Chapter 365: Trouble at the Summit

"This quality of True Qi Pill should be for Martial Artists in the True Essence Realm," Lu Yu thought to himself as he cast his gaze toward the Heaven-Grade True Qi Pill to the side, "Let me try this one."

He reached out, picked up a Heaven-Grade True Qi Pill, and examined it carefully.

Similar to the Heaven-Grade Qi Blood Pill, the surface of the Pill was covered in a thin film, only the Heaven-Grade Qi Blood Pill was red, while this Heaven-Grade True Qi Pill was gold.

Under the illumination of the light, the golden film shimmered, looking quite beautiful.

"No matter how good it looks, it's meant to be eaten." Lu Yu smiled and placed a Heaven-Grade True Qi Pill into his mouth, swallowing it with a gulp.

Before he could even begin to feel it properly, information quickly surfaced in his mind: 【Consumed Heaven-Grade True Qi Pill, Potential Points increased by 20 million!】

"20 million points!" Lu Yu smiled from ear to ear.

Originally, he had thought that if the Potential Points for a Heaven-Grade True Qi Pill exceeded ten million, he would already be very satisfied.

After all, the probability of a Heaven-Grade True Qi Pill appearing was not low, around thirty percent. As it turned out, each Heaven-Grade True Qi Pill could actually bring in twenty million Potential Points.

"One furnace of True Qi Pills yields ten pills, three of which are Heaven-Grade True Qi Pills, that's 60 million Potential Points, plus the remaining seven Top Grade True Qi Pills, 28 million Potential Points, totaling nearly 90 million! Rounding up, that's almost one hundred million!"

Lu Yu was truly shocked by this number. He glanced at the Potential Points required for the next level of body strengthening; it was exactly one hundred million.

Just a few days ago, when he was undergoing Meridian Opening, he had felt that one hundred million Potential Points were unreachable and out of his league.

Now it seemed that refining just one furnace of True Qi Pills could satisfy this requirement. And he was currently refining two furnaces at once!

"Hiss..." Thinking of this, Lu Yu could not help but gasp.

Even if the Potential Points required for each subsequent body strengthening were ten times the previous one, at this rate, he seemed capable of strengthening himself two or three times in one go.

After all, ten billion Potential Points, for him now, was just a matter of one hundred furnaces of True Qi Pills.

He still had seventy-six portions of medicinal materials left on hand; it seemed like a small amount, but don't forget, there were 10,000 portions on the way, being delivered continuously.

And tomorrow, one thousand portions would arrive! That meant one hundred billion Potential Points!

Of course, all of this required time. If he were to refine three furnaces of pills at once, averaging fifteen minutes per furnace, he could refine four furnaces in an hour.

Even if he stayed awake twenty-four hours a day without rest, and the entire process went without a single error, he could at most refine 96 furnaces of pills, which meant consuming 96 portions of medicinal materials.

This was merely one-tenth of the amount of medicinal materials the Headquarters transported over every day.

"Time, oh time..." Lu Yu could not help but sigh lightly.

Time was precisely what he lacked the most right now. If only he could split one minute into two to use, how wonderful that would be.

"Forget it, better not think about these unrealistic things, let's continue refining pills."

Lu Yu looked at the remaining medicinal materials and estimated that he would be able to finish refining by tomorrow morning.

With so many furnaces of pills, it would certainly be more than enough for him to break through to the True Essence Realm.

After eating all the remaining pills, Lu Yu devoted himself entirely to pill refining.

At this moment, the setting sun slowly dipped below the horizon, and the blood-like afterglow of the sunset spilled onto the earth.

In Yongan City, compared to the day before, although there was a bit more life and people had started walking on the streets, the overall atmosphere still seemed far too desolate.

When pedestrians talked, their gazes would unconsciously look upward from time to time.

Their eyes were filled with both curiosity about the unknown and a faint trace of fear.

And right in the hall of the Awakened Association, dozens of Awakened were either sitting or standing, the atmosphere appearing slightly heavy.

