Chapter 364: Closing Doors

The green-robed middle-aged man carefully took the pill, and under the envious eyes of everyone, walked off the stage happily, found a spacious place in the square to close his doors. He didn't dare to take the pill outside this square, otherwise if it was snatched, there would be nowhere to complain.

Those waiting in the shadows, seeing this green-robed middle-aged man so cautious, just cursed bad luck. After all, this Imperial Extreme Pill had already been speculated to a sky-high price in the black market.

"Next!" Xiao Yan looked at the square and shouted with a faint smile.

Continuing to refine pills without stopping, Xiao Yan's control over Dou Qi and soul power became more and more mature. Xiao Yan had a premonition that after refining all these thousand-plus pills, the opportunity to break through to Dou Zong would come.

Time passed little by little, and more and more people gathered in the square and the periphery. After all, Xiao Yan was refining pills in the open this time, and did not limit people to watch.

Those Alchemists heard that they could watch Xiao Yan refine sixth-rank or even seventh-rank pills, and rushed toward the Black-Corner Region one after another. This was a good opportunity to improve their alchemy skills.

Of course, these Alchemists were not watching for nothing. After their alchemy skills improved, most of them chose to join the Heaven Alliance.

Whether it was Xiao Yan's alchemy skills or the strength of the Heaven Alliance, they were the strongest in the entire Northwest Continent, and after such a long time, the reputation of the Heaven Alliance was becoming more and more resounding, almost conquering all countries and sects in the Northwest Continent.

Everyone knew that after this incident, the reputation of the Heaven Alliance would be even more resounding, and it would completely take root in the hearts of people in the entire Northwest Continent.

After Xiao Yan refined over a thousand pills, the Dou Qi in his body finally could not be suppressed and began to riot. The terrifying aura permeated the entire square, pressing everyone until they could not breathe.

"Finally breaking through to Dou Zong?" Xiao Yan curled his lips into a cold sneer.

Since breaking through to the peak of Dou Huang, Xiao Yan had been deliberately suppressing his strength, but after refining pills for such a long time, he finally could not suppress it.

"The pill refining ends here. Those who haven't had time to refine don't have to be frustrated. Just hand over the medicinal materials to Ya Fei, and after the pills are refined, I will notify you to come and get them." Xiao Yan shouted to the people in the square.

Hearing this, those who were originally frustrated because Xiao Yan was about to break through, thinking they had lost the opportunity to refine pills, were instantly overjoyed.

"Alright! All go down!" Xiao Yan waved his hand, signaling everyone to go down.

Seeing Xiao Yan's order, everyone naturally dared not disobey.

After everyone left, Xiao Yan waved his hand at Nalan Yanran and said, "Go and invite Medusa, Little Doctor Fairy, and Yun Shan to the hall."

Nalan Yanran knew that Xiao Yan wanted to arrange the affairs of the Heaven Alliance before breaking through to Dou Zong.

Heaven Alliance Hall.

Xiao Yan looked at the three of Medusa and said, "I am about to go to a quiet place to break through to Dou Zong. This breakthrough to Dou Zong will take at least two or three months."

"Are you afraid that the Hall of Souls will come back after you leave?" Little Doctor Fairy naturally knew what Xiao Yan was worried about.

Xiao Yan nodded and said, "Yes! This is the only thing I am worried about. I have been letting you stay here for this period of time, just to prevent the Hall of Souls from attacking, but the Hall of Souls has not made any move, which is truly too abnormal."

"The Hall of Souls not making any move can only mean that it is brewing a bigger conspiracy. Based on my understanding of the Hall of Souls, the people of the Hall of Souls will never give up. After all, you have uprooted all the strongholds of the Hall of Souls in the Northwest Continent. This can be said to be the biggest provocation to the Hall of Souls." Yun Shan said in a deep voice.

Hearing this, Xiao Yan's brows furrowed slightly. He had been staying in the Heaven Alliance to refine pills, one to guard against the Hall of Souls attacking, and the other to wait for Yao Lao to wake up, but it had been more than a year, and Yao Lao still had no signs of coming out.

What made Xiao Yan even more helpless was that he was also about to close his doors to break through. If the people from the Hall of Souls attacked at this time, it would be the most fatal.

"What are you afraid of? With your two Dou Zong peak puppets, plus the three of us, can't we protect the Heaven Alliance? Besides, aren't there so many Dou Huangs here? Plus the formation you arranged, even if a Dou Zun expert attacks, they won't get any good." Medusa saw Xiao Yan still hesitating, and said disdainfully.

"Yes! Breaking through is the most important thing. If you miss this opportunity, it will be troublesome to break through in the future." Little Doctor Fairy did not refute Medusa this time, and also opened her mouth to comfort.

"You can rest assured to break through! We will guard the Heaven Alliance for you. Besides, how could it be such a coincidence that the Hall of Souls would send people to attack as soon as you left? Zhongzhou is still some distance from the Northwest Continent. Even if it is fast, it will take twenty or thirty days." Yun Shan also opened his mouth to comfort.

Seeing the three of them say so, Xiao Yan also nodded. If he could break through to Dou Zong earlier, he would be more confident in dealing with the Hall of Souls.

"You must remember that protecting your own lives is the most important thing. I don't want you to be covered in wounds for the Heaven Alliance. That would violate my original intention of creating the Heaven Alliance." Xiao Yan looked at the three of Medusa and warned.

Hearing this, the three of Medusa looked at each other, and expressions of helplessness appeared in their eyes. At this moment, they really wanted to beat Xiao Yan up, but they also knew that Xiao Yan was such a person, so they had to nod helplessly.

Xiao Yan naturally would not know what the three of them were thinking at this time, otherwise he would definitely not leave so easily.

After leaving, Xiao Yan found a hidden place, opened a mountain cave and walked in, because breaking through to Dou Zong required a lot of heaven and earth energy, and the amount of heaven and earth energy also determined the time to break through to Dou Zong.

However, what Xiao Yan lacked now was time. He wished he could break through to Dou Zong immediately, but he also knew that this was impossible.

At this time, it was too late to find a place with abundant heaven and earth energy. Xiao Yan also knew several places with abundant energy, but unfortunately they were too far away, and the time spent going back and forth would take half a year.

But wanting to break through to Dou Zong quickly was not without a way, and that was using pills, and the pill most suitable for Xiao Yan to break through to Dou Zong was naturally the Break Sect Pill.

Xiao Yan had refined quite a few of these Break Sect Pills, and also kept a few of the best quality for himself.

He saw Xiao Yan sitting cross-legged on the ground, took out a pill from the storage ring and stuffed it into his mouth. As soon as the pill entered his abdomen, it transformed into strands of rich and pure energy, following the meridians into his limbs and bones.

Xiao Yan's body was like a bottomless pit, and no matter how much energy entered it, it could be quickly digested.

With the rapid operation of the cultivation method in his body, the energy of the outside world was constantly refined into pure energy and entered Xiao Yan's body. Although this bit of energy could not be compared with the energy of the Break Sect Pill, it was continuous.

With endless energy pouring into Xiao Yan's body, the aura emitted from Xiao Yan's body became increasingly terrifying. His body was enveloped by rich energy, looking unusually divine.

Just when Xiao Yan was breaking through to Dou Zong, a disaster arrived quietly.

(End of Chapter) ===== CHAPTER 365 =====