Chapter 403 - Sun Miao Arrives
Li Guanqi’s face was grim. He had not expected the perpetrator to be so vicious.
“Pure Immortal Mountain,” he growled under his breath, killing intent rolling off him.
He reached out and tore open the space beside him, pulling out Yu Sui’an, who had been sleeping on Heavenly Lightning Peak. While she slept, he slipped a wisp of fire into her.
Next to him, Li Nanting shook his head. “Don’t worry. Sui’an rarely takes pills.”
His face was just as grim. Thankfully, Yu Sui’an’s system showed no traces of poison.
Li Guanqi sighed in relief. More disciples were brought in one after another, yet his frown only deepened. Every disciple who had taken pills carried the same toxin. A rough count put the number at over seven hundred disciples.
The sect’s only alchemist was eaten up with guilt. Most of the pills the disciples relied on were his work, and he looked ready to accept execution on the spot.
Fortunately, the poison was still incubating. Even so, the few most heavily affected disciples revealed the poison’s nature. It gnawed at the vital force in their dantians, accumulating energy. There were seven days left before it would flare up and swallow their dantians whole.
“Seven days...” Li Guanqi muttered. “If that’s the case, the Pure Immortal Mountain Sect must already know what happened to the Ghostly Spirit Sect and Crimson Blade Sect.”
He let out a cold breath, eyes flashing with ice-cold killing intent as he formed a plan.
In the end, everyone left the pavilion. Only Li Guanqi and Lu Kangnian remained, speaking in private for a long while. Outside, the sect elders ordered all the disciples back to their quarters, repeatedly warning them not to cultivate for the next few days. They also confiscated every pill in the sect.
Anxiety spread through the sect the moment the disciples heard these orders.