Stage Integration.

Looks like, if he fully refines it, breaking through to the Mahayana Stage isn’t far off.

The Fox Race had basically handed him a treasure on a platter.

Lin Chang’sheng didn’t waste another thought and kept refining the remaining blood energy inside him.

Meanwhile, in Longyang City, a great stir was brewing—because in three days, the Divine Pill Pavilion would be auctioning a Middle Grade Holy Pill.

All the major sects and even the Ten Great Immortal Sects had gotten wind of it.

A Holy Pill auction was exceedingly rare, showing how extraordinary this elixir was.

Immortal Palace.

Inside the Golden Flame Hall, all the grand elders had assembled.

"Sect Leader, Lin Chang’sheng just joined the Divine Pill Pavilion, and now they’re auctioning off a Holy Pill. Is it possible that Lin Chang’sheng refined it?"

Liu Feng asked in astonishment.

"How could that be? Lin Chang’sheng’s talent in cultivation is one thing, but how could he possess such mastery in alchemy? This is a Holy Pill, not some unranked elixir!"

"Exactly, there’s no way this pill has anything to do with Lin Chang’sheng. He’s still so young! Even if his alchemy is strong, it’s likely just Grade Four or Five at best!"

"But I heard, to become an honored guest elder of the Divine Pill Pavilion, at minimum you need to be a Second Grade Alchemist, or they wouldn’t accept you!"

"Even Second Grade Alchemist is an achievement. For Lin Chang’sheng to possess such high alchemy skills makes him a once-in-a-millennium prodigy!"