"Lost, failed?"
Jian Xiao looked at the scene before him in disbelief, unable to trust his own eyes.
Everyone present let out a sigh.
The black smoke was the remnants of failed pills, caused by the failure to form a pill.
Chu Qingsong looked at Chu Luo and said calmly, "Xiao Luo, congratulations, you won!"
A faint smile played on his lips, a smile that was strange, neither one of relief nor of liberation.
"Second Uncle..."
Chu Luo called out, his expression complex.
At this moment, Jian Xiao strode over angrily, his face full of confusion. "Jian Song, what are you doing? Why did you fail? Where is the protective pill talisman that Master gave you?"
Jian Xiao calling him Jian Song meant he had joined the Xuan Jian Sect.
"I didn't use the protective pill talisman. It was you who helped me cheat, which is why I attracted the pill lightning. So, I had already lost the competition..."
Chu Qingsong said in a flat tone.
His eldest brother, Chu Qingbai's, words had already made him feel guilty.
And at the critical moment of forming the pill, Chen Xiao's words, "Is this your path of alchemy?" made him suddenly awaken and voluntarily choose to lose the match.
However, upon hearing Chu Qingsong's words, Jian Xiao was furious. He grabbed Chu Qingsong by the collar.
"You scoundrel, how dare you trick me! Are you looking for death?"
It turned out that when people with immortal demeanor got angry, they were even more terrifying than ordinary people.
Jian Xiao's expression was ferocious, as if he were about to devour Chu Qingsong.
Chu Qingsong smiled faintly, "Jian Xiao, when I lost the competition, I had already accepted my fate of death. So, go ahead and do it!"
Chu Qingsong closed his eyes, with a hint of determination and洒脱.
"You scoundrel, do you think I dare not kill you? Master took you in as a disciple of the Xuan Jian Sect only because of your identity as a descendant of the Chu family. Since you are looking for death yourself, I will fulfill your wish!"
Jian Xiao said through gritted teeth, killing intent flashing in his eyes.
Just then, Chu Qingbai suddenly shouted, "Stop right there!"
"Big Brother?"
Chu Qingsong looked at Chu Qingbai in disbelief.
He hadn't expected his elder brother to speak up for him.
"Are you talking to me?"
Jian Xiao stared coldly at Chu Qingbai.
"Of course. The life and death of my Chu family disciples are not for an outsider to decide. This is the Medicine King Valley, not a place for you to run wild!"
Chu Qingbai said loudly, the cowardly demeanor he usually carried completely gone.
However, the servants and workers of the Medicine King Villa felt that Chu Qingbai had gone mad. The person opposite them was a disciple of a hidden sect, and he was speaking to them like this? Wasn't this courting death?
"Big Brother, please don't say anything more. You can't afford to offend the people of the Xuan Jian Sect!"
Chu Qingsong said with a bitter smile. He had already prepared himself for death and didn't want to drag his elder brother down with him.
"Whether I can afford to offend them or not, I will offend them. Who told you to be my brother!"
Chu Qingbai said righteously.
"Hahahaha, what a deep brotherly affection. Very well, I will kill your brother first, and then I will slaughter your entire Chu family!"
Jian Xiao said with a wild laugh.
"No, Jian Xiao, please don't hurt my family!"
Chu Qingsong pleaded, "For the sake of our years of friendship, please show mercy and spare them!"
"Heh, spare them?"
Jian Xiao sneered, "Jian Song, Jian Song, you are truly a big idiot. Do you think I want to kill them just because they provoked me?"
"Otherwise?"
Chu Qingsong looked confused. Besides this, Jian Xiao and his elder brother had no other grudges, right?
"Calling you a big idiot, you really are a big idiot. Do you think Master sent me here just to help you become the Valley Master of Medicine King Valley?"
"You are wrong. It doesn't matter who becomes the Valley Master of Medicine King Valley. What truly matters is that Medicine King Valley must be under the control of the Xuan Jian Sect!"
"And you deliberately losing the competition is equivalent to defying your master's orders and being a traitor to the Xuan Jian Sect. Your mere identity as a descendant of the Chu family cannot save you!"
"Jian Song, today I will remove the word 'Jian' from you on behalf of the Xuan Jian Sect. Die!"
Saying that, Jian Xiao grabbed Chu Qingsong by the neck.
He had a hundred ways to kill Chu Qingsong, but he chose the most primitive one.
In just an instant, Chu Qingsong's eyes bulged, and he was on the verge of losing half his life.
However, at this moment, a deep and ancient voice suddenly rang out.
"Stop! How dare a mere Nascent Soul brat cause trouble in my Medicine King Villa?"
Following this voice, a beam of white light shot over.
With a bang, it struck between Chu Qingsong and Jian Xiao.
Jian Xiao released Chu Qingsong's neck and retreated several steps.
"Thank you, Uncle Zhu, for saving my life!"
Having narrowly escaped death, Chu Qingsong gasped for air.
As Chen Xiao had guessed, the old man Zhu Hanshan arrived as expected.
However, it was somewhat disappointing that it was still not Zhu Hanshan's true form that appeared.
Jian Xiao also realized this and said lightly, "Just a wisp of remnant soul, and you dare to boast in front of Grandpa?"
"Heh, a wisp of remnant soul?"
Zhu Hanshan chuckled, "My remnant souls are more than just a wisp!"
Before his voice could fall, countless beams of white light shot out from various corners of Medicine King Valley, all converging on the practice field.
Whoosh—
Whoosh—
Whoosh—
White lights followed one after another, landing on the ground, and each white light transformed into a Zhu Hanshan.
In just over ten seconds, hundreds of Zhu Hanshans appeared before everyone.
"What's going on?"
"As expected of Old Immortal Zhu, what kind of divine trick is this?"
Old Immortal Zhu was Zhu Hanshan's nickname.
And the power he displayed at this moment was no less than that of a deity in the eyes of these people!
Even his son, Zhu Xuanqing, looked at them with disbelief.
"Are these all Father's primordial spirits?"
His cultivation was limited, and he thought these energy bodies were all primordial spirits.
As long as he reached the Nascent Soul stage and had a primordial spirit in his body, he would recognize that these were not primordial spirits.
Jian Xiao narrowed his eyes, staring at the group of clones.
"Old man, what kind of attention-seeking trick is this?"
Zhu Hanshan naturally did not answer his question. The hundreds of Zhu Hanshans said in unison, "I'll give you one breath of time to get out of Medicine King Valley, or I'll make sure you die without a burial place!"
This sentence, spoken by hundreds of Zhu Hanshans simultaneously, was earth-shattering!
Jian Xiao's gaze flickered, staring at the hundreds of Zhu Hanshans, lost in thought.
He could see that these more than a hundred figures were all energy bodies, and each energy body contained enough energy to instantly kill dozens of Golden Core stage cultivators.
With his strength, dealing with ten or eight such energy bodies would not be a problem.
But if there were more than a hundred, it would be a bit tricky...