Upon hearing Yu Lei's words, Teng Huayuan acted as though he had long anticipated the question and spoke without the slightest hesitation:
"The Pill Tower will send at most one Tribulation stage cultivator along for the journey, and even among the Tribulation stage cultivators accompanying Lin Chuan from the Heavenly Pool back to the Pill Tower, half of them will not stay with him the whole way.
"In fact, the Pill Tower might not even dispatch a Tribulation stage cultivator; there is a very high probability it will only be Void-returning stage cultivators.
"Our Wuji Sect has five Tribulation stage cultivators, and your Tianxuan Sect has four. That makes nine in total—more than enough to pin down Lin Chuan's guards.
"Once we trap their Tribulation stage cultivators, we can instantly slaughter Lin Chuan. The moment he dies, he loses all value, and I refuse to believe those accompanying him will fight us to the death over a corpse.
"The same goes for the Pill Tower. A great calamity is approaching the cultivation world, and the Pill Tower will not cross two nine-star sects for the sake of a dead man."
Hearing this, Yu Lei asked in astonishment, "Are you saying we should mobilize the full combat strength of both our sects just to kill Lin Chuan?"
Teng Huayuan's expression remained calm. "Why not? Lin Chuan is a seventh-grade pill king, and a future ninth-grade pill king at that, with combat prowess far beyond ordinary cultivators. If we don't deploy this many people, how can we…
Chapter 688