Chapter 225: Profound Pill Formed
After losing a number of their people, the Liu Family began to mount an organized resistance, fighting as they retreated. The attackers killed a few more, but when the pursuit grew difficult, they broke off and came over here.
Seeing their leader tied down, they immediately split into two groups. One went to help E Xuanfu, while the other attacked Tian Sisi.
In an instant, three Avatars were summoned, and the massive fists of two of them smashed toward Tian Sisi!
Tian Sisi, who had her eyes closed, snapped them open. A cold glint flashed in her eyes as several beams of blade light shot toward the two Avatars.
The difference between the Inner Realm and the Avatars was immediately apparent. Attacks from the Inner Realm carried the Power of Heaven and Earth, while the Avatars were merely an application of one's own True Qi.
The massive Avatars were torn to shreds by the blade glints, and the two masters who had summoned them died instantly on the spot.
Even though she was severely injured, Tian Sisi was still at the Inner Realm Peak. Knowing these people had killed many members of the Liu Family, she struck out in a fury. None of her slashes were attacks these Avatar-wielders could withstand.
Meanwhile, the Avatar helping E Xuanfu was also shattered by a single punch, and its master killed. The other cultivators were horrified, hiding to the side and not daring to make another move.
Just then—DONG! A sound like a great celestial note emanated from Tian Sisi's body as she hovered in the air. A shockwave of energy erupted, and countless streams of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi poured into her, converging and compressing to form a Profound Pill.
E Xuanfu and Puhuo, who had been locked in combat, both stopped. Panic surged through E Xuanfu's heart. 'Could she have actually succeeded?'
Tian Sisi hovered in the air, her aura astonishing, like that of a goddess. Even E Xuanfu, an expert at the Inner Realm Peak, felt a terrifying sense of suppression.
An expression of utter disbelief on his face, he exclaimed, "To think she could actually shatter the world's shackles! And achieve the Profound Pill Realm!"
He immediately gave the order, "The situation is lost! We have to leave, now!"
The remaining men in black heard the order and were about to flee, but just then, Tian Sisi choked on a mouthful of blood and fell from the sky.
E Xuanfu stared, his eyes wide with uncertainty. 'Could it be... the suppression of the Celestial Dao?' he wondered. He then shook his head. 'No, that's not possible. It can't be!'
He immediately rushed toward Tian Sisi. E Xuanfu loathed the suppression of the Celestial Dao. He wanted eternal life, to become the greatest figure in history. Though he hadn't wanted Tian Sisi to succeed in her breakthrough, now he found himself wishing she had.
Lying amid the ruins, Tian Sisi's aura was faint, barely perceptible. E Xuanfu couldn't make sense of her condition. Just as he was about to move closer to inspect her, the force of a punch slammed toward him from behind. E Xuanfu had no choice but to immediately dodge into the shadows.
The attack had come from the still-berserk Puhuo. Having forced E Xuanfu back, it now instinctively charged toward Tian Sisi.
As the giant fist descended, Tian Sisi suddenly exploded with power. A flash of blade light streaked past, and one of the rock monster Puhuo's arms fell to the ground!
The slash had been aimed for its head, but who could have known that the mindless Puhuo would still be able to protect its vitals, losing only an arm.
Tian Sisi didn't press the attack, nor did she go on a rampage to kill everyone present. Instead, she coughed up another mouthful of blood and immediately fled.
E Xuanfu steadied himself and immediately gave chase.
Tian Sisi's condition was now absolutely dreadful. The Profound Pill in her Dantian was in constant danger of shattering. Although the breakthrough had been a success, she hadn't fully refined all the berserk energy. The power within the Profound Pill was completely outside her control, rendering her unable to use it at all.
If she only had time to slowly refine the energy, she could still stabilize her Profound Pill Realm. But clearly, she had no such luxury. She couldn't even fake the appearance of a successful breakthrough; the attack from the mindless Puhuo had exposed her weakness. That single slash had been the very last of her strength. All she could do now was run. If she could just escape and stabilize her Realm, neither Puhuo nor E Xuanfu would be a match for her.
With E Xuanfu in pursuit, her True Qi began to fail, and her speed started to drop. In a few more minutes, she would be caught. Even if she risked shattering her Profound Pill and having her Realm regress, she didn't have a shred of strength left to fight. The only reason she had managed to escape Liu Family City was due to the initial burst of extreme speed granted by her breakthrough to the Profound Pill Realm.
Tian Sisi began flying low through the dense forest, hoping to use the terrain to shake E Xuanfu. But the forest's shadows only made him faster, his figure constantly leaping from one patch of darkness to the next.
Tian Sisi was filled with regret. At the same time, she sensed an aura ahead that was no weaker than an Inner Realm expert's. A flicker of resolve flashed in her eyes. With no time for hesitation, she pulled a palm-sized Ancient Mirror from her robes—this was her secret. Her figure wavered, and she dove straight into the mirror.
Tian Sisi completely vanished from the forest, leaving only a simple, ancient-looking mirror lying in the grass.
And the aura she had sensed up ahead was none other than the Corpse Dove.
The Corpse Dove was searching aimlessly. It hadn't gone toward Tian Family City, because Chen Dong had come from that direction. 'If the Calm Heart Grass and Purifying Heart Divine Artifact were there,' it figured, 'Chen Dong would have found them himself.' So, it had flown in the opposite direction, toward Liu Family City.
After searching the mountain forests for half the day without finding the Calm Heart Grass Chen Dong had spoken of, it began making its way toward Liu Family City, planning to search inside. But then, it suddenly sensed an Ancient Mirror on the ground, one that just so happened to be emitting a heart-purifying, mind-calming effect.
It swallowed the Ancient Mirror in one gulp and cackled, "KAKAKA! This lord truly is extraordinary! Finding a Purifying Heart Divine Artifact just by taking a little stroll!"
Not long after the Corpse Dove flew away, E Xuanfu's figure emerged from the shadows.
'Strange. How did Tian Sisi's aura just vanish here? No, she must be hiding somewhere nearby!'
He searched for a long time but still found no trace of Tian Sisi. As the twin moons rose in the sky, he gritted his teeth, turned, and flew toward Liu Family City.