Supreme Emperor of Mist

"What's wrong? Shouldn't an alchemist like you be more capable of handling small tricks like mine here?" Yang Yuan said. Although taking the few pills made Yang Yuan lost his calmness, it was unlike getting demonized like what Lang Xue went through.

It is still possible to communicate with Yang Yuan.

"How long can your Thunder Carapace Pellet last?" Qin Lan asked as he stares at the fierce Yang Yuan. As he speaks, the latter was in the middle of preparing his next attack.

"Heh... Enough for me to kill all of you before it runs out!" Yang Yuan answered. The latter seems confident as he answered Qin Lan's question without suspecting the motive behind it.

"That's means... Even you only have one pellet in your inventory. What kind of payment have you promised the Thunder Beetle Army's General for him to loan some of these precious pills to you?" Qin Lan chuckled.

As an alchemist, a smell is all he needed to discern at least half of the medicinal ingredients used to refine the Thunder Carapace Pellet. And from Qin Lan's understanding, at least three out of the materials needed to concoct the Thunder Carapace Pellet is something precious and hard to obtain.

Hearing Qin Lan's word made Yang Yuan's facial expression becomes uglier as the smile was robbed from him.

'How dare you comment on my choice! What do you know about sacrifice, and what do you understand about that?' Yang Yuan almost yelled at Qin Lan as he wanted to ask Qin Lan what he knew about sacrifice.

"Look at how ugly your face became. Looks like my guesses were correct, after all. It seems that you've only managed to exchange some of the Thunder Carapace Pellets from the Thunder Beetle General." Qin Lan smiled.

"I'm sure it felt painful in your heart right now, as the medicinal effect was countered by my senior brother Leng not long after the battle started. Although you've managed to kill around a thousand plus of our soldiers, what use was that figure if taking that pill alone should allow you to overcome our entire force?"

Qin Lan shook his head as he continued.

Each word he chooses to use in his sentence and also his tone made Yang Yuan look like a joke in front of everyone else.

"Quiet!" Yang Yuan grits his teeth as he stares at Qin Lan with a gaze full of hatred. The sword in his hand is also eager to taste the flavor of Qin Lan's blood as it gains more brilliance from Yang Yuan's Spiritual Qi.

Thunder Grinder!" the disciple of Thunder Roaring Palace attacked again.

Making a complete circle by twisting the Pillar of Kuangshan in both hands, the spear shook once when Qin Lan held the spear horizontally with the speartip pointed at the back.

"Mountain Sweeping Spear!" the Pillar of Kuangshan scaled out vertically as it brought destruction across its path. It was a complete wonder, even in the eyes of the elders hovering above the battlefield.

"What a powerful force he tried to display. What will be the extent of his strength when he stepped into the rank of Bone Reconstruction layer?" a few elders asked themselves.

In their eyes right now, Qin Lan was a rare case.

After deflecting Yang Yuan's blow with his own, Qin Lan rushes forward and swings his spear scaling down. The blow forces Yang Yuan to stays where he was as Qin Lan forced him to defend the attack with both hands.

The ground cracked when Qin Lan's Pillar of Kuangshan collided with Yang Yuan's Thundering Golden Saber.

"Fist of Lightning God!"

"Golden Lord's Holy Fist!"

Their fists connected at one another before the following detonation of Spiritual Qi separated them. Blood was flowing by the side of Qin Lan's lips as he was injured from the Spiritual Explosion.

"Hahaha! Looks like your body is incapable of withstanding the force brought by the strength." Yang Yuan laughed as he channeled more Spiritual Qi into his Thundering Golden Saber.

There's indeed some truth behind Yang Yuan's words. Even though Qin Lan's Spiritual Qi was comparable to a fourth-level Bone Reconstruction expert, that's just explained how strong his core is.

It was entirely different when it comes to his physique. To obtain a proper balance, he would eventually have to go through the Body Tempering Path, just like what Shan Xiong Xin and Sun Wu Jian did.

This is why Qin Lan rarely fought seriously, as it would harm both himself and his opponent at the same time.

"Come! Let me see how many blows you can handle before you fell on your knees from internal injuries!" Yang Yuan brandished his saber strongly at Qin Lan, aiming to crush his defense. Even if he failed to break Qin Lan's defense, it is still more than enough to caused Qin Lan's Spiritual Energy to run amok within his body.

But the more hope he had, the bigger the fall.

Yang Yuan was smiling from one side of his cheek to another as he repeated the same move to force Qin Lan to be on the defensive. Without a powerful enough physique to control the flow of Spiritual Qi in his body, Qin Lan was restricted by Yang Yuan this way.

Until...

"Kuangshan Healer's Art." the Foundation Qi in Qin Lan's left palm gently assimilates with his body and tends two-third of the injuries caused by the energy running amok inside his meridian channels.

With a smile on his facial expression, Qin Lan simply stabbed his spear out.

*Spurt!*

Yang Yuan's face was filled with disbelief as blood was flowing from that attack. Some of his blood even rolled towards the speartip as it drips onto the ground.

"How... How can this happen? I should have the Thunder Carapace Armor still around me..." Yang Yuan glared at Qin Lan's spear as the question keep repeating in his head.

"How? Do you think that a mere Spiritual Qi of yours is capable of withstanding my Foundation Qi?" Qin Lan chuckled. Pulling his spear slightly out from Yang Yuan's chest, Qin Lan scaled the spear vertically and cut Yang Yuan into two halves.