"What on earth happened up at the summit? How come there hasn't been a single bit of news coming down until now?" an Awakened said with a frown.

"Yeah, it's been nearly four or five hours, logically speaking, someone should have come down to report by now," another Awakened chimed in.

"The President even went there personally before, and he hasn't returned yet, and no one answers when we call."

"Could it be that something really happened?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the hall suddenly went quiet, and a trace of unease appeared on everyone's faces.

"No way, right? That's where Yan stays, and there's Guli and Shangguan Xu; they are all genuine C-Class Awakened, what could possibly happen?"

"That's right, it shouldn't be, right?" Others nodded one after another, but their eyes still revealed a trace of worry.

"Brother Hai Qiong, what do you say, should we all go up and take a look?"

At this moment, someone cast their gaze toward a man sitting on the north side.

In an instant, dozens of gazes fell squarely upon this handsome man.

Among so many people present, only this Hai Qiong was a C-Class Awakened, and his position was the Vice President here.

Hai Qiong frowned tightly and fell into silence, seemingly weighing the pros and cons.

"Brother Hai Qiong, I think if something really happened, we shouldn't be in any danger if we go up now," the person who spoke earlier said cautiously.

"I also think that's the logic, after all, the commotion up there has already subsided for such a long time," another person followed up.

"What if nothing happened, maybe we're just overthinking it? Yan would probably be happy to see us go over; if we just stay here and do nothing, maybe..."

The man stopped mid-sentence, but everyone understood what he meant.

Seeing this, the others all nodded one after another.

After all, Yongan City was, when all was said and done, Yan's territory; being able to build a good relationship with the latter was naturally the best thing.

If something really had happened, they could make plans early, couldn't they?

"Fine, then let's all go over and take a look together." Hai Qiong finally slapped the table and made up his mind.

Consequently, the group filed out of the Association and headed toward the direction of the summit.

With every step they took, they cautiously observed the movements around them; the dozens of people seemed to merge into one, their movements uniform.

When they were halfway there, a timid voice suddenly came from above: "Are, are you the Awakened lords?"

Hearing this voice, Hai Qiong and the others were nearly scared out of their wits, and several people even sat directly on the ground.

They saw more than ten guards holding firearms walking out timidly from behind several large rocks.

"Cough, yes, it's us." Hai Qiong feigned calmness, puffed out his chest, and coughed, saying: "We heard there was quite a commotion up here at noon, what exactly is going on? Do you know?"

The lead guard looked upward with an extremely fearful gaze and stammered: "W-we saw, City Lord and the others, they, they..."

"What about them! Why are you stuttering?" Hai Qiong could not help but reprimand.

These dozen or so guards, like birds startled by the mere twang of a bow, were all so frightened by this roar that they knelt on the ground.

The guard who had spoken just a moment ago was even streaming with tears and snot as he said, "City Lord and the others, they are all dead!"

"What!" Hai Qiong and the others were instantly dumbfounded.

"Yan and the others, dead?"

"Dead?"

"Ho, how is that possible?"

Hai Qiong opened her mouth wide, blinked her eyes twice in disbelief, and said, "Do, do you know what you are saying?"

"My lord, this lowly one knows. Even if this lowly one had ten times the courage, I would not dare say such things to curse City Lord and the others. This matter is absolutely true. This lowly one saw with my own eyes that City Lord was killed by a Martial Artist wielding a blade. If you do not believe me, you can ask the others."

"This lowly one saw it too."

"Lord Awakened, we all saw it, we all saw it."

"It wasn't just City Lord; Lord Gu and the others were killed as well."

The dozen or so people wailed and howled, venting the fear they had suppressed for so long.

From noon until now, they had been hiding here, not daring to move a muscle, terrified that the person with the blade was still nearby and would send them to meet the King of Hell without a word if he discovered them.

Having waited in such trepidation for half a day, they finally waited until someone came up the mountain.