Dan City

Qin Ming quickly retracted his Aura.

It took a long while for Azure Flame to calm down and accept the fact that Qin Ming had become a Martial Venerable; after thinking for a moment, he spoke.

"But even if you have become a Martial Venerable, the Pill Alliance also has Martial Venerables. For the sake of their reputation and the divine artifact alchemy furnace, I imagine it will be very difficult for them to release anyone, right?"

Although he desperately wanted revenge, he was afraid of implicating Qin Ming. Qin Ming had already helped him enough, and taking such a huge risk to demand someone from the Pill Alliance was…

"Let's go to the Pill Alliance first, see what they have to say, and then plan accordingly," Qin Ming suggested. Standing here thinking wouldn't be of any use.

We will cross that bridge when we come to it; let's first see what the Pill Alliance has to say.

"That sounds reasonable." Azure Flame nodded in agreement.

Thus, Qin Ming and Azure Flame decided to head to the Pill Alliance to investigate.

Because the journey was quite long, Qin Ming and Azure Flame rode on a King-rank Magical Beast, the Cloud Chasing Dragon, and flew towards the Alliance Headquarters.

"We've arrived." Qin Ming pointed at a city and said to Azure Flame.

"This city is truly massive!" Azure Flame exclaimed. Although he was once a Pill King, he was only at the Martial King Realm and could not travel as conveniently as a Martial Emperor.

This was his first time visiting the Alliance Headquarters of the Pill Alliance.

"This is the only Alliance Headquarters of the Pill Alliance, so of course it's large," Qin Ming laughed. The Pill Alliance possessed three Martial Venerables, and its Power spanned the entire Great Xia Dynasty.

"However, I believe the future headquarters of the Huayu Sect will definitely be larger than this."

"Indeed!" Azure Flame was in full agreement. He had witnessed Qin Ming's capabilities; as long as Qin Ming did not die, with his help, the Huayu Sect would certainly be able to surpass the Pill Alliance.

"Let's go, let's head down." Qin Ming smiled slightly, grabbed Azure Flame, and quickly flew down.

The Martial Artists in the city, seeing Qin Ming fly down, were somewhat surprised, but they did not discuss it much.

Evidently, Martial Emperors flying in this city was a common occurrence.

Standing at the entrance, Qin Ming looked at the massive city gate and was slightly startled; this gate was enormous, even taller and grander than the gate of Yan City he had seen before.

On the massive city gate were written two large, flamboyant characters: Pill City.

Upon seeing these two characters, Qin Ming frowned slightly.

This massive city gate existed entirely to highlight these two large characters, which felt very abrupt. Clearly, the masters of this city, the Pill Alliance, placed great importance on their reputation.

"Qin Ming, what are you looking at?" Seeing Qin Ming frown, Azure Flame asked.

"Perhaps I am overthinking it. Let's go, let's head inside." Shaking his head, Qin Ming and Azure Flame walked into the city.

"Please pay one High-Grade Spirit Stone to enter, please pay one High-Grade Spirit Stone to enter." There were two people at the entrance chanting this, collecting Spirit Stones from everyone one by one.

Qin Ming ignored these two people and walked straight in.

"Hey, hey, I'm talking to you two! How can you want to enter without paying the Spirit Stone?" A Martial Artist dressed as a guard blocked Qin Ming and shouted.

Qin Ming frowned and slightly released his Aura; this small amount of Aura was equivalent to the Martial Emperor Realm.

"Hmm? A Martial Emperor." Qin Ming had originally thought that once this guard saw that he was a Martial Emperor, he would let them pass. He had not expected the guard to merely give a surprised sound and say, "So what if you're a Martial Emperor? Martial Emperors still have to pay the Spirit Stone to enter."

Qin Ming clenched his fist tightly and stared at the guard.

Instantly, the guard felt an overwhelming Killing Intent released from Qin Ming's eyes; he immediately felt a chill run through his body and couldn't help but step back.