242: I would rather die than obey!

Guo Yongsi told Lu Hao that he still remembered it very clearly... that day, his Senior Brothers risked their own destruction to forcibly break away from the Heaven and Earth Alchemy Method.

At the time, he also wanted to rush out with his Senior Brothers, but he was stopped by them. They said to him...

"Junior Brother, you must live! You are the hope of our Yi Dan Sect! If you are gone, our Yi Dan Sect will surely decline and even perish!"

"Junior Brother, please forgive your First Senior Brother's willfulness for leaving you to live alone. I know that you are the strongest; you must live on and bring glory to the Yi Dan Sect!"

"Things have come to this, so there is no need to say much more. Third Senior Brother is gone. There is still a mystical item within the Sect. After you refine the Medicinal Pill, quickly hide inside. It can isolate Karma and help you recover!"

"Junior Brother, hang in there! We will go and kill that Xuan Hongxue. The task of refining this Nine-Rank Pill is left to you. You must succeed!"

"Junior Brother, as long as Xuan Hongxue dies, this Origin will be split equally among the rest of you. Senior Brother hopes you will take this portion of the Origin and bring glory to our Yi Dan Sect!"

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That day was the saddest moment of Guo Yongsi's life. He was so sad he couldn't speak, so sad he couldn't think. His throat felt blocked, unable to utter a single word.

His gaze was unfocused as he stared blankly at his Senior Brothers who were forcibly breaking away from the Heaven and Earth Alchemy Method... In the end, he couldn't bear to watch and closed his eyes.

He tried his best to maintain the stability of the Medicinal Pill, while his Senior Brothers rushed toward Xuan Hongxue like moths to a flame.

At the same time, the same situation occurred in all the other major Sects...

Each major Sect tacitly chose one person to remain while the others all broke away from the Heaven and Earth Alchemy Method and turned to kill Xuan Hongxue.

Even the other four Grandmasters of Alchemy from her own Sect did not support her at this moment!

However, the four of them did not attack her either, choosing to remain neutral instead.

Xuan Hongxue was a half-step Nine-Rank, and her cultivation was at the Void Realm! She had been hiding her strength, so at this moment, she was in the best condition, unlike the others!

However, facing the simultaneous siege of over a dozen Cultivators, she was clearly unable to handle it!

After a fierce battle, Xuan Hongxue was ultimately left critically wounded and dying, but the others, due to their already severe injuries, all perished...

At the same time, three people from the Xuanling Sect also perished with them.

Since they were destined to die, they certainly couldn't let so many people from the Xuanling Sect live; otherwise, wouldn't the balance of power in the Danling State be lost?

At that time, Guo Yongsi watched helplessly as his five Senior Brothers perished one by one before his eyes, yet he could not go out to live and die with them. He was in great pain.

But what pained him the most was that he still had to keep putting effort into refining the Medicinal Pill!

If the pill was not formed, he could not leave this place, nor could he bring glory to the Yi Dan Sect.

However, the result was very cruel. The strength of the Void Realm was simply too powerful; even with over a dozen people self-destructing, they ultimately failed to kill Xuan Hongxue!

At this moment, although Xuan Hongxue was also on her last breath, she was still alive. Her eyes revealed incomparable resentment!

But at the same time, she deeply hid her obsession with the Nine-Rank Pill!

She wanted to succeed in refining it; she must master the Origin of Alchemy. This was her lifelong hope!

As a half-step Supreme Grandmaster, her pursuit of and sincerity toward Alchemy were certainly beyond reproach.

At this moment, the number of people refining the Medicinal Pill had plummeted from twenty-three to seven! The difficulty of Alchemy increased dramatically!

Xuan Hongxue could no longer hide her strength; she gritted her teeth and, with a severely wounded body, wholeheartedly completed the final step of Alchemy.

The others also gave their all. They carried the expectations and hopes of those who had passed away; they all had reasons why they could not die!

Fortunately, the Medicinal Pill was 99% complete, with only a small step left in the final formation process.

But it was this last little step! It was something the remaining seven of us could not handle. We had truly exhausted everything, and in the end, we could only achieve this much...

Therefore, we didn't actually successfully refine this Nine-Rank Pill; we only refined a semi-finished product.

But fortunately, at the very end, Xuan Hongxue personally broke her Heaven and Earth Alchemy Method. She also understood that it was impossible to refine this Nine-Rank Pill today...

Xuan Hongxue stared blankly at the Medicinal Pill floating quietly in mid-air, her eyes filled with despair. She could not accept all of this!

She had worked so hard, exhausted all her efforts, and in the end, still failed to refine this Nine-Rank Pill!

It didn't allow her to ascend to the heavens in one step and master the Origin of Alchemy!

But at this moment, her extremely weak body could barely even hover in the air. Although she was unwilling, she could only fall helplessly toward the ground...

The seven were all the same; none of them fared any better.

But even as a semi-finished product, the quality of this Medicinal Pill was still unrivaled throughout the entire Danling State. As soon as the Heaven and Earth Alchemy Method ended, it naturally triggered the arrival of the Lightning Tribulation.

The seven naturally saw the Lightning Tribulation. At the time, they were still smiling bitterly inside, thinking that after expending so much, the Medicinal Pill they refined would ultimately be destroyed under the Lightning Tribulation...

Several people thought in despair, then one after another hid inside the mystical item, isolating Karma.

But they didn't expect that the Cultivators of the entire Danling State would take the initiative to help the semi-finished Medicinal Pill resist that wave of Lightning Tribulation, successfully passing down the Medicinal Pill...

This was the truth of that Alchemy session!

Of course, for all the Alchemists in the Danling State, due to the existence of the Alchemy Array, what they saw was that twenty-three Grandmasters of Alchemy all died of exhaustion after refining the Nine-Rank Pill.

They didn't know that such a turn of events had occurred during the refining process!

After Guo Yongsi finished speaking, his eyes were red, clearly thinking of his five Senior Brothers...

Lu Hao was helpless. He wasn't very good at comforting people, so he personally poured a cup of wine and handed it to Guo Yongsi, saying:

"Senior Guo, the past is in the past, don't be sad anymore."

"Haha, nearly a hundred thousand years have passed. I am just a little sad; it has long since lost the bone-deep pain it once had..."

"As you said, Senior, why did you appear in the Miao Dan Sect? It seems the Yi Dan Sect has completely disappeared..."