Inside the locked ground-floor alchemy hall of the ten-story Supreme Immortal Clinic, a thick dome of golden-red light—the [Rank 7 Immortal Pill-Fire Barrier]—sealed every door and window from the inside.
Outside on Emerald Plaza, sixty-eight-year-old Old City Lord Meng and fifty freshly cured Rank 6 sect patriarchs swung their swords. Moreover, Palm strikes against the golden window glass, only for their attacks to bounce off in showers of sparks.
“Hahaha! Save your strength, you ungrateful old dogs!”
Inside the glass-walled alchemy hall, twenty-five-year-old Chosen One Dr. Chen Ao stood beside his three-hundred-pound bronze furnace, his hands clasped behind his back once more and his chin tilted up at a defiant forty-five-degree angle. Meanwhile, He glared out the front window at Gu Changsheng’s red Drive-Thru tent.
Now that he was safely behind his System’s Rank 7 Pill-Fire Barrier, Dr. Chen Ao’s arrogant confidence had come flooding right back!
In the center of the three-hundred-pound bronze cauldron before him bubbled a thick, crimson-black broth—the [Rank 7 Supreme Blood-Sacrifice & Mother-Gu Tonic] that he had just brewed using the Heavenly Script Pavilion’s emergency skull-vial and his own reserve of three-hundred-year blood-herbs!
Hovering in the steam above the boiling pot was a fist-sized, six-winged crimson insect: the [Rank 7 Mother-Gu Plague Queen]!
