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Yu Linzhou was completely bewildered. "What's going on? You don't want the Azure Glazed Branch anymore? You're not going to save that kid?"

"Let's wait until Elder Xuanqing finishes refining the pills," Lin Zhixu explained. "Although we don't have fresh Azure Glazed Branches, the Rejuvenation Pills refined with them should still be useful. We'll just snatch the pills later."

Yu Linzhou raised an eyebrow, glanced back at the tightly closed door of the alchemy room, and didn't ask any further questions.

He simply looked at Lin Zhixu thoughtfully.

He discovered that his apprentice had quite a few secrets.

……

The two men outside the door were fighting fiercely.

Elder Chu's robes were torn to shreds, blood trickled from the corner of his mouth, and blood from Yan Lingcang's sword wound on his left arm flowed down his elbow, pooling on the ground.

When Yan Lingcang saw Yu Linzhou and Lin Zhixu come out, he withdrew his sword and took half a step back.

Elder Chu was beaten so badly he could barely stand, his face covered in blood, but his eyes were fixed on the two people who came out, filled with panic.

"How did it go?" Yan Lingcang asked. "Did you get the Azure Glazed Branch?"

Lin Zhixu shook his head: "No, the Azure Glazed Branch has already been put into the alchemy furnace and refined into medicine."

Elder Chu's eyes flashed with wild joy, but Lin Zhixu's next words plunged him back into despair.

"We can just grab the pills later."

Elder Chu's smile froze.

Having fought to this point, there was no point in continuing. So, the group mysteriously stopped fighting, each taking their own territory without saying a word, waiting for Xuanqing to open the furnace.

However, the thunderclouds overhead grew heavier and heavier, with faint flashes of lightning moving deep within them, as if gathering some earth-shattering power.

Various forces appeared one after another, looking up at the strange phenomenon, their expressions increasingly solemn.

They sensed an aura of destruction emanating from the thunderclouds.

Is the cultivation world about to face a heavenly tribulation?

But I've never heard of that before. Even the most powerful astrologers didn't foresee a heavenly tribulation at this time.

Several beams of spiritual light streaked across the sky and landed simultaneously on Yan Lingcang and Yu Linzhou's waists.

The two glanced down at the token and exchanged a look.

Yu Linzhou said in a deep voice, "The sect leader has emerged from seclusion. Instruct all elders to immediately go to the main peak for a meeting."

But given the current situation, they simply cannot leave.

Several spiritual signals landed on their waists in succession, but neither of them moved.

"Wait a little longer," Yan Lingcang said.

This wait lasted for seven or eight hours.

Lin Zhixu kept calling the system's name in his mind, but the system never responded.

The thunderclouds that had been gathering in the sky for a whole day sent chills down his spine.

Yu Linzhou noticed that he was trembling uncontrollably, reached out and grasped his fingers, which were icy cold to the touch.

He frowned and said in a low voice, "Why are you so scared? Don't worry, even if the sky falls, there are tall people to hold it up; it won't be your turn."

Lin Zhixu twitched the corner of his mouth.

He didn't know how to tell Yu Linzhou that the lightning was aimed at him.

She didn't know how to tell him that if Luo Yiyan were gone, this world would collapse and everything would cease to exist.

Just then, the door to the alchemy room was suddenly pushed open, and Xuanqing rushed out excitedly, holding a jade box.

His face was beaming with joy, and he opened his mouth to announce the good news, but when he saw the scene outside, he froze on the spot.

The thunderclouds overhead looked as if they were about to swallow the entire Dan Peak whole.

He'd only been refining pills for a day, right? What on earth happened outside? Is the world about to end?

He said that alchemy is not a good job. You can't know anything immediately. Even if the world is about to end, he won't have time to escape.

When he came out, everyone swarmed around him.

Elder Chu staggered forward, his voice urgent: "Did it succeed?"

Xuan Qing nodded subconsciously: "It's a success, but there's only one pill."

Just as he was about to hand over the jade box, a hand reached out from the side and snatched it from his palm.

Elder Chu was trembling all over, whether from anger or simply unable to hold back: "Yu Linzhou! What does this have to do with you? Why did you have to interfere?"

"How can it have nothing to do with me?" Yu Linzhou sneered. "The Azure Glazed Branch was obtained by my disciple. You stole his things and refined them into pills, so these pills naturally belong to him."

Upon hearing this, Xuan Qing turned to Elder Chu in astonishment, his eyes filled with disbelief: "You didn't find this Azure Glazed Branch? Elder Chu, you've really put me in a terrible situation. If I had known it was stolen, I would never have opened this furnace of pills for you."

But it's too late to say anything now; the medicine has already been prepared.

Yu Linzhou handed the pill to Lin Zhixu.

Just as Lin Zhixu was about to hand it to Yan Lingcang, the thunder that had been brewing in the sky finally struck.

With a deafening roar, the sky seemed to be torn open, and a thick, jet-black bolt of lightning struck straight down.

Yu Linzhou's pupils contracted sharply, and he grabbed Lin Zhixu and quickly moved to the side.

Black Lightning grazed his back and slammed into the ground, instantly shattering the stone slab into dust and leaving a huge, charred crater.

Before anyone could react, they instinctively activated their protective magical artifacts and scattered to avoid being affected by the strange heavenly lightning.

However, the first lightning bolt missed, but the second and third followed closely behind.

Each strike was sharper and more numerous than the last, all aimed at Lin Zhixu.

Yu Linzhou dodged left and right while protecting the person in his arms, his robes already scorched in several places by the lightning.

The others who witnessed this scene were horrified.

They've lived so long, they could be called old monsters, and they've never seen such a strange phenomenon before.

It wasn't that they hadn't seen tribulations before, but they had never seen lightning relentlessly strike a Qi Refining stage youth when no one was undergoing tribulation.

What heinous crime did this kid commit to make Heaven hate him so much?

Lin Zhixu's face was deathly pale, yet he gripped Yu Linzhou's clothes tightly, his voice broken by the thunder: "Never mind me, give the pills to Yan Lingcang, go quickly!"

Yu Linzhou shielded him from another bolt of lightning, then roared angrily, "What time is it and you're still thinking about that kid? Let him die!"

"He can't die!" Lin Zhixu gripped his arm tightly, his knuckles turning white from the force. "If he dies, we all die. Believe me, as long as Luo Yiyan lives, all of this will end. I won't die, and neither will you."

Yu Linzhou was alarmed by his words, and seeing his pleading eyes, he gritted his teeth and gave in.

"...You better be telling the truth." He angrily stuffed all the protective magical artifacts he had on him into Lin Zhixu's arms, set up the last layer of barrier around him, and then suddenly withdrew from the range of the lightning tribulation.

As he flew rapidly toward Yan Lingcang, he glanced back at the direction engulfed by lightning, gritted his teeth, and threw the jade box in his hand away.

Yan Lingcang raised his hand and caught the jade box.

"Go save Luo Yiyan!" Yu Linzhou shouted, then turned around and rushed back towards the direction where the lightning was strongest.